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Leaked Manual Reveals More Details on Sony’s Smartphone Lens Cameras

It looks like SonyAlphaRumors has managed to get its hands on what it believes to be a few leaked pages of the manual for Sony’s rumored all-in-one lens cameras, designed to work alongside a smartphone. And they look even more promising than before. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-photos-of-sonys-lens-cameras-that-piggyback-on-1110344221 It was previously assumed that all of the manual controls for…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Aug 16 '13

Highlights from the World’s Largest Drone Fair

Defense industry specialists circled up in Washington this week for the three-day-long trade fair of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International. In other words, a bunch of guys with a lot of money just got together for a giant drone show. It’s actually the world’s largest. And here are its wares. The show’s 600…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Aug 16 '13

How to Sit Correctly with Good Posture So You Don’t Kill Yourself

Are standing desks last year’s advice? Whatever. Unless you’re lucky enough to be on your feet all day for work, you probably sit too much. We all do. When we go home, we sit on the couch. When we have dinner, we sit on a chair. When we watch a movie, we sit in the…

Health Casey Chan Aug 16 '13

A Tesla Model S Crashed Into an Electric Pole and Caused a Blackout

Stop me if you heard this before but an electric car and an electric pole walk into a bar… Okay, seriously. This is one of those ridiculous local news stories that are too perfect to be true but actually are. A Tesla Model S crashed into a utility pole in Tennessee and caused a local…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 16 '13

The Moto X Just Might Have the Dumbest Smartest Accessory Ever

Motorola will be selling a $20 accessory for the Moto X that could very well be the smartest thing it has ever done or be the dumbest phone accessory ever. Called the Skip, it’s a clip that houses a NFC chip that’ll let you unlock your Moto X by simply tapping it. No lock screens,…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 16 '13

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Hook

And this is why you don’t play games at the enchanted boardwalk. Did Big teach us nothing?

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 16 '13

Hard Knocks: The Best TV Show on HBO

If somebody says that Boardwalk Empire is the best show on HBO, I immediately discount all their future opinions. If they say The Newsroom, I automatically think they like verbal flexing. If it’s True Blood, they love fleshy guilty pleasures. If they say Game of Thrones, they’re… probably right. But! I would argue with them…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 15 '13

The NSA Oversteps Its Legal Authority and the Court Can’t Stop It

The Washington Post dropped two reports that exposes the recklessness of the NSA’s spying program. The first report is insane: the NSA has “broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority” thousands of times a year and the second report explains the insanity: the FISC court that’s supposed to be in charge of government spying…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan Aug 15 '13

Beach House: Myth

I hadn’t listened to music in months. Sure, I had heard noise from the car radio gargle through as transportation distraction and of course, I embraced the magnificently uncomfortable Yeezus and duh, I still hunted down NSFW YouTube music videos but my main gateway for listening to music, an Airplay speaker, had broken down way…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 15 '13

Jobs is a bad movie about a sociopath and his obsessions

Gizmodo’s Kyle Wagner nails the first Jobs biopic as a bad montage of short clips that shows the mighty Apple leader as “a sociopath who systematically ruins his and others’ lives, and is rewarded lavishly for it.” The only thing that seems good about the movie is Ashton Kutcher (at times) and the supporting cast.…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Aug 15 '13

Scientists Finally Have a Way to Quantify Consciousness, Using Magnets

Locked-in syndrome, where a person with a fully functioning brain is trapped in a completely paralyzed body, is one of neurology’s most vexing (and terrifying) problems. Physicians and researchers have struggled for years to establish an objective way to determine level of consciousness that doesn’t require patients to express themselves through some form of muscle…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Aug 15 '13

Laurence Fishburne vs an army of post-apocalyptic cannibals. Who wins?

