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Shooting Challenge: Floating Segmentation

Photography used to feel like magic, but then we got Photoshop. For this week’s challenge, combine photos and Photoshop to create something unreal—an object broken up by its segments, floating in midair. The Challenge Take a photo of an object, broken into segments, floating in midair. Wait…what? The Technique This week’s technique was inspired by…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 3 '12

Zooka Wireless Speaker Bar Review: Give the iPad’s Tinny Audio a Tiny Boost

The iPad’s speaker is adequate if you’re in an environment of absolute silence. But if there’s any ambient noise at all, you’ll find yourself rewinding to hear dialogue. The Zooka Wireless Speaker Bar could be a remedy to that problem. But does it do more than just amplify the noise? What Is It? A bar-shaped…

Reviews Adrian Covert Oct 3 '12

Would You Pay Facebook Money For More People To See Your Status Updates?

Today Facebook began testing Promoted Posts. You’re familiar with these advertisements from brands, but now civilians can get in on the game too. If you want more of your friends to see your funny one-liners or important life announcements, you can pony up a little cash money and Facebook would give these posts more visibility.…

Social Media Leslie Horn Oct 3 '12

Your iPhone 5 May Not Get Compatible Accessories Until at Least November

Apple’s new dock connector is basically a big old screw job. Sure, it helps make your phone slimmer, and sleeker by saving space. Great, but Apple also wants to charge you $30 for a 30-pin adapter, and it’s installed a special chip to make it hard for unauthorized OEMs to produce accessories. As if that…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Oct 3 '12

This New Vampire Dinosaur Will Haunt Your Dreams Tonight

Look at this bastard. What an ugly freaky critter. And small, too. “Punk-sized,” according to its discoverer, a paleontologist and professor at the University of Chicago. The name of this new dinosaur species is Pegomastax africanus (“thick jaw from Africa”) but I will call him Velocichicken. Velocichicken punkus. Because, I mean, look at this goddamn…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 3 '12

Berlin Hyper-Lapse Is Almost More Stunning Than Visiting It In Person

If you’re getting bored of the traditional timelapse tour of a major metropolitan city, this hyper-lapse run through Berlin should reinvigorate your passion for virtual tourism. Its frantic crash zooms and warped panoramic shots are the video equivalent of HDRI photography. Except, you know, not horribly unappealing to the eye. Shot with a Nikon D7000…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 3 '12

How Digg Was Saved in Just Six Weeks

The last time Digg was something worth thinking about, Iraq was in the midst of civil war and Justin Timberlake was on the radio. The site went to ruin. It sold for pocket change. And now, with no warning, it’s back—and it’s beautiful. And the team that pulled it off isn’t sure what to do…

Tech News Sam Biddle Oct 3 '12

Not so fast — what’s so “premature” about premature ejaculation?

It occurred to me recently, under conditions that I leave to your ample and likely sordid imagination (how dare you), that the very concept of “premature ejaculation” in human males is a strange one, at least from an evolutionary theoretical perspective. After all, the function of ejaculation isn’t really a mysterious biological occurrence…it’s an evolved…

io9 Jesse Bering - Bering in Mind Oct 3 '12

Rise in allergies has nothing to do with exposure to disease

Back in the late 1980s, scientists suggested that the sudden spike in allergy sufferers was the result of living in sterile homes and overzealous hygiene practices. Our immune systems, went the thinking, weren’t being exposed to potentially important infections. A recent report, however, indicates that this “Hygiene Hypothesis” is false and that no link exists.…

io9 George Dvorsky Oct 3 '12

Pixel Ruler Ensures Your App Doodles Are Perfectly Proportionate

Though the ultimate destination will most likely be an LCD display, many apps begin their lives as nothing more than concept sketches on paper. And the next time you start doodling your brilliant app idea, this Pixel Ruler will ensure the various elements in its user interface are perfectly in proportion. Along one edge of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 3 '12

Steve Jobs Wanted Google Search Eradicated from iOS

Bloomberg Businessweek’s analytical dissection of Apple post-iPhone 5 launch is mostly full of things we already knew: Tim Cook is different than Steve Jobs. Apple is still doing really, really, phenomenally well. Everyone hates Apple Maps. But one thing that stood out was the fact that Steve Jobs was so incensed with Google that he…

