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Are Syrian Rebels Really Charging Their Phones With Batteries and Water?

Syrian freedom fighters claim to have come up with a new and creative way of charging their cell phones when they’re cut off the grid. It sounds too good to be true… and we think it is. Recently, The Atlantic reported on a very interesting interview that appeared on PBS News Hour. Syrian activist and…

Tech News Brent Rose Aug 12 '11

Police Now Tweeting Name, Address and Birthday of British Looters

The Greater Manchester Police is now tweeting names, birthdays and address of looters. While this information is public in England and it gets printed in papers, this is the first time Twitter is being used to broadcast this info. Perhaps the police is doing it to let people know they are doing something. Publicly humiliating…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 12 '11

Mad Man Builds Ridiculously Cool 40-inch iPhone

Benjamin Bachmeier turned a 40-inch LCD Full HD display into a perfect giant iPhone replica. It doesn’t run iOS but Mac OS X, but it’s gigantic buttons are fully functional. It’s computer, a display, a table and completely ridiculous. He calls it the iTableous. It’s not even a Mac, but a Hackintosh running Mac OS…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 12 '11

Functioning anal sphincter grown in a petri dish

There is no denying that growing an anal sphincter in a petri dish is hilarious. There is also no denying that nobody reading this would enjoy being without an anal sphincter, so it’s good that there are back-ups being developed. There are three main features that everyone needs in their various sphincters. The first is…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Aug 12 '11

The World’s Fastest Roller Coaster Is the Closest You’ll Ever Get to Driving a Ferrari F1

You have a better chance of being mauled by a penguin than you have of driving a Ferrari F1 racer. You can, however, ride the next best thing—the Formula Rossa rollercoaster, which catapults riders around its track at 240kph. Located in Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi, the world’s largest indoor theme park with over 200,000…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 12 '11

Fujifilm’s F600EXR Lets You Hunt the Best Shooting Spots via GPS

Fuji’s latest point and shoot isn’t anything particularly jarring—a 16 MP sensor, 15x optical zoom, and 1080p video capture—but the inclusion of built-in GPS navigation sounds pretty neat. Find great new vistas, and record your secret favorites. The Landmark Navigator GPS tech offers a collection of around a million spots, allowing you to trek to…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 12 '11

Google’s Videos App Now Works with Android Phones

Google’s official video player for Android, long available for Honeycomb tablets, finally works with Android phones (2.2+). You can use it to watch videos you store on your phone or flicks you got from the Market. It streams over Wi-Fi and supports offline viewing too. [Android Market via TechCrunch]

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 12 '11

How to catch tomorrow morning’s Perseid meteor shower

Very, very early tomorrow morning is when you’ll catch the Perseid meteor shower, the largest meteor display of the year. The bad news is that it’s also a full moon tonight, which is going to cut down significantly on the visibility of all but the brightest shooting stars. But don’t despair! Here’s what you need…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 12 '11

Baker’s yeast can protect against a deadly fungus

Could baker’s yeast injections protect against one of the deadliest infections in the world? New research seems to indicate yes. The fungus Aspergillus is the cause of aspergillosis, the leading fungal killer of immunocompromised people. It’s an infection that targets the lungs, and then spreads to other organs like the brain, kidney and liver, leading…

io9 Tim Barribeau Aug 12 '11

Why I Would Rather Be a Smoker Than an iPhone User

I’ve had relationships with many hand-held digital objects, but none as intense as the one I had with the iPhone. It became so addictive that I exchanged it for an iPod touch. Now I’m shopping for a new addiction. Although we had our good times, I eventually came to feel that I was losing something…

Tech News Anna Jane Grossman Aug 12 '11

Physicists and mathematicians discover a way to save time – literally

In order to calculate odds in a multiverse, a certain conceit has to be thrown down which ‘ends time’ for certain universes. This means that, conceptually at least, universes are destroyed. And so a group of intrepid theorists set out to save universes by saving time, and may have discovered a way to do it.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Aug 12 '11

Judge Rules That Students Can Slut It Up on Myspace. Legally.

