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XWave Headset Lets You Control iPhone Apps With Your BRAIN

You could argue that the iPhone’s biggest UI leap was turning the user’s finger into a stylus. Now, with the PLX XWave headest, you can turn your BRAIN into the stylus. Or your finger? My head hurts already. From what I can gather—and this is only from what I can gather—the PLX XWave is a…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Sep 7

Equinox Clock Looks Like a Colorful Dyson Air Multiplier

The Equinox Clock is an Arduino based creation that lets you tell time day or night with a rainbow-hued ring of LEDs illuminating your wall. Its hollow circular shape looks a lot like that bladeless fan, the Dyson Air Multiplier. https://gizmodo.com/room-sized-dyson-air-multiplier-am03-review-the-defini-5594892 The Equinox Clock uses an Ardunio Mini Pro hooked up to 12 black circuit…

Tech News Christina Bonnington Sep 7

There must be some way this horror movie could have more Southern stereotypes

The walls of the old Bryce Plantation ooze blood, in creepiest scene from 2004’s Evil Remains. This horror film about a slasher wearing the head of a dead dog mostly relies on ridiculous Southern gothic cliches. Allow us to demonstrate. So Evil Remains is mostly a pretty undistinguished entry in the “young people go out…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 7

Spoof Survivorman, Win Prizes

Can you out survive Les “Survivorman” Stroud? Fortunately you don’t need to! Stroud’s “Spooferman” contest site is giving away Leathermans, tents, GoPro cameras, and Sony editing software for the best five-minute “Fire Starting” spoof video. Be safe! [Spooferman]

Tech News Joel Johnson Sep 7

Volcano-hunting on other planets

We’ve become very adept at finding extrasolar planets, but we’re still working on the trickier task of figuring out what those planets’ atmospheres look like. Now astronomers have found a way to test whether an Earth-like exoplanet has active volcanoes. Currently, our atmospheric tests for exoplanets only work on Jupiter-sized gas giants, leaving the handful…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 7

Martin Freeman turned down the role of Bilbo Baggins?

We’re not sure whether to believe this rumor — because, honestly, who in their right mind would turn down The Hobbit? Martin Freeman would have been a particularly inspired casting decision as Bilbo Baggins, too. According to the U.K.’s The Sun, the very same paper that swore Eddie Murphy would be the new Riddler in…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 7

Courier App Easily Uploads Your Files To Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and More

If you’re frequently uploading videos and photos to Flickr, YouTUbe, Vimeo, Twitpic or Facebook, you know that it’s slightly annoying to have to log into each service, search your files and go through their uploader. Courier solves all this for you. It’s a desktop app that lets you make Envelopes that represent various services, so…

Social Media Jason Chen Sep 7

In “Zero History,” William Gibson gets inside the military-fashion PR complex

A dark caper whose players stretch from paramilitary contractors in the U.S. to secret label fashion designers who fetishize “slubby” jeans, Zero History is William Gibson’s hommage to the fashion industry. Especially its dangerous, geeky, corporate-espionage underpinnings. The third book in Gibson’s Bigend Trilogy, which includes Pattern Recognition and Spook Country, Zero History brings back…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 7

Imprisoned War Reporter Tweets Status From Captor’s Cellphone

Japanese reporter Kosuke Tsuneoka disappeared on April 1st of this year in Afghanistan, leaving no clues as to his whereabouts. Then, five months later, he tweeted that he was imprisoned but alive—by filching his captor’s cellphone. Tsuneoka was able to send the messages, above, when the grunt guarding his cell decided to show off—and as…

Tech News Brian Barrett Sep 7

R.I.P. Larry Ashmead, Isaac Asimov’s long-time editor

Former book editor Larry Ashmead died aged 78 on Friday. During his 43-year career in publishing, he edited more than 40 books by Isaac Asimov. According to AFP, he also rescued Simon Winchester’s account of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, The Professor and the Madman from the “garbage bin” after everyone else had…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Sep 7

Splitsider, For Those Who Like Comedy

Now everyone can finally see what Adam Frucci‘s been up to since he left us: Starting a comedy blog. It’s one of the few sites that I know of that is focused on the whole culture of comedy, rather than just focusing on the product of comedy—if you know what I mean. Being a guy…

Tech News Jason Chen Sep 7

The bottomless staircase that became a tourist attraction

What if there was a staircase that seemed to descend forever? It would become a tourist destination, and a place to commit suicide. But it would also be a place to lose yourself, as Peter M. Ball’s new story proves. The story, “L’esprit de L’escalier,” appears in the latest issue of Apex Magazine, which just…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 7

