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The iPad of 1935

There’s no denying that devices like the iPad, Kindle and Nook have dramatically changed the way that many people consume media. Last year, online retailer Amazon announced that electronic book sales had surpassed print book sales for the first time in history. The future of the book has quite a few failed predictions in its…

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 7 '12

The Apple Store Is Down: Here Comes iPad 3

Apple is currently updating the Apple Store, presumably with the new goodies that will be announced at today’s event. When it’s back up will we see a new iPad? A new Apple TV? Tune in to our liveblog today find out.

Tech News Mario Aguilar Mar 7 '12

How the App Store’s Gunning For Your Retail Dollars

In advance of today’s Apple announcement, the company has started putting catalogs in their own category in the App Store. Is Apple plotting a new way for us to use its devices to shop? The new Catalogs category isn’t yet listed with the others, but a simple search of the App Store shows that many…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Mar 7 '12

Windows 8: 20 Tips and Tricks

What do you do with a new operating system? You roll up your shirt sleeves and jump elbow-deep into every part of the OS you can get your hands on. You make manual registry tweaks to open up hidden elements of your new OS; you navigate through all of the different configuration options to see…

Tech News David Murphy - MaximumPC Mar 7 '12

David Attenborough looks tiny beside the world’s biggest moth

And with good reason. Sure, this Atlas moth (Attacus atlas) may be looming in the foreground of the photograph, but at close to a foot across, its wingspan is bigger than Attenborough’s entire face no matter where it’s positioned. That’s pretty impressive for an organism with an adult lifespan of less than two weeks (A.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 7 '12

Report: iPad 3 Will Be the First iOS Device with 1 GB of RAM

Jailbreak developer Chronic has some big news about the next iPad, Cult of Mac reports: it’ll pack a nice big gigabyte of memory. According to a debug screenshot BGR acquired last month, the 1 GB spec was just hiding in the numbers: It’s been in plain sight since the beginning of February when BGR posted…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 7 '12

To Lose Weight, Just Drink a Gallon of Coffee

There’s no shortage of scientific research pointing to exercise being good for you, but if you’re just trying to lose weight you probably want all the help you can get. Now, research suggests that caffeine activates the same fat-busting genes as an hour’s exercise. Somebody, pass the espresso. A team of researchers from the Karolinska…

Health Jamie Condliffe Mar 7 '12

TV Jamming Remote Lets You Be a Jerk From a Safe Distance

There’s a new weapon in the war for television supremacy, and with a range of 400 feet, the Ninja Remote promises to confuse, befuddle, and enrage TV junkies from a safe distance that won’t get you immediately beat up. The remote is programmed to automatically work with nearly all TVs on the market, blasting an…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 7 '12

Unverified Results: The History of Scientific Research into ESP

Today’s mediums and psychic detectives are nothing new – people have been claiming the ability to see the future, speak with the dead or read minds since antiquity. Scientific experiments testing for evidence of paranormal abilities are a relatively modern phenomenon, however. Has science ever produced verifiable evidence of ESP? Organized research into ESP and…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Mar 7 '12

An exclusive sneak peek at June’s issue of X-Men Legacy

Courtesy of Marvel Comics, here’s the first look at the cover of June’s issue of X-Men Legacy. This issue ties in with this summer’s Avengers Vs. X-Men crossover and stars Joanna Cargill, also known as the reluctant X-Men ally Frenzy. Author Christos Gage is picking up where former Legacy scribe Mike Carey left off, and…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Mar 7 '12

Where and When to Sell Your iPad 2 for the Most Money

This post originally appeared a couple of weeks ago, but it’s worth repeating. Amazon’s prices are holding steady, and Radio Shack’s have only dipped about $15. As of 1 p.m. EST, though, they’re all going to plummet. So get selling! The iPad 3 is almost here, and even though you don’t know for sure what…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Mar 7 '12

Behold, the commercial that will ruin St. Patrick’s Day for everyone forever

This is how you advertise for a parade! Now all we can think about is funneling beers into this fellow’s eye sockets. Way to go Atlanta, you’ve made the creepiest commercial for a parade in the history of the internet. [Via Copyranter]

