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Apple Just Got a Patent for a Dimension that Doesn’t Even Exist Yet

Apple has just been granted a patent for 5D technology. Wait, what the hell? Has it traveled to the future and come back with something we don’t know about yet? What advanced life forms are the suits in Cupertino communicating with? Turns out 5D is essentially an agressive marketing ploy for a patent that has…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Researchers identify the kinds of exercise that help you live longer

People who exercise are certainly healthier than those who don’t, but do they actually live longer? A review published in the latest issue of the Journal of Aging Research says they do, by an average of around four years. But the review also suggests that the type of exercise could be just as important. A…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

This Syma RC Cobra Helicopter Is Your Don’t-Mess-With-Marines-And-Their-Toy-Gyros Deal of the Day

I have never flown an RC Helicopter before. I’ve ridden in several actual helicopters, but I’ve never actually flown the toy versions. They look like a lot of fun. This 39% off Syma RC Marine Cobra Helicopter Gyro looks pretty serious, too, though. It doesn’t want you messing around, but it’ll fly anywhere you want…

Tech News J.D. Levite

What’s so exhausting about squid sex?

For dumpling squid like the ones pictured up top, sex is serious business. Mating sessions can last as long as three hours, and involve plenty of strenuous physical activity. Afterwards, the mating squid are left feeling so exhausted that their swimming endurance is halved, and it can take them up to 30 minutes to recover.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Do You Feel Trapped by Modern Technology?

The NY Times has an interesting trend piece about how big companies—especially Silicon Valley ones—are beginning to institute policies which encourage people to step back from the streams of information coming at them from their various gadgets and focus on what really matters (as far as work goes, at least). One particularly intriguing quote came…

Tech News Adrian Covert

If this final Hobbit video diary doesn’t make you cry, there’s no magic in you

Peter Jackson and the crew say goobye to The Hobbit as they wrap principal photography in New Zealand. If this video blog of hardworking strangers braiding dwarf hair doesn’t make you misty-eyed, you’re a robot. This certainly isn’t the last of the Jackson updates — there are still many more months until The Hobbit is…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Extreme Difficulty of Leaving an Underwater Base

It was just another day for the Aquanauts exploring the warm, crystal waters of Conch Reef when a storm hit. The divers registered the 10-degree temperature drop on their skin a moment after the visibility went from 60 feet down to a dozen. But everything was calm topside—this was an underwater storm. The bad weather…

Tech News Brian Lam

Apple’s Entire Case Against Samsung in One Image

Did you hear about the latest Apple versus Samsung patent development in [INSERT COUNTRY]? Judge [INSERT NAME] ruled that [Apple/Samsung] had to stop selling [INSERT PRODUCT] because it infringed on [Apple/Samsung]’s patent on [INSERT VAGUE TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION]. You didn’t hear? Well who can keep up anyway? For those who need a refresher, here’s one of…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

What strange geological processes created Titan’s oddly smooth surface?

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, has a surface that doesn’t make much sense. Images sent back by the cloud-piercing Cassini-Huygens spacecraft in 2004 showed a smooth surface that was barely touched by its extensive system of liquid methane rivers. And Titan has a strangely small number of impact craters from meteorites. Put simply, Titan’s surface doesn’t…

io9 George Dvorsky

23 Dramatic Photos of Dreams

What does a dream look like? As vivid as the images may be in your sleep, by the time you wake they are long gone. But for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you reassembled those fleeting pictures. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-dream-5926518 Creepy Doll I love taking photographs at night, but without the proper preparations (e.g., fast glass, tripod, sobriety),…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Shooting Challenge: Dream

I love taking photographs at night, but without the proper preparations (e.g., fast glass, tripod, sobriety), the resulting snaps are often too blurry to use. When it comes to photographic representations of dreams, however, some blurriness can actually be useful. My submitted photo started with just such a blurry pic – a late-night snapshot of…

Tech News J.D. Levite

This video shows why you don’t want to be anywhere near a glacier when it collapses

