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Unbelievable New Camera Technology Erases People in the Background of Your Pictures

We’ve all been there. You’re setting up a shot that perfectly frames your friend against the background but as you snap your picture the people in the background start moving around and mess it all up. The picture is ruined, your friend looks like a bobbing ocean buoy amongst a sea of people and you…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 14 '12

Bitcoin Suffers Another Setback

Thanks to the exit of e-wallet service Paxum, and a $100,000 fraud incident, trading has been suspended at TradeHill, a Bitcoin exchange site that mostly played second-fiddle to the more prominent Mt. Gox. In a blog post, the Chile-based company outlines their reasons for halting trading and returning funds to customers, basically saying that in…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 14 '12

Watch the first 7 minutes of NBC’s new alternate reality drama Awake, right now

Check out the first seven minutes for the TV show we’ve been waiting all year for, NBC’s Awake. Jason Isaacs stars as a detective who’s stuck in two realities that diverged after he had a car accident with his wife and son. In one reality his wife survived and his son died, but in the…

Television Meredith Woerner Feb 14 '12

A Sensitive Pillow That Detects Your Misery and Comforts You

The thing that sucks about sadness is that, sorry, no one is ever going to be there for you. Except this pillow. It’s not a person, but it’s smart like one, and it bursts into song when you need it most. The Sleepy Weepy Pillow NEEDS to exist because sad people are really depressing, and…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Feb 14 '12

10 Worst Mistakes That Authors of Alternate History Make

The past is another country — but an alternate history is a whole new world. The best alternate histories can make you see the real history of our world in a whole new way, and make you realize that events that seem like they were inevitable… may not have been. But an alternate history novel…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Feb 14 '12

The World’s Smallest Chameleon Fits on a Fingertip

Chameleons are famous for changing color in order to blend in with their surroundings. This little guy doesn’t really need to, though; at just an inch long he’s the smallest chameleon in the world. Discovered on a small islet just off Madagascar, this tiny reptile is one of a new species called Brookesia micra, reports…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 14 '12

Feds Want to Warrantlessly Track Phones Bought with Fake Names

If the DOJ gets its way, it won’t need a warrant to monitor people who buy cell phones and other electronic services using a fake name, according to a story in today’s Wall Street Journal. The DOJ is arguing that because a California man used a fake name when he bought a broadband card, service…

Privacy & Security Mat Honan Feb 14 '12

Raw Beef Bouquet: How to Land a Meat-Lover Lover

A box of chocolates? Yeah, that might be fine for omnivores, but what about that special carnivorous someone? How’s about a dozen beef sirloin roses from this British butcher? Nothing says “Let’s get carnal!” like a bouquet of carnage. [Hungree via Design You Trust]

Tech News Brent Rose Feb 14 '12

The Coolest Action Figures You Can’t Buy Yet

Toy Fair is full of lame jigsaw puzzles, toy horses, and other antique things nobody cares about anymore. But! There’s also plenty of unreleased Star Wars, Spider Man, and other stuff that makes us feel like excited kids again. Lightsabers! Of all the figurines and goofy weapons we put our paws on, the new versions…

Tech News Sam Biddle Feb 14 '12

There’s even more sexy Abe in the international trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Yesterday we saw the first-ever trailer for Timur Bekmambetov’s hyper-stylized supernatural flick Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. If you enjoyed masculine Abe chopping trees in slow motion with his axe, then you’re going to love this new trailer with double the carnage and hot-dead-president action! Dance for us rail-splitter, dance! Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter will hit…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Feb 14 '12

The Next-Generation MacBook Pro 2012

Have no doubt about this: Apple is revamping their MacBook Pro line in 2012 in a radical way—not merely evolutionary. We know this not because of the usual rumors, but because there is no way this will not happen. This is what we expect. A radical but logical change When Steve Jobs said that the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 14 '12

Watch Live As San Francisco’s Bizarre Emergency Warning System Plays Tony Bennett (Updated)

San Francisco is a ridiculous place where no one will tell you when you have a bad idea. Like today, when its emergency broadcast system is going to belt out I Left My Heart in San Francisco instead of the standard weekly warning. The warning siren, which plays every Tuesday at noon in San Francisco,…

Tech News Mat Honan Feb 14 '12

Moebius, angry trucks, and the B.P.R.D. invade comic books on Wednesday

Happy Valentine’s Day, kiddos! For those of you who hate this 24-hour celebration of doilies and copulation, rejoice in the fact that absolutely nothing Valentine-themed is hitting the comic book stands tomorrow! Yay! Let’s see what’s in store for your hungry eyes. First Issues A lot of stuff for horror fans this week. There’s BPRD:…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Feb 14 '12

