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Primo Cube: A Wee Secondary Battery for MicroUSB and MiniUSB Phones

Phones with gigantic screens, such as the HTC Evo, have a tough time lasting a full day on one battery charge. This makes having a secondary charger almost essential if you’re going to be out and about all day. The Primo Cube is a little square charger that plugs directly into either a MicroUSB or…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 21

Earn Extra Money with Your Brilliant App or App Component

Meet the enhanced Intel® Atom™ Developer Windows Beta 3 Software Developer Kit (SDK). It’s the same great kit, but now with many enhancements for apps and the ability create and use application components-which means you can earn additional revenue. That’s right—building and selling application components will net you extra dollars. A component is a reusable…

Tech News Gawkercreative Jun 21

Primer’s Shane Carruth coming back at last?

We’ve been waiting anxiously for the next project from Shane Carruth, writer/director of the mind-bending time-travel story Primer. And now a website has gone up for his second film, A Topiary, bearing a cryptic message. What does it mean? According to Wikipedia, one of the stars of Primer tweeted that A Topiary was in the…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jun 21

Acid rain is falling again, and now it’s caused by factory farms

In the 1970s, acid rain caused by sulfur emissions killed trees and even dissolved statues. But the US Clean Air Act dialed back the deadly rainfall. Until now. Why has the rain gone acidic again? The main culprit now is nitric acid, which is caused by emissions from power plants and cars, as well as…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 21

Lifechanger: Astronaut Leroy Chiao’s Coffee Maker

What was my Lifechanger? Hmmmm…iPhone? iPad? Macbook Pro? Let’s dig back a little deeper…Airplane? The1MB original-style Mac (with external 20 MB hard disk), on which I wrote my Ph.D. thesis? Radio Shack TRS-80? Nope, it was a coffee maker! That’s right. I don’t believe the people who purport to have made it through University without…

Space & Spaceflight Leroy Chiao Jun 21

iBooks Out Now for iPhone and iPod touch

With today’s iOS4 release comes iBooks, which is out now for the iPhone and iPod touch. See, you didn’t need that iPad after all! [iTunes]

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 21

Kindle Now Just $190 as Ebook Reader Price Wars Heat Up

This morning, Amazon’s Kindle set you back $260. Now, presumably in response to Nook’s steep price drop earlier today, it’s $190. That means the best ebook reader out there is now also one of the cheapest. It’s not that there aren’t budget ebook readers that still come in below Kindle’s new price. But But a…

Commerce Brian Barrett Jun 21

Gadget Deals of the Day

It’s a new week, chock-full of fresh new deals. In the market for a gigantic 3D TV? We’ve got you covered. Too excited to shop online with the release of iOS4? Very understandable. Still in the mood for tacos? Voila! Top Deals: • 82″ Mitsubishi WD-82837 3D DLP Projection HDTV for $2,998,77 with free shipping…

Tech News Ryan F. Salerno Jun 21

7 cool special effects ILM created for The Last Airbender

The Last Airbender will carve a new path in visual effects, showing you things no movie ever has: water tentacles and gusts of fire. We visited Industrial Light and Magic, and saw what every other movie will be copying soon. Whether Airbender satisfies fans of the classic Nickelodeon cartoon, and whether it succeeds in being…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 21

Chemical From Broken LCD TVs Could Save Lives

Next time your Wiimote accidentally gets thrown into your LCD TV, don’t fret too much—chemicals found in the broken TV sets could be used to fight infections in the human body. The welcome news has come from research undertaken by the University of York in England, which found that the polyvinyl-alcohol, or PVA, can actually…

Health Kat Hannaford Jun 21

The io9 book club is in session!

