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Sennheiser’s Colorful Cans Value Style as Much as Sound

Sennheiser is usually known for high-end audio quality and rather clunky design. That changed, a little, with its Momentum headphones—but now the act is smartened up even further with these colorful cans. These over-the-ear headphones are smaller, neater version of the first Momentums—in fact, they pack the same audio innards. But just of much as…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jul 9 '13

What’s the Absolute Minimum You Can Compress Data to?

If you’ve ever tried to squeeze data down into a tiny file, you’ll know that there comes a point where you can’t get it any smaller. This video explains why that is. The answer is something you might have heard about in physics or chemistry classes back at school: entropy. But it turns out Professor…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jul 9 '13

Did Florida Accidentally Ban All Computers and Smartphones?

Because Florida was hastily attached to America to be the butt of her jokes, this latest piece of ridiculousness should come as no surprise: Florida might have accidentally banned all computers and smart phones. How? It all stems from a poorly worded bill that banned Internet cafes and slot machines. The purpose of the ban…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 9 '13

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Dash IT!

Take a wild and raucous romp through a nonsequiter world of ninjas, tentacle monsters, roving eyes, and strutting fingertips in this manic music video for Agemixer’s Da Shit animated by Alexandr Tanana.

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 9 '13

Last night’s True Blood was a return to classic vampire humping

Holy Hog Tits — last night’s True Blood felt like a some crazy first season shit. There was V-Juice tripping, vampire fantasies, new sex games and big fat vampire mistakes. It was really, truly awesome. If this is the new direction for True Blood, I am on board. Now let’s dissect the awesomeness, Pro/Con style.…

Television Meredith Woerner Jul 8 '13

Bank of America’s Twitter Account Is One Really Really Dumb Robot

It’s always nice to get a response from Company X’s official Twitter account when you rage tweet about how Company X is so terrible and awful and that you’d never do anything with them again. It seems like they care about you! It seems like they want to help! It seems like they’re… human. Too…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 8 '13

Would This New Urinal Design Make Men Wash Their Hands?

Here’s a problem about guys: many of us don’t wash our hands after using the restroom. It might be general grossness or everyman laziness or being too trusting your own hygiene or being too drunk or taking on a drive through mentality with a urinal but if you monitor a men’s restroom, you’ll see many…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 8 '13

These Earbuds Ping Your Head to Measure Swelling on Your Brain

If your brain is swelling, either due to infection or physical injury, you’re going to need these Headsense cranial monitors more than you need another hole in your head. The fluids in your cranial cavity exerts a specific force on the brain and skull, known as your intracranial pressure (ICP), and help keep your brain…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 8 '13

This Is What Happens When a Phone Explodes on Your Leg GRAPHIC

You have the Internet in your pocket. The ability to communicate with anyone in the world at your fingertips. A big and beautiful glass screen that’s asking to be touched. Too bad all those things can combine into one giant firework bomb in your pants. We’ve all heard about phones exploding and seen the damage…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 8 '13

Oblast: Foxy (NSFW)

Kids these days sure have a funny way of flirting. Heavy beats and haunting lyrics dominate Oblast’s latest music video about a warring couple. Oblast is a Berlin-based electronica trio, whose shows have been described as a “crash in slow motion,” but in the good way. The group augments its industrial drum-n-bass sound with pictures,…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 8 '13

“Umami” Was Coined by the Inventor of MSG to Describe Its Taste

In 1908, Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda isolated and patented monosodium glutamate, more commonly known to English-speakers of the 21st century as the often-maligned MSG. Ikeda thought that his discovery was so special that the taste deserved to be described with a brand new word, a word that a century later has become quite popular among…

Tech News Matt Novak Jul 8 '13

Dear Falling Skies: I just don’t know what you’re about any more

Seriously, I want to love Falling Skies, and I have a lot of affection for the show’s characters and concept — but I don’t understand what this show’s storyline is about. Last night’s episode, in particular left me wondering whether this show’s storyline is just one colossal alien shaggy dog. Spoilers ahead… In a nutshell,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8 '13

How iOS 7’s Font Change Looks in the New Beta 3

iOS 7’s switch to the Helvetica Neue Ultra Light typeface was one of the bigger design points for the new OS. But it came with a catch: It looked, in places, pretty bad on non-retina screens. The fix was simple enough. Just change it back to regular weight. Here’s what that looks like, courtesy Panic…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 8 '13

