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Are Olympic athletes really mutants?

Athletes who perform at the elite level aren’t like the rest of us. Their feats of strength, accuracy, and endurance often appear superhuman — which probably explains why we enjoy watching them so much. And the suggestion that many of these athletes are somehow performing outside of “normal” human bounds is not an exaggeration. Professional…

io9 George Dvorsky

Kid Opens a Gun Safe Just by Jostling It Around

A gun safe’s purpose is obvious in its name, but many readily available models fail to deliver, as this 3-year-old safe-cracker is quick to demonstrate. A number of consumer-grade safes already proven to be dangerously insecure are now due to be hacked apart at DefCon. One of the worst offenders includes the Amsec EST916 which…

Privacy & Security Eric Limer

Google Never Actually Deleted That Street View Breach Data

Back in 2010, Google caught a bit of flak when a “rogue engineer” used Street View cars to harvest personal Wi-Fi data. Now it’s poised to catch some more; Authorities in the UK found Google’s been holding onto some of it for the past two years. https://gizmodo.com/google-engineer-behind-street-view-data-breach-unmasked-5906550 When the data snooping came to light back…

Tech News Eric Limer

LG 9700 Plasma Review: Smooth as a Soap Opera

Panasonic and Samsung make some sweet plasma TVs. The newest LG, the 9700, is definitely an improvement over the company’s plasmas to date. But can it maintain the pace set by its competitors? What Is It? A 50″ 3D Plasma television from LG. Who’s It For? Viewers who don’t mind a picture that looks artificially…

Reviews Andrew Tarantola

Explore the World’s Great Lost Cities!

This week on the io9 show, we explore the Lost City of Z in Brazil, and the ancient city of Catalhoyuk in Turkey! Genetic engineer and How to Defeat Your Own Clone author Terry Johnson shows us how fluids like corn syrup have memory thanks to laminar flow! And finally, help us find a mysterious…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Hidden Test Video Shows What Life in a Computer Factory Is Really Like

Have you ever wondered how your computer gets made? Ever thought about the people who put it together? What about how life is like inside a computer factory? This video, which was found inside a brand new HP laptop, answers all your questions. A Reddit user recently bought a HP laptop and found this test…

Tech News Casey Chan

Proof That the iPhone 4 Could Have Been a Sony Product—According to Apple Itself

FWD highlights an early iPhone 4 concept design created by Apple’s designer Shin Nishibori. It unequivocally confirms what I’ve repeatedly said since the introduction of the iPhone 4: it feels like an old school Sony product. Just like the iPhone 5 design or my custom wooden iPhone 4, which feels like a 70s Betamax VCR.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The 9 Best Buildings of the London 2012 Olympics

Though not nearly as ostentatious as the buildings from the Beijing 2008 Olympics, the stadiums and arenas for the London 2012 Olympics are still quite lovely. Here are the best buildings you’ll probably see over and over again for the next few weeks. A lot of the focus for the buildings of the London Olympics…

Tech News Casey Chan

10 Recent Science Fiction Books That Are About Big Ideas

Nowadays, everybody says that science fiction has stopped talking about Big Ideas. Science fiction used to be the genre that asked the huge questions, about who we are and where we’re going. But somehow, people say, the genre lost its appetite for deep thoughts. But if you’ve been keeping up with recent science fiction books,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Ridley Scott will remake disaster mockumentary The Day Britain Stopped

Ridley Scott is lining up yet another project we’ll be eagerly anticipating for years to come (along with The Forever War movie and the Blade Runner sequel). Scott and producing partner Steve Zaillian have nabbed the movie rights to the BBC mockumentary The Day Britain Stopped. The TV film originally aired in 2003 and was…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Apple’s Patent Sketch for Its Own Retina-ized Version of Google Glasses is Awwwwwkward

Apple has long been working on a Google Glasses-like heads up display, and have been granted a couple of patents already. But Patently Apple has drudged up their latest one, which promises to bring Retina-quality visuals to the little screen. And intriguing as that may be, the more entertaining thing here is the sketch itself.…

Tech News Adrian Covert

No, this isn’t the twin of our solar system — but it’s proof that our planetary orbits aren’t a “fluke”

Yet another piece of evidence that our world is not as unique as we feared: There’s a solar system out there that’s like ours in one extremely vital respect, according to a group of scientists from MIT and the University of California at Santa Cruz. The solar system, Kepler-30, has planets that travel along regularly…

io9 Keith Veronese

Delightful Vintage Speakers Resurrected for Your Music Player

If you walk into any thrift store from coast-to-coast and wander over to the electronics section, you’re likely to find an old bedside radio castaway amongst the discarded tube televisions, and 100-disc CD changers. This German company’s taking those vintage audio electronics and turning them into gorgeous speakers for your smartphone. These individually hacked-together speakers…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

How Were These Ever Considered Olympic Events?

