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GoPro’s Making Spherical Camera Mounts For VR Video (and Drones Too)

GoPro’s CEO Nick Woodman has announced that his company is making a new spherical camera mount which swallows six action cameras in order to record video footage for virtual reality experiences. GoPro is also making a drone, which it plans to sell in the first half of 2016. Taking to the stage at Code Conference,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This Puck Is Lenovo’s $50 Chromecast Competitor

Lenovo has just announced that it’s producing its own media streamer, in the same vein as Google’s Chromecast—but with a few extra features. The neat, black puck will let you beam video straight to your TV from most devices, for the princely sum of $50. Unlike Google’s offering, which plugs straight into the HDMI port…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This Paper Recreation of Twin Peaks Is Somehow More Surreal

If there’s any more trouble getting new episodes on the air, they really should consider just hiring Matthew Fuller and making an animated version of the show. [via Laughing Squid] A Paper Recreation of the Introduction to the 1990s Drama Series ‘Twin Peaks’ Contact the author at [email protected].

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An Octopus Helps A Man Find His Engagement Ring In This Darling CG Short

When a young man tries to propose on a dock, he ends up losing the engagement ring to the drink. Fortunately, he finds a friendly octopus willing to help him find it. Unfortunately, the ring has found its way into a wicked shark’s kingdom. Thaddaeus Andreades, Marie Raoult, Nicholas Manfredi, and Elizabeth Ku-Herrero made Taking…

io9 Lauren Davis

Government-Subsidized Cotton Farms Are Sucking the Colorado River Dry

Not too many drought stories have focused on cotton. As one of the thirstiest crops, it was long abandoned by many farmers in the regions hardest hit by unprecedented water scarcity. Except for one part of Arizona, where cotton blooms defiantly, even today. Because here, the more cotton fails, the more the US pays farmers…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Let The OSS Teach You How To Take Out A Tank Using Only Crushed Walnuts

This informative little film shows you how to take out an enemy tank. All you need is a condom, and a thing called caccolube. There’s not much to say about this film — except that after you see it, you realize that the Office of Strategic Services was much better at fighting Nazis than it…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Amateur Satellite Trackers Found the Secret X-37B Space Plane in Orbit

The U.S. Air Force’s supersecret X-37B was launched into orbit for the fourth time last week, and amateur satellite watchers have promptly identified its secret orbit—also for the fourth time. There is, you see, a small army of amateurs who keep track of over 300 spy satellites, often with little more than a pair of…

Space & Spaceflight Sarah Zhang

Facebook Messenger Lets You Send Money In Chat Threads Now

Facebook’s payments feature for the Messenger app has been rolling out slowly across the U.S. and landed in New York City today armed with a couple new features. But how does it stack up against Venmo? I repaid a $5 happy hour debt to fellow Gotham-dwelling Gizmodian Darren Orf to find out. First introduced back…

Social Media Bryan Lufkin

Watch The Grueling And Dangerous Work Involved In Breaking Down A Ship

When a ship has been decommissioned and it’s time to recycle its parts, it make go to a ship breaking yard for demolition. It’s spectacular to watch, but it’s also remarkably tough and dangerous work for the workers who break down the boats piece by piece and haul them away. In the recent years, ship…

io9 Vincze Miklós

As They Grow, Baobab Trees Hollow Themselves Out From The Inside

The baobab tree is one of nature’s weirder creations. With its branches high overhead like a set of upside down roots, it looks like it was plucked straight from a Dr. Seuss book. But something even weirder is happening inside. After checking out this photo of a baobab in Madagascar, a Kinja-discussion kicked off with…

io9 Ria Misra

Fast and Furious’ Justin Lin Directs Live Action 360 Video For Google

Following on last year’s beautiful animated short “Duet,” Google just pushed out a sweet little short from Justin Lin, best known as the director of several films from the Fast and Furious franchise. “Help” is a 360 video is available through the Google Spotlight Stories app, a project of the Advanced Technologies and Projects (ATAP)…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Video: The bad ass point of view shots from the original Mad Max saga

The original Mad Max movies were packed with action scenes and though they weren’t on the scale of Fury Road, they were still awesome to watch because a lot of times you get to see it all happen from the point of view of the character. It immerses yourself in the world and almost makes…

