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Pegboard Device Sinks Carpal Tunnel’s Battleship

A pegboard device developed by bioengineering students from Rice University aims to better diagnose and evaluate carpal tunnel syndrome by restraining the hand and analyzing movements with a customized PDA. In a five-minute test, a doctor uses pegs to isolate a patient’s individual fingers. “You wouldn’t think it works as well as it does, but…

Health Sean Fallon

New 9 Trailer Is All About The Rag Doll Love

The international trailer for 9 shows the softer side of the movie’s harsh apocalyptic rag-doll world. It’s all about friendships and relationships — oh, and dolls fleeing madly from the cold talons of the death-dealing machines. This is really the first time we’ve seen anything about the relationships between the characters. It seems like 9…

io9 Meredith Woerner

iPhone 3GS Upstream Speed Limited to 384Kbps

While the iPhone 3GS got a download speed boost—to 7.2Mbps—it didn’t get any upload power-up, according to PC World: Its upstream speed is limited by its hardware to 384Kbps. But don’t get out the torches and pitchforks yet. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3gs-review-5293388 Most GSM-based cellphones suffer the same problem: No matter how fast they are at download, they…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Binary Star Discovery Allows Scientists To Detect Invisible “Gravity Waves”

Stars in the early universe probably formed in pairs, like the ones in this simulation created by a group of American astrophysicists. Their finding also has staggering implications: We may detect gravity waves, which has never been possible before. According to a release about the study: Most simulations of the early universe, in which clouds…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Historic, Gigantic Atom Smasher to Be Demolished

Lawrence Berkeley National Labratory’s Bevatron was the world’s largest atom smasher when it was build for $9 million in the early ’50s. Soon, it’ll be reduced to a pile of rubble. The 125,000-square-foot facility was one of the crown jewels of the world of particle physics back then, but at this point its sadly outdated…

Physics & Chemistry Adam Frucci

Dreams Do Come True: The Tauntaun Sleeping Bag Ready For The Holidays?

Great amazing fantastic change-your-life Star Wars news. Remember the “so awesome I want to curl into a ball and die” tauntaun sleeping bag? Well, actual production is lumbering forward like a great snow beast. But will LucasFilm approve it? The L.A. Times spoke to the folks over at Think Geek for an important update on…

io9 Meredith Woerner

3mm-Thin Digital Booth Babe Gives Other Booth Babes Inferiority Complexes

This super-thin booth babe display was recently spotted on the floor of the high-octane International Stationary and Office Supply Fair (slogan: “You’ll get punched in the face with excitement!”). this eye-catching digital signage system consists of a 0.3-millimeter-thick high-luminance rear-projection film (Vikuiti Rear Projection Film developed by 3M) applied to a 3-millimeter-thick glass substrate cut…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

Epic battles, beer glasses, and bowling – we’ve got what you need with this week’s best from Uncrate. This week at Uncrate: We kick back with a tall glass of Glenfiddich 31 Year Scotch Whisky, wash it down with some crisp agua from the Charcoal Water Pitcher, and make sure we’re good to drive home…

Tech News Jason Chen

Pegasus Open 50 Log: Finally, Through the Fog, a Sunset

July 8, 9:00 PM PST This is what a sunset looks like in the middle of the ocean, from a sailboat racing from California to Hawaii. Course 265° T, Speed 13.5 Knots, Lat 26° 03′ N, Lon 135° 00′ W July 9, 2:15 AM PST Windy tonight. On edge and don’t trust the pilot on…

Tech News Philippe Kahn

The Middleman’s Romance With Lacey Almost Didn’t Happen

One of our favorite parts of superhero-adventure The Middleman is the on-again, off-again romance between the mysterious hero and Lacey, his sidekick’s roommate. But Javier Grillo-Marxuach tells io9 he fought that storyline tooth and nail. So what happened? Spoilers ahead. For those of you coming to this late, The Middleman was a graphic novel that…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

BlackBerry’s U2 Commercial…Brought To You By Apple

Is it just me, or does the new BlackBerry commercial featuring U2 look a hell of a lot like an Apple ad? Or, more specifically, the Coldplay Apple ad? This little nugget of Apple envy was pointed out by TechCrunch, and I will have to agree that the similarities are pretty obvious. What’s more striking…

Tech News Sean Fallon

The New io9 Commenter System – Explained!

