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The Avengers trailer, as told by zany Taiwanese animation

The animators at Taiwan’s NMA News have cornered the market on recreating popular superhero movie trailers using crude humor and even cruder computer animation. In their latest magnum opus, they turn The Avengers trailer into a collage of butt shots. As nonplussing as this all is, NMA cartoons are the only media source I trust…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Oct 23

Singing Busts Arduino Project Brings All the Campiness of Disney to Your Front Door

Disney’s Haunted Mansion is one of those corny staples you just have to hit when you visit the Magic Kingdom. But Disney World is far for some. Why not bring parts of the experience home for Halloween? This is precisely what Instructables member TheNewHobbyist did with his hacked together Aruduino-based “singing busts” project. The kit…

Tech News Jack Loftus Oct 23

Orangutan populations develop different cultures just like humans

We know that humans aren’t the only species to develop cultures, as other great apes can learn social behaviors and pass them down through multiple generations. Now it appears we all evolved the capacity for culture at the same time. The term “culture” evokes a lot of lofty concepts – art, literature, history, science –…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Oct 23

Supernatural gives good death – and major fan service

As if trying to top that death-by-melted-cheese from a few episodes ago, last night’s Supernatural gave us one of my favorite magic-enabled murders ever. But that was nothing compared to the hot, wet fanservice the show delivered by stunt casting former Buffy regulars James Marsters and Charisma Carpenter as a married couple in serious need…

Television Annalee Newitz Oct 22

Libyan Rebels Channeled the A-Team With This Anti Sniper Dozer

The Libyan rebels that helped overthrow Qadaffi’s regime may not have had the most advanced weaponry at their disposal. But they were resourceful and used what they had available, including converting a bulldozer into a rolling, bulletproof battleship. https://gizmodo.com/qaddafi-has-been-killed-5851663 Looking like a prop from an international version of the A-Team, the lumbering tank was created…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 22

Daily Desired: Pixelated Mario Cushion From Japan’s Club Nintendo

The U.S. version of Nintendo’s reward program, Club Nintendo, never seems to have quite the same caliber of awesome schwag as the original Japanese version. Items like the Wiimote TV remote that was never available here, and now this pixelated 8-bit Super Mario throw cushion. https://gizmodo.com/americas-club-nintendo-is-here-5112080 Platinum members in Japan will have their choice of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 22

These Ethereal Landscape Photos Were Faked in a Cloud Tank

Looking at his work it seems like Kim Keever always has his camera in the right place at the right time for capturing stunning landscape photos. But unlike that debacle over the shot of the wolf jumping over the fence, Keever readily admits his shots are fake, created in a very controlled studio environment. https://gizmodo.com/judges-decide-wolf-jumping-over-fence-photo-is-fake-5454325…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 22

Old Marvel Comics NYC map teaches us that the Scarlet Witch lives in New Jersey

Comic fans will remember that the Scarlet Witch went bonkers several years ago and rewrote most of reality on a whim a few times. According to Marvel Comics’ lore, it’s because she discovered that her children were mystical figments of her imagination, but we have a much more banal explanation.* And according to this diagram…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Oct 22

This short film by Spike Jonze is like Toy Story (but starring books and fellatio)

Being John Malkovich director Spike Jonze — who recently directed that action-figure extravaganza for The Beastie Boys — has now collaborated with designer Olympia Le-Tan’s and director Simon Cahn to animate 3,000 pieces of felt. https://gizmodo.com/the-beastie-boys-epic-11-minute-music-video-pits-g-i-j-5822766 Their film — Mourir Auprès de Toi (“To Die By Your Side”) — tells the story of two amorous…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 22

A Solar Charger That Rewards You for Staying Off the Grid

Besides a reduced monthly power bill, there’s a certain smug satisfaction to recharging your gear with solar energy. It’s almost like you want everyone to know how eco conscious you’re being, and with the Changer solar charging system, you’ll actually be rewarded for bragging about it. I’m going to knock off a few points for…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Oct 22

Keep Those Umbrellas Handy, Another Satellite is Falling to Earth This Weekend

We may have all survived the less than graceful return of NASA’s UARS satellite a month ago, but you’ll want to keep your eyes on the skies this weekend since we’re not out of the clear yet. https://gizmodo.com/nasas-satellite-crashes-in-the-pacific-ocean-updated-5843499 Back in September we reported that the German Roentgen Satellite, or Rosat, was expected to come careening…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Liszewski Oct 22

Best of the Week: October 15-October 21, 2011

THE MIND OF GIGER | H.R. Giger’s original art for Ridley Scott’s Alien. See tons more original art and details about the making of the film here. https://gizmodo.com/how-h-r-gigers-brilliant-madness-helped-make-alien-er-5851618 https://gizmodo.com/bruce-banner-gets-irked-a-spoilery-synopsis-of-the-new-5850188 Bruce Banner gets irked: a spoilery synopsis of the New York Comic Con Avengers footage! Several of the Avengers assembled onstage at the New York Comic…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 22

Now you can see the lost erotic fiction of director Ed Wood

Low-budget auteur Ed Wood is best known for his work on such films as Plan 9 from Outer Space, Bride of the Monster, and Glen Or Glenda, but the director also spent a good portion of his career penning porno novels for seedy publishers. And next week, a collection of Wood’s rare X-rated fiction will…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Oct 22

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 7 Plus Priced and Dated For the U.S.

