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How Boomboxes Changed the Streets Forever

The boombox helped launch an urban revolution of style and technology. In The Boombox Project, Jame Phillips looks at some of the biggest, loudest, most extravagant, and D-cell hungriest shoulder-borne superradios of the day. Size Does Matter “My radio, believe me, I like it loud I’m the man with a box that can rock the…

Tech News James Phillips Jan 13

An Outer Limits episode per day will bring the head doctor to stay

Want to revisit The Outer Limits, the classic 1960s anthology series? A new blog reviews one Outer Limits episode per day, with supplemental essays by an army of smart critics. Dip into the early-sixties zeitgeist and rediscover the weirdness! [WeAreControllingTransmission]

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jan 13

The Greatest Scam in Tech

In the tech world, a few questions are usually enough. Does the product work? Is the idea good? How much does it cost? But as Peep Telephony reminds us, there’s a fourth, all-important qualification: Is it real? The Consumer Electronics Show, which took place in Las Vegas last week, is a place where you get…

Tech News John Herrman Jan 13

Dying exoplanet is turning its star into a dangerous magnetic hurricane

A gigantic exoplanet 63 light-years from Earth is doomed, slowly spiraling into its host star. But it’s going out with a bang, funneling orbital enemy into its star and making it spin faster and faster, creative massive magnetic disturbances. The planet in question has the snappy name of HD189733b, and it orbits the equally memorably…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jan 13

Winter Never Looked So Magical Before

I have a love-hate relationship with snow in New York. So beautiful at 7am. So dirty sad one hour later. This dreamy short film, however, makes Winter look like the most beautiful and peaceful of the seasons. https://gizmodo.com/new-york-looks-like-snow-zombieland-but-its-nothing-com-5718892 Shot with a Canon 550D in the Netherlands, edited to Paul Reeves’ Ice Dance by Kasper Bak,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 13

First look at the shrieking shadow monsters from The Vanishing on 7th Street

We’ve got an exclusive clip from Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton and John Leguizamo’s new movie The Vanishing on 7th Street. The rules are: Stay in the light or these creepy shrieking beasts will grab you in the dark. Watch! Any movie that plays like the childhood game of hot lava is awesome in our books.…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 13

Discovering the Maximum Velocity of Twitter

As a kid at my local county fair, I used to ride a roller coaster that rumbled around a circular track as songs like Foreigner’s Urgent blasted through a set of giant speakers. Every few times around the track, the guy running the ride would pause the music long enough to bellow out one loud…

Tech News Dave Pell Jan 13

How “Arterial Plaque” Is Made

Maybe it’s just me, but I can watch these how-they-make-food videos for hours. Mesmerizing. Now I’m craving for a croissant and a pain au chocolat and some good café au lait. [Kottke]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 13

Are virtual particles for real?

The universe is apparently filled with particles and anti-particles dancing into and out of existence. Are they for real? In this week’s “Ask a Physicist,” we’ll find out. Several readers took my previous Crackpot column as an invitation. To you, I say, “bravo!” If you want to send me a question about the universe in…

io9 Dr. Dave Goldberg Jan 13

Seas0nPass Is the Simplest Apple TV Jailbreak Yet

Seas0nPass, a new Apple TV jailbreak, makes the process easier than ever. And what can a jailbroken Apple TV actually do? Not a whole lot! You can install the media streamer Plex, though, which is a start. For now, the potential of a jailbroken Apple TV is more exciting than the reality of a jailbroken…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 13

Will Terra Nova be the new Lost… or the new FlashForward?

Steven Spielberg’s time-travel-with-dinosaurs show Terra Nova has been drawing plenty of comparisons to Avatar. But when the show revealed its first trailer to critics, the comparison on everyone’s mind was television’s former mega-hit, Lost. Actually, it sounds like everyone involved with Terra Nova was eager to dispel comparisons to Lost at the Television Critics Association…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jan 13

These Shit-Eating Poo-Gloos Look Like They Came From Outer Space

Apologies if my headline offended anyone, but I’m sure the Poo-Gloos don’t mind. After treating sewage in six US states, they’re accustomed to the odd crappy insult. Wastewater Compliance Systems Inc uses them for treating sewage due to their eco-friendliness, affordable nature and fast processing powers. They work in rows, using air to draw water…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 13

Could the Tron Legacy sequel be right around the corner?

