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LG’s Fitness Tracker: Looks Like a Fitbit, Works Like a Smartwatch

We saw a half-baked version of LG’s Lifeband Touch last year at CES, but couldn’t actually play with it, and we never actually saw the fully torqued tracker come to fruition. This year the fitness tracker is back, and it is surely trying to be a whole lot of things all at once. Slated to…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jan 6 '14

Netflix Will Stream House of Cards on LG TVs in 4K

You can get your House of Cards fix on LG TVs in 4K soon, LG and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced at a CES press conference this morning. Not sure how fast that will eat up your data cap, but since the show was filmed in 4K, it might as well stream in 4K.

Tech News Leslie Horn Jan 6 '14

LG Home Chat: One Service That Tells All Your Appliances What To Do

LG has a new messaging service that lets you tell all of your appliances—from washing machines to ovens—what you need them to do. The service was announced at the company’s CES press conference, and should go into effect in the next few months with the release of the LG’s newest line of smart appliances. Say…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jan 6 '14

The Biggest Chromebook Yet Is Still Super Cheap

Toshiba is coming out with a Chromebook of its own. It’s slightly larger than the Pixel, and more than a whole thousand bucks cheaper. The new machine has a 13.3-inch full HD display, weighs a slight 3.3 pounds, and is less than an inch thin. It’s got 2GB of RAM, a 16GB solid state, 100GB…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jan 6 '14

Fashion that will hide you from face-recognition technology

A recent study found recognizable images of human faces in high-res photographs of eyes, reminding us that surveillance technology improves more and more each day. But designers and technologists are working on ways to keep our faces private from prying cameras by combining the weakness of facial recognition technology with fashion. Top image from Stealth…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 6 '14

R.I.P. Bernard Glasser, producer of Day of the Triffids

Bernard Glasser’s life sounds like a fable of a B-movie America gone by: the former substitute teacher at Beverly Hills High School borrowed money from his landlord and became a movie producer. His films included Return of the Fly, A Crack in the World and Day of the Triffids. According to the obit over at…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jan 6 '14

Beautiful aerial picture of New York City covered with snow

The folks fromElysium Weddingstook this neat picture of a snow-covered New York City from an airplane. You can see Manhattan in the middle, with Queens and a bit of Brooklyn on the top right corner and New Jersey on the bottom left corner. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us in Facebook.

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jan 6 '14

The Drone at Light Speed

Still yet swift, the track “A String of Lights Beneath the Lake” by Australia-based musician Tuonela combines the hazy apparation that is drone music with an urgent momentum often considered anathema to drone-ness. If still waters — to borrow a metaphor suggested by the track’s title — run deep, then still music might yet travel…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum Jan 6 '14

Listening For the Earth’s Heartbeat Inside the World’s Deepest Hole

In September 1990, a group of scientists put a drill head to the ground in southern Germany, where two landmasses once merged to form the supercontinent Pangaea 300 million years ago. Their goal? To drill the deepest hole ever made into the earth, a “telescope” into its core. The German Continental Deep Drilling Program, aka…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jan 6 '14

Here’s the interior of the awesome Lego Simpsons home set

The Lego Simpsons home set—reference 71006—just keeps getting better. Take a look at the back of the box, showing the interior of the house, which opens thanks to the central hinge pieces. It’s as detailed as the real thing. From the living room with the famous sofa to the kitchen to each room… everything looks…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 6 '14

British Fighter Jets Are Flying With 3D-Printed Parts

BAE Systems, which helps the UK’s RAF put together its aircraft, has revealed that some Tornado fighter jets have been flying with spare parts built using a 3D printer. Flights heading out from BAE’s Warton airfield in the UK have seen Tornado GR4s flying off with 3D printed cockpit radio covers, support struts and power…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - Gizmodo UK Jan 6 '14

First Look at The Simpsons LEGO House is insanely detailed

We’ve been patiently waiting for more news about The Simpsons LEGO home, complete with nosey-doodly-doo neighbor Ned Flanders. And now, it’s really real! Behold the first piece of what we hope will become a complete LEGO Springfield. Carlos S over at Eurobricks, posted this image of The Simpsons LEGO packaging, without any indication of where…

