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Yamaha, Why Do We Need a Singing Keyboard?

A decade ago, Yamaha embarked on ambitious project to create software that could sing. The Vocaloid actually sort of worked and has even spawned some real music. But now, for some inexplicable reason, Yamaha jammed the technology into an actual physical instrument. Watching someone play the Vocaloid Keyboard will make your brain hurt. The Vocaloid…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Maryland’s Enchanted Forest is like Candyland after a neutron bomb strike

After entertaining happy families for decades, the Enchanted Forest amusement park of Ellicott City, Maryland was forced to shutter its premises in 1989. In the ensuing 23 years, the gumdrop cottages and fantasy castles began rotting away, giving the park the veneer of some weird post-apocalyptic fairy tale. Welcome to the happiest place at the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Your Old Smart Cover Might Not Work With the New iPad

The new iPad is a lot like the old iPad, except when it comes to Smart Covers. Apparently some old Smart Covers and third-party cases aren’t working with the new iPad. The reason? Polarity matters now. The new iPad’s Smart Cover wakeup is based on the polarity of the magnets. Problem is, older Smart Covers…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

New Symphony of Science music video is all about dinosaurs!

There’s nothing better than rocking out to the auto-tuned glory of a new Symphony of Science music video — “We Are All Connected” still gets us a little misty-eyed. The latest addition to the series is “The World of Dinosaurs.” And no, Dr. Ian Malcolm is not in it.

io9 Meredith Woerner

Very Stupid Man Arrested for Calling 911 on Facebook-Spying Wife

Poor Doyle Hardwick just wanted to cruise Facebook in peace, without his wife watching over his shoulder. He tried everything. Asking her nicely, plying her with lots and lots of beer, calling 911 to get the police to resolve the situation. None of those approaches really made much sense. And the last one got him…

Social Media Kyle Wagner

Frozen Water Found in Scorching Hot 752F Mercury Hell

NASA’s Messenger has found very strong indications of frozen water in Mercury. But how can there be frozen water in a hell like Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, boiling at 752º Fahrenheit (400ºC)? https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-first-image-ever-obtained-from-mercury-orbi-5787137 The answer is something called cold traps, areas of the surface of Mercury that are constantly cold because of…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Google Street View is now available for the Amazon rainforest

Last summer, Google took its Street View cameras to the Amazon, looking to capture the same 360-degree vistas that have made the technology so useful in cities all over the world. Yesterday, the project went live. There goes the rest of your week. You can now wander around the Amazonian jungle — exploring its rivers,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How to create an ant spiral of death

As creepy as it sounds, the ant spiral of death is deadly only to the ants involved in it. The ants circle and circle into one heaving vortex until they drop dead from exhaustion. Bad things can happen when instincts go wrong. If you’ve ever read an old-timey pulp novel, you may be familiar with…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Unused storyboards show what the American Akira could’ve looked like

The live-action Akira has stagnated for the time being, but here’s a snapshot at what it could’ve looked like when the project was attached to Blinky™ director Ruairi Robinson a few years back. These sketches by concept artist Sylvain Despretz (Gladiator, Alien Resurrection) don’t offer a cohesive vision for the film, but that certainly appears…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Nvidia’s GTX 680 Benchmarked: The Beast Lives Up to the Hype

Johannes Kepler once wrote, “Nature uses as little as possible of anything.” Nvidia’s latest GPU, code-named Kepler after the German mathematician, looks to be inspired by that quote, as much as by the original Kepler’s mathematical prowess. The new GPU-the GTX 680- offers superb graphics horsepower, but requires only two 6-pin PCI Express power connectors.…

Tech News Loyd Case - Maximum PC

Hackers Stole 174 Million Personal Records in 2011 (And a Ton Were by Anonymous & Co.)

Verizon just put out its annual Data Breach Investigations Report, and you can probably guess what it says: 2011 was a banner year for hackers, and represented a huge statistical comeback. They compromised a total of 174 million records, 100 million of those in activism/for-the-lulz ops by Anon, Lulzsec, and friends. 2011 in a nutshell,…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Even Xperia Is Interesting in Wes Anderson’s Hands

It seems that everything Wes Anderson touches turns out sweet adorableness (or saccharine crap, depending on your tolerance). That is certainly true for this Sony Xperia ad, directed by master of twee himself. His new creation follows the release of some Hyundai commercials earlier this month. https://jalopnik.com/how-to-sell-hyundais-with-a-lamborghini-miura-5889561 So, what’s the best way to advertise a…

Tech News Michael Hession

The Mystery Machine is for sale for $3,200 in California

Well, it appears we’ve finally discovered the final fate of those meddling kids. After spending decades thwarting wizened theme park owners wearing rubber suits for the express purpose of insurance fraud, the Scooby Gang retired to the Bay Area. And someone — presumably that spendthrift killjoy Fred — is now selling their venerable van for…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Is this a video of Bigfoot in Idaho earlier this year?

