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A Breath Of Scalding Hot Steam Could Relieve Your Emphysema

Uptake Medical’s InterVapor looks like a steamer used to iron clothing. But it’s actually designed to deliver a blast of piping hot steam to your lungs, which they claim will actually help alleviate the symptoms of emphysema and other lung conditions. At first glance it certainly looks like the poster child for cures that are…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Idiot Hitman Uses “HitManForHire” Domain Name

Sometimes it’s hard to tell if the site you’re on is legit. But if you stumbled on HitManForHire.net, what would you think? A joke, right? Turns out its owner was dead serious. I can’t believe I have to explain this, but: If you plan to commit crime, don’t announce it online. Okay? https://gizmodo.com/idiot-hitman-uses-hitmanforhire-domain-name-5888929 The LA…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

This Is the iPad 3 Hiding In Plain Sight

Apple just flashed their new iPad 3 on their Wednesday 7 event invite. You can clearly see the new Retina display in all its glory. Compare the left (invitation) to the right (the iPad 2). https://gizmodo.com/apple-will-announce-the-next-ipad-on-march-7th-5888983 The top has a lot more definition. It’s clear on the typography in the Wednesday, the spacing in relation…

Tech News Jesus Diaz and Adrian Covert

Apple Will Announce the Next iPad on March 7th

The iPad 3 will be announced on March 7th. Apple has just sent out invitations for an Apple event in San Francisco at 10AM PST on Wednesday March 7th. The invitation not so subtly hints at the Retina Display becoming a reality in the iPad 3. The next iPad has long been expected to be…

Tech News Casey Chan

Sniffing Rosemary Makes You Smarter

There are plenty of strange alternative uses for herbs. Rosemary, for instance, is supposed to soothe the skin and cure dandruff—though I can’t promise how well it will do either. Science, however, now tells us it definitely can make you smarter. A team of scientists from the University of Northumbria, UK, has discovered that one…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

A gorgeous fantasy cartoon that aspires to be The Hobbit on LSD

When animator Adrian Dexter set out to make his short fantasy flick Væsen, he had a very clear aesthetic in mind. “Basically I wanted Rankin-Bass on acid, written by Borges,” he explained to Cartoon Brew. Dexter created this film for his bachelor’s project at Denmark’s Animation Workshop. Here’s the synopsis: A prince sets off on…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Edible Sensors Let You Know If Your Food Is Spoiled

Like the pirate code, expiration dates are more of a rough guideline for when food might go bad. But a new edible sensor made from silk and gold leaf takes the guesswork out of whether something is safe to eat. Besides luxurious bed sheets and stylish shirts, in certain forms silk is perfectly safe to…

Health Andrew Liszewski

World of Warcraft could give your grandparents’ brains a boost

Next time you sit down to play some World of Warcraft (WoW), consider having a parent or grandparent take a crack at it, instead — new research shows that the MMO can actually boost cognitive functioning in older adults. Plus, there’s a decent chance they’ll actually enjoy playing it. What… you aren’t afraid of getting…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Intel’s Greatest New CPU Already Overclocked to 7 GHz

It’s coming later than we’d like, but Intel’s impending superchip looks like it’s going to be worth the wait—especially if you’re a speed addict. As in processor speed, not amphetamines. https://gizmodo.com/intel-confirms-that-ivy-bridge-is-definitely-delayed-5888514 It’s not available to us mere press and plebes, but alleged internal benchmarks show a walloping 100% overclock—from 3.5 GHz to 7. The method…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Was this family attacked by Spring-heeled Jack, or just a jogger on PCP?

An English couple had a bizarre run-in with a creature whom they identified as Spring-heeled Jack, a leaping, claw-handed monster infamous in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era. According to the website Your Local Guardian, the Martin family was headed home from a Valentine’s Day dinner when they spied a strange humanoid creature. Here’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner

If a Bird Chirps in Your YouTube Video, Are You Committing Copyright Infringement?

