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Shooting Challenge: UPO 2

Selecting an object I constantly see in my daily life to experiment with came easy to me, but looking at it in such a way to conceal its identity proved to be very difficult for this challenge. I used a roll of paper towels to focus in on just a tiny piece of my photographed…

Tech News Husain Sumra

Shooting Challenge: UPO

I used a 5D Mark II and a 50mm f1.8 lens to take this photo. I was just walking around the house taking some interesting photos, but this actually came to me after watching some tilt-shift photography slides. I took the lens off the camera body and starting moving it around, trying to place the…

Tech News Husain Sumra

MLB.TV Streams Every Game Through Apple TV Now

Seamheads, rejoice! The indescribable wonder that is MLB.TV now comes part and parcel with Apple TV, meaning you’ll be able to stream any game, any time, through the set-top box. You’ll need to be an MLB.TV subscriber, which starts at $100 for the season, but you won’t need any software trickeration other than updating your…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Fly Your Bike Across the World with This Tough Case

The problem of packing up your bicycle and loading it onto an airplane isn’t likely an issue many of us face regularly, if ever. But if you do—and you’ve got $1,400—the AeroTech Evolution looks like a killer way to safely ferry your ride. The case, made out of hardened plastic, fits a disassembled bike, allowing…

Tech News Sam Biddle

America’s oldest bird is still having babies

A Laysan albatross named Wisdom was first tagged for monitoring and identification back in 1956, and 55 years later she’s the oldest known wild bird in the United States. Even more amazingly, she’s still laying eggs and raising young. When Wisdom was first banded all those years ago, she already was laying an egg. She…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

TiVo Adding Slingbox Functionality Into Their Next DVR?

Companies put out surveys to gauge customer interest in potential new features all the time, so TiVo asking if people would be interested in streaming live and recorded shows from their DVR to an iPad shouldn’t be seen as an indication that it’s going to definitely happen. But putting a Slingbox into a TiVo would…

Tech News Jason Chen

Kinect is the Fastest Selling Consumer Electronics Device of All Time*

It’s hard to believe, but Microsoft’s Kinect peripheral for the 360 is the fastest selling consumer electronics device of all time, if you’re only counting for 60 days. Guinness World Records has officially named Kinect for Xbox 360 the fastest selling consumer electronics device, which sold an average of 133,333 units per day for a…

Tech News Jason Chen

Amazing fan-created, life-size reproductions of Appleseed weaponry

Dan Sarkar, a self-described “Appleseed fanboi,” says he couldn’t live any longer in a universe without cool replicas of the guns we see in the series. He writes to io9: As a long time fan of all things Appleseed, I have wanted to have a replica of the ESWAT Assault Rifle as seen in the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

There Are Now Dodocases for iPad 2

The Dodocase for the original iPad was a popular (not to mention nice-looking) case. Now they’ve updated their design for the upcoming release of the iPad 2, which you can preorder here. [Dodocase]

Tech News Adrian Covert

It’s Time For NPR to Get Off the Government Payroll

NPR gets about 2% of its direct funding from the U.S. government, through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. For NPR’s member stations, CPB funding is about 10% of their total, with other federal, state, and local government sources kicking in another 6%. This relatively tiny piece of money has been called “a critical cornerstone of…

Tech News Hamilton Nolan

Back Up Your PlayStation 3 Save Games Online

PlayStation Plus subscribers will get 150MB of online storage space to back up their PS3 saves, meaning if you upgrade to another console (or go to a friend’s house), you can still have access to your Killzone 3 progress. What’s even better is that it supports “copy-prohibited” save data, the ones where you can’t just…

Tech News Jason Chen

Watch the Last Landing of Discovery

This is how Discovery approached and landed safely on Runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center, after successfully completing mission STS-133. Everyone loves the Space Shuttle launches, but the landings are quite exciting too—and terrifying, after the Columbia disaster. At 11:57 a.m. EST, space shuttle Discovery landed for the final time at NASA’s Kennedy Space…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Doctor Who season six airing on BBC America the same day as in the UK?

