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Dead Formats Go Trendy With Designer Posters

VHS, floppy disks, cassettes, laserdiscs—they’re all included in these brilliantly hipster posters and t-shirts. Wear your ironic love for a dead format on your Helvetica-laden chest! The first five are from British design firm Build, with the sixth creation, “House of Dead Formats” from the hand of designer Mr Bingo. Memory lane has never been…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Aug 16

Comic Book University: where superheroes go to further their education, and get drunk

Ever wonder what superhero college would look like? Caldwell Tanner and Chase Mitchell have a pretty spot-on idea of what an all-superhuman campus would look like. And yes, we too think Superman would be the worst roommate ever. For more panels head to College Humor.

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 16

An Apple Television Is a Very Stupid Idea

After the latest Apple TV rumor, an analyst claims—once again—that Apple will make a 40-inch TV for $2,000, perhaps with integrated apps, gaming and iPhones/iPad connectivity. If true, that would be a very stupid idea. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-appletv-renamed-itv-will-have-apps-but-no-1080p-5610526 Gene Munster—a Piper Jaffray analyst whom I can’t recall being right one single time—claims that the incoming iTV is…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 16

The real explanation for that long delay in George R.R. Martin’s next book?

Fans have been waiting years for A Dance With Dragons, the fifth book in George R.R. Martin’s Song Of Ice and Fire series. A vocal minority have gotten snarky about it. But really, they misunderstand the reasons for the delay. I’ve been reading the Song Of Ice and Fire books for the past few weeks,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 16

Gadget Deals of the Day

All right stop, collaborate and listen, #dealz is back with a brand new edition. Blu-Ray Laptops, In-Ear Headsets, and eBooks for Dummies are just a few things we mention. Will it ever stop, yo? I hope no. Top Deals: • 18.4″ HP dv8t Core i5 Laptop w/ Blu-ray for $949.99 plus free shipping (normally $1,350…

Tech News Adam Harris Aug 16

Shave a Few Minutes Off Future Airport Security Experiences

By taking this survey then emailing the last question to [email protected], you will be entered to win this laptop-friendly Timbuk 2 Commute 2.0 messenger bag. You’ll never have to remove your laptop for those darling TSA agents again. [Rules]

Tech News Gawkercreative Aug 16

Toshiba Libretto W100 Dual-Screen Tablet Now Officially For Sale

I’m still not sure exactly what to make of the Libretto W100, Toshiba’s dual-screen Windows 7 tablet. But if you’re the curious type, you can buy one now for $1,100. https://gizmodo.com/toshiba-libretto-w100-is-a-full-windows-7-dual-screen-c-5568252 That price still seems a little steep, given the specs—-1.2 GHz Pentium U5400 processor, 2GB DDR3 RAM, 62GB SSD, a USB port and a…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 16

Don’t Make Phone Calls While Your Friend is Being Arrested

Last year a Denver cop was videotaped manhandling Shawn Johnson after he used a women’s restroom in a nightclub. Johnson’s pal, Michael DeHerrera was talking on his phone nearby, which angered the arresting officer. So he beat DeHerrera’s ass. Click to viewThe Denver Post has video of the beatdown, caught on a police camera, which…

Tech News Jeff Neumann Aug 16

Canadian Government Decides Penis-Measuring Lie Detector for Children Not Such a Great Idea

Oh boy—where even to start with this one. Use of penile plethysmography (PPG), which measure your penis for arousal while viewing questionable content, is being ceased by the Canadian government. After being used on kids for 25 years. PPG testing, almost too perverse to believe it was actually a government-sanctioned procedure, was employed in British…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 16

Ultrarealistic Portraits Made of Electronic Junk

Artist Jason Mecier makes realistic posters using all kinds of recycled junk. Like this one of Conan O’Brien, made with remote controls, electronic boards, cellphones and cables. I like Lady GaGa made of trash because, well, because she’s trash. [Jason Mecier via 1800recycling]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 16

Human ancestors carved meat with stone tools almost a million years earlier than expected

One of our ancestral species, Australopithecus afarensis, used stone tools to flay meat off bones, leaving small nicks with every cut. Now, newly-discovered marked bones push back the earliest estimates of human tool use by 800,000 years. In January 2009, a team led by Shannon McPherron from the Max Planck Institute found bones which had…

io9 Ed Yong - Discover Aug 16

Are nanoparticles healing you or harming you? A new test has the answer.

