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The Perfect Gift for the Prolific Photographer

Your brother, a talented and well-equipped shutterbug, knows his way around his DSLR. He’s got a keen eye and a telephoto lens. The kid’s winning medals left and right, but your parents are over the printing fees associated with his non-stop snapping. What can you get him for a holiday gift besides some more outdoor…

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NASA developing “comet harpoon” to bring back icy samples

Comets rush through the solar system at up to 150,000 miles per hour, making it extremely difficult to actually land a space probe on one of them. The solution? NASA is working on something new, awesomely called a “comet harpoon.” It’s not just the immense speed of comets that makes landings difficult. The icy rocks…

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The 10 Greatest MacGyvers of Science Fiction

The greatest science fiction heroes are resourceful, building high-tech devices out of whatever crap they find laying around. In the right hands, a paperclip and some bubblegum can become an interstellar wave modulator. The more ridiculous those moments of gadget improvisation are, the more they make you feel as if you could create your own…

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There’s Flame Retardant in Mountain Dew

Mountain Dew. The oh so sweet is it yellow? is it green? nectar of the geek gods and fuel for gamers has flame retardant in it. Yup. Mountain Dew, along with 10 percent of sodas in the US, contains brominated vegetable oil (BVO), a flame retardant chemical banned in Europe and Japan. The flame retardant,…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Android Wears Prada

Want in on the smartphone revolution but you’re too tres chic to get something that actually looks like hardware? Peep this Android handset from Prada and LG. If you’re a fashionista, you’d probably let Meryl Streep humiliate you for one. Hey Prada Phone 3.0, work it, you fierce thang. We knew it was coming, and…

Tech News Brent Rose

In the short movie Light, Los Angeles is overrun by viscous blobs of oozing luminescence

If my parents had shown me this video when I was five, I would have broken my habit of leaving the lights on whenever I left a room much sooner. This creep-tastic short film by Sunday/Paper director David Parker was shot over the course of a couple nights in L.A., and is meant to draw…

Movies Robbie Gonzalez

New trailer shows Luc Besson’s MS One desperately wants to be The Fifth Element

Missing the cheesy, wise-cracking antihero action flicks of the 90s? Well, have we got a movie for you. Watch Guy Pearce channel his best Bruce Willis in this trailer for MS One: Maximum Security. When a maximum security SPACE PRISON riots, the only righteous person left is the wise-cracking cop with great arms and a…

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Autobot Transformer Ukulele Does Not Turn Into a Fire Truck

Holy Optimus Prime this is one gorgeous instrument, and not just because it’s shaped like the seal of the Autobots. What better way to celebrate the future of mechanical warfare than with a made-to-order ukulele. We have Etsy maker Paul Celentano to thank for this $550 meta masterpiece. How does the Transformers theme sound when…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

This Is the Last F-22 Raptor Ever

AK 4195. That’s the tail number of the last F-22 Raptor ever, which you can see here fully assembled and about to move into the flight line to get ready for delivery. That assembly line is now closed. Done. Forever. I say forever because I doubt they will ever open it again. The Raptor was…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Watch 230 Movies of 2011 in 5 Minutes

Was 2011 a memorable year for the movies? I didn’t think so until I watched this 5 minute video of 230 films that released this year. So exciting! So fun! The full list of movies used in the clip in the order they appear can be found here. Out of the 230 movies used in…

Movies Casey Chan

Did they really detect the Higgs Boson?

The news out of Geneva gives a tantalizing first taste of really discovering the Higgs Boson. Is this for real? In this week’s “Ask a Physicist,” we do a round-up of all things Higgs-related. Top image credit: CERN If you hang out in some of the nerdier websites (including this one), you probably couldn’t help…

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Meet the 25 Most Viral People on the Internet

Sometimes a story or idea goes viral because it’s too big to be ignored. But more often it’s because a single human being passes it along to an audience that’s either massive, highly influential, or both. There aren’t too many people who can do that. These are the ones who can. When they post something…

