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Film Nerds Are Drooling Over Stanley Kubrick’s Incredible Early Photography

Stanley Kubrick made some really weird movies. If you want a little peak at his mental formation, the 10,000 photos he took as a teenager will probably only confuse you more—in a good way. If you’re not curious about what went on in Stanley Kubrick’s brain, you don’t have a heartbeat. At some point about…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Dec 2 '11

Get Really Drunk Off Gummi Bears

Have you heard the one about the super simple way of packing a high amount of alcohol into gummi bears? I was extremely skeptical, so like any good scientist* I decided to test it myself. The result? Hooboy… It’s Friday afternoon, you’ve made it through the long week, and it’s time for Happy Hour, Gizmodo’s…

Tech News Brent Rose Dec 2 '11

Facebook Buys Gowalla

Facebook just bought Gowalla for an as yet undisclosed sum of money, CNN is reporting. It’s another big get for the blue behemoth. Gowalla is Foursquare’s cuter, but far less popular cousin. It recently shifted focus from being a check-in based service, to an app that helps create location-based travel stories. CNN is reporting that…

Social Media Mat Honan Dec 2 '11

Daily Desired: A Glass Light Fixture for Your Eureka Moment

Light is, like, totally incredible, amirite? It allows you to do cool things. It allows you to see beautiful things. Making stuff? Yup. These inspired light fixtures are a tribute to everything that makes light so gosh darn great. The gorgeous fixtures made by Austin-based Machine Shop Lighting almost look like industrial relics, but they’re…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Dec 2 '11

Galaxy Nexus Review: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back (Updated)

The long-awaited, much-hyped, Android 4.0 flagship is here at last. You already know we like Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), but what about the first phone to bear it? We’ve talked software, it’s time to hit the hardware. Note: Original testing was conducted on the European version of the Galaxy Nexus. We have now reviewed…

Tech News Brent Rose Dec 2 '11

Share Music From Your iPhone, Post Tiny Reviews, Battle Robots and Breakdancing Zombies

Swapping music between iPhones just got real easy. And forget Yelp’s review manifestos, you should go tiny. Then become a rat-battling rogue and get ready for robot combat. If you want to see all the apps on one page click here. Sprd the Note: Share music from your iPhone’s iTunes library directly with other iPhones…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Dec 2 '11

Get Mall Directions, Manage Your Content, Track Your Packages, and Dream Like Boy

Find the bathroom in the mall with your phone. Keep track of all the boxes headed to your home. Manage your Android device from a browser and enter a young boy’s dreams without being all creepy. If you want to see all the apps on one page click here. AirDroid: Amaze your friends with your…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Dec 2 '11

Create Your Own Muppet, Get Your Sword Ready, and Stare at the Beatles and Van Gogh

Step into the beautiful world of Vincent Van Gogh. Create your very own muppet character. Rock out with the Beatles Album guide and Slice your way through Infinity Blade II. If you want to see all the apps on one page click here. Muppet Mail: You’re probably thinking, “Man, Gizmodo is really going nuts with…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Dec 2 '11

Best of the Week: November 26-December 2, 2011

FORGOTTEN MARS | A vision of the Soviet Mars colony by Green Forest. One of 20 retro-futuristic visions of the Red Planet, from our stargazing past, including nefarious automobiles. See more here. We Warned You: Watchmen 2 is really happening. DC Comics is really going forward with the Watchmen tie-in project that everybody’s calling Watchmen…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dec 2 '11

Motherf*cking Wasps Recognize Each Other By Their Faces

Scientists at the University of Michigan have found something really surprising and remarkable: wasps can recognize each other by looking at their faces. Until know, we thought that only animals like humans or chimps can do this. Not anymore. University of Michigan’s evolutionary biologist Elizabeth Tibbetts and grad student Michael Sheehan have discovered that paper…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 2 '11

Scientists Discover Huge Martian Water Deposit—Could Be Used By Human Explorers

The European Space Agency’ Mars Express spacecraft has discovered “large volumes of water ice” hiding only 65 feet underground the red planet’s surface, in the Phlegra Montes mountain range. It could be used by future human explorers. ESA claims that the images show lobate debris aprons that have been moved down the mountain slopes over…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Dec 2 '11

Behold: Last week’s Solar Eclipse over Antarctica

Did you catch last week’s solar eclipse? Did you even know there was a solar eclipse last week? It’s okay if you didn’t — turns out it was only visible from high latitudes in the southern hemisphere, so chances are you wouldn’t have been able to spot it anyway. But fortunately for all of us,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Dec 2 '11

