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Hanging with Friends Is Words with Friends for Hangman Fans

Kotaku says Hanging with Friends is Zynga’s take on the ol’ classic Hangman game with elements of Scrabble and social thrown in for good measure. There’s some added features that help you figure out the puzzle and no worries if you have no friends to hang with as it’s easy as heck to find a…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 23 '11

Card.io Takes Credit Card Payments on Your Android Phone

Like Square, Card.io is a credit card machine for your phone. But unlike Square, which requires a dongle, Card.io just takes a picture of the credit card to grab all those digits for payment. It’s supposed to be secure and Card.io never saves your info, but it’s still a little worrying. In any case, it’s…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 23 '11

National Football Post Keeps You Posted with the National Football League

The NFL season is well underway and for football fiends who can never get enough news on America’s sport, you can keep track with all the happenings with the National Football Post app. It’s all the content from the stellar website meaning you get new and rumors, features and all the fantasy tips you want.…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 23 '11

Irish court rules that a recent death was caused by spontaneous combustion

A man in Galway, Ireland apparently died of spontaneous combustion last year in December. At least, according to a court ruling this week. Michael Faherty’s death had been a mystery because coroners and police couldn’t explain how the fire that killed him only seemed to have burned the man and his immediate surroundings. Spontaneous combustion…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 23 '11

R-Type Brings Its 80’s Side Scrolling Shooting Nostalgia to Android

R-Type, the side-scrolling shooter classics of all classics, is finally on Android. If your memory fails you (mine did a little), you play as a futuristic space fighter trying to save the world by shooting damn near everything in your way. It’s just as you remembered both in graphics and content, with 8 levels, 3…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 23 '11

How carnivorous plants could give us self-cleaning, self-repairing walls

There’s a long and storied tradition of scientists getting fantastic ideas from nature, as there are few finer testing labs than the requirements of natural selection. The newest breakthrough in materials science based on a plant is Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces — or SLIPS. And it could one day give us self-cleaning, self-repairing rooms, just…

io9 Tim Barribeau Sep 23 '11

This Remote Controlled UFO Is Your Conspiratorial Deal of the Day

I was abducted by aliens once when I was in college. I was walking home from class one night after a lecture on Shakespeare’s The Tempest or something. It was cool and breezy, as I remember. But then it got a whole lot more breezy. Out of nowhere, a strange looking craft swooped down and…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Sep 23 '11

Google+ Adds Hangouts to the Android App

Google+, the unsucky social network that I’m not sure any of my friends are actually using, has a sweet Hangout video chat feature that’s been missing on its Android app. No more. On Android 2.3+ phones with a front facing camera, Google+ users can see when their friends are video chatting and join the hangout.…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 23 '11

More evidence that there’s no such thing as too much bubble wrap

Have you ever wondered how much bubble wrap you’d need to envelop yourself in to survive a 60-meter fall? Oh, what am I saying — of course you have. But I bet you’ve never actually sat down and worked through the physics to arrive at thoroughly reasoned answer. That’s where Wired’s Rhett Allain comes in.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Sep 23 '11

Photos Day Gallery Groups Your Pictures in a Timeline

If you’re like me and have an obscenely large camera roll littered with thousands of useless pictures, it’s sort of a pain in the ass to find THAT ONE picture you really really want to find again. Scrolling through thousands of thumbnails just doesn’t make sense you know? Photo Days Gallery is an app that…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 23 '11

Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle Appears On CNN

Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle appeared in a taped piece on CNN Newsource on Friday September 23, 2011. Take a look at the clip above! For media requests, contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].

