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What earwigs do with their extra penises

Many members of the earwig insect family have two penises, but you’d never know it from observing their sex lives. Most earwigs are exclusively “right-penised”, which raises an important question: why bother having two penises if you only use one? That’s the question posed by a researcher at Japan’s Rissho University. Noting that the current…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

We’re Sorry, Borrowlenses (Or: The Gear That Got Us Through CES)

It’s funny, the moments in your life that happen in slow motion. Like watching a $5000 camera with a $1700 lens bolted to it tumble onto concrete, followed by an ejaculation of glass. Fortunately, what you’re looking at is just a busted filter. The lens itself, unscathed. Lesson learned: Always wear protection, even when you…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Grate That Bar of Soap Like It’s a Block of Cheap Cheddar

The designer may cite ecological reasons for eschewing the liquid soap for a bar of soap, but me? I just love the sheer brilliance of this concept. Grated soap! I demand all public toilets fit them immediately. [NathalieStämpfli via Kottke]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

This Mom Seduced a 13-Year-Old Boy on Xbox Live

I use Xbox Live for yelling at 10-year-old British kids when I play Fifa. You may use it for galvanizing your Halo clan. Rachel Ann Hicks allegedly used it for seducing a 13-year-old boy and having sex with him. Gross. Rachel Ann Hicks, a 36-year-old mother of three, allegedly posed as a 23-year-old girl in…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Wandering mummy terrorizes unsuspecting Texas neighborhood

Last week, a bandaged prowler resembling a mummy bedeviled the Houston suburb of Cypress. Residents who encounter the mummy should contact law enforcement. Do not chase him down and grind him into archaic medicine using a mortar and pestle. [KPRC via The Occultist]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

What’s the View Like From Your $230,000 Jetpack, Sir?

The Jetlev-Flyer got a work-out at the weekend’s London Boat Show, where it powered across the Thames river at 35km/hr, and a height of 30m. Bet it made more than one chap drop his scone. [Daily Mail] https://gizmodo.com/water-powered-jetlev-jetpack-would-be-the-most-godly-fi-5141777

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Glee pours its sugar over Michael Jackson’s Thriller next

What’s Glee’s next pop victim? Michael Jackson’s zombie dancing horde from Thriller. Let’s be honest, “The Rocky Horror Glee Show” was a bit of a bust, so Glee, you’ve really got to bang this one out. Here’s a first look. https://gizmodo.com/glee-defangs-rocky-horror-with-cuteness-5674837 We’ll be honest, the football uniforms give us hope. One of the problems with…

Television Meredith Woerner

Behemoth: Syfy’s biggest, craziest monster movie yet!

Screw Sharktopus. Frak Mansquito. This Saturday, Syfy has a planet-sized kaiju: Behemoth! Also, this week’s television is weirdly obsessed with mega-earthquakes. Alyson Hannigan joins The Simpsons. Jeff Bridges meets a flying blow-up doll. Plus Adventure Time, V and Clone Wars. Today: Syfy is having a marathon of Star Trek: The Next Generation all day, breaking…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Everything We Knew about the Verizon iPhone Before it Launched

Tomorrow’s the day a lot of you have been waiting for—the iPhone 4 taken under Verizon’s big red wing. We know the announcement’s happening, but what else do we know for sure? And what about those floating rumors? First, here’s what we’re sure of. It’s Announced Tomorrow It doesn’t get much more solid than this.…

Tech News Sam Biddle

What the Hell Is This Monster?

Andrew Mitchell is an Instrument and Flight Control Systems Crafstman at the 721st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, in Ramstein Air Base, Germany. That’s why he gets to see some really amazing things, like this crazy looking giant metal insect. What you are seeing here is the belly of a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III carrying a 64-ton,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

New Captain America concept art reveals the Red Skull

After yesterday’s sneak peek at the Cosmic Cube, here’s a first look at Captain America’s perpetually blushing foe Red Skull. This is already an improvement on his “mutated beet-man” look from the 1990 Captain America movie. [CBM] https://gizmodo.com/a-first-look-at-the-cosmic-cube-from-captain-america-5729064

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

This Disc Makes Objects Invisible to Sonar

How do you make an underwater invisibility cloak? You start by creating a device that can manipulate sonar waves. This small cylinder, developed by researchers at the University of Illinois, does just that. Nicholas Fang, a mechanical science and engineering professor at the University of Illinois, lead the development of the device, which is made…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Salma Hayek is planning an 8-hour Wicked miniseries

Interesting news about the musical sensation from somewhere over the rainbow. Wicked, the novel and hit musical, is not getting turned into a movie. Instead it’s going to get its own miniseries from Salma Hayek. Variety is reporting that ABC is interested in adapting the Oz prequel book Wicked into a full-fledged miniseries, and it’s…

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner

Waiter, There’s a Barometer in My Motorola Xoom Tablet and I Don’t Know Why!

