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This House Wears the Address On Its Sleeve

You say your address is Number 523? Hmm. I still can”t seem to find it. Look harder, man! The address is staring you right in the face! Tomfoolery aside, this is a string of prefabricated Numbers Houses by Mitsutomo Matsunami Architects & Associates, a Japanese studio with an apparent love of buildings that resemble things…

Tech News Jack Loftus Mar 19

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop Confirms the Obvious

Lest there be any doubt as to when those ballyhooed Nokia phones running Windows Phone 7 are being developed, CEO Stephen Elop confirmed that said handsets were being created right this instant. Availability is another story: 2012 [Reuters via BGR]

Tech News Jack Loftus Mar 19

Some MacBook Pro Thunderbolt Ports Are Messing with Cinema Displays

Some 24-inch and 27-inch Apple Cinema Displays owners are experiencing distracting flicker when connected to a MacBook Pro via the new Thunderbolt port. Proof is in the video, but with all new tech issues, how widespread is this? [Engadget]

Tech News Jack Loftus Mar 19

NASA employees make a human spaceship in the Kennedy Center parking lot

Last Friday, one-thousand-plus NASA employees convened in the parking lot outside of the Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building to create a human spaceship for the Space Shuttle Program’s 30th anniversary, thus marking the agency’s first inroads into biomechanical starships. Hat tip to Liz!

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 19

DIY 1968 Electronic UFO Detector

When you’re done not finding any UFOs with your DIY UFO detector, you can also use its electronic magnetic field-detecting properties to not find ghosts, which also don’t exist. [Strange Attractor via Boing Boing]

Tech News Jack Loftus Mar 19

The colorful story of diffraction grating

One of the coolest things about physics is that the same basic concept can pop up in several seemingly unrelated things: say, a CD, the seed shrimp’s antennae, certain fossils in the Burgess shale, and scientific instruments used for spectroscopy. I’m talking about a diffraction grating, which Wikipedia helpfully defines as “an optical component with…

io9 Jennifer Ouellette - Cocktail Party Physics Mar 19

Report: It’s Good to Be an eBook

According to the Association of American Publishers, eBook sales are doing quite well, to the tune of an 115% increase in sales this past January, compared to one year ago. Sales were $69.9 million for the month. Reading! [BGR]

Tech News Jack Loftus Mar 19

Propaganda posters urge you to keep calm and shoot Nazi dinosaurs

When Hitler’s dino-hordes storm Normandy, will you have the wherewithal to beat them back? Allied propaganda posters from a lizard-filled WWII urge you to take arms against these Jurassic Nazis, while Axis posters tout raptors as the strength of Germany. These propaganda posters are actually promotions for the video game Dino D-Day, which finally gets…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 19

Now This Is How You Retrieve Two Massive Solid Rocket Boosters from the Ocean!

I still can’t believe this is the first up-close, 480p video of NASA retrieving the space shuttle’s two solid rocket boosters (SRBs) from the Atlantic Ocean, and yet it is! The SRBs are, in a word, massive. And they float! Obviously, right? How else would NASA retrieve these two huge towers of propulsion from the…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus Mar 19

Monirobo Robots Deployed at Fukushima to Help Monitor Radiation Risks

A robot named Monirobo has been dispatched to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station this week to monitor areas of the site that have become so saturated with radiation humans dare not venture there. Monirobo (monitor robot) was developed by the Nuclear Safety Technology Center at Japan’s Ministry of Education. The robot has some heft to…

Tech News Jack Loftus Mar 19

Four fascinating documentaries about nuclear power

Curious about Uranium mining or the biological ramifications of nuclear pollution? Here’s an assortment of enlightening documentaries that will fill you in on sundry nuclear topics (and some of them can be watched online). Into Eternity This 2009 documentary takes a look at Finland’s underground Onkalo nuclear storage facility (above) and the precautions the Finnish…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 19

Crash Test Tesla Model S Alpha Hints at Electric Sports Sedans to Come

The orange beauty here is one of the crash test cars that Tesla will send into a wall at some future date to judge the car’s impact worthiness. It’s also an indication of what’s next from the electric car company. Manufactured in the company’s brand spankin’ new Fremont, Calif. facility (well, recently acquired from GM/Toyota…

Tech News Jack Loftus Mar 19

What happens when two stars fall into each other?

