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This Mousepad Never Wears Out

Say what you will about the silliness of gaming mousepads, but Razer’s new Goliathus has a serious selling point: A new textured weave and anti-fraying stitched frame allows you to tear ass without tearing up your mousepad. The smaller pad starts at $15, and they go up to $25 for larger surfaces. [Razer]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Does gravity make antimatter fall up instead of down?

This seems like a straightforward enough question, but we actually have no idea whether gravity repels or attracts antimatter, all because we’ve never actually managed to trap enough antimatter at once to test it. That may be about to change. The big breakthrough comes from CERN’s Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (or ALPHA), who just announced…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Is this the best UFO footage ever, or just some windmills, towers, and other flickery things?

This video of a UFO hovering over Lake Erie has been burning up the interwebs for months. It shows a lovely sunset over the lake, followed by a strange flickering light hovering in perfect stillness over the clouds. Could it be that aliens love the Canadian border so much that they just hang out there…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Sprint’s Google Voice Integration Is Live

Hey! For all five of you out there who use Sprint (just like me!!!), Google voice integration is now live. That means you can route all your ingoing/outgoing calls through Google’s system without having to use special software. To make things easy, your Sprint or Google Voice number can be the one which controls everything…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Game over man! Every one of Hudson’s lines from Aliens

Now this is a supercut I can get behind. And now — for no reason other than the fact that Bill Paxton is awesome — here’s every single one of Hudson’s lines from Aliens back-to-back. Enjoy. [Pmiglio’s YouTube via Reddit]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

A Barking Bearded Man, His Electric Dog Collar, and Lots of Painful Shocks

Hey man, got a great idea for Easter Jam 2011. Let’s give a guy with a crazy beard an electric dog collar, have him bark, and watch him get shocked over and over again. Oh and an actual dog should pop into the frame at some point, representing the only voice of reason in this…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Incredible Earthlike planet has the density of solid lead

At first, the exoplanet 55 Cancri e didn’t look all that impressive: just another large rocky planet circling its star every couple of days. But a recalculation of its orbit has revealed that it’s the galaxy’s densest known planet. A couple days’ difference in orbital time can make a massive difference, as it did with…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

61 Moments Captured in a Single Attempt

I love you guys. I give you the hardest challenge ever—take a great photo with only one shot—and you choose very risky, high margin for error techniques and subjects. The best submissions? Screw ups…that created something unexpectedly wonderful. WINNER and Lead Shot – Spring Dip I was totally ready for this one. I was going…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Shooting Challenge: One Shot Gallery

I took this with my Bold 9780, I know it looks a little pixely when viewing the full size, but it’s the best I could do. This picture was taken before my exam and doesn’t it just put your mind at ease? (*sarcasm) I’m in my freshman year, so it was a little scary when…

Tech News Husain Sumra

Shooting Challenge: One Shot Gallery 2

My first and only image. Picture taken at Eriksbergs Port. Gothenburg, Sweden. Resting from heavy lifting, during the hot afternoon sun. No boats to load/unload today. I used a Sony DSC-W300, with ISO-100. Without flash. Program Auto. Exposure time: 1 / 800 sec. Focal Length: 8 mm. F: 8.0 – Amir Shahab For this week…

Tech News Husain Sumra

Does this Spider-Man set pic show off the new movie’s villain?

We’ve caught our first glimpse of the villain of Marc Webb’s Spider-Man reboot (sort of). While shooting a special scene, one oddly covered extra scurried past photographers hoping to hide his identity. But his eyes reveal his secret. As you can see, the mysterious figure is shrouded in blue with hands in his pockets totally…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Like All Their Other Services, Google Voice Is Only Around to Collect Our Data

When Google launched their Voice service a couple of years ago, people made a big deal about what their move into the telecom world meant. In a print-only interview with New Scientist Peter Norvig, Google’s head of research, said the main reason they launched the service was so they could better learn how to transcribe…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Would You Rather Use an Origami Laptop or a Tablet?

