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Brian K. Vaughan Adapting Stephen King’s Under The Dome for Showtime. Can it compete with HBO’s Dark Tower?

HBO might be getting Stephen King’s Dark Tower but Showtime just landed Lost writer and Y: The Last Man creator Brian K. Vaughan to help them adapt his novel Under The Dome into an ongoing series. Deadline is reporting that Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man) has been tapped by Showtime to pen the…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 8

The Sludge-Busting MARS Arm Blasts Through Radioactive Waste

In 1943, the US government needed a reliable center for processing the Manhattan Project’s nuclear material. Officials chose the 568-acre Hanford site in the deserts of Washington State to house nine nuclear reactors and 143 single-walled, underground waste tanks. Fast-forward 68 years and the US government is still working at Hanford—not as a research facility,…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Nov 8

How to Hack Your e-Reader to Run on Solar Power and More from TreeHugger

This week on TreeHugger, build your own solar generator on wheels, spider robots to the rescue, a new open hardware journal launches, inflatable solar LED light design, and more! 1. Eraser Turns Chalk Dust Into New Chalk Sticks How do we solve that old, old problem of chalk dust in classrooms? Two designers think they…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch - Treehugger Nov 8

This is the most mind-bendingly awesome piece of art you’ll see today

I’ve watched this video several times now, and I’m still not exactly sure how NYC artist Dev Harlan managed to pull off the light-show voodoo featured in his video-projection sculpture “Parmenides I,” featured in the clip up top. Based on the video, and others like it, it’s clear that the projectors used to generate the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Nov 8

Panasonic’s Rugged Toughpad A1 Is Not only Solid as a Rock, but Heavy as One Too

Would you lug around a tablet nearly twice as heavy as the competition if it meant the thing was virtually indestructable? If you’re prone to gadget disasters, then you just might like the Android-powered Panasonic Toughpad A1. Slashgear says the Honeycomb tablet is powered by a dual-core Marvell process running at 1.2 GHz, 1 gigabyte…

Tech News Adrian Covert Nov 8

Build It: A First-Class Gaming & Media PC for the Living Room

I don’t want to watch cable TV. I don’t want to use a controller. I just want to watch 3D Blu-rays and frag people with a mouse and keyboard, all on a box that fits on my entertainment center. Is that too much to ask? We’ve built our fair share of home theater PCs in…

Tech News Nathan Edwards - MaximumPC Nov 8

Why is Buckaroo Banzai such an enduring classic?

Over at Den of Geek, there’s a great tribute to Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, which celebrates the film’s cheerful illogic and its richness of invention. As Jeff Szpirglas writes: The real delight of Buckaroo Banzai is its incomprehensibility. Unlike the incomprehensibility of movies like John Boorman’s Zardoz, or even 2001: A Space Odyssey,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Nov 8

School to Change Its Name to Steve Jobs

Move on Lenin. Steve Jobs is in town. The town of Plovdiv, the second largest city of Bulgaria. There, kids want to change the name of their technical school from Vladimir Ilyich Lenin to Steve Jobs. The technical school is specialized in electronics and it’s now approaching its 50th anniversary. To celebrate the occasion, they…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 8

Nokia Lumia 800 Lightning Review: The Unattainable Foreign Beauty

Windows Phone has been sort of a ship without a port for a while now, getting along as a platform without a must-have, lightning-rod handset. Nokia’s Lumia 800 is the first serious contender for that honor, but Mango’s knight in shining polycarbonate might not be enough to make its presence felt across the pond. Like…

Reviews Kyle Wagner Nov 8

How to Book the Cheapest Holiday Flights

ThePointsGuy is an air travel mastermind. So he started a blog full of tips for getting the best flights at the best prices. And with Christmas lurking around the corner, he’s here help you find a flight back home for as few pennies as possible. A couple weeks ago, I wrote about the best times…

Tech News ThePointsGuy Nov 8

The acousto-optical effect that uses lasers to see sound

If you’ve ever sat in a sound “dead zone” in a movie theater or concert, you know what it’s like to be at a loud event where everything sounds muffled and distorted. Luckily, lasers may soon put an end to these dead zones. The UK’s National Physical Laboratory has figured out how to use lasers…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Nov 8

NASA: We’ve discovered something completely new on the surface of Mars

NASA may be ramping up for the launch of its next Mars rover mission later this month, but the Agency’s Opportunity rover — which has been chugging around the Martian landscape for close to eight years, now — refuses to recede into obsolescence. You’re looking at a close-up of the Martian surface, recently shot by…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Nov 8

