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Boy God, the Filipino child superhero who makes Harry Potter look like a human bedpan

Hey reader, just what exactly did Harry Potter do? As far as I remember, he coasted on his own legend like an Olsen twin, let Hermione do all the hard thinking, and made out with Ron’s sister while Ronnie’s remedial warlock back was turned. In short, Harry Potter was a real backseat überwizard, a real…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Live the Language

Collaborating with director Gustav Johansson, EF International has been promoting international study abroad programs with a charming series of videos. Shot by Niklas Johansson and accented with Albin Holmqvist’s overlaying typography, each video is a poignant summation of various cultural capitals, ranging from Barcelona to Sydney, from London to Los Angeles. Check out the full…

Tech News Matt Novak

Time to get excited about Fringe season 5

There’s just one short season of Fringe left, and it sounds like this show is going to hit the ground running. In a new interview at the Critics’ Choice Awards, Walter Bishop actor John Noble said some stuff about season five that made it sound like a highly promising return to form. Spoilers ahead… The…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

A Rolltop Messenger Bag That’s Military-Tough

Chrome’s new Lieutenant rolltop messenger bag combines the versatility and easy access of a messenger bag with the watertight seal of a rolltop backpack to make one tough bag. Doesn’t hurt that it’s got looks, to boot. The interior is fully lined with box-welded, military-grade truck-bed liner to ensure a waterproof seal that Poseidon himself…

Tech News Michael Zhao

On Eureka, with great intelligence comes being a great big jerk

Yesterday’s Eureka answered one of the show’s age-old hypothetical questions: what if Sheriff Carter was just as smart as all the mad scientists? The answer, it turns out, involves exploding engines, power-stealing robots, sibling rivalries, and some serious romantic complications. As Jack and Allison enjoy their very sudden onset of marital bliss, they prepare for…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Everything You Need to Get From Point A to B While Looking Like an Idiot

Sometimes you need to get somewhere in a hurry, but a car can be an expensive accessory, particularly if you live in a downtown setting. Thankfully, there are plenty of alternatives to just taking a bicycle to where you need to go. Including plenty that look just look downright stupid. So if standing out in…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Reports of the Kandyan dwarf toad’s death have been greatly exaggerated

Researchers photographed this Kandyan dwarf toad in 2009, but the IUCN red list claims this species is extinct. In fact, the last time anybody saw a Kandyan dwarf toad alive was all the way back in 1876. So where did this picture come from? New Scientist’s Andrew Purcell explains: Writing in the journal Zootaxa, the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

This Lego Minecraft Is Your Building-Blocks-For-Building-Blocks Deal of the Day

I’ve never played Minecraft. Am I alone in this? Or is the rest of the world enjoying Minecraft, which isn’t unlike digital LEGO, and leaving me behind like I’m a creaky old man. I’m not a creaky old man. Or at least, I hope I’m not too creaky yet. But as you get older, you…

Tech News J.D. Levite

Season-ending TV cliffhangers that actually paid off

The season-ending cliffhanger has been a major part of television, going back to Dallas. Sometimes they work, sometimes… not so much. Falling Skies just resolved its crazy-pants cliffhanger in a respectable fashion — but what about TV shows that actually paid off their big season-ending cliffhangers in style? Here are a dozen or so science…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Apple Patents Bizarre Identity Cloning Service That Will Help You Avoid Tracking

Attention paranoid Internet privacy wahoos: Apple has just patented a new system that will help you avoid unwanted tracking. Basically, it creates an alternate identity which you pass off as yourself. Sound like Science Fiction? Yup, this is some straight up Multiplicity madness. The technical ins and outs of the patent as reported by Patently…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

10 Psychedelic Blacklight Portraits

It was a weird request, to take photos of loved ones whilst bathed in blacklight. But you know what? The results—from painted pregnancies to bubble self portraits—were cooler than I could have ever anticipated. WINNER: Scuba Man I found a recipe online to make your own blacklight reactive bubbles. It involves marinating a highlighter in…

