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What Can You Do With a Screen Made from 480 Shoes? Play Video Games, Turn It into a Mirror and More

Converse has created a 13 foot by 16 foot wall (4x5m) with 480 Chuck Taylors as its pixels. It’s amazing. The wall, or screen o’ Chucks, can be used to play video games, be a virtual mirror or just be awesome. I was never a Chucks guy. I appreciated its classicness and pioneerism but they…

Tech News Casey Chan May 12

It’s Too Late to Fly from This Flood

Devastating flooding along the Mississippi River have left large swaths the delta states in drenched ruined. General DeWitt Spain Airport, right outside Memphis, is clearly in rough shape—as seen by this barely-visible airplane tip. Here’s what the airport looks when not stricken by natural disaster. It’s closed at the moment (to say the least), and…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 12

Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball App Now Available for Android

Yahoo’s Fantasy Baseball app has finally made its way into the Android Market—just a month and a half late. You can manage your lineup, track matchups, get real-time scoring updates, and more. Free. [Android Market] https://gizmodo.com/the-best-apps-for-baseball-5787785

Tech News Davey Alba May 12

Future Touchscreens Might Have Adjustable ‘Stickiness’ Factor

Things such as brightness and responsiveness are adjustable variables on touchscreens. But what about stickiness? Is that even possible on a glass screen? Short answer: yes. And researchers at the University of British Columbia are showing off how this is possible. According to New Scientist: The friction adjustment is actually something of a trick. The…

Tech News Adrian Covert May 12

The World’s First Wi-Fi Mouse’s Battery Lasts for Nine Months

You are going to run out of USB ports on your computer. It’s inevitable. And sucky! But HP’s new Wi-Fi Mobile Mouse helps you conserve those ports by connecting wirelessly—not with Bluetooth, though. Wi-Fi. This rodent’s battery life can last up to nine months before it drains out—supposedly more than twice the lifespan of other…

Tech News Davey Alba May 12

Today’s Best Gadgets

The World’s First Wi-Fi Mouse’s Battery Lasts for Nine Months https://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-first-wi-fi-mouses-battery-lasts-for-nine-mo-5801419 You are going to run out of USB ports on your computer. It’s inevitable. And sucky! But HP’s new Wi-Fi Mobile Mouse helps you conserve those ports by connecting wirelessly—not with Bluetooth, though. Wi-Fi. More » The Bridge IIIP Swirls Your iPhone With Your Home…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola May 12

Mosquitos may already have the means to defeat malaria hidden inside them

Malaria is still one of the world’s deadliest diseases, and the effort to stop it involves everything from lasers to nanotech. New discoveries reveal that the trick to stopping malaria may involve spreading a disease that already lives within mosquitoes. It turns out that mosquitos have an Enterobacter bacterium living in their midgut — a…

io9 Tim Barribeau May 12

This Chubby Guy Dressed As Batman Got Arrested for Dangling from a Building

Mark Wayne Williams, a 31-year old man, was caught by police as he dangled off the side of a building. The dude was decked out in full Batman costume, and carrying a baton, Freeze Plus P and lead-lined gloves. Police pulled Williams up from the side of a 30-foot building and arrested him. Public safety…

Tech News Casey Chan May 12

How do emperor penguins survive underwater long after their oxygen should be depleted?

Emperor penguins are the undisputed champions of diving in the world of birds. They can travel more than 500 meters below the surface, and stay submerged for more than 20 minutes, even though by all accounts their oxygen should run out in just a fraction of that. So how do they pull off this incredibly…

io9 Tim Barribeau May 12

It’s Official: This Is the New AIM

On Monday we reported on AIM’s kind-of-sort-of-secret new video chat site. As of today, it’s official, and it’s just the beginning of a new direction for the hoary chat service. https://gizmodo.com/we-used-aims-secret-video-chat-site-and-its-pretty-gre-5800344 We all use AIM. And yet we can also all agree it’s a horrid, outdated user experience. Even Aol knows that, so it bought…

Tech News Mat Honan May 12

Which Tech Features Aren’t Worth Your Money?

The NYT’s got a dandy writeup of seven tech perks that you should eschew in favor of saved cash: oversized megapixelage, pointlessly fast CPUs, and as our dear Matt Buchanan hits, unneeded TV screen size. But how do you skimp? I agree strongly (like Godzilla squeeze-grip strongly) about CPUs—clock speed stopped mattering a long time…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 12

A Warehouse 13 Spin-Off Starring H.G. Wells? Yes please!

