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V-Moda’s Giz-Inspired Upgrade Program Pays Up to $35 for Your Old Crappy Headphones

V-Moda says they liked our cheap headphones expose so much, they’ll give you up to $35 toward a set of V-Moda buds if you trade in your old, crappy pair. Pretty awesome, if done well. Details here: [V-Moda] https://gizmodo.com/the-secret-scam-of-cheap-earbuds-5617200

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Gadget Deals of the Day

Grab some friends and a grill, the weather’s still summery and today’s #Dealzmodo features some fantastic steals! Bargains include a 14.1″ Lenovo ThinkPad T410 (under $800 for the first time), half off Band Hero kit for PS3 or 360, and free hotdogs! Top Deals: • 14.1″ Lenovo ThinkPad T410 Core i5 Laptop for $759.20 plus…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Decisions, Decisions: Are You Droid X or Droid 2?

Droid X and Droid 2 are out today. They both offer superior browsing and are personal 3G wireless hotspots for up to 5 devices. But do you want the superior video capabilities of Droid X or the faster OS 2.2 (hello, Flash!) processing, enhanced messaging, and social apps of Droid 2? Droid X Make your…

Tech News Gawkercreative

Mockingjay proves the Hunger Games is must-read literature

Mockingjay, the end of Suzanne Collins’ science-fictional Hunger Games trilogy, attracted the kind of fervor usually reserved for YA fantasy like Twilight or Harry Potter. And the good news is, it more than lives up to the hype. I’m going to keep this review almost spoiler-free — there will be minor league spoilers, but nothing…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

MIT’s Top 35 Innovators Under 35

As we said in the introductory article for our Eureka theme-week, inventors are either white-haired old men like Edison, or crackpots from infomercials. MIT’s Technology Review helps debunk these stereotypes with their 2010 list of the top innovators under 35. https://gizmodo.com/eureka-hello-invention-5621719 Their annual list looks at those whose work “spanning medicine, computing, communications, electronics, nanotechnology,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Human Cannonball Astronaut: My Rocket Is My Clothes

Within weeks, Peter Madsen and Kristian von Bengtson will launch the first standing-room-only spacecraft. Their rocket is a cylindrical capsule that snugly fits around a standing person, with a clear plexiglass dome so that the astronaut can see out. For this first test flight, Madsen and von Bengtson – founders of the non-profit organisation Copenhagen…

Space & Spaceflight New Scientist

Dogs and mice can figure out who has Bird Flu just by smelling their poop

Researchers have discovered that animals with a good sense of smell, like dogs and mice, can be trained to detect animals infected with bird flu. Just by sniffing their excrement. Could this be a new early-warning detection system for pandemics? The work is being undertaken by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who have trained mice…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Mockingjay Spoiler Thread

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Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Our Worst Nightmares About the Government Tracking Us Just Came True

It’s okay for the government to plant a GPS tracker on the car parked in your driveway, tracking everywhere you go. It doesn’t violate your rights, at all—according to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers California, Arizona, Oregon and a bunch of the western…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The next big source of alternative energy could be the air itself

There’s electricity in the air all around us, formed as water vapor comes into contact with dust particles. For centuries scientists have dreamed of tapping into this source of power – and we finally might be able to do it. The knowledge that water vapor creates electricity goes back to the industrial revolution, when workers…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Vocab Lesson: Vapor-Metalized Plastic

A piece of plastic goes in, a piece of metal comes out. At least, that’s what vapor metallizing seems to accomplish, at least to our immediate senses. It’s gilding, except it’s been updated for the electronics age. And it’s everywhere. Vapor metallization is a solution to a common industrial problem: Plastic is easily moldable, lightweight…

Tech News John Herrman

Shooting Challenge: Velocity

A while ago, we challenged you to capture motion blur. This week, we’re upping the ante. Your subject will be in motion, but it’s the background of the shot that will blur into obscurity. https://gizmodo.com/117-beautifully-blurry-photos-5456519 The Challenge Take a photo of something in motion, capturing it completely sharp with the background in a blur. But…

