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This Cheap Focus Rig Will Vastly Improve Your Boring Home Videos

Want to add a little drama the next time your baby does something YouTube-worthy? Coupled with any video-capable DSLR, this cheap follow focus can help you create Spielberg-like camera moves without a Dreamworks-sized budget. What’s a follow focus? It’s basically a tool that makes focus adjustments smoother and more precise while recording video. When shooting…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 23 '12

A Handcrafted Selection of Wonderful Quotes from RIM’s Recently Departed CEOs

After enduring a few years of shrinking relevance in the smartphone market, RIM punctuated its decline with the simultaneous departure of its conjoined CEOs, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. And while thist may signal a new direction for the company, it also likely means the stream of moronic soundbytes we’ve grown accustomed to will cease…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 23 '12

Strapping a Giant Space Engine to a Crane Looks Fun (Updated)

It’s important to test our space gear before it heads upwards—otherwise these things tend to break. But simulations can only go so far. This crazy looking rocket test gives scientists the full experience right here on Earth. The method above, developed by non-profit tech firm Draper Laboratory and NASA, is essentially tying a firecracker to…

Space & Spaceflight Sam Biddle Jan 23 '12

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Tech News Roberto Baldwin Jan 23 '12

This 350 Piece K’Nex Value Tub Is Your Creative-Building Deal of the Day

When I was a wee pup, my parents told me to always stay open minded. Be accepting, try everything and don’t ever discriminate. I think that was some sort of life lesson about people but I took it as COOL, I’LL EAT PIZZA, BURGERS AND ICE CREAM. Not really. I didn’t eat ice cream. I…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Jan 23 '12

Paleontologists have discovered the oldest dinosaur nursery on Earth

What’s the only thing better than dinosaurs? That would be baby dinosaurs. Paleontologists working in South Africa have made an incredible discovery in the region’s Golden Gate Highlands National Park: 10 nests thought to belong to the herbivorous dinosaur Massospondylus, a forbear of massive sauropods like Brachiosaurus. Many of the nests contain eggs. Others are…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 23 '12

Charles Stross’ latest novel is coming true over on The Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay is one of the most famous BitTorrent trackers online. Their political agenda and staff have changed a lot over the years, but they’ve continued to provide a terrific online resource for sharing media files. And now they’re taking the first step in the direction of a future that Charles Stross rendered vividly…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 23 '12

If Journey 2 is a hit, then who should star in Journey 3?

Journey to the Center of the Earth starred a ridiculously game Brendan Fraser, who mugged his way through a series of computer-generated situations in 3D. Now the second movie, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, stars an equally “why the hell not” Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Plus an “as long as I get paid” Michael Caine.…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jan 23 '12

How to Make Cheap Whiskey Taste Like Fancy Whiskey

You like whiskey. You looooove good whiskey. You can’t afford to drop hundreds of dollars on a high-end bottle. You stick with rotgut, right? Nope. There’s a new process of hyper-aging booze that apparently turns run-of-the-mill whiskey into dark and delicious firewater of the gods. The process is called TerraPure, and was dreamt up by…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jan 23 '12

What Sherlock Holmes Can Teach Us About the Power of Mindful Decisions

Sherlock Holmes isn’t what you’d call a traditional psychologist. In fact, he isn’t even real (despite the letters that to this day arrive at 221B Baker Street). But his insights into the human mind do more to teach us about how we do think and how we should think than many a more conventional source.…

Books & Comics Maria Konnikova - Scientific American Jan 23 '12

Single-Sided Headphones Let You Cheat Death By Keeping One Ear Open

Earbuds (or good ones, anyway) work like corks for your ears: sealing in music while blocking surrounding sounds. They’re fine when you’re safe at home, but not so much outside when you need to be aware of your environment. While you might think it’s crazy for a company to be selling one-sided headphones, there’s a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 23 '12

Can You Find the Hidden Mothers in These Old Photographs?

Back in the olden days of photography, big box cameras had slow as snails shutters so it was nearly impossible to get kids to sit still for the duration of the long exposure. If they moved, the pictures would be blurry! So what was the old photog solution? Why let’s have their mothers hide under…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 23 '12

How Return of the Jedi Should Have Ended reminds us that Anakin is still a piece of crap

Finally someone has trimmed the fat — and the bad ideas — out of the conclusion to the Star Wars saga! The latest short from the “How It Should Have Ended” crew is a perfect re-imagining of Star Wars Return of the Jedi.

