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How to Make Your Own Amazing Dalek Dress

Over on imgur, somevelvetmorning has put together a great little gallery cataloguing the creation of the wicked Dalek dress featured here (there’s even a helmet!). By far the best part about this little DIY project are the iconic hemispheres lining the dress’ “panels” — according to somevelvetmorning, they’re actually made from the little plastic balls…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Ask Naomi Novik anything you want about His Majesty’s Dragon

In April, the io9 Book Club read Naomi Novik’s His Majesty’s Dragon, the first novel in the Temeraire series (the seventh novel, Crucible of Gold, just came out). Now Novik is coming to answer your questions about the book tomorrow, April 27. https://gizmodo.com/the-io9-book-club-is-in-session-lets-talk-about-his-ma-5904564 She’ll be landing in the comment thread on this very post on…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Everything You Need to Kill Time Until Your Team’s Next NFL Draft Pick

The NFL Draft is exciting, but holy hell does it take forever. Once the top picks are all gone, you’ll find yourself anxiously waiting around, watching millionaires in suits deliberate their next move. Here’s how you’re going to keep yourself occupied in the meantime. Image via HomeArt/Shutterstock.com Vibrating Football Long before there were Madden video…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The 38 Things Every Photographer Needs in His Bag

Shawn Corrigan is by some accounts the hardest-working photography assistant in the history of hard-working people. But since he can’t join every single photographer on every single shoot, he put together a list of everything you’d need to replicate having a badass sidekick. Here’s his full list: -A Fully Charged iPod with at least 3-4…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Confirmed: Those North Korean Communist Assclowns Are Pathetic

Those North Koreans are a joke, starting with their stupid leaders, their military imbeciles, the moronic scientists and the state party sheep that cry for their dead leaders while half of the country is dying of starvation. Witness their latest inanity after failing to launch another of their useless rockets: a parade of fake long-range…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

What do prairie dogs have words for?

Prairie dogs may have the most extensive vocabulary of any animal other than humans. They can actually distinguish, linguistically, between a short human in a blue shirt and a tall human in a yellow shirt. Find out what prairie dogs talk about, and whether or not they like the color of your shirt. Since prairie…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

How Technicolor created ruby slippers without using color film

Technicolor film was not color film, and it did not produce anything like lifelike colors. But how did it produce color movies? And why did those colors glow? And why did all of it lead to Dorothy getting ruby slippers? As anyone who has seen an old Technicolor film knows, it looks weird. Blue eyes…

Movies Esther Inglis-Arkell

Office Sound System Lets You Skip Tracks By Whipping Something At this Poster

In an attempt to stop people from queuing up unpopular songs in its public Spotify-powered sound system, the folks at Agency Republic created this interactive wall poster that can be used to easily skip tracks. All you have to do is slap, hit, fire, or throw something at it. Anyone working in the studio’s office…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Canon C300 Review: For When Your Movie Deserves Better Than a DSLR

Since the Canon 5D Mark II emerged almost four years ago, many pro videographers on a budget have shot their material exclusively with DSLRs. They’ve loved every minute of it. But they’ve been waiting for the next big thing—a dedicated video camera with a large sensor, interchangeable lenses, and no compromises. The Canon C300 might…

Reviews Michael Hession

New Prometheus footage shows Ridley Scott torturing Noomi Rapace

You’ve seen our breakdown of the horrors that await the half-naked Noomi Rapace in the medical pod of Prometheus — now watch big parts of that scene get filmed in this behind-the-scenes look at Ridley Scott’s movie. Plus there’s plenty of new David action — and now we know why Charlize Theron is freaking out…

Movies Meredith Woerner

10 Tech Stupidity Taxes You Should Never Pay

People are lazy—that’s why we love technology! But not everything’s as good a deal as it seems. Here’s a list of tech products and services you shouldn’t ever blow your money on from our friends at Laptop Magazine. Earlier this month, millions of Americans filed their income tax returns, but so many continue to pay…

Tech News Avram Piltch - LAPTOP MAGAZINE

How much of the Moon’s surface did the Apollo 11 astronauts actually explore?