Sploid Casey Chan

Stop Using “Read Receipts” on Texts

Rumor has it, Apple wants to give you the option to use read receipts on a contact-by-contact basis in iMessage. This is a dreadfully bad idea that will undoubtedly destroy relationships, estrange friends, and piss off teens. Why? Because read receipts are awful, and making them more sophisticated is bullshit. First of all, a public…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

The White House Supports A Proposed Ban On Editing The Human Germline

In the wake of news that scientists in China modified the DNA of human embryos, a number of scientists and bioethicists have called for a global moratorium on experiments that could alter the human germline. The White House has come out in support of such a ban — for now. https://gizmodo.com/scientists-make-history-by-genetically-modifying-human-1699681875 The idea that we’ll…

io9 George Dvorsky

Are You a Digital Hoarder?

I save absolutely everything I create digitally. I have docs titled “copy of copy of copy of copy,” lest I lose an earlier version. I compulsively screenshot stuff that strikes me as funny or scandalous. You are either like me or you are not. How preserved is your digital life? I also save too much…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

Why The Most Powerful Time Travel Stories Aren’t About Changing The Past

The question “What would you do if you traveled back in time?” is often synonymous with the question “What would you change about the past?”. But time travel is a rich subgenre, and some of its most interesting stories aren’t about changing the past — they’re about exploring it, so we can better understand ourselves…

io9 Lauren Davis

8-bit video game version of The Shawshank Redemption is still good

It shouldn’t come as a surprise as The Shawshank Redemption is one of the all-time great movies but this 8-bit version of the film captures a little bit of that same spirit and is fun to watch too. I guess Andy and Red’s friendship translates into any medium, even if it’s animated in a retro…

Sploid Casey Chan

Study: The Internet Has Finally Become TV

In the next five years, more than 50 percent of the world’s population will have internet access, and 80 percent of internet traffic will be devoted to video, says a new study by Cisco. But it’s not just billions more dinky YouTube videos that will suck up all that bandwidth. It’s our shifting TV habits.…

Television Alissa Walker

These Box Jellyfish Use Their Sting To Anchor Sperm

Box jellyfish are probably best known for their sting – the venom from a few species’ nematocysts, or stinging cells, can kill a person. Nematocysts are usually found on tentacles, but a new study suggests that one species has made them an integral part of their sexual system. Image: Mating Copula sivickisi. The female is…

Biology Diane Kelly

Saving the Last of the World’s Glaciers By Sending Them to Antarctica

Glaciology is in the middle of a slow-moving crisis. As the climate warms, glaciers are shrinking and then disappearing. So scientists have come up with a plan to put ice cores from melting glaciers in the most permanent cold storage possible on Earth—in Antarctica. Glaciologists extract ice cores from glaciers all over the world to…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

GoPro’s Making Spherical Camera Mounts For VR Video (and Drones Too)

This Puck Is Lenovo’s $50 Chromecast Competitor

This Paper Recreation of Twin Peaks Is Somehow More Surreal

An Octopus Helps A Man Find His Engagement Ring In This Darling CG Short

Government-Subsidized Cotton Farms Are Sucking the Colorado River Dry

Let The OSS Teach You How To Take Out A Tank Using Only Crushed Walnuts

Amateur Satellite Trackers Found the Secret X-37B Space Plane in Orbit

Facebook Messenger Lets You Send Money In Chat Threads Now

Watch The Grueling And Dangerous Work Involved In Breaking Down A Ship

As They Grow, Baobab Trees Hollow Themselves Out From The Inside

Fast and Furious’ Justin Lin Directs Live Action 360 Video For Google

Video: The bad ass point of view shots from the original Mad Max saga

Stop Using “Read Receipts” on Texts

The White House Supports A Proposed Ban On Editing The Human Germline

Are You a Digital Hoarder?

Why The Most Powerful Time Travel Stories Aren’t About Changing The Past

8-bit video game version of The Shawshank Redemption is still good

Study: The Internet Has Finally Become TV

These Box Jellyfish Use Their Sting To Anchor Sperm

Saving the Last of the World’s Glaciers By Sending Them to Antarctica

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