Television Meredith Woerner Jan 6 '14

This Surprisingly Strong Bentwood Chair Looks Like It Would Snap In Two

Tadao Ando is like the concrete-whisperer: the Japanese architect has an unmatched talent for manipulating the everyday material to do pretty magical things. Dream Chair is one of his latest projects—a collaboration with Danish manufacturer Carl Hansen & Son—that switches up his usual scale and medium. The result is a seat that seems too precarious…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Jan 6 '14

8 Demigod-Awful Movies about Hercules

When Renny Harlin’s Legend of Hercules comes out this Friday, January 10th, it’s probably going to be terrible. It appears to have almost nothing to do with any of the original Greek myths; however, the son of Zeus has faced plenty of cinematic woes in the past (although none of them had the indecency to…

Movies Rob Bricken Jan 6 '14

The NSA Would Like Your Sewage

When residents of Howard County, Maryland, flush their toilets, their sewage will soon end up at the NSA’s new computer center several miles away. Collecting and storing so much data has been generating a whole lotta heat for the NSA—we mean this quite literally—and the agency’s now buying treated wastewater to cool their equipment. The…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Jan 6 '14

Is Bitcoin evil or just dumb?

There’s been a digital cash rush over the past few months, with Bitcoin rising in value from $13.50 to over $1000 in 2013. Economist Paul Krugman calls Bitcoin “evil,” while economics-obsessed scifi author Charles Stross says he wishes it would die in fire. Why do they think Bitcoin will usher in the econopocalypse? Bitcoin is…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 6 '14

How London Was Redesigned To Survive Wartime Blackouts

One of the more interesting aspects of urban life during the bombing raids of World War II was the clever and strategic re-designing of the London streetscape so that residents could live in a state of blackout. By turning off the lights at night, residents could hide the city from aerial view and thus leave…

Tech News Geoff Manaugh Jan 6 '14

The doctor who believed the nose and the genitals were connected

There’s nothing like the doctoring that people got in the late 1800s (thank goodness). Here’s how a mutual appreciation society ended up nearly killing one woman, and collapsing a side of her face. It was Vienna in the 1800s, and Sigmund Freud was coming into vogue. He believed in the significance of dreams, the importance…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jan 6 '14

This Week’s TV: Two brand new scifi shows, including one you must watch

After a few quieter weeks in TV land, we have two scifi premieres airing this week. Check out the goods on Helix, the Arctic outbreak thriller that promises to be one of this year’s most exciting shows. And take a peek at Josh Holloway’s return to television as a government agent who can communicate with…

Television Lauren Davis Jan 6 '14

Canon PowerShot N100 Has Two Cameras So You Can Take Frontback Photos

Last year’s Canon PowerShot Nwas a weird little point-and-shoot camera with an odd design aimed at roping in the masses who have ditched tiny cameras for smartphones. It was neat, but not all the way there. With the new PowerShot N100, Canon has redesigned the camera so that it can do even more smartphone-like things.…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jan 6 '14

LG’s Fitness Tracker: Looks Like a Fitbit, Works Like a Smartwatch

Netflix Will Stream House of Cards on LG TVs in 4K

LG Home Chat: One Service That Tells All Your Appliances What To Do

The Biggest Chromebook Yet Is Still Super Cheap

Fashion that will hide you from face-recognition technology

R.I.P. Bernard Glasser, producer of Day of the Triffids

Beautiful aerial picture of New York City covered with snow

The Drone at Light Speed

Listening For the Earth’s Heartbeat Inside the World’s Deepest Hole

Here’s the interior of the awesome Lego Simpsons home set

British Fighter Jets Are Flying With 3D-Printed Parts

First Look at The Simpsons LEGO House is insanely detailed

This Surprisingly Strong Bentwood Chair Looks Like It Would Snap In Two

8 Demigod-Awful Movies about Hercules

The NSA Would Like Your Sewage

Is Bitcoin evil or just dumb?

How London Was Redesigned To Survive Wartime Blackouts

The doctor who believed the nose and the genitals were connected

This Week’s TV: Two brand new scifi shows, including one you must watch

Canon PowerShot N100 Has Two Cameras So You Can Take Frontback Photos

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