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The Wild Bird Feeder Is the Bane of Squirrelkind

You almost feel sorry for it. Off it goes for some seeds, only to wind up on the ground. Crestfallen and alone. This bird feeder will make squirrels, like this one, learn their place while you feed your avian friends. What the Wild Bird Feeder’s got is four flexible perches and plenty of spaces for…

Biology Kwame Opam Jul 20

Lego-Crusted Pioneer Turntable Combines Two of Your Most Favorite Playthings

Consider this the peanut butter and marshmallow of good looking gadgets: a Pioneer CDJ-2000 buried under a shell of wonderfully constructed Lego kookiness. I wouldn’t want to drop it, but damnit if it doesn’t look exceedingly fun. The deck, constructed by artist Jesse Graves to benefit VH1’s Save the Music Foundation, is fully functional. It…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 20

5 Best Alternatives to Apple’s New Product Lineup

Shocking as this news may be, not everybody uses a Mac (*raises hand*). For those of us not drinking the Cupertino Koolaid, here are 5 solid alternatives to the new products from today’s Apple announcement. MacBook Air = Samsung Series 9 The Series 9 is like the MBA, just slightly bigger. Unfortunately that includes the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 20

Alex Ross’ Green Lantern concept art shows how to make Hal Jordan look heroic

Prolific comic-book cover artist Alex Ross has revealed some early concept art that he did for the Green Lantern movie — which looks just like his other comic-book art. Which is to say, awesome and vivid. This is the Hal Jordan we all grew up with — square-jawed, determined and a total daredevil. Comic Book…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 20

Bill Gates Wants to Build a Better Toilet

Bill Gates, nowadays basking in the accolades his philanthropy provides, noticed that toilets kind of suck in the developing world. Wanting to help stop the spread of communicable diseases, he’s ready to put down $41.5 million for potty advancements. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is prepared to give that huge sum of money to…

Health Kwame Opam Jul 20

TSA to Debut Scanning Software that Won’t Reveal Your Naked Body to the World

If you’re going to be bombarded by radiation before boarding a flight, you shouldn’t have to bear the extra insult of also having your birthday suit exposed in the process. The TSA’s scanning software just got a censorship patch! https://gizmodo.com/one-hundred-naked-citizens-one-hundred-leaked-body-sca-5690749 The LA Times reports the TSA will phase in the software, which replaces your backscatter-imaged…

Privacy & Security Sam Biddle Jul 20

Welcome to Comic-Con

Today the annual pilgrimage to Comic-Con begins, bringing with it a new year of fantastic movies, TV, books, comics and games. Though this convention began as a humble gathering of comic book fans in the early 1970s, it has grown to attract over 100 thousand attendees as well as major Hollywood studios, producers sniffing for…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 20

1 in 5 College Kids Have Never Sexted in Their Sad, Sad Lives

Apparently, “college students” are filled with raging hormones and a desire to put their genitals together! And it’s being facilitated by cellular phones! But are you in the pitiable minority who doesn’t get OMG IM HORNY texts? Tsk tsk. This cultural shocker, courtesy of the University of Rhode Island, says that: 6 percent of the…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 20

Billionaire Sheik Tags His Name Upside Down in the Desert So It’s Visible from Space

An eccentric, or perhaps just egocentric, Shiek in Abu Dhabi has carved his name into the desert of an United Arab Emirates island he owns in giant 1000 meter letters. And it just happens to be visible from space. According to the UK Sun, the oversized name plate was commissioned by Shiekh Hamad Bin Hamdan…

Space & Spaceflight Adrian Covert Jul 20

Can You Believe All This Food Is Actually Jell-O?

I really wish that this was my breakfast today. Sure, you may think it looks ordinary—eggs, pancakes, doughnuts, coffee—but it’s actually made entirely from Jell-O. Yup! All Jell-O everything. Unbelievable, right? These realistic Jell-O creations are part of the third annual Jell-O Mold Competition held recently in Brooklyn, New York and it’s drop dead amazing…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 20

Will Captain America be better than Thor?

The Sentinel of Liberty finally hits the big screen on Friday — but how will Captain America’s movie stack up to Thor? Will Marvel land a one-two punch of awesomeness with its in-house productions? Or will Cap fall flat? How will we wind up comparing the last two movies leading up to The Avengers? Vote…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 20

Two New Laws of Robotics: Achieve maximum cuteness, and support worthy causes!

