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The Beanbag Has Finally Been Perfected

Beanbags are just fine, sure. But Kumeko has built a better beanbag, and it’s called the Snug Chair. Ever wanted to be swaddled like a baby? Ever wanted to chill out inside of a paddled shell that adjusts to your body position? Or, how about sleeping inside of a laundry basket? The last one, maybe…

Tech News Leslie Horn Feb 5 '13

Lightspeed Presents… “The Infill Trait” by C.C.Finlay

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we’ll be featuring a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “The Infill Trait” by C.C.Finlay. Enjoy! Photo by dimitris_k via Shutterstock The Infill Trait C.C. Finlay Every time I fall asleep I wake up in a different body. Every time…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 5 '13

Jack White’s Next Record Will Be Printed On the Bones Of Humans Past

Bizarre human being and Butthole Surfer Gibby Haynes has the honor of creating the next installment in Jack White’s record label’s, Third Man Records, fantastic Blue Series. The coolest part, though, is that some of the 7-inch, three-song singles are going to be printed on old medical x-rays. The pairing of song and bone isn’t…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Feb 5 '13

You Can Never Go Back to Nature

One of the arguments that environmentalists use against factory farming and burning fossil fuels is that these activities are “unnatural” or that they “go against nature.” But what exactly is this “nature,” and who gets to define it? The answer is that nature actually comes from culture. In the west, many of our common sense…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 5 '13

A vampire and a zombie walk into a bar… to swing dance?

Last night the monsters grieved — by dancing. SO MUCH dancing. Aidan danced, Sally danced, Josh danced with his fists on some dirtbags face. The tiny dancers of that supernatural Boston apartment on Being Human got down with their sad selves last night. Spoilers ahead… Vampire Henry is allegedly dead. This is something I cannot…

io9 Meredith Woerner Feb 5 '13

This Week’s Comics: The Superhero Team-Up Book That Everybody’s Going to be Raving About

What’s going on in comics this week? For starters, there’s a brand new Marvel “buddy cop” book featuring Misty Knight and Valkyrie, which looks awesomely badass. Darth Vader is still mopping up the last of the Jedi. And there’s a post-apocalyptic Earth being attacked by ancient monsters, an anthology of “Day of the Dead” stories,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Feb 5 '13

Pre-Damaged Luggage Makes a Baggage Handler’s Job So Much Easier

The staff at your local airport responsible for getting your bags onto a plane in a timely manner are particularly skilled at damaging and destroying even the most rugged of suitcases. So why not beat them to the punch with pre-distressed luggage that looks like it’s already been through countless flights—at least two. Available in…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 5 '13

Neanderthals may have mostly died out before Homo sapiens came to Europe

An updated radiocarbon dating technique has thrown our conceptions of when Neanderthals died out into question. A new paper in PNAS is suggesting that Neanderthals disappeared considerably earlier than previously thought — a resetting of the anthropological clock that calls into question whether our human ancestors interacted and interbred with the now-extinct species. But as…

io9 George Dvorsky Feb 5 '13

Smartphone Bow Turns Your Handset Into an Archery Simulator

Securing at least an honorable mention for the most over-the-top smartphone accessory, the BowBlade promises to turn aspiring iOS and Android archers into modern day Robin Hoods (or, sigh, Katniss Everdeens) who are never in risk of accidentally sending an arrow flying dangerously off-target. The rectangular bow uses flexible, swappable blades instead of a taut…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 5 '13

The Veritable Pocket Laboratory Cops Have to Carry to Test Drugs on the Street

The cops pull over a car doing 75 in a school zone. The driver is behaving errratically, so they pull him out of the car for a search and bingo: a small bag of white dust in the perp’s pocket. But what is it—baking soda, cocaine, arsenic? To find out, they rely on this series…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Feb 5 '13

Two guys wanted to know what giving birth feels like. Here’s what happened.

So the Dutch have this experimental television show called Proefkonijnen (it translates to “Guinea Pigs”), where stuff like this happens. The U.S., tragically, has no such show. Watch as show hosts Dennis and Valerio endure the electrode-induced pangs of simulated labor, and then join us in imagining how one might also simulate the pains of…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 5 '13

These Leak-Proof Contigo Mugs Are Your Lifechanger Deal of the Day

If coffee’s part of your daily routine, it makes a lot of sense to carefully choose the gear you’re touching on a daily basis. If you’ve got your brewing setup down, that means you should upgrade your mug. And there are few better travel mugs than the Contigo West Loop Travel Mug. Gizmodo alum Joel…

