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Disguise Those Valuable Power Sockets as a Book

You may be trying to stop pesky house-guests from charging their phones in your lounge, or just want a couple of secret sockets squirreled away for yourself—either way, this Stekkerboek power board hides away in bookcases, disguised as a tome. Just don’t let your guests start browsing your library, and those sockets should be all…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

David Bowie is Releasing a 36-Year Old Song as an iPhone App for Remixing

One of my favorite-ever songs, Golden Years by David Bowie, will be released as an iPhone app for fans to remix and create their own “oddities.” Speaking of oddities, if you can’t wait until June 6th when the Golden Years app is released, you can try your hand at the Space Oddity one for $2…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

I Implore Every Public Bathroom to Install These Toepeners Immediately

I’m not saying I’m as bad as Howard Hughes, but I will confess to always tearing a bit of toilet-roll of paper towel off and using it to open public bathroom doors with on my way out. At $50 a pop, these Toepeners would surely end up saving shopping malls, offices and other public venues…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Twitter Eyes Up Facebook Pages as a Way to Make Money

Given Facebook’s nabbed a few features from Twitter over the years, it’s only fair Twitter looks to Zuckerberg’s creation for ideas—especially when it comes to the little issue of making cold, hard cash. Facebook pages, where companies and wares-pushers could advertise and have a “coherent message,” might be the answer. Presumably this would differ from…

Social Media Kat Hannaford

The Royal Wedding: Not In 3-D

Despite being steeped in gross-fruitcake tradition, great measures are being taken to ensure that the upcoming royal wedding will take full advantage of every technological convenience of the digital age. Facebook will update us, iTunes will sell the soundtrack, and Anderson Cooper’s holographic form will hover above the proceedings like a ghostly guardian angel. http://gawker.com/5786123/the-royal-wedding-cake-is-gross…

Tech News Seth Abramovitch

Spotify Box Radio Uses RFID Tagged-Discs to Get the Party Started

Give me Jordi Parra’s Spotify Box working prototype over a Sonos or Onkyo receiver any day of the week. In fact, I might just try making one myself, by adding RFID tags to little wooden discs that can be slid inside the Spotify radio. https://gizmodo.com/sonos-home-music-systems-getting-spotify-service-5627921 Each disk is linked to a particular Spotify playlist, and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Even Paper iPads Are Sold Out, as Chinese Rush to Honor Their Deceased

I’d heard that certain cultures like to furnish their deceased loved ones with paper tokens for the afterlife—think Monopoly money, paper Viagra, that sort of thing. But those iPad-lovers need their tablets for the afterlife too, according to the Malaysian families who have bought up paper iPads in bulk. A Malaysian shopkeeper told Reuters that…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Nikon D5100 DSLR Hopes Special Effects Like 102,400 ISO Night Vision Make It Special

These things no longer make even a $900 DSLR special: 15+ megapixel resolution, 1080p video recording and a swivel LCD screen. So Nikon’s 16.2-megapixel D5100 tries to stand out by slathering on the in-camera special effects. This is the appification of your digital camera. Here’s what we’ve got, special sauce-wise: • A monochrome night vision…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Woz Fears the Day When Android Tablets Take Over the World

Steve Wozniak gave a keynote event at some snoozeworthy tech industry event today, but he did have one thing on interest to say when it came to Android tablets: “On the subject of tablets, I read today that Android tablets are expected to surpass iPads, and I hope that never happens,” Wozniak said.” Looks like…

Tech News Adrian Covert

This USB Cartridge Could Turn Your Analog Camera Digital

Photographers who want to go digital but can’t bring themselves to get rid of their analog cameras have something to lust for. RE35 understands your plight and has come up with a digital cartridge than fits into any 35mm camera. The RE-35 cartridge has a pull-out sensor, instead of film, that records your images in…

Tech News Husain Sumra

Retro “Mad Men”-Style Photo Shoot Shows Off Gorgeous Maison Carré

Been undergoing severe withdrawal symptoms since Mad Men went off air? Totally understandable—and here’s something to tide you over while you wait. Paris-based photographer Ben Sandler took Alvar Aalto’s Maison Carré house—a beautifully preserved monument-turned-museum—and used it as the backdrop of Tomorrowland, a stylized photo shoot done in ultra-ritzy, retro 60’s Mad Men fashion. While…

Tech News Davey Alba

China Detains Prominent Artist Ai Wei Wei Indefinitely

Chinese artist, cultural icon, and increasingly important voice of political dissent Ai Weiwei was apprehended by Chinese authorities yesterday before boarding a flight from Beijing to Hong Kong. By all accounts Ai, whose work ranges from the famed Birds Nest stadium at the Beijing Olympics to the recent 100-million porcelain sunflower seed exhibit at the…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Mummies reveal Ancient Egyptian heart disease epidemic

