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“Fabricate Yourself” Kinect Hack Does Just That

Want a really, really rough 3D representation of yourself, printed out by a 3D printer using information gleaned from everybody’s favorite game accessory-turned-hacked accessory Kinect? Great, just stand in front of Joris’s Fabricate Yourself and it will do the rest. Ever the modest hacker, Joris says the tool is still under development and the crude…

Tech News Jack Loftus Feb 27

Human magnets are actually just really greasy

Every so often, people claim to be human magnets, able to attract and make metal objects stick to their bodies. It seems like a strange, physics-defying ability…but the perfectly simple explanation isn’t quite so flattering to these supposed human magnets. The latest claims of human magnetism have sprung up around a 7-year-old Serbian boy named…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Feb 27

Bendable Graphene Batteries Take a Page from Gumby

Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) may be on the cusp of creating something special: Bendable batteries that could have better performance than their stiff, inflexible cousins. Made from graphene, these batteries would do well paired up with the flexible OLED displays we’ve seen teased here and there in recent…

Tech News Jack Loftus Feb 27

Aliens invaded Pennsylvania last week (and nobody noticed)

Or at least this lone camerawoman (who was armed with a night vision attachment) did. This footage of extraterrestrial dropships (or weather balloons or spontaneously combusting sparrows or whatever) was recently taken outside of Pittsburgh. My guess? I’m assuming that the aliens are abducting the Steelers for some sort of Space Jam-style competition scored to…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 27

Mac OS X Lion Migration Assistant Update Makes PC to Mac Move a Bit Easier

PC owners jonesing for the new MacBook Pros (or any future Mac, we suppose) would do well to take a quick look at what’s coming down the pipeline with Mac OS X Lion. Mainly Migration Assistant’s PC-to-Mac transfer improvements. As I can attest, Migration Assistant was handy in a pinch when I bought my MacBook…

Tech News Jack Loftus Feb 27

In the 1950s, Ford Motor’s vice-president pushed for a flying car

In 1958, you’d find no greater advocate for the hovercar than Ford vice president Andrew A. Kucher. Kucher was on a media blitz in the late 50s and early 60s, being quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Mechanix Illustrated, Chicago Daily Tribune, Popular Mechanics, Automotive Fleet and above in Arthur Radebaugh‘s syndicated…

io9 Matt Novak - Paleo-Future Blog Feb 27

The Lord of Rings, remixed into a stuttering electronic track

The remixer Pogo’s gained internet acclaim for his aural cut-and-pastes of such films as Snow White. Now he’s used snippets of dialogue and sound from Lord of the Rings for his latest composition, “Murmurs Of Middle-Earth.” If you wish to listen to Gandalf harumphing while moseying about there and back again, you can download the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 27

Your Bones Will Feel the Rumbler Siren Coming

Sirens! Nothing new. Ubiquitous on city streets. Even small towns have, to some degree, grown accustomed to their shrill warnings. That’s kind of a problem! Enter the Rumbler. You literally feel it coming. Updated. How? Well, it’s actually pretty easy, and it started with music. Coupled with the high shrill of a “normal” siren, the…

Tech News Jack Loftus Feb 27

This is what a space shuttle launch looks like from an airplane

Thursday marked the final flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery, and one lucky airliner was fortunate enough to witness its launch from a high altitude. And even better, one of its passengers was able to video Discovery taking off. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-last-launch-of-the-space-shuttle-discovery-5769760 Passenger Neil Monday snapped this footage of Discovery (which also contains a robotic crewmate) using…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 27

Watch a Spoon Melt and Turn Into Liquid Metal Ooze

How does this happen? Well, the trick is that the spoon is made from gallium, a substance that melts at only 86 degrees Fahrenheit. So when you put the gallium spoon in hot water it turns into T-1000 style liquid metal ooze. So awesome. [Reddit via The Daily What]

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 26

io9 Weekly Round-Up: Feb. 20-26

Artwork by Igor Savin. https://gizmodo.com/scenes-from-the-soviet-unions-martian-colony-circa-206-5770707 5 haunting subterranean structures from around the globe https://gizmodo.com/5-haunting-subterranean-structures-from-around-the-glob-5771247 Even if you’ve been to the Catacombs of Paris or have gone spelunking in Brooklyn’s abandoned subway lines, there’s still a wealth of underground places to be explored. More » First Thundercats anime trailer delivers noble cat people battling https://gizmodo.com/first-thundercats-anime-trailer-delivers-noble-cat-peop-5771099 The first…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 26

NASA Says Nuclear Warfare Could Reverse Global Warming But Also Bring Famine and Disease

