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Clik for iPhone and Android: Magically Control Any Web Browser from Your Phone

So you have a YouTube video on your phone but you want to watch it on a bigger screen. Do you open a web browser and find that video again? Guh. That would take too long. Instead, use Clik, an app that magically pushes YouTube videos from your phone on to any screen with a…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 16 '12

The End of Mac

The latest Mac OS X is now just OS X. The “Mac” is now gone. It’s a clear declaration of intentions. The end of Macintosh—the desktop metaphor that reigned supreme for more than two decades—is near. https://gizmodo.com/os-x-10-8-mountain-lion-more-iphone-like-than-ever-5885628 Not the MacBooks and the iMacs, no, but what defines them. Their software soul. Two more years and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 16 '12

How Your Dog Could Help Create Groundbreaking Treatments for Cancer

If your beloved dog gets cancer, it could be a heartbreaking and scary event — but your dog’s misfortune could help save a lot of people’s lives down the road. A lot of the cutting edge of cancer research involves studying canine tumors and treating canine cancer aggressively — and humans could benefit quite a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 16 '12

Those nutty dudes from Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! are making an apocalyptic TV show

You may know Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim as the inscrutable masterminds behind Adult Swim’s Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, a surrealist comedy program that dove butt-first into the oubliette that is public access television. And this spring, the duo releases Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie, a gleefully deranged cinematic nugget about…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Feb 16 '12

Electric cars could cause worse pollution than your gas guzzler

The electric (or even hybrid) car has been heralded as a way to help limit the amount of aerial pollution hitting the skies and our lungs, but a new study out of China has shown that they’re actually even worse than regular gas guzzlers. Top image: Asterix611 on Flickr The study in specific looked at…

io9 Tim Barribeau Feb 16 '12

Girl Falls on Her Face While Texting (During Live News Broadcast)

That thing you’re worried is going to happen to you ever single time you walk down the sidewalk while texting? It just happened. To someone else! Laugh away. We’re loath to make light of a woman falling down so severely that she has trouble getting up and attracts the attention of an entire crowd, but,…

Tech News Sam Biddle Feb 16 '12

You Can Stream Hulu Plus on the Wii Now

Hulu Plus—home of the estimable Criterion Collection—is now available for streaming on the Wii. Hulu doesn’t have quite the streaming catalogue of Netflix, but it’s got a decent amount of current TV shows and movies, and of course those Criterion films. [Nintendo] https://gizmodo.com/the-entire-criterion-collection-is-coming-to-hulu-plus-5760958

Tech News Kyle Wagner Feb 16 '12

Man has heart attack while eating at The Heart Attack Grill

If you weigh over 350 pounds, you can eat at the Heart Attack Grill for free (according to the Las Vegas eatery’s slogan). But if you should keel over, gripping your chest in agony, while scarfing down a triple bypass burger (that’s what the monstrosity pictured up top is called), don’t expect any of the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 16 '12

Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism, Please Vaccinate Your Children

Yet another study has found no association between vaccines and autism. Mercury, the ingredient in vaccines suspected of causing learning disabilities, hasn’t been used to preserve the medicines since 2001. And since then, the incidence of autism has still increased. That’s what researchers found in a study published yesterday in the open access science journal…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Feb 16 '12

Upcoming Movie Sequels that Actually Have a Reason to Exist

Hollywood’s appetite for endless sequels shows no sign of slacking — Transformers 4 is coming! — and these films often feel like exercises in futility. Last week, we listed a ton of movie sequels in the pipeline that felt totally unnecessary. As in, nobody had walked out of the previous movie saying, “I can’t wait…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Feb 16 '12

Ways In Which Aspirin Is and Is Not Effective Birth Control for Women

Prominent Rick Santorum Super PAC booster and probably insane kabillionaire Foster Friess created a kerfuffle today by saying that women should just put aspirin between their legs for contraception. No really, he did! But rather than dismiss him as a dangerous crackpot with a reckless anti-woman agenda, let’s examine his claim at face value. The…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 16 '12

The Best Automatic Coffee Machine

Every time I’ve written that the coffeemaker on your kitchen counter is terrible, I was only partly trolling you. It’s true! Your cheap automatic coffee machine is ruining your coffee. But now there are a couple of new automagical machines you can easily buy in the US that are very, very good: Bonavita’s Automatic Coffee…

