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The Pollinator Frock: a dress that feeds the bees

With global bee populations shrinking drastically, designer Karen Ingham’s decided our winged pollinating friends need all the help they can get. Enter the Pollinator Frock, a garment doused in a nectar-like solution that’s designed to help foraging bees. Here’s how Ingham describes the project: The Pollinator Frocks Project is a limited edition collection of clothing…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 23 '11

Woman Hangs Up On Apple, Nearly Misses Out on $10,000 App Store Prize

Gail Davis hates telemarketers. Hates ’em. Hangs up on their ilk as soon as she hears a wisp of their tortured, desperate breath over the telephone. Sadly, this same hatred nearly cost her family a cool $10,000 gift card. You see, as Apple is wont to do when it’s about to sell a milestone number…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jan 23 '11

When cleavage is a bad thing

Glass: it’s so much more than just the clear stuff in your windowpanes that keeps the cold out. In fact, we’ve just learned of a glass that is actually stronger than steel, and just about as tough. (And yes, I’ll explain the difference between strength and toughness.) Glass is a contrarian to nature’s general preference…

io9 Diandra Leslie-Pelecky -- Cocktail Party Physics Jan 23 '11

The Big Picture Editor Heads to The Atlantic

The Boston Globe’s Big Picture, edited by web developer Alan Taylor, is a photography blog we’ve featured many times here on Gizmodo. It’s with good reason too, as the photos there can be at times breathtaking, inspirational, graphic or sad—sometimes all at once. Today I learned Taylor is headed to The Atlantic to head up…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jan 23 '11

Pretend Mars Mission Nearing Its Thrilling, Fake Martian Touchdown

Rejoice! Six fake astronauts near the end of their simulated Mars mission, and will set foot on Earth, which they will pretend is Mars. It’s the closest a human will get to the real thing for a very long time. The journey will ultimately take 520 days, during which time these international pseudo-nauts will have…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus Jan 23 '11

Cross-stitched Borg serenity prayer is a kinder, gentler way of saying “Resistance is futile”

Remember those Star Wars daily affirmations from scifi needlepoint maven Steotch? Here’s a new one featuring Locutus of Borg, daintly imploring you to kiss your free will goodbye. It can be yours for $399. [Via Neatorama] https://gizmodo.com/slave-leia-adds-flair-to-your-cross-stitch-samplers-5671321

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 23 '11

Laser blasts could unlock secrets of practical superconductors

Take an ordinary, non-superconducting material and hit it with light, and its electrons suddenly reorganize into a resistance-free, superconducting arrangement. This only works at extremely low temperatures, but it could help us solve the riddle of practical superconductors. Oxford professor Andrea Cavalleri explains what they have managed here: “We have used light to turn a…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jan 23 '11

HD3 Slyde Tops iPod nano Watches In Every Way, Price Included

The verdict is pretty much in on the iPod nano as a timepiece: Great in theory (looks fantastic at times, even) but ultimately suffers from poor execution. This inevitably pricey HD3 Slyde, however, may have finally nailed the whole package. https://gizmodo.com/how-those-incredible-ipod-nano-watches-look-in-person-5713459 While the nano wristwatch comparisons are inevitable, the Slyde was actually in development before…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jan 23 '11

Check out this Half-Life fan film, Beyond Black Mesa

A group of Half-Life fans were so enamored of Valve’s classic first-person shooter that they produced a fan film based on the scifi game’s mythology. As always, a crowbar is an essential tool for staying alive. Here’s the $1,200 project’s synopsis from the filmmakers: Inspired by the Half-Life Video Game series, this is an action…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 23 '11

Are these the most inexplicable comic book ads in the history of the written word?

I honestly have no idea what’s going in this 1978 AAU shoe ad. A homeless man begins screaming about a death ray in his shoes, so a superhero with a lisp punts him into the ionosphere. What? My favorite part of all this is when Dirty Sneaker yammering about his plan to anyone who’ll listen,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 23 '11

Facebook Destroys Marriages

Him: “Are you unhappy?” Her: “No, of course not. Why do you ask?” Him: “Well, the few rare times we make love you cry out his name, not mine.” Her: “Whose name?” Him: “Facebook.” Yeah, pretty heavy huh? Real life stuff pouring out all over the pages of Gizmodo. But what’s it mean? It means…

Social Media Jack Loftus Jan 23 '11

What’s in the Tron 3 teaser clips bundled with the Tron Legacy DVD?