Tech News Mark Wilson

This magnificent view of the Arctic could be your last

Earth is changing. It’s changing so fast that images like this one, which show our planet’s Arctic polar ice cap in unprecedented detail, could be impossible to capture, as soon as twenty years from now. If you’re going to use a picture of the Earth to talk about climate change, it might as well be…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Google Scores a Patent on Google Glasses Technology

The USPTO just awarded Google with a patent on an “integrated finger-tracking input sensor device” for Google glasses which pretty much means that there’ll be a trackpad on the side frame of the glasses. That trackpad probably means that the Project Glass system will be controlled with your fingers and not just your voice or…

Tech News Casey Chan

Here’s What Happens When You Report Something on Facebook

Some people are total assholes on Facebook. They’re bullies who post things that are racist, sexist, and otherwise offensive. And you report them. But what happens when you do? Facebook Security has posted an explanation. The guide above (click to enlarge) looks a little bit like the game Mouse Trap, and it’s not all that…

Social Media Leslie Horn

Microsoft Surface Just Made the MacBook Air and the iPad Look Obsolete

Microsoft has guts. It’s what you get when you’re the underdog; either that or you curl into a RIM and die. Microsoft is the underdog because no matter how many hundreds of millions of people use its software, the cool and the future belong to Apple. Or belonged. After yesterday’s Surface event—assuming they don’t fumble…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

How to Make Crystal Clear Potato Chips

The results might look like some kind of fancy sugary confection, but this detailed Instructable shows you how to make a see-through snack that tastes exactly like potato chips. Minus the fat, greasy fingers, and guilt. The recipe does call for potatoes, but they’re actually used to create a flavored stock along with potato starch…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

In this week’s comics, there’s a very special X-Men wedding issue

What new series are hitting comic shops tomorrow? Mike Mignola also pens a new story about the vampire hunter Baltimore, Dr. Leskovar’s Remedy. (“An army of malformed vampires controls a small Croatian town, but Lord Henry Baltimore arrives to put an end to this madness, fighting his way to their creator-a twisted surgeon akin to…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Apple Is Stealing Android People with AirPlay

For many Windows devotees, the first experience with an Apple product came in the form of the Windows iPod. For starters, Steve Jobs made sure that the Mac faithful were the first ones to use the iPod, iTunes, and even the iTunes Music Store – in fact, he resisted making them available on Windows at…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm

Prescription Painkillers Now the Leading Cause of Accidental Deaths

Car accidents are no longer the leading cause of accidental deaths in the United States. According to a recent report published by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, this dubious distinction now belongs to drug poisoning. What’s at the root of this trend? A river of prescription painkillers. Top image via WBUR. Indeed, the…

io9 George Dvorsky

How to Turn a Century Old Building into Tron

Wroclaw’s Centennial Hall was built so long ago, Wroclaw wasn’t even part of Poland. But the super-minimal concrete mega-dome was ahead of its time way back in 1913, and with a little 2012 tech, it turns into a pulsating starship. Using projection mapping—a fancy term for beaming images onto buildings to create a 3D illusion—the…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Boy God, the Filipino child superhero who makes Harry Potter look like a human bedpan

Live the Language

Time to get excited about Fringe season 5

A Rolltop Messenger Bag That’s Military-Tough

On Eureka, with great intelligence comes being a great big jerk

Everything You Need to Get From Point A to B While Looking Like an Idiot

Reports of the Kandyan dwarf toad’s death have been greatly exaggerated

This Lego Minecraft Is Your Building-Blocks-For-Building-Blocks Deal of the Day

Season-ending TV cliffhangers that actually paid off

Apple Patents Bizarre Identity Cloning Service That Will Help You Avoid Tracking

10 Psychedelic Blacklight Portraits

This magnificent view of the Arctic could be your last

Google Scores a Patent on Google Glasses Technology

Here’s What Happens When You Report Something on Facebook

Microsoft Surface Just Made the MacBook Air and the iPad Look Obsolete

How to Make Crystal Clear Potato Chips

In this week’s comics, there’s a very special X-Men wedding issue

Apple Is Stealing Android People with AirPlay

Prescription Painkillers Now the Leading Cause of Accidental Deaths

How to Turn a Century Old Building into Tron

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