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Neurocam Analyzes Your Brainwaves to Take Photos For You

Pressing a button is so 20th century. And winking or asking Google Glass to do it for you seems like quite a lot of effort, too. So, for the truly lazy, Neurocam analyzes your brainwaves to work out when you want a picture taking. Demoed at Japan’s Human Sensing 2013 conference, Neurocam uses brainwave sensors…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Scientists Smash the Li-Fi Data Record, Achieving Speeds of 10Gbit/s

If the hype is to believed, Li-Fi could be the next Wi-Fi. And if that’s the case, then we’re excited—because a team of researchers has just smashed the record for visible light data transmission, pushing it to a staggering 10Gbit/s. https://gizmodo.com/chinese-scientists-invent-lightbulbs-that-emit-wi-fi-1447764194 A team of researchers from the universities of Edinburgh, St Andrews, Strathclyde, Oxford, and…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Motorola Wants to Make Your Phone Modular

Motorola has announced that its new research and development team, called Project Ara, is developing an “open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones”. In other words, it wants your phone to come in bits. The guys at Moto—who have been working with Phonebloks—claim that they “want to do for hardware what the Android platform…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This flame is made of pure water

Scientists have invented a new low-cost method to create a safe welding flame using water as its only fuel. Called the Safeflame, the device splits water in oxygen and hydrogen, recombining them both outside of the torch’s mouth to create fire. And the only byproduct is water. In the past, this method was too pricey…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Netflix Is Thinking of Making Original Movies Now, Too

Netflix is no stranger to making original TV anymore, but it seems it has bigger plans than that: it’s floating the idea that it’ll foot the bill for a “big” movie, which would appear in theaters and on Netflix at the same time. All Things D reports that Netflix’s content boss Ted Sarandos is interested…

Movies Jamie Condliffe

Is this the kiss you’ve been waiting for from Once Upon A Time?

Ahh… now this is more like it. While I don’t agree with the a lot of the things happening on this show, “Good Form” was a jolly good episode. Mostly because it spent all of its time centered around the best characters. Plus there was kissing! Spoilers ahead… This week’s flashback was all about Hook,…

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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet: M is for Masticate

Remember kids, synthetic drugs are all fun and games until somebody loses an ear. If you dig this video, head over to The ABC’s of Death—Part Deux website and vote for it (or like it or however kids do it on the streets these days) so the guy what made it can win something or…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Don’t Forget How Beautiful the World Is

Living in cities, driving on freeways, going to work, sitting in cubicles, shopping at supermarkets, surrounding yourself in urban density and all around stepping away from nature makes it easy to forget how beautiful she can be. We should never forget. Photographer Shane Black and two of his friends quit their jobs this past summer…

Tech News Casey Chan

Nexus 5 Leaks Again for ‘Pre-Registration’ with a Full Spec List

Stop me if you’ve heard this before but… the Nexus 5, probably the most anticipated Android phone right now, popped up on the Internets before it was officially announced. https://gizmodo.com/nexus-5-pops-up-on-google-play-for-350-1447507439 In fact, it looks like the Nexus 5 has revealed its full spec list too. Can’t we just start buying this phone already, Google? This…

Tech News Casey Chan

Here’s an Amazing Card Trick Bet You Will Always Win

The beauty of math and numbers and formulas and equations and so forth is that they can work without you ever understanding how the hell they work. What seems like complete randomness is actually just a math problem! Like this slick trick with a deck of cards. Take twenty or so cards and flip over…

Tech News Casey Chan

Home never looks better than after a long day of dragon training

After flying all day on dragonback, you just want a hot dish of nasi goreng and some beer. That’s exactly what I was thinking as my mount glided above the lights of our little town, its golden windows matching the color of the lava ponds that power it. Feng Zhu is a concept artist who…

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A PVC Air Cannon Is Perfect for Scaring Trick or Treaters

You could make crazy DIY Halloween decorations to scare the creeps out of trick or treaters in your neighborhood. You could dress up drones as flying ghosts or ghoulish goblins to strike fear into child-sized candy beggars. You could be the cranky old man who turns his light off and seeps scare by ignoring costume…