The universe is mostly empty, but once in a great while stars get close enough to crash into each other. Two stars recently combined to form Sco V1309. Find out what happened when they did. In 2008, two stars became one, only no one knew it yet. All anyone knew was a previously unknown star…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 19

U.S., French and British Forces Strike Libyan Military Positions (Updated)

An unidentified fighter jet plummets from the skies over Benghazi, Libya. CNN was unable to independently identify if the plane was indeed a rebel fighter sent to reinforce their position in that city, as was suggested by a source. Meanwhile, tanks from both sides of the conflict are massing at Benghazi, which has become a…

Tech News Jack Loftus Mar 19

Victorian robot porn “Chester 5000 XYV” is a naughty tale of true romance

Jess Fink’s webcomic Chester 5000 XYV is a pornographic sexbot tale with a twist: a Victorian gentleman builds a robot to satisfy his sexually voracious wife, but wife and well-endowed automaton fall deeply (and, of course, passionately) in love. A while back, we profiled Fink’s Star Trek: The Next Generation comics – starring a very…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 19

This Week’s Best Apps

In this week’s app roundup: Rainbow 6, miniaturized; your photos, comicified; social video sharing, simplified; the license plate game, reinvented; the music mag, digitized; Instapaper, socialized; Time Warner cable TV, brought to your tablet, and much much more. The week’s best iPhone apps Halftone: Its aim is straightfoward: make your photos look like comics. You…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Mar 19

Robonaut 2 joins first human-robot space crew

Star Trek’s Data must be smiling. One of his kind has finally made it to the High Frontier. The voyages of Robo Trek have begun! Robonaut 2, or R2, was finally unleashed from his foam lined packing crate by ISS crewmembers Cady Coleman and Paolo Nespoli on March 15 and attached to a pedestal located…

io9 Ken Kremer - Universe Today Mar 19

The never-was 1000 MPH transcontinental railroad from New York to Los Angeles

Here’s another speculative transit project right up there with that underground bullet train between New York and Philly. In 1948, Modern Mechanics showcased this supersonic cross-continental rocket train. You could go from NYC to LA in three hours! At 1,000-mph your train will travel as fast as the sun in its apparent motion across the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 19

How would you invent the Fantastic Four from scratch?

What if you were the artist of the first issue of Fantastic Four and had to design the characters with no knowledge other than the fact that they’re somewhat mutated astronauts? Warren Ellis posed this question to designers in his Whitechapel Forums, and the artists came up with teams completely different from Reed Richards and…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 19

This House Wears the Address On Its Sleeve

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop Confirms the Obvious

Some MacBook Pro Thunderbolt Ports Are Messing with Cinema Displays

NASA employees make a human spaceship in the Kennedy Center parking lot

DIY 1968 Electronic UFO Detector

The colorful story of diffraction grating

Report: It’s Good to Be an eBook

Propaganda posters urge you to keep calm and shoot Nazi dinosaurs

Now This Is How You Retrieve Two Massive Solid Rocket Boosters from the Ocean!

Monirobo Robots Deployed at Fukushima to Help Monitor Radiation Risks

Four fascinating documentaries about nuclear power

Crash Test Tesla Model S Alpha Hints at Electric Sports Sedans to Come

What happens when two stars fall into each other?

U.S., French and British Forces Strike Libyan Military Positions (Updated)

Victorian robot porn “Chester 5000 XYV” is a naughty tale of true romance

This Week’s Best Apps

Robonaut 2 joins first human-robot space crew

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