Ribbon Dancing, Synchronized Diving, Curling? These Olympic events push the definition of “sport” nearly to its breaking point but aren’t even close to the oddest in the Games’ 116 year history. Our friends at Oobject have assembled twelve contests that take the gold for absurdity. Be sure to also check out what happens after the…

Tech News David Galbraith - Oobject.com

The Watch might be the dumbest alien invasion movie ever, and that’s okay

Suburbia. The wasteland of the American soul. The thin Astroturf covering the bottomless pit of consumerism and conformity. The trash compactor of the mind. The suburban jungle devours masculinity, leaving behind only enough manly vigor for the endless task of lawn care. Etc. etc. In The Watch, opening today, four somewhat pathetic suburban dudes band…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

New Device Turns Eye Movement Into Handwriting

I always dreamed about being able to write or draw with no hands, using just my eyes. This new device invented by Dr. Jean Lorenceau at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris would allow me to do exactly that. Magic? Science! The system is already working. Lorenceau and his patients are using it to handwrite…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

You Probably Have More Twitter Followers Than These Pathetic Celebrities

Remember Zachary Ty Bryan, from Home Improvement? Probably not, which is why he has 486 Twitter followers, despite formerly being a teen heart throb and TV star. Turns out, lots of 90s celebs are now sad on Twitter. Neve Campbell! She was a sex symbol! Lots and lots of people wanted to have sex with…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Robot Explorer That Will Navigate Jupiter’s Liquid Moon

NASA’s Europa Jupiter System Mission, set for 2026, will be the first survey Jupiter’s frozen moon. Scientists also plan to explore the moon’s liquid oceans, which are buried under 6km of ice. Getting through that will be tough. But once we hit water, Eurpoa’s interior will be explored by the most advanced autonomous underwater vehicle…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

By blocking cannabis receptors, scientists can give you the anti-munchies

The link between cannabis and hunger is pretty well established — but could we reverse that link, and turn it into a way to help lose weight? Researchers think they’ve found a way to take how our body reacts to cannabis and hunger, and spin it into a way of controlling weight, according to research…

io9 Tim Barribeau

This Is Probably What the Start of WWIII Will Look Like

The B-52 Stratofortress can carry up to 30,000 pounds of weapons, including—most importantly!—nukes. And it can carry them virtually all around the planet, designed to start (or retaliate) nuclear warfare. Here’s a look at armageddon, in night vision. This video, from the Red Flag wargames that recently went down in Nevada, should give you a…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Are Olympic athletes really mutants?

Kid Opens a Gun Safe Just by Jostling It Around

Google Never Actually Deleted That Street View Breach Data

LG 9700 Plasma Review: Smooth as a Soap Opera

Explore the World’s Great Lost Cities!

Hidden Test Video Shows What Life in a Computer Factory Is Really Like

Proof That the iPhone 4 Could Have Been a Sony Product—According to Apple Itself

The 9 Best Buildings of the London 2012 Olympics

10 Recent Science Fiction Books That Are About Big Ideas

Ridley Scott will remake disaster mockumentary The Day Britain Stopped

Apple’s Patent Sketch for Its Own Retina-ized Version of Google Glasses is Awwwwwkward

No, this isn’t the twin of our solar system — but it’s proof that our planetary orbits aren’t a “fluke”

Delightful Vintage Speakers Resurrected for Your Music Player

How Were These Ever Considered Olympic Events?

The Watch might be the dumbest alien invasion movie ever, and that’s okay

New Device Turns Eye Movement Into Handwriting

You Probably Have More Twitter Followers Than These Pathetic Celebrities

The Robot Explorer That Will Navigate Jupiter’s Liquid Moon

By blocking cannabis receptors, scientists can give you the anti-munchies

This Is Probably What the Start of WWIII Will Look Like

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