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Man Who Vowed to Live Forever Died Over the Weekend

Robert C.W. Ettinger, who famously said that death was for the unprepared and the unimaginative, died on Saturday. But the physics teacher and science fiction writer may be coming back — his family froze his body cryonically. Ettinger, widely considered the founder of the cryonics movement, is being stored in a vat of liquid nitrogen…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 25

TSA Soaks Bladder Cancer Survivor With His Own Urine… Again

Thomas Sawyer is already quite familiar with TSA patdowns, seeing as they already spilled urine on him last November. Once should be enough, right? Nope. The exact same thing happened again. What? For old time’s sake? https://gizmodo.com/tsa-screening-soaks-bladder-cancer-survivor-with-his-ow-5695522 Sawyer was travelling from Detroit Metro Airport to Orlando on July 14th when he had to relive this…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 25

How to Mash Up Songs Like a Boss

Watch as Chris from Ithaca Audio mixes a whole bunch of songs in real time using Ableton Live and an Akai APC40 live control surface. Like a goddamn boss. If you can’t identify all the songs, here’s the list: Isaac Hayes – Theme from Shaft John Williams – The Imperial March Leftfield – Phat Planet…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 25

Touchscreen Keyboard Morphs to Fit Your Typing Style

Typing on a touchscreen is not one of life’s pleasures: the one-size-fits-all nature of most virtual keyboards is a hassle that puts many of us off using them. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen journalists put down an iPad, for instance, and pick up a laptop or netbook to do some…

Tech News Paul Marks - New Scientist Jul 25

The Biggest Winners and Losers of Comic-Con 2011

San Diego Comic Con is a mosh pit of tastemakers. A good showing at Comic Con can generate unstoppable buzz for a project, that can last for months. A weak showing can deal a devastating setback to a creator’s dreams. Here are the projects and creators that we saw gaining buzz at San Diego Comic…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jul 25

7 Tools for the DIY Drinker

The making of one’s own booze is a practice that extends into prehistory and has outlasted countless empires (as well as Prohibition). These seven tools will help you create your own crunk. Cooper’s DIY Beer Kit Beer is the oldest and most widely consumed adult beverage on the planet and has been around almost as…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 25

The Mithril Jacket Is Made From Kevlar and Meant to Last a Lifetime

Kevlar, the synthetic bullet blocking material, has been used to create a softshell jacket for the first time. Called the Mithril Kevlar Jacket, the jacket is supposed to last forever no matter what sort of beating it took. If Mithril sounds familiar, it’s because the jacket was named after the lifesaving chainlink shirt Frodo wore…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 25

Sam The Eagle: the First Muppet Avenger

Another muppet parody has been released, showing Sam the Eagle in the rugged, leather Captain America gear. We kind of love these Disney Marvel mash-ups. Please please please do a Ms. Piggy/Asbestos Lady combination next! [via Marvel]

Movies Meredith Woerner Jul 25

Anonymous Bitcoin Purchases Aren’t Actually Anonymous

Let’s be honest: we can dress Bitcoin up all we want, but like the Craigslist Personals section, we know exactly why most of you are there. But now it looks like the crypto-currency is maybe not all that crypto at all. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-bitcoin-5803124 Researchers from University College Dublin attacked the issue by analyzing a theft of…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 25

Barack Obama Thinks Your Password Sucks

We aren’t the only ones who want to see an end to passwords. So does the government. Barack Obama wants to kill your password. https://gizmodo.com/its-time-to-abandon-passwords-5812685 In fact, he’s set up a special office just to make that happen. We talked to Jeremy Grant, who runs the program. Here’s what he said. Gizmodo: There have been…

Privacy & Security Mat Honan Jul 25

What Happens to Your Brain in a Bomb Blast

When your brain is severely concussed— whether via car crash or IED— individual neurons will retract like the arms of a sea anemone, severing important neural connections and constricting blood flow. Now, Harvard researchers believe they’ve figured out why. Harvard bioengineer Kit Parker and his team built a simple neural network of engineered human blood…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 25

