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StagePage Preserves Your Concert Memories for the Ages

Lose your ticket stub? Can’t find that old shoebox with your concert mementos? Documenting concerts you’ve attended is now possible with just a few smartphone swipes, so you can relive your favorite moments and keep track of who you saw, what they played, and what you thought about it. StagePage (free) lets you create a…

Tech News Paris Hill - Evolver.fm Feb 24 '12

SCRW: The Chair That’s Always the Right Height

The SCRW’s striking design is brilliant. No matter how tall you are or what table you’re sitting at the chair adjusts with just a turn to exactly the right height. Designed by Manuel Welsky, the chair’s seat is a big piece of cork with threads that screw into an aluminum frame. When your tall friend…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Feb 24 '12

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Kenny Powers for K-Swiss

Whoever decided to make Kenny Powers the spokesman for K-Swiss doesn’t just deserve a raise. They deserve a medal. Because watching the East Bound & Down character shill sneakers isn’t just the next best thing to the show itself; it’s even better. Here are some bionic missiles, Bruce Lee, and cheetahs for proof. Oh, and…

Tech News Splitsider Feb 24 '12

Ask Erin Morgenstern anything you want about The Night Circus

In February, the io9 Book Club read Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus. Now Morgenstern is coming to answer your questions about the book Monday, February 27. https://gizmodo.com/the-io9-book-club-is-in-session-lets-talk-about-erin-m-5887062 She’ll be popping into the comment thread on this very post on Feb. 27 between 1:00-2:00 PM Pacific Time. Start posting your questions for her now, and she’ll…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Feb 24 '12

Redbox Is Offering A Week’s Worth of Free-Day Game Rentals

Redbox is like your neighborhood weed dealer—you can find it in front of a 7-11 any time, day or night, hawking the latest and greatest in entertainment products—so long as you don’t mind doing business on the street corner. And, starting Sunday, you’ll be able to sample the wares for a day at no cost.…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Feb 24 '12

Nine Utopian Architectural Projects for a Brave New World

I, for one, could use a Soma holiday right about now. But since I can’t, these nine incredible architectural projects built by the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright and Walt Disney to usher in an age of perfect, classless society will have to do. On the flip side, check out these 15 housing projects from…

Tech News David Galbraith - Oobject.com Feb 24 '12

Heathers: High School Blows—Up

The world is full of assholes and in the black-and-white world of a teenager’s mind, everyone is an asshole. But no matter how much time you spent in high school wishing meatheads, or whoever, would die—you’d never actually kill them would you? In Heathers, Veronica Sawyer is a hater just like you. The popular kids…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Feb 24 '12

The new Avatar: The Legend of Korra trailer, in all its polar bear-dog glory!

We’ve seen snippets of the show so far — now exult in the brand new trailer for Avatar: The Legend of Korra. This show takes place 70 years after the original series and stars Korra, a disciple of Aang’s son Tenzin. Alas, no firm date has been announced yet, but Korra should air sometime this…

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar Feb 24 '12

If you’ve ever liked Fringe, tonight’s episode is the one you can’t miss

Confused by Fringe’s tangled mysteries and universe-spanning weirdness? You should definitely check out tonight’s episode, which finally makes sense of some of the show’s long-standing questions. Plus, it’s actually an emotionally powerful hour of television, in which the show’s main characters are put through the wringer — and nobody’s quite the same afterwards. Without giving…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Feb 24 '12

Whitman: HP’s Windows 8 Tablet Slated for 2012

Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman has big plans for the ailing computer company. And those plans start with a new Windows 8-powered tablet by year’s end. Speaking at a Wall Street Journal event on Thursday, Whitman confirmed that HP is once again testing the tablet market waters. Its last attempt, the WebOS-running TouchPad, was such an…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Feb 24 '12

Breakthrough Quadcopter Does Previously Impossible Acrobatics

Looking at their latest invention, Mark Cutler and Jonathan P. Howe will get an awesome job at some military aerospace company. They have created a quadrotor drone with variable-pitch, something that didn’t exist before in these kind of machines. Not they can do some crazy acrobatics. Go to minute 1:25 to see the cool action…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 24 '12

Is your intestinal lining protecting you from cancer?

