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The Battle of the Cheetos Carries On

As the Battle of the Cheetos moves into its sixth week, there is no end in site. Every day, more armies are created, more battles are waged. With every passing moment, new battalions take command of websites while others are overthrown. Will you be victorious, or just another name in the long line of the…

Tech News Gawkercreative

Nanomesh breakthrough brings us one step closer to a cloaking device

“Invisibility cloaks” have been in development for years, but keep hitting a major roadblock — the materials used absorb too much light. New research may have found the trick to get around that, and get us our cloaking devices. https://gizmodo.com/invisiblity-cloaks-jump-into-the-third-dimension-5498606 The premise of cloaking devices hinge on metamaterials — materials which are engineered to have…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Google and Verizon’s Worrisome Proposal For Net Neutrality

Last week, reports swirled that Verizon and Google had struck a deal to effectively end net neutrality. Today the companies offered their somewhat troubling suggestions for net neutrality policy, all the while pledging their commitment to the “open internet.” https://gizmodo.com/nyt-google-just-killed-net-neutrality-updating-googl-5605310 On a call this afternoon, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg made…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Netflix App Coming to Android Soon?

Netflix hasn’t officially confirmed that there’s an Android app in the works, but it is hiring an “Android Video Playback Expert.” Sounds like a pretty good hint that Android users will get a treat soon. [Ars Technica via GeekSugar]

Tech News Rosa Golijan

425 million year old blob creature recreated for the first time ever with 3D imaging

Drakozoon was a blob-like creature that lived in the oceans during the Silurian Period, some 425 million years ago. It was known from only a single fossil – until researchers sliced and diced their specimen to create this 3D model. Drakozoon was a tiny, simple organism, only about 3 millimeters long. Shaped like a cone,…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Gigantic Homemade Marble Track Sculpture Shouldn’t Be So Entertaining

What is it about watching marbles roll down elaborate tracks that’s so entertaining? Are we so simple? Apparently yes! Just look at this huge contraption made out of over 4,000 popsicle sticks! Featuring about 66 various tracks, 120 entrances and 11 exits, Life is a sculpture that uses gravity to get a bunch of marbles…

Tech News Adam Frucci

AT&T U-Verse App: Download Prime Time TV To Your Smartphone

We’d gotten a peak at AT&T’s U-Verse Mobile app earlier this year, but it’s now officially available for iPhone and BlackBerry Torch owners. You can set your DVR, sure, but you can also download shows to watch on your device. https://gizmodo.com/at-t-u-verse-mobile-first-video-watch-your-favorite-sh-5501314 At launch, select content will be available from from ten networks, including ABC, ESPN,…

Tech News Brian Barrett

12 theories about “Lost” that were better than the actual show

A big part of being a fan of Lost was concocting your own theories, and nobody’s guesses were more elaborate than those of Entertainment Weekly’s Jeff “Doc” Jensen. Here are 12 Jensen theories that were cooler than the real answers. Honestly, if Lost’s ending was a letdown, you shouldn’t blame showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

How To: Watch Xvid Videos Natively On Your iPad

The iPad’s potential as a personal video device is handicapped pretty severely by the limited file formats it supports. CineXPlayer, the latest app to sneak past the App Store approval squad, helpfully plays Xvid videos with zero conversion required. Just like last week’s ill-fated MiTube, CineXPlayer’s stay in the App Store will likely be a…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

White iPhone 4 Sneaks Out of Factory In Black iPhone 4 Box

How do you get your hands on a white iPhone 4? Well, you could always wait until “later this year.” Or, you know, smuggle it to Hong Kong in a black iPhone 4 box. Like this one here allegedly was. https://gizmodo.com/white-iphone-4-delayed-again-5594543 The above appears to be a 32GB white iPhone 4, with a white headphone…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Computer Predicts Prisoners’ Chances of Murdering Again

A university professor has invented a computer program with crystal ball powers, only its channel is tuned purely to predicting the probability of murders—specifically, if inmates at a Pennsylvanian prison will ever kill again. Richard Berk, the University of Pennsylvania professor, has successfully placed it in the probation departments of Philadelphia and Baltimore police departments,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Meta Cookie can taste like any cookie you want – as long as you’re willing to wear the headgear

Augmented reality, in which computer-generated virtual imagery is used to alter a person’s perception, has been used to help people overcome phobias and help people drive better. And now, for some (awesome) reason, there’s this… an augmented reality cookie. Meta Cookie is the creation of researchers at the University of Tokyo. Thanks to that huge…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

H.P. Lovecraft’s Nyarlathotep is getting an über-cute anime series?!?

