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Panasonic’s GX1 Micro Four Thirds and 3D-Shooting 3D1 Compact Cameras Unleashed

Panasonic’s dropped two new cameras on the unsuspecting public today: one, the compact DMC-3D1 that shoots 3D, and two, the DMC-GX1 which follows the micro four thirds GF1 model. The GX1 is shaping up to more of a successor to 2009’s GF1 than the GF2 and GF3 ever were, with its 16-megapixel sensor (the GF1…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Nov 7

On The Walking Dead, there’s love during end times!

Man, was that a gushy episode of The Walking Dead! Seriously, there were bodily fluids and heartfelt moments gosh-darn everywhere! Both human and undead descended to lower elevations! Hey-yo! Euphemisms off, spoilers on, and all that shibboleth. When we last saw The Walking Dead, Shane had served up Otis to the ravenous horde like it…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 6

Watch Battlestar Galactica‘s Tricia Helfer torture two college kids…for science!

The very sexy Number Six of BSG fame is back to her old ways, torturing young men for the good of humanity (or perhaps robomanity). Watch the first ever trailer for Bloodwork now. Plus, more Nazi zombies! BloodWork A seemingly harmless drug trial goes terribly wrong! The two main characters begin to change for the…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 6

If Only More Gadgets Looked Like iHome’s iP4 Boombox

Combining old school inspiration with a stark design full of sharp lines and a matte finish, iHome’s iP4 boombox simultaneously makes nods to the outlandish, button crazy gadgets of the past, and the flat, minimal designs of the now. I think I’m swooning. The tonal colorway and the seemingly matte finish give the iP4 the…

Gadgets Adrian Covert Nov 6

I Wish I Got To Ride In a Car Like This When I Was A Kid

I’m going to go out on a really, really long limb and assume that this wasn’t the safest restraint system for kids in cars. But HOLY SHIT does it look fun. I was clearly born in the wrong era. [Vintage Ads via Boing Boing]

Tech News Adrian Covert Nov 6

io9 Roundup: November 6, 2011

WEEKEND ROUNDUP: 11/5 – 11/6 | Star Wars Day of the Dead by John Karpinsky. Awesome X-Men fashion goes beyond spandex and ruby-red visors https://gizmodo.com/awesome-x-men-fashion-goes-beyond-spandex-and-ruby-red-5856850 Mutant haute couture tends to begin and end with leather jackets, pouches, not-battlefield-worthy corsets, and blue-and-yellow school uniforms that leave nothing to the imagination. Artists Kevin Wada and Max Wittert…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 6

Simultaneously the stupidest/most disturbing ending in horror movie history? [NSFW]

Chances are you’re familiar with such Troma Entertainment flicks as The Toxic Avenger and Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD. Kitschy fun, right? Well, let’s watch the infamous ending of the 1989 child cannibal flick Beware! Children At Play. In this mostly unwatchable no-budget movie (trailer), a cult leader/feral boy named Grendel slowly but surely kidnaps a rural…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 6

Man with schizophrenia has out-of-body experience in lab, gains knowledge, controls his psychosis

RM had his first out-of-body experience at the age of 16. Now, at the age of 55, he has had more than he can count. They usually happen just before he falls asleep; for ten minutes, he feels like he is floating above his body, looking down on himself. If the same thing happens when…

io9 Ed Yong - Discover Nov 6

Crack a Beer With a Switchblade Bottle Opener and Feel Like the Badass You Absolutely Are Not

Chances are you don’t have much use for a switchblade in your life. But you probably use a bottle opener all the time. GamaGo’s Switch Pop combines the tough guy imagery of the former with the utility of the latter. According to the company, they had these bottle openers manufactured in a real switchblade factory,…

Tech News Adrian Covert Nov 6

The 1986 infomercial for the Neuromancer movie that never was

And now, something completely different. Commenting gladiator LightningLouie has alerted us to this downright amazing promotional video from the late Eighties that was filmed to sell potential investors on a Neuromancer movie. This is the godhead of weird ephemera. In 1986, Cabana Boy Entertainment — “a Hollywood production team consisting of a plastic surgeon’s wife…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Nov 6

Video Sharing on Instagram Sounds Like a Bad Idea

The internet is abuzz today over a vague confirmation from Instagram creator Kevin Systrom that video is the next big frontier for the insular social network. And while that may sound like a logical evolution for some, it also sounds like a disaster-in-the-making. Like so many other success stories of tech-centric products and services, the…

Tech News Adrian Covert Nov 6

A weird chart comparing lewd graffiti in ancient Pompeii and 1960s Los Angeles

The 1973 study “Graffiti: Some Observations and Speculations” by Dr. Harvey Lomas included this colorful chart matching bawdy vandalism from First Century Pompeii with its thematic descendants in Sixties Los Angeles. As you can see here, we’ve had our mind in the gutter for approximately two millennia. [Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing via Mind Hacks]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 6

