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Best Stories of February 18, 2011

Here are the best stories on Gizmodo, today. Enjoy them! A Guide to Fox’s Guide To Sexting Have you heard about this hot new sexting craze? All the kids are doing it, according to Fox News. And they’re here to help you navigate the potential sociological minefield that is flirty SMS. Let’s take a walk…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Feb 18

Why Nobody Can Match the iPad’s Price

When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad last January, the biggest surprise wasn’t the actual product. (Many shrugged and called the iPad a “bigger iPhone.”) It was the price: Just $500. Nobody expected that number, perhaps because Apple has traditionally aimed at the high end of the mobile computer market with MacBooks marked $1,000 and up.…

Tech News Brian X. Chen - Wired Feb 18

How That Impossible Escher Waterfall May Have Been Built

Remember this? Still pretty crazy! But maybe a little less so after taking a look at David Goldman’s theory of how exactly this contraption was put together: https://gizmodo.com/watch-eschers-impossible-perpetual-motion-waterfall-bro-5762030 It’s amazing what a little forced perspective and careful editing can do. Remember, though, that this is pure speculation. There’s still a distinct possibility that the real…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 18

Wonder Woman’s “Twirl and Explode” is NOT the most ridiculous superhero transformation

Whatever David E. Kelley does with Wonder Woman, it’s bound to be more dignified than this. The live-action TV series of the anime Cutie Honey features our heroine shouting “Honey Flash!” and then, well, flashing everybody. She turns ambiguously naked, with sparkles, and then her superhero costume (and wig) appear on her after a moment.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 18

Apollo 18 trailer shows why we can never go back to the Moon

Space mockumentary Apollo 18 has been shrouded in mystery for months. But no longer! The first ever trailer for Gonzalo López-Gallego’s lunar horror epic is out, and it looks intense. Let the space madness begin! The only information we’ve had about this film was this little tidbit, “A film about the real mission to space…

io9 Meredith Woerner Feb 18

Who Are The People At Obama’s Tech Dinner?

Here it is again – the photo from President Obama’s dinner with tech titans last night. Featuring a sadly sick and frail Steve Jobs, a young Mark Zuckerberg on the rise, and Eric Schmidt in his last weeks as Google CEO, it is an already iconic image of an era. Who are the people in…

Tech News Nicholas Carlson and Leah Goldman - Business Insider Feb 18

Google Docs Plays Nice With 12 New File Formats

If you use Google Docs more than you use Microsoft Office, you’ll be happy to know that they added support for 12 new file formats, including Excel, Powerpoint and Photoshop files. Here’s the full list: Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX) Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 (.PPTX) Apple Pages (.PAGES) Adobe Illustrator (.AI) Adobe Photoshop (.PSD)…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 18

US House of Representatives Are Trying to Block Net Neutrality

On a rampage against anything that remotely smells like regulation, the House of Representatives have voted to block funding for the FCC’s Net Neutrality plan, which would ensure that ISPs couldn’t restrict certain users from accessing select content. Of course, this would have to pass through senate and survive President Obama’s desk, so the chance…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 18

Welcome to Gizmodo Giveaways!

Welcome to Gizmodo Giveaways! This is the first edition of the weekly freebie fest, that brings you an ultimate selection of nifty tech-related gear. We are hitting it off with some sleek, protective iPhone and iPad cases with integrated stands from, iChair! To enter the contest, simply tweet possible creative and wacky uses for the…

Tech News Keenen Thompson Feb 18

The strange story of how skinning your knees could give you cancer

It’s been known for a while that certain injuries can cause cancers, but the reasons why are still foggy. Now, new research shows at least part of the answer when it comes to skin cancer. Follicular stem cells, associated with the spots on your skin that grow hair, are generally dormant. But when you get…

io9 Tim Barribeau Feb 18

Spiders Won’t Bite

Spiders are often portrayed as malicious, bloodthirsty creatures looking for anything with a pulse to sink its fangs into—especially us humans. Look no further than movies like Arachnophobia, Arachnid or even Eight Legged Freaks. Even Peter Parker was the victim of a random spider bite. But the truth is, spiders don’t really bite. I mean,…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 18

Want to know if a man is fertile? Check his bones.

