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These Researchers Know Where You Live, Pirates

Watch out pirates, you may not be as anonymous as you think, especially if you upload to the Pirate Bay. Researchers have recently published a tool that lets you get all kinds of data, including location, about some of the most prolific accounts. Finding out the IPs of people who have downloaded is nothing particularly…

Tech News Eric Limer

New Villa Savoye Set Is a Beautiful Addition to the LEGO Architecture Line

LEGO has been pumping out a lot of wonderful architecture sets this year, and today they’re launching the brand new one, Villa Savoye. At 660 pieces and standing about 3.5 inches tall, it’s a lovely little recreation of the French villa designed by Le Corbusier which become one of the most influential buildings in France.…

Tech News Eric Limer

What Laptops Looked Like Before and After the MacBook Air

A little like what phones and tablets looked like before the iPhone and iPad, laptops have been borrowing liberally from the design of the MacBook Air. The old days of giant plastic shells with a gazillion ports, even more stickers and uniform awfulness have been replaced with slick silver body and black chiclet keyboards. https://gizmodo.com/what-tablets-looked-like-before-the-ipad-and-what-they-5832749…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Stoner Channel: The One With All the Blues and Led Zeppelin Concerts

The American Folk-Blues Festival 1962-1966 vol.1 Want to know how I know our culture’s on the way out? We went from making incredible music like this to making dreck like this. The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 Vol. 2 “Lightnin’ Hopkins” may well be the awesomest blues musician name of all time. The American Folk…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Rejected Pitches (Pulp Fiction)

If you haven’t seen any of Above Average Networks’ Rejected Pitches series, here’s your chance to start with one of the best: Quentin Tarantino pitching Pulp Fiction to three 80s studio execs who just… don’t… get it. It’s wonderful. The rest of this week’s top comedy videos, including a father-son chat and NBA 2k12, can…

Tech News Splitsider

This Fancy Vacuum Is Coated in Diamond Dust and Costs Literally Nothing: $0

Remember that $1,000,000 gold-plated vacuum that, weirdly, no one was buying? The one with its own worthless rap? Well, GoVacuum, the makers of that fancy vac have come out with yet another ridiculously blinged out dust sucker. That was quick. Wasn’t it? https://gizmodo.com/this-million-dollar-vacuum-cleaner-has-its-own-totally-5923379 The SEBO GV62712 GoVacuum Felix Crystallize Onyx is GoVacuum’s latest offering (a…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

American Juggalos: A Journey into the Dark Carnival

The world of juggalos—die-hard followers of the band Insane Clown Posse—is weird but super intriguing. They have a yearly festival in August, it’s weird, dark, and hard to wrap your head around, and it’s chronicled in this short documentary, American Juggalo. It takes place at the 2011 It’s kind of like a train wreck in…

Tech News Leslie Horn

An Entire House Full of Transforming Furniture Would Be Amazing (Even if It Means It Will Destroy Your Life)

Transforming furniture is amazing (this is well-documented, BTW), and when I saw Boxetti’s line of transforming modules for every part of the home, I basically made a mess of myself. There’s a couch that turns into a table and a desk. There’s a kitchen that packs into a box. A desk that pops out of…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Lauryn Hill: I Gotta Find Peace of Mind

I really miss Lauryn Hill. I know, I know, you do too and everyone does and she sort of gets out to perform sometimes—but whatever. I miss amazing things like her Unplugged being semi-regular, not super rare events. Sometimes when I get like this I listen to Talib Kweli’s Ms. Hill. Sometimes I watch Dave…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

How to Write About Hermaphrodite Sex

You’ve got two life forms who are hermaphrodites, and they’re having sex. But how do you describe it accurately, without calling on human-centric terms like “male” and “female” or “penis” and “vagina”? It’s one of those rare writing questions that comes up for both scientists and science fiction writers. In the interests of advancing the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Pack All Your Pals Around This Beautiful Wooden Dining Table

I just moved into a new apartment, and I have no dinner table. We are eating like savages on the couch with plates perched on our laps. So I’ve been scouring the internet for just the right piece, and right now I’m crushing on this Emerson Dining Table from West Elm. Made out of reclaimed…

Tech News Leslie Horn

A new species of bee that survives solely by invading other beehives

It would appear that cuckoo birds are not the only animal that has the nasty habit of laying its eggs in another animal’s nest. A newly discovered species of bee has been observed to invade the nests of other bees while they’re out collecting pollen. It’s during this opportune time that the female members of…

io9 George Dvorsky

GIZMODO at 2012 Smart Home—New Gadgets!

