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The answer to the most famous unanswerable fantasy riddle

“Why is a raven like a writing desk?” This question has been posed in many situations. It has been pondered by great minds. It is the most unanswerable famous riddle of all time, and it has an answer. Well, technically this riddle has many answers. People have had a lot of time to think up…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jan 5 '12

An Exclusive Look at the Making of Dragon Tattoo‘s Stunning Titles

We’re still haunted by the oozing hands that smushed Lisbeth Salander’s lovely face in David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’s title sequence. But what sort of Dragon Tattoo imagery is hidden amongst all these tangled vines of USB cables and “primordial dream ooze”? We spoke with co-founder of Blur and the title sequence’s…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 5 '12

Will private schools soon be the only places where students can learn about science?

The United Kingdom’s science minister, David Willetts, thinks that private and international investments can help establish the UK as a world leader in scientific and technological research. But is Willett’s plan really feasible? And if it is, is it one the United States could utilize as well? The Guardian reported yesterday that the UK government…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 5 '12

Breakthrough cloaking device creates a hole in light and time

Forgetting that cloak of invisibility — how about a device that hides you in the very fabric of time? New research published in Nature reveals that scientists have successfully hidden an object in both space and time — even if for only for 40 picoseconds. Rather than bending light around the object, their technique creates…

io9 Tim Barribeau Jan 5 '12

The Top 10 Craziest Things Caught At Airport Security In 2011

The Transportation Security Administration has released a list of the worst/best/most crazy things caught by their airport agents in 2011—including a whooping 1,200 loaded firearms. I picked my favorite top ten because theirs is not right. I mean, the TSA list puts motherf*cking snakes caught before getting into the motherf*cking plane at number 10, and…

Privacy & Security Jesus Diaz Jan 5 '12

Leaked Canon PowerShot G1X Can Distinguish Between Kids and Grownups

Canon gives “advanced amateurs” and professional photographers another reason to leave their DSLR at home with their rumored new PowerShot G1X. While photos aren’t available just yet, several details have leaked about the 14.3 megapixel point-and-shooter that includes a 1.5-inch CMOS sensor and a 4X optical zoom lens. An aperture range of f/2.5-16 and a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jan 5 '12

How to get six rhesus monkeys in one body

These two rhesus monkeys are called Roku and Hex. They look like regular old rhesus monkeys, and indeed they were born completely normal and healthy. But they are, in fact, chimeras, each the result of splicing six different genomes together. Animals created by mixing together genetically distinct material are called chimeras after the mythological beast…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jan 5 '12

Kanye’s Insane Tech Startup Is the Most Insane Kanye Plan Ever

Like a Mount Vesuvius covered in Louis Vuitton, Kanye West just ended his Twitter dormancy with an enormous late night rant. The subject? Not Taylor Swift, but revolutionizing tech, architecture, education—the list goes on. He’s assembling a superteam. With Kanye’s own verbal mea culpa in mind—”excuse me… I just get excited at the possibilities… the…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jan 5 '12

Fuji’s Next Beautiful Mirrorless Camera Leaks

Mirrorless compact cameras are the hottest shooters bouncing around right now, and Fujifilm’s next star just leaked: the X-Pro1 sports a gorgeous vintage look, 16-megapixel APS-CMOS guts, along with a slew of heavy duty metal lenses to swap out. The leak came from Wells Fargo, of all places, and details some very attractive kit: The…

Gadgets Sam Biddle Jan 5 '12

LG’s New MacBook Air Clone Is the Skinniest Core i7 Ultrabook (For Now)

What makes LG’s new Super Ultrabooks more than Ultrabooks? The 13.3″ Xnote Z330 is the skinniest laptop out there and the 14″ Z430 ain’t far behind. We’d heard rumblings about LG’s new ultrabooks, but they’re finally official and boy are they impressive. The Z330 is tiny: it’s only .57″ thick and weighs just 2.67 pounds.…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jan 5 '12

Can dogs tell when we’re talking to them?