One of the best things about Warehouse 13’s second season was the revelation that H.G. Wells was a woman — and she was a sassy inventor, who rivaled Doctor Who’s River Song in the style department. So it’s exciting news that Syfy has greenlit an H.G. Wells show, which would follow the steampunk adventures of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 12

Watch Antonio Banderas ogle the Higgs Boson

In the noir flick Big Bang, out tomorrow, Antonio Banderas is a detective trying to track down a missing stripper while the bodies pile up around him. Inexplicably, his investigation takes him to the mansion of a weirdo bazillionaire who is trying to find the Higgs Boson. This is science camp at its campiest. Love…

Movies Annalee Newitz May 12

New Support for “Treatment as Prevention” Approach to HIV

A trial that had originally been planned to run until 2015, testing whether treating an HIV-infected person with antiretroviral drugs could prevent that person from passing the disease along to his partner, stopped today. Because it was so successful. The trial, sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was called off…

Tech News Brian Barrett May 12

The Bridge IIIP Swirls Your iPhone With Your Home Theater

So you’ve got a ton of your favorite music on your iPhone, but no AirPlay speakers. You want to lie back on the couch and enjoy some Keri Hilson. I feel you. The Bridge IIIP makes your iPhone A/V family. It’s really just a fancy $130 dock, yes. But it’ll let you control your music…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 12

New Iron Sky trailer shows the Space Nazi meteor blitzkrieg hitting the Earth

Little did we know that the Nazis have been secretly hiding on their Moonbase, poised for attack. The brand new trailer for Iron Sky takes us into their mind-wiping space colony, and shows off their outer space army! Also in this trailer is the film’s official release date: April 4th 2012. The creators of Iron…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 12

The 20 Best Google Labs Add-Ons For Gmail

The best thing about Google is that its employees have all the time in the world-or at least, a Google-bestowed chunk of hours-to devote to various side projects. You might recognize some of these. Like, say, Gmail. Other Google side projects might fly under your radar for a variety of reasons, not the least of…

Tech News David Murphy - Maximum PC May 12

Foundation’s Edge by Isaac Asimov: The end is the beginning is the end

Three decades after his Foundation stories became classics, Isaac Asimov returned to that universe. In Hugo winner Foundation’s Edge, he covers old ground and new, and shows how a whole galaxy can work in harmony, in more than one sense. It is day four of Foundation Week for Blogging the Hugos, and time to discuss…

io9 Josh Wimmer and Alasdair Wilkins May 12

What was it like being a stunt director on Total Recall?

Vic Armstrong may be the World’s Greatest Stuntman, but he faced a major challenge when he became a second unit director on Total Recall. He had to make Arnold Schwarzenegger seem to get sucked out onto the Martian surface. He had to organize a knock-down fight between Sharon Stone and Rachel Ticotin. He had to…

io9 Vic Armstrong May 12

What Can You Do With a Screen Made from 480 Shoes? Play Video Games, Turn It into a Mirror and More

It’s Too Late to Fly from This Flood

Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball App Now Available for Android

Future Touchscreens Might Have Adjustable ‘Stickiness’ Factor

The World’s First Wi-Fi Mouse’s Battery Lasts for Nine Months

Top Stories: Thursday, May 12, 2011

Today’s Best Gadgets

Mosquitos may already have the means to defeat malaria hidden inside them

This Chubby Guy Dressed As Batman Got Arrested for Dangling from a Building

How do emperor penguins survive underwater long after their oxygen should be depleted?

It’s Official: This Is the New AIM

Which Tech Features Aren’t Worth Your Money?

A Warehouse 13 Spin-Off Starring H.G. Wells? Yes please!

Watch Antonio Banderas ogle the Higgs Boson

New Support for “Treatment as Prevention” Approach to HIV

The Bridge IIIP Swirls Your iPhone With Your Home Theater

New Iron Sky trailer shows the Space Nazi meteor blitzkrieg hitting the Earth

The 20 Best Google Labs Add-Ons For Gmail

Foundation’s Edge by Isaac Asimov: The end is the beginning is the end

What was it like being a stunt director on Total Recall?

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