Drinking Vodka Makes You Talk More Better

If you’ve been looking for an excuse to drink all morning, I just found you one: according to a recent study, drinking vodka improves word association and verbal creativity. Somebody pass the bottle. Science News reports that people who are intoxicated, though not legally drunk, have more intuitive insights into difficult word-association problems. The research,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 14 '12

Behold, the Aztec mecha and Mayan cyborgs of our Mesoamerican future

The works of Mexico City artist Raul Cruz envision a far-off future where Aztec and Mayan aesthetics mesh with yet-to-be-invented technologies. In his Mexican futurist illustrations, the Heavy Metal artist depicts mecha guarding Teotihuacan, temples orbiting Earth, and massive robots carved out of stone. Cruz has been illustrating for three decades, so he’s amassed an…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 14 '12

Scandalous: The First On-Screen Kiss

At one time kissing in public was considered a scandalous act, which is probably why Thomas Edison, who was just as much a showman as he was an inventor, was responsible for capturing the first on-screen kiss way back in 1896. https://gizmodo.com/celebrate-thomas-edisons-165th-birthday-with-a-crash-co-5884270 Edison knew that a new technology wouldn’t catch on and sell if no…

Movies Andrew Liszewski Feb 14 '12

The Best Place to Get a Last-Minute Internet Valentine’s Date (A Real-Time Experiment)

You don’t have a Valentine’s Day date. It’s ok, neither do I. But I am going to put myself out there for your benefit and figure out which social network will give you the best chance to beg a last minute Valentine’s Day date. Starting… now. At exactly 11:30 EST, we’re going to activate comments…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Feb 14 '12

Babies can understand what you’re saying at just 6 months old

Babies are easy to underestimate. This is understandable; after all, when most of us interact with an infant, we see a clumsy, messy creature — one more adept at stringing together strange gurgling noises than distinct consonants and vowels. And yet, evidence continues to accumulate that just because an infant can’t speak, doesn’t mean it…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 14 '12

Samsung Galaxy Note: Truly, Freakishly Large

For a while Samsung couldn’t decide whether to call its Galaxy Note tablet or a phone. Considering that its 5.3-inch screen splits the difference between an iPhone and a Galaxy Tab 7, that’s not surprising. But why get caught up on labels? Let’s just call the Galaxy Note what it is: A giant hulking mammoth…

Tech News Brent Rose Feb 14 '12

Transformers 4 is coming. Also, Michael Bay won’t stop directing Transformers movies until the heat death of the universe.

Michael Bay is rebooting his own franchise…that is only six years old. In two summers, Bay will release Transformers 4, thus continuing the Bayhem. This is not entirely surprising, given that the vremp-vremp-vremp movies print their own money. On the plus side, maybe this “reboot” means they’ll kill off Shia LaBeouf’s character. In a recent…

Movies Meredith Woerner Feb 14 '12

Unbelievable New Camera Technology Erases People in the Background of Your Pictures

Bitcoin Suffers Another Setback

Watch the first 7 minutes of NBC’s new alternate reality drama Awake, right now

A Sensitive Pillow That Detects Your Misery and Comforts You

10 Worst Mistakes That Authors of Alternate History Make

The World’s Smallest Chameleon Fits on a Fingertip

Feds Want to Warrantlessly Track Phones Bought with Fake Names

Raw Beef Bouquet: How to Land a Meat-Lover Lover

The Coolest Action Figures You Can’t Buy Yet

There’s even more sexy Abe in the international trailer for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

The Next-Generation MacBook Pro 2012

Watch Live As San Francisco’s Bizarre Emergency Warning System Plays Tony Bennett (Updated)

Moebius, angry trucks, and the B.P.R.D. invade comic books on Wednesday

Drinking Vodka Makes You Talk More Better

Behold, the Aztec mecha and Mayan cyborgs of our Mesoamerican future

Scandalous: The First On-Screen Kiss

The Best Place to Get a Last-Minute Internet Valentine’s Date (A Real-Time Experiment)

Babies can understand what you’re saying at just 6 months old

Samsung Galaxy Note: Truly, Freakishly Large

Transformers 4 is coming. Also, Michael Bay won’t stop directing Transformers movies until the heat death of the universe.

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