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The most secret agencies dedicated to making sure you’re only seeing a pale shadow of reality

The philosopher Plato once posed the Allegory of the Cave in his work, The Republic. He thought that, if prisoners spent all of their lives chained in a cave and facing a wall, their only experience would be watching the shadows on that wall. They never understand that there are things beyond that wall. The…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Flipboard Adds Instagram Photos and Social Search

Flipboard, the personalized tablet magazine that Apple named the best iPad app of 2010, just got a handful of excellent updates. First and foremost, you can now pipe your friends’ Instagram photos into your digital rag, the larger screen giving them some space to stretch out on (as opposed to being cooped up on your…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Strange Cuteness of Insect Portraits

Usually when you see extreme close-ups of insects, they look like terrifying monsters. The segmented eyes, the tiny cilia, the barbed limbs, and so on. But award-winning photographer Igor Siwanowicz manages to make his insect micrography… cute? He even uses LOL-cats style captions for some of his images, like “OM NOM NOM” or “Who’s the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Heathrow Terminal 5 Being Evacuated by Armed Police, According to Twitter

We hope it’s nothing serious obviously, but according to Twitter something happened just past 8am EST today at London’s Heathrow terminal five. Tweets are claiming armed police (picture here) are evacuating the whole terminal. [Twitter] UPDATE: Twitter user @MartinBrunt says “Armed police in stand-off with man threatening to blow himself up at Terminal 5 Heathrow.…

Privacy & Security Kat Hannaford

2,400 years of China’s vast water engineering projects

The Three Gorges dam on China’s Yangtze River, pictured here, is one of the world’s great engineering marvels. It’s just one of many structures people have built to transform and contain China’s massive rivers for the past 2,400 years. Foreign Policy’s Suzanne Merkelson has a fascinating photo essay about how China’s dam projects and water…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Are Apple and Canon Working Together on a Secret Project?

Any partnership made with Apple is sure to net the other party a lot of profit and exposure, and I’m willing to bet that even if rumors of a Canon and Apple tie-up don’t come to fruition, Canon will still benefit from their name being thrown into the ring. Website CanonRumors has heard that Canon…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Attacks from hyper-evolved vampires are on the rise in Mexico

It’s just like something out of Guillermo Del Toro’s Blade II, where the vampires use genetic engineering to create hyper-evolved super vampires with giant jaws. Over the past several weeks in Mexico, sheep have been brutally attacked and drained of blood by a large, unrecognizable animal . . . who leaves huge bite marks behind.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Unfold the Swiss Army Knife of Electric Scooters in Just One Second

Not that this Volitude scooter has a corkscrew or knife tools—though you could certainly DIY with a few carefully-placed Victorinoxes. Instead, the Swiss-made scooter unfolds in just a second, ready for 18 miles of carefree scooting. It takes four hours to charge it fully for those 18 miles of whizzing, but there’s also a slower…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

How to create The Blob in your microwave using Ivory soap

Ivory soap has a marketing campaign that trumpets how their product floats in water. To make themselves seem more modern, they could show people what Ivory does in the microwave. Given what happens, it’s unlikely they will, though. Sometimes it seems justified to wonder if anyone uses the microwave for food anymore. There are so…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Do we need another Doom movie, even in 3D?

Remember Dwayne Johnson’s sad adaptation of the first-person shooter game Doom? Well Hollywood isn’t about to let that terrible franchise die out, like other 90s fads. In fact, Universal wants to reboot the Doom movie series — in 3D. What’s Playing is reporting that Universal is trying to push forward a $150 million 3D remake…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Matthew Vaughn, James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender talk X-Men. Plus is Gary Oldman hinting at a new Batman 3 villain?