Tech News Mark Wilson

How Kodak Built a FrankenCamera to Take Digital Photos in 1975

During the frigid Rochester winter of 1975, researchers at Kodak pieced together the future a quarter of a century early. Built from scavenged parts, the team had created their first “film-less” camera—an idea far ahead of its time. Kodak’s Steve Sasson recounts the effort with joy. The strange looking device was built with spare parts…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Best Buy Wants to Buy Your Old and Busted Games

Best Buy is rolling out a nationwide games trade-in program, starting this weekend. Customers who sell used games from among “more than 100 popular titles” (not yet disclosed) will receive an instant gift card to use in the store. [Best Buy]

Tech News Sam Biddle

See a world of terror through the eyes of a woman who’s slowly going blind

, shot from the protagonist’s viewpoint. Here is the first ever subtitled trailer for the film, which is produced by GDT and written and directed by Guillem Morales, . The story follows a husband and wife after they move into a new town to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding their sister’s death. As of right…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Gmail Voice Is About Future Search, Not Free Calls

Sex, Bombs and Burgers author Peter Nowak explains how Google Voice in Gmail has nothing to do with giving you free phone calls. It’s actually here to help Google perfect the next generation of search. https://gizmodo.com/make-free-calls-in-gmail-with-google-voice-5621741 Yesterday’s most exciting news was Google’s introduction of free voice calls to Gmail. In a nutshell, if you have…

Tech News Peter Nowak

What is that police box doing on top of a building at MIT?

What the heck is that blue box on top of the Small Dome at MIT? Students starting school this week at the venerable geek institution were wondering that themselves. Let’s take a closer look . . . Yep, it turns out that the Doctor is stopping by to give the first lecture in 6.01, the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Next Big iTunes Update to Be Social Web-Based Site and Not Cloud-Based Service?

Too many headlines have focused on iTV and new iPods for the upcoming Apple event that the cloud-based iTunes has almost slid into obscurity. Almost. AllThingsD‘s sources say to forget about a streaming service, and start thinking social. Citing industry executives, Peter Kafka scribed today that while Apple hasn’t yet inked deals with the various…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Whoops! The 10 Greatest (Accidental) Inventions of All Time

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits,” Thomas Edison once said. But is hustling all it takes? Is progress always deliberate? Sometimes genius arrives not by choice—but by chance. Below are our ten favorite serendipitous innovations. 1. The Microwave – Percy L. Spencer Percy Spencer, an engineer at Raytheon after his WWI stint…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Ancient galaxies possess gigantic, mysterious ultraviolet rings

Some of the universe’s oldest galaxies appear to be going through the cosmic equivalent of a mid-life crisis, surrounding themselves with immense ultraviolet halos. These highly energetic rings of light make galaxies look young again, and astronomers are totally baffled. Using NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer and Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers closely examined thirty galaxies that…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

V-Moda’s Giz-Inspired Upgrade Program Pays Up to $35 for Your Old Crappy Headphones

Gadget Deals of the Day

Decisions, Decisions: Are You Droid X or Droid 2?

Mockingjay proves the Hunger Games is must-read literature

MIT’s Top 35 Innovators Under 35

Human Cannonball Astronaut: My Rocket Is My Clothes

Dogs and mice can figure out who has Bird Flu just by smelling their poop

Mockingjay Spoiler Thread

Our Worst Nightmares About the Government Tracking Us Just Came True

The next big source of alternative energy could be the air itself

Vocab Lesson: Vapor-Metalized Plastic

Shooting Challenge: Velocity

How Kodak Built a FrankenCamera to Take Digital Photos in 1975

Best Buy Wants to Buy Your Old and Busted Games

See a world of terror through the eyes of a woman who’s slowly going blind

Gmail Voice Is About Future Search, Not Free Calls

What is that police box doing on top of a building at MIT?

Next Big iTunes Update to Be Social Web-Based Site and Not Cloud-Based Service?

Whoops! The 10 Greatest (Accidental) Inventions of All Time

Ancient galaxies possess gigantic, mysterious ultraviolet rings

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