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Radio-Style System of Communication Via Magnetic Waves Demonstrated in Deep Mines

After 13 miners were trapped in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia, four years ago, rescuers didn’t know where to look for survivors — they could have been anywhere between 11,000 and 13,000 feet from the entrance. Radio waves can’t penetrate very far through rock, so there was no way to communicate with the…

Tech News Rebecca Boyle - PopSci

Google and Verizon Talk About “The Path To An Open Internet”

Google and Verizon chief executives Eric Schmidt and Ivan Seidenberg got together to write a very special Washington Post op-ed on net neutrality. They used this piece as an opportunity to explain their companies’ joint proposal on related policy framework. https://gizmodo.com/google-and-verizons-worrisome-proposal-for-net-neutrali-5608422 A significant bit to take away from this op-ed is that Schmidt and Seidenberg…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

San Juan Is Getting a $1.5 Billion Transformation Into a Walking City

The government has approved plans for a redesign of this Puerto Rican city, featuring a new mass transit system, new roads and intersections, and more beach access points. The biggest change? No cars allowed inside the city. The plans hope to remedy previous poor urban planning in the oldest section of the city, the Isleta,…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

A Bike-Mounted Bottle Opener, For The Not-So-Serious Cyclist

Can’t say I endorse drinking and biking, especially with my woeful cycling skills, but the $40 Road Popper looks like it could be a handy tool for some hardcore mountain bikers in need of refreshment. [Shapeways via Likecool via CrunchGear]

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Intergalactic Vistas Rendered In LED

LEDs are useful for a thousand things, but no one uses them quite as incredibly as Leo Villareal, an American artist who combines thousands of the little lights to make some seriously otherworldly scenes. https://gizmodo.com/the-universe-will-never-cease-to-amaze-me-5605433 You may remember Villareal for his 40,000 LED hyperspace tunnel at the National Gallery of Art. It remains the closest…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Reusable Bamboo Bottle Is Far Tougher Than It Looks

We’ve seen appealing-looking reusable water bottles before, but there’s something particularly charming about the Bamboo Bottle. It’s made of tough Phyllostachys Pubescens bamboo and will hold many hot and cold beverages without ever allowing chemicals to leach into your drink. https://gizmodo.com/kor-one-water-bottle-is-one-handable-reusable-and-very-5017657 The bottle can be ordered now for $25. [Bamboo Bottle]

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Vice President Who Was In Charge Of Designing The Pre Leaves Palm And HP

We knew that plenty of Palm employees left once HP acquired the company, but now we know the latest one to jump ship: Peter Skillman, Palm’s Vice President of Design. Also known as the man who designed the Pre. https://gizmodo.com/hp-laying-off-palm-employees-5578641 It’s sad to see yet another high-ranking individual leave Palm and HP so soon after…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

This Old-School TV Houses a Magical New Device

Everything old is new again. Or at least, everything new can be retrofitted. In this case, designer Jonas Damon has plugged an iPad into an old CRT television housing. The static screensaver provides the coup-de-80s. Me, I’d just fire up Hulu Plus and leave the Donna Reed Show on repeat. [Sight Unseen] https://gizmodo.com/hulu-plus-on-iphone-and-ipad-impressions-hello-future-5575719

Tech News Brian Barrett

Why it’s a bad idea to “turn your backside” on a naked vampire in True Blood

We learned many valuable lessons from this week’s True Blood, such as how dating a vampire never allows for enough time to make a shitty scrapbook, how to tan cry, and the ABCs of vampire hate-sexin’. Enjoy the NSFWness. Pro: Sookie is still screaming, because Bill is at the foot of her bed hospital trying…

Television Meredith Woerner

A Brief History of Luminance

Sometimes we share our favorite, tantalizing new lighting concepts. But strip away the curvy shades, the metallic rods—the packaging. What’s left? The shine itself. Dwell reflects on the long, bright history of light, and where it’s headed. https://gizmodo.com/etirement-lamp-concept-looks-like-an-umbrella-but-i-wou-5490068 For its “Bright Ideas” issue, Dwell spans our efforts to push back the night, from Egyptian beeswax…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Gates has become damned good television

