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Radiation Drinkware Is Probably Understating the Toxicity of Your Beverage

Polluted Glasses are miniature, 55-gallon drums that, when filled with mutagen (found in most energy drinks) are capable of rewriting your DNA in a most disastrous fashion. $15 for 2. [NeatoShop]

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 2

Why I Won’t Buy an iPad (And Think You Shouldn’t, Either)

Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing explains why he does not want an iPad, and why it’s bad for everyone. We don’t agree with his statement entirely, but there’s a good amount of people who do, and this represents their thoughts. I’ve spent ten years now on Boing Boing, finding cool things that people have done and…

Tech News Cory Doctorow Apr 2

Ryan Reynolds And His Stupid Muscles Will Rest In Peace (Department)

The ab-riffic Green Lantern star is ramping up his comic book-flick profile by playing a dead guy trying to keep other dead guys from running riot. According to producer Neal Moritz, Reynolds is locked in to play a recently deceased cop who’s drafted into the R.I.P.D. — the police of the dead — and partnered…

Movies Marc Bernardin Apr 2

The Magic World Of Bio/Logics Could Happen In Our Lifetimes

When David Louis Edelman started writing the Jump 225 trilogy, he thought the thrilling science of bio/logics, which lets you hack your body, was hundreds of years in the future… but now he thinks it’s coming in our lifetimes. The first book of the Jump 225 trilogy, Infoquake, will be the io9 book club selection…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Apr 2

Let’s See Steve Jobs Unveil Something Other Than an Apple Product

You know, we’ve all seen Steve announce iPads, iPods, iPhones and iMacs. Old hat! Let’s see him announce some less likely products, shall we? Send your best entries to me at [email protected] with Steve Announces in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs under 800k in size, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming…

Tech News Adam Frucci Apr 2

Hacking Nerves to Revive Paralyzed Limbs

A neural engineer from Case Western Reserve University is reviving paralyzed limbs with an electricity hack. It’s a brilliant workaround for spinal cord injuries, and it may someday let paraplegics activate their legs just by pushing a button. It’s not just a pipe dream or a theory; clinical trials have already shown some success. People…

Tech News Brian Barrett Apr 2

Michael Bay’s Sexy Alien High Schooler/Murder Victim Has Been Cast

We’re getting more and more interested in Michael Bay’s alien film, I Am Number Four. Especially since he just cast the Number Four, and it’s Alex Pettyfer from Beastly. But can this movie really make a February 2011 release date? The film was adapted from the YA scifi book by James Frey and Jobie Hughes.…

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 2

Motorola Reimagines the Clamshell in 3D!!!!!

Motorola filed a patent app for a phone display that’s 2D when open and 3D when closed…because that sounds super useful. (Note: I fully hope the invention alters our existence and I eat my words.) [USPTO via GoRumors via UberGizmo]

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 2

Control4 iPad App For Home Automation and Sloth

Control4 is a suite of home automation devices that can tap into your security system, lights, home entertainment, thermostat and various other electronics. Now they have an iPad app. And soon you will be fat. This is only logical. The iPad, unlike the iPhone or iPod touch, is more of a shared device among your…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 2

Up Your TV-Viewing Game

By taking a wee survey. Email the last question to [email protected], and you could score a 19″ LCD HDTV. All the better to watch the Lost finale on. Yeah, that’s happening. You’ll survive. Or will you… [Rules]

Tech News Gawkercreative Apr 2

Apple Patents iPhone Gaming Add-ons With Buttons, DS-Like Control and Display Scheme

These patents found by Patently Apple shows that Apple is, at the very least, thinking about getting serious about gaming. They know their iPhone and iPad aren’t good for all games—no buttons—so they added buttons. These add-ons show a bunch of different ways to enhance gaming. There are buttons, a D-pad, thumb pads, extra keys…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 2

Spambots Are The Immediate Ancestors Of Sex Robots

Have you ever been taken in by a spambot online? Perhaps chatted with a disembodied presence, thinking it was a real person and coming dangerously close to giving away personal info? If so, then you’ve helped to develop sex robots. The kind of crude artificial intelligence that exists in something like the Slutbot, according to…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Apr 2

