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Full-Size Lego Gears of Wars Assault Rifle Fires Stinging Rubberbands

Without a doubt, this is the nerdiest, coolest Lego weapons ever created: a fully functional replica of the Lancer Assault Rifle from Gears of Wars. One that fires rubberbands. For real. The video shows how it works. It’s not only perfectly designed but so ingenious that watching how he did it all made me giggle…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 30 '11

Fewer asteroids are menacing Earth than we thought — and we know where 90 percent of them are

NASA recently repurposed a satellite called WISE that had completed its mission with all instruments intact and quite a bit of fuel. Renaming the mission NEOWISE, the space agency gave the satellite a new job: map the entire volume of space in the vicinity of Earth’s orbit around the sun, looking for every possible rock,…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 30 '11

The Original Kindle Was So Fugly Because of the BlackBerry

Looking back at the Kindle’s history, that original Kindle was pretty rip your eyes out ugly, huh? An odd shape with quirky buttons and even stranger scroll wheel…God who thought of that? Apparently, RIM. Jeff Bezos loved his Blackberry so much he based the Kindle’s design off of his favorite gadget. https://gizmodo.com/the-history-of-amazons-kindle-so-far-5844662 A hardware designer…

Commerce Casey Chan Sep 30 '11

Dream House is two bad movies for the price of one

Dream House is one of those rare movies that proves a work of art can be worse than the sum of its parts. Of course, the parts of Dream House aren’t very good to begin with: half supernatural haunting story, and half psychological whodunit, it’s a Frankenmovie that can’t figure out what to do with…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 30 '11

Watch a 29-year-old deaf woman hear her own voice for the first time

From sloanchurman: “I was born deaf and 8 weeks ago I received a hearing implant. This is the video of them turning it on and me hearing myself for the first time :)”. Amazing. [via BoingBoing]

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 30 '11

How I Was Nearly Seduced by Grouper, the Biggest Sham in Online Dating (Updated)

A month ago, I was approached by Jerry Guo, ostensible Silicon Alley wunderkind who’d turned $400 in transit money into Grouper, a profitable dating startup. He guaranteed me a great time with “3 real girls.” Update: Guo apologizes (sorta) http://gawker.com/5844406/let-an-infamous-media-liar-set-you-up-on-a-group-blind-date The whole site’s a lie. I was interested in the idea of a group date,…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 30 '11

Leaked Nokia Windows Phone Sounds As Awesome As We Hoped with Curved AMOLED Display and 3D Navigation

T-Mobile Germany briefly displayed a poster of an unannounced Nokia Windows Phone. From it we’ve learned that in addition to having Nokia’s Drive navigation system, the phone will also feature a 3.7-inch curved AMOLED display. WinRumors was sent photos of the poster before it was pulled by T-Mobile Germany. The unannounced phone will ship with…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Sep 30 '11

10 Crazy Science Experiments That Wound Up In Your Kitchen

Comfort food wasn’t always the old-fashioned, reliable thing that we consider it now. At one time, many food items that we now wolf down without a thought were once unbelievable breakthroughs in technology, science, or sophistication. Here are the most delicious discoveries that you’ve already eaten. 10. Baking powder was a labor of love and…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 30 '11

Richard Kadrey twists the unholy knife, in a brand new excerpt from the third Sandman Slim novel

Your favorite tourguide to Hell and the supernatural underbelly of Los Angeles, Richard Kadrey, is coming back Oct. 18, with a third installment in the Sandman Slim series, Aloha from Hell. Here’s your exclusive first look at the “Studio City” chapter, where Stark sees the aftermath of an exorcism gone wrong. Spoilers ahead… Studio City…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 30 '11

Chicago’s Stickney Wastewater Treatment Plant Is the Crappiest Place on Earth

Chicago and its outlying suburbs create 1.5 billion gallons of wastewater every day. Since this isn’t the 1880s anymore and you can’t just let the effluence run back into Lake Michigan, you’ve got to clean it. Here. At the biggest wastewater treatment plant on Earth. The Stickney Water Reclamation Plant is located on 570 acres…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Sep 30 '11

Why Wait? The World’s First iPhone 5* Review

What’s the point of waiting for the same few people to write the same single glowing review of Apple’s new phone? There is none. So we didn’t. We had our intern make a mock-up of the new phone using specs from the leaked cases; we found other devices that made use of some of the…

Reviews Sam Biddle Sep 30 '11

The Secret Tobacco Companies Don’t Want You to Know: There’s Radiation Inside Cigarettes

Rat poison. Lighter fluid. Battery acid. Pesticides. And now…radiation. What do they all have in common? They’re all rolled into one cancer causing cigarette. What’s worse, tobacco companies have known that radiation was inside cigarettes but hid evidence of it for 4 decades. The radioactive substance found in cigarettes is polonium-210, a radioactive material that…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 30 '11

