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Perv Gets Prison After Victim’s Nintendo DS Captures the Act

John Fisher probably figured he’d gotten away with inappropriately touching that 10-year old girl. That is, until police showed him the photos his victim took of him mid-molestation on her Nintendo DS. Fisher, age 46, initially denied touching the unidentified victim in January 2010 and November 2011 but recanted his testimony and admitted guilt when…

Black Eyed Peas: Joints and Jams

In case you didn’t know, Buzzfeed’s new tech site FWD is powered by a pair of evil and horrible trolls with ginger hair and no souls. Today, those evil and horrible trolls tried to take down our own Mat Honan over his tastes in music; particularly Cher and the Black Eyed Peas. While it’s tough…

What if the Disney Princesses aged in real time?

What if the Disney heroines were as old as the movies they starred in? This oddball question is answered by artist Taija Vigilia, who depicts a 75-year-old Snow White, 21-year-old Belle, and so on. She even threw in a smidge of Downton Abbey aesthetics for the heck of it. This is a lovely little tableau,…

Picture of the Day: March 28, 2012

YOUR BRAIN IS BLOODY AWESOME | A corrosion cast of blood vessels in the brain made from resin is displayed at the Wellcome trusts new ‘Brains’ exhibition at the Wellcome Collection on March 27, 2012 in London, England. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images. Want to read today’s io9 stories a different way? Check out our…

Physicists Add 11 Colors to the Rainbow By Tearing Apart Atoms

True, the pink is a lie. But a UC Santa Barbara research team has honestly just generated eleven new hues using lasers and ion cascades. https://gizmodo.com/theres-no-such-thing-as-the-color-pink-5850825 The team created the new colors by aiming a pair of lasers—one high-frequency, the other low-frequency—at a slab of semiconductor material, a gallium arsenide nanostructure. The high-frequency beam separates…

What is the biological equivalent of discovering the Higgs Boson?

It looks like we’re nearing the endgame in the hunt for the Higgs boson, the missing elementary particle of the Standard Model. Its discovery will send shockwaves through the physics community and likely capture the public imagination. So the question, then, is what can other fields do to complete with all that? What events outside…

New Google Maps Makes Taking the Bus Easier

Public transit riders used to have to just settle for the route that Google Maps dictated—no discussion, no sharing of feelings, nothing. But, the newest iteration of Maps will tailor the route to your preferences while looking gorgeous on Ice Cream Sandwich. With version 6.5, Maps now allows the user to select his preferred method…

Jimmy Fallon Loves Voicemail Hacking and Criticizing People’s Phones

Jimmy Fallon’s Hacker 9000 is capable of instant voicemail hacking. If you are were an audience member on last night’s Late Night, you may have feared certain humiliation at the hand of Fallon’s “gadget.” Even more humiliating, however, may have been Fallon’s mockery of your smartphone. [Late Night With Jimmy Fallon]

Newly discovered exoplanets are over 13 billion years old

At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be anything particularly remarkable about star HIP 11952 and its two planets. But its iron-poor composition reveals these planets are 13 billion years old — almost as ancient as the Big Bang itself. While HIP 11952 is just 375 light-years away, we can determine just how ancient it…

These Crayons Can Be Used Like Lego Bricks

What is this sorcery? Lego bricks that can draw? It’s like, you know, magic. Colorful sweet magic that I want to lick. Yes, my fellow Lego nerds. These bricks aren’t official Lego products, but they work just the same as the real Lego bricks. It’s a great idea, even when they will get less useful…

Our ancestor Lucy shared her world with another, completely different humanoid species

The world’s most famous hominin fossil is Lucy, an Australopithecus afarensis that had a chimp-like brain but walked upright like a human. Now a new discovery reveals that Lucy actually shared her world with another, very different hominin species. Both Lucy and this newly discovered fossil date back between 3.2 and 3.4 million years ago,…

Taposé: The Ghost of the Microsoft Courier Lives In Your iPad

Unlike every tablet that looks like every other tablet that looks like an iPad, Microsoft’s Courier was bold, imaginative and different. Of course, it got killed and was never released. But the spirit is still alive! The Courier’s dual pane versatility lives on with Tapose. https://gizmodo.com/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet-5365299 What does it do? On the surface, Tapose is…

Jeff Bezos has located Apollo 11’s long-lost engines at the bottom of the ocean

After being lost for more than 40 years, the rockets responsible for launching the first humans to the Moon have been discovered. By Jeff Bezos. Yes, that Jeff Bezos. The founder of Amazon just announced on his blog that, with the help of some “undersea pros,” he’s managed to locate the long-lost rocket engines from…

Kindle Fire’s Software Update Enables…

Amazon’s pushing out a software update that has a few nice-sounding features like Book Extras, a reading view for Amazon Silk, movie rentals, and personal document storage on Amazon’s cloud servers. Parts of the list sort of read like an assortment of half-measures. Digital copies of textbooks laid out for print instead of Apple’s new…

The Case for Ending Medical Research on Chimps

Can we really justify doing medical research on chimpanzees that we wouldn’t do on people? The more we learn about chimps, the more we realize they’re like humans in many important ways — and a recent report by the Institute of Medicine shows why biomedical research involving chimpanzees is mostly unncessary. In this piece, prominent…

Jeff Bezos’ Exploration Team Just Found the Apollo 11 Rockets at the Bottom of The Ocean

A Jeff Bezos-funded team of sea explorers has located the Apollo 11 rockets that helped get man get to the moon. On July 16th, 1969, five F-1 rockets powered Apollo 11 off the ground with one and a half million pounds of thrust, and 32 million horsepower. A few minutes later, the first stage rockets…

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9 clips from Game of Thrones suck you back into Westeros

Get nine sneak peeks from the premiere episode of Game of Thrones right here, right now. Almost all of last year’s favorite characters are featured — including the baby dragons! Plus watch the first interaction between Tyrion and Lord Varys!

A Marvelous Introduction to the Largest Plant Collection on Earth

For over a decade, the Millenium Seed Bank Partnership has been working in collaboration with scientists from around the world to establish an insurance policy against the extinction of Earth’s plant species. By 2020, the project hopes to have safely stored 25% of the world’s plant diversity in massive, nuclear-bomb-proof underground seed vaults. https://gizmodo.com/haunting-photographs-of-the-worlds-seed-vaults-which-m-5849093 This…

Benedict Cumberbatch is a wizard. Was anybody surprised?

Today’s totally awesome fan art? This portrait of Benedict “Sherlock” Cumberbatch as a wizard, by artist Mike Puncekar. Somehow, it just seems fitting. [via Tor.com]