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io9 Roundup: June 1, 2011

STARSHIP TROOPERS VS. CTHULHU | Concept art by Thai CGI artist Monsit Jangariyawong More here. https://gizmodo.com/your-fleet-is-no-match-for-space-cthulhu-5025619 https://gizmodo.com/the-entire-film-akira-condensed-into-one-movie-poster-5807637 The entire film Akira condensed into one movie poster Here’s an awesome (if extremely rare) poster Tyler Stout recently created for the Alamo Drafthouse’s Mystery Movie. Basically, it’s every event from Akira merged into one crazy whole. More »…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 1

YouTube’s Creative Commons License Lets You Remix Videos Like Crazy

Starting tomorrow, remixers will be able to mashup their favorite YouTube videos using a new Creative Commons license. The new feature will let you assign a Creative Commons license to your videos. This open license lets other people use your CC videos in their projects. You can also use their CC videos in your creations.…

Tech News Kelly Jun 1

Starting Today, Lasering a Plane Will Cost You $11,000

Sometimes morons like to shoot lasers at aircraft. I guess it’s a hobby of sorts! But now it’s an expensive hobby, with a new FAA policy decreeing an $11,000 fine for shooting your pointer at a plane. https://gizmodo.com/annoyed-florida-idiot-blasts-sheriffs-helicopter-pilot-5698299 It’s illegal, because, uh, it’s extremely dangerous. What looks like a little beam from the ground can…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jun 1

Is Bollywood’s “Ra.One” the next “Enthiran”? Watch the full-length trailer and decide!

Enthiran (aka Robot) took the world by storm with its crazy robo-centipede action. Can Shah Rukh Khan’s Ra.One bring the same level of special effects and insanity? We’re cautiously optimistic. Watch the first full-length trailer and decide for yourself. Khan, also known as SRK, also did a new interview in which he explained a bit…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jun 1

Video Time Machine for iPhone Takes You Back into Time with Nostalgic Videos

Video Time Machine, from the guys behind YouTube Time Machine, is an awesome app that let’s you select a year and category and then watch a relevant video. I’ve been enjoying all the videos of my youth. There’s categories like TV, Movies, Music, Ads, Video Games, Sports and others to watch, and the videos date…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 1

The entire film Akira condensed into one movie poster

Here’s an awesome (if extremely rare) poster Tyler Stout recently created for the Alamo Drafthouse’s Mystery Movie. Basically, it’s every event from Akira merged into one crazy whole. You can see a much larger version here. [Hitfix via Comics Alliance]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 1

Death Map Brings Video Game Kills To Life

Jim Blackhurst has one of those cool, nerdy jobs. He works for video games publisher Square Enix and is responsible for analyzing anonymous game data. One of Blackhurst’s tasks has focused on creating maps using kill data from the game Just Cause 2. He took 22.3 million data points and plotted them into the detailed…

Tech News Kelly Jun 1

Greeks Build Braille-Wrapped Pharmacy for People, Not Giants

No, you are not looking at a pill bottle for Homer’s Cyclops. This is the Placebo Pharmacy in Athens, Greece, designed by KLab Architecture. Within it resides a 600 sq meter pharmacy with practitioners’ offices on the second floor. The name is actually a reference to the building’s original shape. As the design team explains:…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jun 1

Gorgeous video explains why there’s no such thing as a jellyfish

It’s wrong to lump all the ocean’s jelly-like creatures into one category “jellyfish.” So this video from the wonderful The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute breaks down all the glorious varieties of these magical sea beasts. From MBARI: By all accounts, jellyfish are creatures that kill people, eat microbes, grow to tens of meters, filter…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 1

An 81-year-old Man’s Dentures Deflect a Bullet and Save His Life

I always thought that there was nothing good about dentures. Zacarias Pacheco de Moraes, an 81-year-old man, would disagree since wearing dentures is the reason he’s alive. No joke, Moraes was shot in the face but the dentures deflected the bullet. Moraes was shot while he was tending his bar in Alta Floresta, Brazil. Wait…hold…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 1

If Syfy picks up The Event as a miniseries, there truly is no justice in television

Rumors are leaking out that the producers of the The Event are in talks with Syfy to revive the canceled show as a miniseries. According to Deadline Hollywood, “the show’s creator Nick Wauters and executive producer Steve Stark told fans that there was a possibility for the sci-fi drama to continue elsewhere.” Apparently, the “elsewhere”…