Those of you waiting on the edge of your seats for Samsung to reveal when their Honeycomb powered Galaxy Tab 7 Plus tablet would hit U.S. shores can finally chill out. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-tab-7-plus-is-amazing-ly-similar-to-al-5845426 The 16GB version of the seven inch tablet, which runs on a 1.2GHz dual core processor and packs a 3MP camera capable of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 22

Real-Life Inception: Army looks to “counteract nightmares” with digital dreams

A soldier tries to sleep. But he is not safe in his dreams. Jolted awake by a nightmare, the combat veteran fumbles in the dark for his 3-D glasses. He puts them on. Around him are the faces of people whom he trusts. They fight the darkness with him. The soldier’s re-lived this scene in…

io9 Dawn Lim - Danger Room Oct 22

Lucky Charms Sifter Gets Straight to the Sweet, Sweet Point

Lucky Charms would be one of the finest foods ever created—if only the actual cereal bits weren’t pooping on marshmallows’ tasty parade. Thankfully, Thingiverse user Tom Lombardi invented a solution for this age old problem. Enter the Lucky Charms Sifter. According to Lombardi, the humble-looking 3D printed cup removes over 90 percent of all the…

Gadgets Michael Zhao Oct 22

What if David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” was a NASA mission?

We’ve seen Major Tom’s foibles as a semi-depressing children book, but what if it was actually a by-the-book NASA operation? Let Killing My Lobster teach you why British people have been banned from the infinite of the cosmos. https://gizmodo.com/read-david-bowies-space-oddity-transformed-into-the-s-5835083 [Via Coilhouse]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 22

Remington’s Touchscreen Stubble Trimmer Offers Precise Adjustments

That trendy unshaven look usually requires a careful amount of shaving in the morning. So Remington has upgraded their beard and stubble trimmer with a slick touchscreen and an electronically controlled cutting blade that can be electronically adjusted for a precise amount of ruggedness. The monochrome display, which sits just beneath the trimmer’s plastic housing,…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Oct 22

A Font Made From Model Railroads is Still Classier than Comic Sans

It will probably make the memos in the break room about stealing lunches considerably harder to read, but this unique font made from model railroad layouts is still far more pleasing to the eye than Comic Sans. https://gizmodo.com/why-comic-sans-is-so-darn-funny-scientifically-speakin-5834789 It was created by Ludvig Bruneau Rossow, a graphic designer from Oslo, Norway, who one day decided…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 22

A Gifted Man is like MacGyver with perverted ghosts

This week on A Gifted Man, people save lives with a few honest talks and perform heart surgeries with using a speculum as a rib-spreader. Also there’s a ghost for two minutes. She sees Mike naked. Weird episode. Eriq La Salle — the ass of a head surgeon on ER — is an very much…

Television Esther Inglis-Arkell Oct 22

The Avengers trailer, as told by zany Taiwanese animation

Singing Busts Arduino Project Brings All the Campiness of Disney to Your Front Door

Orangutan populations develop different cultures just like humans

Supernatural gives good death – and major fan service

Libyan Rebels Channeled the A-Team With This Anti Sniper Dozer

Daily Desired: Pixelated Mario Cushion From Japan’s Club Nintendo

These Ethereal Landscape Photos Were Faked in a Cloud Tank

Old Marvel Comics NYC map teaches us that the Scarlet Witch lives in New Jersey

This short film by Spike Jonze is like Toy Story (but starring books and fellatio)

A Solar Charger That Rewards You for Staying Off the Grid

Keep Those Umbrellas Handy, Another Satellite is Falling to Earth This Weekend

Best of the Week: October 15-October 21, 2011

Now you can see the lost erotic fiction of director Ed Wood

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 7 Plus Priced and Dated For the U.S.

Real-Life Inception: Army looks to “counteract nightmares” with digital dreams

Lucky Charms Sifter Gets Straight to the Sweet, Sweet Point

What if David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” was a NASA mission?

Remington’s Touchscreen Stubble Trimmer Offers Precise Adjustments

A Font Made From Model Railroads is Still Classier than Comic Sans

A Gifted Man is like MacGyver with perverted ghosts

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