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Everything You Need To Waste Your Life Waiting In Line For the New iPad

First of all: don’t do this, it’s dumb. But if you absolutely HAVE to spend three days camped out in front of your local iStore to get your hands on the new iPad, here’s everything you’re going to need to survive the soul-crushing ordeal. Sumo Lounge Chair With three days to kill you’re not going…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

NBA Star Tracy McGrady Has a New Daily Deals Site and Everyone Is Confused

Tracy McGrady, who’s surprising just about everyone including probably Tracy McGrady with a good season so far in Atlanta, is launching a new daily deals site for NBA fans and gadget lovers and collector clock collectors. And the most bizarre thing about it might be how much sense it makes. TMac’s Deals has discounted items…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

How Not to Be a Clever Writer

Many people dream of being clever wordsmiths. Masters of fizzy, quotable dialogue. Creators of plots that are full of cool twists and nutty-but-brilliant ideas. The undisputed champions of madcap invention. But then you spend years chasing the mantle of “ultimate cleverpants,” only to realize that you’ve been chasing the wrong thing. Because what matters isn’t…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

This Flat Indoor TV Antenna Is Your Freedom-From-Cable Deal of the Day

Cable is the worst, and these days there are plenty of compelling reasons to cut the cable not the least of which is that you can just use a regular TV antenna to get 1080p broadcasts for free. Seriously, why would you bother with cable at all? We’ve completely ditched in our house, and indeed…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

If there was a Japanese Tron musical, it would look like this

And it would be named Tronp. In this routine by Japan’s Wrecking Crew Orchestra set to the dulcet bloops of Justice (among other musicians), glowing dancers materialize out of the darkness with perfect synchronicity. This just proof once again that everything goes better with Tron lights. [Via TR] https://gizmodo.com/become-a-tron-snowboarder-with-this-full-body-led-snows-5885786

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Just Thinking Women Are Nearby Makes Men Dumber

If you often find yourself stuck for words in the presence of women, don’t beat yourself up; we’ve all been there. But it turns out it’s not you, it’s science! Merely thinking about the presence of women makes men stupid. A study from Radboud University in the Netherlands suggests that men start faltering and exhibit…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Apple Stores Will Open at 8AM on Friday March 16th for the New iPad

According to 9to5Mac, Apple Stores will be opening early at 8AM on Friday March 16th to sell the new iPad. Last year, Apple started selling the iPad 2 at 5PM though it has opened stores early for iPhone releases in years past. [9to5Mac]

Tech News Casey Chan

Pink Goop Beef Is Invading School Lunches: USDA Buys 7 Million Pounds of the Slime to Feed Kids

Remember our old friend pink goop? The crap notoriously in chicken nuggets and the filth that McDonald’s famously stopped using a month ago? Well, it’s rearing its ugly pink head again and this time it’s going after children. That’s right, the USDA has plans to buy 7 million pounds of pink goop beef for our…

Tech News Casey Chan

Shooting Challenge: Lasers Gallery 1

We looked to make an image which illuminates the other worldly beauty that we’ve both found going to festivals over the last 20 years. We believe the image captures a vision of transcendence and view of alien inner worlds. The camera was a Canon XSI, the flash was a Speedlight 430EX II with a diffuser…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

36 Truly Awesome Photographs of Lasers

Lasers. They’re pretty much the most wonderful thing the Man has ever invented. So for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you shot lasers, and lasers shot you. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-lasers-5891206 Winner: Laser Man! Beams of light broke the foggy darkness. A figure emerged, his silhouette breaking the light. Who was he? A time traveler? A visitor from another…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Shooting Challenge: Lasers Gallery 2

I wanted to take this photo in one long exposure but, unfortunately, I snapped my wired trigger off in the port a couple days ago, so I was stuck with a 30 second limitation. I got past this by taking 5 separate shots and stacking them in Photoshop (one of my stepson posing one each…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Samsung Makes the New iPad’s Screen Because No One Else Could (Updated)

Apple has exacting demands when it comes to quality control, and few things need to hit harder on quality than the retina screen on the new iPad. According to Bloomberg, the only company that was able to make the screens up to Apple standards was Samsung. You know, the company Apple’s been trying to sue…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The CDC advises using Lady Gaga to survive an alien invasion

Contrary to what The Walking Dead would have you believe, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention know a thing or two about how to respond in the event of a natural disaster. In the interest of promoting emergency preparedness, the CDC recently put together a list of iconic disaster movies, and how its characters…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

This week, Y: The Last Man writer Brian K. Vaughan returns to comics!

