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io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Unearthing the lost advertising of the sealed-off London Underground

A sealed-off corridor of the Notting Hill Gate tube station reveals a hallway untouched since 1959 — complete with the posters that were hanging on the turn-of-the-century walls. (Via London Underground and Flickr) Around the World in 80 Days The Horse’s Mouth, starring Alec Guinness Separate Tables, starring David Niven

Movies Marc Bernardin

Dinky, Cheap MP3 Player Turns Any Surface Into a Speaker

That chair you’re sitting on, the fridge you’re leaning against or even the car you’re driving home tonight can all be turned into a speaker with iMo’s Resonance MP3 player. It’s only got 2GB of internal storage, but as it’s measures 95(L) x 65 (W) x 83(H)mm and has four little horn-shaped knobs (for changing…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

BlackBerry App World 2.0 Adds Carrier Billing, BlackBerry ID Accounts

BlackBerry App World 2.0 is getting a much needed update that’ll bring features like carrier billing, BlackBerry ID accounts, QR code support, better search, and a MyWorld section to your app-starved BlackBerrys. Carrier billing lets users pay for purchases through their monthly carrier bill instead of PayPal and the new BlackBerry ID, which you’ll need…

Tech News Casey Chan

The first photos of the Blue Beetle’s live-action transformation

Remember how Geoff Johns was all atwitter about debuting the potential Blue Beetle TV series at Comic-Con? Well, Johns jumped the gun and leaked photos to DC’s The Source blog. Here’s his alter ego, Jaime Reyes, becoming the carapaced crusader. Johns had this to say about the stills: I feel very fortunate to have been…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

A Robot Butterfly’s Hypnotic Slow-Motion Flight

I’m sure this robotic swallowtail butterfly serves a scientific purpose. But whatever contribution it’s making to biomimetics is far outweighed by the elegance of this slow-motion video catching it in action. Hold me closer, tiny dragon. Okay, the science is pretty cool too. The little guy was made by Hiroto Tanaka and Isao Shimoyama to…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The future of marketing: Rent a white guy

Used to be that to succeed in business, you needed a combination of a tight resume, an arsenal of skills, and the right connections. Now, Chinese corporations will pay handsomely if you’re Caucasian and look good in a suit. Mark Moxley was an American living in Beijing who found himself recruited by a US company…

io9 Marc Bernardin

How flowers completely changed Earth’s weather 100 million years ago

Wondering why the weather is so strange lately? Why it’s raining all the time in certain parts of the globe, but really dry in others? It’s all because of flowers. In geologic time, flowers are a relatively new player on the planetary scene – so by “lately,” I mean “in the last 100,000 or so…

io9 Annalee Newitz

R2-DBoombox and C-3Pheadphones

Don’t forget to bring those to the canteen.

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Terrifying biopunk webseries Chadam premieres

It’s been a years since we’ve heard anything from Alex Pardee’s webseries Chadam. But the block-headed alien’s post-apocalyptic adventure has finally aired on the WB.com. And you can watch the first 5 episodes right now. Artist Alex Pardee’s twisted images and warped take on the everyday world never stop surprising us. So we’ve been excited…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Star Wars lightsaber replica causes blindness, cancer

This laser is designed to look like a lightsaber from Star Wars, and it has enough power to destroy your retinas. It costs just $200 online and can burn your skin off. I have a very bad feeling about this. The creation of Wicked Lasers Inc., in Hong Kong, the Spyder III Pro Arctic Series…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Apple: 600,000 iPhone 4 Pre-Orders, Sorry For the Clusterfrak

Yesterday’s iPhone 4 preordering process was a complete debacle. Today, Apple announced that 600,000 pre-orders actually got logged, and issued an official apology for the system that collapsed: Statement by Apple on iPhone 4 Pre-Orders CUPERTINO, Calif., June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Yesterday Apple and its carrier partners took pre-orders for more than 600,000 of Apple’s…

