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Shooting Challenge: Smoke

You know what they say: Where there’s smoke, there are people taking pictures of smoke. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we want to see beautiful, billowing smoke. The Challenge Take a photo that features the fine details of smoke as its subject. You can contextualize the smoke (in other words, it can be part…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Death-defying wingsuit video shows what it’s like to be a real-life superhero

Jeb Corliss has created a highlight reel of his greatest wingsuit stunts, and the results are electrifying. Watch him fly through the air like some literal batman, narrowly avoiding cliffs, the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio, and certain demise. [Via Nerdcore]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The Best Navigation Apps

One moment it’s a phone in your hand. The next, it’s a full-fledged turn-by-turn nav unit with an active internet connection. What happened? These apps, is what. iOS GOLD MEDAL: MotionX Drive The first wave of iPhone turn-by-turn apps was expensive and luxurious. The second was cheap and barebones. Since, members of both classes have…

Tech News John Herrman

Breakthrough ‘Zero Power’ Display Can Do Color and Video, Too

It sounds too good to be true, but researchers at the University of Cincinnati are convinced that they’ve developed a revolutionary electrofluidics display that combines the color and video capabilities of an LCD with the low power consumption of e-ink. The technology, which was seven years in the making, sandwiches reflective electrodes between two layers…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Our first glimpse of Avatar’s future destroyed Earth: It’s Vegas!

Our neon-tinged dystopian future cities used to be Tokyo, but now they’ve gone Vegas. Or so it would seem, from our first glimpses of Jake Sully on Earth from November’s three-hour extended Avatar DVD. Which may actually be worth getting. I have to say, if you’re going to draw a sharp contrast with the ultra-colorful,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Come out to California for ComBots Cup, and watch robots smash each other to bits

Want to see a bunch of DiY robots smash each other up in a series of competitive fights? Then you need to come out to California for the ComBots Cup – as an io9 reader, you even get a discount! David Calkins, who co-organizes the event with Simone Davalos, writes in to tell us more:…

io9 Annalee Newitz

What is a cyborg, and are you one already?

Over at The Atlantic, Tim Maly has summed up the dreams, anxieties and philosophical musings he collected last month though his 50cyborgs project that celebrated the coining of the term “cyborg” a half-century ago. He begins the article with a series of questions: Because the word ‘cyborg’ is 50 years old, we wanted to have…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Russian Army Helicopter Found On Mountain Top

This Russian Army’s Mil Mi-8 helicopter is in a surprisingly good state, considering it crashed against the east side of Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain in Russia and Europe. It was found by alpinist Ilya Yahsin at 15,748 feet. While it looks pretty broken, the $10 million helicopter—which was produced in 2009—is in good shape…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Transformers 3’s title is Transformers: The Dark of the Moon

The title to the third Transformers film is very Pink Floyd. We hear if you sync it up with The Wizard of Oz, Starscream delivers all of the Cowardly Lion’s dialog. [Collider]

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

How to Replace Your Landline with Google Voice

Even if you hold your laptop up to your face like a flip phone, talking into your computer is lame. You want to use Google Voice like a real phone—with buttons and stuff. We’ll tell you how. Getting Started If you don’t have it already, you’re going to need a Google Voice account. It’s easy.…

Tech News Casey Chan

Kinect Will Require 6 to 8 Feet of Open Space

If you don’t want your living room flailing to be in vain this November, plan on moving your coffee table—leaked manual pages show that Kinect’s camera requires 6 to 8 feet of clear space to function. [Kotaku]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

One Man’s Quest to Collect Every Single Item From the Concorde

He says he’s not obsessive—we’ll leave that for you to decide. But Nathan Shedroff certainly has an obsessive eye for good design, prompting him to amass an multi-year collection of stuff you would have found aboard the jet. The enormous collection, picked from eBay offerings over between 2004 and 2007, has landed Sherdoff enough cutlery…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Drew Struzan’s amazing poster art for Back To The Future and more!

