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This Mini Bike Is Your Lance-Armstrong-Jr Deal of the Day

My apartment isn’t huge, but I believe it’s big enough to warrant some form of transit system. Walking is too slow. I want something small enough that I can pack away, yet robust enough that I can take a quick ride to the fridge, if the mood strikes me. On Sundays, I can take that…

Tech News Andrew James

Intel’s Ivy Bridge: The Maximum PC Review

You are, no doubt, quite familiar with Intel’s CPU-release “cadence” of tick-tock by now. If not, the short story is that every tock brings a major breakthrough, while ticks are decent upgrades but nothing to Twitter home about. hat’s not necessarily the case with Intel’s latest tick, the Ivy Bridge CPU. Sure, the performance enhancements…

Tech News Sam Biddle

You’ve Never Seen Your Console Controllers Like This Before

Who cares about console controllers? They sit on our floors, are thrown against our walls, and do our bidding. Boring chunks of plastic. But when you x-ray them, they look downright gorgeous, like cyborg jellyfish. Redditor Diabolikal49 (kewl name) alleges to work with some industrial-grade x-ray machinery, and cooked up these fantastic images of console…

Tech News Sam Biddle

10 Alien Species from Star Wars Who Became Jedi Knights

Becoming a Jedi Knight is not unlike being conscripted into the Mickey Mouse Club. You need a fresh face, a pleasant demeanor, preternatural “it factor,” and voilà! You’re suddenly living inside a space ziggurat with Samuel L. Jackson. And just like the Mickey Mouse Club, the Jedi Order accepts Padawans from all across the galaxy.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Why You Should Be On A Cargo Bike

I used to care about weight. I’m one of those OCD types who meticulously weighed components out on my gram scale. I’m the jerk with the hollow pin chain and all Dura Ace on his carbon fiber LOOK 595. I stripped my mountain bike down to its frame, and replaced every. single. part. Every one.…

Tech News Mat Honan

New Dark Knight Rises footage reveals a better voice for Bane!

Despite reports that Chris Nolan would not be cleaning up the mumbles from the supervillain Bane in the Dark Knight Rises, a new sizzle reel presented at Cinema Con showed off a much, much clearer Tom Hardy, according to multiple reports. Meanwhile, check out a whole new crop of promo shots, with a badass-looking Batman…

Movies Meredith Woerner

If a Truck Loaded With Sulfuric Acid Crashes, Does It Melt the Road?

This truck carrying 1,000 gallons of sulfuric acid crashed in Bartow, Florida, spilling its cargo over State Road 60. The driver was burned, people and animals have been evacuated, and a hazardous materials team in on the scene. But my question is: if sulfuric acid drops on a road, would the road melt? I always…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Mystery cactus-like fossil named “Godzillus” found, unlike any other lifeform

It’s an incredible discovery: In the rocks outside Cincinnati, paleontologists have uncovered a mysterious ancient “monster” fossil resembling a cactus nearly seven feet long, that researchers are thinking of naming “Godzillus.” And they say it’s a form of life that defies all known categories of organisms. Roughly 450 million years ago, shallow seas covered the…

io9 Charles Choi

You Think More Clearly in a Foreign Language

If you find that you’re forever making foolish decisions, there might be a solution. A team of researchers has found that thinking in a foreign language sees people make more rational decisions. During the study, carried out at the University of Chicago and published in Psychological Science, researchers asked volunteers to make a hypothetical choice…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Make Silly Webcam Faces to Scrunch Up a Nike Sneaker

Making stupid faces on a webcam is pretty close to a natural state of being. It’s the first thing kids, old people, and idiots do when they sit down at a computer. And the evil geniuses at Nike somehow managed to make it even more fun. Nike Free Face actually launched in Japan this week,…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Would you drop $10,000 a year to stop yourself from getting HIV?

Thanks to advances in fighting HIV/AIDS over the last decades, these diseases are no longer the death sentences they once were — and some drugs offer the chance to protect against infection in the first place. Considering the huge price associated with these pills, would it make sense to do so? And for whom? The…

io9 Tim Barribeau

The Best Headphones for Running

The right music doesn’t soothe the savage beast, it makes the beast more savage. When you’re going for a long run, that’s exactly what you want. The pulse of thumping beats can make you feel superhuman. It certainly beats the sound of your own labored breathing. But all earbuds are not created equal. Some refuse…

Reviews Brent Rose

Bring home Tony Stark, with this amazing Avengers art print!

