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Pogoplug Biz Will Share Any of Your USB Drives Over the Internet

The last time we saw the Pogoplug, it was shockingly pink and not exactly something you’d stick onto your manly, serious-looking desk, but now it comes in a “Biz” version which’ll do all the same file-sharing, without the girly looks. https://gizmodo.com/second-generation-pogoplug-lets-you-share-multiple-usb-5409127 Aside from looking a bit more serious than the prior generation, the Pogoplug Biz…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

H.G. Wells short story contest bans science fiction, and gets no entries

What’s the point of having a short fiction contest celebrating H.G. Wells if it doesn’t allow science fiction? That’s probably what a lot of potential entrants in Reg Turnill’s short story contest were thinking. Turnill, a 94-year-old former journalist who once interviewed Wells himself, received a bunch of alien-invasion stories in last year’s contest. So…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Projected Pong Puts Some Interactive BleepBloop On Your Apartment Walls

Take an Arduino, accelerometer, and gyroscope-powered VR glove, some custom software, a projector and some funky interiors and you’ve got yourself the most futuristic game of Pong I’ve ever seen. Spoiler: the ball actually bounces off the stairs. It’s part of a project titled “Ping Pong Game with Physical boundaries on an architectural wall,” which…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Get a glimpse of some never-before-seen Avatar footage

James Cameron won’t let you escape Pandora just yet. When Avatar returns to theaters, it’ll have eight minutes of new footage. Here’s your first taste. So what looks new? This crazy new jellyfish plant certainly looks new, maybe. But apparently there’s eight minutes of new video, so let’s hope it’s more promising than this Abyss…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Incredible Physics Engine Yields Some Seriously Jaw-Dropping Dirt

A column of dirt slamming down onto some steps. A sheet of fabric slipping off a sphere. Some water sloshing against a wall. In the real world: pretty unremarkable physics. When produced with the Lagoa Multiphysics engine: jaw-droppingly amazing physics. Version 1.0 of the engine was recently completed by Thiago Costa and allows control of:…

Physics & Chemistry Kyle VanHemert

The Most Fun Photocopier Teardown You’ll Ever See

Like the Science Guy before him, Bill Hammack the Engineer Guy takes stuff you ordinarily might not be interested in—like how exactly a photocopier works—and makes it fun and digestible. Now where’s the Taxes Guy. [Engineer Guy]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Exotic nanodevice could let computers ditch slowpoke electrons and run thousands of times faster

Modern computers rely on electrons moving through wires to transmit information, which is far, far slower than the fast-as-light optics we theoretically could be using. And now we’ve found the exotic material that might allow us to leave electrons behind. Electrons may be the lifeblood of computer communications, but they have a dirty little secret:…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The Goon gets a gorgeously gruesome, epically absurd trailer

The movie adaptation of Eric Powell’s supernatural/scifi crime-fighting comic, The Goon, finally has a teaser trailer, and it’ll blow your mind. The David Fincher-produced movie, featuring Paul Giamatti, is amazingly gorgeous — so check it out, ya “slackjaws.” The film is written by creator Eric Powell, and Paul Giamatti and Clancy Brown will voice Franky…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Olivia Munn Battles the Green Robots

Television personality and newly minted Daily Show correspondent Oliva Munn’s new book, Suck It, Wonder Woman! is full of practical advice for the modern dork. Like how to survive a robot uprising. (Hint: Robots hate kittens.) Sometimes I like to joke about the fact that pretty soon the planet Earth will be invaded by a…

Books & Comics Olivia Munn

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.

Tech News Gawkercreative

Cosmic haze near the Orion Nebula

1,500 light-years away from Earth and around the Orion Nebula, the Herbig-Haro 34 young object is in its protostar stage. Herbig-Haro 34 is ejecting two large jets that propel a massive miasma of dense gas toward its cosmic neighbors. As for the massive cosmic waterfall in the lefthand corner of this three-color composite, it’s gorgeous,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Please Make These: Pole-Reversing Magnetic Scissors

Okay, people who make scissors. We can do this. We can take these concept scissors, that use magnets to provide 90% of the cutting force and lock shut when you reverse their polarity, and make them a reality. Right? Please? From designers Sang-in Lee & Yun-je Sung, these 90% Magnetic Scissors would make all that…