You may have noticed something different about how comments work on io9. That’s because our Gawker Media Overlords have unleashed a new comment system. It gives you a lot more flexibility. Read on to find out more! We’ve been searching for a way to moderate discussions in comments that don’t involve disemvoweling and smashing the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Vizio Import Ban Overturned, Free To Ship TVs To US

US customs has cleared Vizio in an ongoing patent dispute with Funai, meaning that they will be allowed to freely ship their HDTVs into the US once more. https://gizmodo.com/ban-on-vizio-hdtv-imports-upheld-but-does-it-even-matt-5285629 In all likelihood, Funai will appeal the ruling—but outside of a courtroom miracle, this should effectively bring the situation to a close. The reality is that…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Spider-Man 4 Recruits Seabiscuit Writer To Retool The Script

Seabiscuit writer/director Gary Ross, who also penned Big and Pleasantville, has been hired to rewrite Sam Raimi‘s Spider-Man 4, replacing edgy playwright David Lindsay-Abaire. So it may be months until we discover who the big bad will be. [Variety]

io9 Meredith Woerner

New Comments System! NEW COMMENTS SYSTEM!

Hey, transistor faces. Heads up: we’ve just made a new comment system that will hopefully (we think) make comments much more readable and allow us to do some cool things. Here’s what you need to know. • There’s now a featured comments section. This is what you’re going to see by default, and you can…

Tech News Jason Chen

The Incestuous Payday Behind Transformers

Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen has already made more than $600 million internationally, and new estimates suggest that the merchandise from the movie should make around the same amount… But who’s really making all the money here? As Michael Bay‘s second Transformers movie slowly crushes all opposition, the Wall Street Journal notes that projections are…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Hulu Video Downloader Lets You Save Your Shows For Offline Viewing

Hulu is great, but what if you want to watch the newest 30 Rock somewhere with no web access? You can just use the new Hulu Video Downloader to sketchily rip video right from the site for you. Lifehacker’s Adam Pash didn’t have much luck getting the Windows-only program to work, but if you can,…

Tech News Adam Frucci

My iPod Is Bigger Than Yours

Apple designmeisters Jonathan Ive and Jody Turner gave this giant pink nano to fashion genius Paul Smith for his birthday. Smith is the designer—among many things—of my NSFW naked pin-up wallet, which you can see after the jump. On Friday 3rd July, I received a really lovely mad gift for my birthday (which is on…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

A Homemade Piece of Lab Equipment With A Terrible Purpose

There is something creepily fascinating about this piece of DiY lab equipment, fashioned in Denmark during the 1970s. Can you guess its purpose? Not for the faint of heart. The habitrails may have given it away. Yes, it’s a rat guillotine, considered 40 years ago to be the most humane way to kill rats after…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Peek Creators Have Linux Envy, Reach Out to Hackers

The point of—and in a way, problem with—Peek messaging devices is just how simple they are: their software does email, sorta, and that’s it. Now Peek is reaching out to users to port Linux to the device. https://gizmodo.com/peek-pronto-lightning-review-simple-email-faster-5197397 But wait, doesn’t the Peek already run some kind of stripped-down Linux? You’d think so, but no:…

Tech News John Herrman

Pegboard Device Sinks Carpal Tunnel’s Battleship

New 9 Trailer Is All About The Rag Doll Love

iPhone 3GS Upstream Speed Limited to 384Kbps

Binary Star Discovery Allows Scientists To Detect Invisible “Gravity Waves”

Historic, Gigantic Atom Smasher to Be Demolished

Dreams Do Come True: The Tauntaun Sleeping Bag Ready For The Holidays?

3mm-Thin Digital Booth Babe Gives Other Booth Babes Inferiority Complexes

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

Pegasus Open 50 Log: Finally, Through the Fog, a Sunset

The Middleman’s Romance With Lacey Almost Didn’t Happen

BlackBerry’s U2 Commercial…Brought To You By Apple

The New io9 Commenter System – Explained!

Vizio Import Ban Overturned, Free To Ship TVs To US

Spider-Man 4 Recruits Seabiscuit Writer To Retool The Script

New Comments System! NEW COMMENTS SYSTEM!

The Incestuous Payday Behind Transformers

Hulu Video Downloader Lets You Save Your Shows For Offline Viewing

My iPod Is Bigger Than Yours

A Homemade Piece of Lab Equipment With A Terrible Purpose

Peek Creators Have Linux Envy, Reach Out to Hackers

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