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Radio Shack Is Selling the iPhone 4 for $50 Off

Just in time for the holidays, Radio Shack is cutting prices on the iPhone 4 by 50 bucks. That means the 16GB iPhone 4 is $150 and the 32GB iPhone 4 is $250 (for new or upgrade eligible customers). That’s probably going to be the best deal you’ll find this year. The offer is only…

Tech News Casey Chan Dec 4

This Lady Made A DIY TSA-Like Body Scanner

Jeri Ellsworth probably saw all the fun the TSA was having with their scanners and decided, ‘hey, maybe I can build my own’. And by hacking a satellite dish to act as her backscatter and centimeter wave scanner, she did. Jeri lists clear instructions and gives a brief explainer on how it all works in…

Tech News Casey Chan Dec 4

Collect call to Atlantis

What did you do this morning? Benedetto Bufalino and Benoit Deseille got up and continued their project of transforming phone booths into fish tanks. Why? Because. That’s why. Check out more of their work Lost At E Minor.

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Dec 4

A (fake) 1980s educational filmstrip about surviving the nuclear apocalypse

In this short animated film by Nathaniel Lindsay, Ducked and Covered, a monotone narrator dispenses vaguely helpful advice about getting over doomsday. It’s like a high school health documentary but about marauding gangs instead of peer pressure. Here’s the description of the film Lindsay gave us: Ducked and Covered: A Survival Guide to the Post…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Dec 4

Girls Try On Clothes Using Google Images

In a clever Japanese ad spot, girls use Google Images and a projector to try on clothes. The resulting digital fashion show is giggly, geeky cute, and supposed to prove that you can do more with Google than ever imagined. The ad spot was directed by Kosai Sekine and made at Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo. The ad…

Tech News Casey Chan Dec 4

The Teen Titans’ Raven is getting her own TV series

With Smallville wrapping up this spring, the CW is looking for a replacement for the long-running superhero drama. It looks like they’ve found an unlikely candidate — the spell-casting empath Raven from the Teen Titans. From Variety: The CW is looking to adapt “Raven,” a half-demon also known as Rachel Roth, into a series. Diego…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Dec 4

1960s spacesuit designs from Wernher von Braun’s science fiction novel

Most of us know Wernher von Braun as the German V-2 pioneer who went from the Nazis to NASA. But did you know he published a scifi novel with detailed spacesuit schematics? Here are some examples. The 1960 book First Men to the Moon by Wernher von Braun tells the story of John Mason, a…

io9 Matt Novak -- Paleo-Future Blog Dec 4

An Airship Probably Shouldn’t Look Like This, Right?

This classic image of the USS Los Angeles shows what would happen when a gust of wind caught the backend of a moored airship. It could literally turn a 656-foot big blimp vertical. Amazingly, no one was hurt. It looks like a laughably ginormous bomb was about to be dropped on top of a radio…

Tech News Casey Chan Dec 4

Spider-Man reboot adds Peter Parker’s parents and a new villain to the mix

A trio of obscure characters have joined Marc Webb’s upcoming Spider-Man film. Peter Parker’s rarely-seen parents, Mary and Richard, and a Z-List bad guy, Van Atter, will be joining the cast. But who’s Van Atter’s supervillain alter ego? Spoilers ahead… First off, Richard and May Parker will be portrayed by Campbell Scott and Julianne Nicholson.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Dec 4

Dream Home: A Converted Firehouse With A Fire Pole

If you were anything like me growing up, you dreamt about living in a firehouse just so you could have a fire pole to slide down. This San Francisco townhouse is the house I dreamt about. I’m so moving here. The five level condo has 3-bedrooms and 3.5-baths in 3,173 square feet. But who really…

Tech News Casey Chan Dec 4

Victorian society gets a new union of superlative steampunk heroes

Chet Phillips’ illustrations have taken us to the steampunk Planet of the Apes and an alternate universe where Earth’s greatest writers and artists are cats and dogs. His latest fantastical trading cards place familiar superheroes in the VIctorian era. https://gizmodo.com/portraits-from-the-steampunk-planet-of-the-apes-5334606 Steampunk versions of superheroes are nothing new, but there’s something especially charming about Phillips’ period-style…

io9 Lauren Davis Dec 4

The first Frankenstein of the movies

The first Frankenstein on film wasn’t tall, green, and Boris Karloff — he was hairy and silent and made his movie debut 100 years ago. Here’s the story of the first Frankenstein to ever grace the moving picture. The first Frankenstein film was released on March 18, 1910. The image at right announces the later…

io9 Pierre Fournier -- Frankensteinia Dec 4

Is the Internet Sustainable When Everyone On Earth Uses Over 3 Gigabytes of Data Per Day?

