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Marshall Made the Coolest Dorm Room Fridge Ever

If you currently or have ever lived in a dorm, you’ve lived off of Mountain Dew and old burritos kept in a little dorm refrigerator. Except yours probably looked boring and wasn’t the spittin’ image of an awesome Marshall guitar amp. The Marshall Fridge—$300 and ships October 1st, 2012—is a standard 4.4 cubic foot fridge,…

Gadgets Kyle Wagner Mar 22 '12

Celebs Read Their Own Hate Tweets on Jimmy Kimmel

Twitter just turned six on Wednesday! How better to celebrate the medium than by exploring its greatest use: hurling misspelled insults behind a veil of anonymity. But what about the victims? Watch Will Ferrell, Louis CK, and others read your mean Tweets aloud. How often do famous, funny, beautiful, rich people read things sent to…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 22 '12

How Battleship Changed the Way Our Navy will Fight Alien Sea Monsters, FOREVER

Battleship doesn’t just show the U.S. Navy locked in combat with alien monsters — it’s also changed the way the Navy would respond to an alien invasion in real life. In our interview with Peter Berg and actress Brooklyn Decker the director reveals a few of the battles he won while arguing with his Naval…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 22 '12

This App Is A Panic Button for Animal and People Emergencies

You’re visiting a friend out of state with your cockapoo Curly, and your pound-size chocolate bar has gone missing. Curly has a chocolate mustache and is not looking altogether well. Panic! It’s OK, go ahead. Because a new app called Press Panic provides an emergency-vet-finding, one-button app. Dr. John Porter of Kirkman Road Veterinary Clinic…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Mar 22 '12

The 7 Worst Smartphone Injustices and How to Fight Them

For all the progress and convenience smartphones pack into a pocketable frame, they’re not without their extreme inconveniences. Our friends at Laptop Mag have outlined the worst—and what you can do about them: “Injustice in the end produces independence,” Voltaire wrote. For their part, smartphone users must endure a litany of injustices, ranging from endless…

Tech News Avram Piltch - LAPTOP MAGAZINE Mar 22 '12

Read True Tales of Dead Phone Battery Drama and Vote for the Winner of a DROID RAZR MAXX

Thanks to everyone who sent in their uncharged phone horror stories. They were truly harrowing to go through, and here are the best in show. Read through, and vote for your favorite. The winner will receive a DROID RAZR MAXX by Motorola, the smartphone that boasts over 21 hours of talk time on a single…

Tech News Sponsored post Mar 22 '12

This Slingshot Can Kill Humans—With Style

The $100 Montie Gear Y-Fork Slingshot—designed by Nichols Pennington—is made of aluminum, with a paracord-wrapped handle and a Thera-Band Gold flat band with a leather pouch. It can throw 0.5-inch ball bearings or .44 cal lead ball. If you buy this, be sure to be careful with it. It’s certainly not a toy and you…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz Mar 22 '12

Science Brings Us One Step Closer to Implanting False Memories

Researchers say they’ve succeeded in giving mice a “hybrid” memory that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. They forced the mice to recall memories while they were already busy forming new ones, by reactivating specific neurons in their brains. This could even represent a step towards implanting full-blown false memories. And this could mean…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 22 '12

Meet a villain who makes Batman run away, in this preview of DC Comics’ I, Vampire

In author Joshua Hale Fialkov’s rad horror comic I, Vampire, bloodsuckers both good and bad regularly run afoul of the DC Universe’s superheroes. For example, the series’ heroic vampire Andrew Bennett recently had a run-in with Batman, and the upcoming story arc — “Rise of the Vampires” — guest-stars the magic users of Justice League…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 22 '12

Can You Recognize These Products Even Without Their Branding?

Some products are so ingrained into the mushy greyness of our brains that we can spot their branding on just the shape of the product alone. It’s kinda sick, isn’t it? Within half a second, you already knew that that packet above was Heinz ketchup. Why is that? Is it because we use it everyday?…

Tech News Casey Chan Mar 22 '12

Flying Bird Man Admits Flying Bird Man Is Fake

You’re looking at the Internet Bird Man, who captivated the web’s attention for dozens of hours and divided us between skeptics and the faithful. It was a hoax! It turns out he even made up his name. https://gizmodo.com/man-flies-like-a-bird-flapping-his-own-wings-update-6-5894904 Jarno Smeets—actually a Dutch CGI artist named Floris Kaayk—fessed up to the hoax on De Wereld Draait…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 22 '12

This Wireless Spy Tank is your Spy-On-Everyone-No-Matter-Where-They-Go Deal of the Day

