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Oxygen Audio Turns Your iPhone Into a Car Stereo

Plenty of cars come with some middling form of iPhone connectivity. Install Oxygen Audio’s O’Car deck and your iPhone essentially becomes your stereo. Pimp. Thanks to its front facing snap-in mount, the $349 O’Car will hug any version of your iPhone and transform it into your car’s main audio interface. You get dominion over Internet…

Tech News Bryan Gardiner Jan 4 '11

Windows Phone 7 Rumored Updates: Copy & Paste, IE9, HTML5, and Silverlight Coming

Paul Thurrott is reporting that Windows Phone 7 is getting its first update as soon as February (it might even be RTM this week). Codenamed NoDo, for ‘No Donuts’ (anti-Android?), the first update will bring copy & paste, a bunch of software fixes, support for Qualcomm 7×30 chipset and a CDMA location stack. https://gizmodo.com/android-donut-build-out-full-multitouch-universal-sea-5322902/ A…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 4 '11

A Fungus Is Destroying The World’s Bananas

Tropical Race Four, a soil-born fungus, has been destroying bananas across the world. It kills the plant and makes bananas smell like garbage. That deadly fungus is expected to hit Central America, which is where we get all our bananas from. There are a thousand types of bananas in the world but only one represents…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 4 '11

Rumor: Windows 8 to Make an Appearance During Ballmer’s Keynote

WinRumors is reporting that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will reveal parts of Windows 8 during tomorrow night’s CES keynote, mainly related to future slates they have planned. In addition, there should be new Windows Phone and Xbox announcements. According to WinRumors, their strategy for revealing Windows 8 will probably be similar to what they did…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 4 '11

No Ordinary Family explains why superheroes can’t have friends — but not much else

Tonight’s No Ordinary Family placed our heroes in an unusual position, as they met a friendly but even more mysterious family with dark secrets of their own. It’s an interesting idea…that the show had no idea what to do with. “No Ordinary Friends” was not what I had been hoping for in No Ordinary Family’s…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jan 4 '11

Spot Connect Turns Your Smartphone Into a Satellite Communicator

So you’re lost in the wilderness. Thoughts of a parched, solitary death are entering your mind. Well, with the Spot Connect, you can share these final thoughts on the Internet! And also save yourself (But mainly: Tweet.) The Spot Connect is essentially an outgrowth of the Spot tech we saw earlier this year, paired with…

Tech News John Herrman Jan 4 '11

Joby’s iPad Case Strikes Many Poses

Considering Joby came up with the Gorillapod, it’s no huge surprise that their combination iPad case/stand has a pretty interesting design. Made from lightweight aluminum, Ori will let your iPad rest virtually every which way, and protect it afterwards. Whether you need to prop your iPad up on a table for reading and writing, or…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 4 '11

Imagine an iPad Dock With a Built-In Projector

Wowwee’s Cinemin Slice is a pretty useful kitchen dock, perfect for the iPad, which is a kitchen computer. You dock in an iPad or iPhone, and the DLP Picoprojector takes care of putting the image where you can see it. It also takes in mini-HDMI and VGA, but it’s not spectacularly bright (only 16 ANSI…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 4 '11

This Battery Has Been Working for 60 Years

Ah, batteries. They always die sooner than you think, right? Not this one! Called Karpen’s Pile, this battery has been working uninterrupted since the 1950’s. That’s 60 years of charge! https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-why-batteries-die-5681005 The perpetual motion machine was built by Vasile Karpen and it should have stopped working decades ago. But when a Romanian newspaper went to…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 4 '11

Prototype Toothpaste Changes Flavors According to the Weather

The toothpaste industry is in need of a shakeup! Whitening strips aren’t enough. MIT’s Media Lab has developed a prototype toothpaste that spits out different flavors according to the weather and temperature outside. Their idea, called ‘Tastes Like Rain’ is simple: hook up a simple computer to a toothpaste dispenser. The toothpaste dispenser is then…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 4 '11

