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Why Does This Man Have a CCTV System Strapped to His Neck?

Art, of course! Korean student Hwang Kim is a little into voyeurism—so he created this CCTV neck collar, or “chandelier,” as he’s termed it, allowing you to monitor his every move via twelve cameras. It’s a bit like Saw meets sci-fi dystopia, but there’s something oddly beautiful about the whole thing. If you ignore the…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Meet the steampunk arthropods who will infest your airship

Sculptor Tom Hardwidge builds pint-sized clockwork insects and spiders out of defunct ammunition and sundry watch parts. In another universe, these little buggers are climbing in your coal-powered, head-warming derby and spitting axle grease all over your telescopic monocle. You can check out many more of Hardwidge’s arthrobots at his site. And lest you dismiss…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Comcast Will Now Troubleshoot Your Gear, Too

Instead of focusing only on your connection, Comcast’s got a new service on deck that offers support for your laptop, gaming console, routers, and other equipment that contributes to your online experience. Xfinity Signature Support can be built into your monthly plan, or you can pay as you go. It’s only available in the Twin…

Tech News Brian Barrett

What Animals Do When Humans Aren’t Around

Excellent! The Smithsonian has launched a new database of over 200,000 photos captured by automated cameras around the world, showing what animals are up to when they’re not being weirded out by humans (just weirded out by automated cameras). Smithsonian Wild has candid shots of bears, birds, bobcats, and just about every other animal you…

Biology Kyle VanHemert

The moon Titan rests on Saturn’s razor-thin rings

Saturn’s rings are one of the solar system’s most brilliant sights, extending for tens of thousands of kilometers and weighing at least thirty quadrillion tons. But in this amazing photograph, you can see just how thin the rings really are. This image was taken by NASA’s Cassini probe, really reveals that, for all the brilliance…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Baseball Pitchers May Need to Wear Futuristic Helmets to Protect Their Brain

A pitcher is in a pretty vulnerable spot on the baseball field: right smack dab in the middle of the action, straight in the line of fire. Easton-Bell decided that because of that potential danger, there was need for a new pitcher helmet that could absorb some of the potentially violent contact. The goal was…

Tech News Casey Chan

Hollywood studios in bidding war to make big-budget Voltron movie?

First there was Voltron Girl, then there was this fantastic movie concept art, now Hollywood is primed and ready to make the 80s cartoon into a movie, and they’re battling over the rights to the cat robot! According to Vulture a bidding war is taking place over the rights to the giant feline mecha between…

Movies Meredith Woerner

If You Want to See Porn Stars Protesting the .xxx Domain Names…

…I’d suggest hanging around the Westin St Francis Hotel in Union Square, San Francisco, during your lunch-break on the 17th of March. The Free Speech Coalition, which is the basically a porn trade union, is holding the rally for anyone in opposition of the proposed .xxx domain names. They believe it’ll only encourage censorship, despite…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The $12,500 Groupon You’ll Never Use

Groupon! Never before have you been offered so many art classes at such low, low prices. And while the site’s bread and butter is often, well, bread and butter at a semi-fashionable local restaurant, one recent deal offered a whopping $12,500 discount. Too bad it’s not for you. The offer came from IT consulting firm…

Tech News Brian Barrett

It’s Not Downloads Harming DVD Sales, it’s Facebook/Twitter/Sex/Gaming/Sleeping

Disney CEO Bob Iger: “I look at my kids’ generation and it is not just about watching a TV show or a movie any more, it is about doing other things.” Do we have more varied interests than every before? [CharlieRoseShow via HCC via TechRadar]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

10 ludicrous killbots (who would make the Terminator facepalm in shame)

Not every killing machine can be a T-1000, Megatron, or HAL. Some killbots are masses of sentient candy, evil skyscrapers, or half-gorilla aliens. Here are ten movie and TV killbots who flunked out of evil robot school. The Kandy Man from Doctor Who On the 1988 Who episode “The Happiness Patrol,” the TARDIS lands on…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Recon-Zeal Transcend Heads Up Display Snow Goggles

These are snowboarding/ski goggles with a little heads up LCD and GPS. Think of it as a fighter jet pilot’s helmet for the slopes. Plusses The real-time data display in the goggles is the big ticket item here. You can see the temperature, time of runs, current/average speed, elevation changes, and top speed for the…

Reviews Julio Macias

Fandor Wants to Be Your Indie Movie Streaming HQ, Because Netflix Is Like Sooooo Mainstream

We love Netflix streaming more than some of our own family members, and it does have a pretty great catalog—but what about smaller films? More artsy films made by Swedish teenagers, depicting a single rose as it blossoms and slowly shrivels (metaphor for the global recession, duh!)? If you’re looking for some of the terrific…

Movies Sam Biddle

If humanity went extinct, what species would replace us?

