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Watch the Dazzling Process of How Ink Is Made

Pick up any magazine, newspaper, or product package, and you might not realize all that goes into the colorful designs before you. Watch in awe as this video shows the artistry and science at the core of print design—the inks. The video, produced by Toronto-based Vepo Studios, features the facilities of The Printing Ink Company.…

Tech News Adam Harris

Jessica Alba’s CGI Nude Scene: Is This The Future Of Movie “Nudity”?

When the first footage of “Machete” started to leak out, it seemed like a buffet of celebrity nudity: constant exposed flesh from Lindsay Lohan! Jessica Alba in the shower! Other, future famous women dancing around with nothing on at all! But then, as we started to learn more, we realized that what seemed like a…

Movies Lux Alptraum

Find Out Who’s Pulling Private Data From Your Phone With TaintDroid

Many apps beam usage information—some of it enough to personally identify your phone—to marketers, behind your back. Programmers at Penn State cooked up TaintDroid (ew) to reveal the offenders and help you protect yourself from prying data miners. Of thirty popular apps tested, a whopping half of them were phoning home to advertisers. Of course,…

Privacy & Security Sam Biddle

Google Phone Gallery Helps You Compare Android Devices

We’ve shown you how to pick an Android smartphone, but now Google’s ready to help too. The company’s new Google Phone Gallery is a showcase of available Android devices—complete with a comparison feature. [Google Phone Gallery via GoogleMobile] https://gizmodo.com/how-to-pick-an-android-smartphone-september-2010-5651182

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Bacon Kevin Bacon Statue

I’m not sure what caught my attention more here, the fact that someone made a bacon Kevin Bacon or the fact that the artist’s description of the creation process is a bit freaky. Bacon Kevin Bacon was commissioned by Justin Esch and Dave Lefkow, owners of J&D Foods, and created by artist Mike Lahue. The…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

I’m Tired Of Being Lied To By Volume And Battery Indicators

Battery and volume indicators are the bane of my existence—they never work as expected! Sure, there are complicated issues at work such as logarithmic scales and perception, but those excuses don’t ease my headache. [Reddit via Geekosystem]

Tech News Rosa Golijan

The iPad 3G Might Get A Tethering Feature?

When we tried out iOS 4.2 Beta 2 on our iPads, we didn’t spot anything of interest. But when some European iPad 3G owners took a close look at their settings menus, they saw something very curious: A tethering option. https://gizmodo.com/ios-4-2-beta-2-now-available-to-iphone-and-ipad-develop-5650479 The option looks like the one we see on our iPhones and was discovered…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

We Wish Above-Water Cameras Looked Like These Soviet Aquatic Rigs

For a society whose historical rep is having produced lots of shoddy hardware, the Soviets sure did put out some amazing industrial design. This circa-1960 underwater enclosure, looking like a mix between a toy and a robot, housed 35mm cameras. [The Scuttlefish]

Tech News Sam Biddle

Why Twitter’s New Design Might Seem Familiar

When Twitter decided to revamp its homepage, the design was no fluke: Twitter Creative Director Doug Bowman made that perfectly clear with this Flickr upload. https://gizmodo.com/should-you-use-the-new-twitter-com-or-a-twitter-app-5644160 As you can see, Bowman and his team drew on Golden Ratio in the new Twitter, a concept as old as the ancient Greeks and popularized by the Fibonacci…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Angry Birds iPhone App Updated With Game Center Support, Retina Display Compatibility, And New Levels

Oh yes! The ridiculously addictive Angry Birds iPhone app just got an update that gives it Game Center support, Retina Display compatibility, and 15 new levels. There goes my evening! https://gizmodo.com/angry-birds-5484090 The update’s free if you have the app already, otherwise you can get it for a buck. [iTunes]

Tech News Rosa Golijan

We City Is a Farm Game Without All the Damn Farming

Farmville might be the de facto farming game on account of its popularity on Facebook, but both its browser and iPhone iterations are kinda ugly. Also, what if you hate farming, and love the click-and-wait style of gameplay? Play We City. The game’s made by ngmoco, the people who made We Rule and We Farm,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Ask Giz: Scratched Records, Ass Tattoos, and Cellphone Fetishes

An unfortunate electronics-based ass explosion. A confused lad with dirty vinyl. A relationship doomed by a ringtone. This week’s questions tortured us for minutes, but we recovered. And we came up with answers. First in our inbox: a foreign student in need. I am a messy student living in Belgium, and I love listening to…

