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Ride a space shuttle rocket booster into space, then plunge back to Earth

In this film, taken a couple of years ago from a rocket booster on the space shuttle Discovery, you can see what it’s like to blast into space, shooting fire and whirling back into the upper atmosphere. The action starts heating up at about the 1:30 minute mark, when we blast off and start zooming…

io9 Annalee Newitz

EA Holding Out on Windows Phone 7

The announced list of Windows Phone 7 games was impressive! But noticeably absent was EA, who’s dragging their heals on officially committing to the platform. https://gizmodo.com/xbox-live-on-windows-phone-7-hands-on-mobile-levels-up-5614244 In a statement provided to Mobile Entertainment, EA had little to say on the matter: “We are constantly evaluating new platforms and opportunities, but have nothing to announce right…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Bullet Train Chopsticks Bring the Sushi to Your Mouth Faster

Available now at every Japanophile’s favorite export site J-List for $8, these bullet train chopsticks don’t *quite* travel at 224mph, but they do make futomaki pieces taste even better. Fact. [J-List via Laughing Squid] https://gizmodo.com/hell-on-wheels-japanese-bullet-train-billed-as-worlds-165536

Tech News Kat Hannaford

BlackPad Won’t Run OS 6, Will Run QNX’s OS?

Many assumed—rightly so—that RIM would be using some form of OS 6.0 on its upcoming “BlackPad” tablet, but the word on the town is that they’ll actually be using a completely new tablet platform, based on QNX’s microkernel-based OS, which they acquired from Harman International back in April. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-blackberry-tablet-blackpad-to-cost-499-5607993 Added to that is the concern…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Concept art pays tribute to the richness, as well as the realism, of George R.R. Martin’s Westeros

For those of us who can’t wait for the HBO series to start seeing every little detail of George R.R. Martin’s Westeros, artist Xavier Garcia has started creating A Song Of Ice And Fire concept art. Here’s his Jon Snow. And yes, that’s The Wall that Jon’s standing on. I have to admit, this isn’t…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Sound of Woodworms is Art

This piece of electronic art involves a microphone listening to 25 woodworms eating away at a log. Chomp, chomp, chomp. On exhibition in Ireland, currently. [Zimoun via BLDGBLOG]

Tech News Brian Lam

I Want To Teach in a School of the Future With Sharp’s 60-inch LCD Blackboard

Sharp’s 60″ PN-L601B Blackboard, announced today in Japan, ditches the SMART Board’s projector in lieu of a 1,920×1,080, LED-backlit LCD display. It’s almost awesome enough to make me want to draw sentence diagrams for Catcher In the Rye. Teaching once seemed like a potentially-noble, probably-miserable future profession, before the allure of high tech blog world…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

31-Inch OLED TV Will Be Shown Off by LG

Not content with having the largest production OLED model on the market today (pictured), LG is doubling its size in time for the IFA electronics show next month, where it’ll show off a 31-inch panel. https://gizmodo.com/lg-15-inch-el9500-oled-tv-arrives-in-u-s-later-this-ye-5471403 A couple of years ago, Samsung showed off a 31-inch OLED at CES, which was just 4.3mm thick and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Ultimate Marijuana Farm Security System: Bears

Perimeter fences are hard to maintain. Security cameras are expensive these days. Armed guards can be bought. Yep, it looks like there’s really only one way to reliably protect your marijuana farm these days: lazy bears. That was apparently the proprietorial philosophy of one recently raided Western Canada marijuana farm. The attending police were flummoxed…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The insectoid monsters of the Russian subway system

In a series of doctored photographs called Metronomicon, artist Alexey Andreev recreates the world of H.P. Lovecraft in the Russian subways. It’s the perfect place for Cthulhu and his spawn. Check out our gallery. See more Alexey Andreev’s blog, via Feuilleton (Note: Yes, we’ve posted some of these images before, so consider this an unofficial…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Steve Jobs Gets To Tear His House Down

