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10 Crazy Things Viruses Do In Movies And Television

Viruses never act realistic on television or in the movies — usually, they just kill their hosts way too quickly, probably with a brief fever and some well-spritzed movie sweats. But sometimes, fake viruses get way more insane. What are the craziest viral symptoms ever seen on your screen? What’s the worst that can happen…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 8 '11

Shooting Challenge: Complementary Colors

Orange and blue. Red and green. These timeless color combinations aren’t just coincidences, they’re complementary colors. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll exploit the very nature of human perception to capture a photo with incredible vibrance. The Challenge Capture a photo that celebrates complementary colors as their subject. In other words, capture a photo…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 8 '11

Sony’s First Ever 4K Home Theater Projector Shoots Super Resolution for Super Cash

4K video might be our inevitable future, but for now it’s prohibitively expensive and rarely available. Sony’s taking care of the latter part with its new VPL-VW1000ES projector—four times the resolution of 1080p (!) for mega, mega bucks. Sony’s many-charactered projector has some serious eyeball muscle: 2,000 lumens of brightness, the aforementioned insanely-high 4096 x…

Gadgets Sam Biddle Sep 8 '11

What the NYPD’s Impressive Counter Terrorism Unit Actually Does

Reuters just published a photo essay of the NYPD’s Counter Terrorism Unit. The unit is loaded with heavy weapons, Big Brother-esque technology and a determination to prevent something like 9/11 from happening again. Many New Yorkers have probably noticed the increased cop presence around the city—in subways, on streets, etc.—after 9/11 and complained about them…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 8 '11

Cuba’s Lung Cancer Vaccine Could Save Your Life

Cuba, famed maker of delicious (and cancery) cigars, may just have an anti-lung cancer vaccine that’s worth getting excited about. CimaVax-EGF isn’t preventative, but it may make this horrible deadly disease just a plain old horrible disease. The newly available CimaVax-EGF is the product of 25 years of cancer research by Cuban medical authorities. While…

Health Brent Rose Sep 8 '11

Advertising a Fake Craigslist Orgy at Your Neighbor’s House Is the Best Revenge

What do you do when the guy next door has been pissing you off? Settle it like gentlemen over coffee? Arm wrestling competition? Just turn the other cheek? How about throwing an orgy at his house without asking? Yes. Unfortunately, this dish served piping hot landed devious Connecticut guy Philip Conran in probation for three…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 8 '11

Google Just Bought Zagat, Making It the New King of Restaurant Ratings

The official Google blog says it all: the Mountain View tech monster bought Zagat, whose restaurant ratings are used and respected all over the world. Yelp should be worried. Google says Zagat’s 30 point rating system and will become the new cornerstone of Google’s local-focused services. With Zagat, we gain a world-class team that has…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 8 '11

How the Greenest Skyscraper Ever Is Rising Out of the Rubble of the World Trade Center

On September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center transformed from a pair of gleaming towers into a carcinogenic pile of smoldering rubble that’s still killing people. Currently rising out of that rubble, though, is a skyscraper with the most environmentally advanced technologies ever attempted at the scale. Live at LEEDs LEED (Leadership in Energy and…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Sep 8 '11

How to make a tank look like a cow in infrared

This infrared paneling can make a tank look like an SUV, provided it’s night and you’re looking through infrared goggles. Find out how the army might upholster tanks to make them whatever shape they need. In general, it’s tough to move tanks around. They take a lot of fuel, they require the right terrain, and…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 8 '11

The Most Horrific Traffic in the Entire World

LA and New York must have the worst commutes known to mankind, right? Totally wrong. It gets, much, much worse—according to IBM’s recent global survey of automotive horror, those two cities are among the best. What’re the worst? IBM’s aptly-titled 2011 Commuter Pain Study polled drivers around the planet to find whose life sucks the…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 8 '11

Amazon Staves Off the Tax Man for Another Year

One of the cornerstones of Amazon’s business has been avoiding sales taxes; because their transactions are online, you don’t have to pay Uncle Sam with every purchase. And now, thanks to some maneuvering around a proposed California law, you’ll remain off the hook for another year. https://gizmodo.com/dont-tell-us-amazon-may-be-forced-to-start-charging-sal-5808160 Amazon now has until next September before they’ll…