Dogs make great companions – they’re affectionate, adorable, and excellent listeners. But do they really know when we’re talking to them? A Hungarian study tracked dogs’ eye movements in order to monitor their focus of attention, concluding that the animals pay more attention to humans after being addressed directly. Each one of 16 adult pet…

io9 Sophie Bushwick Jan 5 '12

You Can Launch Windows 8 Apps By Looking At Them

Touching a screen is so tiring. I don’t want to move my hands: there must be an easier way to launch Angry Birds. Can’t I just look at an app to launch it? Wait, I can? Wow. Tobii is a company that specializes in eye-tracking technology, and it’s just developed software that works with Windows…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 5 '12

Hit Movies That Everybody Thinks Were Flops

The history of genre movies is littered with massive, lavish failures — movies that took hundreds of millions of dollars and tossed the money down a sinkhole. But some of the movies that everybody “knows” were box office disasters actually did really well, when you look at the numbers. Here are some successful science fiction,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jan 5 '12

These predictions for the future from 1900 are eerily accurate

Is predicting the future difficult? Obviously. But that shouldn’t keep any of us from giving it our best shot. In the year 1900, John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. decided to give clairvoyance a go by asking “the wisest and most careful” thinkers from “the greatest institutions of science and learning” what they thought might transpire over…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 5 '12

Father of the Internet: The Internet Isn’t a Human Right

Vint Cerf knows the internet. He co-created it in its baby military form, and he now serves as Google’s “Internet Evangelist.” You might be surprised, then, when he says the internet isn’t a human right—but he’s correct. Cerf’s spiel, the entirety of which is worth reading in the NYT, boils down to this: human rights…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jan 5 '12

Is Iran Going To Dump the Web and Launch Its Own National Internet?

Iran isn’t a nation known for its liberal outlook on life. So maybe it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the country may soon pull out of the Internet and launch its own national network instead. The Guardian reports that Iran has been running a series of proof-of-concept tests for a national internet. The country-wide…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 5 '12

In this Spider-Man themed bathroom, The Lizard is watching you poop

And Doctor Octopus wants to play voyeur too! Crafter Riley Replicas built this groovy Spider-Man wall panel for a friend’s home. Hilariously enough, the panel ended up in “the pondering room.” Explains the builder of this project: I had a friend who wanted to decorate a room in her house for her husband who is…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 5 '12

Codex Gigas: Devil’s Bible or Just an Old Book?

Scholars find a demonic drawing within a mysterious religious artifact taken as a spoil of war over five hundred years ago. At face value, the story of the Codex Gigas sounds like the script for Indiana Jones 5, but behind the gloss lie genuine questions. What exactly is this artifact? Did an evil monk create…

io9 Keith Veronese Jan 5 '12

A new director for the Carrie remake may make prom horror watchable

The dreaded Carrie remake is circling a director. Thankfully, it’s Kimberly Peirce of Boys Don’t Cry fame, which makes us slightly optimistic for her translation. Deadline reports that the studio wants Peirce for their new Carrie. And while we’d love to see Pierce’s POV on Carrie, we can’t imagine anyone replacing the greatness that was…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 5 '12

Someone Is Paying $3,000 For This Computer With a 700MHz Processor and 128MB of RAM

What is this, the 1990s? No, not really. The computer in question is one of the first from Raspberry Pi. It’s a tiny PC on a single circuit board – and the proceeds from its sale will help encourage kids to code. The Raspberry Pi, not yet in full production, is supposed to sell for…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 5 '12

The answer to the most famous unanswerable fantasy riddle

An Exclusive Look at the Making of Dragon Tattoo‘s Stunning Titles

Will private schools soon be the only places where students can learn about science?

Breakthrough cloaking device creates a hole in light and time

The Top 10 Craziest Things Caught At Airport Security In 2011

Leaked Canon PowerShot G1X Can Distinguish Between Kids and Grownups

How to get six rhesus monkeys in one body

Kanye’s Insane Tech Startup Is the Most Insane Kanye Plan Ever

Fuji’s Next Beautiful Mirrorless Camera Leaks

LG’s New MacBook Air Clone Is the Skinniest Core i7 Ultrabook (For Now)

Can dogs tell when we’re talking to them?

You Can Launch Windows 8 Apps By Looking At Them

Hit Movies That Everybody Thinks Were Flops

These predictions for the future from 1900 are eerily accurate

Father of the Internet: The Internet Isn’t a Human Right

Is Iran Going To Dump the Web and Launch Its Own National Internet?

In this Spider-Man themed bathroom, The Lizard is watching you poop

Codex Gigas: Devil’s Bible or Just an Old Book?

A new director for the Carrie remake may make prom horror watchable

Someone Is Paying $3,000 For This Computer With a 700MHz Processor and 128MB of RAM

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