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Intoxicase Opens Your Bottles and Tallies Your Level of Debauchery

Spending an afternoon drinking in the alley with your favorite neighbors is all well and good, but around the 8th bottle of Alamo things might get hazy. The Intoxicase for iPhone not only tracks how many man sodas you’ve consumed, it will even crack you open a freshie as well. The Intoxicase is a two…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Feb 29 '12

Trike Drifting Is the Best Thing to Ever Happen on Three Wheels

If you asked the 6-year-old me to think of the single awesomest activity possible, I would have have answered, trike drifting (I was huge into Big Wheels). And, after watching this video, my 30-year-old self is still inclined to agree. From the crew that brought us the most epic of rope swings, this montage of…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Feb 29 '12

Photoshop CS6 Will Easily (and Skillfully) Fake a Shallow Depth Of Field

Even though you’re only shooting with the crappy camera built into your smartphone, Photoshop CS6’s new Blur Gallery will easily make it look like your shots came from an expensive DSLR. Properly faking a shallow depth of field usually involves creating and strategically masking multiple layers with various levels of blur on each of them.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 29 '12

Facebook Will Prove You’re Alive During the Next Disaster

When an earthquake ravaged Fukushima and terrified all of Japan, the entire country had one reaction: is everyone OK? And if you knew someone in an afflicted area, you might’ve been thinking, is my husband okay? Now Facebook will tell you. Facebook’s new Disaster (currently in trial for Japan only) feature is so simple and…

Social Media Sam Biddle Feb 29 '12

The New York Times Tells Its Entire Life Story on Facebook Timeline

The New York Times’ Facebook Timeline goes all the way back to 1851, and it’s filled with some choice photos and milestones from the paper’s history. It also tells the story of how technology changed the business of keeping you informed. Newspapers have changed a ton since the Times was founded in 1851, and it’s…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Feb 29 '12

Police Locked Down a School Because Autocorrect Is So Terrible

Autocorrect has been behind more than its share of misunderstandings, but today it stirred up a whole heap of trouble, even by its sketchy standards. Some poor college student’s phone corrected “gunna” to “gunman” and got a school put into lockdown by the police. At West Hall High and Middle schools in Gainesville, GA, the…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Feb 29 '12

Bet Real Money on iPad 3 Predictions

Are you tired of going all Zapruder on every piece of Apple minutiae and discussing it in public forums? Now you can put your money where your mouth is. Then, take the money out of there and make a bet. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-ipad-3-hiding-in-plain-sight-5888989 Will the iPad 3 have a Retina Display? If you say yes, that’s one…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 29 '12

You never anticipated seeing a flying robot swarm perform the James Bond theme

Unless you work at the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Laboratory, that is. When they’re not building miniature sculptures or reenacting Space Invaders, the little bots are composing music for martini hour. https://gizmodo.com/watch-a-swarm-of-flying-robotic-drones-construct-a-tiny-5734564 https://gizmodo.com/a-real-life-swarm-of-flying-robots-right-out-of-a-1980-5881126 This mellifluous demonstration was recently unveiled at the TED2012 Conference. Thanks to Evan Lerner from GRASP for giving us the heads up,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 29 '12

Massive batch of Hunger Games stills show off the Capitol, the Hob, and Peeta’s camouflage!

We’ve got an insane collection of The Hunger Games stills that show off all sorts of amazing new places and faces from the land of Panem. Check out wacky Capitol fashions, the Hob from District 12, hospitals, hover crafts and the insane camouflage the tributes use to hide themselves inside the games. Images from kinopoisk…

Movies Meredith Woerner Feb 29 '12

Breaking a “gene blockade” could be the secret to treating Alzheimer’s disease

An exciting new finding suggests that a specific enzyme in the brain is responsible for blocking the creation of new memories in Alzheimer’s patients. And stopping that enzyme has already reversed Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice. This could be a major breakthrough. A team of neuroscientists at MIT say they have identified a particular enzyme known…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Feb 29 '12

The Net: Because Sometimes You’re Too Connected

On a day where we got a closer look at the future of computing, it seems only appropriate to look back at what some Hollywood producer thought the future of computing would be like. Sort of. Floppy Disks! Zip drives! Pizza.Net!!! Enjoy. [Netflix] https://gizmodo.com/windows-8-5889357

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 29 '12

Neanderthals were sailing the Mediterranean 100,000 years ago

Humans likely first took to the seas about 50,000 years ago. But there’s mounting evidence that our Neanderthal cousins were routinely sailing throughout the Mediterranean twice as long ago. Alternatively, they were just really good at long distance swimming. We can’t know what sorts of boats Neanderthals might have used. Presumably, they were made out…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Feb 29 '12

In Japan, You Can Order McDonald’s Using Your Car Navigation System

Apparently fast food still isn’t fast enough for the residents of Japan. Starting in March, McDonald’s will be testing out a new system allowing drivers to order and pay for a happy meal right from their car’s navigation unit. Using the country’s wireless traffic news network known as the ITS, vehicles passing near one of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 29 '12

The io9 Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy in March!

