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Dealzmodo: $8 Plant Watering Meter

Here’s an electronic plant monitor that measures pH, light and moisture for $7.50. [American Science Surplus: Plant Monitor]

Gadgets Sean Fallon

How to Find Your Way Home by the Light of a Pulsar

How do you navigate when you’re floating out in deep space? By pulsar, that’s how. In outer space (and even in Earth orbit) GPS doesn’t do you a whole lot of good, so space scientists at the PLANS navigation conference in Monterey, CA this week have put together a couple of papers designed to show…

io9 Michael Reilly

First Person R/C Plane, Almost as Good as Actually Flying

The Pilot View FPV 2400 is a (wireless) camera system that can strap on any R/C plane and stream images to the pilot, who wears video goggles below. Range is about 1 kilometer over the 2.4Ghz spectrum, and the video quality from such systems really isn’t so bad (hit the jump for an example clip).…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

What Would Make Speed Racer Better Than The Matrix?

I saw Speed Racer last night, and though I can’t tell you much about it yet (full review on Thursday!), I can say this: It might actually be better than director/producer pair the Wachowskis previous effort, The Matrix. I know them’s fightin’ words, but you gotta trust me on this one. Or, better, take our…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Charger Powers Up Gadgets, Illuminates Dark Areas and Really Works Your Calves

We have seen crank powered chargers before, and even one that involves pedaling, but this bizarre contraption really has it all. With a little pedal power you can juice up a wide range of gadgets—and even use the built-in LED on the battery as a flashlight. But what about the health benefits? https://gizmodo.com/hand-crank-cellphone-charger-247481 Sure, it…

Health Sean Fallon

Brace Yourself For Cancer-Horror And The Lost Cyberpunk Novel

Cyberpunk guru John Shirley could be spawning three movies soon: the Weinstein Company is doing a movie of his novel Demons, in which corporations deliberately cause cancer as part of a program of human sacrifice, with Jim Sonzero (Pulse) attached to direct. “Wish I wrote the script, but some “A” scripter got the job,” Shirley…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

TuneWiki Music App Gets Ported to Android

The fantastic TuneWiki app, which was previously seen on iPhone/iPod Touch, just got a port to the not-yet-released Android. The idea is the same: play back songs and it’ll automatically download lyrics and album art if you don’t already have it. The lyrics will also auto-sync to the song (most of the time), and if…

Tech News Jason Chen

X-Men Get A Warning From A Ruined Future

Check out some quality Wolverine zingers in this new trailer for Wolverine and the X-Men. The animated series takes place after Professor Xavier has been attacked by an unknown enemy and left in a coma-like state. His psyche comes back, in giant floating head form, warning the mutants that their future is bleak unless they…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Phone Charger Doubles as Data Backup Unit, Triples as an SD Card Reader

There are other methods of backing up your cellphone contacts, but integrating that capability into a cellphone charger makes a lot of sense from a convenience standpoint. Plus, throwing in the ability read your SD/MMC cards doesn’t hurt either. It can even act as a portable battery backup in a pinch. The cleverly titled “Data-backup…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Seriously, Where’s the Zune Support for Mac?

While at the Zune Media Event in Redmond on Monday, the media had some downtime between presentations, and naturally the conversation moved to Microsoft vs. Apple. The mix of bloggers, reporters and Microsoft advertorial/internal bloggers provided an interesting, if predictable dialogue. Then the convo turned to iPod vs. Zune, and the question of Zune’s lack…

Tech News Adrian Covert

SF Writers Use Islam To Explore The Familiar Alien

The Islam And Science Fiction website is addictive reading, mostly because it shows how many different ways non-Muslim writers have portrayed Islam in SF works. I already knew that Dune borrows tons of ideas from Islam, but I’d forgotten that Philip K. Dick’s Eye In The Sky used a fundamentalist Islamic world to reflect paranoia…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

How to Check if Your ISP is Throttling Your BitTorrent Traffic

Our ISP is currently Comcast, which is probably definitely throttling torrent traffic in this area, but how can we know for sure? Here’s how. There’s now a website that runs a little test, determining whether your ISP is throttling all traffic, all traffic on well-known BT ports, only BT traffic on well-known BT ports, or…

