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WWII Leaders Get a Dieselpunk Makeover

What if the nations that fought in WWII were led not by mere men, but by diesel-powered cyborgs? It might resemble Sam van Olffen‘s faux propaganda posters, featuring the likes of Rooseveltron, Stalinator, and Benitobot Mussolinoid. Van Olffen describes himself as a “graphic sampler,” and has been recognized for his dark, fantastical, steampunk-flavored images. Now…

io9 Lauren Davis

Terrifying Alpine Roller Coaster Is Just One Faulty Screw Away From Death

Ah, the Alps. I always enjoyed my vacations there. Fresh air, sun, good food, breathtaking scenery… a perfect place for relaxation, yodeling, and massive jacuzzi orgiesparties. And—looking at the world’s highest roller coaster video—a perfect place to die. https://gizmodo.com/emergency-yodel-button-creates-avalanche-of-ridicule-5123046 It’s called Alpine Coaster and is located at the Glacier 3000 ski area, with views to…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

A Dust Cloud That Lowered Temperatures Around The World

Using satellite data, scientists tracked dust clouds created by a massive Chinese dust storm in 2007, and discovered that they circled the globe in 13 days. And the clouds may have affected weather half-way around the world. According to a release from Nature Geoscience, where the study was published yesterday: Itsushi Uno and colleagues used…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Broomba Self-Propelled Broom For Harry Potter Fans

Unfortunately, the Broomba doesn’t clean up after you like a Roomba might, but it does travel autonomously around the room cackling and playing scary music. As menacing as that sounds, this evil can be stopped in it’s tracks by carpet, stairs and / or a gentle push. It can also be humiliated by children attempting…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Samsung’s New ‘Viral’ Video Doesn’t Even Try to Look Real

Maybe I’m a cynic, but this seems like the laziest stab at making a “viral” video yet. Samsung wants to promote their new Jet phone, so they pretended they pulled a crazy stunt in London. The video shows a very fake-looking UFO coming in over Piccadilly Circus and elephants bungee jump out of it. OK.…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Feeling Ironik, Galacto or Malubul?

We know you’ve got two engagement parties, three Big Meetings, a bris, and a third date coming up. And, really, what the hell are you going to wear? Get your gladrags together with help from Ted Baker London. Sale on everything from the Vyper suit to the Galacto T-shirt starts this afternoon! Join Gilt Groupe…

Tech News Chrissie Lamond

Scientists Feel Gravity’s Pull Towards Eclipse Logic

Tomorrow, Chinese scientists will get a once-in-a-century opportunity to try out a particularly controversial theory that, if proven, will change our idea of the way that the world works. The theory? That gravity will lessen during a total eclipse. The idea that gravity will drop during an eclipse originated with French physicist Maurice Allais in…

io9 Graeme McMillan

HTC Hero Review: Ambitious, But Tragically Flawed

It’s the Android phone we’ve been waiting for. Almost. The HTC Hero is as much a champion for HTC as it is for Android: It’s the first genuinely gorgeous piece of hardware running Android, and the Sense UI is the most ambitious, polished software HTC has developed yet. It doesn’t have a carrier in the…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Evil Orphans Are Ruining It For The Real Orphans

The Adoption Institute’s protesting the new horror movie Orphan because they believe it’s negatively influencing would-be parents. But frankly if someone goes ahead and adopts one of these soulless dead-eyed kids who weeps blood, they’re pretty much asking for it. In a letter to Warner Brothers, the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute’s CEO, Barry Meyer,…

io9 Meredith Woerner

iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages to Random People

According to developer Till Schadde, random people may be receiving your AIM messages if you have a jailbroken or unlocked iPhone. In fact, anyone with a jailbroken iPhone may be getting them, according to his testing: [Update: Confirmed] Just found a HUGE #security #hole w/ push & AIM. Someone got my sent messages and wrote…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Devotec Portable Solar Speaker Enjoys Long Walks On the Beach, Bluetooth

Battery constraints are the biggest hindrance to portable speakers, especially when they use power-sucking Bluetooth streaming. Devotec’s Solar Sound Bluetooth Speakers should help oceanside podcast listeners, backyard music aficionados and tailgate dance partiers relax a little but harder. Devotec says their speaker, which features dual 2W drivers, Bluetooth A2DP and AVRCP support, 3.5mm hard input,…

Tech News John Herrman

What TV Secrets Are Hidden On Sargasso Planet?