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 7 '12

This is the most gorgeous body horror you’ll ever watch

When your mind turns to body horror, you generally think of tentacles and geysers of bloods, not garlands and bursts of twinkling confetti. But indeed, that is what precipitates in director Andrew Thomas Huang’s experimental fantasy film Solipsist. Human flesh evolves into living dreamcatchers and eddies of colored sand. It is equal parts stunning and…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Mar 7 '12

The Air Force’s Mysterious Space Plane Has Been in Orbit For a Whole Year

The Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane gets more mysterious by the day. Designed to spend up to nine months on unspecified errands in Earth’s orbit, the second copy of the Boeing-made craft, known as Orbital Test Vehicle 2, has now been in space for a year and two days – and is still going…

Space & Spaceflight David Axe-Wired Mar 7 '12

Why did it take so long to invent the wheel?

To most of us, wheels seem pretty intuitive. You’ve probably known from an early age, for example, that circular or rounded things roll more easily than boxy or angular things. Knowing this, it’s hard to imagine that our earliest ancestors did not come to similar realizations on their own — and yet, the first wheels…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 7 '12

Are kids being diagnosed with ADHD just for being young?

While ADHD is a very real disorder, many argue that it’s diagnosed far more often than it should be. But why are kids being misdiagnosed with this disorder? According to a new Canadian study, it might just be because they’re younger than their peers. In British Columbia, the age cutoff date for entering each grade…

io9 Tim Barribeau Mar 7 '12

Gorgeous Prometheus photo reveals a few Space Jockey secrets

A lovely new still from Ridley Scott’s Prometheus has a lot of folks talking about what’s really going on here — and we think we know why. After visiting the official Weyland Corp. website — you met Peter Weyland last week in that faux 2023 TED Talk — a few ARG sleuths uncovered this gorgeous…

Movies Meredith Woerner Mar 7 '12

Is Amazon Moving Into Original TV?

Original TV content is proving popular among the internet set right now, with Netflix, Hulu and YouTube all betting big on it. Now, it looks like Amazon might be jumping aboard the bandwagon. What makes us say that? Two pieces of evidence. Let’s take them in turn. First, and most importantly, Joe Lewis—a new executive…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe Mar 7 '12

Buy Nathan Fillion’s steampunk cybernetic arm from Castle

On the episode “Punked” of the sleuthing show Castle, Nathan Fillion’s mystery novelist Richard Castle investigated a steampunk society in New York City. At one point, our hero dons a retrotech arm built by crafter Thomas Willeford, who is now selling it on eBay. Explains Willeford of this piece: Since the episode aired, people have…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Mar 7 '12

The very first robot “brains” were made of old alarm clocks

Elmer and Elsie, two electronic ‘tortoises’ built in the late 1940s by neurobiologist Grey Walter, were the first robots in history programmed to “think” the way biological brains do. What did they do with their freedom? What everyone tries to do: stay alive. Walter was interested in brains. He studied electroencephalographs and collaborated with Pavlov’s…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 7 '12

The iPad of 1935

The Apple Store Is Down: Here Comes iPad 3

How the App Store’s Gunning For Your Retail Dollars

Windows 8: 20 Tips and Tricks

David Attenborough looks tiny beside the world’s biggest moth

Report: iPad 3 Will Be the First iOS Device with 1 GB of RAM

To Lose Weight, Just Drink a Gallon of Coffee

TV Jamming Remote Lets You Be a Jerk From a Safe Distance

Unverified Results: The History of Scientific Research into ESP

An exclusive sneak peek at June’s issue of X-Men Legacy

Where and When to Sell Your iPad 2 for the Most Money

Behold, the commercial that will ruin St. Patrick’s Day for everyone forever

This is the most gorgeous body horror you’ll ever watch

The Air Force’s Mysterious Space Plane Has Been in Orbit For a Whole Year

Why did it take so long to invent the wheel?

Are kids being diagnosed with ADHD just for being young?

Gorgeous Prometheus photo reveals a few Space Jockey secrets

Is Amazon Moving Into Original TV?

Buy Nathan Fillion’s steampunk cybernetic arm from Castle

The very first robot “brains” were made of old alarm clocks

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