DUPE: Non-Mad Scientists Say They’ll Turn Rice into Blood

It sounds like an act of witchcraft, but it’s actually the cutting edge of medicine—on paper, at least. Researchers at China’s Wuhan University say they can grow genetically engineered rice that yields blood. Human blood. Blood rice. The trick lies in embedding human genes within the rice DNA, the Telegraph reports, which creates a protein…

Tech News Sam Biddle Nov 8

Yup, That Unbelievable $19 Unlimited Data/Voice/Text Plan Is Mostly Real and You Should Sign Up

Remember Republic Wireless? The brand new carrier set to launch the unbelievable $19/month plan that would give users unlimited data, voice and text? Yeah! Well, they actually did it. Like for real. Like you can sign up right now for 19 bucks and never look back. https://gizmodo.com/republic-wireless-will-offer-an-unbelievable-19-unlimi-5855590 Republic Wireless can be so damn cheap because…

Tech News Casey Chan Nov 8

Of Course, the US Government Officially Denies Any Contact With Aliens

Answering to a We the People petition, the White House has officially replied to all those who wanted to know if aliens exists or if they have ever contacted us. The answer: no… but we’re looking into it. Kind of. Phil Larson, who works on space policy and communications at the White House Office of…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Nov 8

Tons More Videos and Photos from The Dark Knight Rises‘ Epic Battle Scene!

The American Akira might not be completely white-washed. The directors of the new Ghost Rider explain how they crammed R-rated violence into a PG-13 movie. George Miller is still hopeful the new Mad Max movies will happen. All that plus details on an epic Game of Thrones battle, the new James Bond movie Skyfall rounds…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Nov 8

Consumer Reports Finally Recommends the iPhone (Way Behind Android)

Gear review standard bearer Consumer Reports has its new phone rankings out. Some interesting news! The iPhone 4 is still blackballed, the 4S made the cut, and some dubious Androids blow them both away. The iPhone 4 had, paradoxically, long been ranked Consumer Reports’ best phone, while simultaneously not being recommended to buy. Which made…

Reviews Sam Biddle Nov 8

Ryanair Planning In-Flight Smartphone Entertainment App, Complete With Porn Channel

“Hotels around the world have it, so why wouldn’t we?” is what Michael O’Leary, boss of budget European airline Ryanair, says about in-flight porn. Joining the mile high club might be about to get a lot quicker and easier. Obviously, the concept of having soft porn blaring out from the back of every seat is…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Nov 8

An Invention That Sucks the Water Out of Dry Skies Has Won This Year’s James Dyson Award

What’s in the water down under? This is the second year in a row an Aussie has won the James Dyson Award, with both designs also aiming to save lives — albeit in very different ways. This year’s winning product is Airdrop, a network of pipes that sucks water from the air and irrigates drought-stricken…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Nov 8

UK Customs Confused Wikipedia and WikiLeaks; Jimmy Wales Momentarily Famous

Is it flattering to have people mistake you for Julian Assange? That’s what happened to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, who confused UK border controls when they thought the Wikipedia man was notorious international man of mystery Assange. The story comes from Wales himself, who’s clearly quite flattered about it all. Arriving at UK immigration, Wales…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Nov 8

Brian K. Vaughan Adapting Stephen King’s Under The Dome for Showtime. Can it compete with HBO’s Dark Tower?

The Sludge-Busting MARS Arm Blasts Through Radioactive Waste

How to Hack Your e-Reader to Run on Solar Power and More from TreeHugger

This is the most mind-bendingly awesome piece of art you’ll see today

Panasonic’s Rugged Toughpad A1 Is Not only Solid as a Rock, but Heavy as One Too

Build It: A First-Class Gaming & Media PC for the Living Room

Why is Buckaroo Banzai such an enduring classic?

School to Change Its Name to Steve Jobs

Nokia Lumia 800 Lightning Review: The Unattainable Foreign Beauty

How to Book the Cheapest Holiday Flights

The acousto-optical effect that uses lasers to see sound

NASA: We’ve discovered something completely new on the surface of Mars

DUPE: Non-Mad Scientists Say They’ll Turn Rice into Blood

Yup, That Unbelievable $19 Unlimited Data/Voice/Text Plan Is Mostly Real and You Should Sign Up

Of Course, the US Government Officially Denies Any Contact With Aliens

Tons More Videos and Photos from The Dark Knight Rises‘ Epic Battle Scene!

Consumer Reports Finally Recommends the iPhone (Way Behind Android)

Ryanair Planning In-Flight Smartphone Entertainment App, Complete With Porn Channel

An Invention That Sucks the Water Out of Dry Skies Has Won This Year’s James Dyson Award

UK Customs Confused Wikipedia and WikiLeaks; Jimmy Wales Momentarily Famous

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