Tech News Scott Kidder Sep 23 '11

ATM in India Uses the Power of the Sun to Dispense Clean Water

If you had a cup of coffee, or glass of water this morning, consider yourself lucky. One in eight people on this planet have limited or no access to clean drinking water. In rural India an organization known as Piramal Water Private Limited hopes to bring that number down with a solar-powered ATM that dispenses…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Sep 23 '11

Star Wars Blu-rays break sales records, take in $84 million

If the Star Wars Blu-rays were a theatrical release, they’d be the biggest movie of the week, or possibly the month. As it is, they’re just a record-breaking sales monster. The Blu-ray set has taken in $84 million worldwide in its first week, selling about 515,000 copies. That makes it the best selling Blu-ray title…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Sep 23 '11

Some of the Best Comic Art in the World, from the Library of Congress

Want to see some great comic book art for free? Want a cheap date? If you are in the Washington, D.C. area between now and March, the Library of Congress will be holding an exhibition of comic book art entitled Timely and Timeless, showing off some of the best of the library’s 128,000 pieces of…

Books & Comics Keith Veronese Sep 23 '11

The Soup That Is Killing the Ocean (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)

You’ve probably heard a lot about shark fin soup recently. It’s been all over the news; Yao Ming is plastered on busses across the country begging you not to eat it. Richard Branson is talking about it. But why now? The soup has been around for centuries; why is it only recently becoming a conservation…

Biology Kristen Philipkoski Sep 23 '11

A Haunting Photograph of the Fall Equinox From Space

The September equinox occurred this morning at 5:05 am EDT, marking the official start of Fall for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. Twice a year, during the latter halves of March and September, every person on Earth experiences the effects of an equinox in the form of a 12-hour day followed by a…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Sep 23 '11

The New Facebook Layout, Translated

You’ve only got a few weeks with the most recent Facebook design changes before Zuck shoves a Timeline down your throats. To make the most of it, here’s a quick guide to what all those new features are really for. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-facebook-timeline-only-your-whole-life-5843030 Okay, so maybe by “quick” we mean “snarky.” But at least we can agree…

Social Media Brian Barrett Sep 23 '11

10 Superheroes That You Didn’t Know Had Superpowers

Along with the flying supermen and the magic-wielding superwomen that populate comics, there are supposedly a few regular Joes, who represent the indomitable strength of the non-powered person. After reading just a few comics, though, it’s clear that these people usually do have superpowers of their own — their powers just manifest themselves in different…

Books & Comics Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 23 '11

What’s Amazon Announcing on Sept. 28? (A Tablet, Probably!)

Well, look at what just fluttered into our mailbox: an invite to an Amazon event next Wednesday. Obviously, we’re expecting the Amazon tablet. And probably a newer, cheaper, better Kindle. And yep, we’re kind of excited. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-amazons-kindle-tablet-looks-like-5837061

Commerce Matt Buchanan Sep 23 '11

Use the New Facebook To See Who Unfriends You (Updated: Not Anymore)

Facebook Timeline is pretty spectacular, giving a panoramic view of achievements, love, birth, death, and a lot of binge drinking photos. But what else does it provide? A window into social treachery: a list of those who’ve unfriended you. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-facebook-timeline-only-your-whole-life-5843030 It’s extremely easy. First, get Timeline early. Then scroll down to a particular year of…

Social Media Sam Biddle Sep 23 '11

Hanging with Friends Is Words with Friends for Hangman Fans

Card.io Takes Credit Card Payments on Your Android Phone

National Football Post Keeps You Posted with the National Football League

Irish court rules that a recent death was caused by spontaneous combustion

R-Type Brings Its 80’s Side Scrolling Shooting Nostalgia to Android

How carnivorous plants could give us self-cleaning, self-repairing walls

This Remote Controlled UFO Is Your Conspiratorial Deal of the Day

Google+ Adds Hangouts to the Android App

More evidence that there’s no such thing as too much bubble wrap

Photos Day Gallery Groups Your Pictures in a Timeline

Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle Appears On CNN

ATM in India Uses the Power of the Sun to Dispense Clean Water

Star Wars Blu-rays break sales records, take in $84 million

Some of the Best Comic Art in the World, from the Library of Congress

The Soup That Is Killing the Ocean (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)

A Haunting Photograph of the Fall Equinox From Space

The New Facebook Layout, Translated

10 Superheroes That You Didn’t Know Had Superpowers

What’s Amazon Announcing on Sept. 28? (A Tablet, Probably!)

Use the New Facebook To See Who Unfriends You (Updated: Not Anymore)

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