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Disney moving forward with yet another Snow White film — this one with Saoirse Ronan and kung-fu

In a world that’s already jammed with Once Upon a Time, Mirror, Mirror, and Snow White and the Huntsman, is there room for another Snow White in the world? Disney is hoping there is, although they’re willing to sweeten the pot with Hanna star Saoirse Ronan and martial arts. Disney has actually had Order of…

Movies Lauren Davis Feb 11 '12

Indiana Jones becomes a Pony and Dr. Doom meets Justin Timberlake!

This week we take a look at a pretty amazing episode of the Regular Show, check out parodies of Glee and Dolphin Tale on Mad, and see the finale of the Obi-Wan bounty hunter story arc on Clone Wars. Minor spoilers ahead! Star Wars: The Clone Wars – “Crisis on Naboo” The winners of last…

io9 Keith Veronese Feb 11 '12

Safety First: Air Pistol Pressure Gauge Located In The Worst Possible Place

Mark W. Shead has chosen the perfect lead photo for his article on software design. Feinwerkbau’s Piccolo air-powered pistol which requires you to stare at the business end of the barrel to read the pressure gauge. I’m sure the pistol has plenty of safety features to ensure it doesn’t accidentally go off. But come on,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 11 '12

A Surprisingly Dexterous Prosthetic Arm Made Entirely From Lego

It’s got nothing on Dean Kamen’s Luke arm, but YouTube user sumthinelse5790’s utterly brilliant Lego prosthetic arm uses electric motors and extensive pneumatics to almost fully recreate the full range of motion of a real human arm, hand, and fingers. https://gizmodo.com/watch-dean-kamens-prosthetic-luke-arm-be-awesome-at-the-5670842 While it certainly comes in a far cry cheaper than Kamen’s creation, the Lego…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 11 '12

Future Soldiers Could Go to War Wearing Fish-Scale Armor

Piranha have a well-earned reputation for being able and willing to eat just about anything in their path. One of the few exceptions is the Arapaima, a six-foot long, 300-pound Amazonian predator with bony scales capable of withstanding the toothy onslaught. Researchers are now working to adapt the Arapaima’s defenses to protect our own squishy…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Feb 11 '12

Instagram Now Automatically Beautifies Your Snapshots

Rejoice iPhone photogs, the newest version of Instagram is now available! The immensely popular app has just updated to version 2.1 and boasts some impressive new features. Among them, 2.1 offers a UI redesigned for simplicity with an improved header and menu buttons, a new “Sierra” filter, and Lux—an automatic process that brightens and sharpens…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Feb 11 '12

Facebook Already Knows What You’ll Be Listening to the Next Time You Get Dumped

Facebook knows when you’ve met someone and it knows when you break up. We tell Facebook these things. For some, a relationship doesn’t officially start until it’s reflected in the Relationship field on Facebook, and it’s not really over until Facebook says it is. The data team at Facebook can see this data for hundreds…

Social Media Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm Feb 10 '12

Delta Spirit: California

I am from California. Now I live in New York. It’s great, but I still miss California. A lot. As such, songs like Delta Spirit’s latest single make me a little homesick. “California” is the first single from their upcoming self-titled album, and not wanting to be pegged as an “Americana” band, the San Diego…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 10 '12

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video

You know how it is: you walk into the bar with all of your bros, and all of a sudden girls are buying you shots, touching you in appropriately, and flirting to the point of suffocation. Oh, wait, right; it’s usually the other way around. Gender role reversal may be as old as the hills,…

Tech News Splitsider Feb 10 '12

A Chipotle Burrito Is Not an iPhone

Disgusting food advocate Matthew Yglesias has a story in Slate that makes the case that “in many ways, the Chipotle burrito is very similar to the iPhone.” Which would be true, if iPhones were completely disgusting. Now, I will forgive Yglesias, because he does not live in San Francisco, and so perhaps he has never…

Tech News Mat Honan Feb 10 '12

12 Wind-Slipping Designs from the Father of Streamlining

Boat-planes, trains, flying cars, or school desks—you name it and Norman Bel Geddes could make it sleeker. He helped bring the Streamline style—one that balances aesthetics with aerodynamics—to the mainstream. Were Steve Jobs alive in the 1930’s, he would have been all over this. Our friends at Oobject have 12 of his finest works. Be…

Tech News David Galbraith - Oobject.com Feb 10 '12

Blow the Scent of Failure From Your Life With a Big Wooden Fan

Just as the spice must flow, the air must circulate. If the air doesn’t move in your apartment, you’ll always be steeping in the malodorous scent of your constant debauchery and the SHAME of your errors. That’s why the BIG FAN exists. https://gizmodo.com/i-lost-3-laptops-in-4-months-and-this-post-is-my-penanc-5883745 Unlike the foul scent in your Washington Heights apartment, and your horrible,…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Feb 10 '12

