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A single brain cell can predict whether you’ll spend or save

Deciding what to do with your money is a complex decision, requiring lots of different parts of the brain to work together. But just before you make your conscious decision, a single neuron can reveal what you’re going to choose. The brain assembles a complex network of different areas that can evaluate the various benefits…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

iOS 4.3 Beta and Pre-Release Apple TV Software Now Available to Apple Developers

Looks like iOS 4.3 Beta is now available for download in the iOS Developer Center along with some pre-release Apple TV software. We’ll be taking a look and letting you know what’s new since the last beta shortly. [Apple]

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Designers unveil plans to build a second city on top of Toronto

A group of artists and designers, including 50 Cyborgs project organizer Tim Maly, have proposed a radical idea to solve Toronto’s city planning problems. Scrap the old city, and just build a new one on top. Call it Upper Toronto. Image by Brett Lamb from the Torontoist. Maly and collaborator Jacob Zimmer, who runs performance…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Military-Grade iPhone Windshield Mount

Using touchscreens in the car can be such a hassle, because even if you put them in a dash or windshield mount where they’re safely in your line of sight, they still wiggle around too much. Or they did. I drive my Land Cruiser all over creation. (Or at least I’m trying.) And while it’s…

Tech News Joel Johnson

How Can a Watch this Complex Be Bulletproof?

I have no idea how something so delicate looking can resist the force of a gunshot—or so watchmaker Devon claims—but I’m not asking any questions. This lithium polymer-powered, steel-built, computer-manufactured timepiece is tough as hell. It could even save your life. Well, at least if someone is an extremely poor shot. At any rate, the…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Can a Single 21st Century Man Build a Toaster?

Click to view Remember Thomas Thwaites’s self-made toaster? In this TED talk, he overviews the incredibly laborious process of creating it. You’re gonna want your Eggos after the industrial capitalist system is overthrown, aren’t you? Sure you are. So pay attention! [TED] https://gizmodo.com/5-homemade-toaster-teaches-the-value-of-walmart-5538964

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Christian Slater tipping point: 2011 will be the year of Geek TV

Need more proof that geek humor has gone mainstream? Check out the new trailer for Christian Slater’s new show Breaking In, which name-checks Star Wars, Dragon*Con and Avatar. These days, TV shows prove they’re hip by referencing geek culture. Breaking In seems like a G-rated version of Sneakers. A group of hackers are hired to…

Television Meredith Woerner

Deals of the Day

Today, we’ve got great prices on a 13″ Acer Core i3 laptop, WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2011 for PS3, a free organic iced tea, and more. Top Deals: • 13.3″ Acer TimelineX AS3820T-7459 Core i3 Laptop for $563.03 with free shipping (normally $654 {Savings of $91 / 14% off}) • WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011…

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An Early Contender for Worst Movie of the Year

We have no idea what’s going to be the best movie of the year, but we have a pretty good notion what’ll be the worst. Evil Bong 3-D: The Wrath of Bong is looking like this year’s Troll 2. Spoilers… Despite coming from direct-to-DVD auteurs Full Moon, Evil Bong 3-D is getting a theatrical release…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

V explains why the human soul is located in your mother’s cleavage

Last night’s episode of V had it all: multi-generational cleavage baring, rat eating, and Israeli-backed terrorists who operate out of a clothing factory in New York. Plus, everybody prays! Spoilers ahead. Before we discuss really important things, like the terrorist plot and where human emotions come from, I would like to point out that Anna…

Television Annalee Newitz

These Are the Most Popular Letters In the World According to Google

If you had to reorder the alphabet according to the popularity of letters in Google, it would be called the alphaiot. Which, actually, has a quite nice ring to it. It will also look like this. Now, can anybody explain to me why 6 is the most popular number? [Smäll]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

How Three College Kids Illegally Captured the Nation’s First X-Ray Photograph

On the evening of January 12, 1896, three Davidson College juniors bribed a janitor and sneaked into a physics laboratory, carrying with them a cadaver’s finger and other strange items. They didn’t realize that they were about to make history. Dr. Henry Louis Smith, the students’ physics professor, had just caught wind of the discovery…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

