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If a Stereo System Comes Standard, Shouldn’t a Safety System?

Introducing the Star Safety System™, a combination of advanced safety features that’s standard on every Toyota vehicle. It’s all designed to help keep you out of harm’s way. Vehicle Stability Control (VSC)* Toyota’s VSC monitors your steering angle and the direction your vehicle is actually traveling and senses when your front or rear wheels begin…

Tech News Gawkercreative

Gadget Deals of the Day

Did you think we’d leave you alone on Memorial Day? No way! Dealzmodo is back with some great deals just for today. Find them all and save! Now go back to your barbecue and enjoy the rest of the day. Top Deals: • Nintendo Wii console with Wii Sports game for $149.99 + free pickup…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life

Over two years ago, we offered you this list of 20 scifi novels that could transform the way you see the world. Now we’re bringing it back for today’s io9 flashback. These are novels that have altered the course of science fiction writing. Or they are simply brilliant at providing a genuinely alien perspective on…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Wii Still Proves Big Draw For ‘Molester Monks’

Despite the Wii being available for almost four years now, it’s still proving a tool worth buying to lure in unsuspecting kiddies. Not that we’re recommending you do that, obviously. Over in Taiwan a 46-year-old ex-monk (he’s not an official monk anymore, but still dresses like one) used the Wii to attract young boys to…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Before you conquer a planet, you must first survey it from above

Check out this amazing concept art from online space game Galactic Conquest, by artist Zane Bien. You can practically reach out and touch the juicy planet below – ripe and awaiting your conquering armies. Wallpaper-sized version at the link. [Coolvibe]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

How a Collar Could Help Deaf People “Hear” Music

Most of us assume deaf people can’t register sound, let alone enjoy Rachmaninoff. Wrong. A conceptual device from German designer Frederik Podzuweit taps into the deaf’s ability to feel music. Most of us assume deaf people can’t register sound, let alone enjoy Rachmaninoff. Wrong. A conceptual device from German designer Frederik Podzuweit taps into the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The jungle that orders and disorders the world

I love these rich oil paintings by Andy Harper, an artist who often works with images of jungles and natural scenes, making them so abstract that they become textile patterns. He also paints on unusual surfaces, like old ship anchors. See more on Andy Harper’s website (via Bioephemera)

io9 Annalee Newitz

Music students build a robot orchestra that can improvise

NPR has an amazing story about music students building the Karmetic Machine Orchestra, a set of robots that play sitars, bass guitars and pianos, plus weird made-up instruments. And they’re programmed with complex improvisation. And it’s compared to robot sex.

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Beefcakiest pulp science fiction book covers of all time?

You’ve seen the pulp covers featuring wide-eyed women clad in sparkles and not much else. But The Haunted Lamp, a blog which features “The Eerie, The Sublime, And The Little Bit Queer,” has collected some of scifi’s beef-cakiest covers. Take note that the Astounding Science Fiction cover is apparently “Inappropriate.” But still Astounding. More astonishment…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Make Your Own Paper iPhone TV This Public Holiday

Got a spare couple of hours ahead of you? Get busy with some paper, scissors and a magnifying glass—oh, and your iPhone. UK artist Ricky Trickartt says of his paper iPhone TV: “I’m not sure where I came up with the idea of making a little TV set to slot an iPhone into, but the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Motorola Droid Shadow and Xtreme Show Up On Verizon’s System

More news from camp Verizon, concerning the upcoming Motorola Droid phones. The Droid 2 Xtreme and Shadow have appeared on Verizon’s inventory, according to photos sent in to Droid-Life, suggesting release is imminent. Both names have been bandied about a fair bit, with the Shadow being left in a gym only last week. Our tipster…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Time-traveling British cops and aliens are the highlight of this week’s TV

It’s Memorial Day. Do you know what that means? Yes, we’re in the summer doldrums, but never fear. TV’s got new episodes of Ashes to Ashes, Doctor Who, Stargate Universe, and a slew of rad movies in store for you. MONDAY 5/31/10 On Memorial Day, it’s slim pickings. There’s a 12-hour block of Star Trek:…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

