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Middle Schools Are Tracking Kids With GPS Now

Had I been a student at one of these Anaheim schools in California, I would’ve been forced to wear a GPS device, too. In fact, if YOU skipped out of school more than four times a year, you would’ve joined me in the GPS Breakfast Club as well. Around 75 seventh and eight graders in…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Feb 18

President Obama and the Titans of Tech

Here’s the money shot from the President’s dinner with the leaders of the tech industry last night, including Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Eric Schmidt, at the home of venture capitalist John Doerr in Silicon Valley. I wonder what they talked about! Sustainable energy? Nationwide broadband? Jersey Shore? Other guests, according to NYT: Carol Bartz,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 18

Is this galaxy too hot for its own good?

Check out this brilliant image of spiral galaxy NGC 2841, from the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3. This galaxy has an unusually low rate of star creation — you can tell by the absence of the pinkish glow of emission nebulae, which would indicate new star birth. What’s going on? NASA explains: It…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 18

They arrived from the sea, their dragons hissing like the foam on crashed waves

When the survey team returned, their great striped beasts flying low over the shore, we knew school would be starting soon. The scholars opened their doors to the surveyors, filling summer’s stuffy rooms with new air. Late into the night, we’d hear the murmur of their conversations and the rustle of samples unpacked from paper,…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 18

Cat Laser Bowling

Cat. Laser. Bowling. [Reddit]

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 18

Watch Felicia Day throwing daggers and taking names in the first Dragon Age: Redemption teaser

Felicia Day told us about playing Elven assassin Tallis in Dragon Age: Redemption the other day, but now you can watch her in action for yourself. The first teaser includes some tantalizing shots of Elven butt-kicking and general Medieval bad-assery. The actual six-part webseries arrives this summer. https://gizmodo.com/first-look-at-felicia-day-as-an-elven-assassin-in-drago-5761110

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 18

Waldok Is the Only iPhone Dock I Really Want

I want the Waldok. I have wanted one forever, ever since I first saw a dock for the old school iPod. Why don’t make a cool dock speaker that I can plug onto my bathroom power socket or any other room? Thankfully, the people at HERNstudio got the same idea and created the Waldok, which…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 18

Nikon Considering Cooling Fans Inside Cameras

Well, this could certainly be annoying! To combat overheating sensors, Nikon may place a tiny cooling fan inside upcoming mirrorless cameras, according to a recent patent filing. Small fans mean high RPMs, which mean high pitched squealing. Not good. [PetaPixel]

Tech News Sam Biddle Feb 18

Ogle Bradley Cooper’s sexed-up smart drug addict in new photos from “Limitless”

In Limitless, an experimental mind-expanding drug blasts Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) into super-stardom. Enter evil suit Robert De Niro (playing what could be his best-named character ever, Carl Van Loon) and you’ve got a hot-blooded mind-job film about pills, science, death, addiction, wealth and sexy male cleavage. Check out our exclusive stills of Cooper and…

Movies Meredith Woerner Feb 18

Cross-Country Skiing Is Better With a Propeller Attached To Your Back

With a 200cc lawnmower engine, a handmade propeller, and some spare paraglider parts (that he just happened to have kicking around?), Russian tinkerer Sergei Khvalin created a cross-country skiing rig that can send him zipping across the snow at speeds of 25MPH. It weighs 34 pounds, and thus, he explains, can also serve as a…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 18

Would You Pay $835 For LG’s Optimus 3D Phone?

You might have guessed that LG’s Optimus 3D smartphone would come bearing a steep price-tag, but did you imagine it would be in the region of $800? Dual-core processors and 3D cameras don’t come cheap, which is why UK online retailer Expansys has listed a £514.99 ($835) price for it. Supposedly it hits shelves April…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Feb 18

Animatronic Eyeballs Freak Me Out

Stop looking at me, you custom fabricated human animatronic eye mechanism without a socket you! STOP LOOKING AT ME, GODDAMMIT!

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 18

Would you pay $10,000 to turn your plastic into petroleum?

