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Lego Lovers Will Want Every Item In this Gift Guide

Every year I go through the same process: 1) avidly open my Lego Holiday Catalog, 2) plan how to obtain the $37,495 needed to get all the models I want, 3) weep in desperation. https://gizmodo.com/this-secret-underground-facility-guards-all-lego-sets-e-5018990 But fear not, Lego lovers and lovers of Lego lovers. You don’t have to spend a fortune to get some…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Disney World War II propaganda cartoon suggested we’d win the war with giant soft-boiled eggs

Given that Thanksgiving has the reputation for being a day of Herculean food consumption, here’s a rather strange World War II propaganda cartoon that visualizes such gustatory excess. In the 1942 short “Food Will Win The War,” an overexcited narrator begins yelling about how bridges of butter, flour blizzards, and Brogdingnagian obese children will destroy…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Aliens on Ice = H.R. Giger + The Ice Capades

You may remember Austin’s Old Murder House Theater troupe from their gleefully no-budget live production of Robocop. Last weekend, the group staged a 90-minute, fast-forwarded recreation of James Cameron’s space marine classic Aliens at a local hockey rink. The best part of the show? Only the xenomorphs really knew how to skate, whereas the space…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Shopping Malls To Track Your Mad Dash For Deals Using Your Cellphone

Privacy advocates are raising concerns over a new technology being implemented by a couple of malls that will allow them to track the movements of their guests using the unique ID numbers of their cellphones. The system, called FootPath Technology, uses a series of antennas located throughout a mall to register a shopper’s cellphone, and…

Privacy & Security Andrew Liszewski

Borg family portrait will assimilate you with adorableness

These photographs of a Borg clan were taken by Winnie Au were at a Las Vegas Star Trek convention. Said Au of the shoot, “Everyone i met there was super friendly and down to earth, and they all knew each other and had been going to these conventions every year for many years. They really…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

This Twisted Bridge Isn’t a Failure At All

At first glance it looks like this bridge in the Netherlands was an engineering failure, not unlike the infamous Tacoma Narrows that collapsed. But this is how the architects designed and built it to look, and it works just fine. It’s a 138 foot pedestrian and bicycle bridge that connects the Holy-Zuid district with the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Run out of an ingredient for dinner? Scientists explain what to substitute for it.

So you’re out of vanilla for your annual Thanksgiving upside-down cake. Try peach schnapps. Out of eggs for baking? Give it a shot with some olive oil. Or corn starch. Or a mashed banana. A team of researchers mined recipe sites to find out what can be swapped for what. Turns out that almost any…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, From 57 Years Ago

If you’re finding the 85th procession of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to be a little over-the-top, take a moment and enjoy a few minutes of the spectacle from a simpler time when everyone carried 8mm cameras instead of smartphones. These clips come courtesy of Michael Laca who’s been restoring some of his family’s classic…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

25 years ago, the He-Man Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade float would’ve made your head explode

It wasn’t the R&B madness of Marvel Comics’ 1980s parade floats, but the 1986 Masters of the Universe rig did an admirable job showcasing such crowd favorites as Mosquitor and Snout Spout. Does anybody know what Snout Spout’s doing these days? I’d love to interview that guy. Dolph Lundgren narrated this performance on another, blurrier…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

J.J. Abrams confirms that he wants Benicio del Toro to play the villain in the Star Trek sequel!

For old time’s sake, we’ve got one last absolutely insane The Dark Knight Rises casting rumor… and it’s a doozy. The Prometheus cast seems to disagree about whether this is an Alien movie. Tom Hiddleston reveals his Hulk-related Avengers injuries. All that plus Kenneth Branagh says Patty Jenkins is the right choice to direct Thor…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

LG Sketches Future Prada 3.0 Smartphone

LG’s long-running partnership with fashion people Prada will continue in 2012, with both companies announcing a renewed friendship — and revealing the above sketch of a future Prada branded smartphone. The phone is officially known as the PRADA Phone by LG 3.0, with the concept sketches showing us a pretty standard modern black slab of…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

This Watch Makes Time Go Faster

No, it’s nothing to do with time travel. This is one of a new range of Autodromo watches inspired by the instruments and dials of 1960s and 1970s Italian racing cars. And frankly, this is as close as I’ll ever get to owning such a car. The range was conceived by industrial designer Bradley Price,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Original Googlephone HTC G1 Gets Ice Cream Sandwich Update

