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HP Gets Real Underminey In Response To Dell Going Private

Did you hear that Dell is going private? HP sure did! And the Palo Alto company would like you to know that it has serious thoughts about the whole thing that you definitely didn’t ask for but seriously everybody listen up for real this is important: “Dell has a very tough road ahead. The company…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 5 '13

Creepy Smartphone Add-On Shocks Your Muscles For Realistic Force Feedback

When delivered through a vibrating motor in a controller or smartphone, force feedback isn’t particularly realistic. So researchers at Germany’s Hasso Plattner Institute have developed a new system for smartphones that uses electrical muscle stimulation to physically move the player’s hands and forearms in response to the action happening on screen. The stimulation causes the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 5 '13

The Perfect Definition of This Goddamn Digital Life

Brazilian illustrator Felipe Luchi made this exquisite illustration for Go Outside Magazine. It’s the perfect definition of this digital life. We are prisoners of our phones and tablets and all our digital crap. I am. You are. We all are. We get sucked into these stupid machines, see reality through them. Instead of empowering us,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 5 '13

George Saunders’ new book shows just how terrible first world problems can be

George Saunders’ stories have always been fairly depressing — there are decrepit and miserable themeparks, people trapped in miserable and humiliating situations, evil company memos and awful experiments. But his latest book, Tenth of December, feels more desolate and horrible than ever. And it’s like a hilariously dreary status update from 21st century America, where…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Feb 5 '13

10 Educationally Insane Superhero PSA Comics

For most of their existence, comic books have been perceived as two things: 1) entertainment for children, and 2) terrible, morality-eroding entertainment for children. In order to strike back against these perceived problems, Marvel and DC have frequently produced public-service announcement comics, generally referred to as PSAs, using their superheroes to promote awareness of things…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken Feb 5 '13

We will not change the world with memes alone

Internet political scientist Evgeny Morozov has written a powerful essay in the New Republic about problems with the popular idea that the internet is an inherently democratizing force. The occasion for his ire is Steven Johnson’s new book, Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age. Morozov upbraids Johnson and his cohorts for…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 5 '13

A New Service Gives You Storage for All Your Devices That Never Runs Out

Imagine never running out of room on your hard drive or having a cheaper cloud storage solution. Actually, you don’t have to imagine either because BitCasa offers “infinite” storage space on the cheap. Its new cloud stashing service works on a bunch of different platforms—iOS, Android, OS X, Windows, Windows RT, and the web. It’ll…

Tech News Leslie Horn Feb 5 '13

ERMAHGERD Guillermo del Toro is making a Secret Garden movie

Dust off your giant knit hat and Dickon obsession, Guillermo del Toro is making a Secret Garden movie. But wait, it gets even better — GDT is pairing up with Lucy Alibar, the co-writer of Beasts of the Southern Wild. Deadline is reporting that Alibar will write and GDT will produce a new movie adaptation…

Movies Meredith Woerner Feb 5 '13

Eradicate Lunchtime Stains With a Desktop Washing Machine

If you’re always inclined to skip the ribs, sloppy joes, or chili dogs at lunch for fear you might spill and stain your shirt, the Swoosh will let you indulge with complete peace of mind. It’s a compact desk-friendly washing machine that will banish any lunchtime stain in just 18 minutes. Available in Japan on…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Feb 5 '13

Files Discovered in Jailbroken iPads Hint at Future Radio Features

Files discovered by 9to5Mac in the Music app on newly jailbroken iPads suggest that Apple’s long-rumored radio service might turn out to be more than a rumor after all. 9To5Mac reports that the new files are “radio buy” buttons that resemble the “radio play” buttons that already exist in iTunes. (Although, notably, the iPad’s Music…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Feb 5 '13

How well did NYC’s flood analysis predict the reality of Hurricane Sandy?

On October 29th, 2012, Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge advanced mercilessly on New York City. Subway lines we inundated. City streets turned fluvial. Gawker’s server host did its best impression of Niagara Falls. Shit got — as they say — real. Here’s the thing: risk analysts had accounted for a hurricane like Sandy (to the best…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 5 '13

Richard III identified? Not so fast, say DNA experts

Yesterday’s big news was the announcement from Leicester University researchers saying they successfully identified the bones of King Richard III — a conclusion they proclaimed was “beyond a reasonable doubt.” Less than a day later, a swarm of people are now crying foul, saying that the paper has yet to be peer reviewed, and that…

io9 George Dvorsky Feb 5 '13

Dell’s Going Private. Now What?

