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Exclusive clips reveal a familiar face on the season finale of Person of Interest

Tomorrow night marks the season finale of CBS hit Person of Interest, our favorite new “five seconds into the future series” about two surveillance vigilantes and the possibly sentient Machine that feeds them the social security numbers of people who are in danger — or about to cause it. The already-dystopian series is going to…

Television Annalee Newitz May 16 '12

More from ITP: Trying Out the Descriptive Camera

Remember that post from a few weeks ago about the Descriptive Camera, the camera that spits out written descriptions of a scene rather than a photograph of the image itself? Yesterday while I was at ITP, I had the chance to try out the Descriptive Camera for myself. https://gizmodo.com/descriptive-camera-doesnt-take-pictures-but-has-a-mast-5905232 Matt Richardson, its creator, supplied the…

Tech News Molly Oswaks May 16 '12

Windy City Predators, Airplane Bands, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. Is This a Military Drone Flying Over Chicago? The footage above could well be a Predator drone…

Tech News Brian Barrett May 16 '12

Holy hell, this trailer for the Jewish horror flick The Possession is actually terrifying

The Possession (formerly titled The Dibbuk Box) just gave us the chills, and that’s hard to do these days. Watch as a little girl finds a brand new box and unleashes a demon INSIDE OF HER. No seriously, most of the trailer is this creature trying to climb its way outside of a little girl.…

Trailers Meredith Woerner May 16 '12

The Only Film Camera I Would Kill to Own

I can’t put this Hasselblad 500EL in my pocket. And I can’t use it to snap shots on a daily basis—it will cost a gazillion dollars on film and development. But I would love to have one at home. Just to look at it. It’s a work of art. And it was used in the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 16 '12

Picture of the Day: May 16, 2012

WELCOME TO EARTH | Fantastic game concept art by Mikko Kinnunen, via Concept Ships. Want to read today’s io9 stories a different way? Check out our blog view. Or visit Observation Deck, our general discussion forum.

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 16 '12

These Photos Give New Meaning to Being Blown

These gross distortions of cheek, lip, and nose look can top the most hilarious images ever made with any Facetime warp effect—and these are real. Photographer Tadao Cern’s project Blow Job places his subjects in front of terrifyingly strong wind jets. Double entendre aside, there is a bizarre delight in Cern’s images. If you happen…

Tech News Michael Hession May 16 '12

Self-Destruct Buttons On This SSD Will Physically Destroy Your Drive

Are you worried about the FBI kicking down your door in search of all your digital contraband? If so then it’s time to upgrade to RunCore’s new InVincible SSD drive with its pair of red and green self-destruct buttons that will keep you one step ahead of prying eyes. Like any SSD the InVincible offers…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 16 '12

You Can’t Handle Doctor Who‘s In-Your-Face Politics!

Seriously, you won’t be able to deal with the sheer intensity of Doctor Who at its most political and confrontational. You may have thought you’d already experienced the most insane Wholitics after you watched “The Green Death,” after which you resolved to start eating tofu and bicycling to work, or the evil maggot computer would…

Television Charlie Jane Anders May 16 '12

Apple Spends an Insane Amount of Effort on This Super Lame Trophy (Updated)

After working at Apple for ten years, you get an award—a token of your loyalty. Lots of companies do this. But most companies don’t pour mind boggling effort into a snobby award that looks like a tacky souvenir. Apple software fella Mark Kawano tweeted out this description of the physical award, the intricacy which sounds…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 16 '12

A virus that creates electricity

A virus called simply M13 has the power (literally) to change the world. A team of scientists at the Berkeley Lab have genetically engineered M13 viruses to emit enough electricity to power a small LED screen. M13 poses no threat to humans — it can only infect bacteria — but it could one day serve…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 16 '12

Flight Facilities feat. Grovesnor: With You

Combining a block-rocking beat, poignant love story, and a hardcore Astroboy Disco vibe—did I mention, it’s anime—With You by Australian electronica duo Flight Facilities will have you grooving faster than you can say “Go! Go! Go!” With You is the pair’s latest jam (they don’t appear to have dropped a full album yet, just a…