Tech News Kif Leswing Feb 5 '13

Good 69 Joke, iTunes

Apple is selling special 69 cent songs for Valentine’s Day. 69, GET IT?!??!! Actually song pricing is in no way related to anything sexual. iTunes regularly sells 69 cent songs, and that pricing decision is between Apple and record companies. This is just that regular list with some thematic art and a wink, wink, wink.…

Tech News Leslie Horn Feb 5 '13

A 3D Printer That Generates Human Embryonic Stem Cells

3-D printers can produce gun parts, aircraft wings, food and a lot more, but this new 3-D printed product may be the craziest thing yet: human embryonic stem cells. Using stem cells as the “ink” in a 3-D printer, researchers in Scotland hope to eventually build 3-D printed organs and tissues. A team at Heriot-Watt…

io9 Rebecca Boyle - Popular Science Feb 5 '13

Redbox Instant Video Is Coming Soon to the Xbox 360

Redbox Instant is officially coming to Xbox 360 and it’s the exclusive “gaming and entertainment console launch partner.” If you’re currently in the beta for Redox Instant, expect an email in the coming days. The combination disc/streaming service costs $6/month for just streaming, $8/month for streaming and four DVDs from a Redbox kiosk and unlimited…

Tech News Leslie Horn Feb 5 '13

PBS’s Silicon Valley Gives You an Inside Look At the Startup World Before It Became Terrible

Silicon Valley wasn’t always the buzzword-flinging, startup-sprouting tech Mecca it is today. And PBS’s latest installment of the “American Experience” series looks back 10 years before the phrase “Silicon Valley” had even been coined, when eight young physicists decided to shed their corporate shackles and found the Valley’s first startup, Fairchild Semiconductor. The documentary mainly…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Feb 5 '13

Is Farscape‘s Rockne O’Bannon the ultimate villain of his new show Cult?

There are just two weeks left until Cult premieres on The CW — and you’re not prepared for how meta this show is going to be. As creator Rockne O’Bannon explained to us, “the audience watching Cult at home is watching a show about people watching a show called Cult.” And Cult is a show…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 5 '13

You Can Fold This Indoor Chair Just Like a Car Seat

Parents, please don’t get confused. This is not the captain’s chair in your Honda Odyssey. But actually, that’s sort of the aesthetic One Nordic Furniture is going for with the Hai Chair. The company combines the look of flat packing furniture with high-end design. So think of the mid-century piece in your living room merging…

Tech News Leslie Horn Feb 5 '13

26 Photos Taken In $20 Lightboxes

What kind of photos can you get out of a cardboard box wrapped in some paper? You’d be amazed. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, we asked you to scrap together your own cheap lightbox. The results were fantastic. WINNER: Headless I built the lightbox on Saturday. I shot a bunch of very pedestrian things. On…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 5 '13

Magnet buys the space-horror movie Europa Report… and reveals new plot details!

Great news, we’re finally going to see the space horror flick Europa Report! Magnet has purchased the rights to Sebastián Cordero’s found footage film, starring Sharlto Copley. Set aboard a mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa, the film makes good use of the crew’s copious stationary cameras. Here’s the full synopsis which gives away more clues…

io9 Meredith Woerner Feb 5 '13

The Beanbag Has Finally Been Perfected

Lightspeed Presents… “The Infill Trait” by C.C.Finlay

Jack White’s Next Record Will Be Printed On the Bones Of Humans Past

You Can Never Go Back to Nature

A vampire and a zombie walk into a bar… to swing dance?

This Week’s Comics: The Superhero Team-Up Book That Everybody’s Going to be Raving About

Pre-Damaged Luggage Makes a Baggage Handler’s Job So Much Easier

Neanderthals may have mostly died out before Homo sapiens came to Europe

Smartphone Bow Turns Your Handset Into an Archery Simulator

The Veritable Pocket Laboratory Cops Have to Carry to Test Drugs on the Street

Two guys wanted to know what giving birth feels like. Here’s what happened.

These Leak-Proof Contigo Mugs Are Your Lifechanger Deal of the Day

Good 69 Joke, iTunes

A 3D Printer That Generates Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Redbox Instant Video Is Coming Soon to the Xbox 360

PBS’s Silicon Valley Gives You an Inside Look At the Startup World Before It Became Terrible

Is Farscape‘s Rockne O’Bannon the ultimate villain of his new show Cult?

You Can Fold This Indoor Chair Just Like a Car Seat

26 Photos Taken In $20 Lightboxes

Magnet buys the space-horror movie Europa Report… and reveals new plot details!

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