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Lenovo Just Made The X1 Carbon Even Cooler

The first Carbon X1 did the impossible by making business laptops cool. Now, the newest version of the 14-inch ThinkPad is even cooler, thanks to some minor improvements and the addition of an adaptive keyboard. We got a peek at the new Carbon X1 first-hand, and the handy adaptive keyboard is probably the most notable…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jan 5 '14

Samsung’s Got a Nanny Cam That’ll Survive Outside Your House

When you’re talking about nanny cams—AKA internet connected monitoring cameras—Dropcam is by far the leader. If people have one consistent complaint it’s that the company doesn’t make a camera designed to withstand the elements while it watches over your home outdoors. Samsung to the rescue. Meet the new Samsung SmartCam HD Outdoor surveillance camera ($229)…

Gadgets Mario Aguilar Jan 5 '14

This Connected Bluetooth Toothbrush Will Nag You More Than a Dentist

We all know we should be brushing more diligently several times a day, but without our dentists regularly shaming us into better oral hygiene, that rarely happens. So a Paris-based company called Kolibree has created what it claims to be the world’s first app-connected toothbrush that will encourage better brushing habits between dentist visits. The…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 5 '14

LaCie’s Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2 Is as Fast as External Drives Get

Intel officially unveiled the details of its Thunderbolt 2 specification back in April, and while we’ve already seen the release of hardware like motherboards that support the Thunderbolt successor, LaCie’s new Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2 is one of the first external drives that will officially support the blazing new connection. Intel claimed that Thunderbolt…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jan 5 '14

LaCie’s Fuel Tank Is Filled With 1TB of Wireless Storage, Not Gasoline

Even if you’ve splurged on the most capacious smartphone or tablet you can find, at one point you’re still going to run out of storage space. And in lieu of constantly swapping tiny memory cards, LaCie’s new Fuel offers a full terabyte of storage that’s available to your mobile devices via a direct wireless connection.…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jan 5 '14

Withings Aura: An Alarm Clock That Helps You Wake Up and Fall Asleep

Designing an electronic device to wake someone up is easy—it just needs a clock and suitably loud speaker. But designing a device that wakes someone up gently so they’re not a tyrant in the morning, and helps them get to sleep at night? That’s a challenge that Withings tackled with its new Aura bedside system…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jan 5 '14

How to Traverse an Urban Snowscape

Winter storms continued to slam the Northeast today. Meanwhile, a record setting “polar vortex” embarked on its frigid march through the Midwestern United States.This photo, taken by AP photographer John Michillo on Friday, shows one enterprising New Yorker making the best of the year’s first major snowpocalypse. (A note to those Midwesterners facing subzero temperatures…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 5 '14

A Pill That Lets Adults Learn Perfect Pitch as Easily as Kids

Perfect pitch is the ability to accurately name any musical note you hear. It’s a talent possessed by just one in 10,000 people, and it can only be learned during a critical period before age 7. Now, scientists have discovered that a common psychiatric medication can restart that learning ability in adults, even if they’ve…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Jan 5 '14

The first Lego Simpsons set is simply awesome

Behold the very firstof Lego Simpsons sets!, as leaked by Eurobricks user Carlos S claims. There are no details about it beyond what we can see on this photo of the box: 2523 pieces, six minifigs including the full Family plus Flanders. It looks fantastically detailed and—apparently—it even opens showing its interior, like some of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 5 '14

The short film “Symmetry” is an audio/visual palindrome

This is “Symmetry,” a clever seven-minute short by filmmaker Yann Pineill. As its title suggests, the first and second halves of the film are mirror images of one another – a creative decision that must have required considerable planning to be pulled off as seamlessly as it is here. To be clear, the second half…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 5 '14

Etón’s FRX5 S Has Everything You Need In an Emergency Except Insurance

Your local law enforcement and rescue agencies should be the first people you turn to for help in an emergency situation. But coming in at a close second is Etón Corporation’s new FRX5 S weather alert radio which has everything you need to stay informed, stay powered, and even stay entertained when you lose power…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jan 5 '14

Wow, Siri Does Not Like Being Asked About Spike Jonze’s Her

Is Her a beautifully rendered near-future vision of what life will be like when we start falling in love with artificial intelligence? Not if you ask Siri. She doesn’t like Her one bit, and she’ll let you know that in no uncertain terms. Unlike Siri’s biting but witty thoughts on Google Glass, her take on…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Jan 5 '14