Now that the buzz from Tron Legacy has come and gone, what lingers is a lot of unanswered questions. Like why did it rain inside a computer? Let’s hope the rumored “soon-to-be-greenlit” Tron sequel will answer any remaining queries. Ain’t It Cool news is reporting that Disney is mere moments away from announcing that they’re…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 13

This Motion Phone Dock Tracks You Everywhere You Go

This is one of those ideas you have to see in action in order to appreciate. Instead of shooting quivering, MySpace-y footage of yourself with your phone, this base will sit steady and automatically pivot to keep you in frame. Stick the Satarii base on the ground, a bench, a kitchen counter—wherever!—or even on a…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jan 13

Yellow dwarf sunrise on human colony 73, city zone

In orange morning light, even the shanties crusted to the old colony walls were beautiful. Most settlers had abandoned the atmosphere domes long ago. Now their broken purifiers and terraformer units were shelter for those who could afford nothing better. See more incredible ships, robots, and otherworldly landscapes on concept designer Dream Lu’s blog. (Spotted…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 13

Crab Nebula Should Be Renamed Smoking Blue Jellyfish Nebula

Believe it or not, this is the Crab Nebula, one of the most famous cosmic objects. Except that this image—9.8 light years across—doesn’t look like the Crab Nebula at all, but the Electric Blue Puff Puff Jellyfish. You don’t recognize it because that’s the X-ray image taken by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. And it’s precisely…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Jan 13

Hey Brainiac Kids, You Can Win $50,000 In Google’s Global Science Fair

The science fair! I don’t think any of my schools ever had one, but according to the movies they are a bonafide rite of passage for young nerds everywhere. Now, Google’s hosting one with a $50,000 grand prize. The Google Global Science Fair 2011, a competition for kids aged 13 to 18, hopes to find…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 13

Creating gorgeous space pictures out of raw data isn’t as easy as it looks

If you had access to a massive super-telescope, you could create to-die-for vistas of other galaxies, right? Maybe… but actually, it’s harder than you’d think. The European Southern Observatory offered amateur astronomers the chance to turn its wealth of data into images, and here are some results. The winner of ESO’s “Hidden Treasures” contest, Igor…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 13

Leak: BlackBerry Dakota Specs Are Best Yet (For RIM, That Is)

BGR has a track record when it comes to BlackBerry leaks, and it’s not like we haven’t heard the model name “Dakota” before. Why then do I—a former BB fangirl—feel so lacklustre about these rumored specs? https://gizmodo.com/first-look-at-blackberrys-essex-and-rumors-about-the-da-5374936 It’s exactly what I wanted after owning two of the Bold models—something in a similar form, but with…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 13

J.J. Abrams offers cryptic clues for Super 8 and Star Trek sequel, plus costar Sebastian Shan talks Captain America!

Sebastian Shan explains how he played Captain America sidekick Bucky Barnes. J.J. Abrams offers a couple more hints about Star Trek and Super-8. Plus more Hobbit casting news, and Steven Moffat shuffles the order of next season’s Doctor Who episodes. Captain America Sebastian Shan, who plays Captain America’s sidekick Bucky Barnes, explains the dynamics between…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Jan 13

How Boomboxes Changed the Streets Forever

An Outer Limits episode per day will bring the head doctor to stay

The Greatest Scam in Tech

Dying exoplanet is turning its star into a dangerous magnetic hurricane

Winter Never Looked So Magical Before

First look at the shrieking shadow monsters from The Vanishing on 7th Street

Discovering the Maximum Velocity of Twitter

How “Arterial Plaque” Is Made

Are virtual particles for real?

Seas0nPass Is the Simplest Apple TV Jailbreak Yet

Will Terra Nova be the new Lost… or the new FlashForward?

These Shit-Eating Poo-Gloos Look Like They Came From Outer Space

Could the Tron Legacy sequel be right around the corner?

This Motion Phone Dock Tracks You Everywhere You Go

Yellow dwarf sunrise on human colony 73, city zone

Crab Nebula Should Be Renamed Smoking Blue Jellyfish Nebula

Hey Brainiac Kids, You Can Win $50,000 In Google’s Global Science Fair

Creating gorgeous space pictures out of raw data isn’t as easy as it looks

Leak: BlackBerry Dakota Specs Are Best Yet (For RIM, That Is)

J.J. Abrams offers cryptic clues for Super 8 and Star Trek sequel, plus costar Sebastian Shan talks Captain America!

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