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Noise Pollution: Your life can get sucked out through your ears

The World Health Organization calculated deaths and disabilities caused by noise pollution. Turns out the numbers are second only to air pollution. Find out how noise kills. It turns out that, contrary to popular belief, you can talk someone to death. You can also honk, bark, bass line them to death. You just have to…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Post Where I Turn a Kohler Transitions “Quiet-Close” Toilet Seat Into a Crime Scene

Gizmodo Detective’s Log, 3 April 2011 – The poor schmuck. Wife just couldn’t take it anymore. Seat up, seat down—didn’t matter. Was the loud late-night seat slam that did him in. Shoulda gone with the Kohler. At least with the Kohler Transitions “Quiet-Close” he might have stood a chance. A few more hours, at least.…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Diaper-Like Material Unable to Stop Fukushima’s Radioactive Water from Leaking Into the Sea

I’ll echo Boing Boing’s thoughts on this story: This is no joke. Apparently a series of preventative polymeric water absorbent dams (the diaper-like material) have been unable to stop radioactive water from leaking into the Pacific Ocean around Fukushima. The situation sounds disastrous, with little if any of the contaminated water being absorbed by the…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Why it’s a good thing that we read political meanings into Star Trek

Author Mark Dery recently published a review of coffee table book Star Trek: The Original Series 365, a gorgeous collection of stills from the series. He explains why it’s a good thing that people read political meanings into Star Trek. Dery discusses the race politics of the show and Gene Roddenberry’s commitment to “smuggling in”…

Movies Annalee Newitz

What Is This?

First hint: It makes something delicious. If you’re one to have a drink of alcohol every once in a while, that is. Whatever could it be? “It” is version 2.0 of the EMSL’s Drink Making Unit, and it does just that. The bar-tending bot is about twice as big and complex as the one they…

Tech News Jack Loftus

I Demand More Zombie-Killing Female Role Models

I’m concerned about the dearth of role models for young women. The sad truth is, in the event of a zombie apocalypse, they have no fictional leaders to inspire them. Luckily zombie fiction does offer a number of bad-ass Amazons. First and foremost, there’s Alice, of Resident Evil fame. She’s basically superhuman, she’s not afraid…

io9 Kelly Faircloth

When oil runs out, chicken feathers will be the new plastic

We usually think of fossil fuels as an energy source, but petroleum is also the raw materials used in all the world’s plastics. Now leftover chicken feathers could allow us to keep using plastics in a world after oil. The latest breakthrough is the work of researchers at the University of Nebraska’s Institute of Agriculture…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Afghanistan’s Dirigibile War Takes Flight

The U.S. military is serious about balloons over Afghanistan. Not the party kind, mind you—we are not deploying clowns to the front—but the kind that bristle with reconnaissance gear. The spying kind. And the U.S. is indeed serious about the dirigible effort, to the tune of a $1 billion surge in “balloon-mounted cameras and other…

Tech News Jack Loftus

When a viral video is more awesome than the movie it’s promoting

This short, stark video of a strange creature washed up on the beach at Bournemouth was released last month on YouTube. Just check it out. You will be consumed with curiosity and want to know more about WTF is happening. But then, when the makers of this viral video revealed more about their movie The…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Massive Xylophone Constructed In the Woods to Sell Japanese Cellphone

What does it take to market a cellphone in Japan these days? Try an immense xylophone contraption that slowly plays out Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desire in the middle of a large, mossy wood. For the most part, this video is allegedly legit. The commercial’s creative director, working with NYC-based Drill Inc., promised the only…

Tech News Jack Loftus

The Twisted Imaginings of Aeron Alfrey

Inspired by the fiction of Thomas Ligotti and other dark masters of the horrific, Aeron Alfrey views the world as a strange and weird place, full of mysterious creatures. His monsters are abominable and his landscapes filled with creepy crawlies. We’ve got a gallery of some of his most mind-searing creations. From Thomas Ligotti’s Songs…

io9 Ann VanderMeer

Group Uses Gadgets, Chemistry and a Mouse to Educate India About Religious Charlatans

Why hasn’t this kind of critical thinking migrated out of India to the rest of the world? Methinks these educators (seriously, watch to the end) would do well to license out their brand of debunking to other cultures. Recorded back in 2007 for the BBC and narrated by Jonathan Pryce, this video is again making…

