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This Solid Aluminum iPhone Dock Is Your Deal of the Day

When Apple changed the venerable 30-pin iOS connector to the reversible Lightning connector, it threw a lot of accessory makers into fits. One of those makers is Elevation Lab, which first garnered attention in 2011 with a wildly successful Kickstarter selling a CNC-machined iPhone dock made from a solid piece of aluminum. As most observers…

Tech News Kif Leswing May 7 '13

What do screencaps reveal about the future horrors of Ender’s Game?

You’ve seen the first trailer for the movie adaptation of Ender’s Game —now it’s time to pick it apart frame-by-frame and uncover the secrets hiding in each second. Get a good look at a Formic ship, the tech-ed out classrooms, the space shuttle school… and most importantly, THE BATTLE ROOM! The first shot has to…

Movies Meredith Woerner May 7 '13

The Real-Life Buildings Used to Sell Elysium‘s Luxurious Dystopia

Elysium, Neill Blomkamp’s long-delayed futuristic Matt Damon vehicle, tells the story of a class war between the unwashed masses, who live on Earth, and the super wealthy, who live in an absurdly opulent community in the sky. And as it turns out, the super-luxe buildings of Elsyium’s tomorrow actually exist right here in the present…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan May 7 '13

Windows 8 Is a Failure as Big as New Coke

According to Tami Reller—Microsoft’s Windows marketing boss—PC users think Windows 8 is too hard to learn. So hard that they are “fixing” it big time. Some people are calling this update the biggest consumer product failure since Coca-Cola’s New Coke, which was discontinued three months after its introduction. Except New Coke was a matter of…

Sploid Jesus Diaz May 7 '13

Holy Hell, This Is How Football Helmets Are Concussion Safety-Tested

In a new study published today in the Journal of Neurosurgery, a group of scientists proved, seemingly, that modern football helmets are better than old leather ones. Thanks, guys. What is more notable, however, is that this batshit crazy device is how the data was gathered. The tests run here, by a group of scientists…

Tech News Kyle Wagner May 7 '13

Are we screwing ourselves by transmitting radio signals into space?

For nearly a hundred years, Earth has sent radio signals into space. If anyone nearby is listening, they probably know we’re here. In light of this, a new paper assesses the potential danger presented by such signals, concluding that the benefits outweigh the risks. But how can we really know? Top image: Scene from Battleship…

io9 George Dvorsky May 7 '13

Which classic science fiction or fantasy author is due for a comeback?

Science fiction and fantasy readers are constantly questing for new realms and new ideas — but sometimes, some of our greatest authors and creators get left by the wayside as a result. Which classic author (living or dead) do you think deserves a new appreciation? Make your case below — and please include a nice…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders May 7 '13

You Can Now Buy Stuff From Right Inside a Torrent

BitTorrent’s always got something cooking, from a streaming video protocol that never overloads, to a neat little private cloud storage system. Now the company’s invented a new kind of torrent that lets content creators pack their own little store right inside. When you download a Bittorrent Bundle, you’ll be treated to a chunk of free…

Tech News Eric Limer May 7 '13

This Animation Based on Oscillating Sine Waves Is Utterly Entrancing

Are your eyes bored today? Look at this right now. It’s a computer animation by computer artist Daniel Sierra, and it will mesmerize you, if only for a few minutes. Sierra just got his MFA from New York’s School of Visual Arts, and Oscillate was his thesis project. He was inspired by the motion of…

Tech News Michael Hession May 7 '13

19 Photos Of (Near) Perfect Symmetry

Perfect symmetry. It’s how we define beauty, but photography tends to shy away from it. Here are 19 pieces of proof that symmetry really is beautiful. Winner: The Beer Can Building When this challenge was announced, I knew exactly what I wanted to shoot. I’ve taken a lot pictures of this building, and even submitted…

Tech News Mark Wilson May 7 '13

Grab Adobe Ideas For iOS For Free Right Here

Hot on the heels of Adobe’s announcement yesterday that Creative Suite is going to get a lot more cloud, they’ve made Adobe Ideas, a vector-based drawing app for iOS, absolutely free. The app also received a hefty update, adding several of the Creative Cloud features announced yesterday and a slew of new brushes. Of course,…

Tech News Kif Leswing May 7 '13

Everything Wrong With Star Trek

Like us, you probably couldn’t be more excited for Star Trek: Into Darkness. Well, ahead of the flick’s release on May 17th, our favorite flaw-counting nerds have taken their nitpicking scalpels to the many instances of narrative discontinuity, faulty logic, and all-around flawed filmmaking in JJ Abrams’ remake from a few years back. As our…

Movies Mario Aguilar May 7 '13

Watch the intense first trailer for Ender’s Game right now!