Nyarlathotep a.k.a. “the Crawling Chaos” a.k.a. the shapeshifting horror of Lovecraftian lore is assuming his weirdest form yet. He’ll be starring in the Japanese anime show Haiyore! Nyaruko-San as a super-cute girl who helps a high-schooler fight aliens. Hail Kawaiithu? Nyarlathotep, who’s generally portrayed as an insanity-inducing, thousand-faced Outer God, will be getting the Sailor…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

Is Apple Working on Liquid Metal Terminators or What?

Apple just bought the rights to all the patents from a company called Liquidmetal Technologies. Looking at their video demonstration, I don’t know what the hell they are going to do with it, but it must be something wickedly mindblowing: Basically, this is a better metal with the best qualities of plastic. It’s also kind…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Pillow Vending Machine Fills, Sews and Plumps the Ideal Head-Support

Imagine a machine that creates your ideal pillow. I’m not just talking plumpness, I mean everything right down to the embroidery message your cheeks would prefer nestling on. The Dream Machine was exhibited in the city that never sleeps—Las Vegas, at a furniture expo. Users of the machine just have to punch in their favorite…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Etsy’s new “Space Station Conference Room,” decorated using Etsy’s own crafts

Proof that Etsy’s crafty users can do anything they set their minds to: The company’s New York headquarters got a makeover for its conference room, turning it into a room on a space station. And check out Etsy’s supervillain lair! The Space Station Conference Room is the work of Jen (aka Zooguu) and Brian of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Seeing the City Through a 170 Foot Glass Rainbow

The newest artwork in Denmark’s ARoS museum wouldn’t make much sense anywhere but the roof: Your Rainbow Panorama stretches 170 feet across, offering visitors a 360 degree view of the surrounding city in dazzling technicolor. Your Rainbow Panorama, a work by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, is slated for completion this Fall, treating museum visitors to…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Blockbuster and Comcast Hoping to Tag-Team Netflix with DVDsByMail Service

Blockbuster, increasingly depressing rental purveyor, has joined with Comcast for aid in the losing battle against Netflix. Their new service is called DVDs By Mail, though there’s not much new about it—essentially a discounted Blockbuster Online subscription for Comcast customers. https://gizmodo.com/maybe-this-is-why-blockbuster-is-dying-5558257 The site’s chief (and perhaps only) perk is discounted pricing for existing Comcast subscribers…

Movies Sam Biddle

Who wants to be a horror “scream queen?” Plus The IT Crowd returns!

Summer TV is awesome! Just check out our listing, including a new series about aspiring horror actresses, Stan Lee’s new mutantsploitation show, and tons of cartoons. Plus nerd-comedy gem The IT Crowd, along with new Futurama, Eureka and Warehouse 13. Monday: Today’s pick of the day must be tonight’s new episode of Scream Queens on…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The hanging gardens of the future, 1000 feet in the sky

This isn’t the legendary atmospheric jellyfish. No, this is a concept sketch of the “Migrating Floating Gardens” by Rael San Fratello Architects. These photovoltaic flying gardens hover over cities and aggregate in areas in need of greening. These sky-gardens are designed to occupy “non-Cartesian space” and would navigate using GPS and GIS sensors. According to…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The Battle of the Cheetos Carries On

Nanomesh breakthrough brings us one step closer to a cloaking device

Google and Verizon’s Worrisome Proposal For Net Neutrality

Netflix App Coming to Android Soon?

425 million year old blob creature recreated for the first time ever with 3D imaging

Gigantic Homemade Marble Track Sculpture Shouldn’t Be So Entertaining

AT&T U-Verse App: Download Prime Time TV To Your Smartphone

12 theories about “Lost” that were better than the actual show

How To: Watch Xvid Videos Natively On Your iPad

White iPhone 4 Sneaks Out of Factory In Black iPhone 4 Box

Computer Predicts Prisoners’ Chances of Murdering Again

Meta Cookie can taste like any cookie you want – as long as you’re willing to wear the headgear

H.P. Lovecraft’s Nyarlathotep is getting an über-cute anime series?!?

Is Apple Working on Liquid Metal Terminators or What?

Pillow Vending Machine Fills, Sews and Plumps the Ideal Head-Support

Etsy’s new “Space Station Conference Room,” decorated using Etsy’s own crafts

Seeing the City Through a 170 Foot Glass Rainbow

Blockbuster and Comcast Hoping to Tag-Team Netflix with DVDsByMail Service

Who wants to be a horror “scream queen?” Plus The IT Crowd returns!

The hanging gardens of the future, 1000 feet in the sky

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