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The 4K Content Charge Is Being Led By… Amazon

Amazon has even more original content coming in 2014, and all of it is going to be shot in 4K. So many pixels (if you have an ultra high-def TV, that is). https://gizmodo.com/these-are-the-original-pilots-amazon-is-going-to-make-i-510264617 While many movies and some shows are already shot in 4K, Amazon actually plans to deliver 4K content. It has already produced…

Commerce Leslie Horn

Make a silver crystal Christmas tree

Now that we’re closing in on Christmas, it might be time to do some arts and crafts. Leave the popcorn stringing to other people and pull out copper wire and some nice silver nitrate, so you can make a sparkling silver crystal Christmas tree. Silver nitrate is a fairly simple molecule. One silver atom is…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Happy Monday. Have some moth “protuberances.”

Above: A moth, shown here deploying its “relatively large protuberances.” Just imagine those things wriggling their way up your nostrils and tickling the backs of your eyeballs. As RAIJU points out in the comments, these protuberances are in fact the pheromone-dispersing androconial organs of a male moth. The technical term is coremata (from the Greek…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

These Amazing Artificial Islands and Archipelagos Rule the Waves

More than 70 percent of the surface of the Earth is covered by water: oceans, seas, rivers, and lakes. Sometimes humankind just can’t get enough dry land to set foot on, so we create artificial islands for our needs. Here are nearly 40 examples of this effort, from an ancient crannog to a modern rocket-launching…

Tech News Attila Nagy

This Funky New LED Is Almost Completely Flat to Keep Cool

Come January, the reign of incandescent bulbs comes to an end as the US collectively moves towards a greener, LED-lit future. The new 60 watt-equivalent SlimStyle LED bulb from Philips can light up a room without heating it, too. The fully dimmable bulb fits standard A19 sockets and glows soft white (2700K) while consuming, per…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

First Tantalizing Footage from Game of Thrones Season 4!

A previously rumored Avengers: Age of Ultron co-star is confirmed. Paul Rudd’s denying any knowledge of playing Ant-Man. Another Mark Millar comic could be coming to the big screen. There are new images from Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Helix. Plus, how soon will Indiana Jones 5 be arriving? Top image: Game of Thrones Avengers: Age…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Don’t Believe a Word of Last Night’s 60 Minutes NSA Interview

Last night, CBS ran a 60 Minutes special about the ongoing NSA debacle. It claimed to give “unprecedented access to the agency’s HQ” and “for the first time” explain “what it does and what it says it doesn’t do: spy on Americans.” It was also, incidentally, a pile of steaming bull. The problems arose even…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Wrap Your Gifts in Influenza This Year

If you’ve been looking for some truly original wrapping paper this year, swap snowflakes, stars, and stripes for pneumonia, influenza, and the common cold. It turns out that under a microscope those viruses are hard to distinguish from festive decor, and when blown up they make for some lovely gift wrap. But you won’t only…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

You Don’t Need Actual Google Glass to Say “OK, Glass”

In fact, it’s kind of quite funny to put on a regular pair of spectacles and pretend to talk to them while you just bumble on using your plain old cellphone. It’s certainly about $1,400 cheaper. But you do stand the risk of majorly annoying your nearest and dearest. Dilemma. [XKCD]

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This 24-Karat Gold Xbox One Is On Sale in Harrods for $10,000

Gold is so this season—and quite festive, too—so if you’re short of gift ideas, how about a 24-karat gold-plated Xbox One? On sale at Harrods in London, UK, it’ll set you back a cool $10,000. https://gizmodo.com/htc-has-just-announced-a-gold-colored-version-of-the-on-1471007835 Apart from the gold plating, there are no extra features, so you’re paying for the precious metal and exclusivity…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Crab Nebula Is a Swirling Cloud of Electric Purple Light

The Crab Nebula never fails to disappoint—and that’s particularly true in this image, a view by the Herschel Space Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope of the swirling cloud of dust and gas. https://gizmodo.com/crab-nebula-should-be-renamed-smoking-blue-jellyfish-ne-5732650 The image is a composite from the two satellites, combing Hubble’s view of the nebula at visible wavelengths and Herschel’s far-infrared…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