Anime Andrew Tarantola May 16 '12

Sergey Brin and Larry Page Accept a Webby Before Google Was a Juggernaut

Back in the year 2000 Google was a humble search startup with a killer algorithm. For that, the company was awarded a Webby for Technical Achievement. Larry Page and Sergey Brin are positively adorable in this interview with Sam Donaldson. This meeting of minds is incredible: Fresh-faced computer scientists in silver capes spewing unvarnished idealism…

Tech News Mario Aguilar May 16 '12

Plants don’t need no stinkin’ gravity

Over at Wired, CalTech planetary sciences researcher Jeffrey Marlow has a great post about what happens to plants when they grow in the weightless conditions of the International Space Station. Though there are changes in their metabolisms, the plants turn out basically just the way they would on Earth. Marlow concludes: What’s perhaps even more…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 16 '12

Even Without Diamonds and Gold, Rolexes are Still Amazing

Rolex watches are generally known for their use of opulent materials and straightforward designs that don’t exactly scream playful. But this customized Submariner, designed by the Bamford Watch Department, eschews the diamonds and gold and platinum in favor of something a little more sleek and stripped down. Ever think you’d see a Rolex packaged with…

Tech News Adrian Covert May 16 '12

This Paralyzed Woman Just Drank a Bottle of Coffee With Her Mind

Our Ghost in the Shell dystopian future will be here sooner than you think. A new study published in Nature today demonstrates, for the first time that robotic limbs can successfully be controlled with just the power of the user’s mind. The study, performed by a team at Brown University in collaboration with other research…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola May 16 '12

Will we ever have an HIV vaccine?

For around 30 years we have lived under the spectre of HIV. In the early 1980s, the mysterious appearance of symptoms that would later be known as AIDS led to unprecedented efforts to unmask the cause. On 23 April 1984, Margaret Heckler, the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, told the world that scientists…

io9 Ed Yong - Not Exactly Rocket Science May 16 '12

Super Diet Genius: A Personal Weight-Loss Coach On Your Phone

Summer is nearly here, meaning you’ll want to be looking your best. Getting into shape is much easier with help, and Super Diet Genius can be your digital personal trainer. What does it do? Enter your height, weight, age and your ideal weight and this app will guide you in the dieting process. You can…

Tech News Leslie Horn May 16 '12

Creepy Russian Robot Seeks To Save Souls From Certain Death

Everyone stop everything. Listen, we’re all going to die at some point, but in the meantime a group called Russia-2045 is working to avoid this certain fate, and they’re building a robot to do so. They’ve just finished the first very creepy, lifelike torso of the first terrifyingly human-like android that is supposed to help…

Tech News Leslie Horn May 16 '12

Watch a man get bitten in half by a giant shark in the Bait redband trailer

Piranha 3DD seems to have a monopoly on the “fish and tits” subgenre of horror movies for this year — but this indie Australian film, Bait, is making a serious challenge when it comes to the “fish” part. Watch a bunch of people get trapped in a warehouse with a giant shark, after a tidal…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders May 16 '12

Exclusive clips reveal a familiar face on the season finale of Person of Interest

More from ITP: Trying Out the Descriptive Camera

Windy City Predators, Airplane Bands, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

Holy hell, this trailer for the Jewish horror flick The Possession is actually terrifying

The Only Film Camera I Would Kill to Own

Picture of the Day: May 16, 2012

These Photos Give New Meaning to Being Blown

Self-Destruct Buttons On This SSD Will Physically Destroy Your Drive

You Can’t Handle Doctor Who‘s In-Your-Face Politics!

Apple Spends an Insane Amount of Effort on This Super Lame Trophy (Updated)

A virus that creates electricity

Flight Facilities feat. Grovesnor: With You

Sergey Brin and Larry Page Accept a Webby Before Google Was a Juggernaut

Plants don’t need no stinkin’ gravity

Even Without Diamonds and Gold, Rolexes are Still Amazing

This Paralyzed Woman Just Drank a Bottle of Coffee With Her Mind

Will we ever have an HIV vaccine?

Super Diet Genius: A Personal Weight-Loss Coach On Your Phone

Creepy Russian Robot Seeks To Save Souls From Certain Death

Watch a man get bitten in half by a giant shark in the Bait redband trailer

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