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Super Accurate Lego Frog Dissection is Perfect for the Squeamish

All of the education from a dissection, minus the slicing, goopiness, and grossness? Biology teachers may disagree, but I certainly would have preferred examining this plastic sucker over the real thing. [Flickr via Brothers Brick]

Tech News Christina Bonnington Nov 1 '10

All AppleCare Protection Plans Are Now Transferable

According to the folks at BGR, all AppleCare Protection Plans now have a 30-day window in which they’re transferable to new products. Previously such a transfer option was only available on iPhone AppleCare plans. [BGR]

Tech News Rosa Golijan Nov 1 '10

The Magnestick System Straps Your Kids Safely in Ski Lifts Using the Magic of Magnets

US ski resorts are now getting the Magnestick Safety System. Permanent electromagnets affixed to ski lift seats are switched on when a child, wearing a vest with a metallic plate, hops in. Voila! No slipping or sliding off the lift prematurely. Kids are required to wear the Magnestick vest, which has a metallic back plate,…

Tech News Christina Bonnington Nov 1 '10

MLB Players Fall for Titanium Necklace Con

Titanium necklaces are a clever con for unsuspecting MLB players as well as avid sports fans. The “ionic” necklaces supposedly relieve pain, increase muscle efficiency, and provide the same benefits as chugging an electrolyte-loaded drink. But it’s all just hocus-pocus. Phiten, a company behind many of these magical necklaces, provides questionable evidence to substantiate its…

Tech News Josh Hamer Nov 1 '10

Kids These Days Send 34 Texts After Bedtime Alone

How are the youth of America spending their witching hours? Typing on the phone, apparently, an average of three dozen times per night. My god, how do they have that many friends? Sounds exhausting. The indictment comes from a study by the JFK Medical Center, which concluded that teenagers send an average of 34 texts…

Tech News Brian Barrett Nov 1 '10

Google Is Suing The United States Government

Uh oh. Looks like Google is rushing to take on the federal government in the courtrooms. The reasons? Conspiracy theories, Microsoft, good ol’ Google Apps, and apparent favoritism. A court battle with the Feds sounds like something the search giant would want to avoid. But a suit filed by Google last week doesn’t have anything…

Tech News Ariel Schwartz - FastCompany Nov 1 '10

Camioncyclette: A Shopping Cart With Pedals

Is the Camioncyclette a bike with too many baskets attached, or is it just a giant, ride-able shopping-cart? According to designer Christophe Machet, it’s in fact a “transportation bicycle”, and can carry up to 330 pounds in those wiry receptacles. What I like most about the Camioncyclette is that it is dead simple. So many…

Tech News Charlie Sorrel - Wired Nov 1 '10

Watching These Bad Things Happen Is a Very Good Time

Watching terrible things happen, with agonizingly long set-ups leading to brilliant payoff? Sure, that’s fine. But when you do it people dressed up in giant cardboard prop costumes, that’s when bad gets really, really good. There’s not much not to like about this short film by This Is It, unless any of these things have…

Tech News Brian Barrett Nov 1 '10

In “Seed Seeker,” teens from an Earth colony meet their maker

Pamela Sargent’s Seed Seeker is the long-awaited third book in her early 1980s Seed Trilogy. It’s a graceful coming-of-age story set on a colony world, where a group of troubled teens meet the generation ship who engineered them. The descendant of humans who colonized the planet Home many generations ago, Bian is a young woman…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Nov 1 '10

Walking Dead premieres as the highest rated show in AMC’s history

Move over Mad Men and Breaking Bad, 5.3 million people tuned in to watch the zombie-filled Walking Dead. Amazing.