For many movie fans, Drew Struzan is the definitive poster artist. His work has brought film series like Indiana Jones, Star Wars and Hellboy to glorious life. But his work on the Back To The Future films remains our favorite. A new book, The Art Of Drew Struzan, showcases his work on movie posters over…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Toxic Spill in Hungary Could Take One Year to Clean Up

The toxic red sludge spill in Hungary that killed four people Monday could take a year to clean up, authorities there said. Meanwhile, workers are still trying to stop the spill from spreading to the Danube and Raba rivers. So far, at least seven towns have been hit, and 7,000 Hungarians have been directly affected…

Tech News Jeff Neumann

Cheaters Are Using Their iPhones to Cheat Their Cheatin’ Way Out of Hedge Mazes

Now, I’ve walked around this maze before so know how tough it is, but cheating using your cellphone’s GPS? You may as well stay at home playing GTA or something. The Daily Mail spoke to employees at Longleat Safari Park* in Wiltshire, England, who’d noticed that many people are now using their phones to find…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

George R.R. Martin talks about his books and the HBO adaptation of A Game of Thrones in Episode 22 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

It’s the first installment of io9 sponsored podcast Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy! In this episode, George R.R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire, talks about his books and the HBO adaptation of A Game of Thrones. Image via FanPop. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is hosted by John Joseph Adams and…

io9 John Joseph Adams and David Kirtley

Students Hack Washington D.C.’s Web Voting System to Play College Fight Song

A pilot internet voting program in Washington D.C. for this November’s elections has been scrapped. Why? Well, officials invited hackers to give the system their “best shot,” and some college kids did—and pulled off a pretty good prank. During a trial period of the web voting system last week, the Board of Elections and Ethics…

Tech News Max Read

Check out exclusive teaser images from the Falling Skies comic book

At the New York Comic Con this weekend, Dark Horse Comics will be giving away a free full issue of the comic adaptation of TNT’s upcoming alien invasion series Falling Skies. Here are exclusive images of extraterrestrial rudeness. The full free issue, which is written by Paul Tobin and illustrated by Juan Ferreyra, will be…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Extreme Space Zooming From New York to LA

These extreme zoom-in movies were digitally created by NASA using photographic material from different satellites. From coast to coast, there is no escape from the eyes in space. The video on the top shows an extreme zoom out from NYC’s Central Park, in High Definition, just newly created by scientists at NASA Goddard (make sure…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

HP New WebOS 2.0 Phones In Early 2011

I’m excited. HP Senior Vice President Eric Cador has announced new Palm’s WebOS 2.0 phones for early 2011. I hope that means CES, because the new operating system looks great. [Reuters]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Shooting Challenge: Smoke

Death-defying wingsuit video shows what it’s like to be a real-life superhero

The Best Navigation Apps

Breakthrough ‘Zero Power’ Display Can Do Color and Video, Too

Our first glimpse of Avatar’s future destroyed Earth: It’s Vegas!

Come out to California for ComBots Cup, and watch robots smash each other to bits

What is a cyborg, and are you one already?

Russian Army Helicopter Found On Mountain Top

Transformers 3’s title is Transformers: The Dark of the Moon

How to Replace Your Landline with Google Voice

Kinect Will Require 6 to 8 Feet of Open Space

One Man’s Quest to Collect Every Single Item From the Concorde

Drew Struzan’s amazing poster art for Back To The Future and more!

Toxic Spill in Hungary Could Take One Year to Clean Up

Cheaters Are Using Their iPhones to Cheat Their Cheatin’ Way Out of Hedge Mazes

George R.R. Martin talks about his books and the HBO adaptation of A Game of Thrones in Episode 22 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Students Hack Washington D.C.’s Web Voting System to Play College Fight Song

Check out exclusive teaser images from the Falling Skies comic book

Extreme Space Zooming From New York to LA

HP New WebOS 2.0 Phones In Early 2011

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