The incredible journeys of leatherback turtles

Due to advancements in satellite tracking, the incredible migratory routes of the leatherback turtle have finally been mapped in detail — including a straight 7,563km (4,699 mile) trip from Africa to South America. That was one of three different migration routes from the turtles’ breeding colony in Gabon to the feeding grounds in the South…

io9 Tim Barribeau Jan 4 '11

If You Have 60 Minutes Free, Relish the Joy of Stats

Hans Rosling—my favorite Swedish professor—explains why statistics are so amazing and why we, The People, should use them to keep our governments in check and understand the world around us. A fascinating video that you will really enjoy. [YouTube]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 4 '11

The Sun Eclipsed by Earth and the International Space Station

There was a partial solar eclipse today. The Moon partly obscured the Sun, but photographer Thierry Legault found something else blocking a tiny bit of our home star’s light: The International Space Station. Such a tiny speck of metal and glass. Legault had to go to Oman in order to capture the Moon and the…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Jan 4 '11

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Tech News Matt Buchanan Jan 4 '11

First look at Alex Ross’ cover for the comic book of NBC’s The Cape

io9 has the exclusive first look at the Alex Ross comic book cover for NBC’s The Cape, created especially for tonight’s red carpet premiere party in Los Angeles. The two-hour series premiere of The Cape, a show about a framed cop looking to take back the streets by going undercover as superhero The Cape, will…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jan 4 '11

The Many Faces of Asus’s Android Tablets

Is there a different way to design a tablet? If so, Asus is going to find it! Their new Android slabs are all special snowflakes—including the QWERTY keyboard-hiding, Tegra 2- and Android 3.0-equipped Eee Pad Slider. There will be tablets aplenty at this year’s CES, and Asus’s strategy is basically trying a bunch of different…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 4 '11

If you want to live longer, then walk faster

Your walking speed can tell a lot about you – including your life expectancy. Amazingly, your walking speed is just as good an indicator of how long you’ll live as your health history, smoking habits, and blood pressure combined. It’s possible to do a basic life expectancy calculation based on a person’s age and gender,…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jan 4 '11

Asus: “This Is the Most Powerful Tablet in the World”

Asus just pulled out their Core i5-powered, Windows 7-running Eee Pad Slate tablet, calling it “the most powerful tablet in the world.” Probably so! They proved their point by simultaneously playing 1080p video and running photo editing software. The video seems to be running without any problems, and the handwriting recognition Asus is showing off…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 4 '11

Every Bikini Model Should Be Photographed By a Monkey

I think they were on to something in 1963. After all, just imagine all the lovely angles a monkey could capture during a bikini photoshoot. [Where is my mind? via Boing Boing]

Biology Rosa Golijan Jan 4 '11

How does a homemade Rorschach mask change color?

You’ve seen the video of how to make a Rorschach mask. (If you haven’t, it’s under the cut.) How does the paint change color? There’s a youtube video going around showing a gentleman, who heavily namedrops a site selling thermochromic paint, showing its watchers how to use that thermochromic paint to make a real Rorschach…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jan 4 '11

Oxygen Audio Turns Your iPhone Into a Car Stereo

Windows Phone 7 Rumored Updates: Copy & Paste, IE9, HTML5, and Silverlight Coming

A Fungus Is Destroying The World’s Bananas

Rumor: Windows 8 to Make an Appearance During Ballmer’s Keynote

No Ordinary Family explains why superheroes can’t have friends — but not much else

Spot Connect Turns Your Smartphone Into a Satellite Communicator

Joby’s iPad Case Strikes Many Poses

Imagine an iPad Dock With a Built-In Projector

This Battery Has Been Working for 60 Years

Prototype Toothpaste Changes Flavors According to the Weather

The incredible journeys of leatherback turtles

If You Have 60 Minutes Free, Relish the Joy of Stats

The Sun Eclipsed by Earth and the International Space Station

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First look at Alex Ross’ cover for the comic book of NBC’s The Cape

The Many Faces of Asus’s Android Tablets

If you want to live longer, then walk faster

Asus: “This Is the Most Powerful Tablet in the World”

Every Bikini Model Should Be Photographed By a Monkey

How does a homemade Rorschach mask change color?

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