SNL Hilariously Riffs on Obama’s Recent Tech Troubles

Obama hasn’t had a great time with all things technological recently: Healthcare.gov is still struggling, and he was embarrassingly forced into posing for a selfie with Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt last week. This Saturday Night Live video takes an amusing look at it all. https://gizmodo.com/a-comprehensive-review-of-what-went-down-with-healthcar-1479224003 There’s also a humorous take on the nonsense sign…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

You Can Get a Kindle Fire HDX on a Four-Part Amazon Instalment Plan

If you’ve been trying to work out how you might pay for a new Kindle Fire, Amazon might be able to help: it’s pushing a four-part instalment plan for its HDX line. Customers buying its $230 Kindle Fire HDX or $380 HDX 8.9 can stump up 25 percent of the purchase price (plus tax and…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe

Crazy video: Heavy military trucks being dropped from a plane

“Some heavy big trucks being dropped from a military plane in the middle of the night,” says the YouTube description, “huge machines, being launched at incredible speed!” Indeed. I love the faces of those soldiers waiting to jump after the trucks: The soldiers and the hardware belong to the the 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, which…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Silence Beyond Punctuation

In the recent solo piano piece by Elizabeth Velvdon, “The Pure Water, Filled with Light,” the light may very well be the spaces between the notes. That’s an unnecessary distinction, because silence is a kind of note unto itself, so safer to say that the light is the space between the parts played between the…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Using Plasma To Clean Glass Is Amazing, Plus Hilariously Roundabout

So there’s Windex, but if that’s feeling too cleaning product-y for you, be aware that you can also clean glass with pure oxygen plasma. Sure. Available at your neighborhood Rite Aide, or okay yeah maybe not, Ben Krasnow uses a vacuum chamber, a mechanical pump, and a radio frequency transmitter in his setup. The RF…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Cyborgs enjoy a snowy evening in the City of Peace

Even as the glare of the message of universal love reflected off Carla’s helmet, she swore she caught a couple of baselines tittering out of the corner of her eye. Jaime always said she needed a thicker skin, but Carla never saw one on the list of approved modifications. A serene digital painting by Thomas…

io9 Lauren Davis

I don’t know what Interstellar is all about but I can’t wait to see it

Christopher Nolan’s teaser for his new movie is nothing but a few clips of some classic moments in America’s space history with Matthew McConaughey voiceover. But, every time I watch it, I get goosebumps. Interstellar also stars Michael Caine and Jessica Chastain. It’s coming to theaters in a year. I will be there.

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Luminous time-lapse celebrates death and life in a record-cold winter

Paul Klaver’s simply titled film Winter mixes time-lapse and real-time footage to evoke the chill of one of the coldest recorded winters Holland has ever seen. Sit back, turn up your speakers, and meditate on the beauty of ice forming, sunlight dancing over the snow, and even the bodies of creatures who didn’t survive to…

io9 Lauren Davis

This Credit Card Knife Is Terrifyingly Stealth

This credit card is really a knife. Just putting that out there in case it wasn’t coming across already. It’s a 2.2mm thick, 85.6mm x 54mm CNC machined aluminum treat. Keep it in your wallet to impress your friends and gore your enemies! We’ve been horrified and amazed by the CardSharp once before (in its…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

The 4K Content Charge Is Being Led By… Amazon

Make a silver crystal Christmas tree

Happy Monday. Have some moth “protuberances.”

These Amazing Artificial Islands and Archipelagos Rule the Waves

This Funky New LED Is Almost Completely Flat to Keep Cool

First Tantalizing Footage from Game of Thrones Season 4!

Don’t Believe a Word of Last Night’s 60 Minutes NSA Interview

Wrap Your Gifts in Influenza This Year

You Don’t Need Actual Google Glass to Say “OK, Glass”

This 24-Karat Gold Xbox One Is On Sale in Harrods for $10,000

The Crab Nebula Is a Swirling Cloud of Electric Purple Light

SNL Hilariously Riffs on Obama’s Recent Tech Troubles

You Can Get a Kindle Fire HDX on a Four-Part Amazon Instalment Plan

Crazy video: Heavy military trucks being dropped from a plane

Silence Beyond Punctuation

Using Plasma To Clean Glass Is Amazing, Plus Hilariously Roundabout

Cyborgs enjoy a snowy evening in the City of Peace

I don’t know what Interstellar is all about but I can’t wait to see it

Luminous time-lapse celebrates death and life in a record-cold winter

This Credit Card Knife Is Terrifyingly Stealth

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