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Spooky Science: Lightning can come into your house after all

Lightning can do a lot more than ruin your electronics. It can climb through the plumbing into your house and zap you to death. For some time, the idea that lightning could slip through plumbing and shock people in the bathroom and the kitchen was taken as truth. Kids were dragged out showers and dinners…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Oct 25 '10

Thousands of pro-Hobbit New Zealanders flood the streets to keep Bilbo a Kiwi

3000-or-so protestors took the streets in Wellington to prevent production of The Hobbit from leaving New Zealand. Labor disputes between The N.Z. Actors Equity and Warner Brothers have been resolved, but the possibility of producers going overseas stand at 50-50. Protests were also reported in cities like Christchurch and Auckland. In a letter from Jackson…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 25 '10

The Galaxy Tab Is $400 on Sprint, But the Data Plans Will Eat You Alive

Unlike Verizon, Sprint is subsidizing Samsung’s Galaxy Tab—signing your soul over for two years knocks the price down $200, to $400. The data plans are painful, which seems to be a running theme for the Tab. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-offering-galaxy-tab-nov-11th-for-600-and-no-s-5668604 For $30 a month, you get 2GB and unlimited messaging, or for $60 you get 5GB when it…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Oct 25 '10

The USO entertains troops on the Moon

In the late 1950s, the USO put on a parade where they included this bizarre float depicting a future version of the USO on the Moon. Ryan Bean, an archivist at the University of Minnesota Libraries, uncovered this gem and sent it to us. He says: It’s from the Charleston Armed Services YMCA, dated Oct…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 25 '10

Watch a MacBook Air Get Blown Up With Dynamite

What to do with your aging MacBook Air now that Apple’s introduced two shiny new models? Blow it up, of course. Blow it up with two sticks of M-1000 dynamite. https://gizmodo.com/new-macbook-airs-faster-lighter-instant-on-30-day-s-5668810 Since there were hipsters involved, I’m assuming the whole project was conceived somehow ironically. But ultimately they’re right; there’s something poetic about a MacBook…

Tech News Brian Barrett Oct 25 '10

The World’s Smallest Full HD Display

The iPhone 4’s Retina Display is 3.5 inches, with a resolution of 960×640 and a pixel density of 326ppi. Pretty much everyone agrees it looks great. So how incredible must ORTUS’s new 4.8-inch, 1,920×1080, 458ppi display look? ORTUS, a collaborative venture between Casio and Toppan Printing, announced the Hyper Amorphous Silicon TFT (HAST) display today…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Oct 25 '10

Possible huge Star Trek casting news. Plus your latest Batman 3 villain rumor. And will Hunger Games be PG-13?

Today’s spoilers include a huge hint about a new Star Trek character, a Tom Hardy Batman rumor, Hunger Games script reactions and Fringe/V set pics. The Host 2 will be 3-D! Fantastic Voyage may have a director! Plus Harry Potter! Star Trek: Did a New York Times article just give away a massive character spoiler…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Oct 25 '10

Watch Any Damn Video Format You Want on the iPhone With VLC

Want to watch videos encoded with crazy codecs on your iPhone without converting them? VLC’s now a universal app. It got a speed boost in the process, and you can delete videos directly off your iPad or iPhone. [iTunes]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 25 '10

So You Think Your Gym’s 5m-Tall Climbing Wall is Difficult?

I’m getting an extreme case of vertigo just by looking at this photo of the 37meter high climbing wall in The Netherlands, which is reported to be the world’s tallest. Dutch man Eric Kieboom shot these photos by strapping a Canon IXUS 850IS to a kite and floating it above the Klimcentrum Bjoeks tower, which…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 25 '10

Wi-Fi Direct Could Make Interconnected Devices a Cinch

Keeping all of your gadgets friendly together—syncing, sharing, and the like—always seems like something that could be better done with a WiFi connection than a cable. The new Wi-Fi Direct certification aims to make this a simpler reality. Wireless printing, streaming, sharing—and all the other things we want to do with our devices—isn’t anything new.…

Tech News Sam Biddle Oct 25 '10

Sell Unwanted Gadgets on eBay Instantly With Their New Recycling Service

It’s not going to warrant you any rags-to-riches accolades overnight, but it’s a quick way to get rid of unwanted gadgetry and make a few bucks in the process. You can make more money selling it on eBay proper, to real buyers, but for those other gadgets that no-one really wants, eBay is willing to…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford Oct 25 '10