Television Annalee Newitz Jun 1

Robots Will Someday Dispense All Your Medicines

Pharmacists may be able to spend more time chatting about drugs and less time tediously counting them. The counting could be handled by a robotic pill dispenser system capable of dispensing 5,000 scripts a day. The Rube Goldberg-like pill dispenser system is powered by a mix of computers, machinery and robots. The system prints the…

Tech News Kelly Jun 1

Worms from Hell Might Mean Worms from Mars

You know how sometimes a piece of awesome news turns sour because it opens the door for something terrible? That’s what’s happening in South Africa, where the discovery of “worms from Hell” means subterranean life on Mars is a lot more likely. Thing is, that “life” would probably be worms from Hell from Mars. The…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jun 1

People judge how smart you are based solely on your name

People’s names can say a lot about them – at least, that’s what everyone assumes. This is good news for all the Katherines and Samuels out there…but if you’re an Amber or Travis, you won’t like where this is going. Some names just strike people as stupider than others. I should stress that this isn’t…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jun 1

Dead Reckoning, the latest Sookie Stackhouse novel, brings on the fae — maybe a little too much

As True Blood fans eagerly await the show’s fourth season, readers of the Sookie Stackhouse book series on which the show is based have a new installment to devour. Dead Reckoning is the eleventh Southern Vampire Mystery, and it continues to build on the surprisingly complex universe author Charlaine Harris has laid out. What began…

Books & Comics Louis Peitzman Jun 1

A Complete List of Other Things As Cancer-y As Cellphones, According to the World Health Organization

The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer now considers cellphones usage to be a possible, or “Class 2B,” carcinogen. Here’s everything else they consider to be a 2B carcinogen, otherwise presented without comment: A-alpha-C (2-Amino-9H-pyrido[2,3-b]indole) Acetaldehyde Acetamide Acrylonitrile AF-2 [2-(2-Furyl)-3-(5-nitro-2-furyl)acrylamide] Aflatoxin M1 para-Aminoazobenzen ortho-Aminoazotoluene 1-Amino-2,4-dibromoanthraquinone 2-Amino-5-(5-nitro-2-furyl)-1,3,4-thiadiazole Amsacrine ortho-Anisidine Anthraquinone Antimony trioxide Aramite®…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 1

Swarming Decoy MALD Missiles Are a Cross Between Cruise Missiles and Drones

MALD, or Miniature Air-Launched Decoy missiles, can be deployed in cloud-like swarms that would help hide and protect real fighter planes from enemy air defenses. MALD missiles are like swarming drones. They’re an alternative to being stealth and invisible because with MALDs the goal is to distract, confuse or overwhelm the enemy. With a mass-deployment…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 1

Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts, Including Those of U.S. Officials

Hundreds of Gmail accounts have been recently hacked, including the accounts of senior government and military personnel in the U.S. Additionally, officials and activists in South Korea and China were affected in the security breach. Here’s the official statement from Google: Through the strength of our cloud-based security and abuse detection systems*, we recently uncovered…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 1

Idea Flight for iPad

Imagine you have a presentation to show off but instead of using a projector and paper print outs, you’re using iPads. Why? Because with Idea Flight for iPad, you can control what everyone gets to see on their iPad. What is it? Idea Flight, Free, iPad. At the core, Idea Flight is like a screen…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 1

io9 Roundup: June 1, 2011

YouTube’s Creative Commons License Lets You Remix Videos Like Crazy

Starting Today, Lasering a Plane Will Cost You $11,000

Is Bollywood’s “Ra.One” the next “Enthiran”? Watch the full-length trailer and decide!

Video Time Machine for iPhone Takes You Back into Time with Nostalgic Videos

The entire film Akira condensed into one movie poster

Top Stories: Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Death Map Brings Video Game Kills To Life

Greeks Build Braille-Wrapped Pharmacy for People, Not Giants

Gorgeous video explains why there’s no such thing as a jellyfish

An 81-year-old Man’s Dentures Deflect a Bullet and Save His Life

If Syfy picks up The Event as a miniseries, there truly is no justice in television

Robots Will Someday Dispense All Your Medicines

Worms from Hell Might Mean Worms from Mars

People judge how smart you are based solely on your name

Dead Reckoning, the latest Sookie Stackhouse novel, brings on the fae — maybe a little too much

A Complete List of Other Things As Cancer-y As Cellphones, According to the World Health Organization

Swarming Decoy MALD Missiles Are a Cross Between Cruise Missiles and Drones

Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts, Including Those of U.S. Officials

Idea Flight for iPad

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