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The Fiskars X17 Splitting Axe The X17 in its sheat. Note the handy carring handle The X17 removed from its sheath The head of the X17. The X17’s hollow handle The X17 Sheath Two logs what I done cut. Two logs what I done cut. Now in “Blurry Vision” The X17 in action The Results…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Improv Everywhere Enlivens the Dreariest Place on Earth

My goodness, is there anything more joyless than a social media conference? Well, okay, probably yes if you’re the type of person to take things hyper-literally. But! For the rest of us, Improv Everywhere’s mischievous band of insta-musical revelers couldn’t have picked a better target than Gel 2011. Okay, in fairness, Gel and Improv Everywhere…

Tech News Brian Barrett

This Is What We (Ridiculously) Thought Osama Was Hiding in Ten Years Ago

We caught and shot Osama bin Laden in a rundown, decrepit compound, lacking any direct contact with the outside world. But in 2001, the Times of London (and the Pentagon) thought he was living in a comic villain’s super fortress. The absurd graphic, birthed from rumors stacked upon rumors originating with a former Russian soldier,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

WatchESPN Now Streams ESPN to Android Too

WatchESPN, which recently released for the iPhone, has now made its way over to Android. It carries the same awesomeness: live streaming of ESPN channels to your phone but sadly, the same stipulations too: you have to be a subscriber to Time Warner Cable, Verizon FiOS TV and Bright House Networks to enjoy the streaming…

Tech News Casey Chan

Manga’s Greatest Apocalypses

From earthquakes to slime molds, from zombies to the romance of decay, here are the manga you’ll want to read to prepare for the End of Days. “Visions of world cataclysm constitute one of the most powerful and most mysterious of all the categories of science fiction,” wrote J.G. Ballard, apocalyptic sci-fi writer extraordinaire, in…

io9 Jason Thompson

YouTube Is Now Your Newest Movie Rental Store (Updated)

While we’ve been enjoying Apple’s and Netflix’s strong and extensive streaming movie libraries, YouTube’s been plotting a little jugular strike, sucking the streaming juice with a movie service of its own. Today, it’s real. https://gizmodo.com/mainstream-movie-rentals-are-coming-to-youtube-legall-5795858 Although they don’t have the numbers rolled out yet, the addition of major studio titles to YouTube’s currently laughable stable…

Movies Sam Biddle

Turn the Volume Up To Eleven

Want to win a pair of wicked sweet AE2 audio headphones from Bose? What? WHAT?? Oh, sorry. We we wearing our pair of wicked sweet AE2 audio headphones from Bose. Take this quick survey, email the last question to [email protected] with “Bose Headphone Contest” as the subject line, and you could win the new Slipknot…

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V750 Unmanned Helicopter Can Rival US Counterparts

Shiny and purple. It may look like a baddy chopper from an 80s TV movie made in a Foxconn factory, but it’s China’s latest flying machine, the V750. And it means the Chinese’s aerospace industry is maturing dangerously quickly. At least for the liking of the United States’ defense companies, who are seeing how the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Neil Gaiman’s Doctor Who story might help convert all your friends to Who fandom

It’s finally here: award-winning author Neil Gaiman’s episode of Doctor Who is airing this weekend. We’ve seen it, and here’s our absolutely spoiler-free review. And when we say spoiler-free, we really mean spoiler-free. There will be no details below — beyond vague generalizations. We’re assuming you haven’t even watched the “next time” trailer. With that…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Google’s Been Bullying Android Developers

Google uses Android compatibility standards to suppress fast-rising developers. At least that’s what the latest court docs say in the lawsuit between the Skyhook (who specialize in location-based services) and the Big G. The allegation coming from Skyhook, according to the New York Times, is that Google manipulates Android compatibility standards to prevent App developers…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The Best Deal of the Day

Oh Christ, not again. The bears are back. The bears are back and I’m trapped in this truck, saving my 45 minute documentary on pine trees. Kingdom: Plantae. Division: Pinophyta. Class: Pinopsida. Order: Pinales. Family: Pinaceae. Genus: Pinus. These bears, oh no. Oh no. They smelled my ham sandwich. Or maybe it was the ice…

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Save yourself the teeth-gnashing and watch the Star Wars prequels in 2.5 minutes in Lego

