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Useful Gifts for Dogs and Their Best Friends

If you know any dog lover or you have a dog yourself, here are some very useful gifts that will improve the life of both best friends—selected by professional dog trainer and writer Anna Jane Grossman: When it comes to the whole holiday gift exchange ritual, most dogs don’t give a poop. Take my dog…

Gadgets Anna Jane Grossman - TheDo.gs Dec 3

Disney to film 5th and 6th installment of Pirates series

It looks like your grandchildren will be watching Pirates of Caribbean sequels. Disney is looking into making a fifth and sixth film back-to-back. Don’t throw out your pirate costumes. They won’t be going out of style for some time. Disney is riding the Pirates of the Caribbean series until the tip of the mainmast disappears…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Dec 3

Pentax Obviously Has No Respect For Our Eyes

It brings me no pleasure to tell you that Pentax has done it again. Just when you thought they’d done enough harm to our eyes already, they’ve gone and painted their K-r in Kore Ja Nai robot colors. You might remember they did a similar job to last year’s K-x, which retailed for around $880…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Dec 3

You Could Use Up Your Verizon LTE Data Allowance In Just Half an Hour

Verizon’s LTE is coming, and it’s fast! Fast enough to burn through your entire 5GB monthly data quota in 32 minutes, according to PC Mag. How much were those overage charges, again? Of course, you’d really have to make a concerted effort to chew up that much data in that little time—but it’s easier than…

Tech News Brian Barrett Dec 3

Greg Bear Swordfights and Meets Aliens in Episode 26 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Greg Bear, Hugo and Nebula award winning author of Hull Zero Three, joins us this week on io9’s Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast to talk about his novels, working with Neal Stephenson, and the Fermi paradox. Art by Jamie Jones, from the Mongoliad The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is hosted by John Joseph…

Books & Comics Johnjosephadams Dec 3

Development of a Great App: Angry Birds

How often do you find yourself cruising through the apps on your smartphone and wondering: How did they do that? Welcome to the Great Apps series, inspired by the Intel AppUpSM developer program. We give you, Angry Birds, the universally-loved game featuring cute bird bombs, evil pigs, and tumbling bricks. Let’s take a look at…

Tech News Gawkercreative Dec 3

Sony Creates Frankenstein TV With Built-In PlayStation 2

It’s baa-aack! Sony’s new Bravia KDL-22PX300 exhumes the PS2’s still-enjoyable corpse and packs into its own base. The 22-inch set won’t upscale PS2 titles, but supports 720p playback. It’s an odd inclusion, but would probably be a dorm room dream. The built-in PS2 will also support DVDs, of course, and the set’s got ethernet connectivity…

Television Sam Biddle Dec 3

How do we “see” dark matter?

Every now and again, you’ll read a science story claiming the “best picture of dark matter” ever. If it’s so dark, how can you see it? In this week’s “Ask a Physicist”, we’ll find out. I’ve talked a lot about dark matter in previous columns, but did you know it’s “Dark Matter Awareness Week?” Of…

io9 Dr. Dave Goldberg Dec 3

TDK’s New Boomboxes Put Their Speakers Where You Can See ‘Em

TDK’s handsome new boomboxes aren’t about to make the common concession of putting an iPod dock front and center. Their designs are an updated take on the classic ghetto blaster: business in the front, and party in the front, too. TDK’s new audio line, which includes two boomboxes, a unique little sound cube, a turntable…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Dec 3

In Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, a ballerina is both monster and victim

So, Darren Aronofsky’s scary ballerina movie. It’s like nothing he’s done before, or anybody else for that matter. Is it breathtaking? Is it profound? Is it silly? Does it get a bit muddled? Yes, yes, yes and yes. Spoilers ahead! You pretty much have to take Black Swan on its own terms — that’s true…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dec 3

Here’s a Good Prank for Unsuspecting iPhone Users

Too bad the Apple Store doesn’t have a prank section, because I would like to see wide availability of Graviboard, a utility that makes apps icons on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad fall and bounce around when you move them. Sadly, it requires Apple Store-alternative Cydia to work. Hmmm, maybe it’s time to stealthily jailbreak…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 3

