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Thunder gods and foul-mouthed fairy tales hit comic stores this Wednesday

There’s a lot of interesting reads in your comic shop this week, such as reprints of classic Planetary crossovers, the return of Odin in Matt Fraction’s Thor, the 100th issue of Fables, and much more! For those of you who like your weirdness with a dash of style, there’s the first issue of Joe Benitez’s…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Dec 7

Watch a Murderous Quadrotor Drone Take a Hacky Sack Break

It’s pretty clear by this point that a quadrotor drone’s main mission is to fly through our windows and kill us in our sleep. But what do they do for fun? Just juggle a ball better than I ever could. https://gizmodo.com/the-quadrotor-drone-learns-several-terrifying-new-trick-5639176 The Swiss cousin of UPenn’s quadrotor assassin, this flying juggler blows off steam at…

Tech News Brian Barrett Dec 7

Eureka and Warehouse 13 bring you a night of weird Santa stories

Syfy’s two summer series, Eureka and Warehouse 13, are back tonight, for their holiday episodes. What’s Syfy Claus got in his sack for you? Silliness, a touch of schmaltz, and some very weird Santas. Very minor spoilers ahead. Despite being holiday-themed episodes, tonight’s installments of Eureka and Warehouse 13 stick pretty close to their respective…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dec 7

Does Tron Legacy’s secret cameo reveal Tron 3’s next villain?

While watching Disney’s big Tron sequel, keep your eyes peeled for a very special cameo. You just might be meeting Tron 3’s future villain. Major spoilers ahead. According to Hey You Guys, actor Cillian Murphy pops up briefly in the “real world” of Tron Legacy at a board meeting. Murphy plays Edward Dillinger, son of…

io9 Meredith Woerner Dec 7

Intriguing Gifts for the Dashing Spy

Have a Bond lover in your life (who doesn’t)? Skip the jet packs and dagger shoes this holiday season. Here are 9 semi-practical gifts guaranteed to satisfy the most fervent gadget-crazy spy. Sex puns sold separately. 1. ATN Viper Night Vision Googles, $289 Every spy needs to see in the dark. ATN’s Viper goggles are…

Tech News Bryan Gardiner Dec 7

Print From Any Device Using Google’s Cloud Print

Google’s just realized their dream of putting printer drivers in the cloud, as their Cloud Print service has now gone into beta. This means that you can print from any device, whether it’s a laptop, tablet or even cellphone, to any printer—theoretically. For now, their website says you need Windows 7, Vista or XP to…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Dec 7

The io9 Book Club is in session! Let’s talk about “How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe”

Welcome to the monthly meeting of the io9 Book Club. This month we read Charles Yu’s novel, How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe. Jump into comments to get started talking about it! For those unfamiliar with the io9 book club, here’s how it works: You read the book. We create a special…

io9 Annalee Newitz Dec 7

Have You Received a Free iTunes Movie Rental Code From Apple?

The word on the street is that Apple’s giving out early gifts this holiday season, emailing free iTunes movie rental codes to random iTunes users. I haven’t received one—but have you? Let us know in the comments below! [9to5Mac]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Dec 7

5,000 years of cosmology, in pictures

The universe hasn’t changed much in the past 5,000 years, but our understanding of it has. In historian John Ptak’s amazing collection of cosmological maps, you can see how our view of the cosmos has changed radically over time. A view from the 1700s contain some of the known planets zooming around in the orbits…

io9 Annalee Newitz Dec 7

Watch the first-ever demonstration of light lifting matter

Scientists from the Rochester Institute of Technology have recently demonstrated that micrometers-long, airplane-wing-shaped rods can be lifted by a beam of laser light. This research has the potential to upgrade solar sail technology and power microscopic machines. Scientists are aware that light can be used to simply propel matter, but this is the first time…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Dec 7

Want Aerial Footage? Grab 30 Helium Balloons and Go Skyfishing

There are plenty of ways to get a camera in the air—but few are cheap. Even fewer of them are as clever and (downright pretty) as cinematographer Tom Guilmette’s floating balloon and fishing rod contraption. And it’s HD! The setup, a rig Guilmette uses to go “skyfishing,” requires mostly inexpensive parts—stuff, he says, you can…