Tech News Adrian Covert Oct 3 '12

Genetically engineered cow gives hypoallergenic, high-protein milk

Hands up if you’re lactose intolerant. Quite a few of you, huh? Well, welcome to the wonderful world of science, where researchers have genetically engineered a cow, just for you. A team from AgReasearch and the University of Waikato in New Zealand have genetically engineered a cow to create milk that’s hypoallergenic and extra high…

io9 Tim Barribeau Oct 3 '12

This Sweating Rooftop Sounds Like a Terrible Idea

A team of researchers at ETH Zurich has developed a rooftop mat made of a five-millimeter-thick polymer that can absorb water when it rains. The material changes properties along with the temperature—the mat becomes hydrophobic as it warms up, and the water is expelled, extracting heat from the building in a process the researchers compare…

Tech News Harry Sawyers Oct 3 '12

“Ruined Spanish Fresco Monkey Jesus” is 2012’s hot Halloween costume

You may remember how an eighty-year-old Spanish woman lovingly trashed the fresco Ecce Homo in a failed art restoration attempt. Reddit user Spinjump took inspiration from this “very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic” and recently debuted this gold-star costume at Anime Weekend Atlanta. We anticipate a veritable Planet of Deformed Messiah Apes come October…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 3 '12

How the US Navy Uses the Largest Hospital Ships In the World to Help Everyone

This is the USNS Comfort next to a Nimitz-class supercarrier, the biggest war ship in the world. Together with its twin, the USNS Mercy, they are the largest hospital ships on the oceans, the second largest hospital in the US and the fifth largest on the planet. Their labor is admirable, helping tens of thousands…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 3 '12

The Unintended Consequences Of China’s One-child Policy

It has been 34 years since the People’s Republic of China introduced their one-child policy, a population control measure that restricts the reproductive practices of married couples. But as the Chinese government continues to proclaim the policy as being a tremendous success, the one-child rule has also introduced a slew of unforeseen problems, ranging from…

io9 George Dvorsky Oct 3 '12

Space Moby Dick: The Movie is actually happening

Call me Spaceman Ishmael! The next movie from We Need to Talk About Kevin scribes Lynne Ramsay and Rory Kinnear just got backed by Scott Pictures. Which means, we’re one big step closer to seeing Captain Ahab chase down a space whale in the big black sky. Officially titled Mobius, this movie is based off…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 3 '12

This Year’s Best Halloween Costume Is Cheap, Easy, and Awesome

Last year around this time, a NASA JPL engineer blew us away with a Halloween costume that used two iPads to create the illusion of a gaping hole in his chest. Cool, if you could afford two iPads. For the 99 percent of us that couldn’t, he promised that his 2012 costume would be equally…

Tech News Brent Rose Oct 3 '12

This Espresso Maker Is the Most Beautiful Thing You’ll Ever Wake Up To

You’ve been spoiled by the five-buck cup of exotic single-origin pour-over coffee. It’s time to upgrade your home equipment. At this rate, your caffeine addiction is cutting into your cocktail budget. Forget the primitive French press, or a fantastic newfangled countertop machine. Have the best of both worlds—and unshackle yourself from the baristacracy—with this chrome…

Tech News Micah Fitzerman-Blue - Bureau of Trade Oct 3 '12

An exclusive clip of Ridley Scott terrorizing the hell out of the Prometheus crew

Watch Ridley Scott go old school and just scare the heck out of his actors in attempt to capture genuine fear on film. We’ve got an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the director’s efforts to shock actress Kate Dickie, who played Ford, the ship’s doctor. It’s both diabolical and wonderful at the same time. Say what…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 3 '12

Shooting Challenge: Floating Segmentation

Zooka Wireless Speaker Bar Review: Give the iPad’s Tinny Audio a Tiny Boost

Would You Pay Facebook Money For More People To See Your Status Updates?

Your iPhone 5 May Not Get Compatible Accessories Until at Least November

This New Vampire Dinosaur Will Haunt Your Dreams Tonight

Berlin Hyper-Lapse Is Almost More Stunning Than Visiting It In Person

How Digg Was Saved in Just Six Weeks

Not so fast — what’s so “premature” about premature ejaculation?

Rise in allergies has nothing to do with exposure to disease

Pixel Ruler Ensures Your App Doodles Are Perfectly Proportionate

Steve Jobs Wanted Google Search Eradicated from iOS

Genetically engineered cow gives hypoallergenic, high-protein milk

This Sweating Rooftop Sounds Like a Terrible Idea

“Ruined Spanish Fresco Monkey Jesus” is 2012’s hot Halloween costume

How the US Navy Uses the Largest Hospital Ships In the World to Help Everyone

The Unintended Consequences Of China’s One-child Policy

Space Moby Dick: The Movie is actually happening

This Year’s Best Halloween Costume Is Cheap, Easy, and Awesome

This Espresso Maker Is the Most Beautiful Thing You’ll Ever Wake Up To

An exclusive clip of Ridley Scott terrorizing the hell out of the Prometheus crew

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