Tech News Jack Loftus

TiVo Customer Email List Hacked—Prepare Yourself for Spam (Updated)

Good morning, TiVo owners! I have some bad news, but you’ve no doubt heard about it by now, thanks to the email message partially pasted above. To everyone else: Tivo’s email database has been compromised! According to the TiVo service announcement mailed out yesterday, the breach was thankfully limited to name and email address only.…

Television Jack Loftus

Tarsem Singh’s Immortals is the lovechild of Zack Snyder’s 300 and The Cell

Want to see Mickey Rourke slit someone’s throat while wearing a metal bunny helmet? Director Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall) showed some stunning, crazy, violence-packed footage from his Greek god melodrama The Immortals at WonderCon. Singh and the cast of the Immortals unveiled the teaser trailer for the new demigod vs. god vs. Titan…

Movies Meredith Woerner

We’ve seen THE ALIENS from Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens

Jon Favreau and Roberto Orci were on hand to debut about nine minutes of brand new Cowboys and Aliens footage, including the big alien money shot. So what did they look like, read our description now! The first scene opens with Daniel Craig busting into a seemingly empty home. Craig is bleeding through his clothes…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Gmail Motion Exists, Just Not Done by Google

If you watched Google’s Gmail Motion April Fool’s prank yesterday, you probably shrugged it off and moved on. Cool idea, but kind of silly, right? Right, but still completely doable—if you’re SLOOW. Short for the Software Library Optimizing Obligatory Waving, SLOOW saw Google’s gag and decided to make it real using Kinect. Have a look.…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Lily Collins on starring in Mortal Instruments AND Julia Roberts’ Snow White movie

Lily Collins is stepping into two huge roles. It was just announced that she’s playing Snow White in the untitled film where Julia Roberts plays the Evil Queen. And she’s also starring in the movie of Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments. We got a chance to talk to Lily Collins about taking on the challenging Snow…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Hands-Free Faucets Actually Grosser Without You Having to Touch Them

Talk about irony. According to a study conducted at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, hands-free faucets have a significantly higher chance of playing home to bacteria like Legionella spp., which causes Legionnaire’s Disease. The reason is hands-free faucets have more components than traditional ones, and bacteria was found to thrive in these parts in particular.…

Tech News Kwame Opam

This Is How You Build a Lego Ship In a Bottle

Massive kudos to Lego builder Julia Morley. Using a combination of custom tools, a week’s worth of planning and what she says were a “large number of expletives” she was able to complete her Lego Ship in a Bottle. Better still, she managed to put together a pretty comprehensive time-lapse video depicting the ship in…

Tech News Jack Loftus

These Knives Make Cutting Your Christmas Ham Look as Sharp as an Armani Suit

Charged with creating a corporate image for their ham and line of tools and clothing (I don’t know either), Luca Nichetto collaborated with prosciutto producer King to create these sleek knives for the 2011 Milan Design Week. Dressed in all black, they look as severe and uncompromising as they are elegant. All business. The knives…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Noise Pollution: Your life can get sucked out through your ears

The Post Where I Turn a Kohler Transitions “Quiet-Close” Toilet Seat Into a Crime Scene

Diaper-Like Material Unable to Stop Fukushima’s Radioactive Water from Leaking Into the Sea

Why it’s a good thing that we read political meanings into Star Trek

What Is This?

I Demand More Zombie-Killing Female Role Models

When oil runs out, chicken feathers will be the new plastic

Afghanistan’s Dirigibile War Takes Flight

When a viral video is more awesome than the movie it’s promoting

Massive Xylophone Constructed In the Woods to Sell Japanese Cellphone

The Twisted Imaginings of Aeron Alfrey

Group Uses Gadgets, Chemistry and a Mouse to Educate India About Religious Charlatans

TiVo Customer Email List Hacked—Prepare Yourself for Spam (Updated)

Tarsem Singh’s Immortals is the lovechild of Zack Snyder’s 300 and The Cell

We’ve seen THE ALIENS from Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens

Gmail Motion Exists, Just Not Done by Google

Lily Collins on starring in Mortal Instruments AND Julia Roberts’ Snow White movie

Hands-Free Faucets Actually Grosser Without You Having to Touch Them

This Is How You Build a Lego Ship In a Bottle

These Knives Make Cutting Your Christmas Ham Look as Sharp as an Armani Suit

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