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Future Touchscreens Could Know Exactly What Touched Them

While certainly impressive technology, modern touchscreens are still kind of limited in that they only really know where on the display they’ve been touched. So researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are hoping to advance their capabilities with a new system that can tell exactly what they’ve been touched with. Developed by Pd.D. students Chris Harrison…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 22 '11

Is Watchmen 2 being considered yet again?

Every few years or so, the internet hears whispers of DC Comics’ plans to exhume Watchmen so that everyone can sleep on futons made of woven sapphire and topaz. https://gizmodo.com/dc-says-no-to-watchmen-2-but-leaves-door-open-for-sup-5475616 https://gizmodo.com/alan-moore-dc-offered-me-the-rights-to-watchmen-back-5593620 The latest rumor comes to us from Rich Johnston of Bleeding Cool, who reports that the success of DC’s New 52 initiative has reopened…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Oct 22 '11

Costumed children meet gruesome ends in “The Last of the Trick-Or-Treaters” webcomics

One little trick-or-treater finds a haunted house more haunted than he could have imagined. Another brings her new friend a grisly treat. Candy-hunting children meet all sorts of macabre ends in the watercolor comic series “The Last of the Trick-Or-Treaters.” Randy Milholland, creator of the long-running webcomic Something Positive, occasionally posts one-off comics to his…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Oct 22 '11

A Surfboard Bag for Dedicated Beach Bums

Camping on the beach with the sound of the surf is a great way to relax, but when you’re a surfer, it’s also the easiest way to guarantee you won’t miss a great wave when the tide rolls in. So the Wave Cave is kind of like an emergency shelter for a situation that’s not…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 22 '11

Weirdly prescient 1987 sitcom predicted the death of Muammar Gaddafi

There was no shortage of crappy, short-lived genre shows in the 1980s, but only one of them accidentally predicted the death year of a newly deceased Libyan strongman. https://gizmodo.com/10-deranged-scifi-tv-shows-that-lasted-about-as-long-as-5774460 In this bizarre scene from the pilot of the 1987 “guy comes back from the afterlife to make amends” series Second Chance, St. Peter tosses Gaddafi…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Oct 22 '11

Saturday Morning Cartoons bring you clips from this week’s episodes of Young Justice, Generator Rex, & more!

For some reason, good ‘ol cartoons like we grew up with in the 80s and 90s (and earlier) don’t come on during Saturday mornings anymore. Maybe it’s because anyone who is awake and would watch is sleeping. But it doesn’t matter, we’ve got you covered. In this week’s installment of Saturday Morning Cartoons, we’ll take…

Television Keith Veronese Oct 22 '11

Conan Worries Batman’s Best Days Might Be Behind Him

In the comic book world Batman has been saving the citizens of Gotham City for over seventy years now. But Conan O’Brien worries that in his latest video game outing, Batman: Arkham City, the caped crusader might be showing his age. While the game looks amazing, in this exclusive look Conan shows that perhaps the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 22 '11

Google Relieves Its Growing Pains With Another HQ Expansion

While Apple plans to start from scratch with its fancy new spaceship-inspired headquarters, Google seems content to just continue buying up property and buildings around its already sprawling Mountain View campus. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-high-resolution-renders-of-apples-next-campus-a-5830633 The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that Google recently spent $100 million for a group of two story buildings near their HQ…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 22 '11

Four-Inch Long Amoebas Found in Mariana Trench

What’re ten centimeters across, live 6 miles under water, and are incredibly toxic? The Xenophyophores of the Mariana Trench—the largest single-celled organisms in existence. Their existence was confirmed during a recent survey conducted by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the National Geographic Society along the Sirena Deep section of the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Oct 22 '11

Amazon Sets the Record Straight on Silk’s Security

Silk, Amazon’s new “cloud accelerated” browser, has already drawn the ire of security experts and politicians alike since it funnels most of the tablet’s traffic through Amazon-controlled servers. Now, Amazon is providing additional details as to how Silk handles your data. https://gizmodo.com/amazon-silk-comes-under-congressional-fire-5849986 Silk operates by utilizing Amazon’s AWS cloud servers to download of web page…

Commerce Andrew Tarantola Oct 22 '11

How the US Navy Is Making Its Virginia-Class Subs Even More Deadly

The US Navy’s fleet of heavily-armed SSGN subs will run through their nuclear fuel supplies by 2026. At that point, they must be replaced at a cost of $8 billion apiece. Problem is, $8 billion is roughly half of the Navy’s annual ship production budget. So what’s the Navy to do? It plans to stretch—literally—its…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Oct 22 '11

