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The Super Soaker Lightning Storm Is A Water-Blasting Tommy Gun

Nostalgia nothing, where were badass Super Soakers like this when I was a kid? The new Lightning Storm is sure to turn the tide of next water war in your favor its 35-ounces of liquid ammo and full-auto firing. It’s the largest battery-operated Super Soaker to date and runs on four AA batteries. This means…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Ghost in the Shell’s Think Tanks Are Intimidating, Even in LEGO Form

Major Kusinagi’s climactic fight against the Alakuneda Think Tank in the original Ghost in the Shell is easily one of the best fight scenes in modern anime. Now, that arm-shearing battle has gotten a bit cuter with a Think Tank made from stock LEGO bricks. The tank and Maj. Kusinagi figurine are the brainchild of…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Tabber Will Teach Shredding Essentials with a Light-Up Fretboard

It’s easy to make fun of Guitar Hero now that the craze is over, but one thing is for sure: It created a new enthusiasm for the guitar as an instrument, in these days of DJs and remix artists. We’ve seen a rash of startingly innovative new ways to teach people how to play the…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm

Picture of the Day: Feb. 13, 2012

ARE YOU MY MUMMY? | Concept art from Beyond Beyond, a new animated movie from The Great Bear director Esben Toft Jacobsen, about a boy who lives on board a ship that has its own greenhouse and fishing nets. Until one day the boy’s father goes searching for provisions, and the boy receives a distress…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

MIT’s Error Correcting Codes Will Fix Your Crappy Wireless Reception

It doesn’t matter how many signal relay towers blanket your city, the quality of your wireless reception can often change drastically—sometimes within a few steps. But MIT researchers think they’ve figured out how to improve reception using error correcting codes that work regardless of signal noise. Error correcting codes (ECC) are a means of encoding…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Why China’s most incendiary new political novel had to be science fiction

Chan Koonchung’s dystopian novel The Fat Years has caused an uproar in China and been translated into many languages, including a U.S. edition. In The Fat Years, everybody in China forgets everything that happened during a six-month period, and meanwhile the country becomes more propsperous, based on denial and selective amnesia. Talking to the Wall…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

A luminescent portrait of cell movements in a developing embryo

Imagine if you could track the movement of every single cell in a developing embryo, discovering what each undifferentiated cell turned into. It could allow you to reverse-engineer the construction of an organism. University of Cambridge zoology researcher Matt Benton is tracking the movements in beetle embryos using movies like this one, observing the way…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Eating an Edible Helium Balloon Looks Like the Most Fun You Can Have at a Fancy Restaurant

The chefs at Alinea, very probably the best restaurant in Chicago, have cooked up a super fun dish that’ll brighten up any dinner table: an edible helium balloon. Yep, the entire balloon is edible, right down to the string which is “obviously dehydrated apple”. The ballon is filled with helium and you can either pop…

Tech News Casey Chan

This is the year the Large Hadron Collider finds out the truth about the Higgs boson

The Large Hadron Collider will soon resume its search for new particles, and it’s kicking its energy levels up a notch to do it. CERN’s research director promises we will know the truth about the Higgs boson by the end of 2012. In a CERN statement, research director Sergio Bertolucci made this exciting prediction about…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Perhaps the Most Striking Photo Taken in North Korea Last Year

Amongst the newly announced winners of the 2012 World Press Photo Contest, you’ll find spectacular images from last year’s most shocking news events. But some of the most stirring photos are solemn and sober, like this photo, taken in the North Korean capital Pyongyang just two months before the sudden death of Kim Jong-il. Taken…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Controversial new theory claims life got its start in Russian hot springs

The fossil record reveals the last 3.4 billion years of life on Earth. But before then, when life first emerged, we have next to nothing. The consensus view is that life began in the oceans… but there might be another, weirder, possibility. A team led by University of Osnabrück biophysicist Armen Y. Mulkidjanian has just…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Bowers & Wilkins’ New Surround Sound System Aims to Make Blu-ray Flicks Roar

I love audio gear, but until recently my obsession was limited to products geared around music. I watched Netflix on my computer, content to relinquish sonic control to my MacBook speakers. Then I got a TV, and a Blu-ray player, and now I’m addicted to ludicrous action movies. Looking at Bowers & Wilkins’ latest Mini…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

