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The Sponge That Can Absorb 180 Times Its Own Weight (In Toxic Sludge)

That tiny, plastic-looking black cube up there can absorb up to 180 times its own weight in toxic waste without absorbing any water. How? As with just about every amazing and/or inexplicable scientific breakthrough nowadays, the answer is spelled N-A-N-O. Researchers at the Peking and Tsinghua Universities have adapted carbon nanotubes into a sponge-like material…

Tech News John Herrman

Tales of Human Upgrades: Jerry Jalava’s USB Finger

Jerry Jalava was riding his motorcycle home from work one day, when a deer ran in front of him. Long story short, he lost half his index finger. So, of course, he replaced it with a USB flash drive. https://gizmodo.com/the-usb-finger-drive-is-real-and-as-gross-as-we-imagine-5167612 The USB drive isn’t permanently fused to his finger, unfortunately. Instead, it’s inside a rubber…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Largest Man-Made Mountain Could Rise Above Berlin’s Skyline

Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport closed its operations last year, leaving a vast swath of land currently unused. An increasingly vocal group wants to replace the airport with the world’s largest man-made mountain, adding snowy peaks to the now-flat city. Architect Jakob Tigges developed the plan for the Berg, a 1,000 meter man-made mountain that would sit…

io9 Lauren Davis

Gadget Deals of the Day

Sleeping fitfully because you can’t decide which laptop to buy? Save nearly $200 on the Sony VGN-FW590 in today’s Deals. If that doesn’t cure you, pick up your free copy of Harvard Medical School’s Guide To A Good Night’s Sleep. Top Deals: • Moxi 2 Tuner 500 GB HD DVR for $500 (used to be…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Nick Bilton the Lead Blogger at NYT Bits

My good friend Nick Bilton is going to the NYTimes Bits blog as their lead writer. Nick was Design Integration Editor in the NYT newsroom and a UI specialist in their R&D labs for quite awhile before that, but took a break to work on his book, I Live in the Future: & Here’s How…

Tech News Brian Lam

Yeti USB Mic Is “The World’s First THX Certified Microphone”

At $150, Blue Microphone’s new THX certified Yeti might not be the best investment for something as simple as Skype, but if you are doing podcasts, music recordings, or old-timey variety shows, it might be worth the extra cash. Apparently, the Yeti is the first microphone to earn a THX certified distinction—something Blue Microphone views…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Make Professional Multimedia PDF Portfolios with Adobe Acrobat 9

Your dreams of dynamic, seamless PDF portfolios can now be realized. With Adobe Acrobat 9, you can combine video, audio, and documents all in a single file. Read: awesome. Get ready to blow them away with your next presentation. With Adobe 9, you can: -Combine videos, movies, simulations and 3D objects into a single compressed…

Tech News Chrissie Lamond

Carl Sagan Deep Space Ship to Go to the Living Room and Beyond

When I was 12, Cosmos was one of my favorite TV shows. The other was Benny Hill. Clearly, planetary exploration and semi-naked girls go together like William Shatner and Elton John songs, whiskey and glass, or Lego and awesome spaceships. https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-look-inside-the-lego-factory-5022769 This is the Carl Sagan deep exploration vessel, created by Ed Diment and Ralph…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

VESA Officially Adopts Apple’s Mini DisplayPort

It was bound to happen: Apple’s Mini DisplayPort is now officially part of the Video Electronics Standards Association’s DisplayPort 1.1a standard. [VESA] https://gizmodo.com/apples-mini-displayport-will-be-official-part-of-displa-5131032

Tech News Jesus Diaz

V’s Mothership Already Landed In Milwaukee In 2001

Early concept art shows the assymetrical arches and white coolness of the mothership in ABC’s V remake — and it turns out the startling similarity to a cutting-edge art museum isn’t accidental at all. V’s mothership is directly inspired by the new wing to the Milwaukee Art Museum, designed by Spanish artist Santiago Calatrava in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Is Clint Eastwood’s 2004 Tsunami Picture Too Soon?