Tech News Professor Gizmodo

Ryan Reynolds’ weirdest acting challenge, and the secret monster in his new film

Ryan Reynolds is quickly becoming superhero movies’ MVP, but he’s also willing to get out there and do some weird indy movies. Case in point: Buried, opening wide this weekend, in which Reynolds spends the whole film in a coffin. While Buried isn’t really science fiction, it definitely counts as heightened reality — especially when…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Commercial Radio Revolution Switched On 90 Years Ago Today

The Joseph Horne department store in Pittsburgh closed 16 years ago. I’d never heard of it—the place is dead and gone. But before flickering away, it convinced a country of millions to buy into the radio tech revolution. The only reason the Joseph Horne store might have ever entered your consciousness is as the location…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Astronomers have discovered a habitable planet 20 light years away

Orbiting a nearby red dwarf star called Gliese 581 are 6 planets. One of them is a rocky ball, bigger than Earth, in the “habitable zone” where water is liquid and temperatures are human-friendly. It’s possible we could live there. Unlike Earth, this planet called Gliese 581g, is “tidally locked” to its star. That means…

io9 Annalee Newitz

With season 2, Stargate Universe is finally unafraid to “go there”

Last season of Stargate Universe left us wanting. We wanted more risks, character growth, and Young. Thankfully, the second season opener seems to have raised the bar for SGU: it’s finally delivering (some) of the gritty space opera it promised. “Intervention” started right where SGU left off; Telford, Kiva, Chloe and TJ have all been…

Television Meredith Woerner

Scientific Progress’ Most Bizarre and Baffling Moments

Advancing technology is always cool—but it sure isn’t always pretty. LIFE brings us a gallery of scientific scenes that remind us that science isn’t always so scientific in appearance. From dangling cats to puffed cheeks, progress is wacky. The distraught looking gentleman above was part of a Navy experiment that subjected individuals to intense wind…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Ecosquid Is Like Expedia For Gadget Selling, Recycling

Services like Gazelle and ecoNew are great, because you can sell them your old, unwanted gadgets for a decent price, and they’ll be recycled, which is better than just throwing them in the trash. Ecosquid makes this process easy. Instead of manually entering in your info on multiple sites, Ecosquid acts like an Expedia or…

Gadgets Jason Chen

What Facebook and Skype Integration Would Mean For You

Facebook and Skype integration! That’s the rumor. But beyond the intermingling of two major tech companies, the important question is: how’s this going to affect you? https://gizmodo.com/rumor-facebook-coming-to-skype-soon-for-video-chattin-5650776 Video Chat With Facebook Friends From Skype Just to be clear: this wouldn’t mean that you’d be able to Skype video chat through Facebook. Not yet, anyway. Instead,…

Social Media Brian Barrett

Brain Scams: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences

In Cordelia Fine’s new book Delusions of Gender, she debunks the “neurosexist” myths of evolutionary psychology. In the process, she explores the neuroscience behind why male and female brains might be different – and why they might not. In this excerpt from her book, Fine introduces us to some pernicious myths about the essential differences…

io9 Cordelia Fine

Watch the Dazzling Process of How Ink Is Made

Jessica Alba’s CGI Nude Scene: Is This The Future Of Movie “Nudity”?

Find Out Who’s Pulling Private Data From Your Phone With TaintDroid

Google Phone Gallery Helps You Compare Android Devices

Bacon Kevin Bacon Statue

I’m Tired Of Being Lied To By Volume And Battery Indicators

The iPad 3G Might Get A Tethering Feature?

We Wish Above-Water Cameras Looked Like These Soviet Aquatic Rigs

Why Twitter’s New Design Might Seem Familiar

Angry Birds iPhone App Updated With Game Center Support, Retina Display Compatibility, And New Levels

We City Is a Farm Game Without All the Damn Farming

Ask Giz: Scratched Records, Ass Tattoos, and Cellphone Fetishes

Ryan Reynolds’ weirdest acting challenge, and the secret monster in his new film

The Commercial Radio Revolution Switched On 90 Years Ago Today

Astronomers have discovered a habitable planet 20 light years away

With season 2, Stargate Universe is finally unafraid to “go there”

Scientific Progress’ Most Bizarre and Baffling Moments

Ecosquid Is Like Expedia For Gadget Selling, Recycling

What Facebook and Skype Integration Would Mean For You

Brain Scams: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences

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