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Everplaces: Remember the Places You’ve Been and the Places You’ll Go

If you have bookmarks for your favorite websites, it only makes sense that you have bookmarks for your favorite actual, local places. Even better, it makes sense to have a list of places you want to go to in the future, right? Everplaces does just that. What does it do? Everplaces is an elegantly designed…

Tech News Casey Chan

Every Alien Easter Egg in the Latest Prometheus Trailers

Just how many weird alien secrets are there in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus? The longer we look at the trailers, the more we see. We’ve combined a ton of screngrabs from both the new U.S. and the UK trailers for Prometheus — and here are all the surprises we uncovered. https://gizmodo.com/suspenseful-uk-prometheus-trailer-digs-deeper-into-the-5894326 First and foremost, these trailers…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Watch Kurt Vonnegut recall the bombing of Dresden in his final years

In 2005, for the sixtieth anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden, the BBC interviewed author Kurt Vonnegut about his experience as a P.O.W. and Dresden survivor. As you may know, Vonnegut would use the bombing as a setting for his 1969 unstuck-from-time classic Slaughterhouse-Five, which had a hell of a time getting off the…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Why true bionic limbs are out of reach . . . for now

Researchers continue to make remarkable headway on the path to developing next-generation prosthetic limbs, but when you get right down to it, there’s still a monumental gap separating us from a truly bionic replacement for arms and legs. Such an appendage would be capable of responding to mental commands with grace and fluidity, handling objects…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Watch Conan Relentlessly Jab Apple Around the iPad Launch

Conan O’Brien and Apple have a sort of love-hate relationship, which has manifested itself in a long tradition of affectionate taunting during Conan’s monologues and parody videos. When an Apple product launch is imminent, Conan really lets loose. Watch the video for a bit of said mockery from the last couple of weeks. [Conan] https://gizmodo.com/conan-mocks-magical-ipad-retina-display-5892464

Tech News Michael Hession

The io9 Book Club Is in Session! Let’s talk about Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One

Welcome to the monthly meeting of the io9 Book Club. In February, we read Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One. Jump into comments to get started talking about it! For those unfamiliar with the io9 book club, here’s how it works: You read the book. We create a special book club post on io9 when…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

The best (and easiest) special effect you can do to freak out your friends

Some special effects are incredibly easy to do — with science. Find out how to pour an ’empty’ pitcher on candle flames and cause them to suddenly go out. It’s a fun and easy effect for your supernatural movie, fake seance, or just freaking out your friends. Of course there’s a reason why I put…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Here’s a Kickstarter to Buy Kickstarter

Kickstarters are usually started to raise funds to make wacky concepts real, put cool ideas in our life and apparently, to buy Kickstarter itself. In this hilarious Kickstarter hosted on Kickstarter, Eric Moneypenny wants to raise funds to buy Kickstarters. All he needs is 19 million dollars! And if you donate more than $10,000 to…

Tech News Casey Chan

Your ticket to Mars will cost only half a million dollars

You could go to Mars for just half a million bucks. That, at least, is the latest big proclamation from SpaceX entrepreneur and private spaceflight pioneer Elon Musk, who says a round-trip to Mars could be within reach of the “average” person in as little as 30 to 50 years. Of course, let’s clarify a…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The New iPad Blazes Up to 116 Degrees. But How Hot Is That?

It seems the newest iPad is running a bit hot—and now Consumer Reports says just how hot: a scorchin’ 116 degrees (Fahrenheit). That’s too hot, right? Well, see for yourself. https://gizmodo.com/thermal-images-show-the-new-ipad-definitely-runs-hotter-5894772 As you can see above, the iPad’s heating problem—recorded during an Infinity Blade II session while plugged in—might sound scary, but it’s not approaching…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Protected Feeder Puts Your Fat Tabby on Portion Control

If you’ve got multiple cats at home, the Gatefeeder makes dinner time easier if one of your felines is on a special diet. Because only a cat wearing a unique RFID tag can squeeze through its door and dine. An electro-magnetic lock prevents the door from opening when the RFID tag isn’t nearby, blocking access…

Health Andrew Liszewski

How does the time machine work in Looper? Allow Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Rian Johnson to explain

We’re pretty excited about Looper, which is shaping up to be the next big mind-job flick. So when we nabbed Looper director Rian Johnson and actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt at WonderCon, we had to pump the duo for all the time-traveling mob murders plot info possible. Watch Rian Johnson explain his time-travel picture with wild gestures,…