March brings a lot of excitement to the universes of science fiction and fantasy. At the movies, there’s The Hunger Games and John Carter. On television, almost all of your favorite shows are returning. And there are new books by Naomi Novik, C.J. Cherryh, Tim Pratt, Raymond E. Feist and Elizabeth Bear. Plus tons of…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Feb 29 '12

This Is the Best Use of Drones In the History of Drones

This is so damn good: watch this squad of little flying drone quadcopter bastards playing the James Bond theme. The only way they could have made this better is if they added a hundred more drones playing the horn section from the original theme.

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 29 '12

This Ridiculously-Easy-to-Clean Whisk Needs To Exist Right Now

If you’re like me and simply buy a new whisk every time you cook because they’re too hard to clean, you’ll adore Kwon Hansol’s Divisible Whisk with a handle that splits in two, stretching out the wires for easy cleaning. What you won’t adore is the fact that Kwon’s whisk isn’t actually for sale. It’s…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Feb 29 '12

Paleontologists discover 120-million-year-old “Ghost Dragon” in China

Which of the following hypothetical scenarios do you think would be more terrifying: a modern-day world inhabited by Pterosauria (famous for being the first known vertebrates to evolve the capability of flight), or a modern-day world inhabited by Dromaeosauridae (famous for their sickle-like killing claws, among other things)? I happen to be a card-carrying member…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 29 '12

The Best Way to Watch Baseball on Your Tablet or Phone This Season Is Out Now

It’s really hard to beat going to a baseball game on a summer afternoon. But if you can’t be at the park, the MLB At Bat app is one of the best ways to follow any sport from a mobile device, and the 2012 version just hit all the app stores. You can watch live…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Feb 29 '12

Meet the Next CEO of Microsoft: Steven Sinofsky Is the Heir Apparent

It was summer 2009. Microsoft had just shipped the final code for Windows 7 to PC manufacturers, who had begun burning it onto the tens of millions of new computers that would ship that Christmas. It should have been a triumphant moment for Steven Sinofsky. In just over three years of running Windows, Sinofsky and…

Tech News Matt Rosoff - Business Insider Feb 29 '12

Neighborhood Watch trailer feels like Attack The Block for old white guys

Here’s the first trailer from the big name comedy Neighborhood Watch. Which follows a bunch of Dads on the neighborhood watch, who wind up fighting aliens. And yet, where are the aliens, Ben Stiller? Where are they? The official synopsis certainly promises aliens: “Suburban dads form a neighborhood watch group to get time away from…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Feb 29 '12

Intoxicase Opens Your Bottles and Tallies Your Level of Debauchery

Trike Drifting Is the Best Thing to Ever Happen on Three Wheels

Photoshop CS6 Will Easily (and Skillfully) Fake a Shallow Depth Of Field

Facebook Will Prove You’re Alive During the Next Disaster

The New York Times Tells Its Entire Life Story on Facebook Timeline

Police Locked Down a School Because Autocorrect Is So Terrible

Bet Real Money on iPad 3 Predictions

You never anticipated seeing a flying robot swarm perform the James Bond theme

Massive batch of Hunger Games stills show off the Capitol, the Hob, and Peeta’s camouflage!

Breaking a “gene blockade” could be the secret to treating Alzheimer’s disease

The Net: Because Sometimes You’re Too Connected

Neanderthals were sailing the Mediterranean 100,000 years ago

In Japan, You Can Order McDonald’s Using Your Car Navigation System

The io9 Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy in March!

This Is the Best Use of Drones In the History of Drones

This Ridiculously-Easy-to-Clean Whisk Needs To Exist Right Now

Paleontologists discover 120-million-year-old “Ghost Dragon” in China

The Best Way to Watch Baseball on Your Tablet or Phone This Season Is Out Now

Meet the Next CEO of Microsoft: Steven Sinofsky Is the Heir Apparent

Neighborhood Watch trailer feels like Attack The Block for old white guys

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