To think that we placed Motorola’s XOOM tablet in our favorites list, before learning it’s got a barometer. A FRIGGIN’ BAROMETER. Oh, so your widdle iPad has thousands of apps? But can it measure the atmospheric pressure, huh? HUH? https://gizmodo.com/the-best-new-tablet-5727948 Apparently Android 2.3 (aka, Gingerbread) is the first version of Android with barometer-support, which Motorola…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Our Crappy Cellphone Photos Are a Muse to This Artist

Enda O’Donoghue takes your rubbish cellphone photos from online, and turns them into oil paintings worthy of hanging in galleries. Addressing the issues of online privacy and copyright, he always requests permission of his subjects. [Enda via Build]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Concert posters for scientist rock stars

What if we lived in a universe where scientists were neo-psychedelic rock stars and played gigs in college towns? The University of North Carolina’s biology department has the answer. We posted about University of North Carolina‘s biology rock posters a couple of years ago, and we’re pleased to say that this latest round of posters…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Noise Cancellation for Dental Drills Will Make People Happier

King’s College Dental Institute’s Professor Brian Millar thinks that his invention—a noise cancellation device that eliminates the unnerving sound of dental drills—will make people not fear the dentist. Really, Professor Brian Millar? Really? Many people put off going to the dentist because of anxiety associated with the noise of the dentist’s drill. But this device…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

10 scifi icons (and 10 obscure characters who have the same names)

You know Spider-Man, but have you heard of the British anti-hero Spiderman? Everyone’s seen Terminator 2, but have you seen the Italian Terminator II? Here are 10 familiar characters (and a bunch of randoms who share their names). 1.) Terminator II You first think of: James Cameron’s 1991 drama about a duo of wacky time-traveling…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

History’s Daring Attempts at Rocket Vehicles

Other than for blasting out of Earth’s gravitational pull, the rocket-powered vehicle has never gone mainstream—kind of a shame, really! But lucky for us, LIFE has a gallery of some of the more exciting tries. Maybe next century. To drive this 24 rocket-powered Opel car, circa 1920, would have made you one very brave dude.…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Watch the PlayStation Phone Actually Play Games

Oh, hello there, PlayStation Phone! Here’s the clearest video yet of Sony’s mobile gaming messiah living out its main purpose: playing Biohazard 2 and Rage Racer. Get some. We’ve seen the hardware before, and a bit of the interface, but there’s a little more of a thrill that comes watching the phone play actual PlayStation…

Tech News Brian Barrett

What earwigs do with their extra penises

We’re Sorry, Borrowlenses (Or: The Gear That Got Us Through CES)

Grate That Bar of Soap Like It’s a Block of Cheap Cheddar

This Mom Seduced a 13-Year-Old Boy on Xbox Live

Wandering mummy terrorizes unsuspecting Texas neighborhood

What’s the View Like From Your $230,000 Jetpack, Sir?

Glee pours its sugar over Michael Jackson’s Thriller next

Behemoth: Syfy’s biggest, craziest monster movie yet!

Everything We Knew about the Verizon iPhone Before it Launched

What the Hell Is This Monster?

New Captain America concept art reveals the Red Skull

This Disc Makes Objects Invisible to Sonar

Salma Hayek is planning an 8-hour Wicked miniseries

Waiter, There’s a Barometer in My Motorola Xoom Tablet and I Don’t Know Why!

Our Crappy Cellphone Photos Are a Muse to This Artist

Concert posters for scientist rock stars

Noise Cancellation for Dental Drills Will Make People Happier

10 scifi icons (and 10 obscure characters who have the same names)

History’s Daring Attempts at Rocket Vehicles

Watch the PlayStation Phone Actually Play Games

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