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By-the-Hour Lodging Service Offers Discreet Deals at Upscale Hotels

Hotel rooms with an hourly rate—the kind where you go to cheat on your boyfriend or girlfriend or to meet for a session with your dom—are typically grungy no-tell motels of last resort. A sad fact, but a true one nonetheless. Fortunately, the people behind Dayuse.com have realized that this doesn’t necessarily have to always…

Tech News Molly Oswaks May 24 '12

Everything You Need to Look Like a Fool Protecting Yourself From the Sun

Here comes Memorial Day, the unofficial kickoff of summer. Woohoo! Before you go and do something silly like spend money on fancy sunglasses that will make you look cool (who wants to do that?!?) here are some goods that will help protect you from the sun’s harmful rays while also making you look like a…

Tech News Mario Aguilar May 24 '12

Can you grow a beard with consistent applications of Rogaine?

If you lack a lovely beard and are well past puberty, could you use a hair growth treatment to create one? Tales of people using Rogaine to paint on a beard sound believable, but is there any scientific validity to them? Let’s investigate how minoxidil, the active ingredient in Rogaine, works in the human body…

io9 Keith Veronese May 24 '12

8-Bit Games Videomapped Over Classic Consoles Is the 3D We Really Want

It would be even cooler if the games were playable, but Tonner Vi’s retro gaming-themed videomapping installation called Visuatari is still pretty fantastic to just sit back and enjoy. Particularly since it features Mario wandering into other classic titles like Pac-Man and Duck Hunt. Forget the Virtual Boy and the 3DS, this is the only…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 24 '12

The Best Way to Recycle a Propane Tank Is to Make It a Lamp

Step outside—the most gorgeous overhead lamp you have ever seen might be sitting in your very own backyard. Felix Guyon of La Firme sure has an eye for re-purposing objects into eye-catching design, because his propane tank lamp entitled L’Tease just oozes industrial goodness. No word on availability, but why not try your hand at…

Tech News Michael Hession May 24 '12

Listen to The National’s new Lannister-happy song from The Game of Thrones soundtrack

The indie rock band The National has been making some serious guest spots on some geeky soundtracks. After contributing a song to Portal 2 way back when, the band has now performed the Lannister-praising tune “The Rains of Castamere” for the upcoming Game of Thrones second season soundtrack. This song — which is about Tywin…

Television Cyriaque Lamar May 24 '12

Google Purges 1.2 Million Links a Month from Its Searches

Google just released a report today showing just how many links the search giant rips down from its searches a month because of copyright complaints and it’s a doozy: 1.2 million a month. That comes from over a 1,000 copyright owners who’ve targeted 25,000 web sites. What’s especially interesting is that, according to Google, “these…

Tech News Casey Chan May 24 '12

Apple Arbitrarily Removes Airfoil’s Streaming Audio App From iOS App Store

Apple just removed Airfoil Speakers Touch 3 from the iOS app store, despite claims from developer Rogue Amoeba that the app complies with all of Apple’s rules and developer agreements. What gives, Apple? Airfoil Speakers Touch is rad, which is why this bothers us. Since 2009 the app has allowed you to stream audio from…

Tech News Mario Aguilar May 24 '12

When the Apocalypse Throws You Back in Time

When we try to imagine the world after an apocalypse, we often end up thinking of a particular era from history. It’s not surprising — because the end of the world as we know it often means we’ll lose a lot of the fruits of progress. People often talk about bombing someone “back to the…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders and MaryKate Jasper May 24 '12

Sidecar.me: Seamlessly Share Photos and Videos While Talking on the Phone

Multitasking while talking on a smartphone is clunky, if not limited. But Sidecar.me comes in to supplement a regular phone call with pictures, videos, and other data so the person on the other end can see what you’re up to. What does it do? Sidecar is a calling app that lets you pass along things…

Tech News Leslie Horn May 24 '12

Man Stranded In Airport For Four Months Disappears Mysteriously

This man is not Tom Hanks. Or Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the Iranian who lived in Charles de Gaulle’s Terminal One from 26 August 1988 to July 2006. This guy’s name is Parameswaran. He’s from Sri Lanka and he was stranded in Caracas’ international airport, Venezuela for four months. Now, he has disappeared mysteriously. Before his…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 24 '12

How Earth Got Its Oxygen

If you’re currently living on our pale blue dot, you should thank it for becoming inhabitable for us human folk. Specifically, you should look down and thank its mantle because scientists are saying that Earth’s cooler mantle allowed it to develop oxygen. You know, that thing we breathe to live. Researchers from Princeton University published…

Tech News Casey Chan May 24 '12

Amazing videos show nanorods taking shape

The dream of nanotechnology includes unbelievably tiny electronic devices — including medical devices that could work at the microscopic level. But how do you assemble nanoparticles into larger systems, like nanocrystals? You can’t exactly use a pair of tweezers. Instead, researchers create a solution of dissolved nanoparticles, which self-assemble into crystal structures. These nanocrystals –-…

io9 Sophie Bushwick May 24 '12

Watch the brand new Doctor Who mini-episode, “Good as Gold”!

