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Tons of dancing robots in the trailer for India’s Terminator

We’ve been excited for Endhiran, aka Robot, for years now, and India’s big-budget robot adventure is finally coming out in about a month. This new trailer features dancing robots, Terminator shout-outs, and crazy action set pieces. https://gizmodo.com/bollywood-star-will-save-us-from-a-killer-robot-341922 https://gizmodo.com/why-is-bollywoods-unfilmed-robot-epic-already-spawning-5114747 Check out this amazing trailer. Sorry it’s so small, but you can click the “full screen” thing…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Accidental Acceleration Solved by Reinvented Japanese Car Pedal

When you stop to think about it, it’s crazy that the brake and accelerator pedals are so close together, with an accidental command being the difference between getting from A to Z, and wrapping your car around a tree. This new pedal, invented by 74-year-old Japanese factory-owner Masuyuki Naruse, only accelerates when the side of…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Dead Space movie will be a prequel to the video game

Director D.J. Caruso revealed his plans for his Dead Space film, and he’s calling it a prequel. “You have have the whole sort of brainwash-y/Scientology thing, and ultimately the Necromorphs.” A Necromorph/Scientology tie-in? You’ve got our attention. [MTV]

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Pipe Some Tunes With These Pretty PVC Speakers

PVC, a cheap, durable polymer useful for all types of pipes and potato guns, has long been a go-to Maker material. But these Sea Cucumber speakers, available on Etsy for $200, are the rare pipes that shouldn’t be hidden. I’m not sure that they actually look like Sea Cucumbers. I’m not really sure what they…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

A Google Earth map of Nagasaki survivors’ eyewitness accounts

August 9 is the 65th anniversary of the day the US dropped “Fat Man” over Nagasaki. The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Archive has created a Google Earth map that documents where survivors were in relation to the blast. Here’s NABA’s mission: [By] mapping the information with topographic data, the user can enhance the experience of what…

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Samsung’s PL90 Budget Camera Forgoes Cables With Inbuilt USB Connector

Cameras with inbuilt USB connectors are becoming increasingly more common, as manufacturers wake up and realize what the eff they were thinking. The PL90 is one of those fine contraptions, and with a pretty low price, too. Samsung’s cameras aren’t up to the standards of Panasonic’s or Canon’s, but at $150 it’s a nice entry-cam.…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

“What Else Could We Squeeze Into This Suitcase? A Picnic Table?”

Picnic table suitcase. It’s the only thing I need for this summer. Well that, and an actual summer. It’s tough living in England, land of the 11-month winter. [Picnic Table via Swiss Miss]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Syfy’s Swamp Shark challenges Sharktopus to a duel of awesome

You’ve seen the Sharktopus, now feast your eyes on Syfy’s Swamp Shark. At first we thought this film was a blatant rip-off of Jaws, except in a swamp. But Swamp Shark is actually a Jaws tribute film, starring Kirsty Swanson. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-syfy-original-movie-trailer-ever-is-for-sharkt-5588118 Can you count all of the Jaws shout-outs? Look for the Swamp Shark next…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Apple Allows iTunes Streaming to iPhone With iDisk

Well this was unexpected: Apple has quietly enabled its devices to stream music to iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches from online storage through iDisk. It’s the very next-best thing to putting iTunes in the cloud. UPDATED: The new feature was unearthed by Michael Robertson, who also provided the screen shots above showing clearly that iDisk…

Tech News Brian Barrett

This is what 8,000 cubic yards of rock being blasted looks like

This once-in-a-lifetime photo captures a blast that tears through 8,000 cubic yards of rock in an old phosphate mine. It’s just one of the marvels captured in the best engineering photos of 2009. This photo is by Dan White, the project engineer at Conestoga-Rovers & Associates Inc. of Kalamazoo, MI. The firm’s subcontractor, Superior Blasting…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Great Wildlife Photography Sham

Jewel…posed like Kate Moss against magnificent snow-clad peaks. That’s how magazine writer Ted Williams described a recent photo shoot for one of his articles. Just one thing to note: Jewel was a rented 3-year-old cougar. Williams has an illuminating post on Utne Reader about phony nature photography—basically how dangerous animals like cougars and snow leopards…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

First footage from Brandon Routh’s Dylan Dog film

The first ever footage from the Dylan Dog live action movie adaptation has finally hit our screens. And it’s making some nasty jokes at the expense of the undead. While the word is still out on the US premiere, Dylan Dog is already gearing up for the Italy release, and this is the first clip…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Get that Roller-Coaster Feeling in Your Stomach

