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Review: Lego Friends, City, Star Wars advent calendars–day 14

Day 14 of the 2014 Lego advent calendars gives us some food and drink, a getaway vehicle for our crook and a start to a moisture farm. See images and a review of the 14th day of mini builds after the jump! Friends Advent Calendar (41040) Today our little plastic pouch contained some glasses, a…

Reviews Michael Schulte

9 Wild Gifts For Outdoors Men And Women

Got a wild man or woman in your life, or just someone you want to be able to bring along with you in the future? Here’s nine gifts that are tough enough for experts, but versatile enough for beginners. 1. Fugoo Tough Bluetooth Speaker – $200 Fugoo gives you the ability to take stereo-quality sound…

Tech News Wes Siler

The Pirate Bay Shutdown Hasn’t Slowed Piracy At All

Nature abhors a vacuum. Aristotle said that. Of course, he was talking about how nature has a tendency to fill empty spaces with stuff. In a way, the internet also abhors a vacuum, and the “downfall” of The Pirate Bay is just the latest example. When the popular p2p file-sharing site disappeared from the web,…

Tech News Darren Orf

Martin Freeman Returns To The Office As Bilbo Baggins

Martin Freeman hosted SNL last night, where he led the show’s cast in a pretty excellent mashup of The Office and The Hobbit. Seriously, though. This worked a lot better than I expected.

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How One of the Internet’s Most Memorable Logos Was Created

Welcome to Reading List, a brief tour of some of the wonderful tech reads around the web. Online vigilantism, government hacking, and a brief history lesson on the early internet are just a few great reads in store. Indulge in a lazy Sunday, at least for the next hour or so, and catch up on…

Tech News Darren Orf

What Is Your Favorite Holiday Memory About Tech?

Christmastime holds some of the most visual memories of gadgets and gizmos, especially when I was kid. You’re presented with a deluge of gifts that on any other normal day would make you faint from excitement, but during the holidays you channel that raw excitement into your voracious wrapping paper-tearing skills. The holidays just have…

Tech News Darren Orf

New Attack on Titan Poster Reveals The Most Colossal Titan Yet

A newly released poster for the live-action adaptation of Attack on Titan suggests its titans will be even bigger than their manga counterparts. Here’s the new poster, which was unveiled yesterday, in conjunction with an Attack on Titan exhibit in Tokyo: According to Anime News Network, the colossal Titan in the manga and TV anime…

Movies Robbie Gonzalez

New Climate Agreement Is a Step Forward, But Is the Step Big Enough?

A mini drama just played out in Lima, the capital city of Peru. More than 190 countries have agreed to a tentative deal to lower carbon-dioxide emissions by 2020. The salvaged agreement, which was threatened by clashing views from the U.S. and China (of course!), will set the stage for the United Nations Climate Change…

Climate Change Darren Orf

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Sharing is caring—at least that’s what those creepy anthropomorphized Care Bears used to say—and in the app world this week, those sentiments are particularly true. App stalwarts from Windows Phone make their way to Android and other platforms, including the MSN suite of apps, a long-awaited addiction freemium game comes to WP, and iOS gets…

Tech News Darren Orf

Can You Solve These Seven Riddles Inspired By The Hobbit?

Even Bilbo Baggins would have a hard time tackling this week’s riddles. The third installment in The Hobbit trilogy debuts this week. We’re celebrating with brainteasers inspired by the riddles exchanged between Gollum and Bilbo in the fifth chapter of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. You’ll find them below, under the sub-heading “Sunday Puzzle(s) #11: Riddles…

Movies Robbie Gonzalez

How Sound Engineers Made the Millennium Falcon’s Most Iconic Noise

The Millennium Falcon is the king of cool when it comes to classic sci-fi spaceships. The vessel is a kitbashed masterpiece and a bold image that screams Star Wars. It’s also a “piece of junk,” a “bucket of bolts,” and constant headache for Han Solo and company, but hey, she’s got it where it counts.…

Tech News Darren Orf

Got a Leafblower? Then You’ve Got a Hoverboard

Hoverboards. The endlessly promised future technology, made popular by the equally fictional Marty McFly, is such an obsession with tinkerers and armchair futurists, you’d think it represented the pinnacle of human civilization. The internet exploded like a Kardashian nude when Hendo developed the first “hoverboard” using electro magnets. Pretty cool. A for effort. But the…

