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Report: Google Maps Is Coming Back to iOS Tonight!

iPhone owners, rejoice, for your long national maps nightmare is almost over. According to AllThingsD, a standalone Google Maps app is going to hit the App Store sometime tonight. So long, Apple Maps. It’s been… something. Hard as it may be to believe, it’s been nearly three months since Tim Cook & Co. jettisoned Google…

Spend the Night in an Anal Cavity

The Hotel CasAnus is a hotel shaped like an anus. It’s real, it’s in Belgium, and you can spend the night in it if you have some kind of scatological thing going on. Actually, anyone can stay there for about $155 a night. You just have to have some weird desire to sleep up a…

Why Is the PlayStation 3 Netflix App Way Better Than the Xbox 360 App?

The other night I was watching The Dark Knight Rises on Blu-ray on my PS3 but it was getting late and I didn’t think I’d finish, so I switched to Netflix. And I was completely blown away by the movies it was suggesting across its various verticals. They were actually movies I’d want to watch…

NuForce HP-800 Headphones Could Rule Your Desk for Not a Lot of Cash

The world really needs more desk-class headphones. By that we mean, high-quality, over-ear cans for blocking out the jerk in the next cubicle that don’t cost upwards of $300. We’ve got real high hopes that for $150, these new headphones from NuForce might just hit that nine-to-five sweet spot. It seems like every other month…

Monsters vs. Giant Robots in the First Trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim

We’ve been waiting months and months, and now here it is — your first look at Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro’s brand new movie about giant monsters and the equally giant mechas that battle them. At first glance, the carnage truly does look glorious, and more than lives up to del Toro’s promise to give…

Track North Korea’s Terror Death Satellite Live in Space

North Korea’s satellite is wobbling out of control, and might rain down fiery death debris at any moment. Want to make sure you’re not underneath when the sky falls? Track the thing in realtime right here. https://gizmodo.com/north-koreas-satellite-is-out-of-control-why-this-is-v-5968007 As I type this, the Bright Star-3 “weather satellite” (death weapon) is over Antarctica. Tomorrow? Who knows. Washington,…

The Hobbit‘s Martin Freeman on dwarves, Gollum and Leonard Nimoy

Martin Freeman had some hairy prosthetic feet to fill as Bilbo in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, but the acclaimed actor was up to the challenge. We sat down in an exclusive interview and quizzed Freeman about filming the much-anticipated trilogy, his life in Middle-Earth, and, most importantly, his thoughts on Leonard’s Nimoy’s classic song “The…

This Clever Christmas Tree Is The Answer to Your Cramped Holiday Woes

Christmas ain’t Christmas without the tree. But what if there’s a lack of space cramping your holiday cheer? Fortunately for you and your elfin apartment, redditor MickolasJae had the ingenious idea to construct his own makeshift monument to Christmas with nothing more than a blank wall and some lights. The more indolent of hall-deckers might…

Even light smoking may double your risk of sudden death

Everyone — everyone — knows that smoking is terrible for you. But damn, according to a massive new study published in Circulation (a journal of the American Heart Association), even one cigarette a day could be very harmful to your health. Says the BBC’s Michelle Roberts: [Dr. Roopinder Sandhu and colleagues and colleagues at the…

U.S. spy agency predicts a very transhuman future by 2030

The National Intelligence Council has just released its much anticipated forecasting report, a 140-page document that outlines major trends and technological developments we should expect in the next 20 years. Among their many predictions, the NIC foresees the end of U.S. global dominance, the rising power of individuals against states, a growing middle class that…

No Sink Is Too Shallow For a Side-Filling Water Bottle

Genius comes in all shapes and sizes, and in this case it’s a cylindrical 16-ounce water bottle called the Hydros that features a brilliant access port on the side of the cap that lets you fill it from the shortest of taps, or shallowest of sinks. No longer do you have to craft a makeshift…

This pre-Internet chatroom conversation between Jim Henson, Ayn Rand, Yoko Ono and Sidney Nolan is fake. But it’s amazing.

Before the Internet, there was ARPANET — an experimental computer network brought to life in the 1960s by the U.S. Department of Defense. The design goals of the DOD’s sui generis packet-switching plexus were manifold, and its role in laying the groundwork for what would become the Internet cannot be overstated; suffice to say, it…

North Korea’s Satellite Is Out of Control: Why This Is Very Bad News

After failing miserably on numerous occasions, North Korea has finally put a satellite in orbit. But according to US officials, it is now “tumbling out of control.” This is bad news, and more bad news, covered in a double layer of extra bad news. https://gizmodo.com/north-korea-says-it-just-put-a-satellite-in-space-upda-5967710 NORAD detected the launch yesterday at 7:49pm Eastern Time. The…

A Bodum Electric Coffee Grinder Fits Perfectly In My Stocking

I’ve ruined myself by developing a taste for really good coffee. And we all know the best cup of Joe is made from fresh beans, which means you have to grind them yourself. So chances are high that you probably need a ginder. I know I do, and I really like the Bodum Bistro grinder.…

The Back To The Future Hoverboard Is 2012’s Worst Toy

The Back to the Future Hoverboard by Mattel is not a hoverboard. It’s a board at best. Really, it’s just a piece of chintzy pink plastic that you can buy for $120 if you’re a jerk. It doesn’t hover. The bar for high tech toys was set low by this year’s hell-creature Furby, which we…

Argentinians traveling Route 5 warned that they may experience “time anomalies”

Apparently several people traveling along Argentina’s Route 5 have experienced the classic “missing time” scenario that many UFO abductees say they have experienced. Drivers on the 35 km strip between the towns of Lonquimay and Anguil have reported feeling disoriented, then suddenly finding that they’ve driven several kilometers that they can’t remember. Local UFO researchers…

Make everybody’s chests more awesome with io9 t-shirts!

What’s the best possible item you can get for yourself, your friends and family, the geeky kid down the block, and your 8-legged sparkleflax from Venus? An io9 t-shirt of course! We’ve got four awesome designs to choose from, created by io9’s own Steph Fox and available only at 604Republic. Collect them all to celebrate…

It’s 12/12/12—the Last Major Numerical Date in this Century

December 12, 2012 is an extremely special date! It’s the last major numerical date of this century. There was 01-01-2001, 02-02-2002 and so on—until today. There’s no 13th month, so there’s no way this will happen again until the XXII century. Not that the Universe gives a damn about our completely arbitrary Gregorian calendar, but…

Time Warner Cable updated their iOS app today to include on-demand video and some other goodies. [iTunes]

Galaxy Camera Samples

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