I Accidentally Invented Electronics in 1906

Our modern media spring from a common source, an invention that is rarely mentioned today but that had as decisive a role in shaping society as the internal combustion engine or the incandescent lightbulb. The invention was called the Audion. It was the first electronic audio amplifier, and the man who created it was Lee…

Tech News Nick Carr

New Scott Pilgrim trailer is romantic comedy platinum

Could Scott Pilgrim be this year’s breakout sleeper hit? If enough people watch this new trailer that just popped up on Facebook, the answer’s clearly yes. It’s romantic comedy with video-game action and brilliant comic timing. What’s not to love?

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Rumor: Apple Giving Financial Benefits To Foxconn Employees

Well-respected Chinese site Zol, owned by CNET’s parent company CBS Interactive, has published a report claiming that Apple will be providing financial subsidies to Foxconn’s workers, helping boost their current monthly salary of roughly $130 each. Only last week Apple released their first statement on the Foxconn suicides, saying that they are “in direct contact…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Dreamcast Boombox Is The DIY Project You Were Looking For Today

A rusty car squeals to a halt in the 7-Eleven car-park. Out steps a tracksuit-bedecked man, boombox on shoulder. Sauntering over to the rival gang-leader, he presses a button on the boombox. Out filters Ecco The Dolphin’s ambient keyboard notes. The rival gang-leader falls to his knees. He’d only brought Nas’ Illmatic! Our protagonist smiles—or…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Ask a Physicist: Could you survive a trip to the nearest star?

Could we travel to the nearest stars in a human lifetime? Yes. If we could harness the full power of the sun, it would be far less unpleasant than you think. Welcome to this week’s “Ask A Physicist” column. Before we get started, I wanted to put out a special request. A few recent questions…

io9 Dr. Dave Goldberg

Iron Man Nikes Light Up Like Tony Stark’s Arc Reactor

Somewhere, in a market brimming with plastic arc reactors and cologne bottles, there is a gap just waiting to be exploited. Custom-sneakers people Diversitile seized that opportunity and will be selling these Iron Man Nikes very, very soon. https://gizmodo.com/power-the-electromagnet-in-your-heart-with-the-iron-man-5480851 They’ll of course be limited edition, but with those replica arc reactors on the tongue of…

Movies Kat Hannaford

The star that kept exploding

160,000 light years away, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, an object is being expelled from the remnant of a supernova at 500 million miles an hour. And NASA got this shot of it. What you’re seeing here is a composite image of X-rays (blue) and visible light (yellow), showing what remains of a star exploding.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

How To: Recover From a Soda-Spill Disaster

There are few moments in life quite as sickening as realizing that you’ve spilled a beverage on one of your gadgets. Because of that, we’ve put together a simple disaster plan for dealing with beverage-soiled electronics. 1. Act Fast Yeah, we know. You’re pissed. You just splashed merlot on your expensive gaming laptop. And while…

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If a Stereo System Comes Standard, Shouldn’t a Safety System?

Gadget Deals of the Day

The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life

Wii Still Proves Big Draw For ‘Molester Monks’

Before you conquer a planet, you must first survey it from above

How a Collar Could Help Deaf People “Hear” Music

The jungle that orders and disorders the world

Music students build a robot orchestra that can improvise

Beefcakiest pulp science fiction book covers of all time?

Make Your Own Paper iPhone TV This Public Holiday

Motorola Droid Shadow and Xtreme Show Up On Verizon’s System

Time-traveling British cops and aliens are the highlight of this week’s TV

I Accidentally Invented Electronics in 1906

New Scott Pilgrim trailer is romantic comedy platinum

Rumor: Apple Giving Financial Benefits To Foxconn Employees

Dreamcast Boombox Is The DIY Project You Were Looking For Today

Ask a Physicist: Could you survive a trip to the nearest star?

Iron Man Nikes Light Up Like Tony Stark’s Arc Reactor

The star that kept exploding

How To: Recover From a Soda-Spill Disaster

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