Hammer

Hammer returns to the ’70s with the retro-horror flick The Quiet Ones

Hammer was the British master of horror movies in the ’60s and ’70s, and now the famed production company is returning to its heyday with The Quiet Ones, about a group of students led by professor Jared Harris who manage to create a ghost. Here’s the trailer. The official synopsis, as per Hammer’s website: Inspired…

Trailers Rob Bricken Oct 31

Captain Picard’s vacation videos highlight this week’s Blu-rays

Even though Picard is clearly on vacation and trying to relax, the week’s DVD and Blu-ray releases march ever forward. This week includes fake superheroes, lesbian vampires and manborgs! (Also, here’s the uncropped pic, in case you want to see the Captain’s log.) • Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 3 On Blu-ray, with the…

io9 Rob Bricken Apr 29

The Avengers assemble themselves into Earth’s mightiest Blu-ray collector’s set

Do you ever you wish you were omnipotent? If you answered yes and you have $150, congratulations — you can buy the Cosmic Cube, which gives you the power to alter the very fabric of reality, starting tomorrow! And as a bonus, it comes with six free Marvel movies on Blu-ray! But that’s hardly the…

io9 Rob Bricken Apr 1

Nerdgasm Alert: Full Size Lego Avengers Props!

Ken Robichaud has created these awesome, full-sized Avengers props in Lego: Thor’s Mjölnir, Captain America’s shield, Hawkeye’s bow and arrows and the Black Widow’s thingamajigs. They are perfectly made. The arch even bends like the real thing! (nerdy scream). My favorite is that Captain America’s shield. I’d love to hang it in my apartment. [Flickr]

Movies Jesus Diaz May 9

Craftsman Hammerhead: Great for Pounding in Tight Spots

I’m not what you’d call “coordinated,” so the prospect of hammering nails without worrying about how many fingernails I’ll lose in the process is, um, appealing. The Craftsman HammerHead G2 Auto-Hammer does that—just not terribly well. Likes Handy in specific situations—namely, cramped and poorly lit areas where a full hammer swing isn’t possible. The articulating…

Reviews Andrew Tarantola Jul 12

The Craftsman Hammerhead Auto Hammer

The Craftsman HammerHead Auto Hammer position 1 The Craftsman HammerHead Auto Hammer position 2 The Craftsman HammerHead Auto Hammer position 3 The Craftsman HammerHead Auto Hammer from (Hammer)head-on The Backside of the Hammerhead The HammerHead Battery The HammerHead Charger The Battery being Charged The HammerHead in a Box The HammerHead in a Carrying Case

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 12

These Tools Look Like Props From Evil Dead

These tools look bad ass. They’ve got names better than any Nordic Black Metal band. They look like they’ve just been released from a lengthy prison sentence. I can’t decide if I want to use them to build a shed or mash a zombie. The “Dead On” Steel framing and construction hammer uses a patent-pending…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jun 3

The Crovel Is the Only Multi-Tool Shovel You’ll Ever Need

Like the Chinese military shovel before it, the Crovel is a multi-tool shovel that doubles as an axe, triples as a crowbar, quadruples as a hammer, and does even more. Bottle opener? Check. Saw? Come on, of course. Paracord grip? Uh, duh. The Crovel has thirteen different tools jam packed in its sexy body and…

Tech News Casey Chan May 2

Get Hammered Like the Gods

When is it okay for the toy version of an icon to not be 100% faithful to the original? When you add a friggin missile. That’s right: Thor himself would be jealous of Hasbro’s projectile-enabled take on his mighty hammer. The 1.4lb Mjolnir also comes with the requisite flashing lights and thunder noises, sure. But…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 3

Robbery with a Giant Stick Is Way Funnier Than It Should Be

If you were a convenience store clerk faced with a robber wielding a comically large stick as a weapon, you probably wouldn’t think it was too comical. But after the fact, the security camera footage is pretty ridiculous. Click to view So, this robber has apparently decided to use an entire tree as a weapon.…

Tech News Adrian Chen Dec 30

R.I.P. Ingrid Pitt, Britain’s Queen of Horror

Ingrid Pitt survived a Nazi Concentration Camp and evaded the Communist police to become one of Britain’s most beloved horror stars, reigning over Hammer films like The Vampire Lovers. She also rocked Doctor Who. She died last night, aged 73. Pitt was born in 1937, and her mother was of Jewish descent. Her birth came…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Nov 24

