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The Week’s Best Android Apps

Androidify: The Androidify app lets you make a “you” version of the Android bot, for avatar pics on Twitter, Facebook or your dating profile. Free. PlayOn: PlayOn is the snazzy service that can stream online video content like Netflix, Hulu, ESPN, Comedy Central, etc. to other devices, in this case your Android phone (2.2+). You…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 20

The Week’s Best iPhone Apps

Tap Translate: Translate foreign language words right in Safari—no need to switch to another app. Worth checking out if you’re routinely finding yourself befuddled by weird lookin’ words. $2. IntoNow: It’s like Shazam for TV. Just hold up your phone to any TV show from the last five years or so (or any movie that’s…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 20

This Week’s Best Apps

In this week’s app roundup: TV, Shazam’d!; translations, made convenient; Rdio, redesigned; The Dark Knight, appified; music releases, predicted; Star Craft II, approximated; security tripwires, evaded; and more! The week’s best iPhone apps https://gizmodo.com/the-weeks-best-iphone-apps-5764523 IntoNow: It’s like Shazam and Foursquare for TV. Just hold up your phone to any TV show from the last five…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 20

The Week’s Best iPad Apps

Pennant: Pennant is the most beautifistastic way to re-live past baseball seasons. There’s so much baseball information presented in such a g-g-g-gorgeous way that I’m crying tears of joy, rainbows and Willie Mays. $5 AmpliTube Fender: If you’ve got an AmpliTube iRig, Fender’s new collection will give you five classic Fender amps that you can…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 20

What if Bane, MODOK, and Dr. Doom were steampunk rapscallions?

We previously featured Chet Phillips steampunk superteam the Union of Superlative Heroes. Now the artist has created The Order of Nefarious Villains, a diabolic counterpart to his Victorian justice squad. He’s selling packets of these malefactors over at his Etsy shop. https://gizmodo.com/victorian-society-gets-a-new-union-of-superlative-steam-5705363 [Spotted on Neatorama]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 20

A Tie with Bubble Wrap Is the Perfect Time Killer

I hate ties but I love bubble wrap. So do I love this tie with bubble wrap on its backside? Absofreakinglutely. It’s the perfect time killer for office suits: sitting in your cubicle, fiddling with your tie, and popping air bubbles! Business in the front, party in the back. [Neatorama]

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 20

Can humanity survive a population of over 10 billion people?

By the end of this year, the human population is expected to reach seven billion people, just twelve years after we hit the six billion milestone. But how much more crowded is our planet going to get? Will we keep on expanding indefinitely, or are we approaching the upper limit? The current consensus is that…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Feb 20

This Animated Video Simplifies Einstein’s Complicated Twin Paradox

Einstein’s Twin Paradox is super confusing for me, every time I think I fully understand it, I find more questions. The Twin Paradox is a thought experiment in special relativity when one twin travels to outer space while the other twin stays on Earth. When the space bound twin lands back on Earth, he’ll find…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 20

Fantastic Four family tree teaches that all roads lead to Galactus

After creating a family tree for Marvel’s merry mutants, Joe Stone has now drawn up a similar diagram for the Fantastic Four. This one’s a little tougher, what with your Skrulls and heralds of Galactus and extended Richards clan. Click on the lower right-hand corner to expand. https://gizmodo.com/x-men-family-tree-breaks-down-mutant-mating-habits-with-5735116 [Spotted on Bleeding Cool]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 20

The world’s oldest water may be three kilometers below South Africa

Underneath the gold mines of South Africa’s Witwatersrand Basin, scientists have discovered ancient, secluded pockets of water that are also home to some of the most isolated extremophile ecosystems on our planet. To determine how isolated the Witwatersrand’s saline groundwaters are, researchers examined a specific type of the element neon dissolved in the waters, which…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 20

Here’s a Better Looking, Less Awkward Segway

Segways are nerdy and awkward, there’s no way around it. This solowheel, a “self balancing electric unicycle” is just as nerdy as a Segway but slightly less awkward. The Solowheel only weighs 20 pounds and comes in a relatively small package and is definitely no where near as unwieldy as a Segway. Plus, it doesn’t…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 20