The Doctor! Amy! Weeping freaking Angels! They’re all in this just-released mini-episode, titled “Good as Gold,” the winning entry in the Doctor Who Script-to-Screen competition. According to BBC One: Back in January, BBC Learning in collaboration with Blue Peter announced this year’s Script to Screen competition. Launched by the Doctor himself, the challenge was simple.…

Television Robbie Gonzalez May 24 '12

LED Broom Lamp Sweeps Away the Darkness of Your Home

If you’re into unusual accent lighting, you’re not going to find anything more unique than Pēteris Zilbers and Mārtiņš Straupe’s Mood Broom which illuminates a room with a strip of color-changing LEDs running down the handle. It’s designed to be leaned against a wall like it was abandoned by a janitor who went off to…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 24 '12

Dish Network’s Commercial-Removing DVR Already Being Sued into the Ground by Networks

We knew Dish Network’s new Hopper DVR seemed too good to be true. Or too good to not be sued into oblivion, at least. Now comes news that FOX is suing Dish over the Hopper, and Dish is suing, well, everyone. https://gizmodo.com/dish-networks-new-hopper-dvr-is-the-king-of-dvrs-5874469 A few minutes ago, the New York Times’ Brian Stelter confirmed and tweeted…

Television Kyle Wagner May 24 '12

Facebook Camera vs. Instagram: Ultimate Mobile Photo Sharing Smackdown

A new challenger appears! Facebook is now beginning to eat up its children, releasing a Camera app that competes directly with its recently purchased Instagram. Is it any good? Should you use both? Which one is better? Let’s dig in. https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-new-camera-app-is-pretty-much-instagram-5913053 Instagram and Facebook Camera have the exact same promise: the easiest (and most fun!)…

Social Media Sam Biddle May 24 '12

Slicing, Serving Kitchen Knife Is an Excalibur For Dinner Hosts

It’s hard to choose one item as the perfect kitchen accessory, but the Slice n’ Serve makes a strong case for the crown by incorporating a pizza slicer into a knife that’s wide enough to be used for serving food. There’s enough synergy here to make even Victorinox throw in the towel on its multi-function…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 24 '12

John Scalzi’s Star Trek Spoof: Even Cleverer and More Moving Than You Expect

The love of Star Trek and other classic space operas is built on compromise, and a certain amount of irony. So many tropes in these shows are stylized to the point of unreality, and things happen to punch up the story, rather than for any real reason. Especially the deaths of “redshirts,” or random extras.…

Television Charlie Jane Anders May 24 '12

Jay Leno Stole a Guy’s YouTube Video and Then Got It Banned

A few years ago, Jay Leno played a YouTube clip made by Brian Kamerer and his friends on his show. He didn’t credit the Kamerer, but whatever, he was on NBC! Awesome! Except that some time since then, he says in an open letter on Splitsider, YouTube took the down the video because it was…

Tech News Kyle Wagner May 24 '12

By-the-Hour Lodging Service Offers Discreet Deals at Upscale Hotels

Everything You Need to Look Like a Fool Protecting Yourself From the Sun

Can you grow a beard with consistent applications of Rogaine?

8-Bit Games Videomapped Over Classic Consoles Is the 3D We Really Want

The Best Way to Recycle a Propane Tank Is to Make It a Lamp

Listen to The National’s new Lannister-happy song from The Game of Thrones soundtrack

Google Purges 1.2 Million Links a Month from Its Searches

Apple Arbitrarily Removes Airfoil’s Streaming Audio App From iOS App Store

When the Apocalypse Throws You Back in Time

Sidecar.me: Seamlessly Share Photos and Videos While Talking on the Phone

Man Stranded In Airport For Four Months Disappears Mysteriously

How Earth Got Its Oxygen

Amazing videos show nanorods taking shape

Watch the brand new Doctor Who mini-episode, “Good as Gold”!

LED Broom Lamp Sweeps Away the Darkness of Your Home

Dish Network’s Commercial-Removing DVR Already Being Sued into the Ground by Networks

Facebook Camera vs. Instagram: Ultimate Mobile Photo Sharing Smackdown

Slicing, Serving Kitchen Knife Is an Excalibur For Dinner Hosts

John Scalzi’s Star Trek Spoof: Even Cleverer and More Moving Than You Expect

Jay Leno Stole a Guy’s YouTube Video and Then Got It Banned

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