Chrome 8 Adds a Built-In PDF Viewer and Web Store Support

The Chrome Web Store may not be ready for prime time, but when it launches Google’s browser will be ready. That’s the main takeaway from the recent Chrome 8 update, along with a built-in PDF viewer and over 800 bug fixes. Who knew Chrome 7 was so infested! Available for download now, here. [Google via…

Tech News Brian Barrett Dec 3

How Diamond Polishing Works

When people polish diamonds, they do so by rubbing them against a wheel that has diamond chips embedded in it. Such a proceedure should scratch the diamonds, not polish them. One team has figured out why it doesn’t. Diamonds aren’t forever. They’re one of the hardest materials on earth, but they get dirtied and chipped…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Dec 3

Gigantic hidden planet could be hurling comets at the rest of the solar system

Far away in the frozen outermost depths of our solar system, there might be a hidden planet four times the size of Jupiter. This secret companion to the Sun could be responsible for sending comets into the inner solar system. This idea is an intriguing variation on the old Nemesis theory, which holds the Sun…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Dec 3

World’s Priciest iPad Case is Hewn From an Alligator’s Back

Money definitely doesn’t buy taste. This $6,900 iPad case comes from Californian designer David August, by way of an Italian family of stitchers…and an unlucky alligator. Buy the whole collection for $37,800! [David August via JustLuxe via BornRich]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Dec 3

Neville Page on Designing Tron Legacy — and the Green Lantern Corps!

You know Neville Page as the creator of the Cloverfield monster, plus many Avatar creatures. But now, he’s the guy who helped recreate Tron, and bring the Green Lantern Corps to life. He talked creatures and weird inspirations with us. We were really thrilled to get some time to talk one on one with Page,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dec 3

iPod Nano Watches Are Being Made Thanks to Your Help

Those two awesome iPod Nano watches which had our Kyle all in a tizz are being made after an astonishing amount of individuals invested in them, via Kickstarter. The designer requested just $15,000, but received $500,499. Wowsers. [Observer]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Dec 3

The gorgeous geek genius who helped invent the cell phone

Hedy Lamarr paved the way for the working mom, the nude scene, and the cell phone. That’s right — the cell phone. Take a look at how an Austrian starlet invented the modern world. Hedwig Kiesler was born in 1914, and by 1930 had people falling all over her. She was on stage at the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Dec 3

Watch as the sorcerer’s daughter falls for a prince, in an exclusive clip from Julie Taymor’s The Tempest

In this exclusive clip from Julie Taymor’s The Tempest, Prince Ferdinand falls in love-at-first-glance with Prospera (Helen Mirren)’s daughter Miranda. Nobody writes young lovers like Shakespeare, especially when his prose is brought to life by these flaxen-haired beauties. The Tempest hits theaters December 10th.

io9 Meredith Woerner Dec 3

Woman Phones Police to Report Stolen Snowman

“It ain’t a nice road but at the end of the day, you don’t expect someone to nick your snowman, know what I mean?” It may sound like a line from a Guy Ritchie film, but it really did happen. The British woman phoned the emergency services number of 999 from Chatham, Kent, to report…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Dec 3

Useful Gifts for Dogs and Their Best Friends

Disney to film 5th and 6th installment of Pirates series

Pentax Obviously Has No Respect For Our Eyes

You Could Use Up Your Verizon LTE Data Allowance In Just Half an Hour

Greg Bear Swordfights and Meets Aliens in Episode 26 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Development of a Great App: Angry Birds

Sony Creates Frankenstein TV With Built-In PlayStation 2

How do we “see” dark matter?

TDK’s New Boomboxes Put Their Speakers Where You Can See ‘Em

In Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, a ballerina is both monster and victim

Here’s a Good Prank for Unsuspecting iPhone Users

Chrome 8 Adds a Built-In PDF Viewer and Web Store Support

How Diamond Polishing Works

Gigantic hidden planet could be hurling comets at the rest of the solar system

World’s Priciest iPad Case is Hewn From an Alligator’s Back

Neville Page on Designing Tron Legacy — and the Green Lantern Corps!

iPod Nano Watches Are Being Made Thanks to Your Help

The gorgeous geek genius who helped invent the cell phone

Watch as the sorcerer’s daughter falls for a prince, in an exclusive clip from Julie Taymor’s The Tempest

Woman Phones Police to Report Stolen Snowman

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