How iPads Wooed Hollywood

From helping actors learn lines, to appearing 2,438 times on TV in September alone, to showing Star Trek 2’s lead actress as a vulcan, the NYTimes’ profiled the iPad’s influence on Hollywood behind and infront of the camera. [NYTimes]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 25 '10

Augmented Reality Graffiti Hits FourSquare in ARstreets iPhone App

The idea behind this app is that instead of tagging actual buildings, you’re tagging virtual buildings. Whether this will reduce crime (or actually encourage it) is undecided, but the app has a neat augmented reality Foursquare tie-in. The free app is only available in the US, where graffiti artists can daub their insignia on the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 25 '10

The Motorola StarTAC is Back, in Yellow

French company Lekki is doing something fun in the cellphone world, where every month a vintage phone will be reissued in a bright new hue. This month it’s 1996’s Motorola StarTAC, which is available now for $150. [Lekki via RetroToGo]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 25 '10

How Am I Supposed to Land My Helicopter On This Bank Roof, Eh?

When a “V” this large is beamed into the sky, questions must be asked. I don’t think the Vietnamese bank VietinBank is on a vendetta, however—unless the “situation” between the north and south is worse than I thought. Currently under construction near Hanoi, the larger tower will rise 68 storeys into the sky for the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 25 '10

The World’s Largest Magnet is Being Built in India

If your microwave suddenly whizzes out your house and down the road, you’ll know India’s successfully built the world’s largest magnet. The 50,000 tons of magnetised iron will be housed underground, making CERN’s 37,500-ton magnet shrink in shame. Why does India need such a large magnet? It’s for their neutrino observatory, which must be built…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 25 '10

Photographer and Videographer Brawl at Wedding Using Cameras as Weapons

The source of the fight is not clear, but when cameramen get fed up about something at this wedding it’s their expensive equipment that suffers the most when it’s hurled around. Watch the violence and trashed electronics inside. [via Photography Bay]

Tech News Bryan Ridgell Oct 25 '10

Google Must Publish Italian Street View Car Routes Three Days in Advance

Pity the big Goog, who is now legally obligated to publish its Italian Street View car routes in advance in newspapers, radio and on a website. This is a godsend for fame-hungry costume-dressing Street View pranksters. [Reuters] https://gizmodo.com/absurd-mysteries-scuba-divers-chase-google-street-view-5468300

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 25 '10

10 less-known Warren Ellis comics (that are worth your ducats)

Red may have featured Helen Mirren firing a gatling gun, but the film wasn’t indicative of Warren Ellis’ work as a whole. Here are 10 amazing tales from Ellis’ oeuvre about such topics as transhuman deities and a dead Galactus. https://gizmodo.com/red-proves-the-action-movie-and-the-comic-book-movie-5665003 Don’t get me wrong — Planetary, Transmetropolitan, The Authority and Nextwave are fine books,…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Oct 25 '10

Adobe Air Is Coming To TVs

Adobe is going to bring their updated Adobe Air 2.5 software platform to televisions, smartphones, tablets and desktops. That means theoretically an app designed for Adobe Air can now be spread across nearly every screen you use. Along with support for popular desktop and smartphone OS, Adobe Air has living room aspirations as well: Adobe…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 25 '10

Spooky Science: Lightning can come into your house after all

Thousands of pro-Hobbit New Zealanders flood the streets to keep Bilbo a Kiwi

The Galaxy Tab Is $400 on Sprint, But the Data Plans Will Eat You Alive

The USO entertains troops on the Moon

Watch a MacBook Air Get Blown Up With Dynamite

The World’s Smallest Full HD Display

Possible huge Star Trek casting news. Plus your latest Batman 3 villain rumor. And will Hunger Games be PG-13?

Watch Any Damn Video Format You Want on the iPhone With VLC

So You Think Your Gym’s 5m-Tall Climbing Wall is Difficult?

Wi-Fi Direct Could Make Interconnected Devices a Cinch

Sell Unwanted Gadgets on eBay Instantly With Their New Recycling Service

How iPads Wooed Hollywood

Augmented Reality Graffiti Hits FourSquare in ARstreets iPhone App

The Motorola StarTAC is Back, in Yellow

How Am I Supposed to Land My Helicopter On This Bank Roof, Eh?

The World’s Largest Magnet is Being Built in India

Photographer and Videographer Brawl at Wedding Using Cameras as Weapons

Google Must Publish Italian Street View Car Routes Three Days in Advance

10 less-known Warren Ellis comics (that are worth your ducats)

Adobe Air Is Coming To TVs

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