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Photographer refuses to reveal how she made her baby fly

Photographer Rachel Hulin has captured her baby mid-flight throughout their lovely home. But how has this infant mastered the art of levitation, we’re not sure. And artist swears this is no cut-and-paste job. In an interview with Time Magazine, Hulin was completely mum on how she mastered these shots: “I wanted the flights to feel…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Insanely Strong Molecular Glue, Inspired by Flesh-Eating Bacteria

If you’ve ever stuck your fingers together with super glue, you know pain. But imagine sticking them together with glue that bonds materials at the molecular level: that’s real pain. It’s also what scientists are doing, with the help of flesh-eating bacteria. A team of researchers from the University of Oxford has created a molecular…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Inside Foxconn: TV Crew Enters Apple’s Factories for the First Time Ever

ABC News’ Nightline program delivered what they claimed would be an unprecedented look inside the Foxconntroversy: their TV crew would have unfettered access to facilities and people. So what did they expose? The ABC team, along with members of the Fair Labor Association, toured the plant, occasionally shaking hands with a laborer or being fed…

Tech News Sam Biddle and Michael Hession

Alex the counting parrot was even smarter than we thought

Alex the gray parrot was no ordinary bird. The subject of a thirty-year investigation into avian cognition, by the time he died in 2007, numerous scientific publications had pointed to Alex as proof that a bird’s mathematical abilities could be on par with — and even exceed — those of chimps and other non-human primates.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Bad Apple Store Genius Stole $16,000 in iPhones

The Apple Store in Charlotte’s Northlake Mall is presumably like any other: clean, crisp, tidy. But underneath the pristine veneer, an unidentified employee spent nearly six weeks this winter stealing iPhone after iPhone from the Genius Room. Twenty-five handsets, to be precise, worth $16,425 retail. Steal different! The perp is a “known suspect,” according to…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Today’s Transfixing Google Doodle Celebrates the Magic of Waves

Blame Google if you find yourself staring at your screen, unable to remember what you were about to search for on the Internet. Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 155th birthday of German physicist Heinrich Hertz whose experiments with electromagnetic waves paved the way for the radio—and everything wireless you’ve ever used. Now that’s a Google…

Physics & Chemistry Mario Aguilar

Medieval Batman armor turns you into a dark knight (literally)

There is cosplay, and then there is this. Samuel Lee and the folks at Prince Armory in Dallas, Texas have created this absolutely boss suit of leather Batman armor straight out of an Elseworlds tale. Model Carlos Blanchard plays the role of Lord Wayne in this series, and the faceplate is removable should you need…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

When NASA shot a rocket into the Northern Lights to study mysterious waves

This is a fisheye view of a NASA-funded rocket being shot into the Aurora Borealis in Alaska. In a move applauded nationwide, NASA has declared war on the sky. Obviously there’s a lot of (metaphorical) ground to cover, but NASA, as well as scientists from a number of universities, started with the mysterious Alfven Wave.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Ikea’s Video Assembly Instructions Vastly Increase Your Chances Of Success

The ongoing joke that Ikea’s flat-pack furniture is confusingly complicated to assemble might be rendered moot now that the Swedish company is rolling out video assembly instructions that look considerably easier to follow than its printed manuals. In fact, the videos make assembling a bed, like the company’s popular MALM design, look downright entertaining. With…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Pacific Rim‘s writers reveal just how awesome Guillermo del Toro’s monsters vs. robots will be!

Doctor Who adds two more awesome guest stars for its new series. John Carter’s costume designer discusses the wardrobes… of Mars. Jason Isaacs takes us inside his reality-hopping show Awake. Plus the latest on Fringe, The Walking Dead, and more! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from The Hunger Games. Pacific Rim Patrick Melton…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Why the Orion Nebula Is Totally NSFW

The next time you’re out stargazing with your children, please make sure you shield them from Orion and his glowing member. Or at least bring a little loin cloth you can hold up to the sky. Also, you’re welcome for never being able to unsee that. [xkcd]

Books & Comics Brian Barrett

iOS Bug Allows Access to Contacts Without a Passcode

If you think that your iPhone is impenetrable thanks to its security passcode, think again. A new bug has been exposed in iOS 5.0.1 that allows unauthorized access to contacts and the calling features of the iPhone. Admitedly, it is a long-winded hack, that involves inserting and ejecting the SIM card whilst trying to call…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Asus Transformer Bootloader Unlock Available for Download