This Is What Happens When Water Hits a Hot Pan at 3000 Frames Per Second

Back in the 18th century, a German doctor called Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost described how water behaves when it hits a mass considerably hotter than its boiling point. But first, watch the 3000-frames-per-second video and see if you can realize what’s happening. As you can see, the water doesn’t boil right away. You may have seen…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Give Your iPod The Glowing Dinosaur Egg Dock It Deserves

Dock-makers, hear ye! Your iPod/iPhone/iWhatever base station doesn’t have to look like some boring pair of speakers! In fact, it doesn’t have to look like anything worldly at all. The crazy-looking YanTouch Black Diamond transforms tunes into ambient light. The Black Diamond, available soon for roughly $80, starts as an Epcot-esque black sphere that charges…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

What’s Sprint Got Planned on Feb. 7th?

Looks like Verizon’s not the only one with some ammo left over post-CES; Sprint’s got an “industry first” to unveil at a Feb. 7 NYC event. David Blaine will be there. But what’s the shiny new product? https://gizmodo.com/the-verizon-iphone-is-here-5730527 Here’s what we think it’s not: a Sprint iPhone. Sure, we know that Verizon’s contract is non-exclusive,…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Meet the Newark Steam Man, the steampunk robot of the 19th century

In 1868, Zadoc Dederick of Newark, New Jersey built a robotic man wearing a top hat to pull carriages. His creation became known as “the Newark Steam Man,” and its inventor hoped to build an army of steampunkish carriage drivers. Here’s a description of the Steam Man from the January 23, 1868 edition of The…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

You can’t escape “No Ordinary Family”…even if you want to

Last night’s No Ordinary Family was a return to form, with a fun little episode that delved into more unusual family ties: those between long-suffering Jim and his deadbeat brother, and the twisted father-son bond of the show’s main villains. After last week’s smelly fart of an episode, there really wasn’t anywhere for the show…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Valkee Earbuds Shine Light Into Your Brain to Combat Seasonal Affective Disorder

Now here’s something which claims to do the same as SAD lamps, but THROUGH YOUR EARS. Valkee’s earbuds supposedly beam light right through to your brain, no doubt brainwashing you into thinking $240 is a sum well-spent on two LEDs. Former Nokia Executive Vice-President Anssi Vanjoki believes in the Finnish technology so much that he’s…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Thunderbirds is back, but will it have puppets?

Massively successful 1960s puppet show Thunderbirds is getting another shot, with a new series. But will it have puppets? A fansite for Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson (titled Fanderson) is reporting that on the BBC Radio 5Live show creator Anderson confirmed that he has finalized a deal to make new Thunderbirds series. All Anderson could say…

Television Meredith Woerner

Google Shows Why the World Is Screwed

Women squirting, women sports, business women, want women, naked women, flashing women, men eating, men underwear, jerking men, men rape, beast men, micro men… this is what people have in mind while googling for women or men. It gets worserer. Chris Harrison got a 100GB bigram dataset from Google—a list of word pairs used by…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

A single brain cell can predict whether you’ll spend or save

iOS 4.3 Beta and Pre-Release Apple TV Software Now Available to Apple Developers

Designers unveil plans to build a second city on top of Toronto

The Military-Grade iPhone Windshield Mount

How Can a Watch this Complex Be Bulletproof?

Can a Single 21st Century Man Build a Toaster?

The Christian Slater tipping point: 2011 will be the year of Geek TV

Deals of the Day

An Early Contender for Worst Movie of the Year

V explains why the human soul is located in your mother’s cleavage

These Are the Most Popular Letters In the World According to Google

How Three College Kids Illegally Captured the Nation’s First X-Ray Photograph

This Is What Happens When Water Hits a Hot Pan at 3000 Frames Per Second

Give Your iPod The Glowing Dinosaur Egg Dock It Deserves

What’s Sprint Got Planned on Feb. 7th?

Meet the Newark Steam Man, the steampunk robot of the 19th century

You can’t escape “No Ordinary Family”…even if you want to

Valkee Earbuds Shine Light Into Your Brain to Combat Seasonal Affective Disorder

Thunderbirds is back, but will it have puppets?

Google Shows Why the World Is Screwed

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