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Sprint’s New LTE Plans for Tablets Don’t Need a Contract

If you’re interested in getting a tablet with Sprint (and now the iPad and iPad Mini are on Sprint), you have some okay-ish off contract plans: $15 for 300MB, $35 for 3GB, $50 for 6GB of data and $80 for 12GB. If you already have a Sprint smartphone though, you get something even better: you…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 24 '12

The best fear-mongering press release ever written about the Large Hadron Collider

Do you ever wish for the book that truly had everything in it, from conspiracy theories and volcanoes to dramatic misunderstandings of scientific events and awesomely portentous predictions of MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DYING? Seriously, this is the best fear-mongering press release I have ever read about anything in the world of scienticians: Could Discovery Of…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 24 '12

Ugh, Verizon Plastered Its Logo on the Samsung Galaxy Note II Home Button

This is awful. Utterly, completely, corporate suit wearing, slicked back hair smelling, awful. Verizon stamped its logo on top of the new Samsung Galaxy Note II. Do you see it? Yes. That’s right, the Verizon logo is on the freaking phone’s home button. Covering it. Are you kidding me. It looks like a joke or…

Gadgets Casey Chan Oct 24 '12

I Want to Meet These Amazing Pumpkin Carvers

Marc Evan and Chris Soria are amazing artists who can do more with a pumpkin than you can with a pen and paper and/or photoshop. In The Pumpkin Maestro, a short documentary about the duo by Tumblr Storyboard, you get to see what influences and motivates their work and the unique tools they use to…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 24 '12

The Most Expensive B-Movie Ever Made?

Empires of the Deep reportedly cost a whopping $130 million — but a leaked trailer that came out two years ago had effects that were laughably awful. Empires was originally announced in 2009. But little, beyond that bit of leaked video, has been heard from the production. There have been changes both behind and in…

Trailers Marina Antunes - Quiet Earth Oct 24 '12

10 Reasons Why Speed Racer Is an Unsung Masterpiece

This Friday we’ll get to see the Wachowskis’ latest crazy, gorgeous, and mind-blowing epic, Cloud Atlas. Most people know the Wachowskis for the Matrix trilogy, but we think their version of Speed Racer — a dud at the box office — is actually an unappreciated masterpiece. Here’s why. 1. The trippiest mindscapes you’ve ever zoomed…

Movies Annalee Newitz Oct 24 '12

Night Skiing with Light Suits Is Like Being in Tron for the Winter

Inspired by night surfers wearing LEDs, Switchback Entertainment made this video for Salomon Freeski TV showing skiers wearing their own light suits. Strapped with EL-wire on their bodies, the skiers slalom down the powder covered mountain like it’s The Grid. Awesome. https://gizmodo.com/does-anyone-else-think-these-light-up-surfboards-are-an-5868112 According to MAKE, the video was filmed with just small headlamps, the EL…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 24 '12

Meet the First New Agent in Joss Whedon’s S.H.I.E.L.D.: Stargate‘s Ming-Na.

Ming-Na Wen, formerly from ER and Stargate Universe, will play a “soulful” and “damaged” pilot named Melinda May in Joss Whedon’s new S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show. Melinda May is described as “an ace pilot, a weapons expert and a soldier who can – and has – gone beyond the call of duty.” And apparently she’s the…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Oct 24 '12

Sh*t Android Users Say

Those Shit Girls Says viral videos are no longer oozing with virility but this one’s plenty hilarious: Shit Android Fanatics Say. Made by MobilePhoneFinder, the video pokes fun at all the Android geekisms and nerdquotes you hear from someone who has an Android phone. It’s a response video to the equally hilarious Shit Apple Fanatics…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 24 '12

This All-Wood Clock Could Hang Anywhere

This wooden clock is great. It’s in the style of the ones you remember hanging over the chalkboard in your middle school classrooms, but the two-toned wooden design makes it fresh and modern. It’s $95 from the MoMa Store, and it’s kind of the perfect ticker because it’s so simple and clean. It’s also easy…

