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This Hair Dryer Has a Ferrari Engine Inside

The new Conair BaByliss Pro Volare hairdryer packs an “engine” built with Ferrari’s team using real Ferrari parts. I’m just hoping that if I use the Volare my hair will ooze Italian sex appeal. Apparently, the Volare is the first hair dryer to use a ball bearing design, which is supposed to keep things running…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 14

Man films his near-miss shark attack

Chuck Patterson was stand-up paddle boarding when two juvenile great white sharks swam up to investigate. Luckily, Patterson had the camera on a pole….which is a little bit safer, I guess. Here’s his description of the footage: […] within 5 minutes a 9 ft shark came out of no where and circled twice and slapped…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 14

Don’t Forget To Feed The Phone

If I told you there’s a website that posted pictures of people feeding food to inanimate objects, what would you say? Yeah, I’d want to see it too. There’s something awesome about a balloon drinking coffee and a girl eating door. I can’t be the only one who now wishes they could feed their iPhone…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 14

Ghostbusters return to haunt the art world

While we’re waiting for the Ghostbusters to return to the big screen, a group of artists have dragged our favorite ghost hunting foursome back into the spotlight with a Proton Pack-powered gallery show. On the agenda for pop-culture-meets-fine-arts outlet Gallery 1988 is “Ghostbusters, Goonies, and Gremlins,” a group show that pays tribute to the three…

io9 Lauren Davis Aug 14

Star Wars Blu-ray boxed set coming in fall 2011

Good news first. In the fall of next year, Lucasfilm will release a collection of all six Star Wars films on Blu-ray with extras a-go-go. The bad news? The films may not be sold separately, and Greedo shot first. Lucas spoke with the New York Times’ ArtsBeat blog from Celebration V in Orlando. The DVDs…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Aug 14

Try E-Mailing The Guy With The World’s Longest E-Mail Address

Some guy’s e-mail address is 345 characters long. Mine’s only 17 characters long. Damn, he’s way bigger than me. Here’s his elongated e-mail address in all its glory. The full e-mail address is: contact-admin-hello-webmaster-info-services-peter-crazy-but-oh-so-ubber-cool-english-alphabet-loverer-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz@please-try-to.send-me-an-email-if-you-can-possibly-begin-to-remember-this-coz.this-is-the-longest-email-address-known-to-man-but-to-be-honest.this-is-such-a-stupidly-long-sub-domain-it-could-go-on-forever.pacraig.com It actually kind of rolls off the tongue. [URDB via Laughing Squid]

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 14

A Touchless Automatic Paper Towel Dispenser And Cutter Might Be Too Much

For me, paper towel dispensers fall under things I never thought needed improving. The imaginative folks at CLEANCut think differently—they’ve created an automatic paper towel dispenser and cutter that’s sleek, touchless and probably totally unnecessary. The Clean Cut Paper Towel Dispenser can cut any brand of paper towel to whatever length you want and since…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 14

The shiniest stories on io9 this week

Oh look, it’s Bryan Lee O’Malley’s interpretation of Emma Frost. How ribald! The White Queen here is kicking off our best of this week, which included reflections on Max Headroom and conversations with Robert Kirkman, Jason Schwartzman, and China Miéville. 12 theories about “Lost” that were better than the actual show A big part of…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 14

Swarming vampire bats attack 500 people in Peru, killing 4

Peru’s health ministry has dispatched emergency medical teams to the Amazon rainforest to stanch an outbreak of rabid vampire bats. So far 500+ people have been attacked by the bats, and four have been killed. The creatures’ habitat has recently been reduced by deforestation. From the BBC: Four children in the Awajun indigenous tribe died…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 14

Apple Employee Accused Of Accepting $1 Million In Kickbacks From Asian Suppliers

The Mercury News is reporting that Paul Shin Devine, a midlevel Apple global supply manager, has been arrested and accused of accepting $1 million in kickbacks from Asian suppliers of iPhone and iPod accessories. He allegedly sold confidential information. Devine’s alleged co-conspirator, Andrew Ang of Singapore, was also named in the 23-count federal grand jury…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 14

Here’s A Way To Make Your iPhone 4 Really Look Like A Leica Camera

Sure, you could add a faux leather skin to re-create the classic Leica feel but why do that when you could just print out a picture of a Leica Camera and tape it to the back of your iPhone 4? https://gizmodo.com/make-your-iphone-into-a-leica-kind-of-5610720 A MacRumors user printed out that picture of a Leica M8 and placed it…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 14

