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Valcucine Logica Kitchen Will Brighten Up Any Underground Bunker

Italian haute kitchen design company Valcucine have debuted their ‘New Logica’ series of ergonomic, adaptable kitchen fixtures. Each of the kitchen’s various shelves, drawers, and racks are placed within quick reach and easily rearrangeable. The clean lines and scratch resistant, nano-coated surfaces will ensure a beautiful cooking environment for even the pickiest of modernist chefs…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 15 '10

NYT Says a Second Software Update Will Fix the iPhone 4 Reception

According to the NYT, a “person with direct knowledge” of the iPhone 4’s design indicated that the device’s reception troubles would be fixed by a second software update—one different from the iOS 4.0.1 update made available earlier today: http://gizmodo.com/5571171/iphone-4-loses-reception-when-you-hold-it-by-the-antenna-band One person with direct knowledge of the phone’s design said Thursday that the iPhone 4 exposed…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jul 15 '10

Firefox Home iPhone App Approved and Available Now

It’s been a while since we first heard about Firefox Home, an app which allows you to sync your desktop browsing session to your iPhone, but it’s been approved by Apple and is available in the iTunes store now. https://gizmodo.com/soon-your-firefox-browsing-sessions-will-sync-to-your-i-5548772 The app is free and basically means that your iPhone will show your “Firefox history,…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jul 15 '10

Lockheed Using Gravity to Spot ‘Subterranean Threats’

The military could soon be hunting for terror threats using detailed maps of the planet’s subterranean territory – thanks to aerial vehicles that tap into the “anomalous gravity signature[s]” of structures built beneath the earth’s surface. Lockheed Martin has received a $4.8 million, 12-month contract to create a prototype sensor that spots, categorizes and maps…

Tech News Jeremiah Dobruck Jul 15 '10

Update your cosplay for Comic Con 2010: What to wear and what to burn

All across the country, thousands of cosplayers are rushing to put the final touches on their new, or classic, costumes, for Comic Con 2010. So here’s a few tips to make your costume as cutting-edge as possible. The Devil’s In The Details No self respecting cosplayer would leave the house without the proper pair of…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 15 '10

Ultimate Captain America, The Avengers, Vintage Green Lanter

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io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 15 '10

My Cinderella Would Wear These Fiber Optic Heels

Italian designer Francesca Castagnacci made a pair of heels fit for any girl—or at least any girl who’s serious about her bandwidth. They’re made from strands of fiber optics as thin as human hair and lit by a LED. https://gizmodo.com/glowing-three-inch-heels-the-adult-version-of-light-up-5489477 If any girl ever leaves one of these behind, I will search far and wide…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 15 '10

Get Creative Cosplay

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io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 15 '10

Recycled Island: A Colorful Paradise Made From Garbage

The resourceful Dutch want to turn the Pacific Garbage Patch into a tropical destination. The idea is to recycle the plastic waste floating in our oceans into building materials for an habitable, self-sustaining island. Recycled Island would be about the size of Hawaii’s biggest island and would be located in between Hawaii and San Francisco.…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 15 '10

The best Syfy Original Movie trailer ever is for Sharktopus

You can’t go wrong with Sharktopus. Roger Corman helms a movie that is a glorious celebration of giant monsters for giant monster’s sake. And the sharktopus looks awesome! I especially like how it can come on land. Land sharktopus! Click to view Click to view

Trailers Annalee Newitz Jul 15 '10

Kid Cosplay

Image via Flickr Moogles BABY [via khiorii at deviantart] [via i.imugur] [Via FFFFound]

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 15 '10

Cosplay Teams

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io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 15 '10

Star Wars: Battle For Hoth Is A Star Wars Tower Defense iPhone Game

Tower defense games have been done many times before on the iPhone. But how many of those games let you defend against Snowtroopers and AT-AT’s? Only this one. Here’s the deal: If you like tower defense games and love Star Wars, Star Wars: Battle for Hoth at $2.99 is a great buy. There’s 15 levels,…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 15 '10

Human Trials Next for Darpa’s Mind-Controlled Artificial Arm

Pentagon-backed scientists are getting ready to test thought-controlled prosthetic arms on human subjects, by rewiring their brains to fully integrate the artificial limbs. Already in recent years, we’ve seen very lifelike artificial arms, monkeys nibbling bananas with mind-controlled robotic limbs, and even humans whose muscle fibers have been wired to prosthetic devices. But this is…

Health Katie Drummond - Wired Jul 15 '10

Scott Pilgrim Cosplay

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io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 15 '10

Apple Patent Application Describes Multi-Orientation Docks

Among Apple’s patent applications, there’s one for a multi-orientation dock which seems like it won’t rely on traditional electrical contacts on the bottom of your device. The patent application is titled “Methods and Apparatuses for Docking a Portable Electronic Device That Has a Planar Like Configuration and That Operates in Multiple Orientations” and described in…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jul 15 '10

Question of the Day: What Do You Think Apple Is Going to Do Tomorrow?

So, Apple has a press conference about the iPhone 4 tomorrow. What do you think they’re going to do to make good on the faulty antenna issue? https://gizmodo.com/apple-holding-iphone-4-press-conference-on-friday-5587384 What will Apple do about the iPhone 4 antenna issue?customer surveys

Tech News Adam Frucci Jul 15 '10

16 demented Green Lantern stories that we’re sure won’t be in the movie

Now you’ve seen Green Lantern’s costume, and we’ll learn more Lantern facts at Comic Con. But we already know one thing for sure: There’s no way the movie can include these 16 utterly loopy storylines from the Green Lantern comics. #1 Green Lantern gets knocked on the head. It’s the thing that seems to happen…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jul 15 '10

God Hates Nerds

It seems that the members of the Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church aren’t very happy about the San Diego Comic-Con. According to them, it’s a gathering of lost souls who are obsessively worshipping false idols like Batman: Are you kidding?! If these people would spend even some of the energy that they spend on these…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jul 15 '10

BP well has been capped, and has stopped gushing oil

A new cap (pictured) was lowered into place Monday over BP’s gushing oil well in the Gulf, and today was temporarily sealed. For the first time in three months, oil is not gushing into the ocean from this disaster. Don’t get too excited, though. Using the cap to close off the well is just part…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 15 '10

Valcucine Logica Kitchen Will Brighten Up Any Underground Bunker

NYT Says a Second Software Update Will Fix the iPhone 4 Reception

Firefox Home iPhone App Approved and Available Now

Lockheed Using Gravity to Spot ‘Subterranean Threats’

Update your cosplay for Comic Con 2010: What to wear and what to burn

Ultimate Captain America, The Avengers, Vintage Green Lanter

My Cinderella Would Wear These Fiber Optic Heels

Get Creative Cosplay

Recycled Island: A Colorful Paradise Made From Garbage

The best Syfy Original Movie trailer ever is for Sharktopus

Kid Cosplay

Cosplay Teams

Star Wars: Battle For Hoth Is A Star Wars Tower Defense iPhone Game

Human Trials Next for Darpa’s Mind-Controlled Artificial Arm

Scott Pilgrim Cosplay

Apple Patent Application Describes Multi-Orientation Docks

Question of the Day: What Do You Think Apple Is Going to Do Tomorrow?

16 demented Green Lantern stories that we’re sure won’t be in the movie

God Hates Nerds

BP well has been capped, and has stopped gushing oil

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