Tech News Casey Chan

Comment of the Day: The Pre-CGI Secrets of Star Wars

In today’s comments, we talked up the new season of the Walking Dead, reminisced over the best candy with the worst marketing schemes, and identified some of the pre-CGI secrets of the Star Wars special effects team. In response to this post revealing a previously un-aired, original Star Wars blooper reel (if you haven’t seen…

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Biologists Discover Tiny Neural Computers in the Brain

Neuroscientists have learned that dendrites do more than just provide passive wiring in the brain. These nerve cell connectors also process information, essentially functioning as tiny computers. Our brains, it would appear, pack more computing power than we assumed. Dendrites are those branch-like extensions at the beginning of neurons that increase the surface area of…

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The World’s Strangest and Most Magnificent Gardens

Landscape architects can be just as weird as building architects when it comes to their creations. Which is why these gardens are the living, growing embodiments of some pretty twisted imaginations. Lowarth Helygen (The Lost Gardens of Heligan), near Mevagissey in Cornwall, UK, with two mud sculptures, a small “jungle”, the last remaining pineapple pit…

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This manual of psychological disorders is actually a dystopian novel

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the premiere reference book for psychiatrists and mental health workers. But critics have often called it monstrous, wrong-headed and unscientific. Now, at last, one writer has discovered that it’s actually a dystopian scifi novel. https://gizmodo.com/the-future-of-nymphomania-5468365 https://gizmodo.com/traditional-psychological-diagnoses-are-going-out-of-st-493966169 The latest edition of the manual, DSM-V, was published…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

The freakiest creatures you will see this Halloween are under the sea

Here are some ideas for your Halloween costume: go as this glass squid or any of the freaky marine beasts selected by the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Check out these weird creatures in these videos:

Sploid Jesus Diaz

The Secret to Creating Great Environmentalist Art

Alex Rivera blew our minds with his movie Sleep Dealer, and now he’s organizing a film festival for environmental films, the Tales From Planet Earth festival in Madison, WI. Talking to the Cap Times, he explains how great art can challenge our ideas about what “the environment” is, and how to save it. Says Rivera:…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

A San Francisco Cocktail Party Where the Bartenders Are All Robots

There’s both an art and a science to making the perfect mixed drink—it’s not just the stiffness of the drink but also the flashiness of the pour. At the 2013 BarBot event last weekend, guests were treated to an evening of mechanical bartenders that put Brian Flanagan’s bottle-flipping skills to shame. BarBot is an annual…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Computer Chess is the most realistic movie about AI ever made

An odd, off-kilter film, Computer Chess, has managed to pull off something that no other science fiction story ever has. With its tale of an early 1980s computer chess tournament, it reveals the mundane, silly way that a truly dangerous artificial intelligence might emerge. Famed indie director Andrew Bujalski has put together a collection of…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Neurocam Analyzes Your Brainwaves to Take Photos For You

Scientists Smash the Li-Fi Data Record, Achieving Speeds of 10Gbit/s

Motorola Wants to Make Your Phone Modular

This flame is made of pure water

Netflix Is Thinking of Making Original Movies Now, Too

Is this the kiss you’ve been waiting for from Once Upon A Time?

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet: M is for Masticate

Don’t Forget How Beautiful the World Is

Nexus 5 Leaks Again for ‘Pre-Registration’ with a Full Spec List

Here’s an Amazing Card Trick Bet You Will Always Win

Home never looks better than after a long day of dragon training

A PVC Air Cannon Is Perfect for Scaring Trick or Treaters

Comment of the Day: The Pre-CGI Secrets of Star Wars

Biologists Discover Tiny Neural Computers in the Brain

The World’s Strangest and Most Magnificent Gardens

This manual of psychological disorders is actually a dystopian novel

The freakiest creatures you will see this Halloween are under the sea

The Secret to Creating Great Environmentalist Art

A San Francisco Cocktail Party Where the Bartenders Are All Robots

Computer Chess is the most realistic movie about AI ever made

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