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This Vintage Soviet Space Watch Is the Ultimate in Cosmonaut Style

With the demise of NASA’s shuttle program, one of the best ways to get to space today is a $63 million seat on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Show the Cosmonauts how happy you are to come aboard by arriving to the launchpad wearing this beautiful vintage watch, which celebrates the achievements of the Soviet space…

Tech News Micah Fitzerman-Blue - Bureau of Trade

Nokia Lumia 920 Hands On: You Really Want This Thing—But Enough to Switch?

The Lumia 920 is wonderful. It’s smooth and fast and sleek and has a ton of future-is-here features. But the question for Nokia—and for you—is, will it be enough? The first thing you notice about the 920 is the curved glass screen—the same as the old Lumia 800. It’s a relatively small detail, but it…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

A Pocket Knife So Beautiful You’ll Just Want To Frame It

Inspired by the design of a traditional Japanese folding blade—the Higonokami—that hasn’t changed since the 19th century, Kacper Hamilton’s HIGO tools have similar minimal functionality wrapped in beautiful angular housings. It’s just heartbreaking that it only exists as a prototype and isn’t available for purchase. Both the HIGO (8.52.0.E) and the HIGO (46.42.0.N) were designed…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The V-22 Osprey’s New Belly Gun Rotates 360 Degrees To Fire 3,000 Rounds a Minute

Though the V-22 Osprey was built to drop troops behind enemy lines, the tilt-rotor aircraft left them dangerously exposed to ground fire. The problem was that the Osprey couldn’t fire a weapon anywhere but to toward the rear. The solution—mount a rotating gun on the aircraft’s underside and clear those landing zones in all directions.…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Tons of bloated rat carcasses drift ashore in wake of Hurricane Isaac

For dolphins, a hurricane can actually bring new life (in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, dolphin birth rates soared); but for rats, a hurricane the size of last week’s Isaac can translate to wholesale devastation. But that might actually be a good thing for the region. According to Reuters: As of Tuesday, about 16,000 of…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Lumia 820: The Windows Phone for the Rest of Us

Here’s the Lumia 820, the Lumia 920’s little sister. It’s got the same polycarbonate unibody with softer lines. It’s also got a 4.3-inch screen, 4G LTE, and built in NFC, Nokia City Lens, and all the other exclusive Nokia apps. Not bad for the second child. But here’s the big part: It’s got a pop-off…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The 5 Coolest Things about Nokia’s PureMotion HD+ Display Technology

The PureView camera may be the headlining feature of Nokia’s new Lumia 920 phone, but the display is no slouch either. The company says its PureMotion HD+ technology allows the phone to look better, scroll smoother and respond to user interaction better. Here’s a quick rundown of the best and coolest new features this display…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Nokia Lumia 920: Now With Built-In Gifs

At Nokia’s unveiling of the Lumia 920 it announced that the phone now has a built-in gif app—Nokia Cinemagraph. How amazing is that? Sharing animations with your friends just got better. Provided that they get this phone too. You can follow along with our live coverage of Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 announcement right here.

Tech News Leslie Horn

The Lumia 920’s Wireless Charging Speaker Dock Looks Crazy Cool

The Lumia 920 has wireless charging, which in and of itself is fun and neat and interesting and a delightful little quirky perk. But it’ll also have color-matching Power Up speakers from JBL that charge your phone every time you gently lay it on top. Pretty cool. How well does it work? How much does…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Most Thrilling Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Coming in September!

September’s science fiction and fantasy novels are packed with excitement and cool new ideas. Learn how to survive the slow apocalypse and how to prepare for the Singularity! There’s space opera, cosmic action, and dark, dirty fantasy. Here are all the most exhilarating science fiction and fantasy novels coming out this month. Top image: Detail…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Adjustable Slats Make This Outdoor Bed (Almost) An All-Weather Bed

Though technically summer isn’t over until later this month, Labor Day sadly marked its unofficial end. Even though the weather will soon begin to cool off, you can still enjoy this versatile outdoor bed. Known as the Kettal Cottage, the oversized chaise—or tiny house, depending on your perspective or stature—has a slatted roof you can…

Tech News Leslie Horn

This Is the Most Astonishing Solar Eruption I’ve Ever Seen

I don’t know if it’s the most amazing view of a solar eruption ever recorded, but it probably is. When our friends at NASA Goddard sent us this image of the latest solar eruption today, we just couldn’t believe how astonishing and ominous it looked. So astonishing and special that NASA titled their image “Magnificent…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Windows Phone 8: All the New Features

