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Grippy Pad: Magically Stick Your Gadget To Your Dash

Attach a silicon Grippy Pad to your car’s dash, and your phone will stick to it as if by magic. Apparently taking its cue from the design of gecko’s feet, Grippy Pad sticks to gadgets without messy adhesives, velcro, or magnets. We haven’t tried it out for ourselves but after seeing videos and photos of…

Gadgets Mario Aguilar

What’s classier than J.R.R. Tolkien telling off Nazis? Absolutely nothing.

Why is there a picture of Smaug up there? Well, that was one time J.R.R. Tolkien delivered the burns. Here’s another occasion. In 1938, Tolkien was in talks with Berlin publishing house Rütten & Loening to release a German-language edition of The Hobbit. Things were going smoothly until the publisher suddenly required documentation of Tolkien’s…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Yahoo Pulls the Trigger, Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement

As we reported last month, Yahoo has made good on its threat to take Facebook to court over alleged patent infringements. Apparently ,Yahoo is taking a page out of Kodak’s playbook. https://gizmodo.com/yahoo-plays-the-troll-blindsides-facebook-in-patent-sp-5888836 “Facebook’s entire social network model, which allows users to create profile for and connect with, among other things, persons and businesses, is based…

Social Media Andrew Tarantola

Awww, This Adorable Little Flash Drive Thinks It’s a Hard Drive

Like a high-tech version of Boo, this heartwarming little 8GB flash drive hard drive is an adorable miniature version of the real thing. Except that instead of taking the internet by storm, it’s content to just store your PowerPoint presentations. https://gizmodo.com/you-can-buy-boo-the-internets-cutest-dog-5884951 It comes in just a single 8GB version for $22, complete with a metal…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

IBM’s Deep Thunder Will Power the Most Advanced iPad Weather App Yet

IBM’s Watson may be the talk of the tech nerds these days, but IBM’s “Deep” generation of supercomputers haven’t faded into complete obscurity since Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in chess 15 years ago. In fact, it’s brother, Deep Thunder will bring its hyper-precise weather forecasts to the iPad. Talking Points Memo says Deep Thunder…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The insane physics that lets us see the Man in the Moon

For millennia, people have looked up at the full Moon and sworn that they could see something up there. Depending on the culture, it’s anything from a face to a dragon. But why is anything there in the first place? The Man in the Moon – which we’ll use as the collective name for everything…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

This Is Why You Can’t Use a Cat as a Quadrotor

We all know the awesomeness of quadrotors knows no bounds. But using your taxidermied cat as the body of said quadrotor? Unfortunately for the world, this grand experiment has not yet reached its full potential. The flying apparatus, dubbed the Orvillecopter, barely lifts off the ground. Apparently cat carcass is not as aerodynamic as one…

Tech News Michael Hession

iPhone Mug Case Lets You Reach For a Half-Cup of Stupidity

Apple employs countless designers and engineers who do everything they can to squeeze as much functionality into the iPhone while keeping it slim and pocket-friendly—only to have case makers come along and create monstrosities like this ridiculous half mug. Its website points out that the handle makes the iPhone easier to hold, provides a place…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

In Machine, a woman deals with loss in a world of biomechanical immortality

In this excerpt from new novel Machine, by Jennifer Pelland (Apex Publications), a woman named Celia with a troubled past has just lost her wife because she’s chosen to become a bioandroid. Celia lives in a future of underground surgeries, bio-mechanical implants, and posthuman politics. In this chapter we begin to glimpse all the ways…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

iPad Workers’ Faces Still Ruined After Last Year’s Explosion

Late last year, workers in a Chinese factory, toiling to polish the back of iPads, were the victims of an enormous explosion. Apple’s industrial blast killed four and injured over 50. Today, many workers are still horribly disfigured. https://gizmodo.com/apple-supplier-factory-explodes-injuring-57-5869204 NPR interviewed a group of the Pegatron survivors. Most of them aren’t doing too well: The…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The last time we redefined what it means to be human

Over the past decade, you may have noticed more and more articles referring to “hominins” rather than “hominids.” Just why are Homo sapiens and her ancestors now called hominins? The answer isn’t just semantic — it has to do with a revolution in the way evolutionary biologists perceive humans’ place in the tree of life.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

