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A Sapphire Hard Disk Will Last 1 Million Years (But You Can’t Afford It)

Though hard disk drive technology has improved in recent times, you’d be a brave soul indeed to use one for more than a couple of years without backing it up. But now a team of scientists has made a hard disk from sapphire which it claims will last 1 million years—just don’t expect to be…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Aerographite Is the Lightest Material Ever Made

It looks like a wisp of smoke or even the work of a very confused spider, but this is actually a close up of the lightest material that has ever been created. Previous record holders include aerogel, which was used by NASA to collect dust from a comet and is 99.9 per cent air with…

Tech News Jacob Aron - New Scientist

Hackers Grab 1 Million Logins From Android Forum

Phandroid has announced that a hacker has recently accessed its user database, making off with usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords—and the problem looks like it could affect all of its one million-plus users. In a forum post announcing the problem, administrators explained that the hack was most likely an email harvesting scheme. While Phandroid…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Web TV Service Aereo Plans To Be in Every Major US City By 2013

Aereo, the website which acts as an internet-based DVR for any channel you can get for free over the airwaves, drew legal attention as soon as it was announced earlier this year. Yesterday, though, Aereo won a court case trying to block the service in New York—and now it plans to roll out to every…

Television Jamie Condliffe

Apple Should Make an Ad Campaign with This Old, Broken Photo Booth—Here’s Why

The other night, a friend and I happened upon a rather old, beat up photo booth. I love a photo booth. I will never not shell out a few bucks for a strip of pictures, when there’s a photo booth near by. So you can imagine my frustration upon seeing the above pictured text on…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

The Stoner Channel: Smoking BHO, Catching Joeys, and All Hail the Hypno-Goat

How to Catch a Kangaroo If I had known that procuring contestants was this easy, I would have started the Unified Kangaroo Boxing Federation years ago. [Daily What] I, Pet Goat II – Heliofant If any of you have any clue as to what the hell is going on here, I’m open to suggestions. [Cartoon…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

A NSFW Victorian Pop-Up Sex Book… in GIF Form!

If you think about it, pop-up and flip books are really early versions of the GIFs we’re all so smitten with today: brief, repetitive animations, often of a silly or naughty nature. Maria Popova, of Brain Pickings, “a lover of unusual pop-up books and naughty Victoriana,” had the genius idea and matching skill to turn…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

IceHuggy KOOZIE-LIKE HOLDERS Keep Your Hands Warm and Your Ice Pops Frozen Solid

Food accessories, like this neoprene sleeve for ice pops, tend to seem like contrived clutter… until you remember that everyone, at one point in their miserable lives, has used a beer KOOZIE-LIKE HOLDER like it ain’t no thang. Which is why I think the IceHuggy ($6.99) deserves a break and should be spared from ridicule.…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Watch the whole epic Legend of Korra behind the scenes featurette right now

Get a better look at the making of one of the most riveting animated series we’ve ever seen, Legend of Korra. One kind soul pieced together the entire Nickelodeon special Making of A Legend — minus the loud announcer who chimes in every few seconds. All of the parts are together in one fantastic edit,…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Comic Con: Day One!

The Most Sensational Sights (and Best Things to Buy) on the Comic-Con Floor https://gizmodo.com/the-most-sensational-sights-and-best-things-to-buy-on-5925329 At Comic-Con’s preview last night, we were menaced by cave trolls from The Hobbit, tried on cat ears that are controlled by brain waves, and went into a minifig frenzy with The Hulk and My Little Pony. And that was before…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Facebook Is Telling Evvvvveryone All the Embarrassing Shit You “Like”

Quick! Take a look at your Facebook profile. What do you “like”? Do you really like these things? Are you willing to PUT YOUR REPUTATION ON THE LINE just so you can affirm your affection for the NRA? These aren’t questions we should have to ask ourselves. Can’t we support our favorite political party in…

Social Media Molly Oswaks

Beautiful sculptures cast surprisingly human silhouettes

You’re looking at the breathtaking work of Kumi Yamashita. The New York artist has made a name for herself crafting human figures out of the most unconventional media, including nails and sewing thread, denim, and — in the case of the sculpture up top — light and shadow. Writes Yamashita: I sculpt shadow with light…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

