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Fingerprints Magically Fade Away On 3M’s New Screen Protectors

If you’d rather spend your time actually using your touchscreen tablet, instead of wasting hours buffing away fingerprints, 3M’s new Natural View Fingerprint Fading Screen Protectors might be just up your alley since—like an old soldier—fingerprints will just fade away. The company’s a little vague on how exactly its new technology works—most likely because the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jul 21

Microsoft: Sorry About “Big Boobs”

The world of the brogrammer is a vague and hazy place of stereotyped sex humor and pseudo-serious trend pieces. And earlier this year we determined that the brogrammer never was. https://gizmodo.com/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-brogrammer-5910824 And yet… Microsoft had to make a public apology recently, after it was discovered that some sniveling, man-child coder had written BIG BOOBS into…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jul 21

Ikea’s Augmented-Reality Catalog Might Be the Company’s Best-Made Product Yet

We’ve already shared our favorite items from Ikea’s 2013 product catalog, but what we didn’t know was that as of July 31st, the catalog itself will be an interactive product of the latest augmented-reality technology. iOS and Android users who download the Ikea catalog app, will be able to unlock video features, interactive experiences with…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jul 21

The Stoner Channel: Morgan Freeman on Weed, Wildebeests on Alligators, and Pink Floyd on KQED

Wildebeest – Bird Box So, you wanna be right or you wanna be food? [Cartoon Brew] DC Think Tank Predicts Prices Will Fall and Competition will Decrease with Legalization The RAND corporation recently presented its findings on what would happen to the marijuana market if, say tomorrow, legislators collectively pulled their heads from their asses…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 21

Getting Drunk Will be Super Easy with Water-Flavored “Air”

Do you like getting drunk but hate the taste of alcohol. Are you a vodka/soda guy (or gal) too impatient to mix a simple adult beverage? When you’re drinking water, do you often wish you were drunk of your ass already, for crying out loud? If so, it’s possible that you’re an alcoholic. But never…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jul 20

Do You Bring a “Beater” Phone, Rather than Your Smartphone, When You Know You’re Going to Get Wasted?

CNN has a sort of ambivalent story up right now about the “myth” of the “drunk phone.” Following up on an earlier report by AdAge that a new trend has people bringing “beater” phones out with them when they know they plan on getting drunk (and want to avoid their expensive smartphone being smashed or…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jul 20

This Modern Wooden Beach House Was Built for Its Beautiful Views

Built almost entirely from sourced timber, the Tutukaka Beach House is a stunning, modern home, located about 2 1/2 hours outside of Aukland on the northwest coast of New Zealand’s Northland Island. Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects, the firm behind Tutukaka, designed the home on central east/west plan, so as to take advantage of the spectacular…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jul 20

New evidence shows that Neanderthals understood the medicinal value of certain foods

Our ideas about Neanderthals are steadily changing. We’ve learned that they had the capacity for language, looked after their sick, buried their dead, and decorated their bodies. But we still don’t know much about their eating habits. Anthropologists have suspected that they predominately ate meat — but a recent analysis reveals that their diet was…

io9 George Dvorsky Jul 20

The-Drum: /GON

I’ve been staring at clouds and rain all day, trying to convince myself it is, in fact, the middle of July. Somewhere around 4:30p, I just gave up and began feeding myself all the dreary music I could handle. Nothing has better sountracked my day than The-Drum’s “/GON.” Like a handful of other new artists…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jul 20

You’d Want This Axe If Zombies Attacked

In the event everyone starts turning into zombies and eating each other’s faces off (looking at you, Florida), this Tactical Tomahawk axe is the kinda tool you’d want to have. But really, if you’re doing some kind of excavation or rescue work, the SOG F01T Tactical Tomahawk ($27) could be totally useful. The 15.75-inch weapon’s…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jul 20

Matt Damon and Sharlto Copley reveal the secrets behind Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium

Why is Matt Damon bald? Why is Sharlto Copley’s character so insane? Why does everyone on the awesome high tech space station for rich people still use paper 150 years into the future? We rounded up the cast of Neill Blomkamp’s new class warfare action movie Elysium and got answers, on camera. Matt Damon: Why…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 20

High-Speed Ticker Board, Mercury Spacecraft Lamp, and More

At the end of a long week, we’ve got lots of lovely things to show off. From a space-inspired lamp to the stairs in a renovated Apple store, these are the most beautiful items of the week. This Incredible High-Speed Ticker Board Mimics Your Motion Just a few avenues over from New York’s Penn Station…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jul 20

Brain Shift Radio Controls Mood with Music—Awesome or Creepy?

