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Google May Bring Multiple Accounts To Your Smartphone With Android L

Having multiple accounts on desktops and tablets seems like common sense. After all, we don’t need nosey roommates or tablet-savvy children who sometimes act like nosey roommates interfering with our sacred apps and digital configurations. With Android L, it looks like Google is extending the same logic to smartphones. In an official developer forum, one…

Tech News Darren Orf

A Side Table For Charging Gadgets That Plugs Right Into the Wall

The wireless utopia we’ve all been patiently waiting for (while tripping over cords) is still nowhere to be seen, but it’s not for lack of trying. Designer Youmin Vincent Kim has come up with a wonderful interim solution with the Soak desk that leans up against, and plugs directly into, a wall—allowing it to serve…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Otherworldly Winners From National Geographic‘s Traveler Photo Contest

The winners of the 2014 National Geographic Traveler’s Photo Competition have been announced. This year’s prizewinning images are, as always, superb. Above: “The Independence Day,” photographed by Marko Korošec, who captured the image while approaching the storm near Julesburg, Colorado on May 28th, 2013. In 2014, the competition received more than 18,000 entries from around…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

A Genuinely Smart Watch That Puts a Hands-Free Flashlight On Your Wrist

Nearly every non-mechanical watch comes with a light of some sort letting you read the time in the dark, but SureFire’s 2211 Luminox WristLight is the first to come with a built-in light that can illuminate an entire room in the middle of the night. Specifically designed for law enforcement, the military, and emergency response…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

MIT Invented Magnetic Hairs That Can Make Water Flow Uphill

Inspired by the coats of fur on some animals, researchers at MIT have developed a flexible skin-like material covered in thousands of tiny magnetic hairs that can move in varying directions in the presence of a magnetic field. That might not seem particularly useful, until MIT points out that the new material can be used…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Ancient Worms May Have Saved Life on Earth 530 Million Years Ago

About 2.5 billion years ago, microbes began making a poison that would cause one of the largest mass extinctions on Earth. The few organisms that could handle this poison flourished, going on to become our ancestors. The poison? It was oxygen. It’s a wonder that oxygen levels didn’t keep rising until Earth became uninhabitable, though,…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Who Owns Copyright On A Selfie Taken By A Monkey?

If you think that it should go to the photographer who created the conditions such that the monkey was in a position to release that shutter, then you’d be in disagreement with Wikimedia. Here’s the photo in question, on the left. It’s a female crested macaque in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. She picked up David Slater’s…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

Will Bee Disappearances Lead To A Honey Shortage?

As our bee populations dwindle, could we also be facing down the prospect of a honey shortage? Entomologist May Berenbaum joined us today to take our questions about bee behavior and disappearances, including a question about what we might expect to happen to our stores of honey as bee populations continue to falter: The short…

io9 Ria Misra

Watch the Evolution of Amazon’s Kindle Hardware In a Single GIF

The Amazon Fire Phone is kind of whack, but being ugly is not one of its problems. Amazon’s hardware design has improved over the years, and the GadgetLove team created this GIF to illustrate how its products have evolved since that first clunky, oddly designed Kindle. Not every iteration is included (no Paperwhite, for example)…

Commerce Kate Knibbs

Full Fathom Five Confirms Max Gladstone As An Author To Watch

Full Fathom Five, the third entry in Max Gladstone’s Craft sequence is a modern fantasy thriller that has some interesting things to say about the world around us, and it’s one of the best fantasy novels of the summer. Spoilers below… Gladstone’s new novel isn’t a sequel to the first two books in his Craft…

io9 Andrew Liptak

The Weirdest Products Apple Tried To Sell In the 1980s

In 1986, Apple tried to turn itself into a beacon for the fashion world. Banking on the popularity of the Mac, the company launched an extensive catalog of clothing and accessories known as the Apple Collection. And it couldn’t have been more 80s. A lot of the photos from the catalog are well known—the baseball…