Television Meredith Woerner Nov 1 '10

Caress Your Touchscreen in the Cold With Agloves

We’ve hit November, which means that for many of you, it’s starting to get really, really cold. So how are we supposed to multitouch with mittens on? Agloves has a pair of $18 capacitive screen-capable gloves, knitted with silver. They aren’t the chicest and probably not the warmest—though Agloves does claim the silver threading will…

Tech News Sam Biddle Nov 1 '10

A music video about the happiest robot apocalypse you’ll see all day

In this video for “Kill Your Co-Workers” by electronic musician (and Adult Swim bumper composer) Flying Lotus, a bizarre polygonal parade is the scene of a robot-versus-robot massacre. Furthermore, video director beeple has made this crazed video open source. [Underwire]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 1 '10

Meet your new Disney villain obsession

The stand-out performance in Disney’s new Rapunzel princess feature Tangled is Donna Murphy as the evil Mother Gothel, hands down. Watch her little character introduction here, plus get a first listen at the songs “Incantation” and “I See The Light.” As cute as this video clip is, sadly it does not do the insanity of…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 1 '10

iOS 4.2 Gold Master Now Available To iPhone Developers

Looks like iOS 4.2 has left the beta stage and gone gold master. The GM is available to iPhone developers now and we’ll let you know if we spot anything exciting or new soon. [Apple]

Tech News Rosa Golijan Nov 1 '10

Take the ultimate intelligence test

You might think it’s obvious that one person is smarter than another. But there are few more controversial areas of science than the study of intelligence and, in reality, there’s not even agreement among researchers about what this word means. Click here to go straight to the ultimate intelligence test. Unlike weight and height, which…

io9 Adrian M Owen - New Scientist Nov 1 '10

Serial Port Connection for iPhone Is the King of All Retro Hacks

Making your iPhone play nice with an ancient serial connection is a feat in itself—but a group of IT workers didn’t just do it to impress. Turns out, it’s incredibly useful to have access to the dinosaur port. A jailbroken iPhone hacked into last decade works wonders with server racks, allowing technicians to carry around…

Tech News Sam Biddle Nov 1 '10

A Look at the Tech Inside Printer Cartridge Bombs

Terrorists are running out of places to put their bombs—even shoes are off limits now. So where do you stick explosives these days? Here’s a look inside the deviously clever design of printer bombs that made recent headlines. Officials aren’t certain what group is behind the improvised bombs that found their way onto cargo planes…

Tech News Sam Biddle Nov 1 '10

Worst television versions of science fiction and fantasy books

The Walking Dead carried all our dreams on its undead shoulders. We’re all hoping HBO’s Game of Thrones will also rule. But sadly, television has an even worse record of adapting books than movies. Here are 10 book-to-television embarrassments. And welcome back to Monday Hate, where we hate things because it’s Monday. So there’s a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Nov 1 '10

A live, updating list of problems voters have had with voting in 2010

Our Vote Live is a website where the Election Protection Coalition logs every complaint or problem that people report with voting, from finding their polling place to operating weird voting machines. It’s fascinating to watch all the problems roll in. Already, there are almost 2,000 problems, and it isn’t even election day yet. Check it…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 1 '10

Arrrgmented Reality T-Shirt

Someday I hope to come up with a pun so good it gets immortalized on a t-shirt. Like a drawing of a FireWire cord that’s actually ON FIRE!!!??? No? Anyway, here’s how this one looks on a person: Get yours for $18 at Threadless. [Threadless via Laughing Squid]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Nov 1 '10

Super Accurate Lego Frog Dissection is Perfect for the Squeamish

All AppleCare Protection Plans Are Now Transferable

The Magnestick System Straps Your Kids Safely in Ski Lifts Using the Magic of Magnets

MLB Players Fall for Titanium Necklace Con

Kids These Days Send 34 Texts After Bedtime Alone

Google Is Suing The United States Government

Camioncyclette: A Shopping Cart With Pedals

Watching These Bad Things Happen Is a Very Good Time

In “Seed Seeker,” teens from an Earth colony meet their maker

Walking Dead premieres as the highest rated show in AMC’s history

Caress Your Touchscreen in the Cold With Agloves

A music video about the happiest robot apocalypse you’ll see all day

Meet your new Disney villain obsession

iOS 4.2 Gold Master Now Available To iPhone Developers

Take the ultimate intelligence test

Serial Port Connection for iPhone Is the King of All Retro Hacks

A Look at the Tech Inside Printer Cartridge Bombs

Worst television versions of science fiction and fantasy books

A live, updating list of problems voters have had with voting in 2010

Arrrgmented Reality T-Shirt

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