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Will the Nikon D4 Soon Become the Latest and Greatest DSLR?

Not much info to go off of here, but the French publication Responses Photo published some shots of what might be the Nikon D4. If this is in fact accurate, Nikon’s new flagship DSLR could be right around the corner. Technically, it doesn’t exist, but has been recently rumored for a release. As far as…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 5

Apple Wants to Stop Freakwesome Steve Jobs Action Figure Sales

Apple has threatened to sue In Icons, the manufacturer of the 12-inch-tall freaky!/awesome!/freaky!/awesome! Steve Jobs action figure. At least that’s what the Daily Telegraph is saying, specifying no sources whatsoever. No other details are given, just a vague “their efforts have reportedly met a legal challenge [from Apple].” In Icons site is still operative and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 5

Over A Dozen Reasons To Get Excited About Comics This Winter

What science fiction and fantasy funny books will debut during the wee months of 2012? There’s new UFO drama from Vertigo, Brian Wood penning Conan The Barbarian, and the X-Men and Avengers gearing up for fisticuffs. Here’s a slew of brand new titles coming to comic stores soon. Fantastic Four: Season One (Marvel) Starting in…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Jan 5

Gizmodo Video Intern Wanted

Hello there. We’re looking for a video intern or two who’s super into pop culture and TV and cuts videos up like a top chef on crack. We’re pretty demanding of our interns, but in turn, you will learn a lot about this whole professional blogging enterprise. So, the ideal candidate is someone who’s looking…

Tech News Gizmodo Jan 5

AT&T LTE Hits NYC (And Yes, It’s Fast)

AT&T’s LTE glow has spread to 11 new locales, including NYC, SF, and LA. From where I’m sitting in frigid Brooklyn, Big Blue is delivering some serious mobile bandwidth. After running nine tests on the HTC Vivid via Speedtest.net, my average downstream speed was 3 megabytes per second. That’s faster than my home cable connection.…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jan 5

The Evolution of Protection for Your Noggin

Your head does a pretty great job of keeping your brain safe most of the time. Your skull can take a lot of jostling before your thinker suffers damage. But it isn’t really designed to take on projectiles or sharp objects or the ground at 45 miles per hour, so over the years we’ve wrapped…

Tech News Rachel Swaby Jan 5

Didn’t Get the Gift You Actually Wanted?

You posed for the awkward family pictures. You sung their goofy holiday songs. You even stayed up all night with your senile Aunt Candice as she kept her shotgun poised at the chimney. And they still gave you a Forever Lazy! Well, if you take this short survey, you could win a boisterous and Bluetooth-enabled…

Tech News Sponsored post Jan 5

Wachowskis Teaming Up With Natalie Portman for a Space Epic?

Natalie Portman was supposed to star in Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity before she dropped out and was replaced by Sandra Bullock. But now that Portman is coming back from her maternity break, she’s reportedly considering starring in another spacey movie — the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending. Or at least, the Wachowskis are actively courting her. What is…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 5

Pentagon Scientists Use ‘Time Hole’ to Make Events Disappear

Soldiers could one day conduct covert operations in complete secrecy, now that Pentagon-backed physicists have figured out how to mask entire events by distorting light. A team at Cornell University, with support from Darpa, the Pentagon’s out-there research arm, managed to hide an event for 40 picoseconds (those are trillionths of seconds, if you’re counting).…

Tech News Katie Drummond - Wired Jan 5

The answer to the most famous unanswerable fantasy riddle

“Why is a raven like a writing desk?” This question has been posed in many situations. It has been pondered by great minds. It is the most unanswerable famous riddle of all time, and it has an answer. Well, technically this riddle has many answers. People have had a lot of time to think up…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jan 5

An Exclusive Look at the Making of Dragon Tattoo‘s Stunning Titles

We’re still haunted by the oozing hands that smushed Lisbeth Salander’s lovely face in David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’s title sequence. But what sort of Dragon Tattoo imagery is hidden amongst all these tangled vines of USB cables and “primordial dream ooze”? We spoke with co-founder of Blur and the title sequence’s…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 5

Will private schools soon be the only places where students can learn about science?