After condensing the original trilogy into 133 seconds, YouTuber dzine123 has smushed The Phantom Something or Other, Attack of that Thing, and Revenge of the Whatsit into 141 seconds of stop-motion Lego animation. The explanation of Midi-chlorians is fairly on-point. [Via Topless Robot]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

NYU Film Student Fraud Plagiarizes His Way to Kickstarter Fame (Updated)

Kickstarter’s great! People with neat ideas can show off their concept, win over online backers, and move their brain gems into the real world. Or, they can plagiarize someone else’s cool idea and earn money (and an award). Uhhh. NYU junior film student Matias Shimada did just that, completely ripping off the premise—at some points…

Movies Sam Biddle

10 works of science fiction that are really fantasy

The boundaries between science fiction and fantasy have always been permeable, but sometimes there’s a story that feels just like scifi – until you think about it a little bit. And you realize it’s pure fantasy. Here is a handy definition of fantasy, from the venerable Encyclopedia of Fantasy: When set in this world, it…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Drones fly in formation à la a miniature robotic Top Gun

We’ve seen the zippy quadrotors of UPenn’s GRASP lab build structures autonomously. Now watch them take cues from a leader and fly as a unit. 50% of the time, the drones hover within 2 centimeters of their correct position. https://gizmodo.com/watch-a-swarm-of-flying-robotic-drones-construct-a-tiny-5734564 [Via IEEE]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Five Cutting-Edge Buildings From Google’s New Campus Architects

Google finally decided they’ve outgrown the Googleplex and tossed $30 million at the city of Mountain View for some space to build a new 10-acre campus. Who’s gonna design it? Ingenhoven, one of Germany’s biggest architectural firms. Little is known about what the future campus will look like, but the San Jose Mercury News says…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Playboy Pervs Up Your iPad May 18th

While it’s not an uncensored app like we once thought, Playboy’s iPad-optimized website now has an official release date and price. According to Hugh Hefner’s (surprisingly active!) Twitter account, i.Playboy.com will launch May 18th for $8 per month. That’s the only new information we’ve got so far, but as a quick reminder: that subscription-based website…

Tech News Brian Barrett

7 new Falling Skies videos introduce the last humans left alive on Earth

We’ve got two new clips from Falling Skies, and a gaggle of character profiles that help flesh out the only human survivors on TNT’s new alien attack drama. Falling Skies tells the story of the aftermath of an alien invasion; It follows a group of survivors who must band together in order to fight back…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Latest “World’s Largest 3DTV” Crown-Wearer Is Samsung, at 75 Inches

Samsung has a 3DTV that’s almost as wide as the average bent-knee, platform shoe-wearing young Korean woman. That’s big! 75-inches diagonally, in fact. The D9500 Smart TV will be propping up Korean walls first, and US walls from August for around $13,000. You’ve got to feel sorry for LG and all those 72-inch 3DTVs they’ve…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Immigrant Smugglers Using SMS to Avoid Capture

The path across the border from Mexico is a treacherous, often deadly one. To avoid capture, many paid guides are giving groups of northbound illegal immigrants some tech-omniscience—SMS recon, aimed at helping avoid US patrols and other dangers. Messages like “Things are hot up ahead. Take cover in the bushes,” the New York Times reports,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

x17 lightning gallery

Improv Everywhere Enlivens the Dreariest Place on Earth

This Is What We (Ridiculously) Thought Osama Was Hiding in Ten Years Ago

WatchESPN Now Streams ESPN to Android Too

Manga’s Greatest Apocalypses

YouTube Is Now Your Newest Movie Rental Store (Updated)

Turn the Volume Up To Eleven

V750 Unmanned Helicopter Can Rival US Counterparts

Neil Gaiman’s Doctor Who story might help convert all your friends to Who fandom

Google’s Been Bullying Android Developers

The Best Deal of the Day

Save yourself the teeth-gnashing and watch the Star Wars prequels in 2.5 minutes in Lego

NYU Film Student Fraud Plagiarizes His Way to Kickstarter Fame (Updated)

10 works of science fiction that are really fantasy

Drones fly in formation à la a miniature robotic Top Gun

Five Cutting-Edge Buildings From Google’s New Campus Architects

Playboy Pervs Up Your iPad May 18th

7 new Falling Skies videos introduce the last humans left alive on Earth

The Latest “World’s Largest 3DTV” Crown-Wearer Is Samsung, at 75 Inches

Immigrant Smugglers Using SMS to Avoid Capture

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