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How To Keep Your Drinks Cool on Tatooine

Lucasfilm’s merchandising department takes another step towards the bottom of the barrel with this officially licensed R2-D2 can coozie. All that’s left now is somehow turning Darth Vader into one of those Big Mouth Billy Bass plaques. The beheaded astromech droid features a metal outer housing and a rubber inner lining that promises to keep…

Movies Andrew Liszewski Mar 12 '12

Apple Design Guru on What’s Wrong With The Other Guys

Apple’s most popular products owe much of their success to their design, and by extension, to their designer, Jony Ive. In a new interview with the London Evening Standard, Ive dished about his secret sauce—and where his competitors are falling short. Ive is the aesthetic brain behind groundbreaking Apple products like the iPhone and the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Mar 12 '12

Double Barrel Handgun Means You Only Have To Be Half as Accurate

They say one is the loneliest number, and nowhere is that more true than with handguns. So Arsenal Firearms has created a double barrel .45 caliber handgun that delivers two simultaneous rounds every time you pull the triggers. Besides looking considerably safer than just taping two handguns together, the AF2011-A1 has been engineered with custom…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 12 '12

Conan Mocks Magical iPad Retina Display

There’s little doubt the new ‘Pad is going to have the most gorgeous screen we’ve ever seen on a mobile thing—but is everyone going to take advantage of all those angelic pixels? Team CoCo thinks not. Your games are going to look great, yes. Websites will be more legible than ever. Books will read more…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 12 '12

MIB Neuralyzer Prop: You’ll Wish You Could Forget Spending $400 on It

After a lackluster sequel the MIB franchise fizzled out of popularity. So a flood of tie-in merchandise will soon be hitting the market to drum up excitement for MIB 3, including this expensive $400 neuralyzer prop which sadly doesn’t erase dumb purchases. It’s a perfect 1:1 replica that even pops-up to reveal the flashy bits.…

Movies Andrew Liszewski Mar 12 '12

Homeless Men Turned into Human Routers

SXSW, the annual vanity carnival of schmoozing, marketing superficiality, and BBQ, has something new to offer Austin’s visitors: unalloyed human degradation. A New York ad firm has converted homeless people into 4G hotspots. While the firm behind the stunt, BBH, was quick to defend the horrendous exploitation, FWD reports: “The worry is that these people…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 12 '12

The First Pathetic iPad Line Goons Appear

The new iPad will arrive in stores on Friday. But hey, look at these idiots! They’re ready, folding chairs and loneliness all packed, four days before launch. To camp out. For the opportunity to buy a thing. Days in advance. SlashGear spotted these two line-sitting virginal troglodytes in London, where I hear there are no…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 12 '12

Five Years of Every NBA Shot Attempt, Visualized

My favorite academics are the ones who dare to tackle projects that many people think are pointless. Like Kirk Goldsberry, an assistant professor of geography at Michigan State University, who has mapped five years of NBA scoring. Writing on his website, Goldsberry explains: In the quest to better understand the “average” NBA shooter I have…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Mar 12 '12

All Sprint 4G Phones Are a Penny at AmazonWireless This Month

There are few more tender joys than when AmazonWireless opens up its dealz chest and flings free phones into our grubby, yearning mitts. Today, Sprint 4G phones are just a penny through March 26th, with no activation fee until the 19th. What’s that include? A couple of Galaxy S II devices, an EVO 3D, and…

Commerce Brian Barrett Mar 12 '12

Great Scott! Flying DeLorean Is the Best Use Of Quadrotors To Date

Playing the James Bond theme was a neat parlour trick, but now it’s obvious why those quadrotor flying RC vehicles really exist. And it’s to make every Back to the Future fan insanely jealous of this miniature flying DeLorean. That stainless steel bodywork has been replaced with copious amounts of lightweight foamcore, and while the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 12 '12

New Prometheus teaser trailer shows off Ridley Scott’s strange space toys

Take a quick look at the brand new Prometheus trailer, and help us figure out what these strange laser balls are that that one character’s holding. On Saturday March 17 at 4 PM PST, Ridley Scott will premiere the first full trailer for Prometheus with the movie’s screenwriter Damon Lidelof at WonderCon. After the premiere,…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Mar 12 '12

