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Dukha home, Mongolia, 2007 A building in Inuit West, Greenland, 2009 A woman on a motorcycle in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, 2007 A young girl in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, 2007 Kola Sami Sleighs, Russia, 2006 A Kola Sami baby, Russia, 2006 Nenets man aiming his gun, Russia, 2005 A man being pulled by a…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Oct 18

HP TouchPad Gets a webOS Upgrade from Beyond the Grave

Well now isn’t this something. HP’s discontinued-and-firesaled TouchPad got an OTA webOS upgrade today. WebOS 3.0.4 improves the camera app, messaging, connectivity to non-HP phones, and generally “touches up” the UI and overall performance. It also delivered a nice update to webOS’s developer tools, which is encouraging for anyone hoping for a not-quite-dead-in-the-water TouchPad. What…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Oct 18

Mansquito rises again, and this time he’s horny!

Watch in horror as a mosquito man searches for his bloody meal and takes a mate. Technically, it’s not an official “mansquito” but it’s still a man whose body has mutated into a half-skeeter, half-man creature. Close enough! Check out the trailer for Sucker. And yes, that is Michael Manasseri from Weird Science! Here’s the…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Oct 18

The Future of LEGO (Or How to Use an iPhone to Play with LEGO)

LEGO is a toy as old as time. The iPhone is a toy that every kid wants. If you combine them together, you have ‘Life of George’. It’s a LEGO game with companion iPhone app that every man, woman and child would want to play. Life of George cleverly combines augmented reality with LEGO. The…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 18

Galaxy Nexus Specs Leak Just Ahead of Tonight’s Launch

Well, we knew it was coming, and we’d heard several conflicting rumors, but Japan’s NTT docomo just dropped a big ol’ leak in the form of a marketing poster. It confirms essentially all of BGR‘s initial leaked specs. https://gizmodo.com/galaxy-nexus-the-first-ice-cream-sandwich-android-phon-5847288 The juicy details include a 1.2GHz dual-core OMAP4460 processor (which is still very surprising, considering Samsung…

Tech News Brent Rose Oct 18

We Have No Idea Where One-Third of Space’s Gamma Rays Originate From

Fermi’s Large Area Telescope has detected 1873 gamma rays out in space. Most come from objects such as pulsars or blazars. But for 600 of those rays, scientists have no idea where they’re coming from. Not that they don’t have their suspicions about where these mystery rays are coming from. After all as NASA’s science…

Space & Spaceflight Adrian Covert Oct 18

How to haunt your house with Pepper’s Ghost

Since Victorian times, humans have devised a method of creating illusionary ghosts. This illusion, known as Pepper’s Ghost, was used at carnivals and might be a great addition to your haunted house. Magic tricks are referred to as “smoke and mirrors,” but the real trickster here is light. Light fools people into believing that some…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Oct 18

Pioneer’s AR HUD Puts Your Satnav Display On the Road Ahead

It’s certainly not the first demo we’ve seen of a windshield HUD system that incorporates navigation and other info so a driver can keep their eyes on the road. But it is the first from Pioneer, a company with the automotive experience to finally make a system like this a reality. https://gizmodo.com/a-hud-with-built-in-navigation-makes-for-a-kitt-worthy-5559170 Using red, green,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 18

Meet the First Person to Get Mummified in 3000 Years

Alan Billis, a 61-year-old taxi driver who suffered from lung cancer, lived a pretty ordinary life. He drove around, watched documentaries and did what everybody else did. His afterlife though, is going to be extraordinary. After he passed, Billis became the first person in 3000 years to get mummified. Just like the pharaohs we learned…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 18

Building Expectations

Brown University has an exhibit running through November 6 called “Building Expectation: Past and Present Visions of the Architectural Future.” The exhibit catalog has some fascinating write ups: one on King Camp Gillette (yes, the razor guy) and his vision for a utopian community near Niagara Falls; another about postcards from the turn of the…

Tech News Matt Novak Oct 18

Hilariously optimistic 1954 magazine article proclaimed we’d all be piloting flying saucers by 1965

In a 1954 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, the magazine ran a wonderfully rosy piece titled “FLYING SAUCERS FOR EVERYBODY!” This short piece detailed how flying saucers would ameliorate arduous commutes in the far-out year of 1965. The piece also had some rad schematics and detailed the plans of the saucers engineer, a one Mr. Peter…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 18

