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Air France 447 Crash a Result of Crew Ignoring Alarms

In June 2009 an Airbus A330-200, Air France flight 447, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean tragically killing 228 people. Now, the final BEA report into the event reveals that the tragedy occurred because the crew ignored the warning alarms in the cabin. While initial analysis of flight recordings pointed to crew error, subsequent evidence suggested…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This 9.7-Inch, Android 4.0 Archos Tablet Only Costs $250

Archos might not be the first name you think of when it comes to tablets. But its latest offering, the 97 Carbon, seems to offer up respectable specs at the same time as being super-cheap. Coming loaded with Android 4.0—you still have a little wait before you see anything but the Nexus 7 toting Jelly…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Bloomberg: Amazon Is Developing a Phone

Despite the fact that it could prove to be a spectacularly bad idea, rumors are once again milling that Amazon is planning to launch a phone. Now, Bloomberg reports that Bezos and co are in the process of developing an Android handset. According to Bloomberg, two people “with knowledge of the matter” have told it…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe

Has an Incrementally Small Technological Advancement Ever Completely Changed Your World?

I just discovered—because I hadn’t set foot in my gym, ever, until earlier this week—that the elliptical trainers have BUILT IN FANS. Fans! Right there! In the machine. Fans to blow cool air somewhere in the direction of your sweaty face/neck/chest area, while you run in an elliptical motion, Around The Fur blasting on your…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

The Stoner Channel: Hemp Oil, Government Studies, and Other Things That Can Backfire Spectacularly

Dubstep Dispute by Jason Giles Awww Moooooooooom, plain green energy cubes again? Why can’t we eat Energon steaks like the Jeffersonbots next door? [Cartoon Brew] Say Goodbye to Schedule 1—New Government-Backed Study Confirms Medical Uses for MMJ Marijuana’s current Schedule 1 status relies on a key tenet, “There is a lack of accepted safety for…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Watching This Man Have a Conversation With His 12-Year-Old Self Is Hilarious and Heartwarming

In 1992, Jeremiah McDonald, a 12-year-old kid with a dog named Molly (!!) and a thing for Dr. Who, recorded himself talking to the man he would become 20 years in the future. Well, thanks to math and time, the future is now! A precocious kid, Jeremiah grew up to be a slickly funny 32-year-old…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

New Pipe Design Turns Taking a Shower into an Energy-Generating Activity

The ES Pipe Waterwheel, designed by Korean innovator Ryan Jongwoo Choi, is a simple plumbing accessory that turns simple workaday activities—running a bath, washing your hands, hosing off the dog—into hydroelectricity generative tasks. The ES Pipe Waterwheel can be attached to most any standard water piping, simply by screwing it into place between any piping…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Boutique Fashion Brokers Pioneers the Virtual Trade-Show Platform

In the age of e-commerce and business meetings held over Skype, the travel and lodging expenses of attending a trade show are increasingly difficult to justify. And If you’re an emerging independent designer or the owner of a fashion boutique anywhere other than LA or NYC, scouting for new items and securing the right connections…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Watch This: Atlantic City Boardwalk Is Transformed by Glorious Display of Sound and Light

Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall, yesterday, debuted Duality, a sound and light installation, commissioned by The Atlantic City Alliance as part of their effort to restore the city’s once-glorious reputation—think HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. Duality is the work of the Montreal-based new media and entertainment studio Moment Factory, whose team of 75 has worked with everyone from…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Japanese Government: Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Was a Manmade Disaster

The failures, explosions, leaks, and subsequent radioactive dead zone that will stain Japan for decades all started with an earthquake. Nobody can stop earthquakes. But after a thorough review, the Japanese government admits humans are responsible for the entire mess. The official report of The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission, produced by the Japanese…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Whoa, Huh, the F-22 Is Still Broken (!) (?)