Check out an exclusive clip from The Colony, a post-apocalyptic action movie coming to VOD on August 20 and hitting theaters on Sept. 20. In which Laurence Fishburne’s team of investigators faces rather a lot of nasty cannibals. Seriously, why do people always resort to cannibalism just because there’s been a massive artificial ice age…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 15 '13

Jobs Movie Review: A Sadly Appropriate Metaphor

There isn’t very much human about Jobs, Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs biopic. It’s about Steve Jobs working more than it is about Steve Jobs’ work. And that’s probably about as unintentionally fitting a character portrait as you’ll find—just not always an entertaining one. There are a few arcs that a Steve Jobs biography could track.…

Reviews Kyle Wagner Aug 15 '13

Marvel could kill everybody in the Ultimate universe except Spider-Man

Well, that settles that. A new solicit for Marvel’s November titles confirms the rumor that Miles Morales, the Spider-Man of the Ultimate universe, is on his way to the regular Marvel universe in Cataclysm: The Ultimates’ Last Stand #2, and that does not bode well for everybody else. Comic readers know that the Ultimate universe…

io9 Rob Bricken Aug 15 '13

Just taking a null-gravity stroll in the city. Like you do.

Sometimes you just need to step out and get some fresh air. On the side of a building. A few hundred feet above the ground. Because the view is awesome, and your cat needs to pee on some rooftops. You know how it is. The above concept art is from Japanese artist Takeshi Oga, and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 15 '13

This Spray-On Chemical Could Make Window Blinds Obsolete

NeverWet is so 2013. The next big spray-on coating, developed by a federally-funded team working on smart windows, will use electrical currents to actually stop heat—and light—from passing through your windows. Besides being a remarkable feat of engineering, the invention could save us billions of dollars a year in energy costs. The news was announced…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Aug 15 '13

Guillermo del Toro’s sketches reveal his At the Mountains of Madness

We’re still pretty sad that we’re never going to Guillermo del Toro’s vision for the H. P. Lovecraft story At the Mountains of Madness. Unfortunately budget cuts and Prometheus killed this movie, but it will live on forever in the much whispered about pages of Guillermo del Toro’s sketch book. https://gizmodo.com/did-prometheus-kill-guillermo-del-toros-mountains-of-ma-5908278 We’ve seen GDT’s beautiful…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 15 '13

Star Trek communicator puts your dog poop where no dog has gone before

When you’re out and about with your pet dog, you probably wish you could disintegrate your dog’s poop with your phaser. Or tell Scotty to beam the offending dog-turds into space. At least now you can use a Star Trek communicator to make it disappear. The above Star Trek communicator is actually a dog-bag dispenser,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 15 '13

Watch a Star Explode, Live, Right Here Right Now

Seems like whenever a star is discovered, it’s just a countdown until the inevitable crash and burn. It happened to Lindsay Lohan and Macaulay Culkin, and tonight it’s happening to the just-spotted star Nova Del 2013. Located yesterday by an amateur astronomer, the erupting white dwarf is getting brighter and hotter as it heads for…

Space & Spaceflight Bob Sorokanich Aug 15 '13

Hunger Games-themed makeup line really sells the dystopian decadence

Want to feel like you’re part of a decadent crumbling society that oppresses the working classes and forces children to kill each other for your amusement? CoverGirl has you covered, with their decadent new Hunger Games makeup line. According to Fashionista, the new CoverGirl Catching Fire makeup collection is being rolled out in October, and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 15 '13

Leaked Manual Reveals More Details on Sony’s Smartphone Lens Cameras

Highlights from the World’s Largest Drone Fair

How to Sit Correctly with Good Posture So You Don’t Kill Yourself

A Tesla Model S Crashed Into an Electric Pole and Caused a Blackout

The Moto X Just Might Have the Dumbest Smartest Accessory Ever

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Hook

Hard Knocks: The Best TV Show on HBO

The NSA Oversteps Its Legal Authority and the Court Can’t Stop It

Beach House: Myth

Jobs is a bad movie about a sociopath and his obsessions

Scientists Finally Have a Way to Quantify Consciousness, Using Magnets

Laurence Fishburne vs an army of post-apocalyptic cannibals. Who wins?

Jobs Movie Review: A Sadly Appropriate Metaphor

Marvel could kill everybody in the Ultimate universe except Spider-Man

Just taking a null-gravity stroll in the city. Like you do.

This Spray-On Chemical Could Make Window Blinds Obsolete

Guillermo del Toro’s sketches reveal his At the Mountains of Madness

Star Trek communicator puts your dog poop where no dog has gone before

Watch a Star Explode, Live, Right Here Right Now

Hunger Games-themed makeup line really sells the dystopian decadence

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