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How Many of You Really Think There Are Aliens On Earth?

People love aliens. It’s a fact. But it’s one thing for them to be beyond the farthest reaches of the galaxy and another for them to live next door. So GOOD and Column Five Media created this graphic to illustrate just how many people believe aliens walk among us. According to a survey conducted by…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 9 '11

Yes, This is a Flame-Shooting Russian “Duckmobile”

What has three wheels, looks like a duck and shoots flames out of its head? The bizarre Russian art car you see here and absolutely nothing else in the entire world. [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/flame-shooting-russian-duck-car-is-not-your-average-du-5819610/

Tech News Apisuper Jul 9 '11

The Lizard Man is terrorizing South Carolina again

In 1988, Bishopville, South Carolina fell under the thrall of a dark and handsome Lizard Man. After being out of the limelight for 20+ years, the Lizard Man’s returned to carve up random automobiles and shards of metal. Local news anchors were on hand to welcome his scaly excellence. Don’t call it a comeback! [WLTX…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 9 '11

Taiwan’s funeral strippers dance for a dead crowd

Should you meet your demise in Taiwan, a funerary option open to you is the Electric Flower Car (EFC), a wheeled, neon-lit platform upon which pulchritudinous women strip down to their skivvies for the benefit of audiences…both living and deceased. We spoke with University of South Carolina anthropologist Marc L. Moskowitz about this practice, which…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 9 '11

Watch the Slingshot Master Fire iPhones With Sheer Joy

Our favorite mad slingshot expert, Joerg Sprave, recently said to himself, “What the hell? I’m gonna shoot iPhones at stuff!” Because that’s the dream, people. What a guy. https://gizmodo.com/watch-the-insane-slingshot-god-get-medieval-5811714 What he does is basically what anyone would do with a giant slingshot and two older iPhones: He fires them into the sky, into walls, and…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 9 '11

The entire plot of Harry Potter on a single poster

Cartoonist Lucy Knisley has finished her Harry Potter poster project, summarizing the series in eight comic posters poking loving fun at the books. She’s also amassed one mega-poster with the entire synopsis. Behold the “Sumharry!” We showed you the first two posters in Knisley’s series last fall when she launched the poster project. Now Knisley…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Jul 9 '11

Watch Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle Explain QR Codes On MSNBC

Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle appeared on MSNBC on Saturday July 9, 2011 to talk about QR Codes with anchor Alex Witt. Watch the clip above. For media requests please contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].

Tech News Scott Kidder Jul 9 '11

Automatic streetlamps switch on when cars pass, switch off when traffic ceases

In a huge city, lighting the streets is a necessary but pricey precaution. Pedestrians and motorists are no doubt safer when streetlamps, not just car headlights, illuminate roadways and sidewalks – but streetlamps are expensive and inefficient to run. A prototype system that turns the lights on and off depending on traffic could save money…

io9 Rebecca Boyle - Popular Science Jul 9 '11

The Vol Is for Tweak-Happy Audiophiles

The Vol portable speaker is like if designer Hironao Tsuboi plucked the dial from your dad’s old hi-fi and stuck the sound inside it. Crafted out of aluminum and made to be lightweight, you’d want to take these anywhere. And they’re so sleek and small, measuring at 2.2 inches across and 1.4 inches high. I’d…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 9 '11

Jaws are very ancient, and possibly unnecessary

About 420 million years ago, fish evolved jaws. 99% of vertebrates still have them — including humans — but they may not be a very useful adaptation. New research published this week shows that the arrival of jaws didn’t give any particular advantage over other fish, and that the design remains fundamentally unchanged since the…

io9 Tim Barribeau Jul 9 '11

Travel the multiverse with “Curvy,” meet interesting people, and have sex with them

Webcomic Curvy is a romp through a gimmick-laden multiverse of erotica. The protagonist Anais travels to strange worlds with the licorice-flavored princess named Fauna and encounters candy tentacles, transspecies pirates, human furniture, and some literal sexual healing. Curvy (NSFW, on just about every page) uses the video game premise that the multiverse is filled with…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Jul 9 '11

