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ThreeStyle Door is Three…Three Doors In One

If your household is statureally diverse, this 3-in-1 door from Slam Doors may be of interest. It features separate doors for kids and humiliatingly short adults. It’s a fun idea, but at prices that hover around $3500, you had better start feeding those kids caffeine and cigarettes to increase the longevity of your investment. [Slam…

Tech News Sean Fallon Mar 9 '09

Just How Trippy Does James Cameron’s Avatar Get?

The first report on actual footage from James Cameron‘s decade-in-the-making alien odyssey Avatar is in, and it sounds… trippy. Minor spoilers ahead. A source tells 3-D movie blog MarketSaw there’s a 12-minute-long sequence where you see through the eyes of someone running through the forests of the planet Pandora in one of the “Avatars” that…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 9 '09

When Your Prescription Is Beyond Contacts

The best part of this photo is not the chunky plastic design or the model’s subtly agape mouth. It’s that fatty, curlicue phone cord hanging out the back. [Flickr via bbGadgets]

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 9 '09

We Have Discovered What Galactica’s Future Holds

Friday’s episode of Battlestar Galactica was a stately and political exploration of what the future holds for our Fleet. We may still have small questions, but the big ones are getting answered. Spoilers ahead! With only two more episodes after Friday’s “Islanded in a Stream of Stars,” it’s only fair that this show is leading…

Television Annalee Newitz Mar 9 '09

Circuit City: And Now It’s Dead

It goes out with a pained mumble—not quite a whisper, definitely not a bang. Today, after 50 years, Circuit City no longer exists. A moment of silence is in order. We (and others) have already said goodbye quite a bit: • Best Buy Says Goodbye • Circuit City Employees’ Final Words as Circuit City Employees…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 9 '09

24 Solid State Drives Open ALL of Microsoft Office In .5 Seconds

Warning: This clip is a piece of Samsung marketing material. Warning 2: It’s actually pretty fracking amazing, and it might change your view of computers. Samsung techies linked 24 of the company’s 256GB SSD drives together in a RAID with the hopes of making the fast SSD drives even faster. The system actually reaches transfer…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Mar 9 '09

What’s Tree-Jumping Wolverine Saying?

What’s Wolverine saying as he does a David Lee Roth leap in the forest? We know you’re the best there is at captioning photos. Plus new images show Agent Zero and The Blob. The two new pics of jumping Wolverine and Wolverine’s confrontation with Sabretooth come from IGN, and you can find them in higher…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 9 '09

Kid Uses Fart Machine In City Council Meeting, Government Grinds to a Hilarious Halt

If you thought your local government couldn’t get anything done, find out what happens when some kid introduces a digital bill of farts. Click to view[Funny or Die via I Am Bored via Neatorama]

Tech News Sean Fallon Mar 9 '09

Philips Master LED Bulb: Enlightened When On or Off

This July, Philips will release an LED bulb that’s ready for mainstream consumption, the Master LED. Fitting in a standard bulb socket, the mercury-free Master LED bulb sips just 7W while burning up to 45,000 hours, or about 30x the length of a normal bulb. It’s actually already available in parts of Europe (we can’t…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 9 '09

Everyone’s Favorite Firefly Companion Is Now An Evil Alien

The gorgeous Morena Baccarin, whom we all fell in love with in Joss Whedon’s Firefly, has signed on as the evil alien leader of the Visitors, and according to the trades, she’s “remarkably knowledgeable about human culture and media manipulation.” First Scott Wolf and now this – the V series is just getting better and…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 9 '09

Comcast Really, Really Wants You to Love Them Again

Comcast, which most people consider the worst company on the face of the earth (well, before AIG and friends stepped up) really wants you to love them again. I mean, watch this Juno-esque commercial. Did it work? It’s part of a massive new campaign to make them not the most loathed company ever, along with…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 9 '09

BSG’s Last Mission, And Clark’s Confession

Ian McShane gears up for his role as the King of alternate-universe New York. And Battlestar’s crew readies for the final battle, in a massive week of new TV. Tons of clips, and spoilers, below. Monday: Chuck – Morgan tries to get out of his new living situation and Casey hunts down the biggest bad…