Last year Gizmodo and the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago partnered up to curate the technology for the Smart Home: Green + Wired. The exhibit recently re-opened for 2012 with new furnishings and a few our favorite new gadgets. MSI did an incredible job in 2011 creating a truly Smart Home that we wished…

Tech News Christopher Mascari

Motorola’s Secret Weapon for Its Next Android Phone Is a Complete Edge-to-Edge Screen?

The Motorola phones that have leaked before its announcement event next week have mostly been varying degrees of meh. Droid Razr somethin’ or another who cares. How are they going to make some noise? How about a complete edge-to-edge screen, meaning the entire front of the device is the display? Whoa. https://gizmodo.com/new-motorola-droid-razr-hd-images-leaked-in-youtube-vid-5936159 Bloomberg is reporting…

Tech News Casey Chan

This Reconfigurable Jacket Is Like 30 Coats In One (And Is Priced Accordingly)

Everyone wants to get bang for their buck, and if you’re on the hunt for a new winter coat, Stone Island’s 30/30 Multi Jacket features a reversible liner and shell that lets you reconfigure it 30 different ways. The catch? It’s priced at almost $2,200 which, as The Awesomer points out, is like buying 30 $70…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Watch the drunken, self-destructive voyage of the Starship Artemis

Artemis is a virtual starship bridge. About six people can play at being different positions on a Star Trek type ship. When the local Star Trek club set up an actual bridge space, I donned Vulcan ears and joined five other people for a little video that should be called Jerks In Space. When you…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The New Essential Apps August 2012

iPhones. iPads. Android. Windows Phone. We’ve updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favorites, some long awaited arrivals and, as always, even more amazing apps. Check them out! If you want to jump to see the best apps in a specific platform, click here: iPhone | Android | iPad The…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Would You Buy an Ad-Supported Tablet?

Amazon is reportedly going to introduce an ad-supported Kindle Fire next week, according to the WSJ. Like its Kindle with Special Offers, the ad-supported Kindle Fire would be cheaper but would also “display an ad after the user ‘wakes’ the gadget”. Would you care about ads on your tablet? Currently, Amazon sells the Kindle with…

Commerce Casey Chan

Is There Anything Space Balloons Can’t Do?

When you’re millions of miles from Earth, things need to work—the first time. So rather than rely on failure-prone mechanical systems, these space instruments utilize miniature atmospheres for their protection. Our friends at Oobject have collected the dozen best examples of space inflatables. Be sure to also check out these grounded satellites, some others from…

Tech News David Galbraith - Oobject.com

Further evidence that there are many habitable planets for humans to colonize

An international team of scientists working at European HARPS have announced the discovery of a large rocky planet residing within the stellar habitable zone of the red dwarf star Gliese 163. That increases the number of known potentially habitable planets to six — the majority of which have been discovered in the past year. To…

io9 George Dvorsky

These Researchers Know Where You Live, Pirates

New Villa Savoye Set Is a Beautiful Addition to the LEGO Architecture Line

What Laptops Looked Like Before and After the MacBook Air

The Stoner Channel: The One With All the Blues and Led Zeppelin Concerts

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Rejected Pitches (Pulp Fiction)

This Fancy Vacuum Is Coated in Diamond Dust and Costs Literally Nothing: $0

American Juggalos: A Journey into the Dark Carnival

An Entire House Full of Transforming Furniture Would Be Amazing (Even if It Means It Will Destroy Your Life)

Lauryn Hill: I Gotta Find Peace of Mind

How to Write About Hermaphrodite Sex

Pack All Your Pals Around This Beautiful Wooden Dining Table

A new species of bee that survives solely by invading other beehives

GIZMODO at 2012 Smart Home—New Gadgets!

Motorola’s Secret Weapon for Its Next Android Phone Is a Complete Edge-to-Edge Screen?

This Reconfigurable Jacket Is Like 30 Coats In One (And Is Priced Accordingly)

Watch the drunken, self-destructive voyage of the Starship Artemis

The New Essential Apps August 2012

Would You Buy an Ad-Supported Tablet?

Is There Anything Space Balloons Can’t Do?

Further evidence that there are many habitable planets for humans to colonize

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