This Is How the New iPad and the Original Macintosh Screen Compare

If you made the new iPad 2012’s screen—with a 2048 x 1536 pixel resolution—with the pixel size the original Macintosh, this is how they would look together. Pretty impressive, right? https://gizmodo.com/new-ipad-the-third-generation-5891158 Click images to expand and see at 1:1 pixel resolution. The original Macintosh, released in 1984, had a monochrome 512 × 342 pixel display.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

We Demand Ikea’s Magical Touchscreen Thread In America Now Now Now

Winter and touchscreens don’t mix because gloves and mittens aren’t so capacitive. Ikea’s Beröra sewing kit could change the world forever, had they not decided to only produce 12000 of the thread kits. We demand Ikea bring it back. Beröra is an über-simple solution to the wooly-handed problems of winter. It’s a sewing kit with…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Insects have been battling each other across continents for millions of years

Many insect species have natural enemies. Often, insects are locked in an evolutionary race for dominance with another insect species — and it turns out that these wars are much more epic than we ever realized, according to a new analysis of insect DNA. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh used the DNA of a…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

New Lockout stills show off the sexy side of the “space prison” movie

Could there be more to Luc Besson’s Lockout than just Escape from New York in space? We’ve got an exclusive look at three new photos from the movie which hint at just how much fun this movie could really be. In Lockout, Guy Pearce stars as a slightly more manicured Snake Plissken character, who’s tasked…

Movies Meredith Woerner

On The Walking Dead, everyone wraps up their problems with a neat, bloody bow

Boy howdy, has this show adopted a slash-and-burn policy. For the penultimate episode of The Walking Dead’s second season, we saw a frightful moment between brawling frenemies Rick and Shane, and things took a turn for the Romero extremely quickly. It’s the end of the season, so spoilers way on. We can break last night’s…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

NCAA March Madness Live: Watch the Entire NCAA Tournament on Your Phone for Cheap

We’ve all seen the stats for the gross amount of lost productivity during the NCAA tournament every March. But, like, where the hell do those people work? Certainly nowhere with a good firewall or sysadmin. The NCAA has you covered again this year, but now it’ll cost you (a bit). https://gizmodo.com/the-best-online-ncaa-march-madness-brackets-5892553 What does it do?…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Siri’s Long Lost Cousins Speak Up

Speech recognition wasn’t a new prospect when Siri was revealed by Apple last year. But with the rapid proliferation of the iPhone 4S, its easy to forget about all the past attempts to bring talking computers into our lives. Take a look back at some of the devices put to market in this video, as…

Tech News Michael Hession

Intel Wants to Start a Web-Based TV Service?

Just a few weeks ago we heard rumors that Google was plotting a pay TV service set to launch this year, and now a Wall Street journal report surfaced, suggesting that Intel is also planning to launch a web-based TV service on track for 2012. https://gizmodo.com/is-google-plotting-a-fios-tv-service-5887452 Intel is apparently exploring different options, but the end…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

All These Stars Will Explode Together Like a String of Firecrackers

This is one of the most impressive Hubble Space Telescope’s images I’ve ever seen. It shows a massive group of young stars called R136, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. But that’s not what makes them so special: Many of the diamond-like icy blue stars are among the…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Grippy Pad: Magically Stick Your Gadget To Your Dash

What’s classier than J.R.R. Tolkien telling off Nazis? Absolutely nothing.

Yahoo Pulls the Trigger, Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement

Awww, This Adorable Little Flash Drive Thinks It’s a Hard Drive

IBM’s Deep Thunder Will Power the Most Advanced iPad Weather App Yet

The insane physics that lets us see the Man in the Moon

This Is Why You Can’t Use a Cat as a Quadrotor

iPhone Mug Case Lets You Reach For a Half-Cup of Stupidity

In Machine, a woman deals with loss in a world of biomechanical immortality

iPad Workers’ Faces Still Ruined After Last Year’s Explosion

The last time we redefined what it means to be human

This Is How the New iPad and the Original Macintosh Screen Compare

We Demand Ikea’s Magical Touchscreen Thread In America Now Now Now

Insects have been battling each other across continents for millions of years

New Lockout stills show off the sexy side of the “space prison” movie

On The Walking Dead, everyone wraps up their problems with a neat, bloody bow

NCAA March Madness Live: Watch the Entire NCAA Tournament on Your Phone for Cheap

Siri’s Long Lost Cousins Speak Up

Intel Wants to Start a Web-Based TV Service?

All These Stars Will Explode Together Like a String of Firecrackers

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