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The Cyrosauna Is Helping Athletes Get Better with Liquid Nitrogen

In a long line of crazy things athletes do to gain an edge, this might be on par with poking yourself in the butt with a needle. From the brainchild of mad scientist trainer Alberto Salazar comes the cyrosauna. It’s a machine pumps liquid nitrogen gas into a cylinder, where the athlete stands, and drops…

Tech News Casey Chan

You Must Watch the YouTube Mashup Master’s Triumphant Return

Two years ago, Kutiman gave us one of the most amazing mashup videos we’d ever seen: bits and pieces from various YouTube performances clipped and smushed together to form a might Voltron of awesome. Now, finally, he’s back. And I gotta say, he’s really outdone himself. [YouTube] https://gizmodo.com/heres-the-most-amazing-mashup-music-video-you-are-going-5169878

Tech News Brian Barrett

We’re Losing a Lot of Nitrogen From the Oceans and Nobody Knows Where It’s Going

Nitrogen is one of the core components of all living things. But as of late, more nitrogen has been leaving the world’s oceans than has been entering, leaving researchers perplexed as to where it’s ending up. The New York Times’ Scientist at Work blog is following around oceanic researcher Alyson Santoro as she travels off…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Color App Shares Photos With People Around You, And Just Those People

So if you take Instagram, which lets you share photos with a select group of friends, and take out the ability to choose your friends, what do you have? Color, which is available for the iPhone and Android. It’s a bit confusing. The NYT explains that you can see other Color users’ photos—provided they’re geographically…

Tech News Jason Chen

Watching Shoes Get Repaired Is Actually Sort of Amazing

I love shoes, I really do. But I’ve never had a pair of shoes hand crafted and repaired by the delicate touch of a cobbler. These guys, Red Wing Shoes (and I’m sure other quality boot making companies), take pride in their work, fixing details as small as sewing through the same hole, re-fitting shoes…

Tech News Casey Chan

The iPad-Friendly Spider Stand Is Here to Crawl on Your Desk

We’ve covered the arachnoid-inspired Breffo Spiderpodium for smartphones and GPS devices before. But now, the the multi-legged stand is available for larger tablets, in all its fully-articulable glory. Once you clamp the stand around your tablet, it can rest at an angle anywhere between 0 and 90 degrees, giving you a fully-customizable viewing angle. you…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Sprint Realizes Mail-In Rebates Are a Hassle, So They’re Getting Rid of Them

Sprint’s decision to ditch mail-in rebates (starting on March 27) is probably one of the nicest things a mobile provider could do. Instead, they’ll replace the rebates with instant savings for “an unspecified period of time.” [BGR]

Tech News Adrian Covert

Fighting With Electrified Swords Will Always End In Fire

Who are these brave Russian gladiators? And why have they electrified two swords with which to fight? The world may never know their names, but we will know what to call them: heroes. Dear, sweat, idiot heroes. [Buzzfeed]

Tech News Brian Barrett

An Exhaustive Guide to Casual Podcasting

MetaFilter founder and friend of Lifehacker Matt Haughey has been casually podcasting at MetaFilter for the last four years, and in that time, he’s amassed a lot of knowledge handy for anyone looking to learn a little about the art of casting pods. [Lifehacker] https://lifehacker.com/an-exhaustive-guide-to-casual-podcasting-5785052

Tech News Adam Pash

WordPress Makes Blogs More Like Magazines on the iPad

WordPress has a new feature for the iPad , which makes any of its 18 million blogs look and act like the magazine-inspired Flipboard, except it’s in mobile Safari. The HTML5-powered feature designed by Onswipe will let you flick, swipe and tap to your heart’s content, with animations that are as beautiful as they are…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The Red Square Nebula rips a hole in space-time

This might look like some weird cosmic gateway straight out of 2001: A Space Odyssey or a particularly trippy old-school Doctor Who adventure, but the Red Square Nebula is completely real. Just don’t ask astronomers to explain its bizarre shape. Even if its name sounds downright un-American, the Red Square Nebula has got to be…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Barack Obama’s Super Secure Tent Lets Him Hold Top Secret Discussions

This is a picture from inside a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility aka a makeshift tent that lets top government officials discuss top secret information anywhere in the world. As you can see by the fugly floral carpeting, Obama’s tent was propped up inside a hotel. SCIFs are actually very interesting. They’re designed to withstand anything…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan

What if the black monolith from 2001 did a million hits of ecstasy?