Although Egyptian hieroglyphics depict a noble class that was forever beautiful and healthy, ancient records tell a far different story, of an aristocracy riddled with heart disease. And now preserved mummy hearts are revealing the full extent of the phenomenon. Egyptian doctors left papyrus records of the basic symptoms of angina, heart attacks, and congestive…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

A movie with the best of everything, including giant bugs and white trash breeding programs

You’ve got to love a horror movie that starts out as a retro-scare flick about the Y2K bug, turns into a Rob Zombie-style hillbilly kidnap torture deal, THEN turns into a giant bug monster movie. I am in love with The Millennium Bug. Here’s the official synopsis: It’s December 31st, 1999, and the world anxiously…

Trailers Annalee Newitz

What Was Governor Mike Huckabee Hiding on Those Hard Drives He Destroyed?

Mother Jones, the politically-leaning magazine dedicated to social causes, recently tried to request public records related to Mike Huckabee’s term as Arkansas governor in the earlier part of last decade. Turns out, there were no records. Why? Huckabee destroyed his hard drives. According to MoJo, the story first surfaced during his failed bid for the…

Tech News Adrian Covert

A Rolls-Royce Caliber Shaving Set: Guess How Much It Costs

Designed by the same dude who gave the world the Rolls-Royce Phantom, these TwinLuxe shaving sets cost—naturally—between nearly $800 and $1600. They are classy! But why so expensive for a razor set that uses standard Gillette Fusion cartridges? Well! The $1600 Arctic set is constructed with “solid white alumina ceramic,” typically used in ballistic armor,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

A Cthulhulian tree that could scrub greenhouse gases out of the air

The common mangrove, a tree that grows along most of the world’s coastlines, could help us battle climate change. These trees usually live in tidal zones, and their tenticular networks of roots are revealed at low tide. But what makes these trees interesting for Earth scientists is their unique ability to suck carbon out of…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Paleofuture Magazine (Issue 1: Food)

The first issue of Paleofuture Magazine is now available for purchase! The print version will set you back $11.99 and includes a free PDF download that looks great on your futuristic computing machine. Or you can download the PDF version alone for just $1.99. Paleofuture Magazine’s first issue is all about food, with 42 pages…

Tech News Matt Novak

Find Out Who’s Calling You From a Blocked Number

After 201 days in App Store approval purgatory, TrapCall is finally available for the iPhone. You pay $5/month, and the service will tell you the name and number of whoever calls you from a blocked number. How does it work? Here’s what 9to5Mac says: When you get a call, press the power button twice to…

Tech News Adrian Covert

See the alien invaders’ deadly lightning attack, in the first image from The Darkest Hour

It’s been ages since we’ve heard anything about the Timur Bekmambetov-produced alien invasion flick The Darkest Hour. Until now. Take a look at the first ever comic book poster inspired by the movie. Thanks to Slashfilm, we now have a great look at this poster. According to an earlier press release from Oni (the distributors…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Disguise Those Valuable Power Sockets as a Book

David Bowie is Releasing a 36-Year Old Song as an iPhone App for Remixing

I Implore Every Public Bathroom to Install These Toepeners Immediately

Twitter Eyes Up Facebook Pages as a Way to Make Money

The Royal Wedding: Not In 3-D

Spotify Box Radio Uses RFID Tagged-Discs to Get the Party Started

Even Paper iPads Are Sold Out, as Chinese Rush to Honor Their Deceased

Nikon D5100 DSLR Hopes Special Effects Like 102,400 ISO Night Vision Make It Special

Woz Fears the Day When Android Tablets Take Over the World

This USB Cartridge Could Turn Your Analog Camera Digital

Retro “Mad Men”-Style Photo Shoot Shows Off Gorgeous Maison Carré

China Detains Prominent Artist Ai Wei Wei Indefinitely

Mummies reveal Ancient Egyptian heart disease epidemic

A movie with the best of everything, including giant bugs and white trash breeding programs

What Was Governor Mike Huckabee Hiding on Those Hard Drives He Destroyed?

A Rolls-Royce Caliber Shaving Set: Guess How Much It Costs

A Cthulhulian tree that could scrub greenhouse gases out of the air

Paleofuture Magazine (Issue 1: Food)

Find Out Who’s Calling You From a Blocked Number

See the alien invaders’ deadly lightning attack, in the first image from The Darkest Hour

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