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The Latest Androids on Sale, Wacom Bamboo Tablet, Klipsch Earbuds

Klipsch makes some great earbuds, and Lifehacker readers loved the Image S4 line in particular. Today, Best Buy is offering them up for only $40, or you can pay $10 more to get a set with a built in mic and media playback controls. Klipsch – Image S4 Stereo Earphone | $40 Klipsch – Image…

Charmed Is Back For A 10th Season! (Sort Of)

The Halliwell sisters are back. Cue the “Mmeeeeeeeeaaaaahhhh… I am the son, and the heir” intro! It’s been many, many years since the Halliwell sisters reconnected to intervene in the lives of others, and almost destroy the planet over and over again. And now they’re back, in comic book form (again) Zenoscope Entertainment just announced…

Never Forget Where Your Booze Came From With This Lovely Whiskey Chart

Our friends at Pop Chart Lab love tracing down the tangled, tortuous branches of the family trees connecting some of our favorite things. They’ve done it for beer, and now they’re switching to the hard stuff, with a lovely taxonomy of the world’s many types of whiskey. Like all of Pop Chart Lab’s creations, this…

10 Most Unnecessary Movie Sequels Of All Time

Sometimes, you see a movie that opens up a whole universe of possibilities, leaving you wondering where these characters will go next. So much adventure waiting to happen! And then… there are movies that really don’t need a sequel, but get one anyway. Here are 10 film sequels that it’s really hard to believe actually…

We’re Only Just Starting To Understand The Miracle Of Hagfish Slime

The incredible properties of hagfish slime have fascinated scientists for decades, but researchers are only just beginning to make sense of this mucilaginous secretion. In doing so, they hope to create superfibers that could one day be used in everything from bullet-proof vests to artificial tendons. The hagfish is not a looker. The eel –…

This Heart-Shaped Locket Is Anatomically Correct Even On The Inside

This pendant isn’t just shaped like the human heart on the outside; when you open it up, the ventricals and blood vessels line up on the inside. The chain even runs through the superior vena cava and the left pulmonary vein. This clever piece of craftsmanship was created by Peggy Skemp, whose nature-inspired jewelry designs…

Google is reportedlygearing up to let anyone in the United States buy Glass—for a single day. In other words, on April 15th, you won’t have to be a fancy Glass Explorer as long as you have the $1500 to pay for the specs. The full consumer rollout of Glass is supposed to hit later this…

The Heartbleed-Vulnerable Passwords You Need to Change Right Now

By now, chances are you’ve already heard about the preposterously huge security hole in SSL. You’ve also probably heard how it could easily have left you exposed to all sorts of nefarious activity over the past few years. Now, thanks to Mashable, we also have a better idea of exactly which websites had the flaw.…

What Are The Bravest Warriors Doing In An Avicii Music Video?

This is some seriously weird shit, but I guess Avicii must be a fan of Pendleton Ward’s online-only cartoon Bravest Warriors. Still, you’d think that since this is the official music video for Avicii’s song “Hey Brother,” someone would have actually put in some effort to make this good. And frankly, it goes beyond being…

Geology Bake-off

First, it was the planetary cakes. Then, it was the Star Wars astronomy tea. Then, it was the 3D weather system construction, and the Silurian Death fossilized cupcakes. Now, it’s a full-blown geology bake-off. Geological Society of London is hosting a geology bake-off contest, with entries accepted until May 9th. They’re offering point-breakdowns for different…

Android Now Offers Routine Malware Surveillance For Your Phone

It’s no secret that Android apps can get a little shifty, but having the freedom to explore that is part of what makes Android great. Now Google is helping you stay even safer by keeping a constant eye on whether or not any of your apps are doing anything they shouldn’t be. This security-minded move…

The Bitchin Fantasy Artist You Didn’t Know You Already Admired

You may not know Ian Miller’s name, but you’ve definitely marveled at his ornate, harrowing art before. His work has adorned everything from H.P. Lovecraft book covers to Warhammer 40K concept art. And at last, 300 of his best pieces are being collected in a book, The Art of Ian Miller. We’ve got an exclusive…

The amazing story of two conjoined twins who live happily in India

Shivanath and Shivram Sahu are two conjoined twins who were born 12 years ago in a village near Raipur, in central India. They share the same stomach and two legs, but have fully independent brains, hearts, lungs, and two pairs of everything else. Their life is not easy at all, but they do everything other…

My Type of Neighborhood: Mapping the Type Foundries of New York City

I love old type specimen books. Any foundry, any period, it doesn’t matter. They will have me hypnotized. But I don’t usually linger at the title pages. Who would, really? All the fun and exciting stuff comes after that: the impossibly small text faces, the spectacular display faces, all the sample uses variously dowdy and…

In A Corporate Surveillance State, Rebel Drones Protest With Dubstep

In a dystopian future dominated by surveillance cameras and razor wire, rebellion comes in the form of brightly colored lights carefully choreographed to a thumping dubstep beat. It makes for a visually spectacular CG music video. Simon Russell created Dysco with its animated “synesthetic drones.” There’s also a similarly rhythmic making-of video, offering a peek…

This Ancient Asteroid Strike Was More Insane Than We Realized

Around 3.26 billion years ago — long before the dinosaurs — a massive asteroid measuring nearly 36 miles (58 km) across smashed into the Earth. Geologists have now reconstructed this cataclysmic event, and it was far, far bigger than we thought. Here’s how things went down on that fateful day. Thanks to geophysicists Norm Sleep…

Perfectly Age Your Face Through 80 Years Based on a Single Photograph

Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a new technique for simulating the aging of faces over nearly eight decades—and it’s incredible. Using what they call “illumination-aware age progression,” the method requires only one initial photograph as it “automatically produces a series of age-progressed outputs between 1 and 80 years of age, accounting for…

Firefly the Board Game, X-Files Complete, The Flintstones

Explore Joss Whedon’s ‘Verse in the rarely-discounted Firefly Board Game, available for $34 for a time we expect to be very limited. [Amazon] Own The X-Files in its entirety, including the movies, for the lowest price the complete set has gone for. $89 today only. [Amazon] Klipsch makes some great earbuds, and Lifehacker readers loved…

This Special Ops Missile Prioritizes Precision

Despite their generally overwhelming combat prowess, many large US naval vessels remain vulnerable to small, fast-moving speedboats. But with the latest iteration of Raytheon’s multi-role precision missile, that won’t be a problem for much longer. The AGM-176 Griffin is a precision munition developed by Raytheon since 2008, designed as mission agnostic, low-collateral-damage weapon for use…

How To Train Your Dragon 2 Introduces Tons Of Kaiju-Sized Dragons!

There are so many new dragons in the long-awaited How To Train Your Dragon sequel. Big ones, small ones, ones that blow ice instead of fire… Looks like the wait may have been worth it. The movie takes place five years after the original. Hiccup is all YA-movie steamy now, and the town has firmly…