We wrote off The Gates after we saw the bland first episode. But ABC’s new horror-soap opera has been getting better and better, and last night’s episode was almost inhumanly entertaining. Spoilers ahead… Last night’s episode, of course, was written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, former producer of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Andromeda. And…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

A Web Surfing Contest With No Keyboard and No Google Allowed

OK, so-called web surfers, listen up. You might be able to ride from page to page with your speedy search engines, sure, but could you make it from Amazon to the Pirate Bay only clicking links? That’s right—just you, your mouse, and a whole sea of hyperlinks. That was the challenge leveled to participants of…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Seeing the truth of the world via science fiction

Science fiction takes us out of our own time and place, and confronts us with alien objects as well as incomprehensible future artifacts. By doing this, argues Daniel Rourke, SF brings us closer to seeing things as they really are. Mid-way through H.G.Wells’ The Time Machine, the protagonist stumbles into a sprawling abandoned museum. Sweeping…

Books & Comics Daniel Rourke

Camera Porn: RED Scarlet 2/3″ Shoots An EPIC S35

This is a RED Scarlet 2/3″ shooting an EPIC S35. Now, while this may not seem significant to many of us, this picture marks one of the first times we’ve been presented with a working Scarlet camera. This is the photo she took: https://gizmodo.com/the-more-we-know-about-the-red-scarlet-camera-the-bett-5415748 I think the only way these photos could be even more…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Will print books really be dead within 5 years?

Now that e-book readers no longer suck as much as they once did, all sorts of people are prophesying the death of the physical book. Nicholas Negroponte told the Techonomy Conference in Lake Tahoe, CA, that paper books were already dead, and people just don’t realize it. “It’s happening. It not happening in 10 years.…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Watch Pioneer One, a cosmonaut thriller that was made using $6000 of internet donations

Here’s the first episode of Pioneer One, a neat webseries that was entirely crowdfunded. The pilot is about a mysterious downed spacecraft over Montana and Edmonton, deadly radiation, and a Cold War secret. Here’s the opening — here are parts 2, 3, and 4. This series was written by Josh Bernhard, directed by Bracey Smith,…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

First look at Green Lantern’s alien trainer, Kilowog!

The heart and soul of the Green Lantern Corps is Kilowog, the tough-but-awesome alien who trains the new recruits. Check out a new image of how he’ll supposedly look in the new movie. This image comes via Comic Book Movie, and as they point out, it’s pretty different from the concept art we posted a…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Feast Your Eyes on Weezer’s New Album Cover

It’s called Hurley, naturally. [Pitchfork]

Tech News Adam Frucci

Netflix Negotiating for Exclusive Online Rights to Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM Catalogs

Netflix is actively pursuing an exclusive online streaming deal with startup pay-TV channel Epix—a move that would mean access to powerhouse studios Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM. Netflix will reportedly pay around $1 billion for the five-year deal. The move would be a logical step for Netflix, given their vocal ambition to fork over substantial cash…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Can’t Print. Not Enough Mana

I don’t use printers, but I get the same feeling every Monday morning. And Tuesday. And Wednesday too. [Lachson]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Radio-Style System of Communication Via Magnetic Waves Demonstrated in Deep Mines

Google and Verizon Talk About “The Path To An Open Internet”

San Juan Is Getting a $1.5 Billion Transformation Into a Walking City

A Bike-Mounted Bottle Opener, For The Not-So-Serious Cyclist

Intergalactic Vistas Rendered In LED

The Reusable Bamboo Bottle Is Far Tougher Than It Looks

Vice President Who Was In Charge Of Designing The Pre Leaves Palm And HP

This Old-School TV Houses a Magical New Device

Why it’s a bad idea to “turn your backside” on a naked vampire in True Blood

A Brief History of Luminance

The Gates has become damned good television

A Web Surfing Contest With No Keyboard and No Google Allowed

Seeing the truth of the world via science fiction

Camera Porn: RED Scarlet 2/3″ Shoots An EPIC S35

Will print books really be dead within 5 years?

Watch Pioneer One, a cosmonaut thriller that was made using $6000 of internet donations

First look at Green Lantern’s alien trainer, Kilowog!

Feast Your Eyes on Weezer’s New Album Cover

Netflix Negotiating for Exclusive Online Rights to Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM Catalogs

Can’t Print. Not Enough Mana

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