I’ve always wanted a robot. One that can maneuver over complex terrain, shoot video, and record audio. Maybe dismantle a bomb. And with minimal assembly required. By minimal, I mean I don’t want to have to do anything more than unwrap it. The building part never struck me as much fun. Who wants to toil…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Mar 22 '12

Street Artist Shepard Fairey Convinces Hollywood to make another 1984 movie

Break out your overalls — there’s a new adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 on the horizon. The world’s most famous dystopian narrative is coming back to the big screen. Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s production company (Imagine Entertainment) is teaming up with LBI Entertainment to bring back the Ministry of Truth. But the real mastermind…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 22 '12

Stunning Rivers of Lava Making an Ocean of Lava

I get transfixed watching rivers of lava flow, either fast and fluid, or growing in slow motion, like the living rocks at 1 minute and 53 seconds in this video. And that terrifying crackling. A surge of lava spews out of a rupture in the lava tube system and is heading down steep cliffs, or…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 22 '12

Netflix Updates iPad App for HD!—But Just the Buttons

Hooray! Netflix has updated their iPad app for HD. That’s what they say in the update… but it’s just the buttons! Boo! the video is still in low resolution, not Full HD, so there will be no difference in the new iPad. Which is weird, because Netflix streams in 1080p to Roku and Xbox 360.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 22 '12

The Secret Nuclear Drone Tech Our Government Hid

Sandia National Laboratories cooks up some of the craziest new technologies you’ll ever see—and some you’ll never see. That’s the fate of a secret method for driving drones with nuclear power, abandoned by its creators. https://gizmodo.com/this-bullet-from-the-future-flies-itself-5880537 The tech was uncovered in a document acquired by the Federation of American Scientists, which outlines a study Sandia…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 22 '12

Hypervelocity planets are zooming out of our galaxy at warp speed

The wildest ride in the galaxy is found on hypervelocity planets. These worlds got too close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and have been flung away at a twentieth of the speed of light. While rogue planets are common enough, these hypervelocity planets represent a much rarer case and…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Mar 22 '12

Safe, Smart, and… Fun? The Surprising Science of ATMs

Using an automated teller machine is inherently risky. You stand there, your back turned, signaling to everyone around that you’re about to have a wad of twenties in your pocket. If you’re lucky, there’s a security guard on duty. But usually it’s just you and whoever is lurking in that little convex mirror. ATMs themselves…

Tech News Rachel Swaby Mar 22 '12

Syfy still has no plans to make Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome into a TV show

You’ve seen the slick-as-hell trailer for Battlestar Galactica’s Cylon War prequel Blood and Chrome. But even though the trailer has revived the world’s fervor for frakking toasters, it didn’t change Syfy’s postion on demoting Blood And Chrome to the status of webseries. But there’s a silver lining! https://gizmodo.com/totally-badass-trailer-for-battlestar-galacticas-cylon-5895080 According to the President of Syfy’s original…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 22 '12

Five Reasons Why the Stupid 4.6-Inch iPhone Rumor Won’t Happen

No—stop it. Close that tab. Stop reading that. The Apple rumor de jour—a 4.6-inch iPhone 5—is the same reheated broth some filthy cook serves yearly. It wasn’t true last year, or the year before. Here’s why it’s still BS. Reuters, usually a staid, reliable entity when it comes to not spreading gleeful crap rumors, dove…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 22 '12

Marshall Made the Coolest Dorm Room Fridge Ever

Celebs Read Their Own Hate Tweets on Jimmy Kimmel

How Battleship Changed the Way Our Navy will Fight Alien Sea Monsters, FOREVER

This App Is A Panic Button for Animal and People Emergencies

The 7 Worst Smartphone Injustices and How to Fight Them

Read True Tales of Dead Phone Battery Drama and Vote for the Winner of a DROID RAZR MAXX

This Slingshot Can Kill Humans—With Style

Science Brings Us One Step Closer to Implanting False Memories

Meet a villain who makes Batman run away, in this preview of DC Comics’ I, Vampire

Can You Recognize These Products Even Without Their Branding?

Flying Bird Man Admits Flying Bird Man Is Fake

This Wireless Spy Tank is your Spy-On-Everyone-No-Matter-Where-They-Go Deal of the Day

Street Artist Shepard Fairey Convinces Hollywood to make another 1984 movie

Stunning Rivers of Lava Making an Ocean of Lava

Netflix Updates iPad App for HD!—But Just the Buttons

The Secret Nuclear Drone Tech Our Government Hid

Hypervelocity planets are zooming out of our galaxy at warp speed

Safe, Smart, and… Fun? The Surprising Science of ATMs

Syfy still has no plans to make Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome into a TV show

Five Reasons Why the Stupid 4.6-Inch iPhone Rumor Won’t Happen

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