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Portraits In Posthumanity: Claudia Mitchell

In 2004, Claudia Mitchell lost her left arm in a motorcycle accident. Two years later, she became the first woman to have a bionic arm – a prosthetic limb that she controls with her mind. The robotic arm comes from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, and was developed for $3 million. Mitchell, who used to…

io9 Annalee Newitz

History As You’ve Never Seen It Before—In True Color

In 1909, wealthy French banker Albert Kahn set out to create “a photographic inventory of human life on Earth.” His teams took 72,000 autochrome photographs in over 50 countries, comprising the largest collection of early color photography in existence. Ovation, one of those TV stations in the 200s you might not realize you subscribe to,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Log Alarm Clock With No Time Wakes You With Woodpecker Noises

Woodpeckers must be one of the most irritating birds around, so goodness knows why anyone would want to wake up to the sound of a woodpecker doing its thing. Taptaptap. Tap-tap-tap. I feel angry and tired just thinking about it. It’s the clock which has no time—instead, telling you when to go to bed, and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Life In A Shipping Container Can Be Beautiful

As this cabin in Holyoke, Minnesota proves, post-apocalyptic shipping container life can be lovely. Built around two shipping containers on stilts, this cabin is totally off the grid – though the windows mean it’s not quite zombie-proof. According to Dornob: Paul Stankey (and family) not only bought his structural materials on the cheap, but also…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Clearwire Could Ditch WiMAX For LTE Before Even Giving It A Real Chance

WiMAX hasn’t even been deployed properly and Clearwire could ditch it for LTE standard. According to a Clearwire executive, a change in the terms of an agreement Clearwire has with Intel will allow “either party to exit the agreement – which had until now forced Clearwire to use WiMAX through Nov. 28, 2011 – with…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

What Is This?

A mock-up of a weapon from Bioshock 3? A radioactive steampunk fish tank? The glowing engine of a recovered Area 51 spaceship? The answer may shock you. Actually, it almost certainly will. What we have here is a mercury arc valve rectifier, a device that became prominent in the 1920s and 1930s for converting alternating…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Kick Ass 2 To Debut In CLiNT, Mark Millar’s Genteelly-Named Comic Mag

Remember how Mark Millar was looking for comic scribes and artists for an upcoming project? Well, Millar’s divulged its name – the comic magazine CLiNT – and Kick Ass 2 (starring the supervillain The Motherfucker) will debut in it. Charming. https://gizmodo.com/impress-kick-ass-mark-millar-and-win-a-new-job-5520915 What do we know about CLiNT, besides the fact that its title is sure…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Air Force Salutes Geek Warriors With Cyberspace Badge

The internet warriors of the US Air Force have finally been properly recognized: the USAF just introduced a Cyberspace Badge. It’s about about time the grunts on the front lines of network warfare got their wings. There are three levels of the badge: Basic, Senior, and Jedi Master. But how do you attain one of…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Hugo Gernsback Predicted A Tunnel From New York To France, Through The Earth’s Crust

Hugo Gernsback didn’t just pioneer the term “science fiction” — he insisted on a visionary philosophy, in which SF became the literature of predicting technological change. Ars Technica has a fascinating profile of the father of the genre. You may not have realized how much of a quintessential nerd Gernsback really was — he became…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

How to Fix the BP-Halliburton Louisiana Oil Disaster—Kind Of

Cleaning up the effect of the disastrous oil eruption in the Gulf Coast—thanks BP-Halliburton!—is a huge job. Here are some of the tech options available when it comes to cleaning up a gigantic mess like this: Booms and Skimmers – These guys suck up oil and water from the ocean surface. ‘Booming the area off…

Tech News Adam Frucci

May’s New Books: Football Zombies and Votes for Vampires!

May books bring zombie football players, migrations across deep space, and elegiac short stories. Plus, a Jazz-Age social worker campaigns for equal rights for vampires, and a young man travels through a post-scarcity Gulf Coast. Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)   Paolo Bacigalupi brings his reservations about Earth’s future to the young adult market with…

Books & Comics Kelly Faircloth

Roku’s New Netflix Channel Lets You Search and Queue From Your Couch

Roku’s offering a sneak peak of their upcoming Netflix channel redesign, which makes couch potato-browsing even more immersive. Better yet: users will be able to search the Netflix streaming collection and add items directly to their watch instantly queues. The update will be available to all Roku-ers in June via free, automatic software update. Try…

