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Engineers have created an LED display you can wear like a contact lens

Thanks to the advent of smart phone technologies, many of us already carry the internet with us everywhere we go. But now, scientists have created the world’s first wirelessly powered, computerized contact lens with an integrated LED display. That’s right — the same access to information afforded us by the technology in our pockets could…

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56 Images That Are Better Out of Focus

Most of the time, we want our photos perfectly in-focus. We spend thousands on better lenses and millions in R&D to pull off the feat. But some of the time? This week’s Shooting Challenge shows us softer can be better. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-soft-focus-5860080 Winner – Bay Bridge Hack When I saw this week’s shooting challenge I got…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Shooting Challenge Gallery: Soft Focus II

Name of the picture: Around the lake Story of the picture: The subject of the shooting challenge was not very inspiring for me this week, but my girlfriend was pushing me to do something about it. Thanks to a nice Finnish weather, we went to a lake nearby and I tried to take different pictures.…

Tech News Michael J Kennelly

Gifts Ideas For Sci-Horror Fans

These Walking Dead Season 1 action figures ($55 from Entertainment Earth) won’t constantly prattle on about lost children and pregnancy scares. They’re silent as plastic. Those near New York who love Gothic immersive theater insanity will dig a ticket to Sleep No More ($75). Here’s our recent review of the show. https://gizmodo.com/sleep-no-more-larp-shakespeare-absinthe-orgy-ma-5859100 Attack The Block…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Gift Ideas For Doctor Who Fans

Rosemary Travale’s TARDamask t-shirt ($24 from Threadless) is a classy look for those both who can’t swing a real TARDIS. See also: this Weeping Angels awareness shirt. Oh yeah, Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series DVD collection is out this week. Can’t forget about that! This robotic Cybermat ($39 from Big Bad Toy Store) will…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Gift Ideas For Superhero Fanatics

On December 13, the 1,216-page DC Comics: The New 52 hardcover goes on sale. This monolithic tome slams together all 52 first issues of the DC relaunch from September 2011 ($90 on Amazon). Some other books you can use a bludgeon are The Mighty Thor by Walt Simonson — which collects the most enduring run…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Gift Ideas For Fans of Sci-Adorableness

Elisha Hale’s Threadless shirt “Technicolour Rex” features a dinosaur vomiting a rainbow. It’s like the dinosaurs died from sugar shock. These Cthulhu Slippers ($30 via Think Geek are like shoving your feet into the mouth of pure insanity. This robot tea infuser ($15, Mod Cloth) is the epitome of cute. Dinosaur ornaments ($10 from Urban…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Gifts Ideas For Star Wars Fans

Adidas’ Hoth Skywalker Shoes ($140) give an understated shout out to everyone’s favorite ice planet/snow field in Norway. Adidas’ Wampa shoes ($150) are also pretty dapper for footwear inspired by a carnivorous reptomammal. You can find the rest of Adidas’ Star Wars line here. https://gizmodo.com/watch-a-7-hour-train-ride-through-norway-set-entirely-t-5689179 On Black Friday, Dark Horse digital is offering a crazy…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Forget Pepper Spray—Destroying Protestors Gets Even Easier!

The next time you need to incapacitate a bunch of people sitting on the ground silently protesting corporate greed, think outside the box—face-burning spray canisters are becoming passé. Mother Jones’ Dave Gilson wraps up the best eye-melters around. https://gizmodo.com/what-pepper-spray-does-to-your-body-5861773 There’s the fogger, the backpack sprayer, or, my favorite, PepperBalls, which combine the pain and accuracy…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Ant-Roach, a 15-foot-long inflatable insect robot that you can ride

Meet Ant-Roach, Otherlab’s pneumatic robot that weights 70 pounds and can support 1000 pounds of weight. It’s not the most mobile vehicle out there, but when’s the last time you were able to deflate a golf cart? Otherlab is also working on other “pneubotic” devices, like prosthetic arms that can lift several hundred pounds. You…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

10 Vampire Stories That Are More Romantic Than Twilight: Breaking Dawn

Sure, Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 broke box office records, having the fifth best opening weekend of all time. But Breaking Dawn still doesn’t break our hearts the way some other vampire tales do. Here are 10 vampire stories that are more romantic than Breaking Dawn. The Hunger screencap via Ooh1a1a on Livejournal. 1. The…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

This Inflatable Robot Arm Would Destroy You in an Arm Wrestling Contest

You’d think that a robot arm made from air bags would sacrifice strength for being lightweight, but while Otherlabs’ prototype weighs in at just two pounds, it’s still strong enough to lift a human being. Instead of actuators, servos, pistons, or even a metal framework, the arm is composed of a series of fabric pockets…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Update: Apple Won Its iPhone Domains, But They Still Point to Porn