Oleker Toolbox Provides Minimalist Form and Function

Tim Oleker‘s simple toolbox combines form and function in a way I have rarely seen applied to tools, boxes, or boxes that are used to carry tools. The hammer is also the handle, people! Sadly, it seems this piece is part of a portfolio for now. Worse still, my current toolbox no longer looks me…

Tech News Jack Loftus Aug 1

Samsung Screen Resists Merciless Hammering Without a Scratch

Color me impressed. Watch as this guy relentlessly beats this new Samsung flexible screen with a mallet. Amazingly, the 2.8-inch active matrix OLED—only 0.01 ounces, and 20 micrometers thick—keeps running happily, without a single scratch. [Gadget Lab]

Gadgets Jesus Diaz Oct 16

The Spine-Tingling Glamour of Hammer Pinup Girls

Just in time for Halloween, Titan Books has released Hammer Glamour, a luscious coffee table book that collects pinup images of beauties featured in iconic Hammer Studios movies of the 1960s and 70s. These ladies helped redefine the horror genre. Hammer was a UK studio whose mid-twentieth century reimaginings of popular monsters like Dracula reinvigorated…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 15

Teen Sends $4800 Worth Of Text Messages, Dad Hammers Teen’s Phone

What’s worse than your teen sending 10,000 text messages, mostly during school? Her sending 10,000 text messages when you have no text message plan. Not only did all those sent and received messages (another 10,000 were received) cost the dad $4,756.25, it caused the girl’s grades to drop down from A’s and B’s to F’s.…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 8

Craftsman Electric Hammer Automates the Process of Us Never Building Anything

Craftsman thought they had finally cornered the lazy-ass market with their 12V, lithium-rechargeable Hammerhead Auto-Hammer, but they made one fatal mistake: We’re way too unindustrious to build anything with or without electronic gizmos to back us up. Still, we can appreciate the design as this miniature jackhammer drives nails in at 35 strikes per second…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 13

“World’s Toughest Phone” Battered Live Online For Your Enjoyment

The folks at Sonim have done just about everything in their power to convince potential customers that their XP1 is the world’s toughest phone. That includes running over it with cars and dunking it in beer baths. Their latest stunt involves hitting in with a hammer 24/7 until it breaks—and you can watch the entire…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 24

Razorba War Hammer Improves Back Hair Shaving, Is Called the War Hammer

How thick of a hair sweater do you need to have to need something called a War Hammer to shave off your back hair? Pretty thick, which is why Razorba improved their previous release with this War Hammer version, which holds more types of razors (Gillette Fusions are the most notable) than the predecessor. It’s…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 10

Exclusive Video: Flat Flexible OLED Screen Survives Hammer Pounding

What happens when you smash a super-thin OLED display with a hammer? Last week, Wilson and I learned all about OLEDs, but after our factory tour we were left with that one nagging question. Lucky for us, mystery solved, as UDC has the answer courtesy of this video demonstration. Personally, I’d like to see this…

Tech News Benny Goldman Dec 3

Nail Cushion Saves Thumbs From Hammers

Too many times have my Karate Kid “one-strike-per-nail” experiments gone wrong. This simple device holds your nail in the middle of a piece of plastic with a cross slice that holds a nail but lets the head pass through when you’re finished pounding. Brilliant, but the people too busy to hammer carefully don’t have time…

Tech News Brian Lam Nov 22

Hammer returns to the ’70s with the retro-horror flick The Quiet Ones

Captain Picard’s vacation videos highlight this week’s Blu-rays

The Avengers assemble themselves into Earth’s mightiest Blu-ray collector’s set

Nerdgasm Alert: Full Size Lego Avengers Props!

Craftsman Hammerhead: Great for Pounding in Tight Spots

The Craftsman Hammerhead Auto Hammer

These Tools Look Like Props From Evil Dead

The Crovel Is the Only Multi-Tool Shovel You’ll Ever Need

Get Hammered Like the Gods

Robbery with a Giant Stick Is Way Funnier Than It Should Be

R.I.P. Ingrid Pitt, Britain’s Queen of Horror

Oleker Toolbox Provides Minimalist Form and Function

Samsung Screen Resists Merciless Hammering Without a Scratch

The Spine-Tingling Glamour of Hammer Pinup Girls

Teen Sends $4800 Worth Of Text Messages, Dad Hammers Teen’s Phone

Craftsman Electric Hammer Automates the Process of Us Never Building Anything

“World’s Toughest Phone” Battered Live Online For Your Enjoyment

Razorba War Hammer Improves Back Hair Shaving, Is Called the War Hammer

Exclusive Video: Flat Flexible OLED Screen Survives Hammer Pounding

Nail Cushion Saves Thumbs From Hammers

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