It would probably look like this “Escape Machine” in Paris, which doles out free vacations (or oversized invalid tickets). It’s like HAL and the monolith had a bastard child, and it was adopted by a nice couple from Candyland. I guess it’s a promotion for a French travel site, but I sort of don’t want…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Could dying white dwarf stars be home to habitable planets?

In the search for Earth-like worlds, astronomers look for conditions that are roughly the same as those on our planet. But the assumption that most Earth-like planets will be found around stars like our Sun might not necessarily be true. As we recently discussed, it’s exciting times in the search for Earth-like planets, with the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Bring Your iPad and Its Every Accessory with the iPad Travel Express Case

You might say that owning a carrying case akin to a full-sized laptop bag is self-defeating to the iPad’s portability. But where else can you find a pouch with enough room to fit your iPad, external keyboard, power brick, power cord, and all other cables you might need—all for the same price as Apple’s flimsy…

Tech News Davey Alba

Tiger Woods: My Swing App Only Improves Your Golf Swing

Tiger is back on the prowl and on the golf course. And that guy knows a thing or twenty about both. His brand new app, Tiger Woods: My Swing helps your golf game by recording a video of your golf swing and analyzing where you’re going wrong by identifying the key primary positions of your…

Tech News Casey Chan

The speed of light could turn the middle of the ocean into a stock-trading center

When the world’s financial giants begin creating vast artificial islands in the middle of the oceans to use as the hubs of stock-trading, it’ll all be because of the speed of light. High-frequency trading is a major – and extremely controversial – part of modern financial practice, in which computerized traders make extremely fast transactions…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Apple’s Cash Supply Will Ensure a Steady Flow of iPad and iPhone Touch Panels

Digitimes says Apple could avoid facing iPad and iPhone shortages by using their sizable supply of cash to outbid competitors for touch panels. Even before the Japan earthquake caused concern about Asian manufacturing capabilities, there had been worries about availability. Apple is currently receiving 60% of all touch panels produced in Taiwan. [Digitimes via AllThingsD]

Tech News Adrian Covert

That Free NY Times Twitter Account Got Taken Down. Here’s Another One

When we told you how to keep reading the NY Times for free, we mentioned the Twitter account @freenyt. That’s been taken down! The new one is @freeUnnamedNews (and expects to stay up since there’s no mention of the NYT). https://lifehacker.com/how-to-keep-reading-the-ny-times-for-free-updated-5783043 Remember, when you access the NY Times through links on Twitter, you’ll always get…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Cyrosauna Is Helping Athletes Get Better with Liquid Nitrogen

You Must Watch the YouTube Mashup Master’s Triumphant Return

We’re Losing a Lot of Nitrogen From the Oceans and Nobody Knows Where It’s Going

Color App Shares Photos With People Around You, And Just Those People

Watching Shoes Get Repaired Is Actually Sort of Amazing

The iPad-Friendly Spider Stand Is Here to Crawl on Your Desk

Sprint Realizes Mail-In Rebates Are a Hassle, So They’re Getting Rid of Them

Fighting With Electrified Swords Will Always End In Fire

An Exhaustive Guide to Casual Podcasting

WordPress Makes Blogs More Like Magazines on the iPad

The Red Square Nebula rips a hole in space-time

Barack Obama’s Super Secure Tent Lets Him Hold Top Secret Discussions

What if the black monolith from 2001 did a million hits of ecstasy?

Could dying white dwarf stars be home to habitable planets?

Bring Your iPad and Its Every Accessory with the iPad Travel Express Case

Tiger Woods: My Swing App Only Improves Your Golf Swing

Top Stories: Wednesday, March 23, 2011

The speed of light could turn the middle of the ocean into a stock-trading center

Apple’s Cash Supply Will Ensure a Steady Flow of iPad and iPhone Touch Panels

That Free NY Times Twitter Account Got Taken Down. Here’s Another One

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