Sanity-Saving Gifts for the Stressed-Out Student

College. Ugh. Nonstop, privileged toil. Growing up is sooooo hard. Days without sleep, binge-drinking, experimenting with bodies—it’s a miracle that anyone learns anything. These gifts won’t print a diploma, but they will help your student earn one. 1. iPad The laptop’s reign as the must-have college accessory has ended. The iPad is king. It does…

Tech News Michael Zhao Dec 2 '11

The Hacker Watch: Gold Has Never Looked So Modern

Despite the name, Michael Young’s Hacker Watch is as inspired by the industrial 21st century cyberpunk aesthetic as it is something more ancient and opulent—almost like a sundial built as a tribute to Helios. The scooped edges, the gold (coloring), the chunk of metal smack dab in the middle. Hardly indicative of the cool and…

Tech News Adrian Covert Dec 2 '11

Watch how aliens abducted John Wayne’s grandson in Cowboys and Aliens

In this exclusive behind the scenes clip from Cowboys & Aliens, watch John Wayne’s grandson cower before the very difficult task of being thrown into the sky off a horse! Thank goodness Olivia Wilde was there. This is but a clip of the many behind-the-scenes features you can find on the Cowboys & Aliens DVD…

io9 Meredith Woerner Dec 2 '11

Warehouse 13‘s Joanne Kelly: “I would love” to see H.G. Wells and Myka get together

Warehouse 13 is back on Tuesday, with a brand new holiday special on Syfy. And we were lucky enough to talk on the phone one-on-one with Joanne Kelly, who plays Myka Bering. She told us why the H.G. Wells-Myka sexual tension was the actors’ idea, and just how far she’d like to see that relationship…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dec 2 '11

This Disgusting New Crab Species Eats Food Grown On Its Own Arms

This is one of the weirdest animals I’ve ever seen: a furry white crab that only eats the bacteria growing on its claws and arms. It looks like a disgusting Christmas ornament if disgusting Christmas ornaments ate their own bristles. This large yeti crab species, identified by marine ecologist Andrew Thurber, allows a symbiotic bacteria…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 2 '11

Scientific fraud Diederik Stapel signs off on his first official retraction

Early last month, prominent social psychologist Diederik Stapel was outed as one of the biggest frauds in scientific history when he admitted to fabricating results in numerous scientific studies. The committees charged with investigating Stapel’s work continue to pore over the results from over 150 of publications in search of fraudulent data, but yesterday, Stapel…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Dec 2 '11

Why Are Some iMacs Being Delayed 5-7 Weeks?

AppleInsider noticed something peculiar about some build-to-orders iMacs; they went from a shipping estimate of 1-3 days to 5-7 weeks. Specifically, the delay affects any iMac that is equipped with a 2TB hard drive. What’s going on? The answer could lie with the floods in Thailand right now, as Thailand supplies a significant portion of…

Tech News Casey Chan Dec 2 '11

Here’s Why Siri Can’t Find Abortion Clinics

Siri, are you pro-life? Siri, are you a proto-Republibot? Siri, are you… just a crappy search engine? Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land raises a point that makes a lot of sense: Siri’s regrettable Abortiongate scandal mirrors, more or less, the growing pains that Google faced as it went from popular upstart to search monolith:…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Dec 2 '11

Film Nerds Are Drooling Over Stanley Kubrick’s Incredible Early Photography

Get Really Drunk Off Gummi Bears

Facebook Buys Gowalla

Daily Desired: A Glass Light Fixture for Your Eureka Moment

Galaxy Nexus Review: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back (Updated)

Share Music From Your iPhone, Post Tiny Reviews, Battle Robots and Breakdancing Zombies

Get Mall Directions, Manage Your Content, Track Your Packages, and Dream Like Boy

Create Your Own Muppet, Get Your Sword Ready, and Stare at the Beatles and Van Gogh

Best of the Week: November 26-December 2, 2011

Motherf*cking Wasps Recognize Each Other By Their Faces

Scientists Discover Huge Martian Water Deposit—Could Be Used By Human Explorers

Behold: Last week’s Solar Eclipse over Antarctica

Sanity-Saving Gifts for the Stressed-Out Student

The Hacker Watch: Gold Has Never Looked So Modern

Watch how aliens abducted John Wayne’s grandson in Cowboys and Aliens

Warehouse 13‘s Joanne Kelly: “I would love” to see H.G. Wells and Myka get together

This Disgusting New Crab Species Eats Food Grown On Its Own Arms

Scientific fraud Diederik Stapel signs off on his first official retraction

Why Are Some iMacs Being Delayed 5-7 Weeks?

Here’s Why Siri Can’t Find Abortion Clinics

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