Post-It Notes Are the Most Useful Wrist Accessory Since Casio Databanks

Actually remember to get a gallon of milk before you get home! Add an extra dimension of hilarity to your “Hair Past a Freckle” jokes! These watch-shaped Post-It notes stick to your wrist to stay in the front of your mind. A stack of 100 will run € 9.80. [PA Design via Design Milk] You…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Oct 21 '11

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Aladdin’s Big Mistake

Be careful what you wish for! That’s what they say, right? Or maybe it should be: be careful how you phrase your wish. Because one wrong word, and your genie might end up with terribly deformed fetus legs. Full video below, if you’re up for a little genie mutilation. And at this point on a…

Tech News Splitsider Oct 21 '11

Ninjas Do Not Fight Fair

Ninjas are cunning foes. The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people. Foolish Canadians learned this valuable lesson after challenging one ninja and being ambushed by scores of the deadly assassins. If you see a ninja on the street, walk away. Because either they’ll slice you up into little bits, or…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Oct 21 '11

Did You Know You Can Trade Copper for Crack?

In Florida—yes, LOVELY Florida—there exists a place where one can steal copper wire from things and exchange that copper wire for crack. How do I get there? According to Miami’s WPLG, the screening processes that copper thiefs encounter when trying to sell their looted wire has worked so well that they’ve just started offering the…

Tech News Adrian Covert Oct 21 '11

The strangest (and nakedest) teleportation scene ever committed to film [NSFW]

The Japanese cult manga Gantz recently became a cult movie — which is now available in America on DVD and Blu-Ray. The premise is bizarre, and the dubbing is hilarious, though luckily you have the option to watch it with subtitles. There are so many delightfully random scenes in this movie that it really must…

Movies Annalee Newitz Oct 21 '11

M83 : Midnight City

I’ve daydreamed about having awesome telekinetic superpowers since I first watched Akira—you know, without the whole gigantic exploding Human Blob thing at the end of course. This new video from M83 seems to have tapped directly into my imagination. Simply awesome. M83 is a French Shoegazer act by Anthony Gonzalez, formed in 2001. Originally Gonzales…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Oct 21 '11

Did Vampire Diaries really earn that Buffy reference?

The Vampire Diaries had the audacity to namecheck Buffy the Vampire Slayer, not to mention what might have been a nod to Xena Warrior Princess, in last night’s episode. Can we forgive such gall, from a show where the main female character is kind of a victim-y doormat? Yes. Yes we can. Spoilers ahead… Actually,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Oct 21 '11

Idiot Car Thieves Busted When Craigslist Ad Attracts Original Owner

A very lucky man in California got his stolen car back after he spotted it on Craigslist. Either Kenny Munyon is quite a sleuth or he ran up against some very stupid thieves. Let’s investigate. Kenny Munyon woke up one morning in May to find that his awesome 1949 Ford Shoebox had been stolen overnight.…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Oct 21 '11

On Person of Interest, it’s time to store Polish gangsters in the trunk of your car

I can’t decide whether it’s a good or bad development that Person of Interest seems to be leaving its dystopian premise behind in favor of goofy crime procedural nonsense. I know some of those ponderous speeches about surveillance and Big Brother could get a little tedious, but I liked them. Apparently people in the writers’…

Television Annalee Newitz Oct 21 '11

Future Touchscreens Could Know Exactly What Touched Them

Is Watchmen 2 being considered yet again?

Costumed children meet gruesome ends in “The Last of the Trick-Or-Treaters” webcomics

A Surfboard Bag for Dedicated Beach Bums

Weirdly prescient 1987 sitcom predicted the death of Muammar Gaddafi

Saturday Morning Cartoons bring you clips from this week’s episodes of Young Justice, Generator Rex, & more!

Conan Worries Batman’s Best Days Might Be Behind Him

Google Relieves Its Growing Pains With Another HQ Expansion

Four-Inch Long Amoebas Found in Mariana Trench

Amazon Sets the Record Straight on Silk’s Security

How the US Navy Is Making Its Virginia-Class Subs Even More Deadly

Post-It Notes Are the Most Useful Wrist Accessory Since Casio Databanks

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Aladdin’s Big Mistake

Ninjas Do Not Fight Fair

Did You Know You Can Trade Copper for Crack?

The strangest (and nakedest) teleportation scene ever committed to film [NSFW]

M83 : Midnight City

Did Vampire Diaries really earn that Buffy reference?

Idiot Car Thieves Busted When Craigslist Ad Attracts Original Owner

On Person of Interest, it’s time to store Polish gangsters in the trunk of your car

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