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There Is Such a Thing as Jet Pack School Where People Learn to Fly

Eric Scott aka Rocketman is probably the best Jet Pack pilot the world has. He’s flown over canyons, performed in airshows and holds the record for fastest speed on a Jet Pack. So with that gift, he’s now teaching people how to fly in his Jet Pack school. Using a jetpack isn’t easy! You can’t…

Tech News Casey Chan Nov 3 '11

Game Over: Amazon Prime Is Officially the Greatest Deal in Tech

Amazon’s Prime service began as a way to get your books and deodorant shipped to your door faster. Which was nice. Now, it’s turned into a cornucopia of digital everything: movies, TV, books. And as it’s grown, it’s turned into something else: the smartest digital ticket around. Amazon’s decision to give out free loaner Kindle…

Commerce Sam Biddle Nov 3 '11

A Vaccine That Could Protect Against Tooth Decay?

A vaccine against cavities has been a dream pursued for over 30 years by researchers and the National Institutes of Health. Fluoridated water supplies, instituted in the United States and Canada in the mid-1940s, have gone a long way to decrease cavities at a cost of approximately one dollar per recipient per year. Despite this…

io9 Keith Veronese Nov 3 '11

Cheaper Android Phones Are Crap Compared to iPhone and BlackBerry

Fandroids say that iPhones, Blackberries and Windows Phones are way too expensive. Anyone can buy a cheaper Android! Now a study covering 600,000 support calls has found that these cheap Androids are exactly that: Cheap. And cheap phones break. According to this study by wireless service company WDS, hardware failures are more common in Android…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 3 '11

iPawn Interactive Pieces Bring iPad Board Games To Life

Back when it was just a prototype, the iPawn game pieces had us scratching our heads over how they interacted with a touchscreen. But now that they’ll officially be available this month, we have a better idea of how they turn the iPad into an interactive board game. https://gizmodo.com/tell-us-how-this-object-detecting-iphone-game-works-pl-5619578 Unlike Disney’s toys that interact with…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Nov 3 '11

Found: The Earliest Known Evidence of a Prank Phone Call

We now know that it took no more than eight years following the invention of the telephone for people to realize the comedic potential of playing practical jokes via landline. Paul Collins, aka “The Literary Detective,” claims to have discovered what he believes to be the first recorded evidence of a prank phone call in…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Nov 3 '11

Apple Says Kindle Fire Is a Great Thing for Apple. Naturally.

The Kindle Fire’s almost here, and a lot of folks are excited about what they think will be the iPad’s first true challenger. Except that Apple execs say the $200 Fire might actually benefit the iPad. Holdonwhatnow? That’s the preemptively defensive spiel from Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppehheimer, according to Barclays analyst…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Nov 3 '11

World’s Most Efficient Flexible OLED Printed on Plastic, and more from TreeHugger

This week, solar chargers that tweet, steampunk-style lamps made from pipes and beer bottles, DARPA recycling space junk, lightbulbs made from paper, and more! 1. World’s Most Efficient Flexible OLED Printed on Plastic (Video) Researchers at the University of Toronto have made a major push in the printing of flexible OLED surfaces, something electronics manufacturers…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch - Treehugger Nov 3 '11

Lasers Power Pentagon’s Next-Gen Artificial Limbs

The Pentagon’s already got brain-controlled prosthetics, and they are a major improvement over old-school artificial limbs. The devices are far from perfect, however. They rely on metal implants, which aren’t compatible with the body’s tissues, and they can only transmit a few signals at a time – turning what should be a simple movement into…

Tech News Katie Drummond - Wired Nov 3 '11

One weird theory could make anti-gravity and faster-than-light travel possible

So we’ve had neutrinos that traveled faster than light — or at least, that result hasn’t been invalidated yet. But how soon can we get spaceships that can travel to other star systems without traveling at faster-than-light velocities? The answer might lie in a relatively little-known theory. Heim Theory holds the possibility for all kinds…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Nov 3 '11

Watch Bella tell Edward she’s carrying his unholy vampire spawn in 4 new Twilight: Breaking Dawn clips

It’s the beginning of the end for Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series. Breaking Dawn Part 1 promises so much for the vampires who sparkle and their clumsy human mates — including one of the most famous sex scenes in literary history, followed by one of the most famous birth scenes! Watch the first clips now! Directed…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 3 '11

Plex Media Center Now Runs on Google TV. Wait, What?

Media center software running on top of media center software seems silly (cue meme), but maybe you really love Plex’s UI that much. Or maybe you love the Google TV hardware, but not the software? Either way, you now have options. Plex’s app is now optimized and available for Google TV, promising access to all…

Movies Adrian Covert Nov 3 '11

George Clooney discusses the making of Alfonso Cuarón’s stranded astronaut epic Gravity!