Movies Meredith Woerner

These Kids Are Building a Battlestar Galactica Viper

They are a group of five high school students from Marin and San Francisco. They build projects for MakerFaire before and now they want to do something really amazing: build a full BSG Viper simulator with 360-degree motion in all directions. And you can help them! These kids are amazing. They found a Piper fuselage…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Doxie Go Scanner: Yes, This Thing Is Actually Cool

Imagine a lightweight, battery-powered scanner with on-board storage that can function without a computer. No, we’re not talking about some far-fetched gizmo Q might throw in the trunk of Bond’s Aston Martin. We’re talking about Apparent’s Doxie Go, a real-world device you can sink your teeth into for $199. It only sounds like it belongs…

Reviews Abdel Ibrahim - TheTechBlock.com

Here’s how to catch NASA’s rocket-powered light show tonight

NASA has scheduled an atmospheric light show for the wee hours of Wednesday morning, when the Agency intends to launch five sub-orbital rockets (complete with luminescent chemical tracers) in an experiment designed to test the flow of jet streams on the edge of space. Best of all? A good portion of the East Coast is…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

What does anger look like? Creepy, ghostly stick figures

Anger carries a lot of baggage. Musical tones, color schemes, physical sensations, and words can all convey this emotion, and the pictures above are compilations of people’s feelings of rage. The far left is a strip of colors that people associated with anger, with the thickest bands representing the most popular colors and the thinnest…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Watch This Amazing Handicapped Woman in a Wheelchair Go Bungee Jumping

This video goes against every moral impulse a person has but oh my god it’s so good. A paraplegic woman wanted to go bungee jumping, so with the help of a group of people tossing her off the bridge and a bungee cord attached to her wheelchair, she went bungee jumping. It’s awesome. The woman…

Tech News Casey Chan

Reminder: All Your iPad Dictations Belong to Apple

Though the new iPad doesn’t have Siri, it does have Dictation, which lets you dictate what you want to say to the email, notes, messages, and other apps. And like Siri, Dictation needs an internet connection in order to work, that’s because Apple needs to send your phrases to its servers to make sense out…

Tech News Casey Chan

Alan Dean Foster’s near-future India novel gets a movie deal… in Hong Kong

Prolific author Alan Dean Foster has sold the movie rights to his novel Sagramanda: A Novel of Near Future India, to the Hong Kong-based Agog Film Productions. According to Filmbiz Asia, Agog plans to start production “immediately,” filming in Hong Kong and India, and the movie will be out in 2014. (So this isn’t just…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Everything You Need To (Reluctantly) Turn Your Sickbed Into a Home Office

Spending a day at home, sick in bed, sucks. But it’s nowhere near as bad as when you’re so busy you can’t afford to just sleep away what ails you. So if you feel a sore throat or hacking cough sneaking up on you, here’s everything you’ll need to at least stay productive while you’re…

Health Andrew Liszewski

Everplaces: Remember the Places You’ve Been and the Places You’ll Go

Every Alien Easter Egg in the Latest Prometheus Trailers

Watch Kurt Vonnegut recall the bombing of Dresden in his final years

Why true bionic limbs are out of reach . . . for now

Watch Conan Relentlessly Jab Apple Around the iPad Launch

The io9 Book Club Is in Session! Let’s talk about Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One

The best (and easiest) special effect you can do to freak out your friends

Here’s a Kickstarter to Buy Kickstarter

Your ticket to Mars will cost only half a million dollars

The New iPad Blazes Up to 116 Degrees. But How Hot Is That?

Protected Feeder Puts Your Fat Tabby on Portion Control

How does the time machine work in Looper? Allow Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Rian Johnson to explain

These Kids Are Building a Battlestar Galactica Viper

Doxie Go Scanner: Yes, This Thing Is Actually Cool

Here’s how to catch NASA’s rocket-powered light show tonight

What does anger look like? Creepy, ghostly stick figures

Watch This Amazing Handicapped Woman in a Wheelchair Go Bungee Jumping

Reminder: All Your iPad Dictations Belong to Apple

Alan Dean Foster’s near-future India novel gets a movie deal… in Hong Kong

Everything You Need To (Reluctantly) Turn Your Sickbed Into a Home Office

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