Considering netbooks are as dead as the dust that lines your windowsills, you’ve really got two choices when buying a portable computer: a laptop or a tablet. The teeny MacBook Air has tried inserting itself between the two, but for those of us who prefer a full-sized screen, Niels van Hoof’s Feno laptop concept could…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

10 Terrorism Storylines We Never Want to See Again

The death of Osama bin Laden doesn’t mean the end of terrorism. But it will mean less lazy storytelling about terrorism, for a while at least. Science fiction has always trotted out cliches about terrorists, but especially in the past decade it’s been a go-to plot device for media SF. While some people have offered…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Guy Takes His Love for the 3DS Too Far With the Augmented Reality Tattoo

Just one week after buying a 3DS, this guy felt compelled to get a tattoo on his wrist to commemorative his love for Nintendo’s latest plaything. Rather than a little sketch of Mario or Link, he got an augmented reality tatt that can be read by his 3DS, as you can see in the video…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

This Wednesday, it’s a superhero school versus a supervillain academy

What’s in stores this week? A new comic about young superfoes, a manga about budding superheroes, the second installment of Fear Itself, and an über-adorable return to the Sandman universe. Oh, and don’t forget that Saturday is Free Comic Book Day — you can find more information about this annual free funny pages festival here.…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

BlackBerry PlayBook Going 3D With a Future Over-the-Air Update Planned

At BlackBerry’s big conference today, they forced everyone to don 3D glasses and check out the 3D content that the Astonishing Tribe guys (remember them?) have created for their PlayBook tablet. I know, I know, here you were thinking BlackBerry had all but nixed the 3D ride. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-shows-off-the-sillier-side-of-the-playbook-t-5763859 3D widgets, games and even a—wait for…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Real-life Bert from Sesame Street will haunt your nightmares

You wouldn’t want this version of Sesame Street’s Bert to get anywhere near your rubber duckie. Special effects expert Nacho Díaz created this silicone model and posted the results on theeffectslab.com’s message board. And it’s utterly horrifying and creeptastic. Seriously, don’t let your kids see this. Or your grown-up friends. Or anybody, really. [via The…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Check Out the Demolished SEAL Team 6 Chopper from Space

Although no Americans were hurt in Osama bin Laden’s takedown, one MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter didn’t make it back—and was subsequently blown apart by US commandos. Here’s the scene, as a satellite whizzed by at 17,000 mph. [GeoEye via Danger Room] https://gizmodo.com/the-berzerker-black-hawk-helicopter-that-helped-kill-os-5797783 Satellite imagery by GeoEye, annotation by Danger Room

Tech News Sam Biddle

Seagate Ramps Up the Density of its Hard Drive Platters to Never-Seen-Before Levels

Instead of storing 3TB of five hard drive platters, Seagate has done the unthinkable and squeezed the same amount of memory on just three 3.5-inch platters, achieving the holy grail 625GB/in2 areal density. Keep an eye out for those hard drives later this year. [The Reg]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

This Mousepad Never Wears Out

Does gravity make antimatter fall up instead of down?

Is this the best UFO footage ever, or just some windmills, towers, and other flickery things?

Sprint’s Google Voice Integration Is Live

Game over man! Every one of Hudson’s lines from Aliens

A Barking Bearded Man, His Electric Dog Collar, and Lots of Painful Shocks

Incredible Earthlike planet has the density of solid lead

61 Moments Captured in a Single Attempt

Shooting Challenge: One Shot Gallery

Shooting Challenge: One Shot Gallery 2

Does this Spider-Man set pic show off the new movie’s villain?

Like All Their Other Services, Google Voice Is Only Around to Collect Our Data

Would You Rather Use an Origami Laptop or a Tablet?

10 Terrorism Storylines We Never Want to See Again

Guy Takes His Love for the 3DS Too Far With the Augmented Reality Tattoo

This Wednesday, it’s a superhero school versus a supervillain academy

BlackBerry PlayBook Going 3D With a Future Over-the-Air Update Planned

Real-life Bert from Sesame Street will haunt your nightmares

Check Out the Demolished SEAL Team 6 Chopper from Space

Seagate Ramps Up the Density of its Hard Drive Platters to Never-Seen-Before Levels

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