Tech News Darren Orf

Our New Favorite Tumblr: ‘Shit My Reviewers Say’

The scientific peer review process may be broken, but the ruthless, strange, and nonsensical responses that it’s known to elicit are pure, cathartic gold. “Shit My Reviewers Say” is a tumblr dedicated to documenting “the harsh, the weird, the passive aggressive, the active aggressive and the downright mean comments practicing scientists receive on a regular…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

11 Sci-Fi Films That Actually Deserve Reboots

Hollywood’s favorite pastime is remaking movies, or at the very least, slapping on another sequel and making millions. While that’s all fun and good—I’m looking forward to the new Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and Terminator like everyone else—many other sci-fi films also deserve adequate reboot/sequel attention. I asked that very question last week and the…

Tech News Darren Orf

How To Simulate Hazing In An Experiment

In 1959, inspired by hazing rituals, two psychologists wanted to see if having to go through something miserable to get into a group made people like that group more. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they found that misery did, in fact, help. What was interesting was how they made people miserable. Eliot Aronson and Judson Mills announced an…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Grand Canyon Looks Creepy When Filled With Fog

December 11 was a weird day at the Grand Canyon. This image, captured by Maci MacPherson with the National Park Service, looks like some alien cloud world and definitely not arid Arizona, but in a rare weather display, low-lying clouds nearly filled the entire Grand Canyon. This event is actually supposed to be extremely rare.…

Tech News Darren Orf

Watch What Happens When You Saw A Rubber Band Ball In Half

Here’s what happens when you take a handsaw to a large rubber band ball. Not to spoil anything, but, when you think of all the energy that’s stored in those stretchy loops of elastic, you just know the result is going to be weird. It’s also pretty satisfying to watch. (Honestly, who wouldn’t want to…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

New Leaks Show a Closer Look at Cortana and Xbox on Windows 10

To say that we’re excited for Windows 10 would be an understatement. With Microsoft accidentally gimping Windows 7 with a faulty update this week and Windows 8.1 continuing to be a lovable mess, Microsoft’s new operating system can’t get here soon enough. New images of Windows 10, part of a pre-consumer build leaked earlier today,…

Tech News Darren Orf

Martin Freeman Returns as Bilbo Baggins…To Sell Paper on SNL

Martin Freeman is great as Tim Canterbury in BBC’s The Office. He’s also great as Bilbo Baggins, a pint-sized hobbit from the Shire. With Freeman hosting last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live, the comedy troupe stumbled upon a golden “two birds, one stone” opportunity. Being noble is great and all, but it doesn’t exactly…

Tech News Darren Orf

Virgin Is Cancelling Its Deep-Ocean Mission

In addition to Richard Branson’s lofty ambitions in space, the entrepeneur-explorer also has a project to send paying customers to the bottom of the ocean. Or, rather, had: it seems that very quietly, and with none of the fanfare surrounding the original launch, Virgin has shelved its current deep-sea project. From a report in the…

Tech News Chris Mills

Review: Lego Friends, City, Star Wars advent calendars–day 14

9 Wild Gifts For Outdoors Men And Women

The Pirate Bay Shutdown Hasn’t Slowed Piracy At All

Martin Freeman Returns To The Office As Bilbo Baggins

How One of the Internet’s Most Memorable Logos Was Created

What Is Your Favorite Holiday Memory About Tech?

New Attack on Titan Poster Reveals The Most Colossal Titan Yet

New Climate Agreement Is a Step Forward, But Is the Step Big Enough?

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Can You Solve These Seven Riddles Inspired By The Hobbit?

How Sound Engineers Made the Millennium Falcon’s Most Iconic Noise

Got a Leafblower? Then You’ve Got a Hoverboard

Our New Favorite Tumblr: ‘Shit My Reviewers Say’

11 Sci-Fi Films That Actually Deserve Reboots

How To Simulate Hazing In An Experiment

The Grand Canyon Looks Creepy When Filled With Fog

Watch What Happens When You Saw A Rubber Band Ball In Half

New Leaks Show a Closer Look at Cortana and Xbox on Windows 10

Martin Freeman Returns as Bilbo Baggins…To Sell Paper on SNL

Virgin Is Cancelling Its Deep-Ocean Mission

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