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GymPact Charges You for Being a Lazy Bum (and Pays You to Get Pumped)

If you have a gym membership, there’s a good chance you’re just throwing your money away. It’s not because gyms are bad places. It’s because you’re a lazy slob who signed up and now has about a thousand excuses why you shouldn’t go. If you’re as unmotivated as I am about pumping iron, GymPact’s monetary…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Jan 3 '12

The Eames’, IBM, and the Dawn of Computing

What do you do if you’re IBM in the 1950s and need to market your behemoth computing machine to a conservative public? Commission a 10-minute informative short to designers Charles and Ray Eames, of course! “The Information Machine” was the result of a unique collaboration that aimed at naturalizing the computer within the context of…

Tech News Samuel Jan 3 '12

White House Denies CIA Teleported Obama to Mars

Forget Kenya. Never mind the secret madrassas. The sinister, shocking truth about Barack Obama’s past lies not in east Africa, but in outer space. As a young man in the early 1980s, Obama was part of a secret CIA project to explore Mars. The future president teleported there, along with the future head of Darpa.…

Space & Spaceflight Spencer Ackerman - Wired Jan 3 '12

The Politics of Fetal Cells Invading Mommy Bodies

BoingBoing has a fascinating summary of how fetal cells invade their mother’s host body and get up to all kinds of shenanigans: some good, some bad. Research describing the fetal cell invasion has peppered the popular press in recent years, and it’s a fascinating story. The cells might protect mothers from cancer, heal their hearts,…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Jan 3 '12

How to Best Watch the First Meteor Shower of the Year

This spectacular fireball is an early shot of the first meteor shower of the year, captured on January 2 by Brian Emfinger. If you want to catch your own, get ready! The peak activity will be tomorrow. Here’s how to enjoy them: Where to look at? The Quadrantids radiate from the constellation Bootes (The Herdsman),…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Jan 3 '12

Even stuck in a shoebox with a miniature woman, Nathan from Misfits has zero game

Last week, the BBC aired a special TV movie version of The Borrowers, which featured some lovely performances. Christopher Eccleston was brilliant as Arietty’s father Pod, and Stephen Fry pulled out all the stops (and then some) as the unscrupulous Professor Mildeye. But the show was darn near stolen by The Misfits’ Robert Sheehan, as…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jan 3 '12

Ask Ziggy: Siri for Windows Phone

People love Siri. Well, unless they have an accent or a slight speech impediment. What’s important is that Apple really wants everyone with an iPhone 4S use Siri to schedule appointments and look up coffee shops. The Android Market is already filled with enough Siri clones to keep Apple’s lawyers busy for years. It’s time…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Jan 3 '12

Samsung’s Got a Freaking Vacuum in Its New Blu-ray Home Theater Gear

It’s kind of hard to impress anyone in home theater anymore, but you’ll probably pull it off with a no-one-can-hear-you-scream vacuum in your living room. Samsung’s new 7.1 Channel Blu-ray 3D Home Theater System has built-in vacuum tube amplifiers, which provides warmer sound. Samsung will be showing off the new system, along with a wireless…

Gadgets Kyle Wagner Jan 3 '12

Samsung’s New Vacuum Tube Dock Plays with Your iPhone and Your Galaxy

The new Samsung DA-E750 speaker dock does two things that other docks don’t. First, it plays with both your iOS devices or your Galaxy S. The dock has also been outfitted with a hybrid vacuum tube system that Samsung says will put some audiophile muster behind your tunes. This new shiny 2.1 channel Samsung dock…

Gadgets Mario Aguilar Jan 3 '12

Romney Is an iPhone: A Gadget Lover’s Guide to GOP Candidates

It’s president pickin’ time! For you Republicans, that means you’ve got some important wheat to separate from some important chaff: which candidate will get your vote? No easy matter! So we’ve boiled it down into terms we can all understand. With today’s Iowa caucus and next week’s New Hampshire slugfest, the already catty GOP nomination…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jan 3 '12

Behold, the movie poster for Inspector Spacetime, Community‘s tribute to Doctor Who

Artist Sam Spratt (who has lent his considerable talents to our sister sites Gawker and Gizmodo) has now created a rather ripping cinematic take on Inspector Spacetime — Community’s ersatz Doctor Who — which tends to inspire plenty of homages. [Spotted on Buzzfeed]

Television Cyriaque Lamar Jan 3 '12

This Squirrel Likes to Paint

Eat your heart out, Kandisky! Forget about it, Pablo! Screw you, Bob Ross! All I want is a Van Gogh by Señor Squirrelo, real name Winkelhimer Smith: My pet squirrel *she’s a rescue so she became a pet* watches me paint since I’m a pro artist for a living. She was obsessed with my paint…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 3 '12