Commerce Brian Barrett Sep 8 '11

Scientists can make you lie using magnets

Truth serums are something of a staple in scifi and fantasy. They even exist in real life. But now, scientists have found a new way to induce spontaneous truth telling: magnetic fields. What’s more, these fields can not only increase your propensity to tell the truth — they can also turn you into a liar.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Sep 8 '11

The Massive Amount of Crap Left By Irene In New York’s Harbor

NASA has released this true-color satellite image of New York Harbor. It usually is full of crap, but this photo shows a lot more. All that vomiting green and brown you see? It’s the effect of Hurricane Irene. According to David Ralston, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: The sediment flux from Irene is really…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 8 '11

Take a Close Look at These 9/11 Artifacts

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, The Smithsonian is exhibiting its collection of recovered 9/11 items—in the open and close enough to touch (but please don’t). The Smithsonian Institute has assembled a collection of fifty artifacts—fragments of the downed aircraft, the door of an FDNY fire truck destroyed in the collapse, objects recovered from…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Sep 8 '11

See microscopic animals with a laser pointer

A simple laser pointer can help you see the tiny bugs that crawl around in liquid all the time. Will this make you appreciate the simple ways to see the richness of life? Or will you bleach everything you come in contact with? Try it and see! A laser doesn’t have to be powerful to…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 8 '11

Crazy Guy Puts Out a Fire With a Vacuum Cleaner

Do you know the one about the guy who tries to put out a fire with a bloody vacuum cleaner? Yes, me neither, because that’s fucking stupid, right? Well, it works. [YouTube via Oh Have You Seen This]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 8 '11

The Moon Like You Have Never Seen It Before

I’m absolutely fascinated by this new image of the Moon, showing a unique angle that you will never ever seen from Earth: its north pole! It’s a really strange perspective of such a familiar object. . This unique image was composed from 983 images taken over one month of the Moon’s northern summer, showing the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 8 '11

This warehouse is packed with Marty McFly’s futuristic sneakers — and you could own a pair

Great Scott! Nike is releasing the Nike Air Mag kicks, just as they were prominently displayed on the feet of Michael J Fox in the future vision of Back To The Future 2. Watch the glorious announcement right now. Just this year, Nike patented a rough design for a light-up shoe with built-in batteries that…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 8 '11

Is Our Lack of a Good Smart TV About to be Solved by… Chumby?

Last we heard of Chumby, it was getting all growed up with an 8-inch screen. But now our dear Wi-Fi widget hub’s been shot with the Godzilla ray or Rick Moranis or something, and its interface has been humongified to fit on your television. And that might be really good for the future of the…

Gadgets Kyle Wagner Sep 8 '11

This massive solar flare will make for dazzling northern lights

Things are getting pretty wild on the surface of the Sun. Our resident star is nearing the pinnacle of its 11-year cycle of solar activity, which is scheduled to climax in 2013. As it approaches peak activity, energetic flares — like the one pictured here — are expected to increase in both frequency and intensity.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Sep 8 '11

10 Crazy Things Viruses Do In Movies And Television

Shooting Challenge: Complementary Colors

Sony’s First Ever 4K Home Theater Projector Shoots Super Resolution for Super Cash

What the NYPD’s Impressive Counter Terrorism Unit Actually Does

Cuba’s Lung Cancer Vaccine Could Save Your Life

Advertising a Fake Craigslist Orgy at Your Neighbor’s House Is the Best Revenge

Google Just Bought Zagat, Making It the New King of Restaurant Ratings

How the Greenest Skyscraper Ever Is Rising Out of the Rubble of the World Trade Center

How to make a tank look like a cow in infrared

The Most Horrific Traffic in the Entire World

Amazon Staves Off the Tax Man for Another Year

Scientists can make you lie using magnets

The Massive Amount of Crap Left By Irene In New York’s Harbor

Take a Close Look at These 9/11 Artifacts

See microscopic animals with a laser pointer

Crazy Guy Puts Out a Fire With a Vacuum Cleaner

The Moon Like You Have Never Seen It Before

This warehouse is packed with Marty McFly’s futuristic sneakers — and you could own a pair

Is Our Lack of a Good Smart TV About to be Solved by… Chumby?

This massive solar flare will make for dazzling northern lights

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