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Panasonic’s New UHD TVs Are as Color Accurate as Professional Monitors

Last year, after killing its beloved line of Plasma TVs, Panasonic rebooted its big screen lineup with a line ofsurprisingly beautiful 4K LEDs. Now, the company is doubling down on the benefits of LED with its latest line, which the company clams are the most accurate consumer TVs in the world. Overall, Panasonic will by…

Television Mario Aguilar

Watch The First 9 Minutes Of Syfy’s Spectacular 12 Monkeys Series

Now is the chance to get a taste of Syfy’s newest series 12 Monkeys,which we kind of love. The first 9 minutes have been released online, so take a look and let us know what you think. [via Yahoo]

Television Meredith Woerner

Panasonic Is Bringing Its Crazy Souped-Up Camera Phone to the U.S.

A lot of people were feeling a hearty mix of awe and confusion when Panasonic quietly launched the CM1—an Android phone enclosing a high-end point and shoot camera with a large one-inch sensor and full manual controls. The CM1 was only to be available in a few regions like Germany and France, but now the…

Tech News Michael Hession

Sharp’s Super Slim 4K TV Is Like Whoa Skinny

Sharp just loosed a salvo of 4K TVs at CES, and even one that approaches near 8K resolution. One of the neat sets that enjoyed a brief sidebar during Sharp’s press conference was a TV the company is calling a “Super Slim” set because the panel is less than half-an-inch thick (not including the set…

Tech News Darren Orf

Buy An Anker Charger, Get Another For $1, Plus More Deals

Anker battery packs were some of the most popular items we listed last year, and today, if you buy the hulking 16,00mAh Astro E5, you can get the pocket-friendly 5200mAh Astro E1 for just $1 more. Anker Astro E1 5200mAh and Anker 2nd Gen Astro E5 16000mAh External Batteries ($41) | Amazon | Add both…

Tech News Shep McAllister

A Working NES Inside an Ecto-1 Is Everything Great About the ’80s

Got half a grand burning a hole in your pocket, a soft spot for classic gaming, and a love of Ray Parker Jr.? Then eBay seller ultimatecustoms1982 has a convenient way to scratch all three of those itches at once with this custom-made original NES console shoe-horned inside of a die-cast replica of the Ghostbusters’…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

4K Drone Footage Captures Apple’s New Spaceship HQ, and It’s Massive

After looking at rendered images for years, seeing real footage of Apple’s new spaceship of a headquarters is a little bit surreal. We got a peek at the building’s footprint last summer, but a new clip shot with a drone in 4K really shows the building taking shape. Boy, is it huge. The video comes…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

This Excellent Poster Is A Handy Guide To Killing An Alien Xenomorph

You never know when you’ll need to take the fight to a particularly nasty Alien – but never fear, as this fantastic poster by Ryan Brinkerhoff not only shows you a few tips, but also looks very stylish. Styled as a Weyland-Yutani informational poster, Brinkerhoff’s poster has got plenty of little Alien tidbits in to…

Tech News James Whitbrook

That North Korean News Twitter Account Is Fake

You may have seen a strange North Korean news account floating around the Twitters recently. DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) sends out weird messages posing as an official mouthpiece of the authoritarian regime. But don’t be fooled. It’s a fake account run by a blogger. CNN, Newsweek, and Fox News have all quoted the account as…

Tech News Matt Novak

The New Hackers Reality Show Would Be Great If Hacking Weren’t So Boring

SyFy just announced a new reality TV show called Hackers. It’s about hacking, naturally, and the network promises it will be awesome and exciting. (Spoiler: Hacking is incredibly boring.) The new, unscripted show does sound interesting. It’s unclear if the new SyFy series has anything to do with the 90’s classic film Hackers. SyFy will…

Television Adam Clark Estes

Why It’s Absurd To Tell Ted Chiang He’s Not Writing Science Fiction

People are often keen to impose a restrictive definition on science fiction, usually to rule something out of the genre. And even some of the genre’s best authors have been on the receiving end of this. Like multiple award-winning writer Ted Chiang, who’s regularly told his work is “not really science fiction.” Top image: The…

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Canadian Iciclologists Show You How to Make Perfect Water Icicles

What’s the difference between icicles made with distilled water and icicles made with tap water? A team of scientists from the University of Toronto spun freezing water like a record, to see how it plays out. The icicle in the video above is not spinning just because it looks cool. (Although we can all agree…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Watch These Simple Vector Graphics Utterly Transform a Modern Dance

