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What Do You Do Most With Your Smartphone?

The UK mobile carrier O2 released some usage stats from its smartphone user base, revealing that talking on the phone is only the fifth most popular thing (web surfing, facebooking/tweeting, gaming, and listening to music were all more popular). And as the Atlantic points out, thats not a trend exclusive to the UK, as other…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jul 3 '12

What if Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles aired on Adult Swim?

Then it might bear a strong resemblance to this concept animation by Malcolm Sutherland. Sutherland took cues from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle comic book, which experimented with many bizarre art styles. Here’s a pared-down look at those familiar sewer shinobi of New York City. And is Michelangelo smoking the reefer? Explains Sutherland of…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Jul 3 '12

How Studios are Reinventing Comic-Con 2012

The art of generating buzz at San Diego Comic-Con has become a loud, angry, and sometimes beautiful dance between the convention-goers and the hordes of marketers. No longer impressed with panels and screenings of free media, the crowd demands more. What started as a small little comics convention between West Coast friends has now transformed…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jul 3 '12

How Batteries Work

Batteries are essential in our everyday lives. But their prevalence doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s easy to understand how they work. In this video, the engineering guy Bill Hammack takes a look at perhaps the most basic battery of all—the lead-acid cell—in order to explain the fundamental science behind every single battery you’ve ever used.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jul 3 '12

Porn and Google Glass Are Natural Bedfellows

Last week’s awesome Google Glass demo proved that strapping a decent quality camera to a person’s face makes for awesome first-person viewing. Funnily enough, the porn industry thought the exact same thing. It’s incredibly easy to see why porn’s interested in Google Glass—we don’t need to spell out exactly why first-person shots are attractive. But…

Tech News Sam Gibbs - gizmodo uk Jul 3 '12

In this rad fan art, The Avengers get the Dungeons and Dragons treatment

While bored in class one day, Malaysian artist The Durrrrian decided to doodle Earth’s Mightiest Heroes going medieval. In these illustrations, the shawarma is replaced with mutton, and Tony Stark’s exoskeleton is traded out for luscious silks with an absurdly high thread count. We’re not normally ones to encourage students to be delinquent in their…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Jul 3 '12

Google’s Jelly Bean Mascot Melts in the Sun

Google’s Jelly Bean mascot has only been standing outside Google HQ for a week, but it’s not coping well with the Californian heat. According to Android engineer Dan Morrill, the statue’s head partially melted in the sun, then popped off. To add insult to injury, a passer-by made off with one of the jelly beans…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jul 3 '12

11 new images show off Peter Jackon’s gorgeous Middle-Earth in The Hobbit

Entertainment Weekly has released a handful of stills from The Hobbit for their big Comic-Con debut, and on the cover is Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf looking quite stately. Inside the issue is a collection of revealing Hobbit snaps including the dwarves all tucked away in their escape barrels. Plus, look how director Peter Jackson has…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jul 3 '12

U.S. Government insists that mermaids do not exist

Of course, that’s what they would say, isn’t it? The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a statement explaining that no evidence of the existence of mermaids “has ever been found.” NOAA explains helpfully that belief in mermaids may go back as far as 30,000 years, to a time when humans first began “to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 3 '12

Revealing Photos of Doctor Who and Walking Dead, Plus a Dark Knight Rises Synopsis

Check out a new official synopsis of The Dark Knight Rises. Doctor Who adds another British acting legend in a guest role — and we’ve got the first pictures! Game of Thrones keeps expanding its season three cast. Plus check out photos from The Walking Dead’s prison! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Jul 3 '12

Scientist Creates Pizza Healthy Enough to Eat 3 Times a Day, Every Day

Pizza is so good that most of us would be happy to eat it breakfast, lunch and dinner, if it weren’t for the fact that it was more than a little unhealthy. But now a scientist has created what he claims is the first nutritionally balanced pizza—and it’s OK to eat it three times a…

Health Jamie Condliffe Jul 3 '12

Leaked RIM Document Suggests First BB10 Devices Will Arrive Early 2013

BlackBerryOS has posted what appears to be a leaked RIM roadmap, and it suggests that RIM is planning to launch the first of a glut of new BlackBerry 10 devices in early 2013. The document (click image above for full view) suggests that two new phones—the London and Nevada—will launch at the same time as…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jul 3 '12