Awesome X-Men fashion goes beyond spandex and ruby-red visors

Mutant haute couture tends to begin and end with leather jackets, pouches, not-battlefield-worthy corsets, and blue-and-yellow school uniforms that leave nothing to the imagination. Artists Kevin Wada and Max Wittert have decided to put some more outfits in the X-Women’s armoires. These new costumes are stylish enough to placate even the most inconsolable berserker rage.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 6

You Can Now Buy the Ultimate Treehouse

The Treehotel has existed a concept by architecture firm Tham and Videgård for a few years now, promising people a cheap, prefab way to live amongst the trees (quite literally). Now that concept has become reality. Redubbed the Mirrorcube (for its reflective exterior), the four-cubic-meter house is constructed of aluminum, glass and wood, and is…

Tech News Adrian Covert Nov 6

How do smelling salts work?

There was a time when police officers were issued special “lady revivers,” or vials of smelling salts for fainting women. Faintings aren’t so common these days, but anyone who has read a good (or bad) Victorian novel has seen these salts make an appearance. But how do they work? By annoying someone awake, of course.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Nov 6

What if Iggy Pop was Kamandi the Last Boy on Earth?

Over at the ever-entertaining Comic Twart, illustrator Tom Fowler and colorist Kyle Latino have realized that Stooges-era Iggy Pop had some interesting parallels with Jack Kirby’s Last Boy on Earth. This would have been my third favorite Iggy Pop film role, right after Yelgrun and The Adventures of Pete and Pete. Related: Jack Kirby’s dolphin…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 6

Google’s Eric Schmidt Is Scared of Siri

Maybe it’s just a bit of false modesty, but chairman Eric Schmidt told a Senate subcommittee recently that he believes Apple’s Siri technology poses a threat to Google in the search market. NeoWin first unearthed Schmidt’s statements on Siri, which were taken from a response to questions originally posed during a Senate subcommittee hearing earlier…

Tech News Adrian Covert Nov 6

Fund a study that will plumb the horrors of duck sex!

In case you’re unaware, duck sex is perhaps the singularly horrific event of the animal kingdom, replete with labyrinthine vagina dentata, explosive erections, and the occasional dalliance with necrophilia. https://gizmodo.com/female-ducks-have-evolved-a-vagina-dentata-5433056 https://gizmodo.com/its-dead-duck-day-5555679 Now, two biologists from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst are launching a project to measure the speed of the male duck erection. Their goal?…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 6

Have You Seen Missing Technorati Employee Tracy Williams?

Tracy Williams, an employee of Technorati, was been missing since Wednesday (11/2) after going out with friends to a San Francisco bar. Nobody has heard from her since, and now Technorati is asking the online community to help find her. Here’s the backstory according to Technorati: Tracy was last seen at 7:45pm PDT on Wednesday…

Tech News Adrian Covert Nov 6

See gull take on eagle in mid-air piggyback attack

Gulls are utterly fearless, as shown by this remarkable image of a white-tailed eagle under attack. Herring gulls dive-bomb predatory birds at a steep angle from above and behind, as they make a piercing shriek – “kaiow!”. The attacks typically occur when the gulls are defending themselves and are most frequently seen during the breeding…

io9 Roger Highfield - New Scientist Nov 6

Panasonic’s GX1 Micro Four Thirds and 3D-Shooting 3D1 Compact Cameras Unleashed

On The Walking Dead, there’s love during end times!

Watch Battlestar Galactica‘s Tricia Helfer torture two college kids…for science!

If Only More Gadgets Looked Like iHome’s iP4 Boombox

I Wish I Got To Ride In a Car Like This When I Was A Kid

io9 Roundup: November 6, 2011

Simultaneously the stupidest/most disturbing ending in horror movie history? [NSFW]

Man with schizophrenia has out-of-body experience in lab, gains knowledge, controls his psychosis

Crack a Beer With a Switchblade Bottle Opener and Feel Like the Badass You Absolutely Are Not

The 1986 infomercial for the Neuromancer movie that never was

Video Sharing on Instagram Sounds Like a Bad Idea

A weird chart comparing lewd graffiti in ancient Pompeii and 1960s Los Angeles

Awesome X-Men fashion goes beyond spandex and ruby-red visors

You Can Now Buy the Ultimate Treehouse

How do smelling salts work?

What if Iggy Pop was Kamandi the Last Boy on Earth?

Google’s Eric Schmidt Is Scared of Siri

Fund a study that will plumb the horrors of duck sex!

Have You Seen Missing Technorati Employee Tracy Williams?

See gull take on eagle in mid-air piggyback attack

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