Tech News Jason Chen

Not Quite a Jetpack, But the Rotorcycle Is Still Pretty Cool (1960)

The one-person helicopter doesn’t have quite the cachet of the jetpack, but it has its own futuristic appeal. There’s its appearance in the dystopian future of Road Warrior, of course. And more than one mid-20th-century imagining of the future included personal helicopters or gyrocopters as part of the skyscape. Apparently, the military was thinking along…

io9 Lynn Peril

Watch Out for Aliens on the London Underground

No really — this fan likes to ride the tube in full alien costume. Check out this vid from the BBC — I love his matter-of-fact description of how he “can’t go to toilet” in his costume. [BBC]

io9 Annalee Newitz

Robot Mouth, Because Chewing Is for Luddites

In the face of a global food crisis, it’s good to know that we have newly-developed robotic mouths around. Composed of teeth-like protrusions, variable speed motors, artificial saliva and a helium flow to quarantine-released compounds, this artificial mouth can masticate with the best of ’em. Used to test the chemicals released by chewing (apples, in…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Wet X-Light Surround Basin: The World’s First “Musical” Washbasin

At this point we have seen iPod docks fitted to just about everything under the sun, so it should come as no surprise that a company decided to develop a sink capable of playing tunes from your MP3 player. Fortunately for designer Jan Puylaert and the guys at WET, their X-Light Surround Basin should be…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Nazi Moonbase Launches Stealth Attack

The long-awaited teaser trailer for Iron Sky, the science fiction comedy from the Finnish makers of Star Trek parody Star Wreck, is finally out. And unlike Wreck, which always seemed a bit pointless, Sky looks like it could be really twisted and awesome. For one thing, the script is by Johanna Sinisalo, author of the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

What Would You Like Giz to Explain?

Every week, Giz Explains breaks down sticky, chewy tech into easy-to-swallow bits, like a mama bird eating stuff and puking it back into her babies’ mouths, already digested. We’ve covered stuff like scary plasma TVs and the image sensors in your digital camera. But what would you like us to explain? If there’s something you’d…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More

When you ingest a stomach hormone called ghrelin it causes your brain to respond to food the way junkies respond to drugs. You are filled with an intense desire for it, and eating it becomes far more memorable. Researchers at Montreal’s McGill University studied people’s reactions to food after they had ingested ghrelin, and discovered…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Samsung U940 Glyde Accessories Show Up on Verizon’s Site

If all of the past stuff indicating the Samsung Glyde (u940) was on its way to Verizon wasn’t enough for you, doubting Thomas, these accessories for it on Verizon’s public site should pretty much clinch the deal. [VZW, Thanks Josh!] https://gizmodo.com/samsung-glyde-aka-u940-nee-f700-pops-up-in-verizons-d-385396

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Dealzmodo: $8 Plant Watering Meter

How to Find Your Way Home by the Light of a Pulsar

First Person R/C Plane, Almost as Good as Actually Flying

What Would Make Speed Racer Better Than The Matrix?

Charger Powers Up Gadgets, Illuminates Dark Areas and Really Works Your Calves

Brace Yourself For Cancer-Horror And The Lost Cyberpunk Novel

TuneWiki Music App Gets Ported to Android

X-Men Get A Warning From A Ruined Future

Phone Charger Doubles as Data Backup Unit, Triples as an SD Card Reader

Seriously, Where’s the Zune Support for Mac?

SF Writers Use Islam To Explore The Familiar Alien

How to Check if Your ISP is Throttling Your BitTorrent Traffic

Not Quite a Jetpack, But the Rotorcycle Is Still Pretty Cool (1960)

Watch Out for Aliens on the London Underground

Robot Mouth, Because Chewing Is for Luddites

Wet X-Light Surround Basin: The World’s First “Musical” Washbasin

Nazi Moonbase Launches Stealth Attack

What Would You Like Giz to Explain?

Fast Food Joints Add Hormone to Food That Makes You Want to Eat More

Samsung U940 Glyde Accessories Show Up on Verizon’s Site

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