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This Is the World’s Highest Surface Area Material

This isn’t an alien spine. Nor is it some elaborate climbing frame. In fact it’s a new new synthetic material called NU-110—and it’s the highest surface area material ever made. To give you some idea of what that means, if the internal surface area of one metal-organic NU-110 crystal the size of a grain of…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Sep 10 '12

Mars Might Not Have Been as Moist as We Thought

There’s plenty of science suggesting Mars was once home to water. But new research suggests that much of the evidence, in the form of clay, could have come from lava and not lakes—and that would decrease the chance of life having existed on the red planet. https://gizmodo.com/scientists-discover-huge-martian-water-deposit-could-be-5864684 Previously, scientists have assumed that layers of clay…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe Sep 10 '12

What Really Made Steve Jobs So Angry at Google?

With so many fanboys spinning Silicon Valley history, it’s sometimes easy to forget about the real chain of events that led to the ongoing Apple-Google thermonuclear war, how the romance turned to hate. This timeline presents an interesting case about why, despite patents and prior art, Steve Jobs had plenty of personal reasons to despise…

Tech News Scott Cleland Sep 10 '12

Leaked Sony RX1 Fits a DSLR in Your Pocket

Images and specs of a new Sony full frame compact camera have leaked over the weekend. The alleged new camera, called RX1, appears to squeeze DSLR-like specs right into your pocket—for a purported $2,800. PhotoPrice reports that the camera looks to pack a Carl Zeiss 35mm f/2.0 lens and a 24-megapixel full frame sensor into…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Sep 10 '12

Here’s Kim Dotcom’s Car Being Chased By a Helicopter (Updated)

Kim Dotcom just posted an image of a helicopter chasing his car. Is that the New Zealand police? The FBI in a rented helicopter? The press? A playful friend? He hasn’t shared any more details, but it’s pretty amazing, in a Ray Liotta’s Goodfellas kind of way. Update: Kim just told us that this is…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 10 '12

Celebrate Computer Science While You Play Alan Turing Monopoly

While most new Monopoly sets desperately try to keep up with the times—swapping cash for credit cards or using circular boards—here’s one which celebrates the past. Now you can play the property-trading game while celebrating the life of the father of computer science, Alan Turing. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-monopoly-will-be-controlled-by-an-all-powerful-5755828 Announced over the weekend by Bletchley Park, where Turing…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Sep 10 '12

Google’s Project Glass Hits the Catwalk

Google glasses look dumb enough that you might expect to get beaten up for wearing them. But they’ve now made an appearance at New York Fashion Week and… they still look dorky, even on super models. https://gizmodo.com/a-man-got-his-ass-kicked-for-wearing-digital-eye-glasse-5926570 Admittedly, the glasses are really being used to record designer Diane von Furstenberg’s fashion show, in order to…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Sep 10 '12

Bill Moggridge, Inventor of the First Laptop, Has Died

Bill Moggridge, a British designer who created the very first clamshell-style laptop, has died age 69. The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum has announced that Moggridge, its director, died on Saturday from cancer. https://gizmodo.com/father-of-the-worlds-first-laptop-snags-top-design-awar-5686370 Moggridge is undeniably most famous for designing the Grid Compass computer all the way back in 1982. In particular, he was…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Sep 10 '12

HP Spectre One: Could This Be the Ideal All-In-One PC?

When HP rolled its first TouchSmart All-In-One back in 2008, the potential of such a machine was evident even if the idea itself wasn’t fully realized. Enter the 23.6-inch HP Spectre One. Gone is the IR-based touch technology used in previous devices. In its place, a capacitive, multitouch panel. And no longer do we have…

Gadgets Adrian Covert Sep 10 '12

Best of the Week: September 1-7, 2012

A STAR DIES IN FRONT OF YOU | Check out this photo of galaxy NGC 5806 — can you spot the supernova in progress? Hubble caught every second of this stellar explosion, and we explain the whole thing here. https://gizmodo.com/hubble-catches-a-star-exploding-80-million-light-years-5939988 Weird Secrets of The Avengers That You’d Never Have Guessed https://gizmodo.com/weird-secrets-of-the-avengers-that-youd-never-have-gues-5940888 You probably think you…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 9 '12

Dogtooth: A Crazy, Disturbing, But Incredible Trip

Man, I don’t even know where to start with this movie. Released in 2009, Dogtooth is a Greek film, so get ready for subtitles, but there’s so, so much more you also need to prepare yourself for. The basic premise is that a mother and a father live with their grown children, two girls and…