Man’s Comcast Box Floods Home with Cockroaches

Man, those Greedy Cable Companies have some nerve, am I right? Always showing up late, charging us for channels we don’t want, under-delivering on broadband speeds. But at least they’re not infesting our homes with bugs! Oh, wait. The Beacon-News relays the horrifying story of Chicagoan Antonio Munoz, who had new cable service installed by…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jan 3 '12

Watch the Unbelievable Trailer of Nitro Circus The Movie (AKA the People Crazier Than Jackass)

If you’re a fan of the silly hijinks of Jackass, you have to watch this upcoming Nitro Circus movie. Nitro Circus is the super crazy extreme group headlined by motocross legend Travis Pastrana and his friends that pull stunts that even Knoxville and his gang wouldn’t even dare doing. It’s a more athletic Jackass! More…

Movies Casey Chan Jan 3 '12

Parasitic flies turn bees into zombies before wiping them out completely

Something is very wrong with the bees. Since 2006, the mysterious phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder has wiped out countless honeybee colonies throughout Europe and North America, and nobody knows why. But a weird parasite may hold the answer. Honeybees are a natural target of a parasitic fly species called Apocephalus borealis. These tiny…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jan 3 '12

Brilliant Satire: Reasons to Boycott Game of Thrones

The parody website, ChristWire.org, just posted “12 Reasons to Boycott Game of Thrones in 2012,” and it’s a totally brilliant send-up that I actually thought was for real for a moment. Pretty hilarious stuff. Here’s how they sum the show up: In essence, Game of Thrones is a poorly produced copy of Mel Gibson’s Braveheart…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jan 3 '12

Motorola Xyboard Review: It Only Looks Like It Can Fly

Xyboard. It sounds like a xylophone made sweaty, mumbly love to a chalkboard. Putting that aside, the Xyboard is a pretty serious tablet with an IR blaster, boom-packing speakers, and hardware that screams more “stealth bomber!” than “another generic Android tablet you don’t care about.” Why It Matters Motorola’s first tablet—the first real Android tablet!—the…

Reviews Brent Rose Jan 3 '12

New Webseries: Girl gets the power to contact her past self, wastes it texting about boys

The totally twee webseries Dating Rules From My Future Self looks great — it’s both pretty and peppy. But I find it incredibly concerning that once the main character starts getting text messages from her future self, her future self spends all her cosmic energy talking about boys. Sigh. Here’s the official run-down: From the…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jan 3 '12

Mr. Dirt Head?

There’s a simple formula behind these eco-friendly toys designed by Noa Himelfarb: Kids like dirt + kids like animals + kids like building = Muzoo. So instead of creating a creature from a potato, they use a lump of mud. The Muzoo kit consists of a simple frame that makes it easier for artistically challenged…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 3 '12

Improve office productivity by working under fake clouds!

Being outside gives us a sense of freedom and spaciousness, and as far as some German engineers are concerned, that means increased work efficiency. That’s why they’ve invented a “dynamic luminous ceiling” that simulates working outside during a clouding day. The Stutgartt-based team have created a ceiling that simulates clouds passing overhead. But it’s more…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jan 3 '12

GymPact Charges You for Being a Lazy Bum (and Pays You to Get Pumped)

The Eames’, IBM, and the Dawn of Computing

White House Denies CIA Teleported Obama to Mars

The Politics of Fetal Cells Invading Mommy Bodies

How to Best Watch the First Meteor Shower of the Year

Even stuck in a shoebox with a miniature woman, Nathan from Misfits has zero game

Ask Ziggy: Siri for Windows Phone

Samsung’s Got a Freaking Vacuum in Its New Blu-ray Home Theater Gear

Samsung’s New Vacuum Tube Dock Plays with Your iPhone and Your Galaxy

Romney Is an iPhone: A Gadget Lover’s Guide to GOP Candidates

Behold, the movie poster for Inspector Spacetime, Community‘s tribute to Doctor Who

This Squirrel Likes to Paint

Man’s Comcast Box Floods Home with Cockroaches

Watch the Unbelievable Trailer of Nitro Circus The Movie (AKA the People Crazier Than Jackass)

Parasitic flies turn bees into zombies before wiping them out completely

Brilliant Satire: Reasons to Boycott Game of Thrones

Motorola Xyboard Review: It Only Looks Like It Can Fly

New Webseries: Girl gets the power to contact her past self, wastes it texting about boys

Mr. Dirt Head?

Improve office productivity by working under fake clouds!

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