Is Matthew Modine’s character in The Dark Knight Rises a hero or villain…or both? One X-Men: First Class actor thinks a sequel will happen. The 300 sequel might have found its star. Plus True Blood adds a new regular vampire! Spoilers from this point forward! Top image from The Hunger Games. The Dark Knight Rises…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Nov 3 '11

Motorola Wheels Out Two More Xoom Tablets in the UK: The Xoom 2, and Xoom Media Edition

What, you may be asking, is the point of unveiling a tablet alongside one that’s touted as being the “Media Edition”? Shouldn’t all tablets have media at its heart? Funnily enough, the Media Edition is smaller, at 8.2-inches, with the Xoom 2 clocking in at 10.1-inches. Both tablets sound very similar, with their dual-core 1.2GHz…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Nov 3 '11

British Special Forces Will Be Hanging Out in a Network of Underground Bunkers During the Olympics

Violent mass attacks are one of the biggest fears of Olympic organizers. Each venue handles security in their own way. So what will London do this summer? Keep main venues surrounded by waterways and a network of underground bunkers for British SAS ops. According to the UK Sun, SAS forces will be on call in…

Tech News Adrian Covert Nov 3 '11

Amazon Prime Subscribers Can Borrow Kindle Books for Free

This morning Amazon launched their Kindle Owners’ Lending Library which lets owners of their popular ebook reader, who also subscribe to their Prime service, choose from thousands of free titles to borrow without a due date. Like with books purchased from the Amazon store, the Lending Library can be accessed directly from the Kindle itself,…

Commerce Andrew Liszewski Nov 3 '11

Lomokino Is Lomography’s Dinky 35mm Video Camera

Styled kind of like an old Kodak Brownie, Lomography’s first-ever video camera, the Lomokino, shoots video on ordinary rolls of 35mm film with a little crank of a handle. Capable of squeezing up to 50 seconds of footage onto a standard 36-frame roll, the finished results are a real throw back to ye olden days.…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford Nov 3 '11

The iPad2 Might Be Getting Thinner, Lasting Longer Come Spring

According to a report by Digitimes, Apple could be planning an update to the iPad2 platform and unveiling a thinner iteration with better battery life in March 2012. Unfortunately, that would also suggest that the iPad3 won’t be launched until at least the third quarter of 2012 and more likely in 2013. [9to5 Mac]

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Nov 3 '11

Spiderbot Goes Where Spiderman Can’t, Including Nightmares

The next time you find yourself buried in rubble, your savior might not be a keen-nosed rescue dog but rather this terror-inducing robo-arachnid. Huzzah? Created by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, this spider-like rotbot is designed for use as a forward scout for first responder teams during haz-mat crises and…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Nov 3 '11

A Leopard-Print Garden Hose Cover for Your Summer Home at the Jersey Shore

I’d imagine this is the sort of hose Snooki would own—were I to also imagine Snooki capable of fathoming the whole “watering plants” concept. The “Hose Clothes” cover slips onto hoses up to 5/8-inches in diameter and costs $24 for 25 feet or $34 for 50 feet at Dirt Couture. [Design Happens via Book of…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Nov 3 '11

There Is Such a Thing as Jet Pack School Where People Learn to Fly

Game Over: Amazon Prime Is Officially the Greatest Deal in Tech

A Vaccine That Could Protect Against Tooth Decay?

Cheaper Android Phones Are Crap Compared to iPhone and BlackBerry

iPawn Interactive Pieces Bring iPad Board Games To Life

Found: The Earliest Known Evidence of a Prank Phone Call

Apple Says Kindle Fire Is a Great Thing for Apple. Naturally.

World’s Most Efficient Flexible OLED Printed on Plastic, and more from TreeHugger

Lasers Power Pentagon’s Next-Gen Artificial Limbs

One weird theory could make anti-gravity and faster-than-light travel possible

Watch Bella tell Edward she’s carrying his unholy vampire spawn in 4 new Twilight: Breaking Dawn clips

Plex Media Center Now Runs on Google TV. Wait, What?

George Clooney discusses the making of Alfonso Cuarón’s stranded astronaut epic Gravity!

Motorola Wheels Out Two More Xoom Tablets in the UK: The Xoom 2, and Xoom Media Edition

British Special Forces Will Be Hanging Out in a Network of Underground Bunkers During the Olympics

Amazon Prime Subscribers Can Borrow Kindle Books for Free

Lomokino Is Lomography’s Dinky 35mm Video Camera

The iPad2 Might Be Getting Thinner, Lasting Longer Come Spring

Spiderbot Goes Where Spiderman Can’t, Including Nightmares

A Leopard-Print Garden Hose Cover for Your Summer Home at the Jersey Shore

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