How Microsoft and Kaspersky Labs Neutralized a Spam Botnet

Botnets are feared not only for what they can do, but also for their resiliant nature (they’re virtually impossible to completely disband). Still, Microsoft and Kaspersky Labs teamed up recently to foil a particularly malevolent botnet called Kelihos. Here’s how. https://gizmodo.com/theres-a-botnet-called-tdl-4-thats-virtually-indestruct-5817261 Kelihos is a botnet that, at its peak, was sending 4 billion spam messages…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 30 '11

Farewell to one of the greatest physics experiments of all time

When Fermilab’s Tevatron came online in 1983, it was the most powerful particle accelerator in the world. Since then, the collider has made countless contributions to the field of particle physics — the most notable being its role in the 1995 discovery of the top quark, the last of the six quarks in the Standard…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Sep 30 '11

New Mortal Kombat movie will be “darker and grittier,” promises director

Now that the Mortal Kombat: Legacy webseries has become a huge hit, and the latest MK game has sold 3 million copies, Warner Bros. and New Line have greenlit a new Mortal Kombat film — which everybody is helping will make you forget the 1990s outings. Kevin Tancharoen, who created the original Internet-breaking Mortal Kombat…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 30 '11

Clothing can influence your perception of race

It turns out that something as simple as the clothes you wear can have a profound effect on how people see you, right down to what ethnicity you are. A newly published study chronicled an experiment where social scientists showed subjects pictures of faces that varied between different tones and ethnicities, either paired with a…

io9 Tim Barribeau Sep 30 '11

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 Plus Is Amazing…ly Similar to All of Samsung’s Other Tabs

Two things to be gleaned here. 1) Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab 7 Plus is almost exactly like the 10.1, 8.9 and 7.7 tabs. 2) If you bought a first generation Galaxy Tab 7 and hoped for Honeycomb, you’re probably screwed. Basically, here are the differences between this and the Galaxy 10.1 or the Galaxy 8.9.…

Tech News Brent Rose Sep 30 '11

Hundreds of thousands of Brits fall for online dating scam

At this point, most of us know how to avoid Nigerian scams in our email. But a far more insidious scam seems to have hit Britain far harder than we ever thought — by targeting the dateless and lonely. It’s a far simpler scam than convincing someone that you’re a deposed millionaire princeling who needs…

io9 Tim Barribeau Sep 30 '11

AlphaDog Is the New Generation of the Creepiest Robot Ever

This is AlphaDog, the next generation of BigDog, the creepiest and most awesome quadruped robot of all time. The damn thing is now smarter and can stand up on its own when it’s down. Like a real horse. https://gizmodo.com/yes-bigdog-is-still-the-creepiest-most-awesome-robot-5842856 Which is exactly what it looks and sounds like. A robotic, creepy version of a horse…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 30 '11

Marvel’s next 5 movies after The Avengers could include some weird surprises

What’s Marvel got planned after their huge, $220 million Avengers flick? We guarantee you’re not expecting a couple of the movies that Marvel has up its sleeve for 2013 and beyond. Check out Marvel’s weird choices for post-Avengers movies. Tucked away in the Avengers feature in this weeks Entertainment Weekly is a brief run-down of…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 30 '11

Full-Size Lego Gears of Wars Assault Rifle Fires Stinging Rubberbands

Fewer asteroids are menacing Earth than we thought — and we know where 90 percent of them are

The Original Kindle Was So Fugly Because of the BlackBerry

Dream House is two bad movies for the price of one

Watch a 29-year-old deaf woman hear her own voice for the first time

How I Was Nearly Seduced by Grouper, the Biggest Sham in Online Dating (Updated)

Leaked Nokia Windows Phone Sounds As Awesome As We Hoped with Curved AMOLED Display and 3D Navigation

10 Crazy Science Experiments That Wound Up In Your Kitchen

Richard Kadrey twists the unholy knife, in a brand new excerpt from the third Sandman Slim novel

Chicago’s Stickney Wastewater Treatment Plant Is the Crappiest Place on Earth

Why Wait? The World’s First iPhone 5* Review

The Secret Tobacco Companies Don’t Want You to Know: There’s Radiation Inside Cigarettes

How Microsoft and Kaspersky Labs Neutralized a Spam Botnet

Farewell to one of the greatest physics experiments of all time

New Mortal Kombat movie will be “darker and grittier,” promises director

Clothing can influence your perception of race

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 Plus Is Amazing…ly Similar to All of Samsung’s Other Tabs

Hundreds of thousands of Brits fall for online dating scam

AlphaDog Is the New Generation of the Creepiest Robot Ever

Marvel’s next 5 movies after The Avengers could include some weird surprises

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