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The iPhone 4S Has Already Been Jailbroken

It’s not going to help your battery life issues, but if you want to break free of Apple’s checks and balances that prevent you from running any old app on your new phone, you’ll be happy to hear that the iPhone Dev-Team is already demonstrating a preliminary jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 29

Meet the Guardian of the Hole, a mechanical mythical creature

This here is Custos Cavum (“The Guardian of the Hole”), a fantastically weird robotic sculpture by artist U-Ram Choe on display at New York City’s Asia Society until December 31, 2011. The piece was inspired by the 10th-century Indian sculpture, Shiva as Lord of Dance. From Choe’s synopsis of the project: Once upon a time,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 29

Locking Handbag Thwarts Pickpockets and Easy Access to Your Keys

The best way to protect yourself from pickpockets and thieves is to ensure you don’t look like an easy target. So maybe it’s time to upgrade that trendy gaping shoulder bag you carry with this secure alternative that requires you to know the secret combination before it will even open. It’s made from Tonka-tough copolymer…

Privacy & Security Andrew Liszewski Oct 29

The Australian alien invasion flick Encounter At Raven’s Gate is like Signs (but with football hooligans)

Encounter at Raven’s Gate — which is alternatively titled Incident At Raven’s Gate — is a 1988 small town alien invasion family melodrama directed by Dutch-born Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer. The film opens in media res with astrophysicist and Miami Vice villain Dr. Hemmings (Terry Camilleri) going driveabout across the Australian Outback tracking an…

io9 Jason Shankel Oct 29

Polaroid’s Dua Flash Embraces Videographers and Photographers

Like skiers and snowboarders sharing the same powder, I envision some kind of uneasy truce between those using their DSLRs for still photography, and those using them for videography. I have no basis for the dirty looks and stink eye I imagine them giving each other, but it still warms my heart to see a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Oct 29

Man accused of bestiality blames crime on shapeshifting prostitute

Last Sunday, Zimbabwean police found a 28-year-old man in flagrante delicto with a donkey in the town of Zvishavane. When pressed for a rationale, the man offered up that which can only be described as your typical True Blood subplot. Reports New Zimbabwe: A man caught having sex with a donkey stunned a court on…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 29

What’s Going on With the iPhone 4S battery?

The original iPhone 4 stumbled out of the gate with an infamous antenna issue that left many users very disappointed. And while the problem was eventually resolved in a modified housing that carried forward to the recently released iPhone 4S, the latest model seems to be suffering from its own serious performance issue. Battery life.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 29

Apple Buys Company to Add Killer 3D to Its Maps

For the past few years, Apple has been hammering away at building its own mapping platform to shake the yoke of Google Maps. It just took another step toward assembling its cartographic Frankenstein monster by buying up C3 Technologies, which assembles hyper-realistic 3D maps and integrates them with more traditional 2D maps and photos. C3…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Oct 29

Lens Band: A Livestrong Bracelet to Eliminate Zoom Creep

Because of their size and the heavy glass components inside, large lenses are subject to something known as ‘zoom creep’ where they have the tendency to extend or collapse under their own weight when pointed upwards or downwards. In some situations the problem can be easily solved by just holding the zoom ring, but other…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 29

How to make your own Vigo The Carpathian painting using XBox Kinect

Sunlight Labs recently gave io9 the heads up about this groovy motion-sensing Vigo the Carpathian painting they constructed using XBox Kinect. You can find the technical info on how to build your own Scourge of Carpathia here.

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 29

A dozen last-minute science fiction Halloween costumes (for the truly costumeless)

It’s almost Halloween, and you don’t want to simply wear a t-shirt, alienate your friends, or buy a craptacularly slutty store-bought costume that will drop $30 come All Saints’ Day. Good for you! The only problem is that daylight’s burning, and you can’t waste the last 72 hours of Halloween shenanigans on elaborate pageantry. https://gizmodo.com/all-i-want-to-wear-for-halloween-is-a-t-shirt-5854129…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 29

Finally, an Electronic Paper Display I Can Crumple Up and Throw Away

E-ink technology is easier on the eyes for reading, even if the devices it’s currently deployed in feel nothing like a book or magazine. But AU Optronics gives us another tantalizing look at the future with a proof of concept ereader that’s completely self-powered, while still as flexible as a piece of paper. Part of…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Oct 29

