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io9What If Norman Rockwell Drew The Hulk And The Ninja Turtles?
They would be pretty damn charming. Artist Bryan Lee puts a Saturday Evening Post spin on pop culture heroes. Lee also posts his progress shots and some fantastic tutorials in his deviantART gallery, so you can see how his pieces come together. But the real beauty here is in the composition. The Hulk: Defender of … Continued
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Report: The iPad Will Get Split-Screen Multitasking in iOS 8
Split-screen multitasking is coming to the iPad iOS 8 when the new iteration of Apple’s mobile OS is announced next month at WWDC, according Mark Gurman at 9to5Mac. The new feature would allow you to divide you iPad home screen in half and use different apps on each side of the screen partition. According to … Continued
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Canon Announces New Ultra Wide Lenses With Image Stabilization
Who doesn’t love a ultra wide-angle lens? Their popularity has only gotten stronger over the years, with every major lens system rocking one of their own. With two new lenses from Canon announced today, shooters will be able to capture those sweeping vistas with a welcome dose of stabilization. The new lenses come in two … Continued
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Which Country Drinks The Most?
According to a new WHO report looking at alcohol consumption around the world, the average person consumes just over six liters of alcohol a year, but that average doesn’t quite tell the whole story as this map shows. As you can see on the map, while the average is six liters per person over 15, … Continued
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Tech NewsColor-Changing Markers Let You Know When a Hot Drink Has Safely Cooled
The markers used by baristas at coffee shops to label cups might soon be useful for more than just identifying your drink. Inspired by the experience of burning your tongue on overly hot coffee, the Ink N Drink markers contain heat-sensitive ink that lets you know which drink is yours, and if it’s safe to … Continued
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Yesterday Square gave up on Wallet and introduced Square Order. Now it’s bringing the new Square Feedback into the mix. It’ss a product businesses can enable that adds a prompt for feedback to the email or text message receipts they send to customers. A “how did we do” right on the receipt.
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Christopher Columbus’s Flagship, The Santa Maria, Has Been Found
In what’s being heralded as one of the most significant underwater discoveries in history, the wreck of Christopher Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off the north coast of Haiti. “All the geographical, underwater topography and archaeological evidence strongly suggests that this wreck is Columbus’ famous … Continued
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8 Bizarre and Painful Highlights From Two Centuries of Beauty Tech
Humans have been pursuing this elusive quality known as “beauty” long before the miracles of modern medicine. Inventors were always coming up with tools meant to help women—and men—achieve the wide-held physical ideals of their era. Eager test subjects would get hooked up to devices that looked like torture machines, or they would employ products … Continued
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Renewable energy jobs grew by 14% to 6.5 million employees worldwide in 2013, says the International Renewable Energy Agency. In decreasing order, the largest employers were China, Brazil and the United States. The solar panel industry, spurred by falling prices, employed 2.27 million workers, mostly in China.
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Graphene Could Absorb an Unlimited Amount of Heat
A fundamental law of material science could be rewritten by graphene: in simulations and experiment, scientists have shown that graphene’s heart absorption varies with the size of the sample, which means it could absorb an unlimited amount of heat. Up until now, French physicist Joseph Fourier’s observations have held true: namely, that conductivity is an … Continued
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io9TrailersI Have No Idea How The Last Man On Earth Is Going To Be A TV Series
And yet Will Forte’s The Last Man on Earth, which is apparently about the last man on earth just wandering aimlessly about, will definitely be a comedy series that premieres this fall on Fox. Here’s the baffling four-minute trailer. It’s not bad, but I can’t even imagine how it can sustain an entire season of … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis is the best gift any man can have*
Awesome ad by BranitVFX telling the story of how a wedding anniversary gift exchange ends with the wife giving the best present any man can get: A fully functional Millennium Falcon. Pay attention because it’s full of Easter Eggs everywhere. It’s one in a million, kids. The video was directed by Bruce Branit, an amazing … Continued
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The Space Gun Was Conceived 199 Years Ago
In 1815 the British artist Edward Francis Burney (1760-1848) published a book of drawings called Q.Q. Esq.’s Journey to the Moon. In spite of the less-than-serious nature of the illustrated story, Burney put some thought into his launch system. In what is apparently the earliest tale about a “space gun” ever written, Burney used the … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidArmless table tennis player will probably beat you using his mouth only
Unless you’re an extremely good amateur or professional player, Ibrahim Hamato will probably beat you at table tennis. This Para Table Tennis player from Egypt has no arms, and holds his paddle with his mouth. Ibrahim shows off his unbelievable skills at the World Team Table Tennis Championships 2014 in Tokyo, Japan, where he was … Continued
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It’s Show-And-Tell Time! What Projects Are You Working On?
What are you working on? We want to see the new projects that you’re putting together, and get updates on the ones you’ve told us about before. So whether you’ve been putting together a Xenomorph-nesting doll, a set of geek-themed wooden alphabet blocks (from Ada Lovelace to Zombies), or tinkering with code on the videogame … Continued
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Recently Discovered Big Bang “Smoking Gun” Could Be A Bust
Eight weeks ago, physicists announced that they’d discovered evidence of gravitational waves in the early universe, potential proof that our universe began with a bang and inflated from there. But the most significant cosmological discovery in years might just be an experimental artifact. Back in March, Harvard professor John Kovac and his team announced to … Continued
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Yep, Channing Tatum Is Definitely Gonna Be Gambit
X-Men movie producer Lauren Shuler Donner wanted it; Channing Tatum wanted it; the world wan… well, the world was basically okay with it. And now Donner has confirmed that Tatum will indeed play the Cajun X-Man Gambit for some kind of X-movie. The question now is whether he will appear in X-Men: Apocalypse, which will … Continued
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When Aluminum Cost More Than Gold
Aluminum is literally one of the most common elements on Earth. So how did it come to be that aluminum once cost more than gold? Was it similar to how the relatively common and easily acquired mined diamond came to be seen as valuable in the last century due to strict control of supply to … Continued
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