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The Week’s Best Android Apps

Netflix: We’ve been waiting for Netflix to come to Android for a very long time. And it’s finally here! Well, kind of. At the moment, you can only use Netflix on Android if you have a Samsung Nexus S, Evo 4G, Droid Incredible, T-Mobile G2 or Nexus One. It’s still Netflix, dude. Free. WatchESPN: WatchESPN,…

Tech News Casey Chan May 15 '11

The Week’s Best iPhone Apps

Onavo: If you use a capped data plan, you might have to seriously consider using Onavo. It compresses emails, apps or web suring to as much as 90 percent! Sounds too good to be true, right? Onavo promises you could pretty much double or triple the data plan you’re on, with it working on anything…

Tech News Casey Chan May 15 '11

Nathan Fillion launches a new electric car: “It looks a little like a spaceship. I’m kind of into spaceships.”

If you’ve been feeling deprived of the sight of Nathan Fillion aboard a space buggy, then here’s an awesome picture of Captain Tightpants showing off the prototype of a new three-wheeled electric car. The highest end version of the Arcimoto “Red 5” SRV can go up to 160 miles on a single battery charge and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 15 '11

Using home movies, man time-travels 35 years into the past in 6.5 minutes

For a terrifically long-term video project, Sam Klemke filmed himself every year for 35 years. He then ran these clips in reverse order to simulate himself traveling backwards in time. Watch him de-age three decades in less than 10 minutes. [Via Boing Boing]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 15 '11

Take a video tour of the dilapidated tourist towns of the Salton Sea

We recently took a video tour of southern California’s Salvation Mountain. Now Ransom Riggs has created a short film about the nearby Salton Sea, a one-time vacation hotspot that’s fallen on hard environmental and financial times. https://gizmodo.com/welcome-to-salvation-mountain-the-rainbow-hued-god-cav-5800339 https://gizmodo.com/the-salton-sea-is-like-mad-max-with-beachfront-views-5499665 Hat tip to Jean!

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 15 '11

Cats in Tanks Wreak Pure Havoc

Finally! Proof that cats, given tanks, would love nothing more than to kill us all. Seriously. I’m just curious as to how their tiny paws made that kind of firepower. Did you see that poor woman disintegrate? [The Mary Sue]

Tech News Kwame Opam May 15 '11

Why does the Moon make scorpions glow in the dark?

Between their pincers and poisonous stingers, you’d really think that scorpions are already more than scary enough for one species. But that still leaves their unearthly – and unexplained – ability to glow a strange blue color in ultraviolet light. Scorpions have the rather unusual ability of fluorescence, giving them an eerie blue color if…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins May 15 '11

Grimm Photos

David Giuntoli – Det. Nick Burkhardt Russell Hornsby – Lt. Hank Griffin Silas Weir – Mitchell Eddy Munroe Sasha Roiz – Captain Renard Bitsie Tullock – Juliette Silverton Reggie Lee – Sgt. Wu

Television Meredith Woerner May 15 '11

It Is Officially the Worst Allergy Season Ever

Or at least as far as we can remember. Allergies suck all around, but due to the lack of rain to wash away those hateful spores known as pollen, NYC residents are having a worse time of it this year. I wasn’t even aware physicians could specialize in allergy treatment, but apparently allergists are seeing…

Tech News Kwame Opam May 15 '11

Colliding white dwarfs give each other a new lease on life

White dwarfs are the ultra-dense husks of stars like our own, dying remnants that are just a pale shadow of their former glory. But when two white dwarfs come together, they can create something very special: a brand new star. About 90% of all stars eventually become white dwarfs, which have nearly the mass of…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins May 15 '11

Mac OS X Lion’s Safari Reading List Competing Directly with Instapaper

This Reading List feature looks even cooler with the latest build of Lion. One 9to5 Mac reader found out that webpages saved using the tool are synced with iOS devices. This makes using Instapaper on your iPad pretty redundant. As you may already know, Instapaper is a great little app for iOS and Kindle that…

Tech News Kwame Opam May 15 '11

Cotton Balls In Cardboard Boxes are Somehow Hypnotic

Artist Zimoun employed 138 cotton balls attached to dc-motors inside cardboard boxes for this new installation. I watched this and literally went, “Well that’s not… ok but.. wait what? I don’t even…” And now my head hurts. [design milk]