If a student chooses to represent his/herself as a whorebag, that’s no business of their school, a federal judge has decided. This follows two teenage girls who posted slutty photos on MySpace and were dealt with aggressively by their school. The two students posted the pictures back in 2009, in case you were curious about…

Privacy & Security Kat Hannaford Aug 12 '11

Duncan Jones enlists the aid of Weta for his final scifi film

After rocking our worlds with Moon and thrilling us with Source Code, is director Duncan Jones leaving science fiction? It certainly sounds like it, but not before one last effort. In interview with This Is Fake DIY, Jones revealed that he and his producer had recently made a trip to New Zealand to visit the…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 12 '11

How Thundercats Will Continue the Awesome Legacy of Panthro!

Panthro is back and living large, with fistfulls of nunchucks. The living legend makes his long-awaited return in tonight’s episode of Thundercats on the Cartoon Network. We were lucky enough to get to talk to Kevin Michael Richardson, the veteran voice actor who’s taking on the mighty role of Panthro. Minor spoilers ahead. Plus check…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 12 '11

Scientists to Cure Malaria By Microwaving You (Wait, What?)

Malaria kills almost a million people every year and makes another 250 million people very, very sick. Soon we may be able to instantly cure the scourge the same way you heat up your sad, frozen dinner-for-one. Today, Fast Company is reporting that researchers have found that they may be able to cure malaria by…

Health Brent Rose Aug 12 '11

Jeff Bezos Wants to Put an Airbag on Your Smartphone

It must be nice being an enormous millionaire like Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Maybe it affords free time to sit and cook up strange, fascinating patents like this one: tiny, tiny little smartphone airbags. They’re cute! Does this make sense? The patent, in dry patent-talk, is the following: A method for protecting a portable device…

Commerce Sam Biddle Aug 12 '11

Will Man of Steel feature an all-out war involving the US Army?

An inside source claims to have huge plot info about The Man of Steel. Jonathan Demme is adapting an unpublished new Stephen King novel. There’s great news for the future of True Blood and Warehouse 13. And what is Batman’s strange new vehicle in The Dark Knight Rises? Spoilers from here on out! Top image…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Aug 12 '11

If Life Had a Slow Motion Mode, It Would Look Like This

Next Level Pictures took a Phantom Flex camera around Brooklyn and captured regular ordinary life in slow motion. But as we all know, slow motion transforms regular ordinary life into EPIC AMAZING LIFE. Getting tattooed in slow motion is my favorite. https://gizmodo.com/the-camera-that-goes-to-one-million-fps-5829031 From breakdancing and basketbal to playing with the fire hydrant and skateboarding, all…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 12 '11

Why You Really Shouldn’t Trust App Store Ratings

Four stars? That app must be something special! Until you remember that those ratings are just a simple average, that people, by and large, don’t know what they’re talking about, and then the tornado hits. [xkcd]

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 12 '11

The Acer Iconia A100: The Android Tab You Can Pocket (But Won’t)

When you’re drowning in a sea of Android tablets, all you want is someone to throw you a life-preserver of awesome. Sadly, what looks like it might be a life-preserver often turns out to be yet another bucket of water. Why It Matters The Iconia A100 is Acer’s 7-inch follow-up to its kinda-not-really popular Iconia…

Reviews Brent Rose Aug 12 '11

Are Syrian Rebels Really Charging Their Phones With Batteries and Water?

Police Now Tweeting Name, Address and Birthday of British Looters

Mad Man Builds Ridiculously Cool 40-inch iPhone

Functioning anal sphincter grown in a petri dish

The World’s Fastest Roller Coaster Is the Closest You’ll Ever Get to Driving a Ferrari F1

Fujifilm’s F600EXR Lets You Hunt the Best Shooting Spots via GPS

Google’s Videos App Now Works with Android Phones

How to catch tomorrow morning’s Perseid meteor shower

Baker’s yeast can protect against a deadly fungus

Why I Would Rather Be a Smoker Than an iPhone User

Physicists and mathematicians discover a way to save time – literally

Judge Rules That Students Can Slut It Up on Myspace. Legally.

Duncan Jones enlists the aid of Weta for his final scifi film

How Thundercats Will Continue the Awesome Legacy of Panthro!

Scientists to Cure Malaria By Microwaving You (Wait, What?)

Jeff Bezos Wants to Put an Airbag on Your Smartphone

Will Man of Steel feature an all-out war involving the US Army?

If Life Had a Slow Motion Mode, It Would Look Like This

Why You Really Shouldn’t Trust App Store Ratings

The Acer Iconia A100: The Android Tab You Can Pocket (But Won’t)

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