As the internet gets more data intensive—the cloud, streaming media, etc.—how much data will we use in the future? A computer scientist crunched the numbers and came up with 3 gigabytes of data per day. Is that sustainable? Though we tend not to mention it in the same breath as transportation, heating our homes, or…

Tech News David Zax - Fast Company Dec 4

Watch Times Square Transform From Trash to Tourist Treasure

Times Square is synonymous with everything squeaky clean and American. Souvenirs! Flashing lights! Gigantic candy stores! But it wasn’t always that way. It’s taken 30 years to convert the landmark, a fascinating progression the New York Times has captured perfectly. The packed stretch of Manhattan’s iconic 42nd street is barely recognizable in its 1989 form—an…

Tech News Sam Biddle Dec 3

See How You Have Been Tracked Online

Online tracking is a murky business. That’s why the Open Data Partnership is attempting to demystify how Netizens have been tracked. Will it actually change anything? The Open Data Partnership is an attempt by some of the most aggressive online tracking firms to reveal what data they’ve collected about the online activities of the many…

Privacy & Security Kit Eaton - FastCompany Dec 3

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: The World’s Worst We Are the World

Click to viewThese celebrities are not singers. In many cases, they’re barely even celebrities. But it’s the 25.75th anniversary of “We Are the World,” gosh darn it. Tributes must be made! The rest of the best top comedy videos from this week can be found over at Splitsider, including business stilts, a surprisingly reasonable request…

Tech News Splitsider Dec 3

WiFi Baby 3G System Turns Your iPhone Into a Baby Monitor

Why not turn your iPhone, iPad, or other device into a baby monitor? That way you can keep an eye on the little one no matter how far away you are while avoiding the static that plagues many traditional devices. The $279 device is a camera that also acts as a computer, offering a password-protected…

Tech News David Zax - FastCompany Dec 3

Jobs Robots Will Never Do (1983)

The June 3, 1983 Wall Street Journal ran a short blurb about jobs that robots would soon do and others that robots would probably never do. Darning socks made the list of jobs they’d never do. They should have put it on the list of things humans wouldn’t do either. Where’s my Father McKenzie bot?!?!!…

Tech News Matt Novak Dec 3

Tetris “L” Piece Screws Architect

As far as real life Tetris photos go, this is certainly one of the best. And after waiting in vain for that straight block on so many occasions, it’s one I totally identify with. [Reddit]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Dec 3

Video of the First Military Shuttle Landing

Watch as X-37B—the unmanned military space shuttle operated by the U.S. Air Force—zooms through a runway at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, in fantastic FLIR thermal-o-vision. Then, watch USAF people take care of it in special suits. After almost 225 days in space in a secret mission, X-37B got back in a fully automated re-entry,…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Dec 3

Radio Shack Is Selling the iPhone 4 for $50 Off

This Lady Made A DIY TSA-Like Body Scanner

Collect call to Atlantis

A (fake) 1980s educational filmstrip about surviving the nuclear apocalypse

Girls Try On Clothes Using Google Images

The Teen Titans’ Raven is getting her own TV series

1960s spacesuit designs from Wernher von Braun’s science fiction novel

An Airship Probably Shouldn’t Look Like This, Right?

Spider-Man reboot adds Peter Parker’s parents and a new villain to the mix

Dream Home: A Converted Firehouse With A Fire Pole

Victorian society gets a new union of superlative steampunk heroes

The first Frankenstein of the movies

Is the Internet Sustainable When Everyone On Earth Uses Over 3 Gigabytes of Data Per Day?

Watch Times Square Transform From Trash to Tourist Treasure

See How You Have Been Tracked Online

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: The World’s Worst We Are the World

WiFi Baby 3G System Turns Your iPhone Into a Baby Monitor

Jobs Robots Will Never Do (1983)

Tetris “L” Piece Screws Architect

Video of the First Military Shuttle Landing

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