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Star Trek: TNG Season 8 illustration has us longing for more

The Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 8 Twitter account has been keeping us in stitches with its insane plot lines for an imaginary next season for Jean-Luc Picard and his crew. Bad Machinery artist John Allison has added a new layer of ludicrous with an illustration of one of those tweets. More, please! On…

io9 Lauren Davis

Breakthrough technology turns filthy sewage into clean energy

Last year we reported on a new way of gathering power from wastewater, one that combined power generating from salinity gradients between salt and freshwater, and that produced by waste-eating bacteria, to create a self-sustaining power supply. But what happens if you’re somewhere inland, where there isn’t any saltwater to be had? The same group…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Smoke Ring Gun Could Deliver Pepper Spray At a Blinding 90MPH

Smoke rings from a toy gun don’t do much more than entertain a child. But by giving them an electrical charge, a company called Battelle has discovered a way to make them more useful for firefighting and even crowd control. Its new gun has a special cylinder on the end that creates vortex rings that…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Watch the new Atomic Robo animated trailer (and help fund the film)

Atomic Robo, the wisecracking robot adventurer invented by Nikola Tesla, is about to make the leap from comics to animation in his first short film. The first trailer for the unfinished project is online, and you can help the animators finish their film. Animation studio the Fictory approached Robo comic creators Brian Clevinger and Scott…

Movies Lauren Davis

Show Off Your Savvy Investments With Stock Market Performance Jewelry

If you’ve recently made a particularly profitable stock investment and want to show it off, Paul Kweton has created a line of jewelry that turns a boring stock performance chart into fashionable wrist adornments. His Embrace-Stock pieces are made with the assistance of Shapeways’ 3D printing service, and are available in two and three stock…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This innovative manga uses just pencil and paper to create a striking three-dimensional comic

Some comics demand more than ordinary words and pictures on a flat page. We’ve seen comics that use the infinite canvas of the Internet, comics that create a sense of visual depth, and comics that get a boost from a little animation. Yūsuke Murata’s fanciful short manga leaves the two-dimensional world, using three dimensions (and…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Britta is Catwoman and Chevy is Alfred in Community/Dark Knight mashup trailer

To celebrate the fast-approaching return of Community, the comedy production group Hot Chocolate Party Productions has mashup the audio from the Dark Knight Rises trailer with footage from the geeky sitcom. After all, Greendale has enjoyed just as much chaos and mayhem as Gotham City, just with more blanket forts. [via The Mary Sue]

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Oxygen discovered around Saturn’s icy moon

The moons of Saturn and Jupiter are just getting more and more intriguing. While many of those far-flung satellites might contain liquid oceans, a new report indicates that Dione, one of Saturn’s icy moons, is surrounded by a thin layer of oxygen. According to a new report published in Geophysical Research Letters, Cassini detected a…

io9 Lauren Davis

Propane-Powered Nerf Gun Is Strong Enough To Dent a Whiteboard

Nerf guns are obviously designed with limited kick to be safe for kids. But if you’re older, and irresponsible, you crave something with a little more firepower. Which is what led Make’s Dan Spangler to build this propane-powered dart cannon. It’s assembled from PVC pipe and is fueled by a BernzOmatic propane torch, which gives…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Webcomic Carpe Chaos is an anthology of alien tales from a shared universe with no humans

Superheroes rest comfortably in shared universes, battling earth-shattering enemies in parallel while their superpowered brethren are just a few continents — or sometimes just a few cities — away. But aliens make far more sense as inhabitants of a shared universe. After all, they actually have an entire universe in which to play. The webcomic…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

This is what your skin looks like after you’ve been struck by lightning

Lichtenberg figures (sometimes called lightning trees) sometimes occur when an electrical charge is introduced to an insulating material, representing the branching electrical discharges. They can occur in resin, glass, grassy fields, and, if you’re unlucky enough to be struck by lightning, human skin. This particular Lichtenberg figure belongs to Winston Kemp, who was struck by…

io9 Lauren Davis

How Bender Bending Rodriguez was elected head of the Washington school board

In 2010, the Washington, DC, election board set up an electronic voting system to collect absentee ballots. But a few weeks before the election, the system was flooded with votes for the hard-drinking, grave-robbing robot Bender for school board head. So who launched this plot to put a robot in charge of our children’s education?…

