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This Camp Stove Collapses Thinner Than the Bark Used as Kindling

When you’re heading out into nature with nothing but a backpack, the long hike ahead of you is going to be far more enjoyable if you pack as light and minimally as possible. But that doesn’t mean you have to completely rough it. A hot meal at the end of the day can keep a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 16 '13

A Salad Spinner For Cocktails Makes Martinis Stirred, Not Shaken

Concocting the perfect cocktail can take years of practice, but everything in life has a shortcut, and for amateur mixologists it’s called the Cocktail Spinner. Imagine smashing a Magic Bullet into a salad spinner at the speed of light. This is what the resulting supernova would leave behind. Using the Cocktail Spinner is as dead…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Oct 16 '13

The year’s best wildlife photography will make you roar

After poring over thousands of images, the Natural History Museum has selected its favorite wildlife photographs of 2013. Prepare to see animals at their most spectacular. All images and captions Natural History Museum. Top image: The Spat by Joe McDonald. From NHM: For several hours, the noisy sounds of courtship and mating were all Joe…

io9 George Dvorsky Oct 16 '13

Fascinating map shows the strange pilgrimage and death of New Yorkers

Data visualization expert John Nelson has made a fascinating map of New York City. It portraits the gender flow of the city, showing where men (blue) and women (pink) live from birth to death. I had no idea that gender density changed so much as the population ages. Some of the reasons for these inner…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Oct 16 '13

Terry Gilliam almost made a sequel to Dr. Strangelove

The acclaimed director of Brazil was very close to making a sequel to Stanley Kurbick’s apocalyptic comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove, but with Kubrick’s approval. According to Gilliam, Kubrick had worked on a sequel called Son of Strangelove — just think about that for a second — and wanted Gilliam to direct it. The story, which…

io9 Rob Bricken Oct 16 '13

Fire-Breathing Human Is Even Crazier in GoPro Bullet Time

Here we have 24 GoPros recording at high speed, strategically arranged around a fire-breathing daredevil. When the footage is slowed down and spliced together, you get a sweet bullet-time effect—without using a bunch of crazy professional cameras. Sure, this is some $7000 worth of GoPro Hero 3s, but it’s pretty slick considering sometimes these rigs…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Oct 16 '13

21 Photos of the Fox News Team Abusing Their Giant iPad Privileges

Last week, the internet was delighted and puzzled by Shep Smith’s introduction of the Fox News Rooms’ bizarre, jumbo-sized tablets, so naturally, we asked you to do a little investigative work and find out what was really going on. Friends, you did not disappoint. Fair and balanced though they may be, the Fox News Team…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Oct 16 '13

The Top 50 Scariest Television Episodes of All Time, Part 1

Forget horror movies. Some of the scariest moments we’ve ever seen have happened on television, within the short span of a half-hour or one-hour TV episode. We’ve painstakingly compiled the 50 scariest episodes of science fiction and fantasy television, and here are numbers 26-50. To compile this list, we spent hours debating amongst ourselves and…

io9 Io9 staff Oct 16 '13

Watch this runaway crash her car against two trains and survive

Can you drive your car at full speed—with the police chasing you—crash against two trains and survive the collision? Of course you can, if you are this mad woman. https://jalopnik.com/woman-runs-from-police-gets-hit-by-two-trains-somehow-1446413450

Sploid Jesus Diaz Oct 16 '13

Is it true that Oreos are more addictive to lab rats than cocaine?

An investigation into the potential addictiveness of high-fat and high-sugar foods has found that Oreo cookies activate more neurons in the pleasure centers of rats’ brains than cocaine. But does that really mean certain foods are more addictive than hard drugs? These findings, which will be presented by Joseph Schroeder at the Society for Neuroscience…

io9 George Dvorsky Oct 16 '13

Report: Amazon’s HTC Phone Might Just Be For Prime Members

Rumor has it Amazon is talking to HTC about making its smartphone, and according to a Bloomberg report, that phone might just be for Amazon Prime subscribers. https://gizmodo.com/report-amazons-talking-up-htc-about-making-a-smartpho-1445780486 Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg said Amazon wants a phone because it wants to increase the number of devices on which people could access Amazon Instant Video. So…

Commerce Leslie Horn Oct 16 '13

1,360-foot Sauron’s tower will materialize in New York City in 2016

The skinniest tallest tower in New York will be a reality in 2016, after being approved by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. This shard of glass and metal will stand 1,350-foot-tall by 60-foot-wide on 107 West 57th, looking over Central Park. I hope this guy gets the top floor. https://gizmodo.com/the-skinniest-skyscraper-in-nyc-is-one-step-closer-to-r-1446563249