Tech News Eric Limer Sep 9 '12

This stunning underwater scene is made of wax, jelly beans, and toothpaste

Matthew Albanese specializes in photo trickery, sculpting detailed dioramas out of everything from garbage bags to jelly beans and lighting them in such a way that they look like natural landscapes. He’s built the surface of Mars from charcoal and paprika, turned ostrich feathers into weeping willows, and captured a fake Aurora Borealis against a…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 9 '12

Mountain Goats: Cry For Judas

The Mountain Goats, or basically John Darnielle, have gone through a pretty major evolution over the years. The new single “Cry For Judas” off the upcoming album Transcendental Youth is a great example not only of how far they’ve come but how they’ve done it without really giving anything up. This doesn’t sound like anything…

Tech News Eric Limer Sep 9 '12

The century-old remains of the windowed billiard room an eccentric millionaire built — underwater

Nineteenth-century company promoter James Whitaker Wright is probably best known as a financial swindler whose corporate house of cards led to a panic in the London stock exchange at the turn of the twentieth century. But one of Wright’s legacies is architectural, rather than financial. In 1890, he purchased and began developing the Lea Park…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 9 '12

Prepara Dressing Whiz Is a Tiny Blender For Your Salad Dressings

For a lot of us, salad dressing is fine store bought and carelessly shaken before application, maybe by being dropped on the floor. But if you have more discerning tastes, and prefer to blend some dressing up fresh, the Prepara Dressing Whiz can help you out. Essentially a miniature blender, the Whiz takes two AA…

Gadgets Eric Limer Sep 9 '12

What if Batgirl starred in her own girl detective cartoon?

Batgirl has been trained by the world’s greatest detective, which makes her the perfect subject for her own line of girl detective books in the vein of Nancy Drew. Cartoonist Adam Watson dreams up concept art for an imaginary series starring Barbara Gordon as a teenaged sleuth. Although his first title for a Batgirl mystery…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 9 '12

LulzSec’s Topiary Talks About Life After Hacking, Says He Feels More Fulfilled Without Internet

Jake Davis—perhaps better known as Topiary, mastermind behind crazy Internet assaults during the summer of 2011—is out on bail with one obvious condition: no Internet. Now, 12 months after his heyday, he’s decided to reflect on his experience, and his new Internet-free life, and wrote about it in the Guardian. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-topiary-lulzsec-mastermind-updated-5826501 It must have been…

Tech News Eric Limer Sep 9 '12

Dredd concept art gives us a closer look at Mega-City One

Most of the upcoming Dredd movie takes place indoors, inside the mega-apartment complex Peach Trees. But that doesn’t mean that we won’t get a taste of Mega-City One and the Cursed Earth. Thanks to visual development shop Framestore, we get an early peek at Mega-City One, plus a few looks at the concept stages of…

Movies Lauren Davis Sep 9 '12

How Slingshots Worked Before Rubber

The slingshot seems like one of the most basic weapons designs ever, so it must have been around for ages, right? Yes and no. Vulcanized rubber wasn’t invented until the late 1830s but the slingshot concept was around long before that. The key is rope, but I’ll let slingshot man Joerg Sprave explain. [YouTube]

Tech News Eric Limer Sep 9 '12

Should we extend legal rights to social robots?

If you’ve ever played with an AIBO or a Pleo or owned a zippy little Roomba vacuum cleaner, you know how easy it is to treat robots like they’re living, feeling things. But does that mean that we should consider granting legal protections to the robots designed to attract our empathy? This past spring, Kate…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 9 '12

This Is the World’s Highest Surface Area Material

Mars Might Not Have Been as Moist as We Thought

What Really Made Steve Jobs So Angry at Google?

Leaked Sony RX1 Fits a DSLR in Your Pocket

Here’s Kim Dotcom’s Car Being Chased By a Helicopter (Updated)

Celebrate Computer Science While You Play Alan Turing Monopoly

Google’s Project Glass Hits the Catwalk

Bill Moggridge, Inventor of the First Laptop, Has Died

HP Spectre One: Could This Be the Ideal All-In-One PC?

Best of the Week: September 1-7, 2012

Dogtooth: A Crazy, Disturbing, But Incredible Trip

This stunning underwater scene is made of wax, jelly beans, and toothpaste

Mountain Goats: Cry For Judas

The century-old remains of the windowed billiard room an eccentric millionaire built — underwater

Prepara Dressing Whiz Is a Tiny Blender For Your Salad Dressings

What if Batgirl starred in her own girl detective cartoon?

LulzSec’s Topiary Talks About Life After Hacking, Says He Feels More Fulfilled Without Internet

Dredd concept art gives us a closer look at Mega-City One

How Slingshots Worked Before Rubber

Should we extend legal rights to social robots?

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