io9 Lauren Davis

Simon Pegg joins Boba Fett’s All-Star Bounty Hunter Team & we become a DC Nation

This week sees Simon Pegg voice Dengar on Clone Wars, DC Nation kick off with the return of Young Justice, Orion Pax discover his past on Transformers: Prime, and Wolverine pop in on Marvel Anime: Blade – Minor spoilers ahead! Star Wars: The Clone Wars – “Bounty” This episode begins with an awesome cantina scene…

io9 Keith Veronese

Artists Give Siri Physical Form

Siri is a lot of things to a lot of people—unmotivational fitness coach, mildly-incompetent navigator, and tin-eared first runner-up in a two-AI contest to name just a few. But now a group of artists have given Siri a human touch by supposing what the automated assistant would look like in the flesh. These are actually…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Researchers Discover the Dolphin Handshake

Marine biologists have been recording the “signature” whistles of captive dolphins for decades but have never been sure of their function. However a new study suggests that these personalized calls are in fact the the cetacean equivalent of shaking hands and trading business cards. There are a lot of assholes in the ocean and just…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Slo-Mo Flybys, Big Guys Jumping Little Guys, and Some Smashing Pumpkins

Roll that spliff phatly, pack some fresh ice into the binger, and set the Volcano to “toastify.” It’s time for Gizmodo’s newest feature, The Stoner Channel. We’ve collected our best high-times material for the discerning pothead so sit back, relax, and pass that shit to the left, yo. Click here for more hits from the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

How Auto-Tune and Digital Recording Suck the Life Out of Music

For the bedroom musician, recording was a pain until software gave them an option that was fast, flexible and sonically indistinguishable to the untrained ear. Then the pros went crazy with all of that power and turned making music into a mad science of sonic construction. The trouble is that the tools that turned the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Yes, This Is a Neoprene Keg Coozie

Dude. Dude, Bro. Call Chet and the other pledges, tell them to stop cleaning the kegerator Ox threw up into. Tonight’s rager is back on. We’ll keep the ponies cold with these giant coozies, what are they called? KegSkins? Righteous. The KegSkin is constructed from neoprene and operates in precisely the same manner as its…

Gadgets Andrew Tarantola

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: A Totally Unreasonable Will

I’m a simple man with simple wants. The simplest of which is to die a billionaire, just for the satisfaction of putting my heirs through inconceivably trials and tribulations for the rights to my riches. It’s the most fun you can have in the afterlife. The rest of this week’s top comedy videos, including an…

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OLED Lights Will Make Future Audis Glow Like Jellyfish

Like a bioluminescent creature rising from the depths, these OLED lighting concepts from Audi are simply otherworldly. Eat your heart out, KITT. Audi demonstrated the new lighting today at the Audi Electronics Center in Ingolstadt. As you can see, the R8 and Q7 both feature flat-panel OLED displays running the length of the vehicle—eight segments…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Star Trek: TNG Season 8 illustration has us longing for more

Breakthrough technology turns filthy sewage into clean energy

Smoke Ring Gun Could Deliver Pepper Spray At a Blinding 90MPH

Watch the new Atomic Robo animated trailer (and help fund the film)

Show Off Your Savvy Investments With Stock Market Performance Jewelry

This innovative manga uses just pencil and paper to create a striking three-dimensional comic

Britta is Catwoman and Chevy is Alfred in Community/Dark Knight mashup trailer

Oxygen discovered around Saturn’s icy moon

Propane-Powered Nerf Gun Is Strong Enough To Dent a Whiteboard

Webcomic Carpe Chaos is an anthology of alien tales from a shared universe with no humans

This is what your skin looks like after you’ve been struck by lightning

How Bender Bending Rodriguez was elected head of the Washington school board

Simon Pegg joins Boba Fett’s All-Star Bounty Hunter Team & we become a DC Nation

Artists Give Siri Physical Form

Researchers Discover the Dolphin Handshake

Slo-Mo Flybys, Big Guys Jumping Little Guys, and Some Smashing Pumpkins

How Auto-Tune and Digital Recording Suck the Life Out of Music

Yes, This Is a Neoprene Keg Coozie

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: A Totally Unreasonable Will

OLED Lights Will Make Future Audis Glow Like Jellyfish

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