Tech News Sam Biddle Dec 7

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

This week on TreeHugger, wasps with solar powered exoskeletons, wind-powered iPhone skins, ovens converted to entertainment systems, Einsteins lost heat-powered fridge design, QLEDs take over TVs and more. Oriental Hornets Are Literally Solar Powered While it’s true that the vast web of life on this planet is essentially solar powered—without the sun’s energy there is…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Dec 7

This Ingenious Nightstand Prints Photos and Scans Handwritten Notes

Countless projects have tried to figure out how to retain some of the tangibleness lost in our increasingly digital world. Few of them have done it as convincingly as Tableau, a beautifully simple, Twitter-connected photo printer and scanner. As designer John Kestner deems it, Tableau is an “anti-computer” experience. But the other, glass-half-full reading is…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Dec 7

Neill Blomkamp and Sharlto Copley reuniting for a political far-future saga

Neill Blomkamp and Sharlto Copley blew our minds with District 9. Can they do it again with Elysium, a far-future political thriller set on another planet? Let’s hope so: They’ve got a budget, now they’re lining up distributors and actors.

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dec 7

BlackBerry Apps Now Being Accepted for PlayBook Tablet

That took a long time. RIM’s just opened the door to developers wishing to create apps for their BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, with an added bonus—a free PlayBook if their app gets approved for the App World store, before the tablet launches in North America. It’s going on sale early next year for under $500, apparently.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Dec 7

Poisson’s Spot: The Greatest Burn in Physics

Poisson’s Spot is proof that even if you’re right about things, you can be humiliated forever. Find out why this physics concept has caused the name Siméon Poisson to live in infamy for almost 200 years. In the early eighteen hundreds, the French Academy decided to hold a friendly competition. The members of the Academy,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Dec 7

Clocks Don’t Get Much More Naked Than This

If the giant baroque grandfather clock has a bizarro world twin, this is it. Designer Daniel Weil has stripped the timepiece bare, so that every component is functional and completely visible. And, it doesn’t hurt that the thing looks beautiful. Weil’s objective was to make the concept of time—oh, you know, that simple little thing—a…

Tech News Sam Biddle Dec 7

Early reviews of Tron Legacy reveal some of the movie’s secrets. Plus the lowdown on the future of Warehouse 13!

We’ve rounded up the early reviews for Tron Legacy, and they offer mixed reactions and plot details. Plus pictures of Emma Stone as the blonde Gwen Stacy, Dredd set pics, Warrior’s Way videos, and more! Tron Legacy We’ve looked through some of the early reviews and found a few details of note. The movie is…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Dec 7

French Woman Brutally Murdered Her Sister Using a Tripod

When you live in a French city famed for its annual photojournalism festival, a tripod is a murder weapon many homes have. Now confined to a mental-institution, the 47-year-old woman killed her sister last week. [LeFigaro via BJP via PetaPixel]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Dec 7

Chicago Police Will Taser Just About Anyone

Over the last year, Chicago police have used tasers on people 683 times — an increase from just 197 times in 2009. That’s because the police department more than doubled its taser arsenal, and stopped investigating every taser-related incident. In an annual report released today by the Independent Police Review Authority, the department’s decision last…

Tech News Jeff Neumann Dec 7

Thunder gods and foul-mouthed fairy tales hit comic stores this Wednesday

Watch a Murderous Quadrotor Drone Take a Hacky Sack Break

Eureka and Warehouse 13 bring you a night of weird Santa stories

Does Tron Legacy’s secret cameo reveal Tron 3’s next villain?

Intriguing Gifts for the Dashing Spy

Print From Any Device Using Google’s Cloud Print

The io9 Book Club is in session! Let’s talk about “How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe”

Have You Received a Free iTunes Movie Rental Code From Apple?

5,000 years of cosmology, in pictures

Watch the first-ever demonstration of light lifting matter

Want Aerial Footage? Grab 30 Helium Balloons and Go Skyfishing

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

This Ingenious Nightstand Prints Photos and Scans Handwritten Notes

Neill Blomkamp and Sharlto Copley reuniting for a political far-future saga

BlackBerry Apps Now Being Accepted for PlayBook Tablet

Poisson’s Spot: The Greatest Burn in Physics

Clocks Don’t Get Much More Naked Than This

Early reviews of Tron Legacy reveal some of the movie’s secrets. Plus the lowdown on the future of Warehouse 13!

French Woman Brutally Murdered Her Sister Using a Tripod

Chicago Police Will Taser Just About Anyone

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