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Paintings So Ugly That They’ll Scare Away Cellphone Reception

These are among the ugliest pieces of art you could possibly waste $150 on, but they’re hiding a devious little secret: Under those terrible layers of paint, there are remote-controlled cellphone jammers. Alright, alright. Just because they don’t suit my taste doesn’t mean that the paintings are ugly. I’m only annoyed because no one’s made…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

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Tech News Matt Buchanan

Augmented Reality App Lets You Try On Watches While Still In Pajamas

We’ve seen concept videos for apps that let us try on watches, but now we’ve finally got something we can actually play with. Now we can try on watches without ever having to put on pants and leave the house. https://gizmodo.com/try-on-watches-at-home-thanks-to-augmented-reality-a-5474763 Just download this hefty 82MB app, print a goofy paper watch, and wave your…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Japan Will Soon Fly A Kite…In Space

Japan is launching its first Venus probe and along with it they’re sending Ikaros, a “space yacht” also known as the Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation of the Sun. Yes, Japan is sending a gigantic kite into space: Ikaros will initially be a short cylindrical shape when it is released into space, when it will…

Space & Spaceflight Rosa Golijan

Third of Devices Accessing the Android Market Are Running Android 2.1

Occasionally Google produces charts showing “the relative number of active devices running a given version of the Android platform.” The latest of these charts is special though: It apparently marks the first time Android 2.1 was the most used version. Click on the image for a closer look. It’s worth noting that this data was…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

If Only Everything In Life Could Be Coded

If only the trick worked, I’d actually learn to code this properly: while (thisgirl.verySleepy()) { coffee++; } Error? Ah well, not like it would fill my coffee cup anyway. [Abstruse Goose]

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Free Kindle App Coming To Android Devices This Summer

This summer, Android users will finally have their very own Kindle app. The app will allow you to access the Kindle Store, synchronize bookmarks across all your devices, and do just about everything Kindle apps on other platforms can. https://gizmodo.com/the-ipad-amazons-secret-weapon-5510620 Introducing Kindle for Android Free Android app for reading allows customers to enjoy over 540,000…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Verizon Forgives Family’s $18K Phone Bill After Four Year Fight

Bryan St. Germain’s dad, Bob, must look a lot happier right now than he did in this picture. After all, Verizon has just dismissed a $18,000 phone bill racked up by the young man after a tedious four-year fight. https://gizmodo.com/family-still-fighting-verizons-18-000-phone-bill-four-5528879 The painful 2006 phone bill was a result of Bryan not realizing that his family’s…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Beautiful Air Purifier Doubles As A Smell-O-Vision Display

The Twilight air purifier concept design has a slender, sheet-like OLED display which allows you to view videos or images while your air is cleaned of impurities, cooled down, and filled with a pleasant fragrance to match what you’re watching. Sure, the unit looks beautiful and like it could blend with most decors, but how…

Health Rosa Golijan

Elderly Japanese Would Rather Be Tended to by Robots Than Foreigners

Japan’s looming population crisis combines lots of old people with not many workers. Many of the potential nurses to tend to said old people happen to be from neighboring Asian countries. Not so fast! What about robots?! Japan is a very racially homogenous society, where immigration is frowned upon and genetic purity is seen as…

Tech News Adam Frucci

How Much Tech Companies Are Spending On Lobbying

Yikes. While the amounts are only tiny fractions of their revenues, major tech companies are spending quite a bit of money on lobbying. Hell, apparently “Google’s lobbying is half what it spends on advertising.” [BI]

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Routemaster Buses To Return To London By 2012

One of London’s most famous icons got retired in 2005 to international dismay—the Routemaster bus. Seen on the roads since 1956, they were replaced by bendy-buses that almost everyone despises. Until now! Meet the new Routemaster. London’s mayor Boris Johnson unveiled “the new bus” today, promising they’ll hit the streets by 2012. They’ll use less…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Ninja Assassins Are After Your Toothbrush