We all want tofeel the audio when watching a movie at home, or on a laptop or mobile device, but great sound can be elusive. Dolby Laboratories immerse you in entertainment—with greater clarity, boomier bass, and stomach-dropping surround sound. At home Get your sound as stunning as the HD picture. Now, epic chase scenes, award-winning…

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Square’s Phone Payment Dongles Back On Track for Summer Launch

After delays affected the shipment of their payment-processing dongles, Square is almost ready to press “go” on mobile payments, with the WSJ reporting that it’ll be open to the elbowing-public later this summer. Apparently, their Chinese factory is able to produce 10,000 dongles each day—which is a lot of mobile payments. [WSJ] https://gizmodo.com/square-payment-system-beset-with-delays-5567742

Tech News Kat Hannaford

UK’s Girl Scouts Cry For New Photoshopped-Images Law for Airbrushed Celebrities

If you believe what you see on TV, the US’ Girl Scouts seem to spend all their time selling cookies door-to-door, but over in the UK the Girl Guide Association is concerned with far-weightier goals: changing Photoshop’s future in media. As every low-of-self-esteem-woman, and every man-with-higher-expectations know, Photoshopped photos of celebrities and models are ruining…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Two UFO videos, without shakycam, are weirdly convincing

Taken over the past two years, these videos offer unusually clear, non-shaky footage of UFOs. And the guys who filmed them seem pretty legit, too. What exactly are we seeing here? I love how this guy films the UFOs from his bathroom window. Is this the same UFO as we saw in the first video?…

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Clear’s iSpot Is a WiMax Hotspot For iPhones and iPads

With more cities being blanketed in the warm glow of WiMax every month, 3G speeds are going to start seeming primitive, fast. Clear’s iSpot hotspot lets iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches get a taste of the delicious 4G future. Clear’s iSpot can serve as a hotspot for up to eight Wi-Fi enabled devices at a…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Why the X-Men prequel’s like the Star Trek reboot, secrets of Fringe’s alternate universes, and Stargate revelations!

Matthew Vaughn explains his new X-Men movie is inspired by J.J. Abrams in more ways than one. Fringe is headed in even more mindbending directions with its two universes, and secrets will be revealed soon enough on Stargate Universe. Spoilananza! X-Men – First Class: Director Matthew Vaughn compared his film to J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek…

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Vonage Mobile App Lets You Call Facebook Friends From iPhone or Android For Free

Vonage, the VoIP company with the head-whacking commercials, has a new app for Android and iOS that lets users make free calls to Facebook friends over 3G and Wi-Fi. Finally, your reward for cultivating that extensive friends list. Logging into Facebook with the free Vonage Moible For Facebook app will indicate which of your friends…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Sharp’s 3D Smartphone Is a Few Months Away, No Glasses Required

Sharp doesn’t have a huge handset presence outside of Asia, but according to a spokesperson this week that’s all about to change in a big way. The company says they’re putting their glasses-free 3D panels in a smartphone in 2010. If anyone’s in a position to bring a 3D phone to market, it’s Sharp; their…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Tons of dancing robots in the trailer for India’s Terminator

Accidental Acceleration Solved by Reinvented Japanese Car Pedal

The Dead Space movie will be a prequel to the video game

Pipe Some Tunes With These Pretty PVC Speakers

A Google Earth map of Nagasaki survivors’ eyewitness accounts

Samsung’s PL90 Budget Camera Forgoes Cables With Inbuilt USB Connector

“What Else Could We Squeeze Into This Suitcase? A Picnic Table?”

Syfy’s Swamp Shark challenges Sharktopus to a duel of awesome

Apple Allows iTunes Streaming to iPhone With iDisk

This is what 8,000 cubic yards of rock being blasted looks like

The Great Wildlife Photography Sham

First footage from Brandon Routh’s Dylan Dog film

Get that Roller-Coaster Feeling in Your Stomach

Square’s Phone Payment Dongles Back On Track for Summer Launch

UK’s Girl Scouts Cry For New Photoshopped-Images Law for Airbrushed Celebrities

Two UFO videos, without shakycam, are weirdly convincing

Clear’s iSpot Is a WiMax Hotspot For iPhones and iPads

Why the X-Men prequel’s like the Star Trek reboot, secrets of Fringe’s alternate universes, and Stargate revelations!

Vonage Mobile App Lets You Call Facebook Friends From iPhone or Android For Free

Sharp’s 3D Smartphone Is a Few Months Away, No Glasses Required

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