Tech News Brian Barrett

David Mitchell’s new novel may turn out to be science fiction after all

After David Mitchell’s brilliant Cloud Atlas included science fiction in its genre mash-up, we were sad to hear his new book was straight-up litfic. But turns out it’s the first volume of a trilogy… that will turn very science fictional. Mitchell was in New York to promote his new novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob…

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Meet Transformers 3’s new robots, and learn how Comic Con appears in Simon Pegg’s Paul

Have a couple of cardboard cutouts revealed new characters in Transformers 3? Paul director Greg Mottola explains which Spielberg films he watched as research. And Bill Murray puts another nail in the coffin of Ghostbusters 3. Full spoilers ahead! Transformers 3: Another day, another explosion of set photos. (“Explosion” is the collective noun for Transformers…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

Doomsday arks on the moon, switching your house to all-electric, best apps for the oil spill, a microhouse you can build yourself, solar airplane setting a 2-week flight record, and disgusting light switch designs. Ask Pablo: Why Should I Switch My House Over To All-Electric? While the payback will not be quick and cost savings…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch

Lenovo Commits to LePad Android Tablet By End of LeYear

Lenovo’s finally made a definitive statement on what they’re doing in the mobile computing space, and they’re going to finish the year differently than they started it: the Android-powered LePad is coming in the next few months. In January Lenovo showed impressive ambition in mobile, promising both the Skylight smartbook and the U1 hybrid tablet/computer…

Tech News Brian Barrett

MOG Mobile For iPhone and Android Streams 8 Million Songs and Lets You Download ‘Em All

MOG, the latest entrant into the increasingly competitive world of cloud-based mobile music services, has a combination of features, including unlimited, high-quality downloads from its impressively stocked 8 million song library, that make its $10/mo. subscription a compelling option. There’s a certain comfort to all-you-can-eat situations—knowing that if you decide to binge, you can do…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Asus Wants Android For EeePad

After confusing the world by saying it would use Windows EC7 as the OS for its upcoming 10.1″ EP101TC EeePad, Asus has now seen sense—and stuck Android in the thing instead. Goodbye, familiar bland Microsoft leafy background image. https://gizmodo.com/asus-eee-pad-is-a-windows-7-running-tablet-5551594 Nothing has been said about which version of Android the EeePad will ship with, although with…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

MacPaint Now A Museum Piece

The Computer History Museum is hosting the original source code of Apple’s ground-breaking visual drawing tool, which arrived alongside the Apple Macintosh in 1984. You can have it for free, if you’re non-commercial. The site also features a nice accompanying story of the history of MacPaint’s development from Apple Lisa tool SketchPad, along with a…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

Share Movies via UltraViolet Spectrum

The long-planned DECE scheme to unify our digital downloads through one globally compatible “digital locker” is near completion, with the service—now known as UltraViolet—set to launch this fall. That logo is going to be everywhere. https://gizmodo.com/deces-plans-for-digital-movie-purchases-may-confuse-and-5439325 The likes of Samsung, HP, Nokia, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba, Intel and Best Buy are among the tech world leaders…

Movies Gary Cutlack

Pogoplug Biz Will Share Any of Your USB Drives Over the Internet

H.G. Wells short story contest bans science fiction, and gets no entries

Projected Pong Puts Some Interactive BleepBloop On Your Apartment Walls

Get a glimpse of some never-before-seen Avatar footage

Incredible Physics Engine Yields Some Seriously Jaw-Dropping Dirt

The Most Fun Photocopier Teardown You’ll Ever See

Exotic nanodevice could let computers ditch slowpoke electrons and run thousands of times faster

The Goon gets a gorgeously gruesome, epically absurd trailer

Olivia Munn Battles the Green Robots

Forget What Your Feet Look Like?

Cosmic haze near the Orion Nebula

Please Make These: Pole-Reversing Magnetic Scissors

David Mitchell’s new novel may turn out to be science fiction after all

Meet Transformers 3’s new robots, and learn how Comic Con appears in Simon Pegg’s Paul

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

Lenovo Commits to LePad Android Tablet By End of LeYear

MOG Mobile For iPhone and Android Streams 8 Million Songs and Lets You Download ‘Em All

Asus Wants Android For EeePad

MacPaint Now A Museum Piece

Share Movies via UltraViolet Spectrum

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