Clint Eastwood‘s next film, Hereafter, supposedly takes a hard look into the lives of those changed forever by the 2004 Tsunami… and Matt Damon can talk to dead people. Reports are calling it Shyamalan-esque, but is it too soon? There is very little information about Clint Eastwood’s next project, which he is currently filming right…

Movies Meredith Woerner

15 Improbable Bionic Upgrades to the Human Body

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to imagine some bionic upgrades for the human body. And it’s safe to say that I am not interested in having any of you perform unnecessary surgery on me. Yikes. First Place—Doc Brown Second Place—Shaun Legacy Third Place— Jon McGrath

Tech News Adam Frucci

Google Maps Shows You the Way to Your Swine Flu Vaccine

The Pandemic That Was Going to Kill Us All But Didn’t is still alive, lurking to take you in a one-way trip across the Styx. Or a two-way trip to Snotland. Google Maps points the way to the nearest vaccine. https://gizmodo.com/follow-the-swine-flu-pandemic-in-real-time-with-google-5229314 The search engine has collaborated with the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Vitruvian Voltron

If only Leonardo da Vinci had 1980s cartoons as his muse, it would be Voltron representing Man’s innate tie to geometry and architecture. Live in that better world by purchasing this $18 t-shirt, or sniffing more Crayola. [ThinkGeek via RedFerret]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Dollhouse’s Viral Marketing Brings the Apocalypse Ever Closer

The TV show may be on hiatus until December, but the Dollhouse crew is still releasing tantalizing nuggets from the show’s universe. The latest viral marketing campaign offers more clues as to how the Rossum Corporation’s mindwipe apocalypse begins. Yesterday, the website for the Rossum Corporation — the nefarious technology company that operates the Dollhouses…

io9 Lauren Davis

Eminem Vs. Facehuggers — Who Would You Root For?

Looks like the real Slim Shady is taking his science-fiction spoofs to the big screen — when a gimmick works, it works… we guess. Eminem’s full-length science-fiction film, Shady Talez, will riff on Ridley Scott’s Alien. Screen Daily is reporting that Eminem will be starring in an original movie, being described as a blend of…

Movies Meredith Woerner

World’s Largest Bathtub. Just that: World’s Largest Bathtub

I wanted so badly to have a large, English-style, only-nose-out, soak-like-a-hippo bathtub in my new apartment. I settled for a large shower, but at 72 by 12 feet, maybe I should have rented the world’s largest bathtub instead. This 4-food deep naffness is indeed the world’s largest and tackiest bathtub, needing 6,340 gallons (24,000 liters)…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Google to Murdoch: Whatever, Dude

Rupert Murdoch—owner of some of the finest and fairest news organizations in the world, true beacons of journalism—is thinking about retiring all his content from Google. Well, Señor Ruperto, apparently Google doesn’t give a goddamn about it: https://gizmodo.com/rupert-murdoch-hates-google-5400560 News organizations are in complete control over whether and how much of their content appears in search…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Tenth Doctor Marches Into The Darkness, One Last Time

Here’s your first official photo from David Tennant‘s final Doctor Who story, which apparently is still called “The End Of Time.” He does not look happy. [Digital Spy]

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Is Choosing a Prosthesis So Different than Picking a Pair of Glasses?

I think technology has evolved enough to let us be earnest about the fact that a consumer of a prosthetic is the same consumer buying an iPod or glasses or a couch for their house. You want options. Obviously, the role of a prosthetic is one far more intimate than that of a couch, and…

Tech News Aimee Mullins

The Sponge That Can Absorb 180 Times Its Own Weight (In Toxic Sludge)

Tales of Human Upgrades: Jerry Jalava’s USB Finger

Largest Man-Made Mountain Could Rise Above Berlin’s Skyline

Gadget Deals of the Day

Nick Bilton the Lead Blogger at NYT Bits

Yeti USB Mic Is “The World’s First THX Certified Microphone”

Make Professional Multimedia PDF Portfolios with Adobe Acrobat 9

Carl Sagan Deep Space Ship to Go to the Living Room and Beyond

VESA Officially Adopts Apple’s Mini DisplayPort

V’s Mothership Already Landed In Milwaukee In 2001

Is Clint Eastwood’s 2004 Tsunami Picture Too Soon?

15 Improbable Bionic Upgrades to the Human Body

Google Maps Shows You the Way to Your Swine Flu Vaccine

Vitruvian Voltron

Dollhouse’s Viral Marketing Brings the Apocalypse Ever Closer

Eminem Vs. Facehuggers — Who Would You Root For?

World’s Largest Bathtub. Just that: World’s Largest Bathtub

Google to Murdoch: Whatever, Dude

The Tenth Doctor Marches Into The Darkness, One Last Time

Is Choosing a Prosthesis So Different than Picking a Pair of Glasses?

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