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What the Strange Slot in Your Old Car’s Dashboard Is Really For

Someone was did an amazing job of predicting the future when they put that strange slot in the center of your dash. Spooky. [Reddit]

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Sep 9 '13

This Is Possibly Perhaps What the New iPad Will Look Like

There have been a number of component leaks all claiming to show off Apple’s new iPad recently. But now, prolific Apple leaker Sonny Dickson has put together components to give us the best idea so far of what the next-gen iPads might look like. https://gizmodo.com/video-claims-to-show-new-ipad-with-smaller-body-same-s-1250081355 In fact, the new images align neatly with a video…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Sep 9 '13

WSJ: Instagram Will Have Ads Within a Year

While Instagram has just announced that it has reached 150 million active users, it’s also revealed that it has plans to leverage that reach, too. Speaking to to The Wall Street Journal, Instagram has declared it will feature ads within a year. While Instagram is currently ad-free, that looks set to change. Emily White, Instagram’s…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Sep 9 '13

Amazon: We Won’t Launch a Phone in 2013 and It Won’t Be Free, Either

Late last week, Wall Street Journal vets Jessica Lessin and Amir Efrati claimed that an Amazon phone launch was imminent, and that the handset would be free. Amazon has responded to those claims, stating that neither is true. Despite ongoing rumors about an Amazon phone, we’re not really any closer to knowing what Bezos &…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe Sep 9 '13

Xbox Music Gets a Huge Design Overhaul Plus New iOS and Android Apps

When it launched last year, Xbox Music was trapped in a Microsoft-only bubble. Starting today, Xbox Music will expand its reach to hundreds of millions of mobile users with Android and iOS apps. And that’s just a piece of the update it’s getting leading up to the new app for Xbox One. Here’s what you…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Sep 9 '13

A Tribe Called Red: Look At This

A friend told me about A Tribe Called Red a few days ago and I’ve been listening ever since. They’re a Canadian group that blends hip-hop and dubstep with featured Native powwow chant. The group consists of three members: DJ Shub, DJ NDN and Bear Witness. They have two albums, Nation II Nation (which is…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Sep 8 '13

This Celestial Caterpillar May Not Become A Stellar Butterfly

IRAS 20324+4057 is a mouthful, and it’s about 4,500 light years away, but it’s also a star on the move. It’s expanding to form a new star, but it’s unclear how massive that new star will be. “Energetic” wind and light is displacing a lot of the gas and dust that would normally go into…

Space & Spaceflight Lily Hay Newman Sep 8 '13

Lose yourself in this vibrant video of the Northern Lights

Not quite ready for the weekend to end? Take a deep breath and enjoy this stunning time-lapse video of the Aurora Borealis, filmed in Iceland by Enrique Pacheco. [via Kuriositas]

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 8 '13

A Portable Sound System For Next Gen Itinerant DJs

If you’re desperate to be scratching while you’re on the move there’s a new place to turn. GET IT? Ugh. Philips and Armin van Buuren just teamed up to release a new portable controller and sound system for iDevices. An updated version of other Philips releases, the M1X-DJ System has a lightning connector and bluetooth,…

Gadgets Lily Hay Newman Sep 8 '13

Can you spot all the videogame references in this animated short?

The short film Coin punches all other video game mashups in the face and then ends them with a finishing move. A video game hero wants to recover his stolen coin, and has to prove himself master of tons of games to win it back. Exit 73 Studios is behind this incredibly dense tribute to…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 8 '13

Animated portraits of cyborgs are whimsical nightmare fuel

Milos “Sholim” Rajkovic‘s animated collages are unnerving to look at, but also strangely mesmerizing. He creates surreal portraits that transform mundane photographs into bizarre mechanisms from a Terry Gilliam-esque nightmare. Milos Rajkovic [via Laughing Squid]

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 8 '13

“Brain Slicer” Arrowheads Sound Like The Most Legit Arrowheads

What’s a casual way to start a video? How about a fun little opening introducing what you’re going to do or make. You could say something like, “Arrows are normally a good way to pierce a skull, but I’m concerned that [they] may not destroy enough brain matter.” Light hearted fun! Of course over at…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Sep 8 '13

