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Garmin Vivofit Review: Some Good Ideas But Not Quite There

In the ever-expanding pantheon of wearable fitness trackers, Garmin is looking for an open seat, ideally at the Cool Kids’ Table (CKT). Garmin makes some of the best GPS sports watches out there, so expectations were high for the company’s first tracker. While it adds a nice trick or two, the holes are just too…

Health Brent Rose

Bluetooth Driving Assistant, $50 off Most Tablets, Car Tires [Deals]

No matter how long you’ve been driving, it’s never too late to learn better habits. Automatic is a little Bluetooth dongle that plugs into your car’s OBD-II port (found on almost any car made since 1996) and communicates with your phone to track driving habits, mileage, and engine problems. Best of all, if you’re in…

Tech News Shep McAllister

Wow, All Restaurants Should Deliver Meals By Parachute

In the broad spectrum of goofball ideas out there, attaching piping fresh toasties to colorful little parachutes and tossing them out of a window to someone’s open arms ranks pretty highly towards the Yup, That’s Pretty Damn Silly end of things. And yet! Jafflechutes exists, and it does exactly that. What a wonderful world. The…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

The Bravest Warriors adorable pet Catbug will rule Starbucks

Bravest Warriors, the Youtube show originally created by Adventure Time’s Pendleton Ward, has had 17 million views online since it launched. But also, the Bravest Warriors’ dimension-jumping pet Catbug has launched a series of short ebooks — and next month, Letters from Catbugwill be free at Starbucks. According to Crains New York, Catbug will be…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Syfy promises a return to space opera at last, with Ascension

Syfy has long been promising the return of TV shows with actual freaking spaceships in them, ever since they distanced themselves from their science fiction roots back in 2009.But all that’s about to change — Syfy is ready to go back to space. Syfy president Dave Howe and newly crowned VP original content, Bill McGoldrick,…

Television Meredith Woerner

You Can Now Get 1TB of Google Drive Storage For Just $10 a Month

Google has dramatically cut the price of Google Drive storage—you can now get a whole terabyte for just 10 bucks a month. That’s a pretty insane deal. Prices have been cut across all tiers. Now 10TB—which you’d never use all of in a million years—is $100/month, 100GB is $2, and 15GB is still free. The…

Tech News Leslie Horn

G.E. Has Found a Way To Cool a Fridge With Magnets

At one time giant blocks of ice were the best solution we could come up with for keeping food cold. That primitive approach was eventually replaced by electric refrigerators using compressors and chemical coolants. Now, almost 100 years later, G.E. thinks it’s found a better way to cool a fridge using a water-based fluid and…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Why does the “mor” in Voldemort, Mordor, and Morlock sound so sinister?

Voldemort. Professor Moriarty. Doctor Moreau. Mordred. The Morlocks. Aside from being nefarious figures, these characters have something in common: the syllable “mor.” Is there something that makes that particular sound come off as evil to English-fluent ears? Over at The Week, linguist James Harbeck examines the syllable “mor” and why it turns up so frequently…

io9 Lauren Davis

An Oklahoma Fox Station “Accidentally” Cut Evolution Out of Cosmos

The Cosmos reboot was fairly generous as far as leaving room for religious interpretation goes. But apparently, one Fox affiliate station in Oklahoma City decided there was still just a little too much science talk for their liking, so they cut out the 15-second mention of evolution. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the show’s host, doesn’t mention…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

An Inside Peek at China’s Ghost City

Built for a population in excess of a million—yet largely uninhabited to this day—it’s little surprise that Ordos has earned itself the nickname of China’s Ghost City. In this report I’ll be looking up-close at the Kangbashi New Area, the most recent addition to the city of Ordos; and by far its least populous district.…

Tech News Darmon Richter

In This Year’s Iditarod, Sled Dogs Try To Race Without Snow

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is a 1,000-mile trek through Alaska from Anchorage to Nome. Warm weather this year meant bare trails and trucked-in snow, while intense winds scrambled the best-laid plans of musher and dog. During the Iditarod, dogs pull sleds as their mushers race for $50,000 and a new truck, with decreasing…

Climate Change Mika McKinnon

Believe the hype: Titanfall is an incredibly fun game

Tina Amini writes the Kotaku review for Titanfall, the game that everyone is talking about. Her verdict: Believe the hype. It’s really awesome and fun and awesomely fun. I love the idea of being in a post-apocalyptic world driving a giant robot—and having infinite lives.