We’re also going to hear from Microsoft about the rest of Windows Phone 8. We’ll fill you in on everything new Microsoft announces today. Old Business Right now, aside from the beautiful new start screen, we mainly have the developer-facing stuff. Things like OTA updates and required firmware support for 18 months. That’s nice and…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Nokia’s New City Lens and Maps Make Lumia an Augmented Reality Beast

Well this is a nice garnish Nokia’s put on its new Lumia 900 superphone: an augmented reality app—called City Lens—that might actually be worth a damn. And it might make Nokia Maps the undisputed champ. Like all AR applications, seeing is believing, but if the Lumia 920 delivers on its promise, we could have something…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Explore the strange lands of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest with a new map and interactive atlas!

If you’re one of those people who can’t stop obsessing about David Foster Wallace’s confounding, dense novel Infinite Jest — and quite right, too — then there’s a brand new resource. William Beutler has created Infinite Atlas, an interactive guide to the version of Boston in Wallace’s book, enabled by Google Maps and including brief…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Inside the Nokia Lumia 920’s Camera: A Lesser Form of PureView, but Floating Lens Tech Means Smooth Video

Nokia’s Lumia 920 flagship Windows Phone looks promising, but the camera isn’t quite what everyone was hoping for. Where as Nokia’s 808 PureView phone packed a massive 41-megapixel sensor and mostly served as a proof of concept for the PureView tech, the Lumia 920’s sensor is 8.7-megapixels, which Nokia says can capture 5x-10x more light…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Nokia Lumia 920: The Great Windows Phone Hope

Here it is: The Lumia 920. This is the phone Nokia’s staking its future on. Let’s just take a moment and bask in that beautiful Finnish build. And then we can talk about the wireless charging, NFC, augmented reality, and everything else that makes this look like a killer phone. The 4G LTE Lumia 920…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

There really is such a thing as a champagne supernova

And yes, it was named after the Oasis song. This is a special, mysterious kind of stellar explosion that shouldn’t, technically, exist. Learn all about the strange supernova, that was cause for such celebration that it was christened, both literally and figuratively, with champagne. Here’s how supernovas work. Inside a collapsing star, subatomic particles exert…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Organic Food Might Not Actually Be Better For You

There’s a chance we’ve been deluded by the marketing of organic food; a new study by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have found that it might not actually be better for you. Their study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, looked at 200 other peer-reviewed studies that analyzed the difference in health benefits…

Health Leslie Horn

Reminder: Now Is a Very Bad Time to Launch New iPhone Accessories

With an Apple event just around the corner where the company is expected to reveal the next generation iPhone and its rumored updated dock connector, now is a very bad time to announce accessories that could be obsolete in just a few weeks time. But Tascam didn’t get that memo, and so has graced us…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Vintage Soviet Space Watch Is the Ultimate in Cosmonaut Style

Nokia Lumia 920 Hands On: You Really Want This Thing—But Enough to Switch?

A Pocket Knife So Beautiful You’ll Just Want To Frame It

The V-22 Osprey’s New Belly Gun Rotates 360 Degrees To Fire 3,000 Rounds a Minute

Tons of bloated rat carcasses drift ashore in wake of Hurricane Isaac

Lumia 820: The Windows Phone for the Rest of Us

The 5 Coolest Things about Nokia’s PureMotion HD+ Display Technology

Nokia Lumia 920: Now With Built-In Gifs

The Lumia 920’s Wireless Charging Speaker Dock Looks Crazy Cool

The Most Thrilling Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Coming in September!

Adjustable Slats Make This Outdoor Bed (Almost) An All-Weather Bed

This Is the Most Astonishing Solar Eruption I’ve Ever Seen

Windows Phone 8: All the New Features

Nokia’s New City Lens and Maps Make Lumia an Augmented Reality Beast

Explore the strange lands of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest with a new map and interactive atlas!

Inside the Nokia Lumia 920’s Camera: A Lesser Form of PureView, but Floating Lens Tech Means Smooth Video

Nokia Lumia 920: The Great Windows Phone Hope

There really is such a thing as a champagne supernova

Organic Food Might Not Actually Be Better For You

Reminder: Now Is a Very Bad Time to Launch New iPhone Accessories

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