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The winds of Scotland are waging war on fun and renewable energy

The winter wind in Scotland was angry yesterday, and at the top of its shit list were turbines and trampolines. The turbine pictured up top faced the wrath of Scotland’s 160-mph winds and became so overwhelmed it burst into flames. [Click here for amateur footage of the turbine’s demise.] Next stop on the wind’s warpath:…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The Dumbest Apple Product Ever Sold on eBay

If you’ve ever wanted to be the kind of person who has every single product ever built by Apple, no matter how impractical or expensive, it’s your lucky day. This eBay ad for something called an Apple Multiserver describes a never-shipped prototype that’s simply a 3Com 3 Server metal chassis painted Apple white, with Apple…

Tech News Mat Honan

Concept Art from Lucas’ forgotten Star Wars Animated Series

The current CGI Star Wars: The Clone Wars series is great, but it’s hard to beat the traditional animation style and storytelling of the original animated Clone Wars series. Star Wars: Clone Wars aired on the Cartoon Network between 2003 and 2005. The episodes, directed by Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack, Dexter’s Laboratory), take place in…

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Community debuts the Inspector Spacetime Holiday Special (and spoofs Invasion of the Bodysnatchers!)

Watch a segment from “the long lost 1981 Inspector Spacetime holiday special. Runtime two and a half hours — and so critically reviled that after it aired, the creator had his knighthood revoked.” Community wishes everyone a happy holidays with a great Body Snatchers shout out and more Inspector Spacetime. Check it out! First, the…

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Shift work linked to type 2 diabetes

Rotating shift work is remarkably unpleasant. The frequent changes from day to night work have previously been linked to cancer and heart problems, and new research has shown that it also can cause an increased risk of type 2 diabetes in women. This discovery applies to those poor, unfortunate souls who have to switch between…

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Could a planet have only one pole?

Everyone knows about The Mobius Strip, the loop of paper with a twist in the middle that has only one surface. Now imagine taking a disk and gluing its edge to the edge of the Mobius strip. This will give you a Boy Surface, and one of the weirdest planets conceivable. Imagine coming up on…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

10 Charming, Old-Timey Spy Gadgets

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy comes out in theaters today, injecting a little nostalgia into the techno-thriller spy genre. Although spycraft today involves computer hacking and surveillance drones, today we’re paying homage to spy equipment from history. Some of it deserves respect for its ingenuity. Some just deserves a laugh. Check out ten ancient pieces of…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

I’m Going to Rip My Ears Off Because of These New Annoying Smartphone Ads

Can you imagine anything else in the world more annoying than ‘beacons that emit a high-frequency sound that’ll immediately trigger an advertisement on your phone’? I can’t think of a single thing I want less than that. Okay, cancer. I want cancer less than I want this insanely silly automatic advertising. I’m sure the creators…

Tech News Casey Chan

Bag of Bones? More like Bag of Too Much Sh*t Going On!

There’s nothing better than a good Stephen King miniseries. “The Reaper” introduction from The Stand and the evil clown from It are illustrious beacons of classic King TV. Sadly, Pierce Brosnan’s epic showdown with a tree in Bag Of Bones, airing this Sunday and Monday, is not quite in the same league. All headline zingers…

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Crazy Mickey Is an Obese Cowboy Man Who Will Terrify You into Buying Beepers (Updated)

What’s the opposite of nostalgia? A paralyzing fear of the past? Chrono-nausea? Whatever it is, experience it while watching this video, a depressing strip mall beeper store commercial with a babbling, incoherent little girl. I don’t miss you anymore, 90s! Mickey the Beeper King, who terrorized Indianapolis in the 90s, probably spent less on his…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Spotify Radio Is Getting a Much Needed Facelift

Spotify Radio has been one of the weirder, more underdeveloped features of the service since day one, giving you the option of building a radio station based on a handful of pre-determined genres. Now they’ve made the feature considerably more nuanced, allowing you to build a radio station based on an artist, song or genre.…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Did the War on Terror lead to Game of Thrones and Joe Abercrombie?

