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Victorinox Presentation Master Multitool: Because Even James Bond Uses PowerPoint Sometimes

They’re called “trade secrets” for a reason. And if the competition gets their hands on your company’s IP because you drunkenly left it in a bar, you’ll need stringent security to keep them from peeping—like the Victorinox Presentation Master’s 256-bit AES encryption. It’s a Swiss Army Knife on loan from MI6. What Is It? The…

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Picture of the Day: November 15, 2011

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Victorinox Presentation Master Gallery

The Victorinox Presentation Master The USB 2.0 drive is fully removable from the chassis The Class II laser is activated by pressing the Swiss Shield logo The Presentation Master vs. A Quarter The Bluetooth controls—one Up button and one Down button. What more do you want?

Reviews Andrew Tarantola

North Face’s New ThermoBall Jacket: It’s Better than Down

Down jackets are the de facto standard of winter clothing. They’re light, flexible, warm and so far, no one’s been able to make something better. Well, until now. North Face might’ve just made a jacket that’s better than down. It’s called ThermoBall. https://gizmodo.com/d-is-for-design-the-anatomy-of-a-down-coat-5713615 The new ThermoBall jacket looks like your run of the mill down…

Tech News Casey Chan

These Are the Most Horrible Clowns I’ve Seen—And They May Give You Cancer Too

Somebody in Hungary thought that designing high voltage towers in a shape that vaguely resembles a clown is a good idea. As if high voltage towers and their potential cancer-inducing powers weren’t terrifying enough. Somebody needs to get fired. The argument is that the shape will beautify and make big industrial objects more attractive. The…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Faced with rising floodwaters, Thai citizens turn to homemade jet skis and abandoned highway parking lots

Since this summer, a particularly strong monsoon season has caused dangerous floodwaters to raise across Thailand. These waters have killed over 500 people and caused several billion dollars in property damage already. In cities like Bangkok, residents have adjusted to the rising waters by flood-proofing their vehicles in surprising ways and radically altering the urban…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Moderate beer drinking could have the same health benefits as wine

We’ve known for a while now that moderate wine-drinking can confer some health benefits. Now a new study reveals moderate beer consumption can also reduce the risk of heart disease by 31%. So what’s behind this unexpected health benefit? Researchers at Italy’s Fondazione di Ricerca e Cura combined several different studies conducted in the last…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Brainiac Drugs, Helmet Lightning, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. Robot Can Control Your Arms with Electrodes Over my dead… wait, it’s potentially helper robot for injured…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Save Lou Reed!

Lou Reed must be broke. Or maybe he lost a bet. I can’t think of any other explanation for why he’s agreed to go all Beats by Dre on these Klipsch earbuds. Everyone needs to pitch in here. There’s something humiliating about seeing Lou Reed—Lou Fucking Reed—modeling a set of metallic purple in-ear headphones. This…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Fish enjoy a good massage as much as humans

It’s not exactly a secret that many humans derive pleasure from massages, and previous research has shown other primates enjoy it as well. And now, we’ve found the first non-primate to use massages to relieve stress: the surgeonfish. Surgeonfish are one of a number of fish species that enlist tiny cleaner wrasse fish to clean…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Director Bill Condon explains why Twilight: Breaking Dawn is a uniquely female horror movie

This weekend, the first half of Twilight’s final chapter, Breaking Dawn, hits theaters. We’ll finally get to see Stephenie Meyer’s most controversial scenes, as reimagined by acclaimed director Bill Condon. How on Earth does the director of Gods and Monsters and Kinsey tackle the famous “imprinting” scene? We were lucky enough to speak with Condon…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

iTunes Match: The Past Disguised as the Future

In the olden days, most of the music on music fans’ hard drives came from P2P networks and ripped CDs. If Apple’s vision of the music cloud proves dominant, the future will resemble that past, perhaps with MP3s downloaded from music blogs replacing CD ripping. Steve Jobs didn’t believe people wanted to rent music, which…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm

The lost lake that was rediscovered by lasers and genetics

Twenty-two thousand years ago, a lake was formed, burst its dam, and washed away. Recently, two sciences came together to re-discover this short-lived chunk of water. Find out how even a brief rush of water and rock left genetic and geological traces that were picked up millenia later. Sometimes the sciences get all in a…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Raging Bull: The Greatest Boxing Movie Ever (!)

