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Riding Along In Red Bull’s Stunt Plane Won’t Help Your Fear Of Flying

You can strap a GoPro camera to literally anything and the footage will be mesmerizing. But when you strap them all over Red Bull’s air racing plane while it’s being piloted by champion Kirby Chambliss, well then you’ve got a real excuse to put away that spreadsheet for a few minutes. It also doesn’t hurt…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

ASTAMIDS Fly-By Mine Detectors Save US Lives and Limbs

IEDs are far and away the greatest threat to our armed forces in Afghanistan, having killed nearly 700 soldiers since 2001 and accounting for roughly half of all US troop deaths in the region since 2008. The newly developed ASTAMIDS system aims to find these booby traps before our ground forces do. ASTAMIDS, short for…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

This Is the Definitive Photograph of Planet Earth

Unlike NASA’s Blue Marble—which is a composite made from many different photographs—this is a portrait of Earth taken in one single shot. It’s the highest resolution image of our home planet, 121 megapixels. That’s an amazing 0.62 miles per pixel. https://gizmodo.com/the-most-accurate-highest-resolution-earth-view-to-dat-5478787 This image was not taken by NASA or the European Space Agency. It’s been…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Hot Missile Porn: Hawaiian ICBM Blowed the Hell Up

American missile defense often fails spectacularly—but in one of these occasional interception wins, it looks pretty spectacular. Enjoy the slow motion flames and fanfare while it lasts, courtesy of the Navy’s newest toy. The test of the brand new Standard Missile – 3 (SM-3) was carefully choreographed, according to DVIDS: At 8:18 p.m. Hawaiian Standard…

Tech News Sam Biddle

This Is the iPad Keyboard Case You Want

The Wirecutter‘s singular goal is to decide which gadgets to buy or not to buy. Today, it takes a hard look at iPad keyboard cases. I know you came here looking for a keyboard case, but my honest opinion is that if you do any serious typing with your iPad you should get the Apple…

Tech News Seamus Bellamy - Wirecutter

Dear people of the past, screw you for not making inflatable pants insanely popular

During the 1970s, multiple fitness companies tried to capitalize on the “air shorts” craze. And given that we’re all not prancing around in britches that resemble inflatable diapers, it’s safe to say that trend crashed hard. But what if air shorts did catch on in a massive way? Sure, the health benefits sound suspect (not…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Our New Favorite Troll High-Fives Tourists Pretending to Hold Up the Leaning Tower of Pisa

In this video Darius Groza takes advantage of tourists taking forced-perspective photos of themselves propping up the Leaning Tower of Pisa by running up and giving them high fives when they’re not looking: Brilliant. This is exactly the kind of humorous trolling we wholeheartedly endorse, since it not only spreads good cheer, but more importantly…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Crete was once swarming with tiny mammoths

Here’s proof yet again that some of the cutest animals to ever walk the Earth are now long extinct — it seems islands in the Mediterranean may once have been crawling with tiny, tiny mammoths. The newly identified Mammuthus creticus has been identified from previously misattributed bones and new research, and this tiny mammoth would…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Nokia’s Lumia Rap Is the Worst Thing to Happen to Music, Gadgets, and the World (Update: ROGUE MARKETING?)

Nokia. Nokia, Nokia. You were doing things well. You made a smartphone that was well received, and looked nothing like an iPhone. People liked it. People are buying it. And then you created a video parody of Rack City. Nokia… https://gizmodo.com/at-t-stores-are-almost-completely-out-of-lumia-900-stoc-5903117 The video—which director Aaron Perkins Jr. says was shot at a Nokia office in…

Tech News Sam Biddle

This Inflatable Boot Camp Would Make the Draft Obsolete

We’re not saying the U.S. needs to enter another war anytime soon, but should the nation’s armed forces find themselves in a situation where new recruits are few and far between, this inflatable boot camp obstacle course will easily bolster its numbers. Which would you prefer? An uptight drill sergeant screaming in your face while…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

During World War II, Japan plotted to unleash a plague on the United States

Japan’s Unit 731 is one of the best kept and most horrifying secrets of World War II. Unit 731 experimented on Japanese and Chinese civilians as well as Russian and American POWs during the Second Sino-Japanese War in the 1930s and throughout World War II. Led by the enigmatic Dr. Shiro Ishii, Unit 731 committed…

io9 Keith Veronese

Cocktail Shaking Machine Is How Super Villains Would Grant James Bond His Last Martini Request

If something’s worth doing, it’s usually worth over-doing. And nowhere is that mantra more apropos than when it comes to mixing up drinks. A cocktail shaker might give you the opportunity to show off your bartending skills, but this hand-cranked shaking contraption just looks altogether more entertaining. Built as an interactive mechanical sculpture by Benjamin…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