Neil. Blomkamp’s Elysium gets a villain and a release date. The director and stars of X-Men: First Class explain the world of 1960s mutants. We parse Gary Oldman’s cryptic description of the main villain in The Dark Knight Rises. Spoilers from here on out! The Dark Knight Rises Here’s some more intriguing snippets from the…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Play-Doh Car Weighs Almost as Much as the Real Thing

At 1.5 tons, this life-size model of the Chevrolet Orlando weighs just 369lbs less than the real thing. There’s no driving this car, though. Built over two weeks by a team of eight sculptors, the car is parked on a London street as a publicity stunt for the new Orlando. Why Play-doh? According to Chevrolet’s…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Raise Your Hand if You Support the Standardization of Active Shutter 3D Glasses

The same association that puts on the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas each year has called for manufacturers to get their acts together and support a new standards process for 3D active shutter glasses. As you know, each manufacturers’ glasses are compatible with only their 3DTVs (unless worn upside-down), a fact that offers no help…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Kickflip With a Recycled $200 Skateboard Deck iPhone Case

There are just five of Grove + MapleXO’s skateboard deck iPhone 4 cases left, of the ultra-limited edition 50 piece range. Made over the course of a year, 300 skateboards were slices and sanded-down into layered strips, and constructed into cases. Pretty tricky craftsmanship, to say the least. With 50 per cent of the proceeds…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Apple Opening Pop-Up Store in Austin for SXSW Geekfest

Our Brian Lam, and the thousands of other gadget-hounds attending the SXSW conference/music festival in Austin this week won’t have to stretch their legs in pursuit of a brand new iPad 2—Apple’s opening a temporary store in the Scarbrough Building on Congress Avenue, from this Friday for two weeks. [Statesman]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Photograph That Became an Unintentional Cultural Icon

Noam Galai took a few photos of himself in 2006 and uploaded them to his Flickr. A few people liked those photos, but he didn’t think of it. Over time, he began to see his photos popping up all over magazines, the internet and as street art. Then it began appearing on commodities (clothes, books,…

Tech News Adrian Covert

What Your Email Domain Says About You

Maybe you’ve been a Gmail user from the moment the very first invites for accounts went out or maybe you’re still hanging on to your old AOL email address. Either way, your email domain reveals something about you—and the folks from Hunch can explain exactly what that something is. Spoiler alert: if you lean towards…

Tech News Amanda Green - Hunch Blog

Apple Wants to Properly Introduce You to the iPad 2—Using 14 Videos

If a review roundup hasn’t sated your appetite for information about the iPad 2, then perhaps Apple’s Guided Tours can help. There are 14 new videos available on the Apple website and they’ll walk you through just about every iPad 2 feature—from AirPlay to email. Check them out. [Apple via Business Insider]

Tech News Rosa Golijan

See the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake in Color and 3D

The 1906 earthquake that took place in S.F. was epic for the time, leveling countless buildings, igniting fires, and generally causing chaos. It was also responsible for some great photography. But did you know that someone took 3D color photos of the aftermath? Fredrick Ives, an inventor who the SF Chronicle says created the halftone…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Read It Later, An Instapaper For Android

Android devotees who’ve been coveting some of the iPhone’s best apps for a while have been in for a treat these past few weeks—first Words With Friends came to the mix, and now Read It Later, an offline news caching reader, is finally available. Users can save documents through their browsers at work and read…

Tech News Kathleen Geise

The most secret agencies dedicated to making sure you’re only seeing a pale shadow of reality

Flipboard Adds Instagram Photos and Social Search

The Strange Cuteness of Insect Portraits

Heathrow Terminal 5 Being Evacuated by Armed Police, According to Twitter

2,400 years of China’s vast water engineering projects

Are Apple and Canon Working Together on a Secret Project?

Attacks from hyper-evolved vampires are on the rise in Mexico

Unfold the Swiss Army Knife of Electric Scooters in Just One Second

How to create The Blob in your microwave using Ivory soap

Do we need another Doom movie, even in 3D?

Matthew Vaughn, James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender talk X-Men. Plus is Gary Oldman hinting at a new Batman 3 villain?

Play-Doh Car Weighs Almost as Much as the Real Thing

Raise Your Hand if You Support the Standardization of Active Shutter 3D Glasses

Kickflip With a Recycled $200 Skateboard Deck iPhone Case

Apple Opening Pop-Up Store in Austin for SXSW Geekfest

The Photograph That Became an Unintentional Cultural Icon

What Your Email Domain Says About You

Apple Wants to Properly Introduce You to the iPad 2—Using 14 Videos

See the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake in Color and 3D

Read It Later, An Instapaper For Android

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