I can’t say I’ve ever given my intestinal lining much thought, but it turns out that it may have an incredibly strong link to protecting you from a number of diseases — not the least of which is cancer. It functions as a barrier to keep that which is meant to remain in your gut…

io9 Tim Barribeau Feb 24 '12

Manufacturing a rainbow whose colors never fade

Once again science gets poetic, and colorful. Scientists at the University of Buffalo have found a way to manufacture a structured rainbow that never fades. The bright iridescent colors on a butterfly’s wing never fade. The gold and silver beetles, which have carapaces that shine and reflect like the were sitting on the bumper of…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Feb 24 '12

Introducing Escher Girls, a Site Dedicated to Superheroine Poses That Warp Spacetime

Superheroine poses have gotten so ridiculous that even a trained contortionist can’t imitate them. But if you need more evidence, just check out the awesome new Tumblr called Escher Girls. The motto: “Float like a Butterfly. Sting like a WTF?!”. There’s example after example of the completely insane, antomically incorrect poses women strike in comics…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 24 '12

Replace the iPhone’s Contacts App, Get in Shape and Make Money Off Music

Hey now. It’s a Friday and though maybe you want to go out and get drunk or go out and watch the NBA All Star Weekend or go out and be dumb, let’s be real. A tiny part of you wants to just stay in and play with all these new apps you’re going to…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 24 '12

Defend Towers from Trolls, Put Windows on Your iPad and More

In the waning weeks of the iPad 2 being the best tablet available, it’s time to download some apps to make you still love it. Why not fight off the trolls and throw Windows on your iPad to enjoy this final month together? If you want to see all the apps on one page click…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 24 '12

Stop Being Fat, Get 50GB Free, Eat Pizza and More

Here’s an idea for your weekend plans. First get your 50 GB of Box storage for fuh-fah-foo-free. And then eat so much pizza a fat boy would tell you to cool it and then finally get in shape. Oh whoa. These apps will let you do just that! Box Box just updated its Android App,…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 24 '12

Is this the face of your new RoboCop?

Could Joel Kinnaman from the The Killing be our new cyborg police officer? Variety’s Jeff Sneider tweeted that Kinnaman was offered the part in the Robocop remake by Jose Padilha (Elite Squad: The Enemy Within). The trades are starting to speculate that he will have his answer fairly soon, and this should all be a…

Movies Meredith Woerner Feb 24 '12

Did The Hunger Games really rip off Battle Royale?

Its inevitable: Every time we start a conversation about Hunger Games, someone always starts a “Battle Royale did it first” argument. It’s unavoidable. So we decided to compare both series, to settle this debate once and for all. Both stories originated as books. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins came out in 2008 and Battle…

Movies Meredith Woerner Feb 24 '12

The Drunken Boy Scout: The Stealthy and Refreshing Way to Get Tanked

Growing up, one of my best friends was a counselor at a Boy Scout camp every summer. Being high school aged, he and his fellow counselors were looking for non-obvious ways to get their buzz on. Their solution was genius in its simplicity, scout’s honor. It’s Friday afternoon, you’ve made it through the long week,…

Tech News Brent Rose Feb 24 '12

StagePage Preserves Your Concert Memories for the Ages

SCRW: The Chair That’s Always the Right Height

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Kenny Powers for K-Swiss

Ask Erin Morgenstern anything you want about The Night Circus

Redbox Is Offering A Week’s Worth of Free-Day Game Rentals

Nine Utopian Architectural Projects for a Brave New World

Heathers: High School Blows—Up

The new Avatar: The Legend of Korra trailer, in all its polar bear-dog glory!

If you’ve ever liked Fringe, tonight’s episode is the one you can’t miss

Whitman: HP’s Windows 8 Tablet Slated for 2012

Breakthrough Quadcopter Does Previously Impossible Acrobatics

Is your intestinal lining protecting you from cancer?

Manufacturing a rainbow whose colors never fade

Introducing Escher Girls, a Site Dedicated to Superheroine Poses That Warp Spacetime

Replace the iPhone’s Contacts App, Get in Shape and Make Money Off Music

Defend Towers from Trolls, Put Windows on Your iPad and More

Stop Being Fat, Get 50GB Free, Eat Pizza and More

Is this the face of your new RoboCop?

Did The Hunger Games really rip off Battle Royale?

The Drunken Boy Scout: The Stealthy and Refreshing Way to Get Tanked

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