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Water Slide Gallery

Amusement Park, Taiwan Somehow, this achieves the effect of tilt shift without it being so. Atlantis Resort, Bahamas 90 feet, straight down. Backyard waterslide simulator Big drop, Oakwood Lake – Manteca, CA Down the drain, Calypso Park, Ontario Gleneig, Adelaide, Australia Great Wolf Lodge Leo Lafleur, Kingston Ontario The Insano, Beach Park, Brazil The Tornado,…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Access Denied! 18 Places Google Maps Won’t Let You See

Google has always tried to keep a very open policy with the general public, but it can’t always be entirely forthcoming, as is the case with Google Maps. Google has very little say in what gets censored and what doesn’t, be it for personal privacy or national security. Finding censored objects on Google Maps isn’t…

Tech News Paul Escallier - Maximum PC

Ball Pit Turned into Levitating Rainbow Column

Okay, internet—I’m not going to let you break my heart again. I know this is almost certainly fake—the product of a CGI firm. But even so, it’s beautiful and amazing, and you can’t rob me of that. The video, by effects studio Physalia, shows a bag full of colorful balls brought to life by a…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Best Deal of the Day

Most Sci-Fi series are more than a little polarizing among the nerd community. One of the few exceptions is Firefly, which is well-loved across the ‘verse, and its too-short run is talked with the same oh-god-I-wish-there-was-more frenzy as Nevermind, Ready to Die or Rebel Without a Cause. If you’re a television imperialist like me, you’ve…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Vampires and Vampire Hunters: All the Coolest Fan Art and Cosplay!

Vampires! Is there anything sexier or more alluring? With Priest coming out tonight, and Vampire Diaries’ brain-shattering season finale still fresh in our minds, we had to celebrate all things vampiric. So we’ve collected a gallery of our favorite fan art and cosplay of vampires and vampire-slayers — from Buffy to Vlad the Impaler. Check…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta and Charlie Jane Anders

Patent Firm Attacks Apple’s Heart: Developers

How’s your Friday the 13th? It’s probably going better than James Thomson’s, whose legal woes are playing out in real time over Twitter today. James Thomson, the developer of PCalc and PCalc Lite, took to Twitter today to announce he’d gotten a legal nastrygram, threatening a patent infringement lawsuit for his use of in-app purchases.…

Tech News Mat Honan

Fright Night Trailer makes vampires scary again!

Watch the first trailer for the rebooted vampire staple Fright Night. So far we’re already seeing great upgrades (vampire Jerry locks ladies in his creepy prison) and a few nods to the original: the apple and the club seduction scene. Spoilers ahead… We don’t need our vampires to go full blown 30 Days of Night…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Another reason why cuttlefish are masters of disguise

Cuttlefish — by far the coolest of the cephalopods — are brilliant at camouflage, to the point where they’ll actually use their hands and body orientation to mimic objects around them. For the first time, we know that they are relying on visual cues to do so. Cuttlefish, like many animals, adjust their body’s pose…

io9 Tim Barribeau

If Fonts Were Dogs, Comic Sans Would Be a Whateverthef*uckthisis

Dogs. Fonts. Comic Sans. There’s no need to explain this poster, really. [Fuckyeahdementia based on Fineline Design]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

NOOK for Android Updated for Tablets

Barnes and Noble’s NOOK app for Android has been optimized for 7-inch and larger tablets to take advantage of the added real estate and high definition screens. The update also adds access to over 140 NOOK Newsstand titles, the largest selection of digital periodicals available to Android users. The update should make Android tablets more…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Osama Had a Large Stash of Digital Porn Movies at Home

According to US officials speaking on condition of anonymity, Osama bin Laden had a “fairly extensive” stash of “modern” high quality porn at his hideout in Abbottabad. But, if he didn’t have Internet, how did it get there? Most probably, one of Osama’s cronies sneaked the porn material into the house just like they sneaked…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

That dread you’re feeling is called paraskevidekatriaphobia

Do you fear Friday the 13th? Well, you’d better stay inside today and nurse your paraskevidekatriaphobia, which is the official term – derived from Greek – meaning “fear of Friday and thirteen.” Apparently the phobia was originally called friggatriskaidekaphobia, but that pissed off language nerds because it combined a Norse root (frigga, for Friday) with…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Sadistic Researcher Takes Glee in Smashing Robot Arm with Baseball Bat

The DLR Hand Arm System is perhaps the most advanced in the world. It’s also, thanks to artificial kevlar tendons, one of the strongest. So how do you test that out? Smash the shit out of it with a bat. The German arm’s incredibly design allows it to absorb and evenly distribute major shock while…

Tech News Sam Biddle

A New Star Trek Animated Series Coming to Television?