It’s Jason Todd versus Mr. Freeze, in this preview of Red Hood and the Outlaws

In the DC Comics’ story arc Night of the Owls, a band of almost immortal assassins known as the Talons descend upon Gotham City to wreak havoc. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-create-an-owl-ninja-with-the-skills-to-defeat-ba-5902411 And in the comic Red Hood and the Outlaws, one of these villains runs afoul of some equally unpleasant characters: Mr. Freeze and Batman’s former protégé, Jason…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Every Single Harry Potter Book Will Be Free on Amazon Prime

Do you have an Amazon Prime account? Then you have all seven books of the Harry Potter adolescent warfare odyssey. Amazon just told us the entire series will be made free as part of its Kindle Lending Library. https://gizmodo.com/amazon-prime-subscribers-can-borrow-kindle-books-for-fr-5855971 This is a pretty huge deal—and not just because there are legions of frothing Potter fans…

Commerce Sam Biddle

Apple’s Using Its Mountain of Cash to Improve Working Conditions in China

Working conditions in Foxconn’s Chinese manufacturing plants have been the turd floating around Apple’s Scrooge McDuck swimming pool of money for a while. Now Apple is reportedly partnering with Foxconn to improve working conditions in its plants, and splitting the cost to get there. https://gizmodo.com/overworked-and-in-danger-the-full-foxconn-labor-report-5897593 The Reuters report doesn’t specify how much the improvements will…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

How an Oxford Professor Turned Roulette Odds in His Favor

If you’re gonna cheat, cheat smart. Like an Oxford math professor, who has revealed how he used the world’s first wearable computer to beat the roulette tables of Las Vegas back in the 1970s. In an interview with New Scientist, Oxford mathematician Doyne Farmer explains that, as a graduate student, he used a small computer…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Marion Cotillard swears her Dark Knight Rises character isn’t who you think!

Iron Man 3 is close to finding its new female costar. Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright are officially going to the long-awaited The World’s End. Steven Moffat drops hints about the new Doctor Who companion. Plus new Prometheus videos! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from The Dark Knight Rises. The Dark Knight Rises…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Surprise, Printer Cartridges Come Filled with Less Ink Every Year

Actually, it’s not really a surprise. We already know that replacement inkjet cartridges are ridiculously overpriced, but it turns out that since 2010 the amount of ink included in each HP cart has been dramatically shrinking. https://gizmodo.com/hp-ink-costs-more-than-human-blood-booze-212444 Over on the HP Ink Cartridges blog (yeah, apparently that’s a thing) they took a hacksaw to three…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Most Realistic Robotic Ass Ever Made

In the never-ending quest to bridge the uncanny valley, Japanese scientists have turned to one area of research that has, so far, gone ignored: the robotic ass. https://gizmodo.com/the-history-of-the-uncanny-valley-5680409 Built by Nobuhiro Takahashi and a team at the Tokyo University of Electro-Communications, this is Shiri. Shiri, of course, means buttocks in Japanese, and the researchers claim…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Can Siri Find a Cure for Cancer?

Can Siri help you find a cure for cancer? As it stands, this is a bit beyond the skills of the talking virtual assistant on Apple’s iPhone. But British Telecom is putting her through a kind of biomedical training. Last month, at a conference in Boston, BT’s Bas Burger used Siri to launch a mock…

Health Eric Smalley -Wired

Riding Along In Red Bull’s Stunt Plane Won’t Help Your Fear Of Flying

ASTAMIDS Fly-By Mine Detectors Save US Lives and Limbs

This Is the Definitive Photograph of Planet Earth

Hot Missile Porn: Hawaiian ICBM Blowed the Hell Up

This Is the iPad Keyboard Case You Want

Dear people of the past, screw you for not making inflatable pants insanely popular

Our New Favorite Troll High-Fives Tourists Pretending to Hold Up the Leaning Tower of Pisa

Crete was once swarming with tiny mammoths

Nokia’s Lumia Rap Is the Worst Thing to Happen to Music, Gadgets, and the World (Update: ROGUE MARKETING?)

This Inflatable Boot Camp Would Make the Draft Obsolete

During World War II, Japan plotted to unleash a plague on the United States

Cocktail Shaking Machine Is How Super Villains Would Grant James Bond His Last Martini Request

It’s Jason Todd versus Mr. Freeze, in this preview of Red Hood and the Outlaws

Every Single Harry Potter Book Will Be Free on Amazon Prime

Apple’s Using Its Mountain of Cash to Improve Working Conditions in China

How an Oxford Professor Turned Roulette Odds in His Favor

Marion Cotillard swears her Dark Knight Rises character isn’t who you think!

Surprise, Printer Cartridges Come Filled with Less Ink Every Year

The Most Realistic Robotic Ass Ever Made

Can Siri Find a Cure for Cancer?

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