For gentlemen only: Your fertility may be dictated by your skeleton. New research in mice has shown that there’s a very strong link between the bone hormone osteocalcin, and the production of testosterone. Male mice with low levels of osteocalcin had small and infrequent litters compared to those with higher amounts of the hormone (lower…

io9 Tim Barribeau Feb 18

Building an iPhone Photo Filter Is a Lot Harder Than Using One

I think some law was passed in the last year that requires all photo apps to come with filters that function as aesthetic time machines, passing your perfectly fine photograph through a wormhole of analog nostalgia. It turns out that creating such a rift in photographic spacetime is not as easy as sending your photo…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 18

Why would people confess to crimes they didn’t commit?

Prisoner advocacy group The Innocence Project has used DNA to overturn the wrongful convictions of 266 people since 1989. In twenty-five percent of those cases, the DNA exoneration was an extreme surprise – not because the people had been convicted, but because they had confessed. Why would anyone do that if they were innocent? Certainly…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Feb 18

Watch Thor get tazed and hospitalized, and act like a crazy person

Finally, a trailer for Marvel’s Thor movie where the main character is actually acting like Thor, the Norse God. Demanding more coffee by smashing his cup, yelling at puny humans and crashing about. Now this is the dense blonde butt of Iron Man’s jokes that we know and love. Thor will be in theaters May…

Movies Meredith Woerner Feb 18

Libya Blocks Facebook and Internet Access Amid Revolts

Popular uprisings throughout Libya have pushed the bizarre, iron hand of Muammar al-Qaddafi to block access to Facebook in the capital of Tripoli, and sporadically shut Libyan access to the internet entirely. Clearly, the country’s autocracy fears Egypt redux. [Yahoo]

Social Media Sam Biddle Feb 18

Is Texting While Giving Birth the Way Nature Intended?

As someone sans womb, I’m not terribly qualified to opine, but my guess would be that a text message is the last thing you want to deal with while giving birth. Not so! At least, according to some doctors. After a Boston anesthesiologist noticed a patient texting while popping out her newborn, Tina Cassidy, author…

Tech News Sam Biddle Feb 18

Augmented nose sniffs out illegal smells

Chemical plants, landfills, oil refineries… odours so foul that they break the law are everywhere. Now we can keep them in check WITH its two waste water treatment plants, a chemical company and a garbage truck depot, Chicago’s West Side industrial district is one of the worst smelling places in the city. But foul odours…

io9 New Scientist Feb 18

Help Nathan Fillion buy Firefly

A couple days ago Nathan Fillion made this statement: “If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to Firefly, make it own my own, and distribute it on the Internet.” And with those words, the movement was started. Already the internet is rallying a…

io9 Meredith Woerner Feb 18

Fixing The Thinker With 3D Printing

In 2007, some goons looted a casting of Rodin’s The Thinker (one of many castings that exist of the iconic piece) from the Singer Laren Museum in the Netherlands, intending to sell it as scrap metal. I’m not sure why you’d want to sell a multi-million dollar work of art as scrap metal, but hey,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 18

Best Stories of February 18, 2011

Why Nobody Can Match the iPad’s Price

How That Impossible Escher Waterfall May Have Been Built

Wonder Woman’s “Twirl and Explode” is NOT the most ridiculous superhero transformation

Apollo 18 trailer shows why we can never go back to the Moon

Who Are The People At Obama’s Tech Dinner?

Google Docs Plays Nice With 12 New File Formats

US House of Representatives Are Trying to Block Net Neutrality

Welcome to Gizmodo Giveaways!

The strange story of how skinning your knees could give you cancer

Spiders Won’t Bite

Want to know if a man is fertile? Check his bones.

Building an iPhone Photo Filter Is a Lot Harder Than Using One

Why would people confess to crimes they didn’t commit?

Watch Thor get tazed and hospitalized, and act like a crazy person

Libya Blocks Facebook and Internet Access Amid Revolts

Is Texting While Giving Birth the Way Nature Intended?

Augmented nose sniffs out illegal smells

Help Nathan Fillion buy Firefly

Fixing The Thinker With 3D Printing

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