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Worst rip-off of E.T.’s flying bicycle scene in movie history

If you’re making a movie about kids meeting an alien, it’s probably semi-compulsory to include a flying-bicycle scene, as an E.T. shout-out. But nowadays, you can make the effects look way cooler. Right? Right Or… not. Witness this hideous example. This clip comes from 2005’s No Place Like Home, which features an all-star cast, including…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Air Bags Make Falling Off a Horse Fun—Or At Least Less Deadly

Fall off the horse? The best thing to do is to get right back on. That’s easier if you’re not spurting organ goo out of every ruptured pore. According to the Times, equestrians have turned to airbags. From Katie Thomas’s story about air bags for equestrians: “It’s certainly the biggest step forward in the safety…

Tech News Joel Johnson

Why You Should Always Carry A Cameraphone: Alligators

This photo is an urban legend come true—a real baby alligator crawling out of a New York City sewer. What makes this image especially lovely though, is that it was snapped hastily with a cameraphone. Apparently New York resident Joyce Hackett found herself driving past an intersection where a large group of people was gathered…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Mobile Browser Deathmatch: Windows Phone 7 vs Nexus One vs iPhone

Wondering how the Windows Phone 7 browser stacks up against that of other popular devices? The folks at PocketNow can help clue you in because they’ve compared a Windows Phone 7, a Nexus One running Froyo, and an iPhone. It’s worth noting that neither the Windows Phone 7 device nor the software it’s running are…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

A Drinking App For Your Mad Men Problem

It’s not that I’m jealous that the team at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce get to drink all day on the job. It’s the quality of the booze. Mad Men Cocktail Guide app to the rescue? Well… sort of. If you’re a Mad Men completist, hey, it’s a free app with some fun features! If you…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Further proof that chronic fatigue syndrome is linked to viruses

Last year a scientific controversy was unleashed when a group of researchers reported that patients with chronic fatigue syndrome had traces of retrovirus in their bodies. Several follow-up studies found no such correlation between chronic fatigue and retroviruses, which are the same kind of viruses as HIV. https://gizmodo.com/is-chronic-fatigue-a-communicable-disease-5377444 But today the original study received some…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Artificial Ape Man: How Technology Created Humans

Archaeologist and anthropologist Timothy Taylor explains how a long-vanished artefact explains human evolution and led to “survival of the weakest.” You begin your book The Artificial Ape by claiming that Darwin was wrong. In what way? Darwin is one of my heroes, but I believe he was wrong in seeing human evolution as a result…

Tech News Adam Harris

30+ comics that we’re craving this fall

Summer’s almost over, but we couldn’t resist showcasing Jaime Hernandez’s beach blanket bingo cover from November’s Strange Tales 2. Here are 30 or so other comics, miniseries, and story arcs that will bring the heat as the temperature dips. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 36 (Dark Horse): September 1 It’s the final arc of Season 8,…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

This Replica Weapon’s Creator Is a Hero of the Wasteland

Fallout megafan Ryan Palser has made a fantastic replica of the Fallout 3’s A3-21 Plasma Rifle. The attention to detail is splendid, and we hope he makes more. Ryan, if you’re reading—Brotherhood of Steel helmet next, please! Ryan has indulged us with a Flickr gallery chronicling the rifle’s construction, and it’s highly impressive how much…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Trailer for “Age of the Dragons” delivers medieval monster kickassery

If you’re a normal person, when you read Moby Dick you thought, “Wouldn’t it be cooler if this book was set in the middle ages, and had dragons instead of whales?” Now a movie goes where Herman Melville never dared! Seriously, we were excited about this flick back when it was called Dragon Fire and…

Trailers Annalee Newitz

Sam Spratt Gallery

Sir Ian Mckellen + Close up of Nose Sir Ian Mckellen (Close up of Nose) Barney Stinson aka Neil Patrick Harris Tony Hayward and the BP Oil Spill Creature Series: Four creatures and landscapes generated without photographic reference from Sam Spratt’s imagination Orbital Drop and Shock Cancer Treatment Via Nanoparticle Dispersion created for the American…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Could self-aware cities be the first forms of artificial intelligence?