Marvel at these excerpts from Pixel, a modern dance performance that looks like it’s taking place inside the computers of Tron. It’s so simple, and yet it’s utterly captivating. Artistic director and choreographer Mourad Merzouki says this is his “work on illusion combining energy and poetry, fiction and technical achievement, hip hop and circus.” The…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

You Can Soon Stream ESPN on the Web for $20 a Month

Sports has been one of the last great hold-outs of cord cutting, but now a little progress is being made in the right direction—soon, you’ll be able to get live sports without a cable subscription, too. Dish’s new web TV service will let you stream ESPN for 20 bucks a month. Re/code reports that Dish’s…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Sharp’s 80-Inch Beyond 4K Ultra HD TV Is Overstuffed With Pixels

What does “high definition” even mean anymore? There comes a time when words like “ultra” and crazy high pixel density just start to lose any kind of descriptive power. Sharp is making my linguistic conundrum even worse with an absolutely pixel-crammed set, called the Beyond 4K Ultra HD TV. I could tell you how purty…

Tech News Darren Orf

This Ancient Giant Armadillo Is Responsible For Giving Us The Avocado

But not just this giant armadillo. Giant sloths, four-tusked elephants, and a whole bunch of other ancient mammals that roamed the earth over 10,000 years ago also all played a role. Over at National Geographic’s The Plate, they’re looking at the history of how the modern avocado evolved. The history of humans and avocados stretches…

io9 Ria Misra

The Stratoliner Was the First Plane to Fly Above the Storm

In the early days of commercial air travel, planes were limited to just 14,000 feet in order to protect their passengers from the the dangers of thin, high altitude flying. But in 1938, Boeing changed the face of commercial air travel with the model 307 Stratoliner, the first commercial airplane to offer a pressurized cabin.…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Early Immigrants Had to Pass This Intelligence Test to Enter America

In the early 1900s those yearning to breathe free had a few hurdles to get over once they came to America. One of them was an intelligence test. Here’s one of the earliest citizenship tests designed for non-English-speaking people. People landing at Ellis Island in the early twentieth century were not given the warmest welcome.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Contraptions That Made Photographic Images Before Cameras Existed

You’re probably familiar with the beginnings of photography. The daguerreotype, early black and whites, sepia-tone—and it all gets more colorful from there. But what about before photography? When there was no capture medium or lenses and everything was based on linear perspective? How did these early artists capture something or someone in the most accurate…

Tech News Nicholas Stango

LG’s New Twin Wash System Has a Cute Little Mini Washer Built In

Washing clothes is boring, which is precisely why you should be excited about LG’s new Twin Wash System. It saves you time, money and water, with a built-in mini washer that slides out in a drawer below the main washer. The new Mini Washer isn’t just available bundled with the new line of LG washing…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Panasonic’s New UHD TVs Are as Color Accurate as Professional Monitors

Watch The First 9 Minutes Of Syfy’s Spectacular 12 Monkeys Series

Panasonic Is Bringing Its Crazy Souped-Up Camera Phone to the U.S.

Sharp’s Super Slim 4K TV Is Like Whoa Skinny

Buy An Anker Charger, Get Another For $1, Plus More Deals

A Working NES Inside an Ecto-1 Is Everything Great About the ’80s

4K Drone Footage Captures Apple’s New Spaceship HQ, and It’s Massive

This Excellent Poster Is A Handy Guide To Killing An Alien Xenomorph

That North Korean News Twitter Account Is Fake

The New Hackers Reality Show Would Be Great If Hacking Weren’t So Boring

Why It’s Absurd To Tell Ted Chiang He’s Not Writing Science Fiction

Canadian Iciclologists Show You How to Make Perfect Water Icicles

Watch These Simple Vector Graphics Utterly Transform a Modern Dance

You Can Soon Stream ESPN on the Web for $20 a Month

Sharp’s 80-Inch Beyond 4K Ultra HD TV Is Overstuffed With Pixels

This Ancient Giant Armadillo Is Responsible For Giving Us The Avocado

The Stratoliner Was the First Plane to Fly Above the Storm

Early Immigrants Had to Pass This Intelligence Test to Enter America

The Contraptions That Made Photographic Images Before Cameras Existed

LG’s New Twin Wash System Has a Cute Little Mini Washer Built In

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