Nevermind Obama – Vote Anonymous in 2012

LulzSec may have been in it for the laughs, but Anonymous has always claimed that its hack attacks and DDoS bombs are designed to push forward a liberating social agenda. “Hooey,” you might say, “What about that time Anonymous harassed that kid with the No Cussing Club?” and we’d have no option but to nod…

Tech News Brad Chacos - Maximum PC Jul 9 '11

A Giant House Filled with Hammocks to Hang Out In. Don’t Mind the Boobs Tower

Sometimes I think the Europeans know how to live. In Vienna, Austria they’ve created a gigantic 5-story “hangout spot” complete with hammocks to sprawl out in. The best part is the view. It’s a gigantic Tower of Boobs. Seems like a nice place to hang. Except that it’d probably be run down with vagrants in…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 8 '11

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Patton Oswalt Goes Crabwalkin’

In the briefest top comedy video yet, Patton Oswalt goes for a good ol’ fashioned crabwalk, and gets hit with the oldest punchline (kickline?) in the books. I read Shouts and Murmurs and all, but a good swift kick to the dinglebits remains mankind’s finest comedic achievement. The rest of this week’s top web comedy…

Tech News Splitsider Jul 8 '11

io9 Roundup: July 8, 2011

FINAL JOURNEY | The Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off on its final mission to the final frontier. https://gizmodo.com/lets-light-this-fire-one-more-time-the-space-shuttle-5819426 With Miracle Day, Torchwood becomes first-rate science fiction about ideas https://gizmodo.com/with-miracle-day-torchwood-becomes-first-rate-science-5819599 There’s seldom been an hour of television that brought up as many fascinating ideas about the nature of humanity as Torchwood: Miracle Day’s first episode, which…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8 '11

Army Uses Radar to Spot Suicide Bombers From 100 Yards

The security at Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel wasn’t nearly enough to stop nine suicide bombers from setting the place ablaze and killing 12 people last month. But the U.S. military thinks it can do better – by spotting treacherous individuals before they get close enough to cause serious harm. Meet the CounterBomber. The Army just awarded…

Tech News Lena Groeger - Wired Jul 8 '11

With Miracle Day, Torchwood becomes first-rate science fiction about ideas

There’s seldom been an hour of television that brought up as many fascinating ideas about the nature of humanity as Torchwood: Miracle Day’s first episode, which just aired. Russell T. Davies may have hit on his most fertile premise yet. The previous Torchwood miniseries, Children of Earth, had a darkly sardonic premise that could almost…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8 '11

Meat, Machines, Music, More Meat

This is how your sausage and burgers and jerkies and other meats are made, set to weirdly hypnotic-but-unnerving music that I’m pretty sure turns it all into a social commentary about industrialization and socieity and our lives and meat. [BoingBoing via Eater]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 8 '11

Concrete Speakers Sound Solid

Concrete isn’t usually associated with elegance and beauty but Israeli designer Shmuel Linski wants to change that. His “Exposed” concrete speakers are the latest in a series of high-end concrete product concepts. https://gizmodo.com/concrete-espresso-machine-would-probably-be-difficult-t-5598747 It is worth pointing out that concrete is an awful medium for making traditional speakers. Its stiffness distorts any sound it comes…

Tech News Michael Zhao Jul 8 '11

How Many of You Really Think There Are Aliens On Earth?

Yes, This is a Flame-Shooting Russian “Duckmobile”

The Lizard Man is terrorizing South Carolina again

Taiwan’s funeral strippers dance for a dead crowd

Watch the Slingshot Master Fire iPhones With Sheer Joy

The entire plot of Harry Potter on a single poster

Watch Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle Explain QR Codes On MSNBC

Automatic streetlamps switch on when cars pass, switch off when traffic ceases

The Vol Is for Tweak-Happy Audiophiles

Jaws are very ancient, and possibly unnecessary

Travel the multiverse with “Curvy,” meet interesting people, and have sex with them

Nevermind Obama – Vote Anonymous in 2012

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A Giant House Filled with Hammocks to Hang Out In. Don’t Mind the Boobs Tower

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Patton Oswalt Goes Crabwalkin’

io9 Roundup: July 8, 2011

Army Uses Radar to Spot Suicide Bombers From 100 Yards

With Miracle Day, Torchwood becomes first-rate science fiction about ideas

Meat, Machines, Music, More Meat

Concrete Speakers Sound Solid

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