This cute little art robot could be the best friend you ever have — and by purchasing it, you could be helping kids to learn creative writing. 826 Michigan is having its second annual Robot Art Fair this week, and proceeds from the sale of some of the robots will help keep this super-worthy nonprofit…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 20

Shooting Challenge: Vintage Hand-Coloring

Before the advent of color photography, it was common for black and white photos to be retouched with paints. The “hand-coloring” technique was used with frequency until around 1940. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll dust it off. The Challenge Take an original photo, turn it black and white and color in the image…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 20

Netflix Makes Its Way to a Bunch More Android Phones

The latest update for the Netflix app for Android has expanded the number of supported handsets from 9 to 24. The newly supported phones include the Droid 3, HTC’s Thunderbolt, and Motorola’s Atrix, the Epic 4G and the Fascinate. Now go get to suckin’ down that bandwidth already. [Android Market via Engadget]

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 20

Knights in shining armor were the worst idea in military history

To determine how much energy knights in the Middle Ages burnt merely strolling around, British researchers recruited volunteers to dress up in mock-ups of real knightly armor and — in a hilarious twist — gallivant on treadmills. Sure enough, the study found that shielding the entire body was a heavy proposition. Watch the volunteers get…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 20

The Best Deal of the Day

When we were growing up, my brother’s tried-and-true Tecmo Bowl method involved kicking my controler plug from the NES just before his game-winning Hail Mary pass. It wouldn’t have been so bad if he didn’t have 6 years on me… and we weren’t gambling allowances. Thankfully he can’t pull that sort of shit with this…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Jul 20

Asshole Boyfriend Forced His Girlfriend to Eat an iPhone

Brian Anscomb, a 37-year-old patent lawyer and dickhead of the week, supposedly “force-fed” an iPhone to his 23-year-old girlfriend in an attempt to make her eat it. That’s, like, really not cool man. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE. The ‘stuffing an iPhone down his girlfriend’s throat’ incident happened this past weekend during an…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 20

First trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man shows off Spidey’s new web-cam!

The first ever trailer for Marc Webb’s Spider-Man reboot is officially out! See how Peter Parker has mutated from the wide-eyed Sam Raimi superhero to this lanky gloom cloud incarnation played by Andrew Garfield. Plus brand new Spider Vision! Watch! Clearly it’s a whole lot darker than the last Spider-Man franchise. But even though it…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Jul 20

The stars trace an impossible circle in the night sky

This photo isn’t real, and not just because it’s been squished. The circles up there are star trails completing a full orbit through the sky. That’s never been photographed before…and you’ll need to head to the Poles to do it. Time-lapse photography allows us to see these star trails blaze across the sky as they…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 20

We’ll Miss You, Little Plastic MacBook

Apple stopped loving the MacBook a long time ago. It was obvious to everyone, perhaps, but the MacBook. And now Apple’s decided to stop even pretending. The plastic MacBook is gone. https://gizmodo.com/the-macbook-is-dead-5822993/ MacBook, we salute you. When the MacBook first arrived in the Spring of 2006, it occupied a space all its own. There was…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jul 20

The Wild Bird Feeder Is the Bane of Squirrelkind

Lego-Crusted Pioneer Turntable Combines Two of Your Most Favorite Playthings

5 Best Alternatives to Apple’s New Product Lineup

Alex Ross’ Green Lantern concept art shows how to make Hal Jordan look heroic

Bill Gates Wants to Build a Better Toilet

TSA to Debut Scanning Software that Won’t Reveal Your Naked Body to the World

Welcome to Comic-Con

1 in 5 College Kids Have Never Sexted in Their Sad, Sad Lives

Billionaire Sheik Tags His Name Upside Down in the Desert So It’s Visible from Space

Can You Believe All This Food Is Actually Jell-O?

Will Captain America be better than Thor?

Two New Laws of Robotics: Achieve maximum cuteness, and support worthy causes!

Shooting Challenge: Vintage Hand-Coloring

Netflix Makes Its Way to a Bunch More Android Phones

Knights in shining armor were the worst idea in military history

The Best Deal of the Day

Asshole Boyfriend Forced His Girlfriend to Eat an iPhone

First trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man shows off Spidey’s new web-cam!

The stars trace an impossible circle in the night sky

We’ll Miss You, Little Plastic MacBook

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