In Philip K. Dick’s book Do Android’s Dream of Electric Sheep? (a.k.a. Blade Runner), the lead character Rick Deckard and his wife alter their mental states with devices called Mood Organs. Rising in the morning, Deckard dials in a “businesslike professional attitude,” while his vengeful wife selects no fewer than six hours of “self-accusatory depression.”…

Tech News Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey - Evolver.fm Jul 20

What secrets lie within the Caves of Mars?

Back in 1954, Jerome Bixby wrote a fantastic story called “The Holes Around Mars”. It was all about the discovery of series of weird holes discovered in the surface of Mars, holes seemingly punched through rocks and hills and mountains. We wouldn’t dream of spoiling the ending (you can read it here.) But it’s become…

io9 Ron Miller Jul 20

How will Arrow escape the curse of superhero TV shows?

Television is littered with failed superhero TV shows. If you don’t count Person of Interest, then only the only successful superhero shows of the past decade are Smallville and (for a while) Heroes. So how will Arrow, the new DC Comics adaptation launching on the CW this fall, avoid the curse of the superhero show?…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 20

It Seems that Cars Can Explode In Real Life Just Like In the Movies

Usually, cars don’t explode in a huge ball of fire, as Michael Bay wants you to believe. Unless you are at the Kashira highway in Moscow, Russia, just like these guys. It seems that the driver tried to extinguish the flames before they reached the gas tank. The sound is not THX, but the flame…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 20

Baffling Science Hoaxes: Why Did We Believe in the Tongue Map?

Everyone reading this has got a tongue. Everyone reading this has, probably, also heard the old adage about how different parts of the tongue taste different things. For decades, this misconception stayed alive. It was still being taught when I was in grade school. My question is; why? We sometimes laugh at the obviously wrong…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jul 20

The Craziest Jeans Company Is Making Camo Denim, Bumpy Denim, Jeans that Marbleize and More

The most daring denim company in the world, Naked and Famous, is back at it again. Not satisfied with just making jeans glow in the dark or scratch-n-sniff> or pans that feel like silk and hemp and gauze, Naked and Famous is making jeans with camo, jeans that marbleize, corduroys that act like denim, more…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 20

Brewster, Checkmark, and More

In this week’s installment of the best iPhone apps, we’re getting you organized. There’s a reminders app, a new social contacts app, and much more to help you get things done. Checkmark: It’s so easy to forget those mundane things you have to do every day—pick up the laundry, wash the car, drop off a…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jul 20

Over, Polymer, and More

This week’s best iPad apps bring a couple of fun, whimsical titles. Whether it’s a puzzle game or a way to teach kids to count, there’s good stuff coming your way. Little Digits: Kids want to touch everything, and with this app not only is that OK, it’s encouraged. It teaches children to count by…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jul 20

Fingerprints Magically Fade Away On 3M’s New Screen Protectors

Microsoft: Sorry About “Big Boobs”

Ikea’s Augmented-Reality Catalog Might Be the Company’s Best-Made Product Yet

The Stoner Channel: Morgan Freeman on Weed, Wildebeests on Alligators, and Pink Floyd on KQED

Getting Drunk Will be Super Easy with Water-Flavored “Air”

Do You Bring a “Beater” Phone, Rather than Your Smartphone, When You Know You’re Going to Get Wasted?

This Modern Wooden Beach House Was Built for Its Beautiful Views

New evidence shows that Neanderthals understood the medicinal value of certain foods

The-Drum: /GON

You’d Want This Axe If Zombies Attacked

Matt Damon and Sharlto Copley reveal the secrets behind Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium

High-Speed Ticker Board, Mercury Spacecraft Lamp, and More

Brain Shift Radio Controls Mood with Music—Awesome or Creepy?

What secrets lie within the Caves of Mars?

How will Arrow escape the curse of superhero TV shows?

It Seems that Cars Can Explode In Real Life Just Like In the Movies

Baffling Science Hoaxes: Why Did We Believe in the Tongue Map?

The Craziest Jeans Company Is Making Camo Denim, Bumpy Denim, Jeans that Marbleize and More

Brewster, Checkmark, and More

Over, Polymer, and More

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