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No Man’s Sky‘s Spaceship Looks Gorgeous As This Fan-Made Model

No Man’s Sky may not be out for a while, but the upcoming sci-fi exploration game has certainly gotten a lot of people excited – including Twitter fanToykyo Joe, who made this brilliant model of the game’s spaceship as a gift for Game makers Hello Games. As you can see from the game screenshot below,…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Because You’ve Always Wanted a Selfie Flash For Your Phone

Lenovo owns Motorola now, and that means the Chinese electronics company could have a real impact on smartphone culture in the United States. So what’s the next big thing from China? How about the selfie flash? Okay, okay, we don’t necessarily know that it’s the new hotness, but Lenovo’s new Chinese flagship certainly isn’t messing…

Tech News Sean Hollister

Can Lenovo’s E-Ink Smartband Out-Pebble the Pebble?

Smartwatches are great when their batteries aren’t dying on you. That’s what makes Pebble one of the best. But Lenovo is trying to creep in on that territory too, with its new Android-friendly e-ink smartband: The Vibe Band VB10. At first blush, it sounds like the Pebble pitch all over again: wrist notifications, waterproof for…

Tech News Eric Limer

Lenovo LaVie Z: A Laptop So Light I Can Hardly Believe It’s Real

There’s a certain baseline weight you expect when you pick up a laptop. Lenovo’s LaVie Z exists so far below that baseline you feel like it just has to be hollow. And it doesn’t sacrifice an ounce of performance. It’s nuts. The LaVie Z comes in two flavors: the 1.7 pound traditional clamshell version, and…

Tech News Eric Limer

The Burliest Convertible Laptop Is Going Big

Lenovo announced its Thinkpad products yesterday but it held out on a few more surprises. Among the fray are a rugged, backflipping convertibles that hit the 15-inch mark, an affordable Yoga 3, and a tiny Windows tab you can write on with just about anything. The original Thinkpad Yoga was one of the first rugged,…

Tech News Eric Limer

Asus Makes Transforming Windows Tablets Way Less Chunky

Asus popularized the cheap detachable laptop, but they’ve always been chunky little things. Not the Transformer Book Chi. Asus claims the new 10.1-inch T100 Chi is the thinnest Windows tablet ever made. And the 12.5-inch T300 Chi—combined with its keyboard—is now thinner than a MacBook Air. Sure, thin isn’t everything, and even the 7.2mm thick…

Tech News Sean Hollister

The World’s First Cameraphone That Can Actually Zoom (Say Cheese)

Have you ever even touched an ASUS phone? I thought not. But two of the coolest Android smartphones at CES 2015 come courtesy of the Taiwanese computer company. The first one’s called the ZenFone Zoom, and for good reason: the $400 jet black flagship is gunning for the lauded Nokia Lumia 1020, a.k.a. the best…

Tech News Sean Hollister

How Two 18th Century Women Fell in Love and Invented Modern Romance

Romance hasn’t always been the stuff of bodice rippers and bad vampire movies. Back in the 18th century, the word “romantic” meant something akin to “foolish” or “fanciful.” But then a bunch of hipster sentimentalists changed everything — and invented the idea of love as we know it today. Saucy illustration “Archers,” by Adam Buck…

io9 Annalee Newitz

FCC Launches Slick New Public Complaint Site

Last year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) famously botched the record-breaking public comment period on net neutrality thanks to its crappy technology. Now, the agency has launched a slick new system that suggests this won’t happen again. Too bad they’re about eight months late to updating the technology. The new, easy-to-navigate site (a.k.a. the Consumer…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

A Soul-Snatching Job Goes Hilariously Wrong For Unluckiest Grim Reaper

Dji is a Grim Reaper sent on an errand to retrieve the soul of a man dying in the hospital. Should be easy, right? Well, everything that could possibly go wrong does in this slapstick short film. Dji. Death Fails was directed by Dmitri Voloshin at the animation studio Simpals. The studio also just released…

io9 Lauren Davis

The World’s First Inflatable Flashlight Never Needs New Batteries

There’s no point in keeping a stash of emergency flashlights around your home if the batteries inside them just end up getting stolen for TV remotes and the kids’ toys. So the folks who created the original LUCI, a dirt-cheap inflatable solar-powered rechargeable lantern, have tweaked its design for the new Luci EMRG so that…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Dish’s New Joey Set-Top Box Is All About 4K