When the Asus Transformer Prime launched, there was outcry from developers over the fact that its bootloader was locked. Asus eventually crumbled, and announced that they would remove the restrictions. Now, almost two months later, you can download the fix. https://gizmodo.com/asus-transformer-prime-review-the-android-tablet-youve-5873393 The news means that those who wish to do so can now install customs…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

A Pneumatic Guitar Is the Worst Kind of Air Guitar

If you suck at guitar, there are plenty of solutions. Give up, practice more, or maybe just join a punk band where nobody will notice. Whatever you do, don’t get a pneumatic guitar like this one to play for you. Put together by Clippard Instrument Laboratory, this guitar uses 62 pneumatic cylinders that work together…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Another Way to Get a Headache: The LG Optimus 3D Max

LG’s shown that it still thinks 3D phones are the future by unveiling yet another new phone pre-MWC. The beefed up Optimus 3D Max is the successor to the world’s first 3D phone and aims to continue the headache-inducing pocket 3D experience we all know and love. The Optimus 3D Max apparently packs “true performance…

Tech News Sam Gibbs - gizmodo uk

Japan Will Have a Space Elevator by 2050

It might sound like the stuff of science fiction dreams, but a Japanese construction company has announced that it will have built a working space elevator by 2050. Where can I join the queue? According to the The Daily Yomiuri, construction company Obayashi Corp has announced it will have built a space elevator capable of…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

The Neuroscience of Magic

Despite having a background in science, I am remarkably susceptible to magic tricks: there’s something about them that draws me in. But there’s more to it than me being stupid, as this video about the neuroscience of magic explains. Turns out, as Luigi Anzivino describes, our brains just aren’t cut out for following both a…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

New Snapdragon Chip With Integrated LTE Will Save Your Battery

Qualcomm’s next-generation system-on-a-chip is set to turn up inside consumer devices at the Mobile World Congress—and judging by its rumored speed and integrated LTE technology, it could cause quite a stir. Qualcomm has announced that the new chip—MSM8960, or Snapdragon S4 to its friends—will debut in several handsets next week in Barcelona. Whilst only dual-core,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Electric Skateboard Built to Actually Ride Like a Skateboard

Powered skateboards have been around since the early 90’s, but they’ve always seemed to require extra components—from handheld throttles to Microsoft Kinect-based sensor arrays—that could never quite capture the feel of a conventional deck. The ZBoard, with an electric drivetrain and weight-sensor control system, could be the first to actually pull it off. The ZBoard…

Gadgets Andrew Tarantola

These “Earthworms” Are Actually an Entirely New Family of Amphibian

It may have taken five years at nearly 250 sites but a research team’s persistent digging throughout northeastern India have paid off. Say hello to science’s newest family of caecilians—legless amphibians—the Chikilidae. The Amphibia class is made up of three orders: frogs, salamanders, and caecilians. Caecilians are less well known as the other two in…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Photographer refuses to reveal how she made her baby fly

Insanely Strong Molecular Glue, Inspired by Flesh-Eating Bacteria

Inside Foxconn: TV Crew Enters Apple’s Factories for the First Time Ever

Alex the counting parrot was even smarter than we thought

Bad Apple Store Genius Stole $16,000 in iPhones

Today’s Transfixing Google Doodle Celebrates the Magic of Waves

Medieval Batman armor turns you into a dark knight (literally)

When NASA shot a rocket into the Northern Lights to study mysterious waves

Ikea’s Video Assembly Instructions Vastly Increase Your Chances Of Success

Pacific Rim‘s writers reveal just how awesome Guillermo del Toro’s monsters vs. robots will be!

Why the Orion Nebula Is Totally NSFW

iOS Bug Allows Access to Contacts Without a Passcode

Asus Transformer Bootloader Unlock Available for Download

A Pneumatic Guitar Is the Worst Kind of Air Guitar

Another Way to Get a Headache: The LG Optimus 3D Max

Japan Will Have a Space Elevator by 2050

The Neuroscience of Magic

New Snapdragon Chip With Integrated LTE Will Save Your Battery

The Electric Skateboard Built to Actually Ride Like a Skateboard

These “Earthworms” Are Actually an Entirely New Family of Amphibian

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