Sploid Jesus Diaz Oct 16 '13

The Skinniest Skyscraper In NYC Is One Step Closer To Reality

A building that could claim the title of the thinnest, tallest building in New York (and maybe the world) got a bit more real this week, after the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the proposed 60-foot-wide design. When it tops out in roughly three years, 107 West 57th will rise 1,350 feet above Central Park (next…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Oct 16 '13

Vin Diesel will only have one line in Guardians of the Galaxy

Vin Diesel has released behind-the-scenes Guardians of the Galaxy footage. Watch it now. Top image created by Luke Mandie. View the full image at Luke Mandie’s website. It’s no surprise to die hard GotG fans that Vin Diesel will only have one line for his role as Groot, the alien tree being with amazing powers…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 16 '13

Self-Contained Solar-Powered Streetlights Stay Completely Off the Grid

Those long dark stretches of highway out in the middle of nowhere without any streetlights might soon be a thing of the past thanks to the engineers and designers at the Netherlands-based Kaal Masten. They’ve created the Spirit, a standalone solar-powered streetlight that gets all the energy it needs from the sun, so it can…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 16 '13

This map of gender segregation shows how New Yorkers live and die

In New York City, genders are unevenly mixed. As men and women age, they pour into and out of neighborhoods, pooling, dispersing and redistributing across the five boroughs in a mesmerizing demographic dance that datavisualization expert John Nelson calls “gender flow.” In his latest visualization, he charts this dance by assigning a dot to every…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 16 '13

4k Porn Is Here and Shows You Every. Single. Detail. (NSFW)

Scream overkill all you want. The fact of the matter is that, whether you like it or not, hyper-realistic, ultra definition, get-as-close-to-being-in-the-action-as-you-possibly-can 4K TV is here to stay. So it’s no wonder that—just like everything else in life—it’s already being used for porn. https://gizmodo.com/4k-video-at-1-000-frames-per-second-will-melt-your-eyes-5994009 Just launched yesterday, the adult content website Huccio claims to be…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Oct 16 '13

Russians just found a giant space boulder from the Chelyabinsk meteor

The Russians keep hunting for fragments of the meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk earlier this year. This space boulder—the largest piece so far—has just been found by divers deep in the Chebarkul Lake, about 930 miles east of Moscow. https://gizmodo.com/meteorite-explodes-over-russia-panic-spreads-5984476 The meteor weighed 1,256 pounds (570 kilograms) before the balance broke. The analysis of the…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Oct 16 '13

Patton Oswalt’s TED Talk is true genius

If you have ever seen a TED Talk, you need to watch Patton Oswalt’s brutal takedown of them immediately.

io9 Rob Bricken Oct 16 '13

Switch-Hitting Flash Drive Works on Laptops and MicroUSB Phones Alike

As ubiquitous as Wi-Fi and mobile data have become, there are still times when you’ll find yourself completely cut off from any and all wireless networks. And inevitably those will be the times when you need to transfer files between a tablet or a smartphone and your laptop. Bluetooth can work in a pinch, but…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Oct 16 '13

This Camp Stove Collapses Thinner Than the Bark Used as Kindling

A Salad Spinner For Cocktails Makes Martinis Stirred, Not Shaken

The year’s best wildlife photography will make you roar

Fascinating map shows the strange pilgrimage and death of New Yorkers

Terry Gilliam almost made a sequel to Dr. Strangelove

Fire-Breathing Human Is Even Crazier in GoPro Bullet Time

21 Photos of the Fox News Team Abusing Their Giant iPad Privileges

The Top 50 Scariest Television Episodes of All Time, Part 1

Watch this runaway crash her car against two trains and survive

Is it true that Oreos are more addictive to lab rats than cocaine?

Report: Amazon’s HTC Phone Might Just Be For Prime Members

1,360-foot Sauron’s tower will materialize in New York City in 2016

The Skinniest Skyscraper In NYC Is One Step Closer To Reality

Vin Diesel will only have one line in Guardians of the Galaxy

Self-Contained Solar-Powered Streetlights Stay Completely Off the Grid

This map of gender segregation shows how New Yorkers live and die

4k Porn Is Here and Shows You Every. Single. Detail. (NSFW)

Russians just found a giant space boulder from the Chelyabinsk meteor

Patton Oswalt’s TED Talk is true genius

Switch-Hitting Flash Drive Works on Laptops and MicroUSB Phones Alike

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