In mythical Brooklyn, the Karma Police are very real

In Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell, hipsters rub elbows with minor deities, angels spend their downtime getting stoned, and followers of Richard Dawkins are seen as irrational loonies. It’s also a world where bad karma has very real consequences. Darwin Carmichael is a typical Brooklynite. He lives in a dingy walk-up. He rides a…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Aug 14

Alors! Bizarre French circus and sideshow posters from 1885-1925

This is but a small sampling of the mostly Gallic (and totally bonkers) theatrical posters from Double M2’s Cirque Flickr set. My personal favorite is the fellow whose stage moniker is “Nostradamus Jr.” [Spotted on Morbid Anatomy]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 14

Soon You Can Pay For Android Apps With PayPal

PayPal is reportedly in talks with Google to add PayPal as a payment method to Android Market. I guess they’re hoping to make paying for apps as easy as possible so that Android users might start paying for apps. https://gizmodo.com/android-app-store-is-57-free-compared-to-apples-25-5479298 Currently in Android Market, you can buy apps through Google Checkout or in some cases,…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 14

Eureka gives robots emotions and all hell breaks loose

Yesterday’s Eureka explored the perils of giving in to your emotions, as humans and AI alike acknowledged and acted on their feelings, even if they left a path of destruction – some more literal than others – in their wake. This episode, one of two sandwiched between the Warehouse 13 crossover and the upcoming return…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Aug 14

The Next Best Thing To Oil

In order to create a renewable carbon economy, you can use solar power to split carbon dioxide. Combine the resulting carbon monoxide with hydrogen and you have the beginnings of a solar fuel that could one day replace oil. Since 2008, a European consortium led by Athanasios Konstandopoulos at the Centre for Research and Technology…

Tech News Helen Knight - New Scientist Aug 14

Imagine You and 10,000 of Your Closest Friends Beating the Human Domino World Record

10,267 Chinese participants did just that, sitting in a field till it was their turn to topple onto the person behind them. They smashed the old world record set in 2000 by a whole order of magnitude. They even wore color coordinated shirts that spelled out their city name, Ordos, in English and Chinese. [Yahoo…

Tech News Christina Bonnington Aug 14

Where Computers Lose Their Souls

We desperately hope that the computers which we ship to developing countries will be genuinely beneficial to locals, but unfortunately that isn’t always the case—more often than not, they’re simply abandoned until they’re searched for precious metals. The New York Times has done a piece on what they call a “global graveyard for dead computers.”…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Aug 14

Using Music To Reach The Memories of Alzheimer’s Patients

Transcendental Tunes combines RFID technology (in the form of a golden, translucent gem) and a retro-looking wooden audio device to play digital music that releases the memories held captive by the mind in Alzheimer’s patients. The concept is built under the premise that those with Alzheimer’s don’t lose their memories, they just can’t access them.…

Tech News Christina Bonnington Aug 14

iSink U Is The Best Looking Battleship Game You’ll Find For Your iPad

There’s something incredibly satisfying about watching a torpedo shoot from your battleship and crash into your opponent’s submarine with a booming sound. There’s something even more satisfying about watching this happen from the safety of your iPad. iSinkU is an iPad version of the good ol’ Battleship game we’ve played for years. It’s got incredible…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Aug 14

This Hair Dryer Has a Ferrari Engine Inside

Man films his near-miss shark attack

Don’t Forget To Feed The Phone

Ghostbusters return to haunt the art world

Star Wars Blu-ray boxed set coming in fall 2011

Try E-Mailing The Guy With The World’s Longest E-Mail Address

A Touchless Automatic Paper Towel Dispenser And Cutter Might Be Too Much

The shiniest stories on io9 this week

Swarming vampire bats attack 500 people in Peru, killing 4

Apple Employee Accused Of Accepting $1 Million In Kickbacks From Asian Suppliers

Here’s A Way To Make Your iPhone 4 Really Look Like A Leica Camera

In mythical Brooklyn, the Karma Police are very real

Alors! Bizarre French circus and sideshow posters from 1885-1925

Soon You Can Pay For Android Apps With PayPal

Eureka gives robots emotions and all hell breaks loose

The Next Best Thing To Oil

Imagine You and 10,000 of Your Closest Friends Beating the Human Domino World Record

Where Computers Lose Their Souls

Using Music To Reach The Memories of Alzheimer’s Patients

iSink U Is The Best Looking Battleship Game You’ll Find For Your iPad

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