I’m hoping you’re all planted deep in your seats with an oxygen mask strapped on, because the New York Times is reporting that the Air Force still can’t fix the F-22, the most expensive fighter in history. It sort of makes you wonder, should we continue to pour hundreds of millions of dollars (and maybe…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Swaag.it: Show Off Your Style on Your iPhone

When you look good, you want other people to see you. And Swaag.it, a new fashion app, makes that happen. What does it do? Ignore just for a second that this app has an egregiously awful name. Swaag.it (I am having trouble saying that seriously) lets you upload photos of you in your finest duds,…

Tech News Leslie Horn

There’s an Entire Kitchen’s Worth of Cooking Tools In This Bottle

For chefs with more epicurean ambition than space in their kitchen comes Bento & co’s Bin 8 bottle which at first glance looks like an empty wine bottle. But on closer inspection you’ll discover it hides a kitchen’s worth of cooking implements. When disassembled the Bin 8 reveals that it’s actually composed of a funnel…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Constellation Lampshade Projects the Starry Sky Across Your Ceiling

If you live in a big city with enough streetlights to drown out the stars for miles in all directions, you can still catch a glimpse of the cosmos in the comfort of your own home with Anna Farkas’ 2500 Watt lampshade. The artist has painstakingly drilled holes in the shade for all of the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Soccer’s New Ball-Tracking Technology Should Be Used In Every Sport

At last, after years of horribly bad referee calls, the cave full of old crooks and farts known as FIFA has approved the use of technology to track the ball in soccer games. This is a huge change, with profound implications in the most popular sport in the world. Soccer—or football, as everyone but the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

NASA calls this newly released photo of Mars “the next best thing to being there”

Once in a great while, NASA’s Opportunity rover will catch a glimpse of itself in a photograph of the Martian surface, but the photo featured up top — just released by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory — offers an even rarer view of the Martian landscape, one that the Agency calls “the next best thing to…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

50 Retractable Rods Make This the Most Customizable Coat/Hat/Key Rack Ever

There’s a chance you’ve lost days of your life searching for keys, scarves, hats, and all those odds and ends that seem to grow legs so they can crawl away to hide from you in a remote corner of your apartment. It’s nice to have a place to put them so you always know where…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Watch Spider-Man’s epic clash with Batman on a Toronto subway train

Among the highlights of this battle between Spider-Man and Batman on a subway in Toronto the other day: 1) Batman attempting to do the Christian Bale growl while Spider-Man claims he could stop the train with his bare hands. 2) Spidey taunting Batman about his dead parents, and Bats retorting that Spidey’s parents weren’t international…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

This Is What iOS 6’s Passbook Will Look Like in Action

The next great iPhone software is still in beta mode right now, but we’re already excited about digitizing some of the crap in our wallets via Passbook—and for frequent travelers, it’ll be a godsend. Check out the future: The video experiment above comes from PassK.it, a company that hopes to make money helping other companies…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Amazing curving “Spiral Garden Museum” could have been Taipei’s mothership

This Spiral Garden Museum concept was entered in a competition for Taipei’s new art museum. The design, by French firm Influx Studio, didn’t make it into the final competition, but it’s still astonishingly beautiful. It looks like a corkscrew that’s drilling down into Taipei. The sloping walkways lead up and around, ending up with an…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Air France 447 Crash a Result of Crew Ignoring Alarms

This 9.7-Inch, Android 4.0 Archos Tablet Only Costs $250

Bloomberg: Amazon Is Developing a Phone

Has an Incrementally Small Technological Advancement Ever Completely Changed Your World?

The Stoner Channel: Hemp Oil, Government Studies, and Other Things That Can Backfire Spectacularly

Watching This Man Have a Conversation With His 12-Year-Old Self Is Hilarious and Heartwarming

New Pipe Design Turns Taking a Shower into an Energy-Generating Activity

Boutique Fashion Brokers Pioneers the Virtual Trade-Show Platform

Watch This: Atlantic City Boardwalk Is Transformed by Glorious Display of Sound and Light

Japanese Government: Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Was a Manmade Disaster

Whoa, Huh, the F-22 Is Still Broken (!) (?)

Swaag.it: Show Off Your Style on Your iPhone

There’s an Entire Kitchen’s Worth of Cooking Tools In This Bottle

Constellation Lampshade Projects the Starry Sky Across Your Ceiling

Soccer’s New Ball-Tracking Technology Should Be Used In Every Sport

NASA calls this newly released photo of Mars “the next best thing to being there”

50 Retractable Rods Make This the Most Customizable Coat/Hat/Key Rack Ever

Watch Spider-Man’s epic clash with Batman on a Toronto subway train

This Is What iOS 6’s Passbook Will Look Like in Action

Amazing curving “Spiral Garden Museum” could have been Taipei’s mothership

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