Yes, there are ninja assassins after that disgusting, germ-ridden toothbrush of yours. They want to brutally annihilate 99% of the mess with their germicidal ultraviolet lights and you should probably just step back and let them do it. Alright, maybe these ninja assassins aren’t after your toothbrush just yet, but you could and should buy…

Health Rosa Golijan

The Greatest “Captain Kirk Takes Out A Couple Of Church Ladies” Scene Ever

Captain Kirk takes care of business in this awesome clip from the direct-to-DVD Carriers. After a plague wipes out most of humanity, Chris Pine’s SUV runs out of gas. Good thing he has ways of persuading Christian ladies to help.

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Bio-Manufactured Bricks Are Made at Room Temperature, From Bacteria, Sand and Urine

An American architecture professor in Abu Dhabi has come up with a new generation of sustainable bricks — grown by bacteria using sand, calcium chloride, and pee. Rather than being fired in a kiln, the bricks are formed at room temperature, according to Metropolis Magazine, which honored the invention with a Next Generation Design award.…

Tech News Rebecca Boyle - Popular Science

All Of Lost’s Secrets Are… On Star Trek?!?

Hankering to know all the mysteries of the Island? Well, you’ve been watching the wrong damn show! All of Lost’s questions were answered years earlier on the Star Trek series. Learn that Jin is an alien and Locke had hair! The cast of Lost is a prolific bunch, and many of them have collected a…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

Conquer Your Fear of Creepy Crawlies With Augmented Reality

A lot of augmented reality applications we’ve seen thus far have seemed a little, well, excessive. But if AR can put me at peace with spiders, snakes, cockroaches, and the rest? That’s a feat deserving of a Nobel Prize. https://gizmodo.com/be-iron-man-in-your-computer-monitor-5522104 In a study described in an upcoming edition of the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Spielberg’s Terra Nova: Land Of The Lost Meets Avatar

Just how much does this new Terra Nova concept art remind you of Avatar? Fox has announced its plans to launch Steven Spielberg’s time-traveling epic, along with a lot of new details about the top-secret project. Today, Fox revealed that Spielberg’s dinosaur show will be airing early in 2011. But more interesting than that is…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Leisure Eyes Cover with Nature Sounds Sets the Bar a Little Higher

This gadget has it all: it’s a light-blocking face mask, plays nature sounds, plugs into any audio player and comes in a variety of colors. And for only $16, you can afford one for every room in your house. [Brando]

Tech News Adam Frucci

How the kudzu invasion is poisoning the air with ozone

The fast-growing kudzu vine may be responsible for more toxic emissions of ozone than cars. Not only are these plants releasing chemicals into the air that harm humans, but they are spreading unchecked across the Eastern US. Research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that threats to the environment…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Paintings So Ugly That They’ll Scare Away Cellphone Reception

t2i photos

Augmented Reality App Lets You Try On Watches While Still In Pajamas

Japan Will Soon Fly A Kite…In Space

Third of Devices Accessing the Android Market Are Running Android 2.1

If Only Everything In Life Could Be Coded

Free Kindle App Coming To Android Devices This Summer

Verizon Forgives Family’s $18K Phone Bill After Four Year Fight

Beautiful Air Purifier Doubles As A Smell-O-Vision Display

Elderly Japanese Would Rather Be Tended to by Robots Than Foreigners

How Much Tech Companies Are Spending On Lobbying

Routemaster Buses To Return To London By 2012

Ninja Assassins Are After Your Toothbrush

The Greatest “Captain Kirk Takes Out A Couple Of Church Ladies” Scene Ever

Bio-Manufactured Bricks Are Made at Room Temperature, From Bacteria, Sand and Urine

All Of Lost’s Secrets Are… On Star Trek?!?

Conquer Your Fear of Creepy Crawlies With Augmented Reality

Spielberg’s Terra Nova: Land Of The Lost Meets Avatar

Leisure Eyes Cover with Nature Sounds Sets the Bar a Little Higher

How the kudzu invasion is poisoning the air with ozone

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