There’s something weird going on with our galaxy’s planetary nebulae

This weird, hourglass-shaped structure is a planetary nebula, the not entirely accurate name given to the clump of gas that forms after a dying sun ejects it outer layers. Astronomers recently looked at over a hundred of these nebulae in the Milky Way’s galactic center. Shockingly, a huge number of the nebulae appear to be…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 8 '13

X-Rays Of Super Luxury Products Reveal The Tech Behind The Glitz

Every once and awhile I have to get dressed up for a wedding or something. And it’s kind of fun, but it always reminds me that I’m just not fancy on the inside. No matter how decked out I am I’m still a jeans and a tshirt person deep down. But hopefully that’s not true…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Sep 8 '13

Tragic Photographs of Disasters that Occurred Before 1920

We’re used to photos and video footage of disasters almost as soon as they happen, but the relative permanence of these disaster photographs forces us to truly reflect on the destruction and tragedy that once occurred, even though it all happened decades ago. Top image from after the Great Boston Fire. The Great Boston Fire…

io9 Vincze Miklós Sep 8 '13

Crowdfund a Mysterious Cities of Gold video game

The Mysterious Cities of Gold comes back to life in the form of a puzzle adventure game, with some crowdfunded English-language dubbing. Also check out a rhyming comic book about the origins of life on Earth and a comic about the zombie apocalypse set in 1943 Stalingrad. The Universe Verse – A rhyming graphic guide…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 8 '13

The iPhone 5S Home Button Ring Could Look Like HAL 2013

While it seems pretty certain that the next iPhone will come with a fingerprint scanner, what it will look like remains an open question. A “silver ring” around the home button (see below) is the prevailing theory; our friend Martin Hajek has taken a closer look at what that might mean in practice. Sure, these…

Tech News Brian Barrett Sep 8 '13

What Feature Would Make Your Favorite App Perfect?

It’s crazy to think about how much we use our preferred apps. We track runs, take notes, dip into our endless RSS streams, sort Tweets, or use Shazam to keep from embarrassing ourselves when we don’t recognize a song. Okay, that last one might just be me. Whatever. The point is that we’re intimately acquainted…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Sep 8 '13

You’ll Come Out Of This Illusion Exhibit Questioning Everything

It’s disorienting to walk into a room where nothing is as it seems. Your doctor might be grimacing even though your test results are fine. Or everything might look normal in your house until you realize that there’s a cable outage and your internet is down. But if everything were an optical illusion you would…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Sep 8 '13

This African fish can start having babies at 17 days old

The catchily named Nothobranchius kadleci is the fastest-maturing vertebrate species known to science. In just over two weeks, this fish can reach sexual maturity and start laying eggs — and those eggs only need another 15 days before they are ready to hatch. So why does this species need to cram an entire generation into…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 8 '13

What the Strange Slot in Your Old Car’s Dashboard Is Really For

This Is Possibly Perhaps What the New iPad Will Look Like

WSJ: Instagram Will Have Ads Within a Year

Amazon: We Won’t Launch a Phone in 2013 and It Won’t Be Free, Either

Xbox Music Gets a Huge Design Overhaul Plus New iOS and Android Apps

A Tribe Called Red: Look At This

This Celestial Caterpillar May Not Become A Stellar Butterfly

Lose yourself in this vibrant video of the Northern Lights

A Portable Sound System For Next Gen Itinerant DJs

Can you spot all the videogame references in this animated short?

Animated portraits of cyborgs are whimsical nightmare fuel

“Brain Slicer” Arrowheads Sound Like The Most Legit Arrowheads

There’s something weird going on with our galaxy’s planetary nebulae

X-Rays Of Super Luxury Products Reveal The Tech Behind The Glitz

Tragic Photographs of Disasters that Occurred Before 1920

Crowdfund a Mysterious Cities of Gold video game

The iPhone 5S Home Button Ring Could Look Like HAL 2013

What Feature Would Make Your Favorite App Perfect?

You’ll Come Out Of This Illusion Exhibit Questioning Everything

This African fish can start having babies at 17 days old

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