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The perfect DiY underground house for post-apocalyptic living

This apocalypse-ready house is sunk deep beneath the Earth, located in a remote area of Saskatchewan, Canada, and it comes equipped with a stove made from an old barrel and an indoor rabbit hutch. And it could be yours if you want to trade some land or a nice vehicle for it. No, this isn’t…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 28

This Video of the New Super-Accurate TAG Heuer Watch Is Nuts

Pay close attention to this video or you’ll miss Tag Heuer’s new Mikrotimer Flying 1000 in action. The new concept watch is the most accurate mechanical chronograph ever. The Mikrotimer Flying 1000 measures time accurately down to 1/1000th of a second. That’s so fast that at first glance you might not even catch what’s going…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Sep 28

How a handful of tiny RNA gives women better immune systems

There’s a longstanding belief that, on average, women are healthier than men, and with good reason. Women live longer, and studies reveal women fight off disease better than their male counterparts. But where does this advantage come from? Turns out it’s all thanks to some microRNA on the X-chromosome. At least, that’s the finding of…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 28

This Is Amazon’s New $99 Kindle Touch (Updated)

Amazon’s new Kindle Touch is $99. Businessweek also reported that Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet is going to be an equally preposterous $200. The $99 price point is for the Special Offers version, though, so if you need a totally ad-free reader, the no-ads version will run you $139. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-new-amazon-kindle-fire-color-tablet-and-its-5844623 The tap zones on Kindle…

Commerce Kyle wagner & sam biddle Sep 28

Star Wars Wampa sneaks are covered in fine white hair

The lastest addition to the sick Adidas Star Wars line are these furry white Campus 80S Wampa kicks. But how much does it cost to adorn your toes with Wampa fur? The retro basketball sneaks are technically covered with pony hair — but the rest of the world doesn’t need to know that. Just tell…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 28

How Does the Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet Stack Up to the Competition?

Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet is a cheaper, smaller tablet designed around the experience of multimedia consumption above all else. But that doesn’t mean we can’t match it up against the most popular tablets currently making news. Here’s how it fares. (UPDATED) https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-new-amazon-kindle-fire-color-tablet-and-its-5844623

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 28

Wow: There’s a New $79 Kindle (Updated with Impressions and Video)

Amazon’s new Kindle is a mind-breakingly cheap $79. Bloomberg originally reported the $79 price. The cheaper model doesn’t have touch controls, like the $99 Kindle Touch, but it’s faster, smaller, and lighter (5.98 oz) than previous generations. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-amazons-new-99-kindle-touch-updated-5844638 The $79 price is for the Special Offers version, so if you’re totally ad-averse, you’ll have to…

Commerce Kyle wagner & sam biddle Sep 28

A Passenger Airplane Basically Flew Upside Down Because of a Dumb Pilot (Updated)

An All Nippon Airways passenger plane carrying 117 passengers on board experienced a little bit of a scare earlier this month. Why? Because a numb-brained pilot accidentally almost made a Boeing 737-700 fly belly up, as in upside freaking down. A 737 is not a freaking stunt plane. It shouldn’t be barrel rolling, belly upping…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 28

Emergence: The scientific concept that explains slime, friction, and Brooklyn neighborhoods

Emergence is the word used to describe what happens when a system becomes more than the combination of its pieces. A set of rules, group of animals, or collection of objects can develop special properties that none of the single pieces possess. The exact cause of this transformation is impossible to pin down, and yet…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 28

This Is the New Amazon Kindle Fire Color Tablet—and It’s Only $199! (Updated with Impressions)

This is incredible. The new Amazon Kindle Fire will cost only $199! This is a killer price for a color tablet. Even while it doesn’t match the iPad’s features, there’s going to be some fierce competition this year. Check out our up close and personal video to see it in action and keep reading for…

Commerce Jesus diaz & sam biddle Sep 28

The Most Frequently Banned or Challenged Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2010

It’s Banned Books Week, and the American Library Association has a list of the most frequently “banned or challenged” books of each year, from 2001 to 2010. And the list is pretty interesting reading — the Harry Potter books were on top of the list in 2001 and 2002, then dropped to number two in…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Sep 28

The DIY Headphone Kit That All the Audio Nerds Are Freaking Out About

The online audio nerd community can be enthusiastic, but they’re going bananas for these DIY headphones. Thunderpants are made in Seattle by forum regular Smeggy, who turns a $75 pair of cans into some of the finest in the world. Smeggy’s Thunderpants are modified versions of Fostex T50RPs—a popular model audiophile hackers like to go…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Sep 28