Harrison Ford transforms into Colonel Hyrum Graff for the very first trailer of Gavin Hood’s Ender’s Game. It’s so damn shiny! We’re already spotting loads of technology, Formic ships and the big beautiful Battle Room! Can’t freaking wait. Ender’s Game hits theaters on November 1st, 2013.

Trailers Meredith Woerner May 7 '13

Typographical Chess Lets Novices Easily Recognize Each Piece

If you grew up playing checkers, transitioning to chess and keeping track of which piece is which and what moves where can be tricky. So to smooth out the learning curve, OneSavesSolutions created this 3D printed Typographical Chess Set with the name of each piece integrated into its design. It unfortunately doesn’t provide hints on…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 7 '13

You won’t believe how many cicadas are about to envelop the East Coast

No, really. Take a wild guess how many. The cicada onslaught grows nigh. Already the sex-crazed insects have begun burrowing their tiny bodies from out the depths of America’s southern soils, where ground temperatures have already reached a steady 64 degrees. But soon, the cicadas’ northerly relatives will reach the end of their 17-year dormancy…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez May 7 '13

This Brilliant Pizza Compass App Is Exactly What It Sounds Like

It’s 2am. You’re leading your goofball friends through the streets, trying to find an open pizza place. Yelp is inconclusive. Google Maps is worse. Soon, thanks to the new slice-finding app Pizza Compass, such uncomfortable scenarios may be obsolete. Pizza Compass (“No Frills, Just Pizza”) gives you access to an excellent map of nearby pizza…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan May 7 '13

Will Adam Baldwin steal Michael Bay’s post-apocalyptic show Last Ship?

Check out the first trailer for The Last Ship, the show about a deadly viral apocalypse from executive producer Michael Bay. TNT has officially greenlit this show about a single Navy vessel after the end of the world, airing in 2014. The Last Ship was originally a novel by William Brinkley about a single vessel…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 7 '13

Windows Phone Finally Gets a Fully Functional YouTube App

After making due with an “app” that was little more than a hyperlink to YouTube’s mobile web version, Windows Phone users finally get a fully supported (though still Microsoft-designed) YouTube app to call their very own. You’ll be getting everything we’ve come to expect from a Youtube app: sharing videos on any number of social…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg May 7 '13

“Girls Gone Wild” Creep Faces 5 Years For Imprisoning Girls

Joe Francis, founder of the bankrupt Girls Gone Wild home-video franchise, faces up to five years in prison for falsely imprisoning three young women he lured to his Los Angeles home in 2011. Francis was found guilty on Monday of holding the women against their will and assaulting one of them.

Sploid Ken Layne May 7 '13

War is Hell and we’re the Devil, on Revolution

This was a genuinely great moment in last night’s Revolution — Miles Matheson face to face with a guy he trained, trying to reason with him. And then sentencing him to death by firing squad, without looking back. If war really is Hell, we’re the demons who make it that way. Spoilers ahead… This was…

Television Charlie Jane Anders May 7 '13

This Solid Aluminum iPhone Dock Is Your Deal of the Day

What do screencaps reveal about the future horrors of Ender’s Game?

The Real-Life Buildings Used to Sell Elysium‘s Luxurious Dystopia

Windows 8 Is a Failure as Big as New Coke

Holy Hell, This Is How Football Helmets Are Concussion Safety-Tested

Are we screwing ourselves by transmitting radio signals into space?

Which classic science fiction or fantasy author is due for a comeback?

You Can Now Buy Stuff From Right Inside a Torrent

This Animation Based on Oscillating Sine Waves Is Utterly Entrancing

19 Photos Of (Near) Perfect Symmetry

Grab Adobe Ideas For iOS For Free Right Here

Everything Wrong With Star Trek

Watch the intense first trailer for Ender’s Game right now!

Typographical Chess Lets Novices Easily Recognize Each Piece

You won’t believe how many cicadas are about to envelop the East Coast

This Brilliant Pizza Compass App Is Exactly What It Sounds Like

Will Adam Baldwin steal Michael Bay’s post-apocalyptic show Last Ship?

Windows Phone Finally Gets a Fully Functional YouTube App

“Girls Gone Wild” Creep Faces 5 Years For Imprisoning Girls

War is Hell and we’re the Devil, on Revolution

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