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What to Expect From Google I/O 2015

Google I/O is the annual tech holiday for all fandroids and lovers of Mountain View moonshots. It’s a software party mostly, so check your new hardware expectations at the door. It’s a full two days for Google to showcase the future—or at least the next 12 months—and it all starts today. Considering Google has wedged…

Sentinel’s Latest Marvel Toy Is A Heavily Armored War Machine

So far Sentinel’s swanky Re:Edit toys have focussed on making some pretty amazing Iron Man variants. But while their latest doesn’t fall far from the Iron Man tree, it’s a bit different: it’s an all new War Machine, one that comes packing heat and some pretty awesome armor. https://gizmodo.com/a-closer-look-at-sentinels-lovely-extremis-iron-man-1691133421 https://gizmodo.com/sentinels-stylish-hulkbuster-toy-is-way-sleeker-than-ag-1684643991 https://gizmodo.com/this-bleeding-edge-iron-man-figure-looks-awesome-1672663812 Scant details have been…

Which Obsolete Technologies Will You Never Get Rid Of?

The life cycle for most technologies is not a long one, and yet sometimes, we find ourselves getting a little sentimental about the tech we pick up all the same. Maybe you’ve formed an attachment to your first cell phone (or at least enough of one to earn it a spot gathering dust in your…

7 Notorious Killers Who Actually Went Straight

Most people who’ve been convicted of murder usually settle into prison for the long haul. But in some cases, a killer, usually one who committed his or her crime as a youth, gets released and starts over. Here are seven famous killers who got caught, and never killed again. (So far, at least.) 1) Nathan…

Google’s Immersive 360 Action Flick Is So Realistic It’s Not Believable

Google released a new 360-degree immersive video on its Spotlight Stories app yesterday—the first featuring real human actors instead of animation. It’s an action-packed short directed by Fast & Furious director Justin Lin. I downloaded the 1GB 360 video and took it for a literal spin (I was sitting in a swivel chair). It’s so…

I want to believe Lego will make this X-Files set real (Update: Nope)

Brent Waller, the Lego fan who built a Ghostbusters set that the toymaker eventually put into production, is back with a perfect recreation of the X-Files’ Mulder and Scully that includes a detailed miniature version of Fox’s cluttered FBI office. Believe it or not it’s been about 13 years since the final episode of the…

This Deadly Virus Is An Aphrodisiac To Crickets

I smell a Star Trek plot. A virus that kills within weeks propagates itself throughout cricket communities by making the crickets extremely sexually active. This is the exact sort of thing that Captain Kirk was made to deal with. People have known about iridovirus, a virus that infects crickets, for a long time. A study…

10 supposedly futuristic technologies in movies that look so dated now

Movies—no matter how groundbreaking or vision changing or future defining—are trapped under the limitations of the technology of their time. Which often means that a movie’s imagination of the future is handcuffed with those same limitations. Their vision of the future may be correct but the technology used to execute that idea is often hilariously…

Lenovo’s Mulling a Bizarre Smartwatch With a Second Screen

Lenovo just announced a bunch of stuff at its first ever tech conference in Beijing (which you can read more about here and here), and as is true of most of these big events, Lenovo showed off tons of stuff dotting the spectrum from real products to moonshot ideas. This crazy-lookin’ smartwatch is one of…

Why 4x4s Are Better In Australia

Australia is filled with poisonous shit that’s constantly trying to kill you. But it’s also filled with the world’s best four-wheel drive vehicles. Yeah, basically everything the little off-road enthusiast inside of you has ever wanted is here. And I just moved here in order to drive it. We’ll start from smallest to largest. Suzuki…

Daredevil Season 2 Audition Tapes Tease The Arrival Of A Major Character

One of the planned Transformers spinoffs could take place on Cybertron. Duncan Jones discusses filming Warcraft. Doctor Who is returning to often-used location. Bryan Fuller explains the need to keep American Gods’ cast diverse. Plus, Hugh Dancy talks Hannibal. Spoilers Get! Transformers Spinoff Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari have joined the creative team in charge…

We Can’t Trust iZombie‘s Brains. And That’s a Good Thing.

I’ll admit it: this week’s “Astroburger” had me completely fooled. Eating a brain prone to hallucinations was not good on Liv, but it was great for iZombie. Spoilers… The murder victim this week was, of course, Scott E. — the helpful fellow patient of Major’s, who told him about zombies last week. Because of that,…

Visual Shazam Exists Now—To Sell You Junk

Shazam is expanding to the visual world. Now you can use your phone’s camera to scan the Shazam logo on printed media. Shazam will then load up some other “content.” Who asked for this? In its purely audio form, Shazam is magic. You’re in a bar, you hear a song, you want to know what…

Can Open-Source 3D Printing Make Custom Prostheses Affordable?

Joe Oxenbury was born without a left hand. “It was a glitch,” says his father, Chris. “That’s what the doctors told us. His hand just didn’t grow when he was in the womb.” When Joe was eight years old, Chris organised a fundraising campaign to buy his son a £2,000 prosthetic hand. But children can…

The ISS Is Being Torn Apart (and Neatly Put Back Together)

Yesterday, the International Space S1tation’s Permanent Multipurpose Module known as Leonardo was detached from the spacecraft. But don’t worry: it was part of a planned move, in order to make it easier for more visiting spacecraft to dock with the orbiting laboratory. The 10-tonne module was first unbolted by NASA astronauts Terry Virts and Scott…

This Is a Photo of an Osprey Aircraft, Not a Moody Painting

Here’s another military photo which totally looks like a painting. This picture of an Osprey tiltrotor aircraft landing on a dusty airfield in Romania may have been retouched in Photoshop, but it still looks beautiful. Here’s a full description of what you’re looking at from the U.S. Marine Corps: A U.S. Marine MV-22B Osprey from…

Apple now offers same-day deliveryto get (some) Apple Store products to you in super-quick time. If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area. And are willing to pay.

The Seashell-Inspired Material Creating a New Wave of Safety Gear

The risk of injury in professional sport has been a central feature in recent debates about how well protected our stars are. Only recently, Argentine football player Emanuel Ortega died of a fatal head injury after hitting a concrete wall during a game. One solution is to increase the use of protective wear and to…

The Milky Way Flows Into the Sea

While Cape Sounion is the location of a temple to Poseidon, it’s not the sea that dominates this image. It’s the sky. Contact the author at [email protected]. Top photo by: csath7/flickr/CC by ND-2.0

Lenovo’s New Phone Turns Any Surface Into a Touchscreen

This, according to Lenovo, is the world’s first laser projection smartphone—and the fact that it recognizes gestures also means that it can turn any surface upon which its images appear into a touchscreen. PocketLint reports from the Lenovo Tech World conference that the phone, called Smart Cast, features a built-in laser pico projector and a…