In this episode of Home Makeover: Mansion Edition: Steve Jobs finally, officially, gets to demolish his house to build a new one. There had been some scuttlebutt over Jobs-occupied Jackling House was a historic landmark, but! It seems that Jonathan Ive can finally get cracking on those iHouse blueprints. [Almanac News via 9to5 Mac] https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-permitted-to-bulldoze-historic-mansion-5252151

Tech News Brian Barrett

Doug Jones explains how to bring humanity to an inhuman character

Nobody is better at playing bizarre creatures of the imagination than Doug Jones, who’s probably Guillermo del Toro’s most frequent collaborator. We asked Jones the secret of bringing creatures to life, and whether we’ll ever see Hellboy’s Abe Sapien again. We asked Jones the secret to playing a memorable non-human, and whether this was different…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

An Ode to Landlines and Desk Phones

Earlier this year, after almost a decade of exclusively using cellphones, I hooked up a landline and got myself a batphone. It’s been fantastic. https://gizmodo.com/why-my-boss-is-cooler-than-yours-5552952 With Google Voice, there’s no more of that “call me on my landline, I’m at home,” or “hey I’m running out, let me call you back on the cellphone.” I…

Tech News Jason Chen

Meet the Last Great Holographic Artist

In the 1970s, the heyday of lasers and holograms, holographic artist Jason Sapan, AKA Doctor Laser, was a rock star. Though his art form fell out of favor, he still tinkers tirelessly in holograms today. Here’s his fascinating story. [Motherboard]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Giant star that should have been a black hole became something even stranger

A star went supernova with more than twice the mass needed to ultimately collapse into a black hole. But something weirder happened – the star became a magnetar, an asteroid-sized star with the most powerful magnetic field in the universe. The fates of stars are almost entirely determined by their mass. If a star is…

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Hayden Christensen is ready for a “darker” Jumper 2

Ready to watch Hayden Christensen brood and teleport and fight Paladins once again? Christensen says he’s down for Jumper 2, and it sounds as though he’s got a plan for how the sequel would play out. In an interview with MTV Christensen revealed that he was, along with a few other folks were “talking about”…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Forget What Your Feet Look Like?

It’s time to get out of the house, like, right now. Fill out the survey below and you could win a $150 gift certificate to Dick’s Sporting Goods. Go buy some new running shoes and then take a leisurely jog to the ice cream store.

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The ferocious blooms of Ireland’s plankton are visible from space

Check out that blue alien swarm off the coast of Ireland. It’s phytoplankton in bloom, in an image captured last spring and released this week. They swirl in the water, almost like an intelligence… with a purpose. [ESA via NationalGeographic]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

America, Foiling Our Enemies

I just hope this is not the guy in charge of the United States Cyber Command. https://gizmodo.com/the-secret-code-hidden-in-the-united-states-cyber-comma-5581373

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“Cameron Diaz” Is Riddled With Viruses

Of all the celebrities you could search for on the web, Cameron Diaz is the most likely to give your computer something itchy. That’s according to McAfee, who may just be getting back at her for Knight and Day. Apparently a “Cameron Diaz” search has a one-in-ten chance of landing on a site with malware.…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Ride a space shuttle rocket booster into space, then plunge back to Earth

EA Holding Out on Windows Phone 7

Bullet Train Chopsticks Bring the Sushi to Your Mouth Faster

BlackPad Won’t Run OS 6, Will Run QNX’s OS?

Concept art pays tribute to the richness, as well as the realism, of George R.R. Martin’s Westeros

The Sound of Woodworms is Art

I Want To Teach in a School of the Future With Sharp’s 60-inch LCD Blackboard

31-Inch OLED TV Will Be Shown Off by LG

The Ultimate Marijuana Farm Security System: Bears

The insectoid monsters of the Russian subway system

Steve Jobs Gets To Tear His House Down

Doug Jones explains how to bring humanity to an inhuman character

An Ode to Landlines and Desk Phones

Meet the Last Great Holographic Artist

Giant star that should have been a black hole became something even stranger

Hayden Christensen is ready for a “darker” Jumper 2

Forget What Your Feet Look Like?

The ferocious blooms of Ireland’s plankton are visible from space

America, Foiling Our Enemies

“Cameron Diaz” Is Riddled With Viruses

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