An inventor in Japan is betting that you will. Akinori Ito has made the world’s first home plastic recycling contraption. It takes commercial plastics, like bags and bottles, and burns them to generate oil. More work is needed to turn the oil into gasoline for a car, but it can be burned in heating systems…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Feb 18

What Data of Mine Does Chrome Send to Google?

Dear Lifehacker, I dig Chrome for its speed and its many small but handy features. But I’m also wondering how much privacy I’m trading for the convenience and quickness. What, exactly, does Chrome know about me, and what does it share with its corporate creator? Sincerely, Concerned Chrome Convert Dear Concerned, We know how you…

Tech News Kevin Purdy Feb 18

This Is What the Dying Music Industry Looks Like

Instead of eulogies for a music industry too slow to adapt to the digital age, its mourners should just print up this chart on huge poster boards. And while digital sales are helping staunch the bleeding, as you can see here it’s not nearly enough. Then again, apparently the new Radiohead album is pretty good?…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 18

Chris Evans gets inside Captain America, Henry Cavill rocks the Superman suit, and Shane Black is taking on Iron Man 3!

Chris Evans explains his Captain America contract, and how he figured out how to play Steve Rogers. Henry Cavill is Superman because he wears the red and blue tights like no one else. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’s Shane Black is this close to signing on for Iron Man 3. Plus a Battle: L.A. interview, casting…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Feb 18

Wasting Time Online Is Strong In This One

Sometimes you switch the targeting off of your computer because you trust in the force. But most of the time it’s to make yourself stop lurking on Reddit, already. [XKCD]

Social Media Brian Barrett Feb 18

Nintendo 3DS Boxes Will Contain Six Augmented Reality Cards for Mini-Games

Along with the charger, manual and 3DS, Nintendo’s next packaging will have a little something extra—six cards with popular Ninty characters’ likenesses depicted. These aren’t just for sticking on your fridge door, oh no no no. Hold the 3DS camera up in front of them when playing one of the bundled AR games, and they’ll…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Feb 18

Britney Spears Surfs PlentyOfFish Dating Site in Her Latest Music Video

Some critics are calling Britney Spears‘ latest single Hold It Against Me “genuine art.” Others, “a total visual assault.” All I know is that the song is the pits, and that she’s accepted a lot of product placement moolah from companies including Sony and the PlentyOfFish dating site. Yep, the very same site that Lady…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Feb 18

Where Does This Lamp Think It’s Shining, Inception or Something?

I don’t know how those Germans did it—I’m guessing there’s steel in that power cord?—but this FlapFlap lamp is entirely worth its $265 price-tag, if only for the inevitable look of disbelief that crosses your visitors’ faces. [Design3000 via 7Gadgets via OhGizmo]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Feb 18

Middle Schools Are Tracking Kids With GPS Now

President Obama and the Titans of Tech

Is this galaxy too hot for its own good?

They arrived from the sea, their dragons hissing like the foam on crashed waves

Cat Laser Bowling

Watch Felicia Day throwing daggers and taking names in the first Dragon Age: Redemption teaser

Waldok Is the Only iPhone Dock I Really Want

Nikon Considering Cooling Fans Inside Cameras

Ogle Bradley Cooper’s sexed-up smart drug addict in new photos from “Limitless”

Cross-Country Skiing Is Better With a Propeller Attached To Your Back

Would You Pay $835 For LG’s Optimus 3D Phone?

Animatronic Eyeballs Freak Me Out

Would you pay $10,000 to turn your plastic into petroleum?

What Data of Mine Does Chrome Send to Google?

This Is What the Dying Music Industry Looks Like

Chris Evans gets inside Captain America, Henry Cavill rocks the Superman suit, and Shane Black is taking on Iron Man 3!

Wasting Time Online Is Strong In This One

Nintendo 3DS Boxes Will Contain Six Augmented Reality Cards for Mini-Games

Britney Spears Surfs PlentyOfFish Dating Site in Her Latest Music Video

Where Does This Lamp Think It’s Shining, Inception or Something?

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