Could another species someday replace us as Earth’s dominant intelligent life and, if so, which species? To answer that question, we need to understand just what intelligence really is. And why, from an evolutionary standpoint, an organism would even want it. Once we understand those things, we can start speculating about what the next intelligent,…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

As Groupon Gets More Popular, Businesses Need a Better Way of Processing Coupons

It’s something you may’ve noticed cashiers fumbling with in the past—those paper print-outs you hand them when buying your cheap burrito/manicure/American Apparel leotard. So it’s understandable that Verifone wants to work with Groupon and retailers, making dedicated Groupon buttons for cash registers. [BusinessWeek via SlashGear]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

LRPAD Lets You Control Adobe Lightroom With Your iPad

As anyone who’s used Adobe’s powerful RAW photo processing software Lightroom will attest, there is a hell of a lot you can do with it, and often times all that functionality can overwhelm your machine’s screen size. But what about that unused real estate on your iPad? LRPAD, a $10 app that lets you control…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Class Up Your Place with a Limited-Edition Print From Gawker Artists

You know how Gawker Artists does such a lovely job of fancying up your browser window with new art? Now you can own some of those images IRL. The brand-new Gawker Artists Shop is proud to be working with the taste-makers at Society6 in order to bring you specially curated, limited-edition prints from a few…

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Logitech’s Z906’s Don’t Look too Dorky for the Living Room

One of the problems with computer speakers is that they often look like computer speakers. Awkward. Unattractive. Dorky. Something better confined to an office or “the computer room.” Not sexy chunks of AV gear. Logitech’s $400 Z906 5.1 speaker set, successor to the popular Z-5500s, improves on this. Spec-wise? Pretty much identical—THX certified, Dolby 5.1…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Read the first chapter of China Miéville’s Embassytown online

Can’t wait to read China Miéville’s first foray into hard space opera? Neither can we. So we’re thrilled that the first chapter is already available for free online, at Pan MacMillan UK’s site. It’s pretty thrilling stuff, and Miéville pulls off his usual amount of clever worldbuilding and calculated strangeness — only this time in…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Is Facebook ‘Leading Cause of Relationship Trouble’?

A new survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers found that some two-thirds of divorce lawyers cite Facebook as “the ‘primary source’ of evidence in divorce proceedings,” and The Guardian calls the social-networking site “a leading cause of relationship trouble.” And yet, shockingly, the divorce rate “appears to be unaffected by the advent of…

Social Media Max Read

Why Does This Man Have a CCTV System Strapped to His Neck?

Meet the steampunk arthropods who will infest your airship

Comcast Will Now Troubleshoot Your Gear, Too

What Animals Do When Humans Aren’t Around

The moon Titan rests on Saturn’s razor-thin rings

Baseball Pitchers May Need to Wear Futuristic Helmets to Protect Their Brain

Hollywood studios in bidding war to make big-budget Voltron movie?

If You Want to See Porn Stars Protesting the .xxx Domain Names…

The $12,500 Groupon You’ll Never Use

It’s Not Downloads Harming DVD Sales, it’s Facebook/Twitter/Sex/Gaming/Sleeping

10 ludicrous killbots (who would make the Terminator facepalm in shame)

Recon-Zeal Transcend Heads Up Display Snow Goggles

Fandor Wants to Be Your Indie Movie Streaming HQ, Because Netflix Is Like Sooooo Mainstream

If humanity went extinct, what species would replace us?

As Groupon Gets More Popular, Businesses Need a Better Way of Processing Coupons

LRPAD Lets You Control Adobe Lightroom With Your iPad

Class Up Your Place with a Limited-Edition Print From Gawker Artists

Logitech’s Z906’s Don’t Look too Dorky for the Living Room

Read the first chapter of China Miéville’s Embassytown online

Is Facebook ‘Leading Cause of Relationship Trouble’?

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