What’s in stores this week? A new science fiction series from the man who wrote Runaways, presidential candidates with alien problems, and other sundry good reads. Shall we? First Issues Who’s that goat-horned guy above? That’s one of the protagonists of Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’s Saga, their new ongoing space opera series on…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Healthy Dessert Cigarettes Sound More Addicting Than Real Life Cigarettes

Smoke cigarettes? Bad! Eat desserts? Bad! Smoke desserts? Uh, good…? That’s what Vaportrim, a dessert e-cigarette, promises. Yes, I just said dessert cigarette. Vaportrim is an inhaler that’s supposed to taste just like desserts but without the fatty calories and guilt. A dessert you smoke that fulfills your sweets craving? Sign me up. Vaportrim is…

Tech News Casey Chan

Thank God Siri Isn’t on the New iPad

Somehow, through the smog of doubt and tech cynicism, the new iPad managed not to disappoint—likely owing to a retina display that’s more glorious than Athena’s cleavage. But! No Siri! Apple you screwed us again! Actually, no: be glad it’s missing. Siri on the iPad is an inevitability, just like Siri on pretty much everything…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Camera Rifle Provides a Humane Way To Get That Killer Shot

For some outdoors types the thrill of hunting comes more from stalking and outsmarting their prey than the actual kill. So the KillShot camera lets them capture photographic trophies instead of carcasses. The camera was invented by three brothers—Randall, Daniel, and Michael Gregg—and is built to look exactly like a hunting rifle, right down to…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Most Beautiful iPad Case of All Is Now More Beautiful

The Dodocase is the top shelf, elegant, patinaed prince among iPad cases. It looks like a book! An old book—so it’s classy and expensive, just like you. Now the hand bound cases come in rainbow colors. Classy! The new “Spring/Summer” cases are appropriately seasonal, with colors ranging from collegiate to Skittles. They’re pretty much like…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Earth’s simplest organisms are part of the food chain after all

Archaea are some of the most abundant and least understood, organisms on the planet. These single-celled creatures weren’t even properly discovered until the 1970s, and big questions about them remain unanswered, such as whether other organisms ever eat them. That might seem like the sort of thing we can take for granted – of course…

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The Best Use of Lego Mindstorms Ever In the History of Best Uses of Lego Mindstorms Ever

I seriously can’t imagine any better use for Lego Minstorms than building a machine that can serve two types of Dutch beer, chilling them down at the perfect drinking temperature, opening the bottle and serving them. Can you? CAN YOU? OK, so maybe one that does that and gives you a foot massage. And if…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Everything You Need To Waste Your Life Waiting In Line For the New iPad

NBA Star Tracy McGrady Has a New Daily Deals Site and Everyone Is Confused

How Not to Be a Clever Writer

This Flat Indoor TV Antenna Is Your Freedom-From-Cable Deal of the Day

If there was a Japanese Tron musical, it would look like this

Just Thinking Women Are Nearby Makes Men Dumber

Apple Stores Will Open at 8AM on Friday March 16th for the New iPad

Pink Goop Beef Is Invading School Lunches: USDA Buys 7 Million Pounds of the Slime to Feed Kids

Shooting Challenge: Lasers Gallery 1

36 Truly Awesome Photographs of Lasers

Shooting Challenge: Lasers Gallery 2

Samsung Makes the New iPad’s Screen Because No One Else Could (Updated)

The CDC advises using Lady Gaga to survive an alien invasion

This week, Y: The Last Man writer Brian K. Vaughan returns to comics!

Healthy Dessert Cigarettes Sound More Addicting Than Real Life Cigarettes

Thank God Siri Isn’t on the New iPad

Camera Rifle Provides a Humane Way To Get That Killer Shot

The Most Beautiful iPad Case of All Is Now More Beautiful

Earth’s simplest organisms are part of the food chain after all

The Best Use of Lego Mindstorms Ever In the History of Best Uses of Lego Mindstorms Ever

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