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How Baby Vampires Pick Up Guys On True Blood

This week, we watched with big watery eyes as the baby vampire Jessica met a boy and batted her long eyelashes alluringly, at his pulsating jugular. True Blood recap, with spoilers, below. True Blood tied up a few (but not many) loose ends this week, by freeing our boy Lafayette (more on Sookie and Bill’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Cooler Master Offers the Smallest 95W Laptop Adapter You Can Get

It’s tough to tell without anything to scale this image, but the Cooler Master SNA 95 is the smallest 95W laptop adapter around—yet still manages to integrate some convenient extras. Measuring just 2.9 x 0.7 x 5.7 inches, the SNA 95 includes practicalities beyond its 9 bundled tips that are compatible with most major brands…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Android Finally Opening Up Some Pandora Action

Months after he explained to us why Pandora wasn’t immediately jumping onto Android, CTO Tom Conrad reveals that Pandora is indeed coming to Android now that “the Android universe has developed nicely.” [Tom Conrad via Phandroid]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

A Whole Lotta Quake Will Be Blowing Up Your iPhone

John Carmack says that not one, but three Quake games are coming to the iPhone—1, 2, and Arena—though his involvement will mostly be to “make sure certain specific things are done the way I want them to be.” The Quake onslaught is in addition to a slew of other id games hitting iPhone: Wolfenstein RPG,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Supreme Court OKs DVR-In-The-Cloud Concept

Hollywood apparently tried to make a federal case about Cablevision launching a virtual DVR, a cable box with no local hard drive that still lets you “record” shows to watch later, and even fast forward through commercials. Hollywood studios got mad because they deemed it unfair re-broadcasting of content. The Supreme Court looked at the…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Air Protect Baby Seat Is Strong Enough to Take a Punch

We don’t cover a lot of baby seat tech around these parts, but we found Air Protect, a new technology meant to soften the blow to a baby’s head in a side-impact crash, downright punchable. According to Dorel Juvenile Group, makers of Air Protect (which is a system technically comprised of those discs you see…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Nanoparticle Breakthroughs That Could Save Millions of Lives

Although some kinds of nanomaterials (like carbon nanotubes) can be harmful to your health, scientists are quickly developing nanoparticle therapies that can fight cancer and bacterial infections better than any of our current medications. Dr. Cathy Shachaf’s team at the Stanford University School of Medicine has developed a nanoparticle application that she expects will allow…

io9 Megan Carpentier

io9’s Hivemind Reviews The Terminator 4 Novelization

Terminator Salvation felt more like a weak music video than a movie, with a story that was hard to piece together. So it’s a good thing the novelization is written by super-prolific author Alan Dean Foster, right? Spoilers ahead… Titan Books, which published the book version of Terminator Salvation, kindly sent out a half dozen…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Please, Nobody Show This Twilight USB Drive to Any Girls

Do you think that your eardrums being intact is a good thing? Then please, don’t show this Twilight USB drive to any girls between the age of 9 and 15. Or was it 45. Can’t tell these days. [EntertainmentEarth]

Movies Jason Chen

A Tribute to Splendid Half-Assery

Misadventures in do-it-yourself home repair, or lateral thinking of McGuyver-esque proportions? We’ve all pulled something stupid like this in our time. Hey, I once tried to fix a waterbed with duct tape, big mistake. But some deeds shouldn’t go unnoticed, like this cardboard computer case, or the smelly sock fix to make RockBand drums a…

Tech News Danny Allen

Levitating Projector, Or Really Expensive T-Ball?

This levitating projector may just be a concept, but most of the science is fairly sound. While projectors traditionally use lenses to offset the throw of the image (pretty effectively, I might add), the floating ball (suspended from an electromagnetic base) can rise or fall in space to make projection even more flexible. Plus, the…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Geek Squad at the Apple Store

No detail on this, but reader AJ has a lame joke to go along with this submission: Q: How does Geek Squad fix Macs? A: They drop ’em off at their local Apple store. [Thanks AJ!]

Tech News Jason Chen

Grossest Mouse Ever Works While Scraping Dead Skin Off Your Feet

Someone decided it would be fun to combine a Ped Egg, used for scraping dead skin off of your feet, with an optical mouse. What resulted is gross. Don’t believe me? There’s a video. Oh god, there’s a video. Yes, the Ped Mouse does just what it claims to do: lets you control your cursor…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Super Small, Super Powerful Quantum Processor Can Solve Multiple Problems At Once

Soon your processor might be able to do three things at once. In a major stride towards commonplace quantum computing, a Yale university team has just unveiled a new two-qubit quantum processor that actually looks like a conventional computer chip. The chip’s qubits (or quantum bits, a unit for quantum information) are built from billions…

io9 StephenGoldmeier

Fresh Fruity Floating Bath Favors

Do these floating bath fruits actually do anything? Other than draining three AAA batteries and lighting up your water in a rainbow of colors, no. [Himeyashop via Technabob via Boing Boing Gadgets]

Tech News Jason Chen

Blackberry Saves Man from Falling 700 Feet (And Dying)

David Fitzherbert was skiing down a glacier in Switzerland when the snow gave out and he dropped 70 feet before being trapped somewhat securely between two rocks…thanks to his Blackberry. The Blackberry, seated in his breast pocket, added the extra bit of thickness that made the difference between plummeting another 700 feet and waiting 2…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Carnivorous Furniture Hiding In Plain Sight

British designers James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau have designed a variety of household robots that feed on innocent pests to generate power — and to last long after their human owners die. And, they look just like furniture. Auger and Loizeau designed a fly-trapping lamp that can be lit by digesting the insects attracted to…

io9 Megan Carpentier

Tie Fighter Playhouse Recruiting For The Dark Side Early

I want to meet the kids that want to play on Darth Vader’s team, and the parents who support this. Would you let your tykes play with the neighborhood kids training to serve the Emperor? This toy Tie Fighter runs about $75, which is actually pretty reasonable. But I also feel the need to comment…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Yamaha Rethinks the AV Receiver, Creates neoHD

Reading up on this totally fresh neoHD receiver tells me that Yamaha—unlike its competition—is trying hard to keep up with the rapidly changing home theater situation, particularly where HD video is concerned. Yamaha clumsily calls neoHD a “media connector,” which makes it sound like just part of the home-theater equation, rather than a solution to…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

The Most Efficient Particle Accelerator Known To Humanity

Chinese astronomers observed this supernova, RCW 86, in the year 185 A.D. But it’s still pumping out cosmic rays, and a new image shows how supernova remnants like this one are the Milky Way’s “super-efficient particle accelerators.” [Chandra Observatory]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

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Grossest Mouse Ever Works While Scraping Dead Skin Off Your Feet

Super Small, Super Powerful Quantum Processor Can Solve Multiple Problems At Once

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Blackberry Saves Man from Falling 700 Feet (And Dying)

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