What’s happening 224 days from now? Why does no-one else remember classic SF show Sargasso Planet? A new fansite for a possibly fictional TV show from the past may offer hints at one of next year’s most anticipated new series. Zack Adamski‘s Sargasso Planet fansite looks, at first glance, like the kind of thing the…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Rumor: iPod Touch with Camera and Microphone Coming

According to a “well-connected Wired’s source,” Apple’s Chinese contractors are already churning out iPod touch units with integrated cameras and microphones. A classic rumor that may transform the smart media player into almost-an-iPhone, thanks Wi-Fi hotspots and 3G-to-Wi-Fi hubs. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-mifi-2200-3g-portable-wi-fi-hotspot-review-5256825 According to Wired’s source, they will go on sale in “two to three months.” If…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Tons Of Pics From Doctor Who, New Moon, And Ashley Tisdale’s Alien Invasion Movie

Spoilersplosion! Supernatural season five will feature the greatest twist on its “angel” storyline yet. New Doctor Who set photos reveal a MacGuffin…. from space! There are New Moon pics and Aliens In The Attic/Green Lantern: First Flight clips. Spoilers emulsify. New Moon: Here are a few new stills the studio sent us. I think only…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

14-yo Boy Drinks Gasoline to be like Optimus Prime

I remember the boys jumping off roofs and windows when Superman came out back in 1978 (girls, being a lot smarter than boys, don’t do these stupid things). Looks like Transformers has had a similar effect in one boy: Since my son started to drink gas, his IQ has dropped sharply and now he can’t…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Public Radio iPhone App Adds On-Demand Content, Accidentally Kills FM Radio

A few weeks ago, LA’s KCRW set the gold standard for radio station apps: a streaming client with access to a huge back catalog of on-demand station content. Public Radio Player 2.0 does the same thing—for everyone. https://gizmodo.com/the-week-in-iphone-apps-too-drunk-to-play-brain-age-5288883 Since the start, Public Radio Player has listed a sizable number of NPR stations across the country,…

Tech News John Herrman

Report: iPhone Leak Interrogations Drive Foxconn Employee to Suicide

The security team for Foxconn, the company that manufactures the iPhone for Apple, is said to have subjected employee Sun Danyong to “unbearable interrogation techniques,” leading him to commit suicide. He was under investigation for losing a prototype device. The rumors and reports, collected and translated by ex-Gizmodian Elaine over at Shanghaist, tell a plausible…

Tech News John Herrman

Most Ludicrous Melting-Face Scene Of All Time

1987’s Street Trash is best known for its game of severed-penis keepaway. But this dissolving-person scene deserves nearly as much fame. Whoever drinks the cheap liquor known as Viper melts from the inside out into a purpley technicolor goop.

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Gasoline-Huffing Man Bursts Into Flame After Being Tased

An Australian man burst into flames after a policeman hit him on the bridge of the nose with his Taser. Sound ridiculous? Not so much if you know the man was arrested on suspicion of huffing gasoline. The man pretty immediately went up in flames, and the officer, recognizing that a man becomes significantly less…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Dealhunters: Buy Your Laptops in August, September and April

DealNews took a relatively standard laptop—Vista-equipped, 15.4-inch, Core 2 Duo, at least 2GB of memory—and graphed the average price over the last year. The findings confirm what we already knew: Laptops are cheapest in the fall and April. As we all know, August and September are prime times to snag one of those great back-to-school…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

WWII Leaders Get a Dieselpunk Makeover

Terrifying Alpine Roller Coaster Is Just One Faulty Screw Away From Death

A Dust Cloud That Lowered Temperatures Around The World

The Broomba Self-Propelled Broom For Harry Potter Fans

Samsung’s New ‘Viral’ Video Doesn’t Even Try to Look Real

Feeling Ironik, Galacto or Malubul?

Scientists Feel Gravity’s Pull Towards Eclipse Logic

HTC Hero Review: Ambitious, But Tragically Flawed

Evil Orphans Are Ruining It For The Real Orphans

iPhone Push May Be Sending AIM Messages to Random People

Devotec Portable Solar Speaker Enjoys Long Walks On the Beach, Bluetooth

What TV Secrets Are Hidden On Sargasso Planet?

Rumor: iPod Touch with Camera and Microphone Coming

Tons Of Pics From Doctor Who, New Moon, And Ashley Tisdale’s Alien Invasion Movie

14-yo Boy Drinks Gasoline to be like Optimus Prime

Public Radio iPhone App Adds On-Demand Content, Accidentally Kills FM Radio

Report: iPhone Leak Interrogations Drive Foxconn Employee to Suicide

Most Ludicrous Melting-Face Scene Of All Time

Gasoline-Huffing Man Bursts Into Flame After Being Tased

Dealhunters: Buy Your Laptops in August, September and April

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