We’re huge fans of Star Trek: The Animated Series, which brought back the Original Series cast and writers and included some surprisingly great stories. So it’s good news that Roberto Orci tweeted that a new animated Trek could be materializing. Let’s just hope Lieutenant M’Ress, the awesome cat woman, makes a long-delayed reappearance. Rrrrowrr. [via…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Megan Ellison Wins the Terminator Movie Rights!

Indie film producer Megan Ellison has just bought the rights to the Terminator franchise. Annapurna Pictures (Ellison’s company) will team up with director Justin Lin and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Rumor has it they can make “at least two more” Terminator films, wrapping up the saga of Skynet, before the rights revert to James Cameron. [Deadline] https://gizmodo.com/can-indie-film-financier-megan-ellison-save-the-termina-5801274

io9 Meredith Woerner

Tron-Esque Curtains Not Only Cancel Out Noise, They Sample it in Cool Music Mixes For Your Speakers

These noise-cancelling curtains go a step further than the last drapes we saw, as they actually replace all the humdrum from outside with music. Music created from the honks of cars outside! https://gizmodo.com/this-curtain-is-super-effective-at-blocking-out-sounds-5798928 FutureAcoustic, the designers behind the “adaptive acoustic architecture” use sensors to detect the ambient noise filling the room, and then actually turn…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Syfy explains to fans why Stargate Universe couldn’t go on

Every since the announcement that Syfy was canceling Stargate Universe, the fans have been mighty pissed. And Syfy isn’t taking it lying down any longer. In a letter to Stargate fans everywhere the studio explains why SGU had to go. Craig Engler, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Syfy Digital, penned a letter over…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Sheex Performance Bed Sheets

You know those workout shirts that keep you cool and dry? Like from Under Armour and Nike? These Sheex “performance” bedsheets are made out of the same material. And they’re pretty much perfect for any type of activity you do in bed. PLUSSES Holy baby bottoms, these sheets are soft. You definitely feel the roots…

Reviews Casey Chan

Onkyo’s TX-NR809 Receiver Needlessly Upscales 1080p to 4K for $1,099

Just like with Onkyo’s HT-RC370 and HT-RC360 receivers, the TX-NR809 upscales to a resolution that’s only on a handful of ludicrously expensive TVs and projectors. You’ll be future-proofing yourself for a long, long, long, long, long time with this receiver. https://gizmodo.com/this-receiver-is-so-future-proofed-it-wont-work-with-a-5788666 You can check out all the details below in the release, or comb through…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Never Has a Comet Died So Spectacularly

Once in a while, a comet hits the Sun and our star goes all nomnomnom on it. SOHO—NASA’s Solar & Heliospheric Observatory—has captured a few, but never so spectacularly as in this video, recorded over last Tuesday and Wednesday. These comets are called sungrazers, and 90% of them come from the Kreutz comet group, a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Water Slide Gallery

Access Denied! 18 Places Google Maps Won’t Let You See

Ball Pit Turned into Levitating Rainbow Column

The Best Deal of the Day

Vampires and Vampire Hunters: All the Coolest Fan Art and Cosplay!

Patent Firm Attacks Apple’s Heart: Developers

Fright Night Trailer makes vampires scary again!

Another reason why cuttlefish are masters of disguise

If Fonts Were Dogs, Comic Sans Would Be a Whateverthef*uckthisis

NOOK for Android Updated for Tablets

Osama Had a Large Stash of Digital Porn Movies at Home

That dread you’re feeling is called paraskevidekatriaphobia

Sadistic Researcher Takes Glee in Smashing Robot Arm with Baseball Bat

A New Star Trek Animated Series Coming to Television?

Megan Ellison Wins the Terminator Movie Rights!

Tron-Esque Curtains Not Only Cancel Out Noise, They Sample it in Cool Music Mixes For Your Speakers

Syfy explains to fans why Stargate Universe couldn’t go on

Sheex Performance Bed Sheets

Onkyo’s TX-NR809 Receiver Needlessly Upscales 1080p to 4K for $1,099

Never Has a Comet Died So Spectacularly

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