After what seemed like ages of hints and feints, Dell has finally, officially reached a deal to go private. It’s going to be led by its founder Michael Dell, with a financial assist from private equity firm Silver Lake and PC enthusiast Microsoft. Will it be enough to make the company—and more specifically, its products—relevant…

Tech News Brian Barrett Feb 5 '13

Amazon Just Made Its Own Currency, Amazon Coins

Amazon’s got a new way to buy stuff for anyone who has a Kindle Fire. Amazon Coins are a virtual currency that will come out in May, and work for all app and in-app purchases on the Kindle Fire. The Coins will function exactly the same as real money, and developers will still get their…

Commerce Kyle Wagner Feb 5 '13

Inside the Beating Heart of an Optical Atomic Clock

Behold, the beating heart of a time machine! Or “clock”, as most people call them, but this one is nothing like your grandfather’s. This super-accurate timekeeper is an optical atomic clock built by the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and its tick is governed by a single ion of the element strontium. The ion is…

Tech News Jacob Aron - New Scientist Feb 5 '13

Facebook Ads Are Going to Tell You When They’re Tracking You

We know Facebook ads are tracking us, we just don’t always know which ones. But that process is about to get more transparent because Facebook is going to start labeling the ads you see based on past behavior. This new feature is the result of an agreement between the social network and the Council of…

Social Media Leslie Horn Feb 5 '13

This gif of the Joker putting on lipstick is utterly terrifying

This animated gif created from an illustration out of Greg Capullo’s art in Batman’s”Death of the Family” arc will stay with you for days. It’s fantastically creepy. If you need us, we’ll be spending the rest of the day staring down this gif, hoping it won’t crawl out of the computer and try and make…

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner Feb 5 '13

Overkill, Thy Name Is This Tiny, Tablet-Cleaning, Roomba-Like Robot

We all hate using a smartphone or tablet when the screen’s covered in greasy fingerprints. But it’s a situation that’s easy to solve with nothing but a shirt sleeve, or if you’re particularly anal, a microfiber cloth. What the world doesn’t need is a tiny Roomba-like cleaning device designed specifically for cleaning fingerprints, but apparently…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 5 '13

This Is What Richard III Looked Like Before Being Buried Beneath a Parking Lot

Yesterday, archaeologists confirmed that they has discovered the remains of English King Richard III beneath a parking lot. Now, based on medical scans of his skull, a team of experts has created a facial reconstruction of the deceased monarch and it’s… terrifying? The reconstruction was produced using a variety of techniques. At its core lies…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 5 '13

How liquid nitrogen can make things explode

We know that by heating things up can make them explode. How about by cooling them down? For those of you who doubt that you can make something explode by cooling it, just grab some white erasers and liquid nitrogen. Then stand back. Things explode because the contents inside them suddenly expand to be a…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Feb 5 '13

HP Gets Real Underminey In Response To Dell Going Private

Creepy Smartphone Add-On Shocks Your Muscles For Realistic Force Feedback

The Perfect Definition of This Goddamn Digital Life

George Saunders’ new book shows just how terrible first world problems can be

10 Educationally Insane Superhero PSA Comics

We will not change the world with memes alone

A New Service Gives You Storage for All Your Devices That Never Runs Out

ERMAHGERD Guillermo del Toro is making a Secret Garden movie

Eradicate Lunchtime Stains With a Desktop Washing Machine

Files Discovered in Jailbroken iPads Hint at Future Radio Features

How well did NYC’s flood analysis predict the reality of Hurricane Sandy?

Richard III identified? Not so fast, say DNA experts

Dell’s Going Private. Now What?

Amazon Just Made Its Own Currency, Amazon Coins

Inside the Beating Heart of an Optical Atomic Clock

Facebook Ads Are Going to Tell You When They’re Tracking You

This gif of the Joker putting on lipstick is utterly terrifying

Overkill, Thy Name Is This Tiny, Tablet-Cleaning, Roomba-Like Robot

This Is What Richard III Looked Like Before Being Buried Beneath a Parking Lot

How liquid nitrogen can make things explode

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