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Are GPS Signals the Key to Predicting Earthquakes?

Earthquake prediction is a mystery that has stumped scientists for centuries. But it just might be that the same signals giving us directions to the nearest Starbucks could clue us in to upcoming tremors. https://gizmodo.com/why-earthquakes-are-so-hard-to-predict-5789856 Professor Kosuke Heki of Hokkaido University discovered that while measuring electrons in the ionosphere using GPS signals during the Tohoku…

Tech News Michael Hession

World’s Most Powerful Offshore Turbine Catches Wind Gusts Two Soccer Fields Wide

While it may not be the overall most-powerful wind turbine ever built, the multi-megawatt monstrosity that has just been installed off the coast of Belgium is certainly the most powerful to ever be caressed by a sea breeze. https://gizmodo.com/650-feet-of-wind-catching-fury-5813896 The turbine, with a rated capacity of 6.15 megawatts, is part of a 48-turbine expansion at…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

This four-legged Chinese chicken = the real face-hugger from Alien

Goodness, this is difficult to look at. Last week, a shopper in the Chinese city of Changsha bought this frozen chicken from the supermarket, only to discover that the skinless fowl possessed four delightfully mutated legs. According to a university professor consulted by the website China Buzz, the chicken is otherwise edible — until it…

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Ever Watch 130 Simpsons Episodes at the Same Time?

There’s really no reason at all for this video to exists, which takes 13 episodes from the first 10 seasons of The Simpsons and creates a mega video wall of them all playing simultaneously. But hey, it’s The Simpsons. How can you possibly hate on this?

Tech News Adrian Covert

The 10 Best Retorts in Science Fiction and Fantasy

A properly-delivered snappy line can be so good that it’s worth whatever hardship prompted it in the first place. Usually it’s the line you think of two weeks after being insulted. In science fiction and fantasy, with the benefit of a script, it’s delivered right on time, and in every imaginable situation. Take a look…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Cross-Stitched iPhone Cases Are Cooler than Your Grandma

You might think cross-stitching is for bored Puritans and nursing home artists—and maybe you’re kind of right—but you can cross-stitch yourself one of the coolest custom cases we’ve ever seen. All it takes is $25, some thread, and the ability to cross-stitch. That last one is important! But if you’ve got the know how, you…

Tech News Sam Biddle

A light-projected ghost tiger runs rampant through Paris

In case there weren’t enough spectral big cats barreling through the world’s metropolises, French design firm created Le3 this absolutely sublime projection of a tiger loose in the avenues. Woe to be ailurophobic in the City of Lights! [Via Laughing Squid]

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Carbon Fiber Sunglasses Sound So So So Great—Until You Stop and Think About Them

Sunglasses made out of molded carbon fiber with scratch-resistant lenses would fix a lot of standard sunglass-related problems. Like sitting on them. Or having them fall off your face. They’re perfect! Kind of. For all their engineering might, there are still two problems with the admittedly attractive Kolstom Classic sunglasses—neither of which are really their…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Flag Designs for Earth & The Solar System in 2020 and Beyond

Redittor thefrek has designed a kick-ass series of flags for the Solar System and its planets. But flags, as we all know, change over time. So he’s also created possible revisions for those flags reaching as far as 800 years into the future. Below you’ll find thefrek’s concept designs for “Earth/Solar flags throughout the future,”…

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Canon EOS 5D Mark III Review: The Best DSLR for Shooting Video

It’s been nearly four years since Canon released the EOS 5D Mark II, the camera that turned digital still cameras into affordable workhorses for videographers and indie filmmakers. And this next evolution was definitely created with those filmmakers in mind. In creating the 5D Mark III, Canon listened to all of the critiques and complaints…

Reviews Andrew Liszewski

The Hunger Games Will Ruin You

The Hunger Games movie will punch you in the gut. The saga of Katniss, teenage dystopian gladiator, turns out to be just as addictive in movie form as it was in the books. The combination of insane spectacle and surprisingly brutal violence makes this movie exhilarating, and a little exhausting, to watch. You can’t help…

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Two Screens Are Better (And More Productive) Than One

How often has this happened: You’re at home, happily watching your favorite Tuesday night guilty pleasure on TV, when suddenly, you remember that you never sent your boss that deck you were working on all day. To make matters worse—you left your laptop sitting in your cube. Argh! Instead of freaking out and planning your…