Apple has won its claim on seven iPhone-related domains that nefarious porn sites had gobbled up and pointed at, well, porn. Thing is, it sort of forgot to turn off the porn. https://gizmodo.com/apples-trying-to-boot-hardcore-porn-sites-from-iphone-d-5856061 The domains, which include iphone4s.com, iphonecam4s.com, iphoneporn4s.com, and others, are mostly timing out, but a few are definitely still pointing to the…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

How the Original Facebook Phone Failed

Facebook is working on a phone! But Facebook has been working on a phone. What’s new? Well, it’s a completely different project because their first top secret effort crashed and burned. It’s a sordid history of employee jealousy, secret plans, power struggles and just plain failure. https://gizmodo.com/the-real-facebook-phone-is-finally-coming-5861626 AllThingsD is reporting that about a year and…

Social Media Casey Chan

Apple’s Pro-Censorship Software Alliance Backs Down

The Business Software Alliance, which includes tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, and Intel, has reversed its stance on the controversial (and awful!) Stop Online Piracy Act: now it doesn’t like it. Good. https://gizmodo.com/the-internet-crippling-bill-might-get-slightly-less-ter-5860449 PC World relays the BSA’s fortunate change of heart: Valid and important questions have been raised about the bill. It is intended…

Tech News Sam Biddle

New Mission: Impossible 4 clips prove Brad Bird’s Mission will be the best

When we heard there was going to be another Mission: Impossible, we thought, “Sure.” But once Pixar legend Brad Bird signed on to direct, everything changed. A movie with heart, humor, action, Jeremy Renner, and Simon Pegg? Hello, here are the keys to a monorail that drives into our wallets. Feast your eyes on the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Comic book Wednesday brings us time-hopping art thieves and drunk dairy products!

What new comic books are on the stands tomorrow? A great Batman graphic novel, the further adventures of Professor Wolverine, and enough eminently readable new issues to fill an extremely accommodating gravy boat. First Issues DC Comics is releasing a series based on the video game Diablo and reprinting the 1998 Mark Waid Scarlet Speedster…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

This Beautiful Stop Motion Toy Story Might Just Break Your Heart

Using stop-motion animation and imagery from Google Maps Street View, director Tony Jenkins provides a look at how a lonely desk toy manages to escape his confined world and take a cross country drive to the Pacific coast. Address Is Approximate was shot with a Canon 5d MkII, and all of the screen imagery was…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How Volkswagen Redesigned the All-New Beetle

Updating an icon is quite a challenge. But VW Group Design Chief Walter de Silva and VW’s Brand Design Chief Klaus Bischoff figured out a way to make the 2012 redesigned Beetle longer, lower, and wider—thus, sportier—while somehow retaining it’s visual cachet. They managed to create “a new original” by basing the redesign on the…

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Here’s Ice Cream Sandwich Running on an Asus Transformer Prime Tablet

All in all, we think Android Ice Cream Sandwich is pretty good. But we only got to play with it on a phone. What’s it like on a tablet? That’s still to be determined, but we can get a rough idea from this Nvidia video. https://gizmodo.com/android-ice-cream-sandwich-review-its-man-versus-machi-5860502 The general look of the UI isn’t radically different…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Engineers have created an LED display you can wear like a contact lens

56 Images That Are Better Out of Focus

Shooting Challenge Gallery: Soft Focus II

Gifts Ideas For Sci-Horror Fans

Gift Ideas For Doctor Who Fans

Gift Ideas For Superhero Fanatics

Gift Ideas For Fans of Sci-Adorableness

Gifts Ideas For Star Wars Fans

Forget Pepper Spray—Destroying Protestors Gets Even Easier!

Ant-Roach, a 15-foot-long inflatable insect robot that you can ride

10 Vampire Stories That Are More Romantic Than Twilight: Breaking Dawn

This Inflatable Robot Arm Would Destroy You in an Arm Wrestling Contest

Update: Apple Won Its iPhone Domains, But They Still Point to Porn

How the Original Facebook Phone Failed

Apple’s Pro-Censorship Software Alliance Backs Down

New Mission: Impossible 4 clips prove Brad Bird’s Mission will be the best

Comic book Wednesday brings us time-hopping art thieves and drunk dairy products!

This Beautiful Stop Motion Toy Story Might Just Break Your Heart

How Volkswagen Redesigned the All-New Beetle

Here’s Ice Cream Sandwich Running on an Asus Transformer Prime Tablet

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