Tech News Mat Honan

All Weapons Should Be as Harmless As These

Feather knives. Jello grenades. Bread knuckles and popsicle dynamite! I would love to live in a fairy tale world where weapons are fanciful and probably edible. These weapons were created by awesome designer Kyle Bean for CUT Magazine. It’s so damn creative and hilarious and delicious and smart I want to shoot myself with a…

Tech News Casey Chan

Austria’s Krampus Parade celebrates Santa’s child-eating monster

What better way to celebrate the holiday season than with a parade? What I mean is, a parade honoring Santa’s long-tongued beast buddy who gobbles up all the really bad children? The Krampus is a holiday fixture that’s popular in the Germanic countries. Created to really enforce the whole “better watch out” Christmas ideology, the…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Caltech Shatters Internet Speed Record: 186 Gbps

As if I couldn’t hate my ISP any more, researchers at the SuperComputing 2011 conference set a new internet speed record transferring data with a combined rate of 186 Gbps, 67 Gbps faster than the previous record set in 2009. To put that in perspective, that’s fast enough to transfer 2,000,000 gigabytes a day, or…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Why the mysterious Gale Crater is an “ideal landing site” for the new Mars rover

In August of 2012, NASA’s biggest, baddest, and most scientifically capable rover ever, Curiosity, will touch down on the surface of Mars. But we wont be setting Curiosity down just anywhere; from a list of around 30 prospective locations, scientists have settled on Gale crater as the ideal landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory…

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Hopefully Apple’s Latest Hire Can Make iPhone Multitasking Less Annoying

Although iOS does many things really well, its multitasking UI is not one of them. The iPad’s gesture support makes things much better, but on the iPhone, it’s just clunky. As it just so happens, Apple has brought on someone with a few ideas on how to improve that. Earlier this year, Jan-Michael Cart made…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Microsoft Wants to Give Free Windows Phones to Android Users Who Got Screwed with Malware

Windows Phone evangelist Ben Rudolph, with endorsement from Microsoft, is asking Android users to explain their #droidrage on Twitter. That is, to explain how Android malware has screwed Android users over. If people’s stories are epic enough, Microsoft will give away free Windows Phones. Rudolph is only giving 5 free Windows Phone to the best…

Tech News Casey Chan

A giant Companion Cube from Portal appears in New York City

Last night, pranksters from CalTech dolled up the famous Alamo sculpture in Manhattan’s Astor Place with the exterior of an Aperture Science Companion Cube. Here’s the note they left to boot. Prediction: cosplaying public art will be the next big trend come 2012. This Weighted Companion Cube will accompany you through the test chamber. Please…

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Read an exclusive sneak peek of the next issue of DC Comics’ Blue Beetle!

Courtesy of DC Comics, here’s an exclusive first look at next Wednesday’s issue of the teen superhero series Blue Beetle. In this sneak peek, high schooler Jaime Reyes has become the unwitting host for a powerful (and unexpectedly sassy) alien artifact. In addition to preventing Jaime from telling his parents the truth about his powers,…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The Perfect Gift for the Prolific Photographer

NASA developing “comet harpoon” to bring back icy samples

The 10 Greatest MacGyvers of Science Fiction

There’s Flame Retardant in Mountain Dew

The Android Wears Prada

In the short movie Light, Los Angeles is overrun by viscous blobs of oozing luminescence

New trailer shows Luc Besson’s MS One desperately wants to be The Fifth Element

Autobot Transformer Ukulele Does Not Turn Into a Fire Truck

This Is the Last F-22 Raptor Ever

Watch 230 Movies of 2011 in 5 Minutes

Did they really detect the Higgs Boson?

Meet the 25 Most Viral People on the Internet

All Weapons Should Be as Harmless As These

Austria’s Krampus Parade celebrates Santa’s child-eating monster

Caltech Shatters Internet Speed Record: 186 Gbps

Why the mysterious Gale Crater is an “ideal landing site” for the new Mars rover

Hopefully Apple’s Latest Hire Can Make iPhone Multitasking Less Annoying

Microsoft Wants to Give Free Windows Phones to Android Users Who Got Screwed with Malware

A giant Companion Cube from Portal appears in New York City

Read an exclusive sneak peek of the next issue of DC Comics’ Blue Beetle!

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