Raging Bull is the greatest boxing movie of all time. It’s also an enormously classic film—Scorsese, De Niro, punching, blood. And it’s a true story. Who’s in it? Robert De Niro absolutely dominates the film, because hey, he’s Robert De Niro playing Jake LaMotta one of the greatest boxers of all time. Joe Pesci plays…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Watch Julia Roberts go full Schlockula Evil Queen in Tarsem Singh’s Snow White movie trailer

Last week, we showed you the gothic trailer for the dark fantasy Snow White movie — now take a look at a fairytale trailer that’s the exact opposite. Watch Tarsem Singh’s ridiculous Mirror Mirror! and behold Julia Roberts as she splashes about in a Olympic-sized pool of cheese wizzy slapstick and Scarface jokes. https://gizmodo.com/first-trailer-for-snow-white-and-the-huntsman-shows-a-r-5858406 One…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Pocketknife Revolver Evens the Odds When You Bring a Knife To a Gunfight

If I built a time machine I’d choose a pickup truck over a Delorean, just so I could bring back all the awesome stuff that’s been deemed unsafe over the years. I mean you can get a Swiss Army knife equipped with everything imaginable these days, except a .22 caliber pistol, which were readily available…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Campus Shooting at UC Berkeley (Updating Live)

A shooting has occurred at University of California, Berkeley—the home of some of Silicon Valley’s upcoming best and brightest. Update: Police say they have a suspect in custody. According to a Twitter witness report, “about 10 shots were fired in a computer lab” at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. A call to the university’s police…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Large Hadron Collider may have discovered why we don’t live in a universe of antimatter

The Large Hadron Collider is constantly on the hunt for “new physics” — discoveries that confound and expand our current understanding of the universe… and it may have found one in the decay patterns of a subatomic particle and its antimatter counterpart. Photo via NASA/Chandra Observatory. Specifically, particles called D-mesons appear to decay in a…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Fotopedia Japan for iPad: Take a Trip to Japan Without Going to Japan

One thing that the Japanese have over us? Sushi. Oh and ramen. Oh and Japanese curry. Oh and their entire cuisine. And their style. Damn, Japan is a pretty awesome country now. Fotopedia Japan takes you on a photography tour of the super tasteful country. What’s it do? Like their other awesome apps, Fotopedia Japan…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Revealed! Every Evil Atom of the H1N1 Flu Virus

The H1N1 flu pandemic killed 17,000 people across the globe between 2009 and 2010. Pretty terrifying. To prevent that from ever happening again, scientists have created a super-detailed computer model of the killer virus. Researchers at the Institute of Process Engineering at the Chinese Academy of Sciences generated the first computational model of H1N1 at…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Victorinox Presentation Master Multitool: Because Even James Bond Uses PowerPoint Sometimes

Picture of the Day: November 15, 2011

Victorinox Presentation Master Gallery

North Face’s New ThermoBall Jacket: It’s Better than Down

These Are the Most Horrible Clowns I’ve Seen—And They May Give You Cancer Too

Faced with rising floodwaters, Thai citizens turn to homemade jet skis and abandoned highway parking lots

Moderate beer drinking could have the same health benefits as wine

Brainiac Drugs, Helmet Lightning, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

Save Lou Reed!

Fish enjoy a good massage as much as humans

Director Bill Condon explains why Twilight: Breaking Dawn is a uniquely female horror movie

iTunes Match: The Past Disguised as the Future

The lost lake that was rediscovered by lasers and genetics

Raging Bull: The Greatest Boxing Movie Ever (!)

Watch Julia Roberts go full Schlockula Evil Queen in Tarsem Singh’s Snow White movie trailer

Pocketknife Revolver Evens the Odds When You Bring a Knife To a Gunfight

Campus Shooting at UC Berkeley (Updating Live)

The Large Hadron Collider may have discovered why we don’t live in a universe of antimatter

Fotopedia Japan for iPad: Take a Trip to Japan Without Going to Japan

Revealed! Every Evil Atom of the H1N1 Flu Virus

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