Television Kyle VanHemert

One Man In An Airplane Chronicles The Massive Oil Slick In The Gulf Of Mexico

This incredible video of the BP oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico was taken by a man who flew over it yesterday. It “seemed to stretch all the way across the horizon,” he says. via Facing South

io9 Annalee Newitz

Paranormal Activity Seems Slightly Less Terrifying With Mummies

Paranormal Activity was a scary movie, but we’re not really sure how a similar film that swaps demon problems for Mummy issues can be scary. Especially after the Stephen Sommers’s Mummy films, but The Mummy Archives is still getting made. Does anyone really find Mummies scary anymore? Dimension Films hopes so. According to the LA…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Stunning Trailer for German Apocalyptic Zombie Film “Rammbock”

Rammbock is a German zombie film that will be having its world premier at the Cannes film festival. It looks utterly incredible. German expressionism crossed with 28 Days Later. Here’s the plot? Just when Michael arrives in Berlin to visit his ex-girlfriend Gabi, a terrible virus starts spreading across the city at a rapid pace,…

Trailers Quiet Earth

The Next iPhone’s Latest Feature: 720p Video

With a few lines of code, it seems, at least one of the specs of the next iPhone is settled. According to video capture presets tucked away in the iPhone SDK, 720p recording is in the cards. https://gizmodo.com/the-tale-of-apples-next-iphone-5520471 The evidence is fairly clear: AVCaptureSessionPreset640x480 AVCaptureSessionPreset1280x720 These presets, buried in the iPhone SDK, don’t guarantee HD…

Tech News John Herrman

Twitter for Android Review: This Is the Future of Twitter Apps

The official Twitter for Android app isn’t simply the best overall Twitter experience on the platform—it’s a peek at the future of Twitter on every smartphone. https://gizmodo.com/official-twitter-for-android-app-now-available-5528454 From the second you open the app, it’s the most polished Twitter experience on Android, by about ten thousand light years. High quality graphics, a true sense of…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Read An Exclusive Excerpt From New Supernatural Novel, “The Unholy Cause”

Can’t get enough Supernatural in your life? Dreading the season ender? Then let us perk you up with this excerpt from a new Supernatural novel, The Unholy Cause by awesome horror author Joe Schreiber. Here’s a quick synopsis of the novel: Way back in April 1862, Confederate Captain Jubal Beauchamp leads a charge across a…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Adam Carolla Complains About Electric Cars

One of Adam Carolla’s masterfully crafted abilities is the skill to complain about everything. A prime example: electric cars. The man likes cars and the man likes electricity, so what’s the problem? He’ll TELL YOU. NSFW language should be implied, but here’s an explicit warning for those of you with more delicate sensibilities. Fans who…

Tech News Jason Chen

How A Cellphone Call Works (An Infographic That’s Actually Informative!)

Want to know why providing cell service is tricky? This great infographic from Cellphones.org helps you understand the basics of how your magic phone actually works. See the whole thing after the jump.

Tech News Joel Johnson

Portraits In Posthumanity: Claudia Mitchell

History As You’ve Never Seen It Before—In True Color

Log Alarm Clock With No Time Wakes You With Woodpecker Noises

Life In A Shipping Container Can Be Beautiful

Clearwire Could Ditch WiMAX For LTE Before Even Giving It A Real Chance

What Is This?

Kick Ass 2 To Debut In CLiNT, Mark Millar’s Genteelly-Named Comic Mag

Air Force Salutes Geek Warriors With Cyberspace Badge

Hugo Gernsback Predicted A Tunnel From New York To France, Through The Earth’s Crust

How to Fix the BP-Halliburton Louisiana Oil Disaster—Kind Of

May’s New Books: Football Zombies and Votes for Vampires!

Roku’s New Netflix Channel Lets You Search and Queue From Your Couch

One Man In An Airplane Chronicles The Massive Oil Slick In The Gulf Of Mexico

Paranormal Activity Seems Slightly Less Terrifying With Mummies

Stunning Trailer for German Apocalyptic Zombie Film “Rammbock”

The Next iPhone’s Latest Feature: 720p Video

Twitter for Android Review: This Is the Future of Twitter Apps

Read An Exclusive Excerpt From New Supernatural Novel, “The Unholy Cause”

Adam Carolla Complains About Electric Cars

How A Cellphone Call Works (An Infographic That’s Actually Informative!)

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