We’re Live at the Amazon Tablet Event

The nerd world is all atwitter about today’s Amazon event, eagerly anticipating a tablet or two. Will Bezos & Co crash the iPad’s party with a color Kindle Powerhouse? Will the black-and-white e-reader sink below $100? Keep it dialed in to live.gizmodo.com/amazon to find out. Our crew is ready to pounce on any news that…

Commerce Joe Brown Sep 28

Watch Out! Cantaloupes Are Killing People

Cantaloupes, quite possibly might least favorite fruit ever, is being suspected of mass murder. I’m not kidding, 13 people have died after eating the contaminated fruit with 72 more people becoming ill because of it. Just what the hell is going on with cantaloupes? The icky, light orange fruit is assumed to be tainted with…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 28

How to find a long-lost sunken battleship — using psychology

NPR’s Alix Spiegel has written a must-read article about how a team of cognitive psychologists solved a WWII shipwreck mystery. Spiegel writes: In November 1941, two ships crossed paths off the coast of Australia. One was the German raider HSK Kormoran. The other: an Australian warship called the HMAS Sydney [pictured up top]. Guns were…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Sep 28

Hugh Jackman reveals the future of The Wolverine. Plus tons more intriguing hints for the Doctor Who finale!

Ridley Scott’s new Blade Runner movie finds a writer. Michael Shannon praises the Man of Steel script. Director Shawn Levy explains his proposed Frankenstein update. Plus set photos for The Dark Knight Rises, Doctor Who, and Snow White and the Huntsman! Spoilers await… Top image from Dark Shadows. Man of Steel New General Zod actor…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Sep 28

Wee Tripods Cling To Your Camera Bottom

I always forget my tripod, so I have a collection of stupid MySpace-style shots from all over the world. These new Joby tripods collapse down nearly flat beneath your camera so you can keep them connected all the time. The new Joby Gorillapod Micro 800 and 250 fold themselves up kind of ingeniously to hug…

Tech News Mat Honan Sep 28

Wi-Fi Signals May Be Used To Track Your Movement Inside Your House

Neal Patwari of the University of Utah discovered that breathing affects Wi-Fi signal strength. Chest expansion during a breath bends the wireless signals and they lose some power. This slight drop can be measured and used to calculate your breathing rate. Measuring someone’s breathing rate is helpful, but the use of this technology as a…

Tech News Kelly Sep 28

Wilson Greatbatch, The Man Who Accidentally Invented The Pacemaker, Has Died

Wilson Greatbatch has died at the age of 92. He was a lifelong inventor. And like many inventors, his most notable creation, the implantable cardiac pacemaker, was discovered accidentally. In the 1950s, Greatbatch had left the Navy and was working as medical researcher. He was building an oscillator to record heart sounds when he pulled…

Tech News Kelly Sep 28

Seventy-Five-Year-Old Chair Is Turned Into Steampunk Nerf Gun

Etsy seller faustus70 had a Nerf N-Strike Barricade gun, an old chair and some aluminum lying around. But he didn’t take this stuff to the dump like most people, he used it to build a “Big Daddy” style steampunk gun. Faustus70 carved up the antique wooden chair and used it to cover the NerfF gun.…

Tech News Kelly Sep 28

The perfect DiY underground house for post-apocalyptic living

This Video of the New Super-Accurate TAG Heuer Watch Is Nuts

How a handful of tiny RNA gives women better immune systems

This Is Amazon’s New $99 Kindle Touch (Updated)

Star Wars Wampa sneaks are covered in fine white hair

How Does the Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet Stack Up to the Competition?

Wow: There’s a New $79 Kindle (Updated with Impressions and Video)

A Passenger Airplane Basically Flew Upside Down Because of a Dumb Pilot (Updated)

Emergence: The scientific concept that explains slime, friction, and Brooklyn neighborhoods

This Is the New Amazon Kindle Fire Color Tablet—and It’s Only $199! (Updated with Impressions)

The Most Frequently Banned or Challenged Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2010

The DIY Headphone Kit That All the Audio Nerds Are Freaking Out About

We’re Live at the Amazon Tablet Event

Watch Out! Cantaloupes Are Killing People

How to find a long-lost sunken battleship — using psychology

Hugh Jackman reveals the future of The Wolverine. Plus tons more intriguing hints for the Doctor Who finale!

Wee Tripods Cling To Your Camera Bottom

Wi-Fi Signals May Be Used To Track Your Movement Inside Your House

Wilson Greatbatch, The Man Who Accidentally Invented The Pacemaker, Has Died

Seventy-Five-Year-Old Chair Is Turned Into Steampunk Nerf Gun

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