TECHNOLOGY RED ALERT: SEN. CHUCK GRASSLEY H V AN IPHONE

It’s not easy being Chuck Grassley. First, some jerk makes fun of your inability to spell on Twitter. Then, you continue to use Twitter without learning how to use a keyboard. Then you’re hacked. But will an iPhone change everything? No, no it won’t, Senator Chuck Grassley has revealed in a hot new tweet. He…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Best (And Weirdest) Science Fiction Toys from Toy Fair 2012

Over the last few days, we’ve taken a look at the latest Toy Fair offerings from Hasbro and LEGO. Today, we hit the floors around New York’s Javits Center and perused the panoply of playthings on display. Here’s an overview of the upcoming collectibles you may covet out of niftiness and/or sheer weirdness. https://gizmodo.com/rzas-g-i-joe-action-figure-jar-jar-binks-in-carbonite-5884343 https://gizmodo.com/lego-lord-of-the-rings-avengers-and-deadpool-debut-at-5884429…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Is Mark Gatiss writing a biopic about the creation of Doctor Who in 1963?

A dramatization of Doctor Who’s origins seems like the sort of thing that would be perfect for the show’s 50th anniversary next year. Mark Gatiss, interviewed on Graham Norton’s radio show, seemed to be denying that any such thing was in the works — but his denials are still being taken as hints that he…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Modular Kitchen Tools Let You Finally Build the Perfect Spoontula

Like a kitchen-friendly version of Voltron that’s come to help you with dinner, Enrico Azzimonti’s Take It line of cooking cutlery come in unorthodox shapes that can be combined to further expand their functionality. There are four sets to choose from, around $16 each, that feature redesigns of forks, spatulas, and even spoons. Their bent…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

CloudMagic for Android: Super Fast Search on Super Strong Steroids

Search is king on Android, it is Google’s OS after all. But there’s a way to make search even better on Android: an app called CloudMagic. It’s the fastest way to search through your personal Google juice (Gmail, calendars, etc.) and Twitter tweets. What does it do? Think of CloudMagic as a search engine that…

Tech News Casey Chan

How do we know the universe isn’t already ruled by giant space brains?

We’ve all heard of an infinite number of monkeys typing out Shakespeare, but could coincidence be even stronger than that? Could the universe become populated by giant space brains? And more importantly, has it been already? Some time ago, scientists noticed that the universe was flying apart. It was flying apart, they noticed, faster and…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

A goat and a deer are getting married at a Chinese zoo

Apparently, true love really does know no boundaries, as a ram named Changmao and a doe named Chunzi at China’s Yunnan Provincial Wildlife Park are going to celebrate this Valentine’s Day with their very own inter-species wedding. While their “marriage” is obviously just a publicity stunt, there reportedly does appear to be some real affection…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The iPad 3 Will Appear March 7th?

Pour yourself a glass of red wine and put on your tech gossip pants, because we’ve got another iPad 3 rumor: iMore says Apple’s next tablet will be announced on March 7th, packing serious power. According to their sources “who have been reliable in the past,” we can expect the following: Apple currently plans to…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Super Soaker Lightning Storm Is A Water-Blasting Tommy Gun

Ghost in the Shell’s Think Tanks Are Intimidating, Even in LEGO Form

Tabber Will Teach Shredding Essentials with a Light-Up Fretboard

Picture of the Day: Feb. 13, 2012

MIT’s Error Correcting Codes Will Fix Your Crappy Wireless Reception

Why China’s most incendiary new political novel had to be science fiction

A luminescent portrait of cell movements in a developing embryo

Eating an Edible Helium Balloon Looks Like the Most Fun You Can Have at a Fancy Restaurant

This is the year the Large Hadron Collider finds out the truth about the Higgs boson

Perhaps the Most Striking Photo Taken in North Korea Last Year

Controversial new theory claims life got its start in Russian hot springs

Bowers & Wilkins’ New Surround Sound System Aims to Make Blu-ray Flicks Roar

TECHNOLOGY RED ALERT: SEN. CHUCK GRASSLEY H V AN IPHONE

The Best (And Weirdest) Science Fiction Toys from Toy Fair 2012

Is Mark Gatiss writing a biopic about the creation of Doctor Who in 1963?

Modular Kitchen Tools Let You Finally Build the Perfect Spoontula

CloudMagic for Android: Super Fast Search on Super Strong Steroids

How do we know the universe isn’t already ruled by giant space brains?

A goat and a deer are getting married at a Chinese zoo

The iPad 3 Will Appear March 7th?

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