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 23 '12

A Must-Watch Video On How Military Drones Are Changing War

This is a very good roundup on the effect of drones and the increased robotization of warfare from documentary series Fault Lines. If you have twenty minutes over lunch, it’s a must watch. Narrated by Josh Rushing, a 14-year ex-US Marine veteran and co-host of the program, it talks through the effect of America’s 7,000…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 23 '12

Senile Twitter Senator Grassley Hacked Hard (By Anonymous?)

Senator Chuck Grassley, previously documented for his inability to express a coherent thought via World Wide Web, just had that burden removed: his Twitter account has been hacked. For the first time ever, his tweets make sense! The hacker—who claims to be affiliated with Anonymous, but who ever truly knows—posted a flurry of missives after…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jan 23 '12

A massive solar eruption may lead to the strongest radiation storm in seven years

Last week, a swelling solar storm on the surface of the Sun sent a stream of charged particles hurtling toward Earth, making for beautiful northern lights in the planet’s extreme latitudes. But late last night, at 10:59 p.m. EST, the now massive tempest unleashed an eruption that scientists expect will be responsible for Earth’s largest…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 23 '12

Man Publishes Father-In-Law’s Entire Life One Picture At a Time

The late Nick DeWolf—a MIT engineer who designed more than 300 semiconductor and electronic systems—really loved photography. So much that he carried a camera for most of his life. Now his son-in-law is digitizing all his pictures and publishing them one by one. So far Steve Lundeen—his son-in-law—has 50,000 already, and counting. It’s a huge…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 23 '12

180,000 Tiny People Are Holding Up This Floor

Stand on the shoulders of giants? Pshaw, how about on the hands and heads of 180,000 very tiny people. This incredible art piece lets you do the latter and look down upon your new helpful friends. This work, entitled The Floor, is a stunning piece created by South Korean artist Do Ho Suh. It is…

Tech News Brent Rose Jan 23 '12

Please let Once Upon A Time’s “Sexy Stranger” be the Big Bad Let’s-Get-Naked Wolf

Last night our favorite cheesy fairy-tale series plundered the vast world of melodramatic make-ups and and break-ups. Even the men were crying! But when Once Upon A Time wasn’t exploring the sad backstory of Snow White and Prince Charming, we got a little extra time with Private Webster, whose fairytale identity has yet to be…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jan 23 '12

Read an exclusive preview of the next issue of 30 Days of Night!

Courtesy of IDW Publishing, here’s an exclusive sneak peek at the next issue of the 30 Days of Night ongoing series by writer Steve Niles and extremely idiosyncratic illustrator Sam Kieth (whose work we recently discussed on this very site). 30 Days of Night #4 hits stores this Wednesday, January 25 — here’s a plot…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 23 '12

This Cheap Focus Rig Will Vastly Improve Your Boring Home Videos

A Handcrafted Selection of Wonderful Quotes from RIM’s Recently Departed CEOs

Strapping a Giant Space Engine to a Crane Looks Fun (Updated)

Darth Maul Me Gallery

This 350 Piece K’Nex Value Tub Is Your Creative-Building Deal of the Day

Paleontologists have discovered the oldest dinosaur nursery on Earth

Charles Stross’ latest novel is coming true over on The Pirate Bay

If Journey 2 is a hit, then who should star in Journey 3?

How to Make Cheap Whiskey Taste Like Fancy Whiskey

What Sherlock Holmes Can Teach Us About the Power of Mindful Decisions

Single-Sided Headphones Let You Cheat Death By Keeping One Ear Open

Can You Find the Hidden Mothers in These Old Photographs?

How Return of the Jedi Should Have Ended reminds us that Anakin is still a piece of crap

A Must-Watch Video On How Military Drones Are Changing War

Senile Twitter Senator Grassley Hacked Hard (By Anonymous?)

A massive solar eruption may lead to the strongest radiation storm in seven years

Man Publishes Father-In-Law’s Entire Life One Picture At a Time

180,000 Tiny People Are Holding Up This Floor

Please let Once Upon A Time’s “Sexy Stranger” be the Big Bad Let’s-Get-Naked Wolf

Read an exclusive preview of the next issue of 30 Days of Night!

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