Qantas Indefinitely Grounds Its Entire Fleet

In a surprising move, Australia’s Qantas Airways has officially grounded its entire fleet today, and stopped all domestic and international flights as part of an ongoing and messy dispute with the airline’s three unions. Qantas, which is often recognized as one of the safest airlines in the world, has been fighting with the Australian Licenced…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 29

A cartoon essay that explores why we love to be scared

As comic essayist Lucy Knisley prepares to head to a haunted house, she begins to consider the role of horror in our lives, the comfort of safe scares, and the real-life fears that go deeper than supernatural terrors. Be sure to click through to the second page of Knisley’s latest comic “Scaredcited,” for which she…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Oct 29

Robotic Venus flytraps will trap bugs and eat them for fuel

It’s alarming enough when robots ingest plant detritus like twigs and grass clippings. It’s another thing entirely when they can start chowing down on members of the animal kingdom. A pair of prototype robots are designed to catch bugs, a major step on the path toward robots that can hunt, catch and digest their own…

io9 Rebecca Boyle - Popular Science Oct 29

Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant takes us to 1800s Constantinople in a flying sailboat

Delilah Dirk is a globetrotting adventuress with Indiana Jones’ upbringing, Batman’s martial training, and a flying sailboat. And she’s on a mission to steal a pirate’s gold, much to the horror of her new companion, a sharp-tongued Turkish lieutenant. Erdemoglu Selim is a lieutenant in the Ottoman Janissary corps living in 19th Century Constantinople. Selim…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Oct 29

Magnetic Resonance Used to Artificially Taste and Improve Canned Tomatoes

What makes something taste ‘good’ is a complex psychological and physiological human process that has made creating artificial tasters, or accurate scientific models, very difficult. But researchers at the University of Copenhagen have come up with what’s described as a “magnetic tongue” that could allow factories to monitor and improve the flavor of tinned tomatoes…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 29

British man calls police after confusing the Moon for a UFO

In an attempt to dissuade citizens from wasting emergency operators’ time with stupidity this Halloween, the Hertfordshire Constabulary in England has released an example of a very unimportant phone call. In the above audio clip, a concerned chap calls 999 after mixing up the Moon with an unidentified flying object. “It’s not an emergency per…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 29

Gaze into the soulless, dead eyes of baby Chewbacca and Luke Skywalker dolls

I’m not sure what compels amateur Geppettos to construct infantilized incarnations of say, Lord Voldemort, but hey, the world is a weird place. Right now, somebody is eagerly filling their entire Netflix queue with every episode of Home Improvement. It’s happening, trust me. https://gizmodo.com/baby-voldemort-toy-is-the-most-horrifying-thing-to-come-5822229 Similarly unfathomable instincts have spurred eBay dollmaker eyelovelucy to turn the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 29

Every single time Kurt Russell acted confused in Big Trouble In Little China

Two weeks ago, I was watching Big Trouble In Little China with my brother, who hadn’t seen the movie in years. “Man,” he noted. “Kurt Russell really loves shouting nonsense at no one in particular.” Indeed, one of the best parts of BTILC is old Jack Burton’s perpetual state of befuddlement (it’s the same kind…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Oct 29

The iPhone 4S Has Already Been Jailbroken

Meet the Guardian of the Hole, a mechanical mythical creature

Locking Handbag Thwarts Pickpockets and Easy Access to Your Keys

The Australian alien invasion flick Encounter At Raven’s Gate is like Signs (but with football hooligans)

Polaroid’s Dua Flash Embraces Videographers and Photographers

Man accused of bestiality blames crime on shapeshifting prostitute

What’s Going on With the iPhone 4S battery?

Apple Buys Company to Add Killer 3D to Its Maps

Lens Band: A Livestrong Bracelet to Eliminate Zoom Creep

How to make your own Vigo The Carpathian painting using XBox Kinect

A dozen last-minute science fiction Halloween costumes (for the truly costumeless)

Finally, an Electronic Paper Display I Can Crumple Up and Throw Away

Qantas Indefinitely Grounds Its Entire Fleet

A cartoon essay that explores why we love to be scared

Robotic Venus flytraps will trap bugs and eat them for fuel

Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant takes us to 1800s Constantinople in a flying sailboat

Magnetic Resonance Used to Artificially Taste and Improve Canned Tomatoes

British man calls police after confusing the Moon for a UFO

Gaze into the soulless, dead eyes of baby Chewbacca and Luke Skywalker dolls

Every single time Kurt Russell acted confused in Big Trouble In Little China

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