How far from the Lunar Module did the Apollo 11 astronauts wander after touching down on the surface of the Moon? Five meters? Twenty? How far did their “small steps” actually carry them? If you’re like most people, you probably have no idea. Fortunately for us, NASA has the answer. The diagrams featured below were…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

This Mini Multi-Tool Is Your Go-Anywhere-Fix-Anything Deal of the Day

Every job calls for a specific tool, like baseball requires a bat, a nail requires a hammer, and a bad movie hinges on Brendan Fraser. Then there are those jobs that you just need an all-around functional tool, one that can easily travel with you anywhere. That’s where this Swiss+Tech Micro-Max 19-in-1 Keychain Multitool comes…

Tech News Andrew James

Oh dear, somebody made a Buffy The Vampire Slayer porn

We’re not shocked that a Buffy blue film exists — indeed, the market is saturated with XXX parodies and we knew this was coming anyway — but there’s something magically off-kilter about this orifice flick from Adam & Eve Pictures and director Leeroy Myers. It’s like a journey to Dimension Bootleg, which happens to be…

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar

Will the Nikon D600 Be the Full Frame Successor to the D700?

Nikon Rumors has people telling them that the heir apparent to the Nikon D700—the full frame DSLR that went toe-to-toe with the Canon 5D MK II)—could arrive this summer, and will be called the Nikon D600. Next to no specs were offered up by this anonymous source, except that it will be an “entry level”…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Why Queen Victoria Has a Steam Engine Under Her Skirts in Pirates! Band of Misfits

Aardman Animations has paid tribute to weird gadgets and strange machinations with the Wallace and Gromit series and the movie Chicken Run. And Pirates! Band of Misfits, which opens tomorrow, sees a pirate crew running up against Charles Darwin and other scientists, in Victorian England. So just how steampunk does it get? We had to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

NSFW: Reddit Women Are Getting Naked for Bitcoins

The future of sexuality is here, and boy it’s predictably sad and weird: girls stripping for Bitcoin tips, a virtual currency that’s not really worth anything. Start mining yer coins, boys! Welcome to GirlsGoneBitcoin. Of course, as FWD’s Katie Notopoulos reports, this is taking place on Reddit. Where else would the pretense of paying via…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Xerox Predicted and Built Today’s Desktop PC Way Back In 1972

It’s widely assumed that the ideas for both Apple’s and Microsoft’s GUI-based operating systems were heavily lifted from research done at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, or PARC. And this clip from 1972, showing off Xerox’s Alto desktop computer, all but proves the company was years ahead of its time. Connected to other desktop computers…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Stunning Time-Lapse of One World Trade Center Construction

This remarkable footage of One World Trade Center is a moving document of the colossal construction endeavor. Work on the mammoth building began nearly six years ago. The construction images were captured by EarthCam, which operates a network of webcams in iconic locations all over the world. One World Trade Center is scheduled to top…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

There’s Finally a New Official Twitter App for iPhone and Android

Twitter just updated its apps for iPhone and Android. That’s great news, because both were getting a bit creaky and were due for a good polish. Here’s what’s new in both apps: The biggest change is that the Discover pane, which is sort of a waste right now, has been upgraded to add a new…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

How to Make Your Own Amazing Dalek Dress

Ask Naomi Novik anything you want about His Majesty’s Dragon

Everything You Need to Kill Time Until Your Team’s Next NFL Draft Pick

The 38 Things Every Photographer Needs in His Bag

Confirmed: Those North Korean Communist Assclowns Are Pathetic

What do prairie dogs have words for?

How Technicolor created ruby slippers without using color film

Office Sound System Lets You Skip Tracks By Whipping Something At this Poster

Canon C300 Review: For When Your Movie Deserves Better Than a DSLR

New Prometheus footage shows Ridley Scott torturing Noomi Rapace

10 Tech Stupidity Taxes You Should Never Pay

How much of the Moon’s surface did the Apollo 11 astronauts actually explore?

This Mini Multi-Tool Is Your Go-Anywhere-Fix-Anything Deal of the Day

Oh dear, somebody made a Buffy The Vampire Slayer porn

Will the Nikon D600 Be the Full Frame Successor to the D700?

Why Queen Victoria Has a Steam Engine Under Her Skirts in Pirates! Band of Misfits

NSFW: Reddit Women Are Getting Naked for Bitcoins

Xerox Predicted and Built Today’s Desktop PC Way Back In 1972

Stunning Time-Lapse of One World Trade Center Construction

There’s Finally a New Official Twitter App for iPhone and Android

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