Tech News Angel Jimenez de Luis

Marvel Wins, As DC/WB Moves Batman V. Superman‘s Release Date

I knew it. I knew DC/WB didn’t have the guts to keep Batman V. Superman’s premiere on May 6th, 2016, the same date as Captain America 3. Warner Bros. has moved BvS to March 25th, 2016, so the two superhero movies won’t cannibalize each other’s box office, and oh, by the way now DC/WB has…

io9 Rob Bricken

Lemmings don’t commit mass suicide, Disney pushed them off a cliff

Lemmings have gotten a bum rap as being panicky rodents prone to throwing themselves from cliffs during their annual migration. But it turns out that the “documentary” that first promulgated this lie was more snuff fantasy than scientific fact. You don’t normally expect that from a Disney production. The year was 1958. The film was…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Twitter’s Latest Test Suggests That Tweet-Based Shopping Is Coming Soon

A group of Twitter users have spotted a “payment and shipping” option within their Android apps. As The Next Web pointed out, this is just one in a series of tests that suggest Jack Dorsey might be able to buy his latest monochromatic designer suit from within the platform he helped build. The option can’t…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Charles Yu’s Insanely Helpful Advice On “Getting Stuck” While Writing

What do you do when you’re in the middle of working on your writing, and you get stuck? And then you start beating yourself up, which only makes it worse. This happens to everybody — but Sorry Please Thank You author Charles Yu has some terrific advice on how to cope. Talking to Suvudu at…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Boston’s First Police Cars Were Steam-Powered

It’s easy to forget that a century ago, gasoline-powered cars didn’t completely dominate the automobile market. In 1900, roughly 40 percent of all cars sold in the U.S. were steam-powered. And in fact, when the Boston police bought one of the country’s first cop cars in 1903 it was running on steam. The Boston PD’s…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Weirdest Micronations That Have Ever Existed

Living in a regular country, with a normal government, can get annoying sometimes. Taxes, laws, political disputes… it’s all kind of a bummer. So why not go live in a tiny country of your own? Some people have done it — and here are the most creative and strangest tiny nations on Earth, past and…

io9 Vincze Miklós

See a College-Aged Stephen Hawking in First Theory of Everything Trailer

It is a great year for nerd icons in Hollywood. We’ve already had a look at Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, and now, we’re finally getting a peek at Stephen Hawking, co-ed, in the first full-length trailer for The Theory of Everything. From what we can see so far, the movie is going to attempt…

Movies Ashley Feinberg

Disney Is Really Building A Star Wars Theme Park

Disney has finally woken up to the massive demand for Star Wars experiences, and is massively expanding the Star Wars presence in their theme park universe. It’s going to be exponentially bigger than just one measly Star Tours ride. According to Entertainment WeeklyDisney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger revealed to investors that “[Disney’s] also developing…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Did Astronauts Returning From the Moon Really Pass Through Customs?

I love the Customs forms signed by the Apollo 11 astronauts on their return trip from the moon, but are they real? Yes, but not really. The form is a real form, but it wasn’t filled out by the Apollo 11 astronauts when they transited Hawaii. Instead, it’s more likely that the form was created…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Google May Bring Multiple Accounts To Your Smartphone With Android L

A Side Table For Charging Gadgets That Plugs Right Into the Wall

Otherworldly Winners From National Geographic‘s Traveler Photo Contest

A Genuinely Smart Watch That Puts a Hands-Free Flashlight On Your Wrist

MIT Invented Magnetic Hairs That Can Make Water Flow Uphill

Ancient Worms May Have Saved Life on Earth 530 Million Years Ago

Who Owns Copyright On A Selfie Taken By A Monkey?

Will Bee Disappearances Lead To A Honey Shortage?

Watch the Evolution of Amazon’s Kindle Hardware In a Single GIF

Full Fathom Five Confirms Max Gladstone As An Author To Watch

The Weirdest Products Apple Tried To Sell In the 1980s

Marvel Wins, As DC/WB Moves Batman V. Superman‘s Release Date

Lemmings don’t commit mass suicide, Disney pushed them off a cliff

Twitter’s Latest Test Suggests That Tweet-Based Shopping Is Coming Soon

Charles Yu’s Insanely Helpful Advice On “Getting Stuck” While Writing

Boston’s First Police Cars Were Steam-Powered

The Weirdest Micronations That Have Ever Existed

See a College-Aged Stephen Hawking in First Theory of Everything Trailer

Disney Is Really Building A Star Wars Theme Park

Did Astronauts Returning From the Moon Really Pass Through Customs?

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