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Tech News Brian Barrett Nov 2 '12

I Want My Pictures Printed on Wood

Most of the pictures I see are on my phone or my computer screen or my tablet. I hardly see any pictures on film anymore and I definitely don’t see pictures on wood. Maybe I should though because pictures printed on wood look awesome. Woodsnap is a company that specializes in printing photographs on high-grade…

Tech News Casey Chan Nov 2 '12

Walking Three Miles in Blacked Out New York City Is Pretty Scary

Lower Manhattan in New York City is still mostly without power which means when night hits, it’s complete darkness. No street lights, no building lights, no lights at all. Joe Sabia wanted to see what it was like so he took a camera and walked three miles. He went from Mulberry Street to Grand Central…

Tech News Casey Chan Nov 1 '12

You Can Jailbreak iOS 6.01 Already

iOS 6.01 just came out today and Redsn0w can already jailbreak it. The jailbreak doesn’t work on newer hardware, only on iPhones and iPads that have an A4 chip and lower. Meaning: iPhone 5 or new iPad owners, hold tight. The rest of you, you have a jailbreak option. The Redsn0w jailbreak of iOS 6.01…

Tech News Casey Chan Nov 1 '12

Wine Simplified Is an iOS App That’ll Teach You Everything You Need to Know About Wine

As you grow a little bit older and stop taking as many tequila shots on a random Tuesday night, you’ll inevitably venture into the pinky raised world of drinking wine. It’s scary! It’s intimidating! It’s snooty! But it doesn’t have to be, you can learn everything you need to know about wine with an iOS…

Tech News Casey Chan Nov 1 '12

Watch a Pig Decompose Underwater

Pork is absolutely delicious any which way you cook it and it seems like sea lice, which are like ocean maggots apparently, would agree too. The sea lice do most of the heavy eating and shrimp come in to finish the job. It’s disturbingly exciting. Why did scientists throw a dead pig in the ocean?…

Tech News Casey Chan Nov 1 '12

New trailer for G.I. Joe Retaliation showcases the romance between Channing Tatum, The Rock, and really big guns

video In a perfect world, we wouldn’t have to wait five more months for an unwanted 3D conversion of Jon M. Chu’s G.I. Joe movie. No, we would have ALREADY seen this amazing showcase of action and quippy one-liners. Yup, the G.I. Joe movie that actually looks like fun has been delayed for 3D conversion,…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 1 '12

Domino’s Says This Is the Ultimate Pizza Delivery Vehicle

This is the ultimate pizza delivery vehicle, according to Domino’s which held a public design challenge to come up with the best car to drive pizzas around. It’s small, it has sliding doors, a rear-view camera and sliding shelves for the pizzas. Sadly, it’s not a real car and just a design made by Anej…

Tech News Casey Chan Nov 1 '12

Just some sublime animated body horror

Courtesy of Katayama Takuto, comes Dissimilated Vision, a gorgeous animated segment about fingers turning into eyes and follicles transmuting into faces and other lovely polymorphing weirdness. (Hat tip to Morris.)

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 1 '12

The most homoerotic Supernatural episode ever

Last night’s Supernatural episode, “Blood Brothers,” was great for two reasons. One, it was artfully written (by Ben Edlund) and brought us back to the season’s arc while also telling a completely self-contained story. And two, it offered us a way to understand the emotional connections in Sam and Dean’s lives as battlefield romances –…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 1 '12

Finally, science invents a painless bandaid!

There’s nothing worse than pulling off a bandaid, especially when it yanks nearby hair out with it. Thankfully, researchers have developed a new kind of medical tape that stays attached to your skin, but can be removed without any pain or damage. Biomedical Engineers from Harvard and MIT have been working with the problem of…

io9 Tim Barribeau Nov 1 '12

The wall of eyeballs that makes you go blind is our new favorite monster from Japanese mythology

We’ve discussed yōkai — or supernatural monsters from Japanese mythology — on io9 before, namely the disgusting, turtle-like kappa. But the yōkai artwork of Toriyama Sekien (1712-1788) will introduce you to some even weirder monsters from Japanese folklore, such as the mokumokuren (a blinding eyeball demon that dwells in paper walls), the oboroguruma (an oxcart…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 1 '12

Feel Like Watching a Leaf Cause an Explosion?