Tech News Brian Barrett

AT&T Suspends iPhone 4 Pre-Ordering After System Collapse

It’s official: AT&T can’t cope with iPhone 4 orders. Following the first day of the iPhonepocalypse—and after shutting down their online sales system following multiple security problems—they are giving up to avoid any further trouble. Of course, that’s not how AT&T’s official statement explains it: iPhone 4 pre-order sales yesterday were 10-times higher than the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The superhuman concept art from Darick Robertson’s The Boys

The one and only Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan, JLA: A Midsummer’s Nightmare) sent us a ton of concept art and sketches from his superhuman shit-kicker series, The Boys. Check out early designs for the team and Darick’s commentary about the art! Darick co-created The Boys with Garth Ennis and characterizes these pieces as the “concept and…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

HTC Desire Is Coming To the U.S. This August

For all those of you who read Kat’s glowing review of the U.K.-only HTC Desire and lamented the fact that you couldn’t get your American paws on one, rejoice! The HTC Desire is coming to America starting this August through “select regional operators.” More details to come, but rest assured, it’ll have the 1GHz Snapdragon…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Zune Dock Proves Other MP3 Players Are Allowed Accessories, Too

It’s not the first Zune dock (I believe Altec Lansing has the honor there), but this ZN90B one from iHome features an all-important alarm function and fits both Zune and Zune HD models. The ZN90B dock is available for pre-order now, for $100, and has AM/FM presets, EQ controls and iHome’s “Reson8” speaker chambers for…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Watch the PR2 Robot Hustle Some Serious Pool

The creators of the PR2 robot are finally done making it fold their laundry. Now they’ve finally put it to some good, honest labor: billiards. It’s just like The Color of Money, except Paul Newman is a task-oriented robot. It was a unique challenge for the Willow Garage team responsible for PR2: a special grip…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Suspended animation is no longer a pipe dream

A research scientist in a Seattle cancer laboratory has discovered the secret to reanimating organisms that had been frozen to a temperature below survivable limits. Dr. Mark Roth was inspired by cases of individuals who survived prolonged exposure to the bitter cold with few adverse affects — like Canadian toddler Erica Nordby, who wandered from…

io9 Marc Bernardin

New disaster film makes zero gravity sex a reality — on Earth!

Louis Leterrier is apparently in some sort of competition with Roland Emmerich to see who can make the worst disaster film ever, and Leterrier stands to win if he films this epic where Earth loses its gravity. Your move, Emmerich. Pajiba is reporting that Leterrier is in talks to direct a film titled Gravity. Note…

Movies Meredith Woerner

An Official Moleskine Kindle Case, No Modding Required

A whole cottage industry has sprung up around the idea of modifying Moleskine notebooks to house gadgets, and now the historic brand is getting in on the action themselves: they’re offering an official, no-modding-necessary Moleskine cover for the Kindle. The $40 cover holds the Kindle in place with four elastic bands and has a suede…

Commerce Kyle VanHemert

Warren Manser art

Unearthing the lost advertising of the sealed-off London Underground

Dinky, Cheap MP3 Player Turns Any Surface Into a Speaker

BlackBerry App World 2.0 Adds Carrier Billing, BlackBerry ID Accounts

The first photos of the Blue Beetle’s live-action transformation

A Robot Butterfly’s Hypnotic Slow-Motion Flight

The future of marketing: Rent a white guy

How flowers completely changed Earth’s weather 100 million years ago

R2-DBoombox and C-3Pheadphones

Terrifying biopunk webseries Chadam premieres

Star Wars lightsaber replica causes blindness, cancer

Apple: 600,000 iPhone 4 Pre-Orders, Sorry For the Clusterfrak

AT&T Suspends iPhone 4 Pre-Ordering After System Collapse

The superhuman concept art from Darick Robertson’s The Boys

HTC Desire Is Coming To the U.S. This August

Zune Dock Proves Other MP3 Players Are Allowed Accessories, Too

Watch the PR2 Robot Hustle Some Serious Pool

Suspended animation is no longer a pipe dream

New disaster film makes zero gravity sex a reality — on Earth!

An Official Moleskine Kindle Case, No Modding Required

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