The United Kingdom’s science minister, David Willetts, thinks that private and international investments can help establish the UK as a world leader in scientific and technological research. But is Willett’s plan really feasible? And if it is, is it one the United States could utilize as well? The Guardian reported yesterday that the UK government…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 5

Breakthrough cloaking device creates a hole in light and time

Forgetting that cloak of invisibility — how about a device that hides you in the very fabric of time? New research published in Nature reveals that scientists have successfully hidden an object in both space and time — even if for only for 40 picoseconds. Rather than bending light around the object, their technique creates…

io9 Tim Barribeau Jan 5

The Top 10 Craziest Things Caught At Airport Security In 2011

The Transportation Security Administration has released a list of the worst/best/most crazy things caught by their airport agents in 2011—including a whooping 1,200 loaded firearms. I picked my favorite top ten because theirs is not right. I mean, the TSA list puts motherf*cking snakes caught before getting into the motherf*cking plane at number 10, and…

Privacy & Security Jesus Diaz Jan 5

Leaked Canon PowerShot G1X Can Distinguish Between Kids and Grownups

Canon gives “advanced amateurs” and professional photographers another reason to leave their DSLR at home with their rumored new PowerShot G1X. While photos aren’t available just yet, several details have leaked about the 14.3 megapixel point-and-shooter that includes a 1.5-inch CMOS sensor and a 4X optical zoom lens. An aperture range of f/2.5-16 and a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jan 5

How to get six rhesus monkeys in one body

These two rhesus monkeys are called Roku and Hex. They look like regular old rhesus monkeys, and indeed they were born completely normal and healthy. But they are, in fact, chimeras, each the result of splicing six different genomes together. Animals created by mixing together genetically distinct material are called chimeras after the mythological beast…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jan 5

Kanye’s Insane Tech Startup Is the Most Insane Kanye Plan Ever

Like a Mount Vesuvius covered in Louis Vuitton, Kanye West just ended his Twitter dormancy with an enormous late night rant. The subject? Not Taylor Swift, but revolutionizing tech, architecture, education—the list goes on. He’s assembling a superteam. With Kanye’s own verbal mea culpa in mind—”excuse me… I just get excited at the possibilities… the…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jan 5

Fuji’s Next Beautiful Mirrorless Camera Leaks

Mirrorless compact cameras are the hottest shooters bouncing around right now, and Fujifilm’s next star just leaked: the X-Pro1 sports a gorgeous vintage look, 16-megapixel APS-CMOS guts, along with a slew of heavy duty metal lenses to swap out. The leak came from Wells Fargo, of all places, and details some very attractive kit: The…

Gadgets Sam Biddle Jan 5

LG’s New MacBook Air Clone Is the Skinniest Core i7 Ultrabook (For Now)

What makes LG’s new Super Ultrabooks more than Ultrabooks? The 13.3″ Xnote Z330 is the skinniest laptop out there and the 14″ Z430 ain’t far behind. We’d heard rumblings about LG’s new ultrabooks, but they’re finally official and boy are they impressive. The Z330 is tiny: it’s only .57″ thick and weighs just 2.67 pounds.…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jan 5

Can dogs tell when we’re talking to them?

Dogs make great companions – they’re affectionate, adorable, and excellent listeners. But do they really know when we’re talking to them? A Hungarian study tracked dogs’ eye movements in order to monitor their focus of attention, concluding that the animals pay more attention to humans after being addressed directly. Each one of 16 adult pet…

io9 Sophie Bushwick Jan 5

Will the Nikon D4 Soon Become the Latest and Greatest DSLR?

Apple Wants to Stop Freakwesome Steve Jobs Action Figure Sales

Over A Dozen Reasons To Get Excited About Comics This Winter

Gizmodo Video Intern Wanted

AT&T LTE Hits NYC (And Yes, It’s Fast)

The Evolution of Protection for Your Noggin

Didn’t Get the Gift You Actually Wanted?

Wachowskis Teaming Up With Natalie Portman for a Space Epic?

Pentagon Scientists Use ‘Time Hole’ to Make Events Disappear

The answer to the most famous unanswerable fantasy riddle

An Exclusive Look at the Making of Dragon Tattoo‘s Stunning Titles

Will private schools soon be the only places where students can learn about science?

Breakthrough cloaking device creates a hole in light and time

The Top 10 Craziest Things Caught At Airport Security In 2011

Leaked Canon PowerShot G1X Can Distinguish Between Kids and Grownups

How to get six rhesus monkeys in one body

Kanye’s Insane Tech Startup Is the Most Insane Kanye Plan Ever

Fuji’s Next Beautiful Mirrorless Camera Leaks

LG’s New MacBook Air Clone Is the Skinniest Core i7 Ultrabook (For Now)

Can dogs tell when we’re talking to them?

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