A small group of tourists recently got more than they bargained for, while glacier-watching in Greenland. Jens Møller, along with his uncle and an Australian sightseer, got a little too close to a melting glacier when this happened. And if you think that was cool, you must check out this harrowing video of a glacier…

io9 George Dvorsky

Multi-Hinged Cap Always Pours the Perfect Pasta Portion

Pasta portioners seem like a popular target for designers, and while there’s no shortage of clever ways to measure out the perfect amount, the Spaghetti Tower does so while also providing a sealed container to keep your pasta fresh. Designed by the chaps at OTOTO, the Spaghetti Tower features a tapered multi-hinged lid that can…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Amazing Lytro Camera Now Works with Windows

Lytro, the mind-boggling, anything can be in focus camera, now works with Windows. Which means, Windows computers can process and edit Lytro’s proprietary image file format that could previously only be done with OS X. These are the specs needed to run the Lytro desktop software: OS: Windows 7 (64 bit) ONLY Home, Professional, or…

Tech News Casey Chan

Why Spiderman’s Strong-as-Steel Webs Are Mathematically Possible

When you’re watching the Spiderman movies, you hardly ever stop to think about whether Peter Parker could actually physically swing from buildings on threads of silk. C’mon! Suspend your disbelief! It’s a superhero movie! Jeez. Except as this mathematics professor points out, it’s freaking possible. According to Emory professor Skip Garibaldi, Spiderman’s silk has a…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

10 Criminally Overlooked Characters in the Mass Effect Universe

The more you delve into the Mass Effect games, the less the story is just about Commander Shepard. Instead, you start to notice more and more of the personal lives and struggles of the non-player characters you meet along the way. A huge part of what makes Mass Effect such an addictive universe is the…

io9 Keith Veronese

What’s the Best Way to Record, Compress and Transmit Video From Antarctica?

Our friend Ben Saunders is a polar explorer who frequently travels across Antarctica in the name of science. Part of his expedition responsibilities include sending video from the field back to the home base via satellite phone. Unfortunately, the Iridium radio frequencies only allow for a data transfer of 2.4 kb/s, which means that a…

Tech News Adrian Covert

NASA Image Shows the Mayhem That Created Life on Earth

About 4.1 billion years ago, our solar system was a huge cluster of comets bombarding every planet orbiting the Sun and crashing into each other. That period of chaos is known as the Late Heavy Bombardment, and astronomers believe it was key to the formation of life in our planet. https://gizmodo.com/astronomers-finally-find-the-answer-to-earths-water-mys-5926852 For the first time…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Many leprechauns died to bring us this gorgeous picture of a rainbow waterfall

Everyone knows you don’t get pictures of rainbows this beautiful, without sacrificing a few leprechauns. Like, seriously, at least 100 of the little guys. The technicolor massacre occurred at the base of Yosemite National Park’s Bridalveil fall. Though photographer Justin Lee (who captured the carnage on film), would have you believe there were other, less…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Columbus Landing in America Was the Most Important Event in Human History

Christopher Columbus is a polarizing figure in modern America. He was a hero! He was a villain! But what if we look past the immediate consequences and look at his broader, unintended impacted on the human species as a whole? That’s exactly what Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson does in this short video. Dr. Tyson was…

Tech News Brent Rose

Apple Just Got a Patent for a Dimension that Doesn’t Even Exist Yet

Researchers identify the kinds of exercise that help you live longer

This Syma RC Cobra Helicopter Is Your Don’t-Mess-With-Marines-And-Their-Toy-Gyros Deal of the Day

What’s so exhausting about squid sex?

Do You Feel Trapped by Modern Technology?

If this final Hobbit video diary doesn’t make you cry, there’s no magic in you

The Extreme Difficulty of Leaving an Underwater Base

Apple’s Entire Case Against Samsung in One Image

What strange geological processes created Titan’s oddly smooth surface?

23 Dramatic Photos of Dreams

Shooting Challenge: Dream

This video shows why you don’t want to be anywhere near a glacier when it collapses

Multi-Hinged Cap Always Pours the Perfect Pasta Portion

The Amazing Lytro Camera Now Works with Windows

Why Spiderman’s Strong-as-Steel Webs Are Mathematically Possible

10 Criminally Overlooked Characters in the Mass Effect Universe

What’s the Best Way to Record, Compress and Transmit Video From Antarctica?

NASA Image Shows the Mayhem That Created Life on Earth

Many leprechauns died to bring us this gorgeous picture of a rainbow waterfall

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Columbus Landing in America Was the Most Important Event in Human History

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