Manganese heptoxide is a compound with seven oxygen molecules. It’s always ready to lend a few out, which is why it’s called an oxidizer. Oxidization is another word for burning. It oxidizes so spontaneously that nearly any contact with an organic molecule will set it off. You can see it explode with a leaf and…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Nov 1 '12

Locke & Key, the canned TV pilot, resurrects as a movie?

Our hearts were crushed when the television adaptation of the comic Locke & Key (which was penned by the amazing Josh Friedman and boasted a pilot directed by Mark Romanek) was canned by FOX before it was ever released. Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s comic book is exactly the kind of creepy mystery-solving the world…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 1 '12

Manhattan’s Sandy Evacuation Zones Match Up With the Island’s Original Coastline

Look at the two maps above. On the left is Manhattan in 1776. On the right is the Hurricane Sandy evacuation map. If your apartment’s in Zone A in 2012, it would’ve been in the ocean in 1776, before the island was built up by landfill. On the evac guide, red is Zone A, or…

Tech News Leslie Horn Nov 1 '12

Flood Destruction in Staten Island Could Be Much Worse than We Think (Updated)

Post-Sandy conditions on Staten Island are both horrific and tragically underreported-many have died in mass flooding, either unwilling or unable to evacuate in time. Now we’re getting reports that the casualties have become so bad that Egbert Intermediate School near Midland Beach has been turned into a makeshift overflow morgue. We spoke with one displaced…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 1 '12

Researchers interact with rats by becoming virtual rats themselves

A wise man once said, “In order for us to understand the rat, we must become the rat.” Now, it’s quite possible that no one has ever actually said this, but that doesn’t matter. But what does matter is that it’s the driving sentiment behind a project that’s seeking to bridge the gap that’s separating…

io9 George Dvorsky Nov 1 '12

Google Wallet Looks Like It’s Getting a Physical Credit Card

We’ve been hearing on and off that this might happen, but Android Police just got a pretty real-looking tip from a leaked build of the Google Wallet that seems to confirm it: Google Wallet is getting a physical credit card. But what does that actually mean? According to the report, the card will use the…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Nov 1 '12

This Elephant Speaks Korean

You may the whale who mimicked human speech. Well, it looks like we’ve got another contender for the “trying to speak like a human” title. This elephant has learned to speak Korean. Koshik is an Asian elephant at Everland Zoo in South Korea, and appears to have learned to mimic a handful of words in…

io9 Tim Barribeau Nov 1 '12

Shot Flask Helps You Share Your Sauce

Sharing is important. Alcohol is a gift from the gods. Drinking alone is mostly inadvisable. Thus, the shot flask is a great invention. For $25 you get an eight ounce black leather flask comes with a two ounce glass so you and a friend can just pound shots anywhere you go. Maximum portability. Disease prevention.…

Tech News Leslie Horn Nov 1 '12

It’s weird how you can become so attached to a random string of digits.

I Want My Pictures Printed on Wood

Walking Three Miles in Blacked Out New York City Is Pretty Scary

You Can Jailbreak iOS 6.01 Already

Wine Simplified Is an iOS App That’ll Teach You Everything You Need to Know About Wine

Watch a Pig Decompose Underwater

New trailer for G.I. Joe Retaliation showcases the romance between Channing Tatum, The Rock, and really big guns

Domino’s Says This Is the Ultimate Pizza Delivery Vehicle

Just some sublime animated body horror

The most homoerotic Supernatural episode ever

Finally, science invents a painless bandaid!

The wall of eyeballs that makes you go blind is our new favorite monster from Japanese mythology

Feel Like Watching a Leaf Cause an Explosion?

Locke & Key, the canned TV pilot, resurrects as a movie?

Manhattan’s Sandy Evacuation Zones Match Up With the Island’s Original Coastline

Flood Destruction in Staten Island Could Be Much Worse than We Think (Updated)

Researchers interact with rats by becoming virtual rats themselves

Google Wallet Looks Like It’s Getting a Physical Credit Card

This Elephant Speaks Korean

Shot Flask Helps You Share Your Sauce

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