NASA: Two Asteriods (sic) Passing Near Earth, No Worries

NASA tweet, just now: “Asteriods (sic) passing Earth near moon tomorrow morning..no worries.” Well, I hope the guys who calculated the trajectory of the two asteroids passing “within the distance of the moon to Earth” didn’t make any typos. Here’s the official announcement from NASA: The Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, Ariz., discovered both objects…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Sep 7

The great atomic bomb cake controversy of 1946

In 1946, a mushroom cloud-shaped cake was served at a Washington D.C. military party celebrating the task force that oversaw atomic tests in the Pacific post-World War II. The photo of this garish pastry caused a bizarre international fracas. The blog Conelrad Adjacent details the cake controversy, which permeated the highest echelons of the US…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 7

The evil eye in space signifies a star’s death

It’s the final hours for the Hourglass Nebula, as the central star runs out of nuclear fuel and becomes a white dwarf. And wow, don’t those dying embers look like an unblinking gaze of evil? This new Hubble Space Telescope image shows the rings of flowing gases outlining the fading walls of the nebula’s “hourglass.”…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 7

Samsung Fascinate Lightning Review: When Greedy Carriers Ruin Decent Phones

Samsung’s Galaxy S phones, like the Fascinate on Verizon, represent everything that’s good—and bad—about Android. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-s-known-as-vibrant-captivate-and-fascin-5574325 A single phone, a platform really, spread across every major carrier is something of a feat. The Galaxy S manifests itself as the Captivate on AT&T, Vibrant on T-Mobile, Epic 4G on Sprint and finally here, the Fascinate on…

Reviews Matt Buchanan Sep 7

Squirrel Falls Victim to High-Tech Bird Feeder

Don’t want vermin stealing from your bird feeder? Then do what this family did, which is to motorize the bottom of it, should something heavier than a bird (e.g. a squirrel) infiltrate. Watch what happens to the unsuspecting critter inside. Update: Via an email from a reader, more information… the bird feeder is called the…

Biology Matt Cherette Sep 7

Sneak Peek of the Nikon Coolpix P7000

Apparently the folks at DPReview accidentally published their preview of the Nikon Coolpix P7000 a bit too early and the eagle-eyed staff of NikonRumors caught it along with the Google Cache. Verdict? Killer camera—despite the meek Coolpix name: It has been a while since Nikon seriously threatened the ‘luxury’ compact camera market, but the Coolpix…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Sep 7

If You Couldn’t Afford the ’80s Bigtrak, Download the Free iPhone App Instead

Sure to get men of A Certain Age all flustered, Bigtrak’s iPhone app has arrived in the same year that the toy relaunched, and while it’s not much more than a glorified calculator, it’s a free trip down memory lane. https://gizmodo.com/grey-haired-man-fondly-remembers-the-bigtrak-which-is-5457281 It’s not as fancy as Apple’s own calculator, but then does Apple’s calculator make…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Sep 7

Samsung Planning to Ship 10 Million Galaxy Tabs And Snag 1/3 of the Tablet Market

Samsung has stated that they expect to ship 10 million Galaxy Tabs, and snatch up 1/3 of the world’s tablet market share, by third quarter 2011. The Galaxy Tab is expected to become available in the US over the next few months, with pricing estimates at $200-300. [WSJ via Information Week via Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-galaxy-tab-runs-froyo-has-flash-and-measures-5627498

Gadgets Christina Bonnington Sep 7

XWave Headset Lets You Control iPhone Apps With Your BRAIN

Equinox Clock Looks Like a Colorful Dyson Air Multiplier

There must be some way this horror movie could have more Southern stereotypes

Spoof Survivorman, Win Prizes

Volcano-hunting on other planets

Martin Freeman turned down the role of Bilbo Baggins?

Courier App Easily Uploads Your Files To Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and More

In “Zero History,” William Gibson gets inside the military-fashion PR complex

Imprisoned War Reporter Tweets Status From Captor’s Cellphone

R.I.P. Larry Ashmead, Isaac Asimov’s long-time editor

Splitsider, For Those Who Like Comedy

The bottomless staircase that became a tourist attraction

NASA: Two Asteriods (sic) Passing Near Earth, No Worries

The great atomic bomb cake controversy of 1946

The evil eye in space signifies a star’s death

Samsung Fascinate Lightning Review: When Greedy Carriers Ruin Decent Phones

Squirrel Falls Victim to High-Tech Bird Feeder

Sneak Peek of the Nikon Coolpix P7000

If You Couldn’t Afford the ’80s Bigtrak, Download the Free iPhone App Instead

Samsung Planning to Ship 10 Million Galaxy Tabs And Snag 1/3 of the Tablet Market

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