Tech News Kwame Opam May 15 '11

A tween girl designed the coolest TARDIS console yet

Check out the awesomeness of this incredibly weird TARDIS console, complete with coat-hanger, skipping rope and telephone wires that make tea. And satnav! It’s the work of Susannah Leah, a young viewer of the BBC’s Blue Peter program. Spoilers ahead… Susannah’s design was featured in yesterday’s Doctor Who adventure, “The Doctor’s Wife.” The BBC just…

Television Charlie Jane Anders May 15 '11

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s never-made adaptation of Dune is getting a documentary

While we’re on the topic of Dalí, news has come out of the Cannes Festival that director Frank Pavich is making a documentary titled Jodorowsky’s Dune that delves into the history of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s doomed adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel. https://gizmodo.com/watch-destino-salvador-dalis-cartoon-team-up-with-walt-5802008 Before the 1974-1976 project went belly up, Jodorowsky’s production team for Dune was perhaps…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar May 15 '11

Watch Destino, Salvador Dalí’s cartoon team-up with Walt Disney

In 1946, Salvador Dalí collaborated with Walt Disney animators on Destino, a surrealist animation that was storyboarded but scrapped due to budgetary concerns. Destino wouldn’t be finished until 2003, when Roy Disney resurrected the project. Melting clocks à la Disney! [Via The Wooster Collective]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 15 '11

University of Chicago’s Robotic Library Makes Your Librarian Obsolete

Tomorrow, The University of Chicago will be changing how their students will be doing their research papers. The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library will use a massive automated retrieval system, turning the whole library experience on it’s head. Even now, libraries can be a little intimidating. The Dewey Decimal System seems like one of those…

Tech News Kwame Opam May 15 '11

Australian building crams tree-lined city street into 35 stories

The world’s first “vertical street” will soon be built in Melbourne, Australia. Every sixth floor of the 35-story building will have gardens capable of growing trees up to 10 metres tall and the entire building will be boasting the very latest in green technology. While roof gardens and landscaped balconies have been constructed in the…

io9 Wendy Zukerman - New Scientist May 15 '11

New Strides Toward Better Clocks, Accurate to One Second in 32 Billion Years

The slightest whisper of warmth induces miscalculations in the world’s most precise atomic clock, researchers say. Accounting for this effect can make future clocks even more precise, eventually leading to atomic clocks that lose only one second every 32 billion years – about two and a half times the age of the universe itself. Hyper-sensitive…

Tech News Rebecca Boyle - Pop Sci May 15 '11

In which a great work is finally completed: Isaac Asimov’s Forward the Foundation

Though not without its flaws, Forward the Foundation is a fascinating book, in which both author Isaac Asimov and his hero scientist Hari Seldon strive to finish the works that would define them after they were gone. It is the seventh and final day of Foundation Week at Blogging the Hugos, and time to talk…

Books & Comics Josh Wimmer and Alasdair Wilkins May 15 '11

Doctor Who really is a love story after all

It turns out Doctor Who’s time-traveling misfit has always had one great love in his life. Tonight’s episode was writer Neil Gaiman’s love letter to the series, but it was also a showcase for the Doctor’s great love affair. “The Doctor’s Wife” provides a weirdly skewed take on the show’s premise, which might well serve…

Television Charlie Jane Anders May 15 '11

The Week’s Best Android Apps

The Week’s Best iPhone Apps

Nathan Fillion launches a new electric car: “It looks a little like a spaceship. I’m kind of into spaceships.”

Using home movies, man time-travels 35 years into the past in 6.5 minutes

Take a video tour of the dilapidated tourist towns of the Salton Sea

Cats in Tanks Wreak Pure Havoc

Why does the Moon make scorpions glow in the dark?

Grimm Photos

It Is Officially the Worst Allergy Season Ever

Colliding white dwarfs give each other a new lease on life

Mac OS X Lion’s Safari Reading List Competing Directly with Instapaper

Cotton Balls In Cardboard Boxes are Somehow Hypnotic

A tween girl designed the coolest TARDIS console yet

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s never-made adaptation of Dune is getting a documentary

Watch Destino, Salvador Dalí’s cartoon team-up with Walt Disney

University of Chicago’s Robotic Library Makes Your Librarian Obsolete

Australian building crams tree-lined city street into 35 stories

New Strides Toward Better Clocks, Accurate to One Second in 32 Billion Years

In which a great work is finally completed: Isaac Asimov’s Forward the Foundation

Doctor Who really is a love story after all

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