Apple Fails to Ban HTC Imports

Back in May, Apple managed to hold up the import of HTC handsets on the grounds that they infringed a number of patents. The ban didn’t last for long—and now the ITC is flatly refusing to listen to Apple’s whining. Apple placed an emergency request for a new ban to be imposed, but the ITC…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jul 3 '12

Nokia Claims Google’s New Nexus 7 Infringes Its Patents

Google’s Nexus 7 is the best new way to spend 200 bucks: it’s fast, slick, and expensive-feeling. But Nokia claims it also infringes some of its patents in the process. Nokia has announced that the tablet infringes a number of its patents connected with the IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi standard, reports The Inquirer. In fact, most…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jul 3 '12

Google Chrome’s URL Search Bar Feature Is Not Working Properly

At least it isn’t just me! TheNextWeb is reporting a problem with Google Chrome’s beloved URL bar search feature. The beauty of Chrome is that you don’t need to open a tab and go to Google in order to search something. It’s already Google! It understands. Usually. For the past few hours I’ve be unable…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jul 3 '12

Dog Bacteria Reduces Risk of Asthma in Humans, Says Science

New research suggests that exposure to certain microbes during infancy—particularly, to those from a particular strain of bacteria found in dogs—can alter the intestinal flora of a baby’s developing GI tract such that asthmatic symptoms of a common virus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), are undetectable. In the study, mice were fed dust from homes with…

Health Molly Oswaks Jul 3 '12

The Stoner Channel: Stunting Plants, Stone on Weed, and Colombia Says “Si, Se Puede” to Cocaina

Indoor Gardens Are Selling Plants Short Researchers from the Julich research institute in Germany recently trained an MRI machine at the roots of potted sugarbeet and barley in an effort to view water absorption by their roots. The team, led by Dr. Hendrik Poorter, made a very surprising find—potted plants’ root systems are rarely as…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 3 '12

An 18th Century Spanish Church Gets a Thoroughly Modern Makeover

The crumbling centuries-old Sant Francesc Church and Convent, built in the first part of the Eighteenth Century in the Catalan town of Santpedor, was saved from near demolition, instead receiving a super modern makeover by Catalan architect David Closes. [Inhabitat] The renovation itself took seven years, reaching completion only just recently. It will now serve…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jul 2 '12

Lovely Copper LED Lamp Comes with Its Own Personal Power Outlet

Ideally, my desk would be a clean space—populated by only my MacBook Air and nothing else. But this little retro-futuristic copper lamp with en suite power outlet might be the beautiful exception. The product of German design due Jasmin Kastner and Mark Joschko (aka Zwei21), the Interiorcity line of lighting features metal-framed LED lamps with…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jul 2 '12

The Weather Channel Buys Up the Crowdsourced Weather Underground

After 17 years on its own, the crowdsourced, user-favorite Weather Underground will become a member of the Weather Channel family. But what forecast lies ahead? Both The Weather Channel and Weather Underground say we’ve got nothing to worry about—the acquisition won’t affect the services offered at Wunderground.com. The deal will actually afford the independently-minded WU…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jul 2 '12

What Do You Do Most With Your Smartphone?

What if Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles aired on Adult Swim?

How Studios are Reinventing Comic-Con 2012

How Batteries Work

Porn and Google Glass Are Natural Bedfellows

In this rad fan art, The Avengers get the Dungeons and Dragons treatment

Google’s Jelly Bean Mascot Melts in the Sun

11 new images show off Peter Jackon’s gorgeous Middle-Earth in The Hobbit

U.S. Government insists that mermaids do not exist

Revealing Photos of Doctor Who and Walking Dead, Plus a Dark Knight Rises Synopsis

Scientist Creates Pizza Healthy Enough to Eat 3 Times a Day, Every Day

Leaked RIM Document Suggests First BB10 Devices Will Arrive Early 2013

Apple Fails to Ban HTC Imports

Nokia Claims Google’s New Nexus 7 Infringes Its Patents

Google Chrome’s URL Search Bar Feature Is Not Working Properly

Dog Bacteria Reduces Risk of Asthma in Humans, Says Science

The Stoner Channel: Stunting Plants, Stone on Weed, and Colombia Says “Si, Se Puede” to Cocaina

An 18th Century Spanish Church Gets a Thoroughly Modern Makeover

Lovely Copper LED Lamp Comes with Its Own Personal Power Outlet

The Weather Channel Buys Up the Crowdsourced Weather Underground

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