Tech News Leslie Horn Oct 24 '12

Turn Your Instagram Stream Into a Calendar and Relive a Year’s Worth Of Meals

Remember that amazing lemon shrimp scampi pasta you had eight months ago? No? Well if you’re like most people and use Instagram to document your daily dining, you can order a 365 day calendar from Prinstagram and relive every meal you had over the past year. https://gizmodo.com/zuckerberg-people-spend-more-time-on-instagram-than-tw-5954308 The service turns your Instagram stream into a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 24 '12

The Hobbit Will Use Dolby’s Crazy 64-Speaker Atmos Sound

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is shaping up to be a groundbreaking event for film technology. First, we heard that Director Peter Jackson shot the film at 48 frames-per-second, and now he’s telling us that the film’s sound will be mixed for Dolby’s ultra-intense new Atmos system. https://gizmodo.com/will-the-hobbit-look-like-a-70s-soap-opera-at-48-fps-5904990 Dolby Atmos allows a film’s sound designers…

Movies Mario Aguilar Oct 24 '12

Doomsday cults and the Jazz Age provide endless thrills in Libba Bray’s The Diviners

A great character can often elevate a perfectly pleasant book into an excellent read. And Libba Bray’s The Diviners is not what you’d call a pleasant read — it’s creepy good fun — but its characters really are the book’s strongest part. The cast is gloriously wide-ranging, including everyone from the socialist daughter of an…

io9 Michael Ann Dobbs Oct 24 '12

Bloom BeautyTrends: You Can At Least Try To Style Your Hair Like Beyonce’s

I was in a wedding a few months ago, and I admit I used Pinterest to decide how to do my hair. But there’s a whole lot of crap mixed into the online DIY purgatory. Enter Bloom Beauty Trends, an app that takes everything style and beauty and puts it into its own app. What…

Tech News Leslie Horn Oct 24 '12

And now, a woman sings both parts of Dr. Horrible’s “My Eyes” — and slays us

This is shiver-inducing and hilarious by turns. Just like Dr. Horrible! 3thirdsX1idiot (Three Thirds of an Idiot) is a college student who admits she may have weirded her roommate out by singing several parts of the song multiple times while making this recording. If one roommate’s sanity had to be sacrificed for us to see…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 24 '12

Johnny Depp takes the lead in Dark Knight cinematographer’s directorial debut, Transcendence

There’s plenty of buzz surrounding Wally Pfister’s first outing as a director. And for good reason — this is the cinematographer behind all of Chris Nolan’s Batman films, and many other pictures. Adding to the potential excitement, Johnny Depp has agreed to star in his science fiction movie Transcendence. We still don’t know much about…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 24 '12

Physicists demonstrate an actual tractor beam in the lab

It seems like we’re getting closer to the Star Trek future by leaps and bounds these days. We recently learned that a NASA scientist has set his sights on building a warp drive, and now news has come in that a team of physicists have built their own tractor beam in the lab. Now, it’s…

io9 George Dvorsky Oct 24 '12

This, dear reader, is how you diagnose a zombie

Most of us are familiar with the telltale signs of zombiedom. Incoherent moans. Gurgling. A lumbering gait. Insatiable hunger. But have you ever wondered what’s actually going on inside the heads of the walking dead? Neuroscientists (and longtime zombie fans) Bradley Voytek and Timothy Verstynen have. In this just-released, two-part TED-Ed lesson, the two researchers…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 24 '12

What’s the Worst Accidental Text You’ve Ever Sent or Received?

The above photo is a real example of texting gone horribly wrong. Morbid and hilarious for us, but uncomfortable for the him (or her). And it just brings up so many questions. Maybe you can relate with your own texting mishap. Either you mistakenly sexted the guy you bought a blender from on Craigslist or…

Tech News Leslie Horn Oct 24 '12

Your Smartphone Is Basically a Poopstick

Some unfortunate news for people who don’t like rubbing feces on their face: your smartphone is probably covered in it. In a recent study conducted for the Wall Street Journal, HML Labs randomly selected smartphones in a Chicago office and tested them for various bacteria to troubling results. While the phones showed no sign of…

Health Ashley Feinberg Oct 24 '12

Sprint’s New LTE Plans for Tablets Don’t Need a Contract

The best fear-mongering press release ever written about the Large Hadron Collider

Ugh, Verizon Plastered Its Logo on the Samsung Galaxy Note II Home Button