Artist Creates (And Destroys) Drawings From Thousands of Pounds of Salt

There are plenty of artists who have spent the majority of their careers devoted to a single unlikely medium: For James Turrell, it’s light. For El Anatsui, it’s soda tabs. But for Motoi Yamamoto, a 47-year-old Japanese artist whose two latest shows recently opened recently at Mint Museum and the Monterey Museum of Art, it’s…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jul 8 '13

A Celestial Lamp Lets You Sleep Under the Stars Without Going Camping

Just over a year ago we brought you Anna Farkas’ 2500 Watt astronomical lampshade, which projects constellations on the ceiling whenever the light is turned on. At the time, it was just a one-off concept—but as we had hoped, the stars have aligned: Today, the lamps are finally available for sale under the new name…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 8 '13

An Illustrated History of Unbelievably Camouflaged Ships

It’s difficult to hide from an enemy when you’re inside an enormous ship, or part of a vast Naval fleet. And yet many ships in history have been well-camouflaged, despite a distinct lack of cloaking devices. Here are some of the most amazing examples. USS West Mahomet (a steel-hulled cargo ship of the U.S. Navy,…

io9 Vincze Miklós Jul 8 '13

Why Won’t the MLB Use This $100, Injury-Preventing Bat?

For the most part, change in habits comes to sports in waves of inconvenience. You can usually convince players to buy into some radical new tactic if it yields results, but changes that risk sacrificing performance in the name of self-preservation are shut right out. And so it is that baseball players are rejecting a…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 8 '13

The Most Influential Movies of the Last Century According to Wikipedia

When it comes down to it, what makes a movie “good” is a matter of taste. Even bad movies have their fans. What makes a movie “influential” is a little easier to try and brute force. Especially when you have Wikipedia on your side. Massaged into being by the Arg! Team, this massive list ranks…

Movies Eric Limer Jul 8 '13

Is this the first arrest ever recorded by Google Glass?

On July 4, a fight broke out on the Jersey Shore boardwalk. Documentary filmmaker Chris Barrett happend to be wearing his Glass at the time — and what he recorded may go down as the first arrest ever caught with the device. It’s not the most spectacular video we’ve ever seen, but it’s likely the…

io9 George Dvorsky Jul 8 '13

Cree LED Bulb Review: Nobody Needs to Know You’ve Gone Green

LED light bulbs have always been a bit like car repairs: they’re either good quality or affordable, but very rarely both. And it’s all very well and good that these bulbs use a fraction of the electricity as incandescents but dropping $30-$40 on a single bulb—especially when they’re so alien looking—keeps many consumers from switching…

Reviews Andrew Tarantola Jul 8 '13

Sennheiser’s Colorful Cans Value Style as Much as Sound

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This Is What Happens When a Phone Explodes on Your Leg GRAPHIC

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How iOS 7’s Font Change Looks in the New Beta 3

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A Celestial Lamp Lets You Sleep Under the Stars Without Going Camping

An Illustrated History of Unbelievably Camouflaged Ships

Why Won’t the MLB Use This $100, Injury-Preventing Bat?

The Most Influential Movies of the Last Century According to Wikipedia

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Sennheiser’s Colorful Cans Value Style as Much as Sound

What’s the Absolute Minimum You Can Compress Data to?

Did Florida Accidentally Ban All Computers and Smartphones?

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Dash IT!

Last night’s True Blood was a return to classic vampire humping

Bank of America’s Twitter Account Is One Really Really Dumb Robot

Would This New Urinal Design Make Men Wash Their Hands?

These Earbuds Ping Your Head to Measure Swelling on Your Brain

This Is What Happens When a Phone Explodes on Your Leg *GRAPHIC*

Oblast: Foxy (NSFW)

“Umami” Was Coined by the Inventor of MSG to Describe Its Taste

Dear Falling Skies: I just don’t know what you’re about any more

How iOS 7’s Font Change Looks in the New Beta 3

Artist Creates (And Destroys) Drawings From Thousands of Pounds of Salt

A Celestial Lamp Lets You Sleep Under the Stars Without Going Camping

An Illustrated History of Unbelievably Camouflaged Ships

Why Won’t the MLB Use This $100, Injury-Preventing Bat?

The Most Influential Movies of the Last Century According to Wikipedia

Is this the first arrest ever recorded by Google Glass?

Cree LED Bulb Review: Nobody Needs to Know You’ve Gone Green

Apple Posts Record June Quarter, Warns Supply Constraints Are Coming

‘The Wizard’ Made Me Long for a Wearable Future

The Pentagon’s Case Against Anthropic Isn’t Going Well

LinkedIn Adds New ‘Seems Like AI Slop’ Button to Report All the AI Slop

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This Is What Happens When a Phone Explodes on Your Leg GRAPHIC