Television Meredith Woerner Mar 9 '09

LED Shower Doors Lead to Busted Moves, Butts

The Cromobox LED shower door by Antonio Lupi is designed to change colors across a spectrum in order to promote relaxation. But I sense disaster here. Seriously—throw in an LED showerhead and a shower radio and you have yourself a dance club in your bathroom. And that, my friends can only lead to cleanliness with…

Tech News Sean Fallon Mar 9 '09

Vote Tonight: Woz Only Needs 6% More Votes Than Others To Be #1 at Dancing With the Stars

Woz could redesign supercomputers before he kissed a girl, but what’s impressive is that he’s going to be dancing on TV in front of millions of watchers. This is true geek courage. https://gizmodo.com/first-picture-of-woz-primed-to-dance-into-americas-hear-5157013 Anyone can do something they’re good at. But last time I checked dancing was not one of the pillars of geekdom (programming,…

Television Brian Lam Mar 9 '09

The Science of Explosions

Want to know why a car bomb leaves behind a unique signature in the damage it inflicts? You can learn that and more at O’Reilly’s Etech Conference, starting today in San Jose. Etech stands for Emerging Technology, and every year tech publisher O’Reilly brings together an amazing and startling collection of speakers who represent the…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 9 '09

Why Terminators Always Travel Through Time Naked

If, in the future, they figure out how to transport someone through time, how can they not know how to transport clothes as well? This explains the logic gap. Click to view[CollegeHumor]

Movies Adam Frucci Mar 9 '09

Onei Solutions Speaker Stand Elicits Feelings of Supreme Inadequacy

You had it all— house, kids, and some decent home theater equipment. Then your 401k went to shit and your home’s value halved. And to top it off, your TV stand has gone obsolete. By Onei Solutions, this 6.1 home theater stand fits a whole surround system’s worth of components into a piece of piano…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 9 '09

SNL Teaches You How To Spot An Alien

Not only was this weekend’s Saturday Night Live sketch “Game Time With Dave and Greg” surprisingly funny, but it gives some pretty spot-on tips on how to pick out the aliens in our midst. Bill Hader should just be in all of the SNL sketches from now on, Laser Cats on down.

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 9 '09

Cameratruck Takes Shots 3000x the Size of 35mm

Shaun Irving takes photographs is an atypical manner. He uses a whole truck. His custom rig is a giant camera made out of the backside of a truck, fitted with a variety of military surplus lenses (one is from a submarine periscope). He parks the vehicle, aiming the rear bumper at his target, and the…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 9 '09

Has Chuck Just Blown His Gamechanging Finale?

We’ve all been told that the second season finale of Chuck will be “a gamechanger” for the show, but has star Zachary Levi accidentally given away what happens in an interview? Spy spoilers ahead. Talking to the Washington Post, Levi teased what to expect about Chuck’s double life: What I will say is one character…

Television Graeme McMillan Mar 9 '09

ThreeStyle Door is Three…Three Doors In One

Just How Trippy Does James Cameron’s Avatar Get?

When Your Prescription Is Beyond Contacts

We Have Discovered What Galactica’s Future Holds

Circuit City: And Now It’s Dead

24 Solid State Drives Open ALL of Microsoft Office In .5 Seconds

What’s Tree-Jumping Wolverine Saying?

Kid Uses Fart Machine In City Council Meeting, Government Grinds to a Hilarious Halt

Philips Master LED Bulb: Enlightened When On or Off

Everyone’s Favorite Firefly Companion Is Now An Evil Alien

Comcast Really, Really Wants You to Love Them Again

BSG’s Last Mission, And Clark’s Confession

LED Shower Doors Lead to Busted Moves, Butts

Vote Tonight: Woz Only Needs 6% More Votes Than Others To Be #1 at Dancing With the Stars

The Science of Explosions

Why Terminators Always Travel Through Time Naked

Onei Solutions Speaker Stand Elicits Feelings of Supreme Inadequacy

SNL Teaches You How To Spot An Alien

Cameratruck Takes Shots 3000x the Size of 35mm

Has Chuck Just Blown His Gamechanging Finale?

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