Iron Man started this Marvel movie craze, and he’s still one of the top reasons to be excited about The Avengers. And now you can celebrate the most metal of the Avengers, with this Mondo art print going on sale Friday. We’re stoked to bring you an exclusive first look at Mondo’s tribute to Tony…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Vase-Shaped Stand Lets Your TV Blossom

Breaking free from the traditional boxy designs of entertainment centers, the Bloom TV Stand features a curvy outline designed to look like a large vase with your LCD blossoming like a high-tech flower. The numerous layers of birch that go into its construction create a natural striped pattern on its outer surface, while a cut-out…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Koss Striva: Wi-Fi Streaming Headphones That Free Your Ears From Wires

Wireless music systems like Sonos and Apple’s AirPlay technology are crazy liberating, but so far no one’s managed to do the same thing with headphones—at least not in a way that’s both convenient and sounds good. Could this new system from Koss be the future? The new Koss Striva comes in both in-ear (Stiva TAP)…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Philip K. Dick’s estate is suing the makers of The Adjustment Bureau

The Adjustment Bureau features a gang of well-haberdasheried angels who step in to make sure the universe follows the plan laid out in their notebooks. But a new lawsuit claims that the makers of the film used their own dimension-jumping hats to steal Philip K. Dick’s intellectual property. Philip K. Dick is still one of…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

What’s next for Pixar? Dinosaurs and the Day of the Dead!

What comes after Pixar’s ginger princess movie Brave? The folks behind Toy Story, Up, and Finding Nemo have announced their next slate of flicks. They’ve finally released the name of that wacky alternate future dinosaur feature! No longer will it be known as Pixar’s Untitled Movie About Dinosaurs, it’s now The Good Dinosaur. Here are…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The President of the United States Plays with Tiny Robot iPhone Ball

Obama might be preparing for a slug-match with Mitt, but that doesn’t mean he can’t stop and tinker with Sphero. Here, in Boulder, Colorado, the ruler of the free world meets that little remote controller robot ball thing. https://gizmodo.com/sphero-the-robotic-hamster-ball-is-about-to-make-your-c-5840003 At first, the Commander in Chief is flummoxed. An iPhone is pushed in his face. “Do…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Safety Pin Flash Drive Makes an I-Always-Lose-Things Fashion Statement

Art Lebedev’s studio is best known for its flashy glowing Optimus keyboards, but the firm dabbles in other clever designs too. Like merging a USB flash drive with a safety pin creating four gigs of storage you’re unlikely to lose. https://gizmodo.com/optimus-popularis-keyboard-still-on-track-with-2011-lau-5537972 There’s no word on whether or not the Bulavkus flash drive concept will ever…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Case Against DRM on eBooks

Not only is Charlie Stross a published sci-fi author, but he is also an advocate for DRM-free eBooks. As such, he’s put together a thoughtful argument as to why DRM-free eBooks will be good for the publishing world… After I recommended that the major publishers drop mandatory DRM from their ebook products, I realized that…

Commerce Charlie Stross

This Mini Bike Is Your Lance-Armstrong-Jr Deal of the Day

Intel’s Ivy Bridge: The Maximum PC Review

You’ve Never Seen Your Console Controllers Like This Before

10 Alien Species from Star Wars Who Became Jedi Knights

Why You Should Be On A Cargo Bike

New Dark Knight Rises footage reveals a better voice for Bane!

If a Truck Loaded With Sulfuric Acid Crashes, Does It Melt the Road?

Mystery cactus-like fossil named “Godzillus” found, unlike any other lifeform

You Think More Clearly in a Foreign Language

Make Silly Webcam Faces to Scrunch Up a Nike Sneaker

Would you drop $10,000 a year to stop yourself from getting HIV?

The Best Headphones for Running

Bring home Tony Stark, with this amazing Avengers art print!

Vase-Shaped Stand Lets Your TV Blossom

Koss Striva: Wi-Fi Streaming Headphones That Free Your Ears From Wires

Philip K. Dick’s estate is suing the makers of The Adjustment Bureau

What’s next for Pixar? Dinosaurs and the Day of the Dead!

The President of the United States Plays with Tiny Robot iPhone Ball

Safety Pin Flash Drive Makes an I-Always-Lose-Things Fashion Statement

The Case Against DRM on eBooks

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