There’s a reason old hardware doesn’t get new software upgrades. Like the iPhone 3G’s iOS 4 update, this unofficial Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Android phone that started it all, is, well… crippling. Still, it just goes to show what’s possible when developers put their heads together. Where I couldn’t stand to use anything…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Apple Removes Big Fish iPad Game Subscription App Without Notice

It looks like Big Fish’s pleasure at launching the first game subscription app for iOS has been replaced by pain and confusion, as Apple’s pulled the rug from underneath them. Having been available on the App Store since November 18th, Big Fish’s founder was none the wiser as to why Apple had pulled a U-turn…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Fujifilm’s X-S1 Shoots Far-Off Places

Calling the X-S1 a “new breed of bridge camera,” Fujifilm’s snapper has a 26x optical zoom lens and the same 2/3-inch 12-megapixel EXR sensor that’s used in the retro-styled X10 model. As you can tell from that picture above, it’s the 26x zoom lens that’s the real treat here — it has a range of…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Don’t Insult the Thai King in an SMS, Unless You Like Prison

We’ve all said things we don’t really mean in text messages. But when a retired Thai truck driver sent an SMS that insulted his king, he got more than he bargained for. Twenty years more, in fact. Because, according to the New York Times, a jury found Ampon Tangnoppakul’s text messages offensive enough to the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

UK Man Builds Man-Sized Hobbit House for £3,000

Simon Dale was fed up. He’d had enough of what he calls “mass produced box design” homes so he did something about it—he moved his family to the Welsh countryside and hand-built a “Hobbit house” even Peter Jackson would envy. Dale is neither an architect nor a contractor. He obtained the plot of land free…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Queen : Don’t Stop Me Now

As Queen’s front-man, Freddie Mercury’s overpowering vocals, four-octave range, and thundering stage presence couldn’t be ignored. As a high-profile victim of the AIDS epidemic, his death on Thanksgiving Day, 1991 couldn’t be ignored either. Tonight’s Soundtrack honors Mr. Fahrenheit and marks the 20th anniversary of his passing. Queen started as a prog rock band in…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The Displair Combines A Fog Machine, Touchscreen, and Awesomeness

There’s a reason the Kinect requires so much clearance—it’s better at picking up wildly swinging arms than subtle hand movements. The Displair interface, however, can pick up on even the smallest twitches. Welcome to your Minority Report future. The Displair was build by Maxim Kamanin and projects an image, either video or still, onto a…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Why Deep-Fried Frozen Turkeys Go Kablooie

As William Shatner can attest, depositing a partially frozen turkey into a vat of hot oil is a very bad—very explosive—proposition. But why do they do that? Don’t blame the bird, blame its water content. https://gizmodo.com/william-shatner-shows-you-how-not-to-deep-fry-a-turke-5860511 The technical term for what happens is a boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE, pronounced “blevey”). This occurs when…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Lego Lovers Will Want Every Item In this Gift Guide

Disney World War II propaganda cartoon suggested we’d win the war with giant soft-boiled eggs

Aliens on Ice = H.R. Giger + The Ice Capades

Shopping Malls To Track Your Mad Dash For Deals Using Your Cellphone

Borg family portrait will assimilate you with adorableness

This Twisted Bridge Isn’t a Failure At All

Run out of an ingredient for dinner? Scientists explain what to substitute for it.

Watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, From 57 Years Ago

25 years ago, the He-Man Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade float would’ve made your head explode

J.J. Abrams confirms that he wants Benicio del Toro to play the villain in the Star Trek sequel!

LG Sketches Future Prada 3.0 Smartphone

This Watch Makes Time Go Faster

Original Googlephone HTC G1 Gets Ice Cream Sandwich Update

Apple Removes Big Fish iPad Game Subscription App Without Notice

Fujifilm’s X-S1 Shoots Far-Off Places

Don’t Insult the Thai King in an SMS, Unless You Like Prison

UK Man Builds Man-Sized Hobbit House for £3,000

Queen : Don’t Stop Me Now

The Displair Combines A Fog Machine, Touchscreen, and Awesomeness

Why Deep-Fried Frozen Turkeys Go Kablooie

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