NASA Scientists have tested the climate effect of what a small, regional nuclear war would do to the world and have come up with a few revealing (and quite scary) conclusions. For the purpose of the exercise, NASA termed a small, regional nuclear war as 100 Hiroshima-level bombs. What’s interesting is that the exploded bombs…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 26

The police and superheroes comic book Powers is coming to cable

It’s been in the works for positively forever, but FX has finally ordered a pilot episode of Brian Michael Bendis’ and Michael Avon Oeming’s long-running superhero series Powers. Yesterday Bendis confirmed the news when he tweeted: https://gizmodo.com/powers-tv-show-is-almost-a-go-and-marvelman-will-be-ba-5659989 Powers pilot was just greenlit by FX! it’s official! your window of reading Powers while it was still…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Feb 26

This 5-ton Megatron Tank Was Hand Built By a Man

A Chinese man decided to build Megatron in tank form (from Transformers). So he did it. And it is ridiculously detailed and just brain meltingly awesome. The whole sculpture (that’s what he called it) weighs just about 5 tons. [Zcool via Neatorama]

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 26

5 haunting subterranean structures from around the globe

Even if you’ve been to the Catacombs of Paris or have gone spelunking in Brooklyn’s abandoned subway lines, there’s still a wealth of underground places to be explored. Here are some of the world’s less welcoming manmade tunnels and grottos. Fort Zverv In the 1970s, this munitions store in Kronstadt, Russia caught on fire. The…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 26

I Never Knew Indigo Smoke Bombs Could Be So Mesmerizing

The video description says it’s a 60 second experiment with the color Indigo but that’s sort of underselling the beauty of it. There is indigo, yes, but also beautiful smoke, dyed colors and sparks! I don’t know why but I’ve watched it 10 times already. [Paul Octavious via Mappeal]

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 26

Supernatural goes meta while a war rages in Heaven

On last night’s Supernatural, “The French Mistake,” things got seriously meta. Written by meta-master Ben Edlund, the episode took us where Edlund’s previous meta arc, about the Supernatural fanfic-writing prophet Chuck, never could: Right onto the set of the show, complete with grumpy producers and Jared Padlecki’s posh Canadian mansion. There was also a lot…

Television Annalee Newitz Feb 26

A Baby Was Trapped Inside a Time-Locked Bank Vault By Herself

In Georgia, a 14-month-old toddler wandered away from her mother inside a bank. Crazy, I know. What’s even crazier is that the baby managed to walk inside an open bank vault that locked as the bank closed (and wouldn’t open again until the bank opened). After cameras spotted the baby on security cameras inside the…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 26

Why Didn’t the New 13-inch MacBook Pro Get a Higher Resolution Screen?

There’s no question that the new MacBook Pros are blazingly awesome. The whole line has been rejuvenated with Sandy Bridge processors, better graphics and a lightning fast Thunderbolt I/O port. But one thing has been bothering us about the update, or rather, lack of update: The 13-inch MacBook Pro still has a lower resolution screen.…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 26

Phase IV, a film about super-smart Communist ants and movie scientist gobbledygook

Phase IV is a 1974 science fiction insect fear film directed by famed title sequence creator Saul Bass and starring Michael Murphy, Nigel Davenport and Lynn Frederick as two scientists and a Breck Girl who become trapped in a desert research station while investigating hyper-intelligent ants. This is well and good, but does it make…

io9 Jason Shankel Feb 26

“Fabricate Yourself” Kinect Hack Does Just That

Human magnets are actually just really greasy

Bendable Graphene Batteries Take a Page from Gumby

Aliens invaded Pennsylvania last week (and nobody noticed)

Mac OS X Lion Migration Assistant Update Makes PC to Mac Move a Bit Easier

In the 1950s, Ford Motor’s vice-president pushed for a flying car

The Lord of Rings, remixed into a stuttering electronic track

Your Bones Will Feel the Rumbler Siren Coming

This is what a space shuttle launch looks like from an airplane

Watch a Spoon Melt and Turn Into Liquid Metal Ooze

io9 Weekly Round-Up: Feb. 20-26

NASA Says Nuclear Warfare Could Reverse Global Warming But Also Bring Famine and Disease

The police and superheroes comic book Powers is coming to cable

This 5-ton Megatron Tank Was Hand Built By a Man

5 haunting subterranean structures from around the globe

I Never Knew Indigo Smoke Bombs Could Be So Mesmerizing

Supernatural goes meta while a war rages in Heaven

A Baby Was Trapped Inside a Time-Locked Bank Vault By Herself

Why Didn’t the New 13-inch MacBook Pro Get a Higher Resolution Screen?

Phase IV, a film about super-smart Communist ants and movie scientist gobbledygook

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