Good news! Not only did Doctor Who film in the United States for the first time this year, but we’re also getting the episodes the same day in the U.S. as in the U.K. At least, Doctor Who Magazine reports that series six will launch in Britain over Easter weekend (April 23). And BBC America…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

MIT Media Lab Made Itself a Self-Generating, 40,000 Variant Logo

How do you design a logo with longevity? One that won’t seem stale and tired after a few years? Make it beautiful, of course, and then give it 40,000 possible appearances based on an algorithm—enough to last 25 years of use. MIT, you guys are are incredible. That being said, the concept does violate nearly…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Everyone hates the new X-Men posters. Think you can do better?

The internet is united in hatred over the new X-Men: First Class posters. But are they really so bad? Check out the wave of online vituperation. These posters, featuring James McAvoy as Professor Charles Xavier and Michael Fassbender as Erik, were released via X-Men: First Class’ facebook page. And with that, the wrath was unleashed.…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Final Touchdown: All the Facts About Discovery

On February 24, 2011, the space shuttle Discovery launched for the last time ever. Today, twelve days later, it’s back on Earth after a farewell wake up call by Captain Kirk. These were the voyages of the spaceship Discovery, which has been in orbit for 365 days during 39 missions. It flew out of our…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Inside the fiendish designs of Battle: Los Angeles’ alien war machines

Creating an alien invasion from scratch takes amazing design skills. Good thing TyRuben Ellingson, the designer who’s worked on Avatar, Hellboy and several other movies, was on the case. Ellingson talked to us about creating an overwhelming alien strike force. Ellingson worked on Battle: Los Angeles as a conceptual designer, and he mostly designed the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Gizmodo Is Throwing a Glowing, Gaming SXSW Party. Wanna Come?

Thanks to the folks at Alienware, we are throwing a SXSW party in Austin, TX. Our soiree is happening this Saturday, March 12, and will feature a DJ, a photo booth, glowing disco ice cubes, a BBQ-themed feast, Brian Lam, a slew of Alienware gaming computers and Dell’s new tablet! Check back next week for…

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Kinect Makes For Easy Motion Capture For Animated Series

Xbox Kinect homebrew hacks have been neat so far, but using it as an incredibly cheap way to motion capture for an animated series? That is incredibly amazing to me. If someone eventually, using the Kinect SDK, makes a program so users can easily do this without having any 3D modeling experience, I would totally…

Tech News Jason Chen

Cognitive Reverse Engineering Explains The Incredible Allure Of Angry Birds

With more than 50 million copies of Rovio’s bird-slinging casual game downloaded, Angry Birds is one of the most popular games of all time, but why? Usability engineering consultant Charles Mauro tears down the surprising secrets to Angry Birds’ success. A certified human factors engineering professional and president of usability engineering and user interface design…

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Shooting Challenge: UPO 2

Shooting Challenge: UPO

MLB.TV Streams Every Game Through Apple TV Now

Fly Your Bike Across the World with This Tough Case

America’s oldest bird is still having babies

TiVo Adding Slingbox Functionality Into Their Next DVR?

Kinect is the Fastest Selling Consumer Electronics Device of All Time*

Amazing fan-created, life-size reproductions of Appleseed weaponry

There Are Now Dodocases for iPad 2

It’s Time For NPR to Get Off the Government Payroll

Back Up Your PlayStation 3 Save Games Online

Watch the Last Landing of Discovery

Doctor Who season six airing on BBC America the same day as in the UK?

MIT Media Lab Made Itself a Self-Generating, 40,000 Variant Logo

Everyone hates the new X-Men posters. Think you can do better?

Final Touchdown: All the Facts About Discovery

Inside the fiendish designs of Battle: Los Angeles’ alien war machines

Gizmodo Is Throwing a Glowing, Gaming SXSW Party. Wanna Come?

Kinect Makes For Easy Motion Capture For Animated Series

Cognitive Reverse Engineering Explains The Incredible Allure Of Angry Birds

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