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First Full View of the New X-Men Sentinel: Holy Crap They Nailed It

Earlier this week the first images of Peter Dinklage as Bolivar Trask surfaced for Bryan Singer’s upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past. In addition to that tidbit of news, Singer tweeted out the following pic of a Trask-built Sentinel. It might not look exactly like the Sentinels from the comics or animated series, but given…

Movies Peter ha

Start your weekend with a smile by watching this music video

Here’s a fun way to distract yourself till the weekend starts in a few hours: listen to this cover of Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines (the original is above, in case you don’t know it) performed by himself, Jimmy Fallon and The Roots.

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Dealzmodo: Triple Monitor Setup, 8TB Storage, GTX 680, Streaming Bond

Hat Trick. When it comes to screen real estate, more is more. Grab three HP 23″ LCD 1080p monitors for $420 from the HP site today, no promo code necessary. Now you can give Dealzmodo, Moneysaver, and Deals.Kinja each the full screen they deserve. [HP] • Just added: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB ($190) | Rakuten…

Tech News Shane Roberts

The 1940s Kitchen of Tomorrow Was Difficult to Parody

Pre-dehydrated food processor? Non-functional sinks installed purely for style? A streamlined… baby? When it comes to midcentury visions of tomorrow, sometimes it’s hard to tell the spoofs from the earnest predictions. But what’s even more interesting is why the parodies popped up in the first place. Back in the 1940s, designers promised Americans that once…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Forgotten History of How Modern Art Helped Win World War II

Camouflage—at least in its present incarnation—grew up alongside modernism. And though the relationship between art and war was long ignored by historians, it’s now coming to light just how intertwined they really were. Particularly when it came to hiding things in plain sight. Most of us are familiar with British painter Norman Wilkinson’s development of…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

The best electric bike ever made sounds like a TIE Fighter

Ride Apart‘s Wes Siler argues that the $59,000 Mission RS electric bike has “a superior performance motorcycle to any yet made. Period.” Maybe that’s true, maybe not, but it should be the best ever because it sounds like an Imperial TIE Fighter. Listen. It’s the same noise as the Mission R above, says Wes. Both…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Tips to Make Yourself a Keyboard Shortcut Wizard

A while back we asked you all to tell us which keyboard shortcuts you found most useful—we wanted to know about keystrokes that went above and beyond the basics. Here’s the best of what you had to say, culled from some 200 responses. Are you ready to get your motherfraking optimize on? From your desktop……

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The first female physician, and the thousand-year campaign against her

Trotula of Salerno has been the subject of a smear campaign lasting roughly one thousand years. Possibly. Or possibly she never existed. In the 11th century, Salerno was the place to be if you wanted to be a physician. It had what some claim is the world’s first real medical school. It had hospitals and…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

FDA Decides Gluten-Free Foods Don’t Actually Have to Be Gluten-Free

As more and more Americans self-diagnose gluten sensitivities, the Food and Drug Administration has finally gotten around to enforcing some standards on what foods can carry a gluten-free label. Quite surprisingly, they don’t actually have to be free of gluten. The FDA announced a new rule on Friday that requires all “gluten free” foods to…

Health Adam Clark Estes

Lost Your Android Phone? Android Device Manager Will Find It For You

Later this month, Google will be releasing a new Android Device Manager to help you find your lost Android phone. Yes, it took Google this long to release its own app to locate your lost Android device. Not only will you be able to locate your lost phone on a viewable map, the updated ADM…

Tech News Peter ha

Two F-16s Collided Last Night. Here’s Raw Footage of the Rescue.

Last night, two F-16 fighter jets collided during a training mission off the coast of Chincoteague, Virginia. One pilot had to eject into the sea at about 10:30PM. Here’s the captivating raw footage the Coast Guard pulling him out of the water to safety. The downed pilot was retrieved by a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk.…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

This Is a Heat Map of a Single, Living Cell

By using a microscopic diamond and some gold nanoparticles, researchers at Harvard have measured the internal temperature of a living human embryonic cell. This groundbreaking new ‘nanothermometer’ could lead to therapies in which specific cells are treated. Indeed, while it might seem weird to measure the internal temperature of a living cell, there are some…

io9 George Dvorsky

Lego Mindstorms EV3 Review: So Awesome

The latest Lego Mindstorms set is totally mind-blowing. You can command 5 different model robots with WiFi, bluetooth or smartphone. The programming capabilities are endless. We’ve reached out to Lego, but so far no official statement on whether the EV3 comes preprogrammed to obey Asimov’s Laws of Robotics. Lego Mindstorms are toolkits that allow you…

Tech News Tatiana Danger

Today for gibbering chaos lunch, eat some Cthulhu pie!

