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Express Your Abstract Side With Sktch for iOS

Everyone and their brother has downloaded a brushes-based drawing app for their iPad. Those apps are fine, but if you’re looking for a something outside the box, you need to check out Sktch. Sktch was designed by several digital artists and published by CreativeApplications.Net. It includes 16 presets that let you draw circles, meshes or…

Tech News Kelly Jul 19 '11

Grab This Swiss Army USB Drive and Waltz Your Way Through TSA Screens

Few would deny that a Victorinox Swiss Army Knife looks cool. But not everyone is a fan of the great outdoors and needs one. Until now. Victorinox is now shipping its classic Swiss Army knife sans the knife part. This geek tool includes a single or double-blade USB drive enclosed in a waterproof and shock-resistant…

Tech News Kelly Jul 19 '11

Scientists Genetically Engineer Mice With Super Endurance

How do you build a mouse that can run six-times farther than its average bretheren? Take away all its fast-twitch muscle fiber, along with its ability to contract its muscles. According to ScienceNow, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found the gene receptor that controls the protein responsible for muscle contraction. When they engineered mice…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jul 19 '11

Kaleidescape M700 Disc Vault Is a $6,000 Media Jukebox

DVDs, CDs and Blue-Ray discs are a royal pain. They take up space, are difficult to organize and time consuming to rip. This why we need the Kaleidescape M700 Disc Vault, a 320-disc monster that organizes your collection for you. The M700 accepts your CDs and DVDs and copies their content to its internal file…

Gadgets Kelly Jul 19 '11

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle Your Way To a Faster Computer

Bet you didn’t know that half the files on your computer have not been used since the day they were created. And the answer to getting rid of them efficiently can be found in your garbage can. According to researchers from Johns Hopkins, you don’t need some fancy computer file management tool. You just need…

Tech News Kelly Jul 19 '11

io9 Roundup: July 19, 2011

FEARSOME PREDATOR | Baroth fan art by PE Travers on Deviant Art. https://gizmodo.com/our-hominid-ancestors-were-walking-like-us-nearly-4-mil-5822517 Our hominid ancestors were walking like us nearly 4 million years ago One of the most basic differences separating us from other apes is our ability to walk fully upright, and that goes back to the emergence of the Homo genus 1.9…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 19 '11

Get the Thoughtfulness of Snail Mail With None of the Effort

Some folks can’t embrace this digital world. They cling to snail mail and painstakingly write letters that most netizens don’t have the attention span to read, never mind respond. Don’t ignore these dinosaurs, use Snail Mail My Email instead. Snail Mail My Email is a month-long art project by designer Ivan Cash. Cash and his…

Tech News Kelly Jul 19 '11

A ghost town in Cyprus, untouched by humans for 37 years

In 1974, the Cypriot capital of Nicosia was divided in two by a U.N. Buffer Zone designed to quell violence between the island’s Greek and Turkish populations. Those living in the Zone quickly evacuated the area, creating an urban time capsule that’s been devoid of residents for nearly 40 years. These photos were taken by…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 19 '11

A Really Nice Moment of Warmth and Irony from Last Night’s Warehouse 13

This is how you do character development, people. This moment from last night’s Warehouse 13 managed to stack a few clever bits on top of each other, while staying true to the characters — and yanking the narrative rug from under us. Last night’s episode managed to fit in some real character development for all…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 19 '11

Was Dwyane Wade Hacked By Angry Mavericks Fans?

NBA star Dwyane Wade is headed to Texas — no, he’s not going to apologize sheepishly to Maverick’s star Dirk Nowitzki. He’s traveling to the Lone Star State to testify in a hacking case. https://deadspin.com/heres-lebron-james-and-dwyane-wade-mocking-dirk-nowitzk-5810707 For the last five years, Wade has been under attack from hackers that live in Texas. These unidentified perps reportedly…

Tech News Kelly Jul 19 '11

NYC Commuters Will Soon Be Getting Microwaved

Getting caught in traffic sucks for everyone. So New York City Mayor Bloomberg and his crack team of engineers are working on a way to both monitor traffic and get you moving, involving more cameras and a lot of microwaves. The new initiative is called “Midtown in Motion,” and will cover 42nd to 57th Street…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 19 '11