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Hey Email, Keep Quiet and Carry On

Unless you live in a bunker underground waiting for an alien attack or the impact of the granddaddy of all meteors, life is noisy. Roaring car engines, honking car horns, blabbering people, barking dogs—it can all be pretty overwhelming. And with 294 billion emails flying around every day, even checking your email can feel like…

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Kuwait Played Borat’s Hilariously Obscene Fake Anthem as the Real Kazakhstan National Anthem

Winning a sporting event while representing your country is supposed to be a moment of pride—standing atop the medal podium, hearing your national anthem, feeling all your hard work pay off. Not for this Kazakhstan athlete in Kuwait. Kuwait accidentally blared Borat’s obscene parody anthem thinking it was Kazakhstan’s real anthem. Yes, the Kazakhstan anthem…

Tech News Casey Chan

Are we on the verge of a thermal battery revolution?

Are finally we on the cusp of economically viable thermal batteries — devices to store and transmit heat? A perspective article published in this week’s Science seems to think so, and it could mean a major change for the way we think about heating and cooling. Anyone who’s lived in a climate that suffers from…

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The Fastest Adopted Gadget Isn’t What You Think

If you think about the one gadget you simply can’t live without, most of us would say our smartphones, right? Like what would you do if people couldn’t always absolutely definitely get in touch with you. Well a study dug up by The Atlantic looks at rates of adoption shows that cellphones were actually relatively…

Gadgets Mario Aguilar

These People Flew a Giant 45-foot Paper Airplane Over the Arizona Desert

The people from the Pima Air & Space Museum thought it would be a great idea to make a 45-foot long paper airplane, lift it with an helicopter, and then drop it to let it glide across the Arizona desert. I don’t think it’s a great idea. I think this is an awesome kick-ass french-toast-sweet…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

A fantastic full frontal shot of The Amazing Spider-Man‘s Lizard

We’ve seen plenty of shots of Dr. Curt Connors (played by Rhys Ifans) in human form, but now get an entire eyeful of The Lizard. Behold the scales, arms, and gigantic muscles on The Amazing Spider-Man’s main antagonist in this character poster. Trends International is selling this slinky reptile character poster of Dr. Curt Connors’…

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Could you really survive the apocalypse by eating freeze-dried food?

Is it really a good idea to store freeze dried food for a long-term survival situation? It may be an attractive proposition for the survivalist in you, but you probably didn’t bargain on what exactly the process of freeze drying involves — and its price. How to Carry a Ton of Food on Your Back…

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The Princess Bride‘s bizarrely NSFW cover from the 1970s

Chances are you’re familiar with The Princess Bride movie, but way fewer people have read author William Goldman’s book. Let me just say that it takes a strikingly different tone than the movie. Instead of a kindly grandfather narrating the story to his sick grandson, the book is framed by a writer editing and rewriting…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Are GPS Signals the Key to Predicting Earthquakes?

World’s Most Powerful Offshore Turbine Catches Wind Gusts Two Soccer Fields Wide

This four-legged Chinese chicken = the real face-hugger from Alien

Ever Watch 130 Simpsons Episodes at the Same Time?

The 10 Best Retorts in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Cross-Stitched iPhone Cases Are Cooler than Your Grandma

A light-projected ghost tiger runs rampant through Paris

Carbon Fiber Sunglasses Sound So So So Great—Until You Stop and Think About Them

Flag Designs for Earth & The Solar System in 2020 and Beyond

Canon EOS 5D Mark III Review: The Best DSLR for Shooting Video

The Hunger Games Will Ruin You

Two Screens Are Better (And More Productive) Than One

Hey Email, Keep Quiet and Carry On

Kuwait Played Borat’s Hilariously Obscene Fake Anthem as the Real Kazakhstan National Anthem

Are we on the verge of a thermal battery revolution?

The Fastest Adopted Gadget Isn’t What You Think

These People Flew a Giant 45-foot Paper Airplane Over the Arizona Desert

A fantastic full frontal shot of The Amazing Spider-Man‘s Lizard

Could you really survive the apocalypse by eating freeze-dried food?

The Princess Bride‘s bizarrely NSFW cover from the 1970s

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