Reviews Matt Buchanan Feb 16 '12

Eleven tigers in a single photograph is a rare sight, indeed

Tigers are exceedingly rare. They’re also very solitary creatures. So why are there 11 of them gathered in this photograph? These aren’t your typical tigers. The cats you see here live in China’s Heilongjiang Northeast Tiger Forest Park, the largest Siberian tiger breeding base on Earth. When it was founded in the mid eighties, the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 16 '12

Become a Tron snowboarder with this full-body LED snowsuit

In the -25C° pitch-black cold of the French Alps, filmmaker Jacob Sutton captured William Hughes shredding through the night like some radioactive snowboarder. This otherworldly glow was achieved using a full-body LED suit designed by John Spatcher. Explains Sutton of this project: I was really drawn to the idea of a lone character made of…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 16 '12

You’ll Never Outgrow this Transforming Crib/Couch/Desk

You won’t be able to wear the same duds from toddler to teenager, but a company called Gro Furniture has created a reconfigurable crib that you can theoretically use from the day you’re born, until the day you die. It’s kind of like a giant-sized building toy, and by swapping various components what starts as…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 16 '12

Everything That’s Wrong with Patent and Copyright Laws in One Brilliant Video (Updated)

Patent trolls are the worst. Oh wait, no, out-of-control copyright crusaders, they’re the worst. In fact, the whole intellectual property system needs a total overhaul. But why? How did it come to this? Kirby Ferguson’s sublime Everything Is a Remix series comes to a conclusion with this really smart explanation of how the spirit of…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Feb 16 '12

Darpa’s Magic Plan: ‘Battlefield Illusions’ to Mess With Enemy Minds

Arthur C. Clarke once famously quipped that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” So perhaps it was inevitable that the Pentagon’s extreme technology arm would eventually start acting like magicians – and try to create illusions on the front lines. Top image: Inflatable army truck, via Buzz Museum In its new budget, unveiled…

io9 Noah Shachtman - Danger Room Feb 16 '12

What if birds had shattered CDs instead of feathers?

The last time you held a compact disc, you probably noticed the way that waves of light, diffracted from the CD’s surface, can give rise to transient shifts in color that draw from the entire visible spectrum. But odds are you’ve never seen the spectroscopic properties of CDs presented quite like this. Featured here is…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 16 '12

This 48″ Air Powered Hockey Table Is Your Puck Smashing Deal of the Day

The one major sport I never got into is hockey. Largely because I never played it, having grown up in sunny smoggy LA and all. But it totally seems like a fine sport! It’s also well air-conditioned! But my biggest beef with hockey is that I can never figure out who the best player on…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Feb 16 '12

These Macs Reportedly Can’t Run OS X Mountain Lion

OS X Mountain Lion looks like it’s going to add a bunch of neat stuff for Mac users. But some of you are going to be left out in the cold. Here’s the list of Macs that Cult of Mac claims can run OS X Lion, but not Mountain Lion: • Any Intel Core 2…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Feb 16 '12

Clik for iPhone and Android: Magically Control Any Web Browser from Your Phone

The End of Mac

How Your Dog Could Help Create Groundbreaking Treatments for Cancer

Those nutty dudes from Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! are making an apocalyptic TV show

Electric cars could cause worse pollution than your gas guzzler

Girl Falls on Her Face While Texting (During Live News Broadcast)

You Can Stream Hulu Plus on the Wii Now

Man has heart attack while eating at The Heart Attack Grill

Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism, Please Vaccinate Your Children

Upcoming Movie Sequels that Actually Have a Reason to Exist

Ways In Which Aspirin Is and Is Not Effective Birth Control for Women

The Best Automatic Coffee Machine

Eleven tigers in a single photograph is a rare sight, indeed

Become a Tron snowboarder with this full-body LED snowsuit

You’ll Never Outgrow this Transforming Crib/Couch/Desk

Everything That’s Wrong with Patent and Copyright Laws in One Brilliant Video (Updated)

Darpa’s Magic Plan: ‘Battlefield Illusions’ to Mess With Enemy Minds

What if birds had shattered CDs instead of feathers?

This 48″ Air Powered Hockey Table Is Your Puck Smashing Deal of the Day

These Macs Reportedly Can’t Run OS X Mountain Lion

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