The folks who took this footage say they saw something they thought was just a person walking through trees, but the more they looked, the less human it seemed. That’s when they whipped out the camera and grabbed some footage. Could it be Bigfoot? Or, as one discerning reader on Cryptomundo asked, “Could it be…

io9 Annalee Newitz

More Big Clues About What to Expect Next From Doctor Who. Plus the Final Secrets of The Hunger Games!

Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn’t worried about audiences understanding Looper. Rachel Weisz talks about playing one of the witches in Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful. Darren Aronofsky and Russell Crowe are all but official for Noah. Plus new Prometheus images! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games Director…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Pentagon: Trillion-Dollar Jet on Brink of Budgetary Disaster

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the supposed backbone of the Pentagon’s future air arsenal, could need additional years of work and billions of dollars in unplanned fixes, the Air Force and the Government Accountability Office revealed on Tuesday. Congressional testimony by Air Force and Navy leaders, plus a new report by the GAO, heaped bad…

Tech News David Axe - Wired

Watch the first trailer for David Cronenberg’s new urban hellhole flick Cosmopolis

Hey David Cronenberg, is that a giant rat creature in your trailer or are you just happy to see us? Because we’re sure as hell glad to see the first trailer for Cosmopolis, Cronenberg’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel. In this film, Robert Pattinson tries to get a haircut while a semi-futuristic Manhattan (and…

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar

Pre-Order Acer’s Quad-Core Tegra 3 Tablet

The Acer Iconia A510 is coming. We got some hands-on time with it at CES and we were impressed. A 10.1-inch 1080p screen, a Tegra 3 quad-core processor, and Ice Cream Sandwich sounds mighty good, and now you can pre-order one. https://gizmodo.com/acer-iconia-tab-hands-on-one-tasty-ice-cream-sandwich-5874128 In addition to the banner features mentioned above, the whole thing starts at…

Tech News Brent Rose

The Best Way to Find Waldo Is With a Computer

Finding Waldo wasn’t easy as a kid—and it doesn’t get less tough as an adult. No problem: now there’s an algorithm that can find him for you. Let’s not call it cheating, though, OK? The Waldo challenge was posted on Stack Overflow, a collaborative programming forum. While plenty of people submitted solutions, one user, called…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Scientists Have Worked Out How to Stop You Going Bald

Going bald is the one big vanity concern among most men. But relax, it doesn’t need to be that way; scientists have just worked out exactly why men go bald, and already have a way to stop it happening. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have been testing the scalps of men with male pattern…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Yamaha, Why Do We Need a Singing Keyboard?

Maryland’s Enchanted Forest is like Candyland after a neutron bomb strike

Your Old Smart Cover Might Not Work With the New iPad

New Symphony of Science music video is all about dinosaurs!

Very Stupid Man Arrested for Calling 911 on Facebook-Spying Wife

Frozen Water Found in Scorching Hot 752F Mercury Hell

Google Street View is now available for the Amazon rainforest

How to create an ant spiral of death

Unused storyboards show what the American Akira could’ve looked like

Nvidia’s GTX 680 Benchmarked: The Beast Lives Up to the Hype

Hackers Stole 174 Million Personal Records in 2011 (And a Ton Were by Anonymous & Co.)

Even Xperia Is Interesting in Wes Anderson’s Hands

The Mystery Machine is for sale for $3,200 in California

Is this a video of Bigfoot in Idaho earlier this year?

More Big Clues About What to Expect Next From Doctor Who. Plus the Final Secrets of The Hunger Games!

Pentagon: Trillion-Dollar Jet on Brink of Budgetary Disaster

Watch the first trailer for David Cronenberg’s new urban hellhole flick Cosmopolis

Pre-Order Acer’s Quad-Core Tegra 3 Tablet

The Best Way to Find Waldo Is With a Computer

Scientists Have Worked Out How to Stop You Going Bald

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