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The Nerdiest Way You’ll See a Door Opened All Week

Take a Linksys running custom firmware, tap into the hardware to power a circuit controlling the locks, and SSH into the router with custom iPhone and Android apps to flip the circuit. Easy, right? [Sunlight via Make via Engadget]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

And Tesla the Twain Shall Meet

Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla: The most powerful of minds, and the best of friends. Here, a captivated Sam Clemens tests Tesla’s inductively powered incandescent lamp. The mad scientist lurks in the background, like, well, a mad scientist. It’s not terribly surprising that the two men were friends, since they were both revered figures in…

Tech News John Herrman

Dubai’s 2 Million Gallon Shark Tank Is Leaking

The shark-filled aquarium at the Dubai mall, full of 33,000 sea creatures and 2 million gallons of water, has sprung a leak through its 30-inch acrylic walls. This won’t end well! Updated: Now with video! The leak had people wading out of the mall. A representative for Dubai’s civil defense force said they’ve got the…

Tech News Adam Frucci

China Miéville Explains Why J.G. Ballard Is A Giant Of Science Fiction

China Miéville’s indispensible review of J.G. Ballard’s newly released complete stories does more than celebrate Ballard, whose influence permeates all types of fiction. He also makes a great argument for why Ballard belongs to science fiction. Not only does Ballard’s fiction feature such SF commonplaces as space travel and future dystopias, it also makes use…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Ambient Light Concept Pleasantly Reminds You Your Gadgets Are Wasting Energy

It’ll be at least a decade before the Bloom Box solves our energy crisis. In the meantime, you’re gonna have to turn off your gadgets. This concept uses ambient light to gently remind you which are still sucking power. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-fuel-cells-and-bloom-energys-miracle-box-5479460 The design bears the creatively-sequenced name Saving Energy Multitap, and it’s intended as a replacement…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Leonardo DiCaprio Brings Us Space Porn In 3-D Imax

Your computer screen isn’t big enough to do justice to the massive images the Hubble Space Telescope has been sending back. So check out the new film Hubble 3-D, with exclusive Imax spacewalk footage. We’ve got some high-res images below. Leonardo DiCaprio narrates this documentary about the Hubble Space Telescope, which hits Imax theaters on…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Ask Paolo Bacigalupi About Windup Girl

For the past few days, we’ve been discussing Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel The Windup Girl in our io9 book club meeting. Now you can ask Paolo about the book! He’ll be joining us here in comments tomorrow at 12 PST. Please reserve the comments section here for specific questions to Paolo – you can continue debating…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Is There A Politically Correct Term For “Robot”?

When the robot revolution comes, you may not find yourself at the end of a pain stick. Instead, the liberated robots could merely insist on a PC name for “robot.” What will it be? The Escapist magazine forums have ideas. It all started when teknoarcanist asked: So say you’re in a futuristic setting. What are…

io9 Annalee Newitz

UPS: Getting Your Packages Into the Garbage On Time or Your Money Back

I’m pretty sure BSMT GARBAGECAN is not where this package was intended to be delivered. But hey, UPS delivered it, and that’s all that counts, I guess. Martin says: On Monday I couriered an envelop containing paper objects and a DVD from Toronto to New York, to be included in an exhibition that will open…

Tech News Adam Frucci

The Real Version of Buzz Lightyear

Someone did a real version of Buzz Lightyear, just in time for Toy Story 3. And to spook me once again, like Real Mario and Untooned Homer. Christ. Why don’t they stick to folder art? [Raoninery – Thanks David Keyes!] https://gizmodo.com/buzz-lightyear-goes-to-infinity-and-the-internationa-394730

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Indie Phone Maker’s Last Stand

The Palm Pre unveiling stands in my memory as one of the most refreshing moments in modern history. Palm had done it—they had created a great phone Nokia would’ve killed for. But today, that’s just not enough. https://gizmodo.com/live-palm-keynote-5126468 As Palm teeters on the brink of either ruin or acquisition, let’s take stock of what they…

Tech News John Herrman

When Did Science Rock Your World?