Print Out This 35mm Camera

Printer. Paper. Rubber band. Two rolls of 35mm film. Do you have these things? Great. Let’s make you a camera. The pinhole camera is about as simple as design gets. As opposed to lenses and fancy shutters, the pinhole design features the most basic design ideal—a hole in a box. A flickr member has shared…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 2

MacGruber: New Red Band Trailer For the Most Important Action Movie Ever Made

First the new A-Team trailer, now MacGruber? My cup runneth over this week with cartoonish violence. [YouTube via NextRound]

Movies Brian Barrett Apr 2

5 Ways The Google Book Settlement Will Change The Future of Reading

If you care about the future of books, you need to understand the Google Book Settlement. It’s a complicated legal document, but we’ve talked to some of its architects, detractors, and defenders – and break it all down for you. The Google Book Settlement could easily be the twenty-first century’s most important shift in how…

io9 Annalee Newitz Apr 2

Pixar Adds Another Filmmaker to Their “Collection” of Awesome

The Oscar-nominated director behind Coraline and Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas is joining the Pixar fold — what has Henry Selick gotten himself into? Imagine, if you will, a place of surpassing beauty and creative delights. A compound where the best and the brightest gather to make entertainments of transcendent wonder, run by the…

Movies Marc Bernardin Apr 2

iBooks App Arrives for the iPad

You may not have the iPad you preordered, but the official iBooks (eBook reader) app, Apple’s answer to Amazon and Barnes & Noble, is available now in the App Store. It’s free, of course. [iTunes]

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 2

Concept Art From The Gatchaman Movie That Never Was And Never Will Be

When Imagi closed its doors, the Gatchaman movie died. Now thanks to an auction selling off every scrap of Imagi property, we can take a peek some of the neverbefore seen Gatchaman concept art. Thanks for the tip, Al.

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 2

Twelve Of The Greatest Sea Monsters Of All Time

As the new Clash of the Titans rereleases the Kraken all over multiplexes this weekend, we’re going fishing for sci-fi/fantasy’s best underwater beasties. Here’s our attack of the clash of the greatest sea monsters ever! The Kraken While the word “kraken” is Scandinavian in origin and, as such, was never a part of classic Greek…

io9 Marc Bernardin Apr 2

Science Journalist Sued For Questioning Value Of Chiropractic Therapy

British writer Simon Singh was sued for libel by a chiropractors’ group in 2008 after publishing an article which questioned the scientific value of chiropractic therapy. Now a court has found his statements “fair,” but the battle continues. Cosmos magazine has posted a copy of the original article, published in The Guardian, here. In it,…

io9 Annalee Newitz Apr 2

Radiation Drinkware Is Probably Understating the Toxicity of Your Beverage

Why I Won’t Buy an iPad (And Think You Shouldn’t, Either)

Ryan Reynolds And His Stupid Muscles Will Rest In Peace (Department)

The Magic World Of Bio/Logics Could Happen In Our Lifetimes

Let’s See Steve Jobs Unveil Something Other Than an Apple Product

Hacking Nerves to Revive Paralyzed Limbs

Michael Bay’s Sexy Alien High Schooler/Murder Victim Has Been Cast

Motorola Reimagines the Clamshell in 3D!!!!!

Control4 iPad App For Home Automation and Sloth

Up Your TV-Viewing Game

Apple Patents iPhone Gaming Add-ons With Buttons, DS-Like Control and Display Scheme

Spambots Are The Immediate Ancestors Of Sex Robots

Print Out This 35mm Camera

MacGruber: New Red Band Trailer For the Most Important Action Movie Ever Made

5 Ways The Google Book Settlement Will Change The Future of Reading

Pixar Adds Another Filmmaker to Their “Collection” of Awesome

iBooks App Arrives for the iPad

Concept Art From The Gatchaman Movie That Never Was And Never Will Be

Twelve Of The Greatest Sea Monsters Of All Time

Science Journalist Sued For Questioning Value Of Chiropractic Therapy

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