NASCAR Transformers attack Daytona 500

Behind the cars on the parade lap ahead of the green at today’s Daytona 500 was the scariest thing the drivers have probably ever seen in their rear view mirrors – a threesome of Michael Bay’s NASCAR-liveried Transformers. [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/nascar-transformers-attack-daytona-500-5765536

Tech News Ray Wert Feb 20

The Whale Tissue Holder Is Ridiculously Cute

I’m surprised I never thought of this before: a whale tissue holder. It makes so much sense, the tissue “comes out” of the whale’s blowhole. Oh the cleverness of Etsy! [Etsy via NOTCOT]

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 20

Report: your pets are walking deathtraps

Can owning a dog or cat be classed as a dangerous activity? Judy A. Stevens PhD. and colleagues at The Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, of the US National Center for Injury Prevention and Control have completed their report – Dogs and cats as environmental fall hazards – which is published in the Journal of…

io9 Martin Gardiner - Improbable Research Feb 20

A map of Chicago’s phantom signs for vanished businesses

Nicole Donohoe of Chicago’s School of the Art Institute has created an interactive neighborhood map where you can search for the city’s “ghost signs,” or ancient advertisements for goods and services that may not exist anymore. You can also check out her links for more pages about ghost signs that might be in your neck…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 20

HIV As You’ve Never Seen It Before

It’s hard to visualise what something as small and complex as HIV actually looks like. But now Ivan Konstantinov and his team from Visual Science have created the most-detailed 3D model of the virus to date (see video above). Click to view An image of this visualisation just won first place in the 2010 International…

Tech News Sandrine Ceurstemont - New Scientist Feb 20

Amelia Earhart’s old letters hold clue to her disappearance

The Amelia Earhart disappearance hasn’t actually been a mystery so much as a jumping-off point for as many fantastical theories as possible. Earhart had often been credited as a better self-promoter and daredevil than a pilot. Her last stunt, in 1937, was an attempt to make the record books as the first woman to circumnavigate…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Feb 20

On Smallville, Clark finally puts on some damn glasses

Friday’s Smallville — “Masquerade” — offered a nice balance between the cast’s personal problems and their existential hang-ups about being superheroes. When Season 10 dips into the character’s personal lives, the viewer is occasionally blasted by a wall of televisual treacle seemingly baked up in Cadmus Labs. This wasn’t the case in “Masquerade,” as the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 20

The Truest Comic About Videos on Websites

I’ve always noticed this when watching videos with ads. The actual video never plays but, somehow, the ad plays just fine. [Toothpaste for Dinner]

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 20

A spectacular launch photo, captured from the orbiting International Space Station

Have you ever seen a space launch from orbit ? Check out the spectacular launch photo of the Johannes Kepler ATV streaking skyward atop an Ariane 5 rocket as captured by astronaut Paolo Nespoli from his unparalleled vantage point looking out the windows aboard the International Space Station (ISS), in orbit some 350 km above Earth.…

io9 Ken Kremer - Universe Today Feb 20

The Week’s Best Android Apps

The Week’s Best iPhone Apps

This Week’s Best Apps

The Week’s Best iPad Apps

What if Bane, MODOK, and Dr. Doom were steampunk rapscallions?

A Tie with Bubble Wrap Is the Perfect Time Killer

Can humanity survive a population of over 10 billion people?

This Animated Video Simplifies Einstein’s Complicated Twin Paradox

Fantastic Four family tree teaches that all roads lead to Galactus

The world’s oldest water may be three kilometers below South Africa

Here’s a Better Looking, Less Awkward Segway

NASCAR Transformers attack Daytona 500

The Whale Tissue Holder Is Ridiculously Cute

Report: your pets are walking deathtraps

A map of Chicago’s phantom signs for vanished businesses

HIV As You’ve Never Seen It Before

Amelia Earhart’s old letters hold clue to her disappearance

On Smallville, Clark finally puts on some damn glasses

The Truest Comic About Videos on Websites

A spectacular launch photo, captured from the orbiting International Space Station

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