The wonderful thing about science is the way forces us to re-order our view of the world and our place within it. Tell us the first, last, best, or worst time that science shocked you. I remember the first time a piece of scientific information gave me pause. I was still in elementary school, and…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

A Homemade SLR, Baked From Scratch

It’s in French, but you owe it to yourself to flip through one man’s war story of crafting his own SLR camera, which he machined from scratch. The pictures alone will make you feel properly inadequate. [Forum via MAKE]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Empire Edition

In today’s Remainders: Empires. Apple tends to theirs at their annual shareholders meeting; Verizon reinforces their cellular empire for Spring Break action; and the Galactic Empire’s graphic design team faces off with Ole Miss’s new rebel mascot. And more! It’s a Mascot! Ole Miss has been without a mascot since 2003, when its Colonel Reb…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

New Freddy Krueger Trailer Gives Us Nightmares, And That’s A Good Thing

Any doubts that Jackie Earle Haley would not make for an utterly terrifying Freddy should be easily put to rest with this new trailer. Even his Freddy-esque quips (“Why are you screaming? I haven’t even cut you yet”) deliver chills. And oh yes — that is the meat-head vampire from Twilight, and he’s only in…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Decorating Cables Instead of Hiding Them

Instead of hiding dust-ball-hunting spaghetti cable monsters behind furniture, I’ve decided to embrace chaos and transform it. Actually, my wife has. These decorative cable clips seem perfect for it, and simpler than squiggling cords on the wall. [PA-Design via Unplggd] https://gizmodo.com/camouflage-cords-5408432

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Scientists Report On Nasal Leech Infestation

Over at the NCBI ROFL blog, we’ve learned about a crucial medical research paper recently published in a scientific journal: A study of seven leeches removed from six people’s nostrils. Do the math. Yuck. One leech was 12 cm long! From the European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology: Nasal leech infestation rarely occurs in society today and…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Doctor Who Hits BBC America 2 Weeks After The U.K.

We’d hoped that U.S. viewers would get the new series of Doctor Who within a day or so of the British airing, as happened with David Tennant’s swansong. Alas, it’s not to be. The Matt Smith episodes will air on BBC America starting April 17, or two weeks after the U.K.’s April 3 start date.…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Chinese Vampire Invades Africa In The Gods Must Be Crazy 3

The first and second Gods Must Be Crazy films followed Xixo the Bushman and his misadventures with modernity. The Gods Must Be Crazy III was about a Chinese vampire. Which of these is not like the other? Unlike The Gods Must Be Crazy and The Gods Must Crazy II, 1991’s The Gods Must Be Crazy…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Emily Howell, The Composer Who Obviates Inspiration

Six years ago, David Cope destroyed one of the world’s most talented composers. Her name was Emmy, and she’d written thousands of musical scores that were indistinguishable from classics by Mozart. But Emmy’s younger, brighter daughter named Emily lives on. David Cope is an emeritus professor at University of California. His last piece of music…

Artificial Intelligence Mark Wilson

The Nerdiest Way You’ll See a Door Opened All Week

And Tesla the Twain Shall Meet

Dubai’s 2 Million Gallon Shark Tank Is Leaking

China Miéville Explains Why J.G. Ballard Is A Giant Of Science Fiction

Ambient Light Concept Pleasantly Reminds You Your Gadgets Are Wasting Energy

Leonardo DiCaprio Brings Us Space Porn In 3-D Imax

Ask Paolo Bacigalupi About Windup Girl

Is There A Politically Correct Term For “Robot”?

UPS: Getting Your Packages Into the Garbage On Time or Your Money Back

The Real Version of Buzz Lightyear

The Indie Phone Maker’s Last Stand

When Did Science Rock Your World?

A Homemade SLR, Baked From Scratch

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Empire Edition

New Freddy Krueger Trailer Gives Us Nightmares, And That’s A Good Thing

Decorating Cables Instead of Hiding Them

Scientists Report On Nasal Leech Infestation

Doctor Who Hits BBC America 2 Weeks After The U.K.

Chinese Vampire Invades Africa In The Gods Must Be Crazy 3

Emily Howell, The Composer Who Obviates Inspiration

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