This month, the io9 book club read Cherie Priest’s Hugo-nominated Boneshaker. And today the meeting is in session, so it’s time to start discussing! Here’s how the io9 book club works. You read the book. We post here when the meeting is in session, and then everybody can talk about the book in comments for…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Jun 21

Shooting Challenge: Candid Gallery Part Two

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel XT Lens: Kit Lens (18-55 mm) f/4 Exposure: 1/60 second ISO: 400 Mine is the empty chair, because as soon as we started praying I jumped up and pulled out my camera that I had stashed on a stool, and turned to snap the picture as quickly/quietly as possible. -Joe Huber…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 21

75 Captured Candids

For this week’s Shooting Challenge, I asked you to capture moments without all the posing and preplanning. And I will say, every one of the results offers an interesting look into the life of another. Lead Shot The lady in the photos name is Tammy, she works at a Waffle House in North Carolina. She…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 21

Family fun while stuck in the totalitarian Otherworld

Imagine being stranded in a harsh, gun-crazy, pyramid-obsessed alternate reality with your immediate family — think you’d be in the mood for a little desert two-step while on the run for your lives? And yet that’s precisely what the opening credits for CBS’ short-lived 1985 series Otherworld would have you believe, that after being sucked…

Television Marc Bernardin Jun 21

Shooting Challenge: Candid Gallery Part One

This is shot with a canon G11. F:4 Shutter Speed: 1/60 ISO:80 Focal Legnth: 6.1mm This is in Tanzania at the Ngoro Ngoro Crater. It is a shot of our massai guide and my uncle john, while they discussed the plants and wildlife that were native to the area. This was part of a two…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 21

Screen Comparison Shows LCD Still Beats Super AMOLED In Sunlight

Samsung’s Super AMOLED screens have caused quite a stir lately, and as this video comparison shows, it certainly handles direct sunlight better than an AMOLED screen. When put next to an LCD though, you’d be hard-pressed to tell the difference. That’s not good news for Samsung, though they’ll be heartened to hear that the Super…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford Jun 21

Is Scott Pilgrim the Canadian superheroic ideal?

Who’s Canada’s ultimate superhero? Guardian? Puck? Captain Canuck? This essay from The Walrus argues that Scott Pilgrim (and Michael Cera) embody the “Canadian sane man comic book superhero.” They represent Canada’s national status as an understated outsider. [Spotted on Metafilter]

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Jun 21

Killer-asteroid hunting with the world’s largest digital camera

With a 1,400 megapixel camera, a new telescope perched high on Maui’s Haleakala volcano peak is capturing pictures of the night sky in unprecedented quality in an attempt to target potential asteroid threats. The search for potentially killer asteroids — known as the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) — began last month,…

io9 Marc Bernardin Jun 21

Panasonic’s Micro Four Thirds AG-AF100 Camcorder: More Details Come Into Focus

When we first got wind of Panasonic’s AG-AF100 micro four thirds camcorder back in April, it sounded more like the rough sketch of a good idea. Now that Panasonic’s filled in some of the blanks, you can color me excited. Specifically, the AG-AF100 will shoot AVCHD at 1080p and 720p at frame rates of 59.94,…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jun 21

AT&T Is Shipping iPhone 4 Now Too

AT&T just joined Apple in shipping out iPhone 4s. I’m seeing tipsters’ order dates of both 6/15 and 6/16, but I’m not sure if those 6/16 were ordered on 6/15 or not. But yes, we know now both AT&T and Apple are shipping iPhone 4s. So please, enough with the tips on this particular subject.…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 21

Primo Cube: A Wee Secondary Battery for MicroUSB and MiniUSB Phones

Earn Extra Money with Your Brilliant App or App Component

Primer’s Shane Carruth coming back at last?

Acid rain is falling again, and now it’s caused by factory farms

Lifechanger: Astronaut Leroy Chiao’s Coffee Maker

iBooks Out Now for iPhone and iPod touch

Kindle Now Just $190 as Ebook Reader Price Wars Heat Up

Gadget Deals of the Day

7 cool special effects ILM created for The Last Airbender

Chemical From Broken LCD TVs Could Save Lives

The io9 book club is in session!

Shooting Challenge: Candid Gallery Part Two

75 Captured Candids

Family fun while stuck in the totalitarian Otherworld

Shooting Challenge: Candid Gallery Part One

Screen Comparison Shows LCD Still Beats Super AMOLED In Sunlight

Is Scott Pilgrim the Canadian superheroic ideal?

Killer-asteroid hunting with the world’s largest digital camera

Panasonic’s Micro Four Thirds AG-AF100 Camcorder: More Details Come Into Focus

AT&T Is Shipping iPhone 4 Now Too

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