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Tech NewsAppleWine Simplified Is an iOS App That’ll Teach You Everything You Need to Know About Wine
As you grow a little bit older and stop taking as many tequila shots on a random Tuesday night, you’ll inevitably venture into the pinky raised world of drinking wine. It’s scary! It’s intimidating! It’s snooty! But it doesn’t have to be, you can learn everything you need to know about wine with an iOS … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch a Pig Decompose Underwater
Pork is absolutely delicious any which way you cook it and it seems like sea lice, which are like ocean maggots apparently, would agree too. The sea lice do most of the heavy eating and shrimp come in to finish the job. It’s disturbingly exciting. Why did scientists throw a dead pig in the ocean? … Continued
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io9New trailer for G.I. Joe Retaliation showcases the romance between Channing Tatum, The Rock, and really big guns
video In a perfect world, we wouldn’t have to wait five more months for an unwanted 3D conversion of Jon M. Chu’s G.I. Joe movie. No, we would have ALREADY seen this amazing showcase of action and quippy one-liners. Yup, the G.I. Joe movie that actually looks like fun has been delayed for 3D conversion, … Continued
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Domino’s Says This Is the Ultimate Pizza Delivery Vehicle
This is the ultimate pizza delivery vehicle, according to Domino’s which held a public design challenge to come up with the best car to drive pizzas around. It’s small, it has sliding doors, a rear-view camera and sliding shelves for the pizzas. Sadly, it’s not a real car and just a design made by Anej … Continued
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The most homoerotic Supernatural episode ever
Last night’s Supernatural episode, “Blood Brothers,” was great for two reasons. One, it was artfully written (by Ben Edlund) and brought us back to the season’s arc while also telling a completely self-contained story. And two, it offered us a way to understand the emotional connections in Sam and Dean’s lives as battlefield romances – … Continued
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Finally, science invents a painless bandaid!
There’s nothing worse than pulling off a bandaid, especially when it yanks nearby hair out with it. Thankfully, researchers have developed a new kind of medical tape that stays attached to your skin, but can be removed without any pain or damage. Biomedical Engineers from Harvard and MIT have been working with the problem of … Continued
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The wall of eyeballs that makes you go blind is our new favorite monster from Japanese mythology
We’ve discussed yōkai — or supernatural monsters from Japanese mythology — on io9 before, namely the disgusting, turtle-like kappa. But the yōkai artwork of Toriyama Sekien (1712-1788) will introduce you to some even weirder monsters from Japanese folklore, such as the mokumokuren (a blinding eyeball demon that dwells in paper walls), the oboroguruma (an oxcart … Continued
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io9Feel Like Watching a Leaf Cause an Explosion?
Manganese heptoxide is a compound with seven oxygen molecules. It’s always ready to lend a few out, which is why it’s called an oxidizer. Oxidization is another word for burning. It oxidizes so spontaneously that nearly any contact with an organic molecule will set it off. You can see it explode with a leaf and … Continued
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Locke & Key, the canned TV pilot, resurrects as a movie?
Our hearts were crushed when the television adaptation of the comic Locke & Key (which was penned by the amazing Josh Friedman and boasted a pilot directed by Mark Romanek) was canned by FOX before it was ever released. Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s comic book is exactly the kind of creepy mystery-solving the world … Continued
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Manhattan’s Sandy Evacuation Zones Match Up With the Island’s Original Coastline
Look at the two maps above. On the left is Manhattan in 1776. On the right is the Hurricane Sandy evacuation map. If your apartment’s in Zone A in 2012, it would’ve been in the ocean in 1776, before the island was built up by landfill. On the evac guide, red is Zone A, or … Continued
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Flood Destruction in Staten Island Could Be Much Worse than We Think (Updated)
Post-Sandy conditions on Staten Island are both horrific and tragically underreported-many have died in mass flooding, either unwilling or unable to evacuate in time. Now we’re getting reports that the casualties have become so bad that Egbert Intermediate School near Midland Beach has been turned into a makeshift overflow morgue. We spoke with one displaced … Continued
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Researchers interact with rats by becoming virtual rats themselves
A wise man once said, “In order for us to understand the rat, we must become the rat.” Now, it’s quite possible that no one has ever actually said this, but that doesn’t matter. But what does matter is that it’s the driving sentiment behind a project that’s seeking to bridge the gap that’s separating … Continued
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Google Wallet Looks Like It’s Getting a Physical Credit Card
We’ve been hearing on and off that this might happen, but Android Police just got a pretty real-looking tip from a leaked build of the Google Wallet that seems to confirm it: Google Wallet is getting a physical credit card. But what does that actually mean? According to the report, the card will use the … Continued
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io9This Elephant Speaks Korean
You may the whale who mimicked human speech. Well, it looks like we’ve got another contender for the “trying to speak like a human” title. This elephant has learned to speak Korean. Koshik is an Asian elephant at Everland Zoo in South Korea, and appears to have learned to mimic a handful of words in … Continued
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Shot Flask Helps You Share Your Sauce
Sharing is important. Alcohol is a gift from the gods. Drinking alone is mostly inadvisable. Thus, the shot flask is a great invention. For $25 you get an eight ounce black leather flask comes with a two ounce glass so you and a friend can just pound shots anywhere you go. Maximum portability. Disease prevention. … Continued
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American Horror Story: Asylum: “F*ck it, let’s add zombies”
What THE HELL is going on with this show. So far I’ve counted an alien, a demon, slasher-style murderers, and now zombie boil people. Should I be surprised? Heavens, no. Am I entertained? Maybe. But right now, my brain is just as mashed up as whatever is left hanging between Dr. Arthur Aiden’s legs. Spoilers … Continued
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Would You Pay $300 For a Toaster That Looked This Good?
For most people the $20 toaster they got from the bank when they opened their savings account is more than adequate. So KitchenAid is clearly targeting the toast connoisseurs of the world with its gorgeous new $300 Pro Line model. It’s not all about looks, though. The Pro Line includes auto-toasting functionality which automatically detects … Continued
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iOS 6.1 Beta’s Biggest Change So Far Looks Like Bug Reports for Apple Maps
The very minor iOS 6.0.1 update came out just a bit ago, and Apple already has the beta for the hopefully more substantial 6.1 ready to go. We’re combing through the update for new stuff, but for now, the funniest thing that stands out, as pointed out by 9to5mac, is this big, giant button for … Continued
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Nine new species of technicolor, tree-climbing tarantulas discovered
Tarantulas can be found all over the world. If you live in North America, there’s a good chance that any tarantula you’ve crossed paths with has been brown, but more vibrant-looking variations do exist. Case in point: Typhochlaena costae, one of the many species of South American tree-climbing tarantulas described in the latest issue of … Continued