Debunking this week’s hottest pot myths point-by-point

Earlier this week, heavyweight columnists David Brooks and Ruth Marcus weighed in on the debate over the recent legalization of marijuana in Colorado. Armed with reason and findings from several studies, Time’s Maia Szalavitz has served up a refreshing piece of debunkery that tackles their misinformed contentions head-on. Photo Credit: AP Writes Szalavitz, on the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 5 '14

First Kite trailer and clips are full of sexy exploding heads

Seems like you’re going to be watching a lot of movies about lethal young girls, featuring Samuel L. Jackson in supporting roles. Yesterday we glimpsed Barely Lethal, about a teen assassin trained by Jackson. Today, here’s a huge look at the anime adaptation Kite, about an abused girl who becomes a super-killer. With Jackson! This…

Anime Charlie Jane Anders Jan 5 '14

Motorized Bike Hides 21st-Century Tech With Turn-of-the-Century Style

Local Motors, the madcap group behind the crowd-designed Rally Fighter off-road racer, wants to make motorized bicycles look cool. Specifically, 1900s board track motorcycle cool. I’d say they managed to do just that. Local Motors’ Cruiser started out as a design challenge, with Ianis Vasilatos of Romania creating the winning style. The electric version offers…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Jan 5 '14

Moneual’s Hybrid Mopping Robot Vacuum Remembers Every Spot It’s Missed

Following hot on the heels of the Rydis H67 released just a few months ago, Moneual has revealed an updated version of its Roomba challenger with the Rydis H68 that introduces a capacious built-in reservoir—the largest on the market it claims—for holding cleaning agents, and a new system for more efficiently cleaning a room. Using…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jan 5 '14

National Geographic Bets on Science in Las Vegas

I recently spent two days on location in Las Vegas with certified mad men of science Jason Silva and Tim Shaw of the National Geographic Channel’s Brain Games and None of the Above. We were somewhere off US95, on the edge of the desert, when the cognitive illusions began to take hold. Day One: Brain…

io9 Jason Shankel Jan 5 '14

Square Card-Swiping iPhone Case Puts a Cash Register in Your Pocket

Square, the pay-by-smartphone credit card swiper, just announced Works With Square, a program encouraging partners to build accessories to go with the payment ecosystem. First to launch is Griffin’s Merchant Case + Square Reader, an iPhone case that incorporates the Square reader in both swiping and storage positions. The Griffin case is pretty ingenious, stabilizing…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Jan 5 '14

An experiment showed that hospital staff were ready to kill patients

The Milgram Experiment is infamous for showing that people, in a situation they didn’t fully understand, would shock another person to death if ordered to do so. But what if people did understand what they were doing? As it turns out, that could actually make things even worse. In 1966, the phone rang at Hofling…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jan 5 '14

You’ll Happily Swap Your Old Bulbs For This Interactive Party Ball

If you’re outraged that the government would dare tell you what kind of lightbulbs you should be able to buy, ION Audio’s new Party Ball should help quell your rage. It’s designed to screw into a standard ceiling mounted light socket, but instead of just providing a warm glow to illuminate a room, it puts…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jan 5 '14

Lenovo Just Made The X1 Carbon Even Cooler

Samsung’s Got a Nanny Cam That’ll Survive Outside Your House

This Connected Bluetooth Toothbrush Will Nag You More Than a Dentist

LaCie’s Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2 Is as Fast as External Drives Get

LaCie’s Fuel Tank Is Filled With 1TB of Wireless Storage, Not Gasoline

Withings Aura: An Alarm Clock That Helps You Wake Up and Fall Asleep

How to Traverse an Urban Snowscape

A Pill That Lets Adults Learn Perfect Pitch as Easily as Kids

The first Lego Simpsons set is simply awesome

The short film “Symmetry” is an audio/visual palindrome

Etón’s FRX5 S Has Everything You Need In an Emergency Except Insurance

Wow, Siri Does Not Like Being Asked About Spike Jonze’s Her

Debunking this week’s hottest pot myths point-by-point

First Kite trailer and clips are full of sexy exploding heads

Motorized Bike Hides 21st-Century Tech With Turn-of-the-Century Style

Moneual’s Hybrid Mopping Robot Vacuum Remembers Every Spot It’s Missed

National Geographic Bets on Science in Las Vegas

Square Card-Swiping iPhone Case Puts a Cash Register in Your Pocket

An experiment showed that hospital staff were ready to kill patients

You’ll Happily Swap Your Old Bulbs For This Interactive Party Ball

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