The cities of the future will be huge and super-dense — but will they also be alive? Could the increasingly complex systems needed to manage the next generation of megacities become our first true artificial intelligence? People have speculated before about the idea that the Internet might become self-aware and turn into the first “real”…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Want to Break Online Video Records? Hire Snoop Dogg to Blow Shit Up

To promote online game Mafia Wars Las Vegas, game developer Zynga hired Snoop Dogg to blow up a 4-ton armored truck in the Nevada desert, while it was live-streamed to Ustream. It pulled in more viewers than TV broadcasts attract. Obviously it varies depending on the channel and TV show, but as TechCrunch points out,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Sun is changing the rate of radioactive decay, and breaking the rules of chemistry

The Sun is changing the supposedly constant rates of decay of radioactive elements, and we have absolutely no idea why. But an entirely unknown particle could be behind it. Plus, this discovery could help us predict deadly solar flares. It’s one of the most basic concepts in all of chemistry: Radioactive elements decay at a…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Using Your Jailbroken PS3 Online Will Send the Sony Cops Your Way

As tempting as it might be to jailbreak your PS3, you really probably definitely shouldn’t. Because when you do, Sony can detect the software ID the jailbreak program uses, and ban your PS3 remotely. According to a PS3 Hacks posting: https://kotaku.com/working-playstation-3-modchip-is-not-a-hoax-australian-5616952 Sony does currently ban PSN/consoles that results in the 8002A227 error code…[So], as people…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Google Goggles Is Heading to iPhone This Year

Google Goggles, easily one of the biggest wow factor apps out there, will be released for the iPhone by year’s end. The app, which lets you search visually with your phone’s camera, has been Android-only up until now. David Petrou, the Google engineer who made the annoucement at today’s Hot Chips conference, says the iPhone…

Tech News Sam Biddle

All the books you’ll be lusting for this fall season

Fall is a big season for the books, and the next few months will be bringing you literary treats you only dreamed of. There’s new work from William Gibson, Connie Willis, Iain M. Banks, Cherie Priest, and more! August Aug. 17 John Birmingham, After America (Del Rey) Australian author Birmingham gives us the second action-packed…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Accidental Photobomb Leads to Bag Thief’s Capture

These well-dressed folks are the Myers Family and they’ve got a Canon G7 camera with quite possibly the best timing in the world. Why? Well, just take a closer look at what’s going on in the background of this photo: See the sneaky thief about to walk off with the Myers’ bags? Thanks to this…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

iMac Touch Interface Shown Off In Apple Patent

How do you make an iMac desktop that doubles as a multitouch tablet? If you’re Apple: just like this. Why can’t the future be now already? The patent above, unearthed by Patently Apple, shows off Apple’s plans to bring together its desktop and tablet lines. Which explains how Mac OS X and iOS might actually…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Art of Japanese Manhole Covers

Your current favorite manhole fact: they’re round so that they can’t fall in the manhole, even when they’re turned sideways. Your new favorite manhole fact: in Japan, they serve as canvasses for hundreds of beautiful, vibrant artworks: Photographer Remo Camerota catalogs the circular works in his new book Drainspotting, which recently took the award for…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Worst rip-off of E.T.’s flying bicycle scene in movie history

Air Bags Make Falling Off a Horse Fun—Or At Least Less Deadly

Why You Should Always Carry A Cameraphone: Alligators

Mobile Browser Deathmatch: Windows Phone 7 vs Nexus One vs iPhone

A Drinking App For Your Mad Men Problem

Further proof that chronic fatigue syndrome is linked to viruses

Artificial Ape Man: How Technology Created Humans

30+ comics that we’re craving this fall

This Replica Weapon’s Creator Is a Hero of the Wasteland

Trailer for “Age of the Dragons” delivers medieval monster kickassery

Sam Spratt Gallery

Could self-aware cities be the first forms of artificial intelligence?

Want to Break Online Video Records? Hire Snoop Dogg to Blow Shit Up

The Sun is changing the rate of radioactive decay, and breaking the rules of chemistry

Using Your Jailbroken PS3 Online Will Send the Sony Cops Your Way

Google Goggles Is Heading to iPhone This Year

All the books you’ll be lusting for this fall season

Accidental Photobomb Leads to Bag Thief’s Capture

iMac Touch Interface Shown Off In Apple Patent

The Art of Japanese Manhole Covers

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