Sploid Jesus Diaz

California Salmon Will Get a Free Ride to the Ocean—In Tanker Trucks

If the salmon won’t come to the ocean, then the ocean will come to the salmon. Well, not quite: Tanker trucks will take them there. Such are the extreme measures in California this spring, as drought forces major salmon hatcheries to funnel their fish into tanker trucks and ride them straight to the Pacific. The…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

The physics of curling are actually really fascinating

They’re also surprisingly counterintuitive. For instance: who here thinks that the sweepers’ job is to increase or decrease the friction of the ice in front of the stone to make it curl? I definitely did. Turns out that’s totally wrong. And it’s still not even the weirdest thing about the physics of this sport. In…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Dear Creepers: You Can Buy a Smartphone Pre-Loaded With Spyware Now

Are you a jealous lover, helicopter parent, or otherwise neurotic human being with crippling trust issues? Then we’ve got the answer to all your problems right here. No, it’s not therapy (although, you know, good idea); it’s a top-of-the-line smartphone that comes pre-loaded with all the spyware an overbearing human could ever hope for. The…

Privacy & Security Ashley Feinberg

Stop Pretending You Enjoy Bad Sex

A newly published study on people’s perceptions of sexual satisfaction in committed, heterosexual relationships reveals that men and women are both surprisingly good at estimating their partners’ contentment (or lack thereof) with their sex life. The study, which was led by University of Waterloo psychologist Erin Fallis andappears in the latest issue of Archives of…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

37 Handsome HDR Photographs

What happens when you squish together the best of underexposed and overexposed photography? You get HDR—high dynamic range images. Here are 37 examples of what HDR can do. Winner: Manhattan Beach Was out shooting the surfers in Manhattan Beach when this paddler came coasting by behind them all. He was moving much slower than the…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Veronica Mars the Movie, Two Humble Bundles, Amazon Prime [Deals]

Act early to get the Veronica Mars movie on blu-ray for just $15. The film hits theaters tomorrow, but if you’re a fan of the show you pretty much already know you want this. [Amazon] Amazon is raising the price of Amazon Prime by $20 per year, up to $99. While it’s still the best…

io9 Shane Roberts

Video: Supercut of iconic movies’ final scenes is the ultimate spoiler

If you’re a true film buff, you can watch this montage without fear, because of course you’ve seen every Oscar winner for Best Picture. But even if you haven’t seen them all, it’s still worth watching as a beautiful ode to cinema. The supercut, posted to Vimeo by Final Image Films, shows the final image…

Sploid Michael Hession

The Blue Angels Used to Travel Aboard a Rocket Powered Hercules

From experimental aircraft to semi tractor trailers, there is nothing rockets don’t make more awesome. So how could the Navy’s Blue Angel stunt flying squadron not strap one onto the back of their C-130 Hercules, one of the military’s bulkiest cargo planes? There is much more that goes into a Blue Angels show than what…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Garmin Vivofit Review: Some Good Ideas But Not Quite There

Bluetooth Driving Assistant, $50 off Most Tablets, Car Tires [Deals]

Wow, All Restaurants Should Deliver Meals By Parachute

The Bravest Warriors adorable pet Catbug will rule Starbucks

Syfy promises a return to space opera at last, with Ascension

You Can Now Get 1TB of Google Drive Storage For Just $10 a Month

G.E. Has Found a Way To Cool a Fridge With Magnets

Why does the “mor” in Voldemort, Mordor, and Morlock sound so sinister?

An Oklahoma Fox Station “Accidentally” Cut Evolution Out of Cosmos

An Inside Peek at China’s Ghost City

In This Year’s Iditarod, Sled Dogs Try To Race Without Snow

Believe the hype: Titanfall is an incredibly fun game

California Salmon Will Get a Free Ride to the Ocean—In Tanker Trucks

The physics of curling are actually really fascinating

Dear Creepers: You Can Buy a Smartphone Pre-Loaded With Spyware Now

Stop Pretending You Enjoy Bad Sex

37 Handsome HDR Photographs

Veronica Mars the Movie, Two Humble Bundles, Amazon Prime [Deals]

Video: Supercut of iconic movies’ final scenes is the ultimate spoiler

The Blue Angels Used to Travel Aboard a Rocket Powered Hercules

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