We saw the first footage of Johnny Depp as Tonto in Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger has become almost a legendary trainwreck at this point — but nobody’s seen a single frame of it. Until today. Delayed until 2013 while the studio scrambles to salvage something from the mess, The Lone Ranger features Johnny Depp as Tonto (wearing crazy white makeup) and Armie Hammer as the titular Lone…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Monthly Mail-Order Grooming Service Birchbox Finally Figures Out Ladies Like Tech, Too

Back in April, I wrote one of my first-ever Gizmodo posts, a rant about the monthly mail-order grooming service Birchbox and how their male/female skewed boxes tended to reinforce gender constructs in a pretty annoying way. https://gizmodo.com/monthly-mail-order-grooming-service-birchbox-keeps-gend-5900345 Well, three months and three boxes later, it seems they’ve finally taken the hint. I received my Glamour-sponsored…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Tim Burton shows his childhood scars in Frankenweenie

Frankenweenie was the short film that got Tim Burton fired at Disney all those years ago — and now he’s turning it into a full-length film. Not only is it a passion project for him, it’s pretty obviously the silliest thing he’s done in forever. We saw the first two clips from the film, and…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The physics of astronaut ice cream

Astronaut ice cream. How could anyone not want a treat that’s so light-weight, so non-perishable, and so neapolitan? Today we shall take a peek at the physics behind the taste sensation. Whatever food you happen to be eating for your next meal, chances are it will contain a lot of water. That’s no judgment on…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Flying monkeys and beautiful witches in the first trailer for Sam Raimi’s Oz: The Great and Powerful

We saw James Franco discussing the finer points of wizardry recently — now watch the first teaser trailer for Evil Dead and Spider-Man director Sam Raimi’s Oz: The Great and Powerful. Will there be any flying monkeys with boomsticks? Did Army of Darkness actually take place in Munchkinland? We’ll receive answers to such pressing questions…

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar

These fish lure unsuspecting mates with genitals camouflaged by fake food

Evolution seems to know no bounds when it comes to shaping organisms in a way that’s meant to help them survive and reproduce — a process that often leads to some pretty bizarre characteristics and behaviors. And now, thanks to the work of biologists Niclas Kolm and Göran Arnqvist, we can add another example to…

io9 George Dvorsky

A Skeletal Reading Light To Spruce Up Your Desk

Books, papers, and pens—your desk is supremely cluttered. But you still need to see, and this Flaca LED lamp ($74) will dress up your work space. The sleek light is made of a single stainless steel sheet that folds three ways, so you can set it up for your bedside table or where ever else…

Tech News Leslie Horn

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Star Trek: The Next Generation on Blu-ray

At the end of the July, Star Trek fans get an extra special treat with the release of a high-definition transfer of the twenty-five episode first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Today at San Diego Comic-Con, we had the chance to see an extra-early peak at the restoration process performed on this historic…

io9 Keith Veronese

A Sapphire Hard Disk Will Last 1 Million Years (But You Can’t Afford It)

Aerographite Is the Lightest Material Ever Made

Hackers Grab 1 Million Logins From Android Forum

Web TV Service Aereo Plans To Be in Every Major US City By 2013

Apple Should Make an Ad Campaign with This Old, Broken Photo Booth—Here’s Why

The Stoner Channel: Smoking BHO, Catching Joeys, and All Hail the Hypno-Goat

A NSFW Victorian Pop-Up Sex Book… in GIF Form!

IceHuggy KOOZIE-LIKE HOLDERS Keep Your Hands Warm and Your Ice Pops Frozen Solid

Watch the whole epic Legend of Korra behind the scenes featurette right now

Comic Con: Day One!

Facebook Is Telling Evvvvveryone All the Embarrassing Shit You “Like”

Beautiful sculptures cast surprisingly human silhouettes

We saw the first footage of Johnny Depp as Tonto in Lone Ranger

Monthly Mail-Order Grooming Service Birchbox Finally Figures Out Ladies Like Tech, Too

Tim Burton shows his childhood scars in Frankenweenie

The physics of astronaut ice cream

Flying monkeys and beautiful witches in the first trailer for Sam Raimi’s Oz: The Great and Powerful

These fish lure unsuspecting mates with genitals camouflaged by fake food

A Skeletal Reading Light To Spruce Up Your Desk

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Star Trek: The Next Generation on Blu-ray

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