Nanoparticles are tiny objects inserted into the body and used to deliver drugs to sick cells. They could revolutionize medicine – as long as we can prevent these untested particles from becoming accidentally toxic. A team of researchers at North Carolina State took up the task of developing a test of nanoparticle effectiveness. Toxicology professor…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 16

Animated GIFs of Complex Mechanisms in Action Are Hypnotizing and Educational

Do you know how the second hand works in your watch? How about a constant velocity joint? Well, let these awesome GIFs teach you a thing or two. This one is the Maltese Cross Mechanism, the thing in clocks that power the movement of the second hand. And this is how a sewing machine works.…

Tech News Adam Frucci Aug 16

Exterminators of the Year 3000 = the Italian Mad Max rip-off that kicks Mel Gibson’s ass

Director Giuliano Carnimeo’s 1983 post-apocalyptic flick Exterminators of the Year 3000 may seem like a Mad Max clone at first, but its criminally inept production values elevate it to cult nirvana. Also, it has the most brutal trailer ever made! Carnimeno fills the flick with needless explosions, dozens of slow-motion car chases right out of…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Aug 16

The Secret Histories of Those @#$%ing Computer Symbols

They are road signs for your daily rituals-the instantly recognized symbols and icons you press, click, and ogle countless times a day when you interact with your computer. But how much do you know about their origins? Power It’s plastered on T-shirts; it tells you which button will start your Prius; it’s even been used…

Tech News Bryan Gardiner Aug 16

World’s Laziest Adventurer Traveling Length of Britain Via Street View

This is Matthew Partridge. His mission: to walk from Land’s End to John O’Groats, a 1,200 mile march across Britain fraught with challenges. Or it would be, if he weren’t just doing it all from his computer. Partridge has decided that he’d rather make the trip via Google Street View, which he estimates will take…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 16

Adobe Is Totally Over Apple, They Swear

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen wanted to work with Apple, he really did. But Apple didn’t want to work with them. These things happen! Here’s the full quote, from an interview with the Telegraph: Apple made some statements about the suitability of our technology for mobile devices. I think we’ve proven that the technology is not…

Tech News Adam Frucci Aug 16

Pushing Daisies creator to make The Lotus Caves for Syfy

Pushing Daisies’ Bryan Fuller is rumored to be adapting John Christopher’s novel The Lotus Caves for Syfy. No word whether it’s a miniseries or ongoing series, but we’d love to see Fuller’s take on a futuristic Moon colony. [Entertainment Weekly]

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 16

Verizon FiOS Hits Near-Gigabit Internet Mark

Verizon has announced that it reached almost 1 gigabit download speeds during a recent FiOS trial. A subscriber was able to attain throughput of 925 Mbps with currently deployed equipment—barely shy of a gigabit, but still really fast. The field test, conducted with a business subscriber in Massachusetts, showed that speeds fell further from the…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 16

MoMA iPhone App Puts a Museum in Your Pocket

The Museum of Modern Art in NYC is one of the best museums in the world, but it can be a little overwhelming. But the new MoMA iPhone app should make visiting a more manageable experience. The free app contains pretty much everything you’d want to know about the museum, from floor plans to schedules…

Tech News Adam Frucci Aug 16

Dead Formats Go Trendy With Designer Posters

Comic Book University: where superheroes go to further their education, and get drunk

An Apple Television Is a Very Stupid Idea

The real explanation for that long delay in George R.R. Martin’s next book?

Gadget Deals of the Day

Shave a Few Minutes Off Future Airport Security Experiences

Toshiba Libretto W100 Dual-Screen Tablet Now Officially For Sale

Don’t Make Phone Calls While Your Friend is Being Arrested

Canadian Government Decides Penis-Measuring Lie Detector for Children Not Such a Great Idea

Ultrarealistic Portraits Made of Electronic Junk

Human ancestors carved meat with stone tools almost a million years earlier than expected

Are nanoparticles healing you or harming you? A new test has the answer.

Animated GIFs of Complex Mechanisms in Action Are Hypnotizing and Educational

Exterminators of the Year 3000 = the Italian Mad Max rip-off that kicks Mel Gibson’s ass

The Secret Histories of Those @#$%ing Computer Symbols

World’s Laziest Adventurer Traveling Length of Britain Via Street View

Adobe Is Totally Over Apple, They Swear

Pushing Daisies creator to make The Lotus Caves for Syfy

Verizon FiOS Hits Near-Gigabit Internet Mark

MoMA iPhone App Puts a Museum in Your Pocket

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