Tron Legacy wasn’t the box office juggernaut that Disney hoped it would be, but a sequel’s nonetheless being bandied about. New details about the Tron Legacy DVD teaser indicate where Tron 3’s headed. Spoilers! https://gizmodo.com/could-the-tron-legacy-sequel-be-right-around-the-corner-5732435 Harry Knowles of AICN spoke with someone who worked on the DVD teaser shoot last November, and this is what…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 23 '11

Motorola Xoom Lands at Best Buy February 17

The Motorola Xoom, the much ballyhooed Honeycomb-equipped tablet that grabbed our eyeballs and wouldn’t let go at CES, should be settling into Best Buy store shelves on February 17, according to leaked internal docs seen here. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-new-tablet-5727948 Price is still not entirely confirmed, but an $800 rumor has been floating around for a while. A…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jan 23 '11

The year 2011, according to Thomas Edison in 1911

100 years ago, a newspaper published Thomas Edison’s musings on the far-off future of 2011. According to the famed inventor, we should be driving around in solid gold taxis. On June 23, 1911 the Miami Metropolis published predictions about the year 2011 from the one and only Tommy “Dumbo Killah” Edison. Edison makes some amazing…

io9 Matt Novak -- Paleo-Future Blog Jan 23 '11

Space photos reveal the weird optical illusion of the squished Moon

These pictures offer a spectacular view of the rising Moon from the International Space Station. But look closely at the Moon in these photos and you can see how it appears to be strangely squished. What’s causing this weird effect? First of all, if you’re not quite seeing the squished effect, check out these close-ups…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jan 23 '11

Apple’s Latest iPhone Commercial Glosses Over a Few Details

Awww. Look at the two iPhones, one mimicking the other. Apple would have you believe these two phones are something akin to the smartphone arena’s perfect synchronized swimming duo, but they aren’t exactly the same phone just yet, are they? https://gizmodo.com/at-t-please-let-us-hotspot-our-iphones-5731721 Keyword yet, given some of the features found in iOS 4.3 (lot hotspots for…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jan 23 '11

What’s the Carbon Footprint of War?

In the past few years, some researchers have explored whether warfare and societal collapse might be explained in part by swings in climate. But what about the opposite effect? Can humanity’s skirmishes change the climate? A 2007 study found that periods of cold weather preceded 12 of 15 major conflicts in China’s ancient dynasties. The…

Tech News Ferris Jabr - New Scientist Jan 22 '11

Japanese Toilets Have Crazy Video Games to Play While Peeing

Sega has installed toilet games in bars and arcades across Tokyo. It’s called Toylet and games include measuring volume of urine, measuring power of stream, wiping a wall clean of graffiti and even controlling wind to lift a girl’s skirt up. It sounds insane but also potentially awesome, the games use a pressure sensor attached…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 22 '11

Sportswriter Tracks Down Rude Twitter Haters In Real Life

When Jeff Pearlman, a sportswriter, wrote a recent column, he received his typical slew of hate, slurs and rude remarks on Twitter. But this time, he didn’t want to ignore it. Instead, he sought out his “online haters” in real life. Pearlman ended up calling one of his “online haters” (one who sent him a…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 22 '11

What does a ménage à trois between whales look like?

A three-way between cetaceans involves two pliant, 7-foot-long penises, one well-attended female, and a free-love take on competitive mating. NSFW, if you haven’t learned about the birds and the bees yet. Over at Scientopia, blogmistress Scicurious brings to readers’ attention the 2005 paper “Observations of a Female North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis) in Simultaneous…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 22 '11

The Pollinator Frock: a dress that feeds the bees

Woman Hangs Up On Apple, Nearly Misses Out on $10,000 App Store Prize

When cleavage is a bad thing

The Big Picture Editor Heads to The Atlantic

Pretend Mars Mission Nearing Its Thrilling, Fake Martian Touchdown

Cross-stitched Borg serenity prayer is a kinder, gentler way of saying “Resistance is futile”

Laser blasts could unlock secrets of practical superconductors

HD3 Slyde Tops iPod nano Watches In Every Way, Price Included

Check out this Half-Life fan film, Beyond Black Mesa

Are these the most inexplicable comic book ads in the history of the written word?

Facebook Destroys Marriages

What’s in the Tron 3 teaser clips bundled with the Tron Legacy DVD?

Motorola Xoom Lands at Best Buy February 17

The year 2011, according to Thomas Edison in 1911

Space photos reveal the weird optical illusion of the squished Moon

Apple’s Latest iPhone Commercial Glosses Over a Few Details

What’s the Carbon Footprint of War?

Japanese Toilets Have Crazy Video Games to Play While Peeing

Sportswriter Tracks Down Rude Twitter Haters In Real Life

What does a ménage à trois between whales look like?

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