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Watch the ISS spacewalk live for some respite from the manhunt madness

This morning’s manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers has left many of us glued to our screens. If you find yourself in need of a little mental/emotional/psychological vacation from it all, here’s a live feed of this morning’s spacewalk outside the ISS. http://gawker.com/5995053/the-boston-marathon-manhunt Broadcasting live with Ustream More info, via NASA: Expedition 35 flight engineers…

The whole first season of Netflix’s latest original show, Hemlock Grove, drops today. Are you planning to check it out?

This Predator Helmet Can Make Even the Tiniest Vespa Badass

Motorcycle riders don’t get a lot of respect from other drivers on the road, but who’s going to dare cut you off when you’re cruising around looking like an intergalactic game hunter in this awesome Predator helmet. It’s built on an actual motorcycle helmet so it’s properly safety rated, but has been enhanced with a…

The scientist who turned a hobby into genius

There are so many precocious geniuses out there. So many people have achieved great things because they worked on them since the first grade. That’s fine for them, but precocity is annoying. Let’s talk about the woman who made an incredible discovery via a few post-graduate courses and volunteer work. Henrietta Swan Leavitt made a…

The Most Overwhelming Interstellar Image Ever

I have seen enough space images. A lot. I admit sometimes I am bored of them. But today’s Hubble photo hit me right in my mind: Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the…

Watch NASA’s Six-Hour Space Walk Livestream For a Glimpse of an ISS Workday

While you’re sitting slack-jawed at your computer, desperately trying to avoid work on a Friday, there are two Russian cosmonauts going to work floating in the zero-gravity abyss of space. The whole thing is streaming below for your procrastination pleasure. Streaming live video by Ustream The pair of spacemen, Vinogradov and Romanenko, only just struck…

This R-Rated Weird Science remake sounds kind of gross

If there’s one movie that probably doesn’t need an “edgy” R-rated remake, its a movie about how two horny teens make their perfect woman out of a Barbie doll. But, that won’t stop Hollywood from defiling the already fairly creepy ’80s film Weird Science. Joel Silver and Michael Bacall (who is penning this reboot) want…

Amazon’s 14 Original Series Pilots Are All Online Now

Amazon just launched the 14 pilot episodes for its original series showdown—six kids shows and eight comedies. Surely at least one of these programs will be good. Actually, we’re pretty excited for a few of them, and why not check them out because they’re free with your Amazon Prime account. The new shows dropped just…

Apple Keeps Your Siri Data for Two Years

You thought that time you asked Siri about the weird mole on your toe was just between the two of you? Wrong. According to Wired, Apple hangs onto your Siri data for two years. Privacy groups have been asking after Siri’s info hoarding habits for quite a while, but this is the first time Apple…

This isn’t what you think it is

As hard as this is to believe, you’re looking at one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century, and it’s currently on display at London’s Science Museum. It may look like a scatological avante garde sculpture, but it’s actually a physical representation of the myoglobin molecule, an iron and oxygen binding protein found…

Meet “Fundawear,” the vibrating underwear you control with your phone

So this is a thing now. Undergarments – briefs, panties, bras, etc. – packed with vibrating touch technology that you control with a smartphone. It’s called Fundawear (fun… underwear… fun to wear! Oh, you get it), and it’s made by Durex. As in the condom company. The schtick is simple: vibrating underwear that lets couples…

Nike PHOTOid: Design Awesome Kicks Inspired by Your Instagrams

Oh this shoe? It doesn’t just look like an Animal Style burger from In ‘n Out, it was directly inspired by it thanks to Nike PHOTOid, which lets you customize your kicks based on the color scheme of your Instagram pics. Go to Photoid.Nike.com and grant the site permission to your Instagram account to get…

The lovely HTC One is available nationwide today on contract at AT&T and Sprint for $199, and T-Mobile for $99 down.

Graphene’s Achilles Heel

Graphene is touted as being the supermaterial to beat all supermaterials—but not so fast! Researchers have discovered a weakness that occurs in many sheets of graphene that renders it half as strong as we thought. Formed from a single sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal pattern, graphene is often celebrated for its disproportionate…

Why is the talking raccoon the heart of Guardians of the Galaxy?

That’s just one big hint James Gunn drops about his Marvel space opera. The latest castmember in Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland hints at the movie’s top-secret plot. Guillermo del Toro explains why Pacific Rim is nothing like Transformers, in case anyone actually needed that explained. All that, plus spoilers galore! Top image from Ender’s Game. Iron…

Can You Really Call This Life-Size Iron Man MARK 42 Suit a Figure?

You can balk at the $8,500 price tag that Sideshow collectibles has slapped on this stunning life-size replica of the latest Iron Man armor, but like it or not, this is as close as you’re ever going to get to owning your own. Besides, the real version probably cost Tony Stark half a billion dollars…

You’ve Never Heard of Inhon, But It Made One of the Skinniest Laptops You’ve Ever Seen

You’ve probably never heard of Inhon—but that might be about to change. The Taiwanese manufacturer has just launched the Blade 13: a laptop which is just 10.7mm thick. The company claims that makes it the thinnest laptop in the world—undercutting the previous best, NEC’s 12.8mm Lavie X, by a whole 2mm. It also weights just…

These Cheap and Cheerful Archos Smartphones Run Stock Android and Start at $120

Archos has announced a new range of budget smartphones for those of limited means—and while they may not be market leaders, they have value and stock Android going for them. While the new handsets might not be challenging the HTC One anytime soon, there’s no denying their value. The 35 Carbon, for instance, offers up…

Save $300 on Acer’s Great Little Aspire S7 Ultrabook

If you’re in the market for a small new Windows laptop, today may be your day. The Microsoft Store has slashed the price of Acer’s 11.6-inch Aspire S7 to $900—a hefty $300 saving on the standard price. If small’s not your thing, then the 13.3-inch version is also on offer, and the i5 version will…

What Would It Be Like if Book Stores Died Out Completely?

Most of us increasingly read digitally—and the book store industry is in decline as a result. But can you imagine a future where book stores had died out completely? This video, directed by Richard Dadd and Dan Fryer of British creative studio The Bakery, tells the story of a boy who stumbles upon the last…