We talk to cartoonist Jeff Smith about the 20th anniversary of Bone

At Comic-Con, io9 had the opportunity to catch up with Jeff Smith, the creator of beloved fantasy epic Bone and the scifi noir comic RASL. Smith reflected on Bone’s auspicious beginnings and gave us updates on the pending cinematic adaptations of both comics. When you first began Bone, did you ever expect the comic to…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 25

The Best Deal of the Day

Are you aware that there was a Star Trek: The Animated Series? Yes, there was! No, I’m not making it up! Captain Kirk, drawn by hand! Spock dodging anvils! Despite being well-received and awarded a shimmering Emmy, it was canned after only one year, But what a year 1973 to 1974 was! In one episode,…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Jul 25

Nighttime on a strange alien world (or possibly Nevada)

Between those bizarre structures, the impossible colors up in the night sky, and the fact that this photo was apparently taken in the middle of a busy star cluster, how can this not be from some far distant alien world? The answer, it seems, is when you’re looking in just the right direction at some…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 25

Your Fingerprints Can Now Reveal Your Raging Coke Habit

Occasional tokers and functioning cokeheads beware. The latest in narc technology will now come in the form of a device that can tell if you’re stoned just by your fingerprints. In minutes! The method is being developed by researchers at Intelligent Fingerprinting, led by one Paul Yates. They found that the by-products of your drug…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 25

Tons of futuristic gadgets that will enhance the Total Recall remake

How do you go about topping Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall? Len Wiseman, who’s directing the remake, has a few ideas — such as introducing a few new futuristic gadgets to the updated flick. The reboot director shared a few futuristic gizmos he’ll be inserting into Colin Farrell’s Total Recall — and explained why he’s happy…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jul 25

America’s Chief Cyber Defense Warrior Abruptly Resigns

Randy Vickers, Director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), is outta there. With neither warning nor explanation, Vickers resigned from defending government and private sector networks from attack, Information Week reports. Which does explain his exit. This summer has seen one of the most vivid and inexorable hacking sprees in recent memory—maybe ever.…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 25

Intrepid Imbecile Lodges Himself in Storm Drain Chasing Lost Phone

Jared was just minding his own business, when he claims he was attacked by a roving gang, who pummeled the shit out of him and threw his phone down a storm drain. So he went in after it. One of the pivotal questions in this marvelously reported dispatch is, of course, Jared, were you drunk?…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 25

The Large Hadron Collider is tantalizingly close to finding the Higgs Boson

Once again, there’s excitement in the physics community about the possible discovery of the Higgs boson. But this time, it’s multiple discoveries…both experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have detected some intriguing possibilities, as has Fermilab’s Tevatron. What’s going on? The Higgs boson, just to review, is the only subatomic particle from the Standard Model…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 25

Soulra XL: The 8-Hour Solar Sound System

San Francisco’s climate isn’t exactly ideal for solar-powered gadgets, in that the appearance of the sun is a rare and fleeting occasion. But the output, battery life, and sound clarity you get from the sun-sucking Eton Soulra XL boombox are surprisingly decent. Like You don’t have to worry about finding an outlet or putting down…

Reviews Andrew Tarantola Jul 25

Man Who Vowed to Live Forever Died Over the Weekend

TSA Soaks Bladder Cancer Survivor With His Own Urine… Again

How to Mash Up Songs Like a Boss

Touchscreen Keyboard Morphs to Fit Your Typing Style

The Biggest Winners and Losers of Comic-Con 2011

7 Tools for the DIY Drinker

The Mithril Jacket Is Made From Kevlar and Meant to Last a Lifetime

Sam The Eagle: the First Muppet Avenger

Anonymous Bitcoin Purchases Aren’t Actually Anonymous

Barack Obama Thinks Your Password Sucks

What Happens to Your Brain in a Bomb Blast

We talk to cartoonist Jeff Smith about the 20th anniversary of Bone

The Best Deal of the Day

Nighttime on a strange alien world (or possibly Nevada)

Your Fingerprints Can Now Reveal Your Raging Coke Habit

Tons of futuristic gadgets that will enhance the Total Recall remake

America’s Chief Cyber Defense Warrior Abruptly Resigns

Intrepid Imbecile Lodges Himself in Storm Drain Chasing Lost Phone

The Large Hadron Collider is tantalizingly close to finding the Higgs Boson

Soulra XL: The 8-Hour Solar Sound System

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