Do you dare consume that which consumes your soul and sanity? Why yes, if it contains blueberries. Spotted on Neatorama . . . and Sandy Yoo is the chef who plunged us all into this pastry madness. And now, gaze if you dare upon the non-Euclidean geometries of the full pie . . . I…

io9 Annalee Newitz

I Don’t Want to “Just Root It”

Can we all agree that rooting a phone is not for everyone? That’s kind of important, because these days, Android actually is a platform for most people. I was kind of excited yesterday when I realized that 1. the Moto X is awesome and 2. I can get it on Verizon with something resembling stock…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Stop pussyfooting around and just cancel the Russian Winter Olympics

Fascist Russia is actively oppressing gay people and systematically ignoring human rights in general. So, instead of just demanding that gay athletes and tourists are not persecuted, why don’t we just cancel the Winter Olympics altogether? Short answer: because the International Olympic Commitee is a bunch of corrupt fat cats who want to keep sucking…

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Ikea’s New App Transports Furniture Right Into Your Living Room

Ikea’s messed around with augmented reality before, but this year they’ve really outdone themselves. With just a phone and a copy of the catalog, you can now call up a digital version of any piece of furniture and put it anywhere in your home. All you have to do is throw the catalog on the…

Tech News Eric Limer

Smurfs 2: The Last Seduction of Smurfette

Short of a Strawberry Shortcake snuff film, you couldn’t imagine a more cynical and soul-destroying repackaging of a 1980s cartoon than the Smurfs movie from two years ago. And now they’re back. This time around, we’re focusing on Smurfette, the only female Smurf, and it’s actually sort of interesting. Spoilers ahead… This is definitely a…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

These Adorable GIFs Are Like Tiny Moving Picture Books

Only a handful of individuals have succeeded in making the GIF into something artful. We can definitely add artist and designer Guillaume Kurkdjian to that list, because his collection of lovely, child-like animations are dioramas of whimsical delight. Scrolling through Kurkdjian’s tumblr of GIFs is a lot of fun. Each one is carefully crafted with…

Tech News Michael Hession

7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding

Worldbuilding is an essential part of any work of fiction. But especially for science fiction or fantasy, it’s the lifeblood of storytelling. But when worldbuilding fails, it can wreck your whole story, and leave your characters feeling pointless. Here are seven deadly sins of worldbuilding. Top image: Under Tomorrow’s Sky by Daniel Dociu. 1. Not…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

First Full View of the New X-Men Sentinel: Holy Crap They Nailed It

Start your weekend with a smile by watching this music video

Dealzmodo: Triple Monitor Setup, 8TB Storage, GTX 680, Streaming Bond

The 1940s Kitchen of Tomorrow Was Difficult to Parody

The Forgotten History of How Modern Art Helped Win World War II

The best electric bike ever made sounds like a TIE Fighter

Tips to Make Yourself a Keyboard Shortcut Wizard

The first female physician, and the thousand-year campaign against her

FDA Decides Gluten-Free Foods Don’t Actually Have to Be Gluten-Free

Lost Your Android Phone? Android Device Manager Will Find It For You

Two F-16s Collided Last Night. Here’s Raw Footage of the Rescue.

This Is a Heat Map of a Single, Living Cell

Lego Mindstorms EV3 Review: So Awesome

Today for gibbering chaos lunch, eat some Cthulhu pie!

I Don’t Want to “Just Root It”

Stop pussyfooting around and just cancel the Russian Winter Olympics

Ikea’s New App Transports Furniture Right Into Your Living Room

Smurfs 2: The Last Seduction of Smurfette

These Adorable GIFs Are Like Tiny Moving Picture Books

7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding

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