Our hominid ancestors were walking like us nearly 4 million years ago

One of the most basic differences separating us from other apes is our ability to walk fully upright, and that goes back to the emergence of the Homo genus 1.9 million years ago. At least…that’s what we used to think. The human gait is unique not just in the fact that we walk fully upright…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 19 '11

Stainless Steel Just Earned the Germ-Free Achievement

Researchers at the University of Birmingham have successfully managed to create antibacterial stainless steel. By introducing silver, nitrogen, and carbon to the surface of the metal, it not only wards off germs but is resistant to wear and tear. The scientists hope that this new-and-improved steel will be quickly adopted by doctors and surgeons. Might…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 19 '11

The Beastie Boys’ epic 11-minute music video pits G.I. Joes against zombies

Here’s something for all your Supermarionation fans out there. Longtime Beastie Boy collaborator and Being John Malkovich director Spike Jonze has directed 11 minutes worth of action figures teaming up with the Abominable Snowman to battle a vast anti-Beastie Boy conspiracy. Also, the undead show up for reasons unexplained. It’s like if your childhood home…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 19 '11

Baby Monkey Playing With an iPhone Is the Cutest Video You’ll See Today

I love monkeys and I love this cute video of Nala, a baby Capuchin who seems to be fascinated by a game called Lucky Coins on an iPhone. [YouTube, Thanks Karl and Vinnie Vici!] https://gizmodo.com/monkey-island-2-is-what-all-ipad-gaming-should-be-5584814

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 19 '11

These Stools Were Made Using Explosions

These stools, called Blast Stools by Guy Mishaly, look like scrunched up wads of paper. Why is that? Because the stools take their odd and wrinkled shape from being blasted with explosives. That’s right, they’re made with explosives. Mishaly shapes a steel model (usually a cylinder or cube shape) and then straps some explosives to…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 19 '11

What Got Cut from the Final Harry Potter Movie? And What New Scenes Were Added?

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 went out with a blinding magical explosion. But why did director David Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves choose to make so many changes from J.K. Rowling’s book? And how did these changes make the story different? We talked to Yates and Kloves, and found out about the…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 19 '11

Gym Genie for iPhone and Android: Time to Get in Shape Fatboy

For most people, working out at the gym isn’t fun. But that’s because you don’t know what to do. Gym Genie shows you exactly how and what exercises to do (in video) so you have no more excuses. What’s it do? It’s a fitness app that does everything but hold your hand when you work…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 19 '11

Watch British News Baffled by Mysterious ‘Louise Boat’ Hackers

The only thing more embarrassing than the media awkwardly defining “lulz” like a sex ed teacher explaining blowjobs is mistaking LulzSec for an enigmatic woman named Louise. Who apparently has some sort of boat. It’s a “hacking thing,” you see. https://gizmodo.com/the-medias-awkward-attempts-explaining-what-the-hell-lu-5814889 The shockingly clueless team at Sky News scratched their heads as they watched The…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 19 '11

Express Your Abstract Side With Sktch for iOS

Grab This Swiss Army USB Drive and Waltz Your Way Through TSA Screens

Scientists Genetically Engineer Mice With Super Endurance

Kaleidescape M700 Disc Vault Is a $6,000 Media Jukebox

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle Your Way To a Faster Computer

io9 Roundup: July 19, 2011

Get the Thoughtfulness of Snail Mail With None of the Effort

A ghost town in Cyprus, untouched by humans for 37 years

A Really Nice Moment of Warmth and Irony from Last Night’s Warehouse 13

Was Dwyane Wade Hacked By Angry Mavericks Fans?

Top Stories: Tuesday July 19, 2011

NYC Commuters Will Soon Be Getting Microwaved

Our hominid ancestors were walking like us nearly 4 million years ago

Stainless Steel Just Earned the Germ-Free Achievement

The Beastie Boys’ epic 11-minute music video pits G.I. Joes against zombies

Baby Monkey Playing With an iPhone Is the Cutest Video You’ll See Today

These Stools Were Made Using Explosions

What Got Cut from the Final Harry Potter Movie? And What New Scenes Were Added?

Gym Genie for iPhone and Android: Time to Get in Shape Fatboy

Watch British News Baffled by Mysterious ‘Louise Boat’ Hackers

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