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If you own any gadgets that use AA or D batteries, you owe it to yourself to pick up some Eneloop rechargeables. This pack comes with a pair of AAs, with D spacers, and they’ll pay for themselves after just a few cycles. [Eneloop AA 2-Pack, $7] Need a way to charge them? It doesn’t…

Tech News Shep McAllister Jul 31 '14

NASA Will Make Oxygen From CO2 On the Surface of Mars

NASA just announced what the Mars 2020 rover will carry to the Martian surface, and one of them sounds like pure sci-fi: MOXIE, a machine that sucks in carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere and pumps out pure oxygen for use in rocket fuel—or someday, for humans to breathe. The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization…

Space & Spaceflight Bob Sorokanich Jul 31 '14

A Flashlight That’s Powered By the Sun (Or Your Strength)

Is there anything scarier than the thought of being out in the woods at night with a dead flashlight? Of course there is; your smartphone could be dead too. That’s why GoalZero’s latest flashlight, the Torch 250, can be recharged with a built-in solar panel, or simply your muscles using a pop-out hand crank. Inside…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jul 31 '14

CIA Admits It Snooped On Senate Computers

The CIA just admitted that it “improperly penetrated” Senate Intelligence Committee computers, according to The New York Times. The CIA also apologized to senior committee members. An internal investigation by the CIA confirmed allegations put forth by Senator Dianne Feinstein back in March. The Times points out that very few details are available about the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jul 31 '14

Ask A Geologist About Sinkholes

Sinkholes are amazing. Ask USGS geologist Daniel Doctor anything you want about them. https://gizmodo.com/the-science-of-sinkholes-1573899373 https://gizmodo.com/ask-a-geologist-whatever-you-want-about-sinkholes-1613939708

Tech News Mika McKinnon Jul 31 '14

In Kentucky, Taxpayers Will Keep A New Noah’s Ark Theme Park Afloat

The biblical theme park Ark Encounter — a project run by the young-Earth creationist group Answers In Genesis— will break ground next week, thanks in part to $18.25 million worth of tax incentives unanimously approved by the Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority. The approval is preliminary, pending a feasibility study and public hearing, but the…

io9 Mark Strauss Jul 31 '14

First Teaser For Syfy’s Answer To The Walking Dead, Z Nation

Man, I bet Syfy is bitter that AMC put on a zombie TV series before they did. Zombies are Syfy’s turf, after all. We’ll see if Syfy’s Z Nation, due out in September, will make any kind of a dent in the ratings juggernaut that is TWD, but since Z Nation is being made by…

Television Rob Bricken Jul 31 '14

Here’s Our Best Look Yet At Rosetta’s “Rubber Ducky” Comet

The Rosetta spacecraft has been chasing comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for more than a decade. Now, with arrival less than a week away, the distance between the spacecraft and its quarry is rapidly shrinking. Meanwhile, Rosetta continues to return clearer and clearer images of the double-lobed “rubber ducky comet.” https://gizmodo.com/the-rosetta-spacecraft-is-headed-for-this-giant-whirli-1606682402 The image above was captured Tuesday by…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jul 31 '14

Guardians of the Galaxy looks even more fun in Lego

Rocket Raccoon and company are ready to fight galactic threats in theaters this Friday, but the Lego tributes are already rolling in. This particular 30-second spot transforms the Guardians of the Galaxy into brick-sized replacements. Famous YouTube Lego lover Forrest Whaley takes all the credit for this one, as he continues to display an impressive…

Tech News Darren Orf Jul 31 '14

This Whale of a Flying Boat Used to Fight Nazis, Now It Fights Fires

General Douglas MacArthur once famously quipped, “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.” Obsolete military equipment should be so lucky. While most outdated systems are simply scrapped, a lucky few find new purpose after their time in service—like the Martin JRM Mars, a coastal patrol bomber that now demolishes wildfires instead of invading armies.…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 31 '14

The Most Accurate Model Yet Of Jupiter’s Bizarre Magnetic Field

It may look like a giant ball oozing with earthworms, but it’s actually a simulation of Jupiter’s massive and complex magnetosphere — a magnetic field that extends more than four million miles from its surface. These models, which appear in the latest edition of Geophysical Research Letters, are surprisingly similar to Earth’s, though on a…

io9 George Dvorsky Jul 31 '14

The Common Facebook Scams You Should Never Click On

It’s been a little sad to watch Facebook devolve from being a squeaky clean site full of people you love to a spam-ridden wasteland. And with a fifth of the world’s population using the site, you can be sure the spam is going to keep coming. So you need all the help you can get…

Social Media Adam Clark Estes Jul 31 '14

Europeans didn’t introduce alcohol to Native Americans

While European settlers certainly did bring their fair share of modern evils to the New World—and despite what you’ve probably heard—alcohol wasn’t one of them. In fact, people have been brewing beer since as far back as 12,000 BC during the Late Epipaleolithic era. After all, all it takes are some stone tools, a local…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Jul 31 '14

Ask A Geologist Whatever You Want About Sinkholes!

What causes sinkholes and can we predict when they will form? Geologist Daniel Doctor is here to answer all our questions about sinkholes, how they form, and anything else you’ve ever wondered about the geological phenomenon. Top image: Sinkhole in Guatemala City 2007 (AP Photo/Str) / Bottom image: Great Blue Hole in Belize / USGS.…

io9 Ria Misra Jul 31 '14

Step Inside the Restoration of the Original Boeing 747

The Boeing 747 is an iconic aircraft that singlehandedly pushed the airline industry into the jumbo jet age. Sitting derelict at the Museum of Flight for 14 years, the very first of its kind is currently undergoing a rigorous restoration process to restore its former glory. As Seattle PI reports, the original 747-100 took its…

Tech News Nicholas Stango Jul 31 '14

1997 Explains “How To Cybersex” In Glorious, NSFW Instructional Video

There is nothing about this VHS instructional video, titled How to Have Cybersex on the Internet, that isn’t completely amazing. Describing it would only sully its perfection, so just hit play and be awed. Warning: Contains a topless (but censored) lady. After all, who the hell cybersexes with their shirt on? The video was found…

io9 Rob Bricken Jul 31 '14

A Telescoping Flashlight Lamp Is the Perfect Camping Companion

There’s a lot to like about designer Antonio Serrano’s Lil Torch flashlight concept that extends and retracts like an old pirate spyglass providing a focused beam when needed, or a wide flood of illumination when collapsed. Powered by a rechargeable battery that keeps a set of LEDs glowing in its diffused dome, the flashlight is…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 31 '14

NASA’s New Spacecraft Will Have A Star Trek-Like Cockpit

The new Enterprise bridge on Star Trek: TNG replaced buttons and switches with backlit touch panels. This “prophetic” technology was created because production designers didn’t have the budget to create and install individually lighted buttons. But, aboard the Orion spacecraft, sci-fi has once again become sci-fact. An article in the August issue of Air &…

io9 Mark Strauss Jul 31 '14

These baseball trick shots using drifting cars are pretty nuts

If you mute the obnoxious soundtrack, this video of some guys doing some trick baseball shots in the desert is pretty cool. The one of the baseball going through the car in motion is the best. This is how it was filmed: SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jul 31 '14

The Tiniest Propeller Ever Can Sneak Between Cells

Researchers want to use microscopic nanobots for drug delivery and other tasks inside the human body, but there are still places the micro machines can’t get. Now, scientists have made the smallest bot yet, a magnet-guided corkscrew so tiny, it can sneak through the pores in human connective tissue. A research team led by Dr.…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Jul 31 '14

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