A harmless British hippie shot a video about something boring like making a salad from wild greens, and then uploaded it to YouTube. Shortly after, he was informed by YouTube that he was infringing on the copyrights of Rumblefish. The problem is, there’s no music in the clip. At all. According to Slashdot and the…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Star Wars lightsaber rolling papers, for your trip to the dark side

We sense an excellent disturbance in the force. One smart Star Wars fan has dreamt up lightsaber rolling papers, or “lightpapers.” Check out the concept art below created by Geekologie reader Matt H. We must concur, of all the illegal bits of Star Wars merchandise floating around out there, this is by far our favorite…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Hilariously bleak visions of the future, as predicted by schoolchildren in 1976

To commemorate the American Bicentennial in 1976, the oil company ARCO asked schoolchildren across the nation to illustrate what they thought the United States would look like in the year 2076. ARCO received hundreds of letters and drawings from students. And in a potentially unforeseen twist, some of these Tricentennial visions predicted a future ripped…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

It’s Apparently OK To Tweet While Driving… In a Nascar Race (Updated)

Many states are trying to curb cellphone use while driving, but Florida’s not quite there yet, so Nascar driver Brad Keselowski was able to send a few tweets from the cockpit of his car during last night’s Daytona 500. The tweets, which include photos of the aftermath of Juan Pablo Montoya’s unfortunate crash, were sent…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

HBO Go Puts Game of Thrones In Your Xbox April 1st

HBO Go will be available on your Xbox 360 beginning April 1st. Engadget reports that the service will arrive on consoles alongside the premiere of the new season of Game of Thrones. Time to consider cable again. The launch isn’t all that surprising given the direction HBO has been going with its streaming service. HBO…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Prescription Sleeping Pills Increase Risk of Death

Despite being freely prescribed across the US, a new study shows that sleeping tablets increase the risk of death for those taking them—and are associated with up to 500,000 extra fatalities a year in the US alone. And nobody knows why. A report published in the BMJ Open journal explains that common sleeping pills—like Restoril,…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Would You Use a Condom-Based Foursquare to Check In When You Have (Safe) Sex?

A lot of effort goes into manufacturing condoms that are comfortable and effective, but that doesn’t do anyone any good if no one wears them. So some well-intentioned goober has decided to slap QR codes onto condom wrappers so you can check in every time you, uhh, unwrap one. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-how-condoms-are-made-and-tested-5887448 WhereDidYouWearIt.com tracks all the places…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The Pope Officially Has the Worst Twitter Name of All Time

The Pope, divine mouthpiece of God himself and owner of vast riches and influence, has taken to Twitter. Half holy, half Kardashian, Hitler Youth graduate Benedict XVI is now social mediafied. So why is his Twitter handle so unbelievably weird? As The Daily Show Points out, you’d imagine Benedict—or the Pontifical Council for Social Communications,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

This Is How Apple Swindled the iPad Trademark

Proview—the former owners of the iPad trademark in China—is suing Apple in California for “fraud by intentional misrepresentation, fraud by concealment, fraudulent inducement, and unfair competition.” Are they right? This is how Apple tricked them. You be the judge: • First, Apple contacted a company in Britain called Farncombe International. The managing director of this…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Seamless for iPad: The New Most Amazing Way to Be a Lazy Food Addict

Seamless, né SeamlessWeb, is our favorite enabler of 21st century sloth—a few clicks, and food arrives at your door or desk, virtually no human interaction required. It’s lovely! And now it’s on your iPad at its indulgent best. Unlike the iPhone version, which is more or less the functionality of the website stuffed into Apple’s…

Tech News Sam Biddle

A Breath Of Scalding Hot Steam Could Relieve Your Emphysema

Idiot Hitman Uses “HitManForHire” Domain Name

This Is the iPad 3 Hiding In Plain Sight

Apple Will Announce the Next iPad on March 7th

Sniffing Rosemary Makes You Smarter

A gorgeous fantasy cartoon that aspires to be The Hobbit on LSD

Edible Sensors Let You Know If Your Food Is Spoiled

World of Warcraft could give your grandparents’ brains a boost

Intel’s Greatest New CPU Already Overclocked to 7 GHz

Was this family attacked by Spring-heeled Jack, or just a jogger on PCP?

If a Bird Chirps in Your YouTube Video, Are You Committing Copyright Infringement?

Star Wars lightsaber rolling papers, for your trip to the dark side

Hilariously bleak visions of the future, as predicted by schoolchildren in 1976

It’s Apparently OK To Tweet While Driving… In a Nascar Race (Updated)

HBO Go Puts Game of Thrones In Your Xbox April 1st

Prescription Sleeping Pills Increase Risk of Death

Would You Use a Condom-Based Foursquare to Check In When You Have (Safe) Sex?

The Pope Officially Has the Worst Twitter Name of All Time

This Is How Apple Swindled the iPad Trademark

Seamless for iPad: The New Most Amazing Way to Be a Lazy Food Addict

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