Why has fantasy gotten so gritty and violent? Why are we so obsessed with Game of Thrones and book sagas about severed limbs and dirty deals, instead of epic quests involving elves and singing swords and Ultimate Evil? Writer David Chandler shares a fascinating theory over at SFSignal. In the 1980s, horror movies shifted away…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

iOS 5 Untethered Jailbreak Video Means the Wait’s Almost Over

Jailbreaking your iPhone is a glorious process that opens your phone to a brave new world of features and apps. But with iOS 5, the process has only worked with your phone tethered (or semi-tethered) to your computer. Until right now. The video above from hacker pod2g shows the process in the video above, but…

Tech News Brian Barrett

How to catch tomorrow morning’s lunar eclipse

Clear skies and geographical location permitting, Saturday will be your last chance to spy a total lunar eclipse until 2014. Here’s what you need to know to catch a glimpse before it’s gone. First things first: if you live in South America or some of Africa’s westernmost regions, we’re sorry — it looks like you’re…

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New “whole body cryotherapy” treatment exposes you to -166°F air

How cold of a temperature do you think you can survive exposure to? 0°F? -20°F? -50°F? How about -166°F, and you do it intentionally? A group of French scientists studied various ways that people recover after intensive workouts, including whole body cryotherapy, which sounds like something out of Futurama. Tested on a group of experienced…

io9 Tim Barribeau

What is the most scientific way to optimize your driving time?

You know how much gas is in your car, your average miles per gallon, and your road speed. And you want to get from your home to your destination as quickly as possible, as efficiently as possible. Does speeding actually work? If you are driving a 2012 Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, fuel efficiency is worthless…

io9 Keith Veronese

First description of Dark Knight Rises prologue includes one shocking image

Some lucky movie-goers will get to see the first six minutes of The Dark Knight Rises before select IMAX screenings of Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol next week. A few writers were lucky enough to get an early look at this thrilling footage, and the first details are leaking out. Spoilers ahead… It appears the rumors…

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This short trailer has some of the best mecha design we’ve seen outside of video games

You’ve probably never heard of K3loid, a new short movie about humans hunting for a rogue artificial intelligence — but the list of people involved with this project is pretty amazing. Including mecha suits designed by Aaron Beck and Weta’s Greg Broadmore. And music remixed by Amon Tobin. The actual storyline looks pretty creepy, judging…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Robert Downey, Jr. says the Iron Man 3 script is amazing. Plus tons more details on the Evil Dead reboot!

Ben Kingsley might join the cast of the Ender’s Game adaptation. Director Peter Berg explains why you should take the Battleship movie seriously. Fox executive Tom Rothman promises they’re not messing around with their new X-Men, Daredevil, and Fantastic Four movies. All that plus Sinestro actor Mark Strong wants to do Green Lantern 2, Norman…

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MIXTRAX Turns Your Car into a Virtual Club

Can’t get enough block-rockin’ beats but haven’t figured out how to fit your mixing tables in the back of your Civic? No worries, Pioneer’s new MIXTRAX technology does the mixing and effects for you. The proprietary technology creates a continual, seamless mix of songs from your music library. The software first analyzes your collection, identifying…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The winds of Scotland are waging war on fun and renewable energy

The Dumbest Apple Product Ever Sold on eBay

Concept Art from Lucas’ forgotten Star Wars Animated Series

Community debuts the Inspector Spacetime Holiday Special (and spoofs Invasion of the Bodysnatchers!)

Shift work linked to type 2 diabetes

Could a planet have only one pole?

10 Charming, Old-Timey Spy Gadgets

I’m Going to Rip My Ears Off Because of These New Annoying Smartphone Ads

Bag of Bones? More like Bag of Too Much Sh*t Going On!

Crazy Mickey Is an Obese Cowboy Man Who Will Terrify You into Buying Beepers (Updated)

Spotify Radio Is Getting a Much Needed Facelift

Did the War on Terror lead to Game of Thrones and Joe Abercrombie?

iOS 5 Untethered Jailbreak Video Means the Wait’s Almost Over

How to catch tomorrow morning’s lunar eclipse

New “whole body cryotherapy” treatment exposes you to -166°F air

What is the most scientific way to optimize your driving time?

First description of Dark Knight Rises prologue includes one shocking image

This short trailer has some of the best mecha design we’ve seen outside of video games

Robert Downey, Jr. says the Iron Man 3 script is amazing. Plus tons more details on the Evil Dead reboot!

MIXTRAX Turns Your Car into a Virtual Club

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