Samsung Galaxy Player 4 and 5 Now Grabbable Stateside

So, you really like those Samsung Galaxy S phones, except oh man you hate phones! You’re allergic to wireless networks! Well, lucky you, as of today you can get the Samsung Galaxy Player 4 and 5 here in the USA. Basically what you’ve got here is a pretty snazzy portable music player (PMP) that runs…

Tech News Brent Rose Oct 18

Kids are getting shot more often than we thought

The most firearm-friendly libertarian and gun-control centered politician can agree at least on one fundamental point: the need to keep guns safe and out of the hands of unprepared kids. Unfortunately, it looks like we’re not doing a very good job of that. Top image: BG Knight, Shutterstock. A paper being presented at the American…

io9 Tim Barribeau Oct 18

NASA’s Updated Topographic Map Makes Google Earth Look Like a Rand McNally Coloring Book

Who needs Google Earth? NASA and Japan just improved the most complete—and free—digital topographic map of Earth. The Japanese Advanced Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, is an instrument on board NASA’s Terra spacecraft. The map it produces is called a global digital elevation model, and gets its 3D effect by combining two slightly…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle Wagner Oct 18

There’s No Such Thing as the Color Pink

Want to have your brain blown for a few minutes today? Dip your head in some physics, and realize that there’s no such thing as pink. Scientifically speaking, that is: it’s just something our brain makes up. MinutePhysics puts it in predictably concise terms: all colors correspond to wavelengths of light. But there’s no wavelength…

Physics & Chemistry Sam Biddle Oct 18

Are even more Transformers movies headed our way? Plus tons more updates on the future of Marvel movies!

Two more Transformers movies really might happen, with a surprising new star taking over the franchise. Cillian Murphy refuses to talk The Dark Knight Rises. Vin Diesel reveals some Riddick 3 concept art. What’s going on with the American Akira remake? It’s nothing but spoilers from here on out! Top image from The Avengers. The…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Oct 18

Adobe Finally Launches Official Reader App for iOS

Adobe has launched an official version of its Reader PDF app on iTunes, bringing full support for document reading, searching and printing to most iOS devices. This must mean Adobe and Apple are friends again? [iTunes via Adobe] Our newest offspring Gizmodo UK is gobbling up the news in a different timezone, so check them…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 18

Samsung Caught in iPhone Screenshot Shocker

You’re not helping your case here Samsung. That’s blatantly a photoshop screenshot hack-job you’ve got there on your Galaxy Player 5.0 and you didn’t even take the time to create the screenshot yourself. No, instead they ripped the iPhone screenshot straight from Laura Scott’s blog back in 2008; cut off the top section and bunged…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 18

Western Digital’s HD Factory “Submerged” by Thai Flooding

One of the world’s largest hard drive makers has emerged as another victim of the floods that’ve hit Thailand, with WD reporting that one of its Thai plants has been “inundated” by water and some equipment is currently underwater. WD has two production plants in Thailand: the Bang Pa-in Industrial Park is the one that’s…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 18

Virgin Galactic’s Gateway to Space Is Now Open For Business

Richard Branson has officially declared that the Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space (previously known as the Spaceport America) is open for business in the New Mexico desert. Spacemen, rev your engines. The extremely fancy $210 million hub for all of Virgin’s Galactic enterprises is finished and ready for action. 450 of the first 2.5 hour…

Space & Spaceflight Kat Hannaford Oct 18

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HP TouchPad Gets a webOS Upgrade from Beyond the Grave

Mansquito rises again, and this time he’s horny!

The Future of LEGO (Or How to Use an iPhone to Play with LEGO)

Galaxy Nexus Specs Leak Just Ahead of Tonight’s Launch

We Have No Idea Where One-Third of Space’s Gamma Rays Originate From

How to haunt your house with Pepper’s Ghost

Pioneer’s AR HUD Puts Your Satnav Display On the Road Ahead

Meet the First Person to Get Mummified in 3000 Years

Building Expectations

Hilariously optimistic 1954 magazine article proclaimed we’d all be piloting flying saucers by 1965

Samsung Galaxy Player 4 and 5 Now Grabbable Stateside

Kids are getting shot more often than we thought

NASA’s Updated Topographic Map Makes Google Earth Look Like a Rand McNally Coloring Book

There’s No Such Thing as the Color Pink

Are even more Transformers movies headed our way? Plus tons more updates on the future of Marvel movies!

Adobe Finally Launches Official Reader App for iOS

Samsung Caught in iPhone Screenshot Shocker

Western Digital’s HD Factory “Submerged” by Thai Flooding

Virgin Galactic’s Gateway to Space Is Now Open For Business

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