Watch nanowires growing in real time

Nanowires are ultra-tiny metal threads that, under specific conditions, grow like plants out of chemical and metal substrates. Now, in this incredible video, you can see what they look like when they’re growing. They’re pretty much nanoscopic Cthulhu tentacles. University of Cambridge engineering researcher Andrew Gamalski says: This video is a bright field environmental transmission…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 12 '12

Determine How Predictable Your Friends Are With Pinterest Bingo

Pinterest is the hottest new social networking site that everyone loves to hate. Now, instead of pouring untold scorn on your friends for using it, you can play Pinterest Bingo to make the mockery more entertaining. Put together by Xeni Jardin over at Boing Boing, the game card—of which there is a full version below—is…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Mar 12 '12

I Got Blasted By the Pentagon’s Pain Ray—Twice

One moment it’s a chilly afternoon. But as I learned, in the very next moment, and without warning, your chest and neck feel like they’ve gotten a blast of unbearable steam heat. That’s because of an imposing device the U.S. military calls the Active Denial System. It’s an energy weapon, commonly known as the “Pain…

Tech News Spencer Ackerman-wired Mar 12 '12

A map of the United States, drawn in the style of Lord of the Rings

Have you ever wondered what a map of the continental U.S. might look like if it were subjected to the stylings of Christopher and J.R.R. Tolkien, who, together, illustrated the world encompassing LotR? Wonder no more; redditor Jvlivs has made Middle Earth-ified America a reality. Jvlivs originally drew the map on what looks like 1/4″…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 12 '12

Portishead producer to release Judge Dredd theme album

May 8 will see the release of Drokk, a concept album about Judge Dredd’s hometown Mega-City One by composer Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow, the producer of famed “best soundtrack to bittersweet break-up sex in the world” band Portishead. (That’s not a slight by the way, I just refuse to use the term “trip-hop.”) 2000…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 12 '12

How Secure Are NASA’s Servers?

We expect—or at least hope—that large government agencies put a lot of effort into the security of computing. If anything you’d expect NASA to lead the pack, but a new report suggests that there are a few holes it could do with plugging—quickly. A report by Motherboard explains that of NASA’s annual $1.5 billion IT…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe Mar 12 '12

At SXSW 2012, wireless hotspots are people

Seriously, the Soylent Green references are almost irresistible. A marketing group called Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) has come up with a really bizarre solution to the lack of wifi access at South by Southwest 2012: Turn homeless people into 4G wireless hotspots. Top image via A Hardly Normal View. As Jon Mitchell explains over at…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 12 '12

When the monster from Labyrinth met a very confused Princess Di

Royalty is expected to hobnob among the commoners, but Princess Diana certainly didn’t see this encounter coming when she woke up on December 1, 1986. At the Labyrinth Royal Premiere, Henson and the friendly monster Ludo ended up chatting with Di and Prince Charles about anti-Fraggle poaching charities or the societal implications of David Bowie’s…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Mar 12 '12

Watch some clips from Daenerys’s journey in Game of Thrones season 2!

There’s still a lot we don’t know about Daniel Craig’s third James Bond movie, but we do know Javier Bardem is involved, possibly as the villain. And if new set photos are anything to go by, he’s not above wearing disguises. All that plus Joss Whedon explains the evolution of Iron Man’s look in The…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Mar 12 '12

How To Keep Your Drinks Cool on Tatooine

Apple Design Guru on What’s Wrong With The Other Guys

Double Barrel Handgun Means You Only Have To Be Half as Accurate

Conan Mocks Magical iPad Retina Display

MIB Neuralyzer Prop: You’ll Wish You Could Forget Spending $400 on It

Homeless Men Turned into Human Routers

The First Pathetic iPad Line Goons Appear

Five Years of Every NBA Shot Attempt, Visualized

All Sprint 4G Phones Are a Penny at AmazonWireless This Month

Great Scott! Flying DeLorean Is the Best Use Of Quadrotors To Date

New Prometheus teaser trailer shows off Ridley Scott’s strange space toys

Watch nanowires growing in real time

Determine How Predictable Your Friends Are With Pinterest Bingo

I Got Blasted By the Pentagon’s Pain Ray—Twice

A map of the United States, drawn in the style of Lord of the Rings

Portishead producer to release Judge Dredd theme album

How Secure Are NASA’s Servers?

At SXSW 2012, wireless hotspots are people

When the monster from Labyrinth met a very confused Princess Di

Watch some clips from Daenerys’s journey in Game of Thrones season 2!

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