I like 4K. You like 4K. CES 2015 definitely 4K, and Dish is finally adding the ability to stream in this most coveted resolution with the 4K Joey, a set-top box that gives all Ultra HD TVs with HDMI 2.0 support and HDCP 2.2 support. The device itself is pretty discreet. Dish says you should…

Tech News Darren Orf

Gogo Wi-Fi Is Using Man-in-the-Middle Malware Tactics on Its Own Users

Gogo’s inflight Wi-Fi service is pretty much your only option when it comes to surfing the internet in the skies above. Which means that they arefree to give you shitty service at even shittier prices all they want. And now, according to one Google engineer, they’re also playing fast and loose with your online security.…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Daring Scientists Are Spending Six Months Adrift on an Arctic Ice Floe

A pair of Norwegian scientists are in the middle of a long expedition over the Arctic winter, living out of a hovercraft on a drifting ice floe. There is no sun, it is freezing, and yet the scientists seem to be having a grand ol’ time doing science. “People have asked me how I was…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Charlie Brown Will Still Miss that Place Kick in the CGI Peanuts Movie

Perhaps eventually all your childhood favorites will come back CGI’d, and that’s okay! At least as far as the upcoming Peanuts movie is concerned. Because as you can see in the latest trailer for the November 2015 movie, the look is a little different, but Charlie Brown’s probably still gonna wuff a punt, and adults…

Movies Leslie Horn

Someone send this man some LEGO so he can make a full-body exoskeleton

You know that box of old LEGO blocks under your childhood bed? (Or your current bed.) Now’s the time to surrender at least a handful of them for the greater good of humanity. In this case, the greater good involves helping Milan Sekiz build a full-body exoskeleton out of LEGO. Sekiz recently posted images of…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Disney Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to the Future of TV

And lo, a hero emerges. Today, Dish announced Sling TV, a new web tv service (read: no cable contract required) that’ll cost you $20 a month to watch a handful of networks you don’t care about and one, ESPN, that you do. But Dish isn’t the story here. The story is Disney, the company that…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Qualcomm Says Wearables Aren’t a Fad, And It Might Just Be Right

“This trend is not going away,” says Pankaj Kedia, the head of Qualcomm’s new wearables business unit. “This is not a fad.” Of course he’d say that—his job depends on it. But who other than Qualcomm—the company which dominates the mobile industry—would know for sure? So I grilled Qualcomm’s wearables boss about our sensor-equipped future.…

Tech News Sean Hollister

Longing For More Korra & Asami? Fan Comics Picture Life After The Show

We loved The Legend of Korra’s season finale, but it left us with a profound desire to see more of Korra and Asami’s adventures. Fortunately, plenty of fan artists have drawn comics and illustrations picturing the pair’s life after the show ends. Top image by Sandra Velazquez. Naturally, after that ending and the creators’ confirmation…

Television Lauren Davis

Man Sentenced To Jail For Eating Tigers, Because Tigers

Dude, no. Guzzle all the Doritos-Flavored Mountain Dew you want, but in the name of all that is holy, keep your fork away from tiger meat, unlike a certain Chinese man (identified only as “Xu”) who was sentenced to 13 years in jail for buying and eating the endangered species three different times. (Could it…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

No Man’s Sky‘s Spaceship Looks Gorgeous As This Fan-Made Model

Because You’ve Always Wanted a Selfie Flash For Your Phone

Can Lenovo’s E-Ink Smartband Out-Pebble the Pebble?

Lenovo LaVie Z: A Laptop So Light I Can Hardly Believe It’s Real

The Burliest Convertible Laptop Is Going Big

Asus Makes Transforming Windows Tablets Way Less Chunky

The World’s First Cameraphone That Can Actually Zoom (Say Cheese)

How Two 18th Century Women Fell in Love and Invented Modern Romance

FCC Launches Slick New Public Complaint Site

A Soul-Snatching Job Goes Hilariously Wrong For Unluckiest Grim Reaper

The World’s First Inflatable Flashlight Never Needs New Batteries

Dish’s New Joey Set-Top Box Is All About 4K

Gogo Wi-Fi Is Using Man-in-the-Middle Malware Tactics on Its Own Users

Daring Scientists Are Spending Six Months Adrift on an Arctic Ice Floe

Charlie Brown Will Still Miss that Place Kick in the CGI Peanuts Movie

Someone send this man some LEGO so he can make a full-body exoskeleton

Disney Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to the Future of TV

Qualcomm Says Wearables Aren’t a Fad, And It Might Just Be Right

Longing For More Korra & Asami? Fan Comics Picture Life After The Show

Man Sentenced To Jail For Eating Tigers, Because Tigers

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