Ocean’s 11 Just Happened in Real Life

$500,000 of jewelry is missing from a Chicago store after thieves drilled their way from a sushi restaurant into a jewelry store next door, evaded a state-of-the-art security system, and cracked a supposedly theft-proof safe. The burglars just cut the bottom of the the safe door off making the bottom shelves available. Then containers holding…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Feb 10 '12

Carmen Electra meets a mutant carnivore in 2 Headed Shark Attack

It’s been a while since we’ve had a good schlocky direct-to-video (or direct to Syfy) feature like Sharktopus — so this new trailer for 2 Headed Shark Attack is quite possibly cause for rejoicing. This time around, Carmen Electra is the female star who’s putting a nice little heart-shaped period at the end of her…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders Feb 10 '12

A warrior angel has a hard time picking his battles, in Javier Grillo-Marxuach’s Ramiel

Javier Grillo-Marxuach originally created The Middleman as a comic book before turning into a beloved television series — so when he launches another new comic, it’s best to jump in on the ground floor. This time around, Grillo-Marxuach is bringing us Ramiel: Wrath of God, about an angel with a crisis of conscience. Ramiel is…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Feb 10 '12

La Jetée: The Inspiraton for 12 Monkeys (and Probably The Terminator)

Who would ever figure that a 28 minute film, comprised entirely of black and white still shots and voiceover narration, would go on to serve as the foundation for a major hollywood production? In the case of Chris Marker’s 1962 work La Jetée, it most likely inspired two. La Jetée is, at its core, a…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 10 '12

Thank Goodness, Supernatural Love Triangles Where The Control Freaks Don’t Win

People always accuse The Vampire Diaries of being a Twilight clone — and if you only saw the first few episodes, there might be some justice to that accusation. But anybody who’s been watching TVD regularly knows it’s grown way, way beyond its Twi-tacular cousin. And last night’s episode revealed one vitally important difference: when…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 10 '12

Upgrading Your AT&T Phone Is About to Cost You Twice as Much

Not content with increasing the price of its data plans, AT&T apparently is planning to double the cost of upgrading your phone to $36 come this Sunday. As you can see from the leaked memo above, the carrier needs nearly $40 from customers who have renewed their contracts and are receiving a new mobile. AT&T…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Feb 10 '12

This Touchscreen Van Gogh’s Starry Night Is So Stunningly Beautiful It Should Be Made Into an App

Petros Vrellis has turned Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night into an animation that changes when the user touches it. The effect is so beautiful and mesmerizing that I’m now craving an app that would let me do the same. Go to 1:51 to see the interactive part. [Pursuitist]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 10 '12

Suffering Scifi Duos Bond over their Adorable Shared Pain

Life isn’t easy if you’re a genetic experiment. Or an expendable minion, a powerful being wedged into an itty-bitty living space, or a recently downgraded scientific entity. Fortunately, it’s a little easier to bear the pain if you’ve got someone in a similar situation to share the load. Chris Gerringer created this sweet series featuring…

io9 Lauren Davis Feb 10 '12

Disney moving forward with yet another Snow White film — this one with Saoirse Ronan and kung-fu

Indiana Jones becomes a Pony and Dr. Doom meets Justin Timberlake!

Safety First: Air Pistol Pressure Gauge Located In The Worst Possible Place

A Surprisingly Dexterous Prosthetic Arm Made Entirely From Lego

Future Soldiers Could Go to War Wearing Fish-Scale Armor

Instagram Now Automatically Beautifies Your Snapshots

Facebook Already Knows What You’ll Be Listening to the Next Time You Get Dumped

Delta Spirit: California

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video

A Chipotle Burrito Is Not an iPhone

12 Wind-Slipping Designs from the Father of Streamlining

Blow the Scent of Failure From Your Life With a Big Wooden Fan

Ocean’s 11 Just Happened in Real Life

Carmen Electra meets a mutant carnivore in 2 Headed Shark Attack

A warrior angel has a hard time picking his battles, in Javier Grillo-Marxuach’s Ramiel

La Jetée: The Inspiraton for 12 Monkeys (and Probably The Terminator)

Thank Goodness, Supernatural Love Triangles Where The Control Freaks Don’t Win

Upgrading Your AT&T Phone Is About to Cost You Twice as Much

This Touchscreen Van Gogh’s Starry Night Is So Stunningly Beautiful It Should Be Made Into an App

Suffering Scifi Duos Bond over their Adorable Shared Pain

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