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TweetBot for Mac: How Can a Twitter Client Possibly Be Worth $20?

TweetBot, the hugely popular iOS Twitter client, finally comes in a finished desktop version available in the Mac App Store for 20 bucks. No joke. It appears to be a nicely polished piece of software with some smart features, but is there any way to justify that price when you can just use Twitter’s app…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Oct 18 '12

The 10 Most Defining Performances in the History of Genre Television

These days, we take it for granted that television can be as good as movies (or live theater) and that great actors can deliver indelible performances on the small screen. Especially when it comes to science fiction and fantasy. But it took a small number of pioneering actors to show what’s actually possible in genre…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Oct 18 '12

New Google Chromebook Has a Great Price: $250

Google’s having a rough day, but here’s some good news: It has a new Chromebook, and this time it’s $250. That’s pretty amazing. https://gizmodo.com/google-spills-earnings-early-made-way-less-money-this-5952897 Chromebooks are an overlooked part of Google’s arsenal, but they really shouldn’t be. If you don’t need specific programs, and just need a computer to work on docs on and browse…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Oct 18 '12

What Famous Paintings Look Like Without the People

Hungarian student Bence Hajdu had a seemingly obvious genius idea: take out people out of famous paintings. This is Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Last Supper, right after Jesus and his disciples left to have some drinks at some bar around the corner. Here’s what the artist has to say: I am a student at the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 18 '12

A Magnetic Ball Joint Lets You Precisely Target This Lamp’s Glow

Challenging the iconic Luxo lamp when it comes to flexibility, Michel Charlot’s U-Turn light trades the complicated springs for a brilliantly simply magnetic ball joint. So you can use it as an adjustable desk lamp when working, or flip it over and illuminate an entire room in a spotlight configuration. It’s the lamp of a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 18 '12

Google Spills Earnings Early, Made Way Less Money This Quarter Than Everyone Thought

It’s easy to get caught up in the Wall Street expectations game, under whose rules Google just had a disastrous third quarter. But while earnings were down significantly year over year, and were well below analyst expectations, the company still hauled in over two billion dollars of income on $14.10 billion of revenue. That’s got…

Tech News Brian Barrett Oct 18 '12

Booze, Sex and Violence in the James Bond Franchise: A Handy Chart

How does Daniel Craig’s James Bond stack up against Pierce Brosnan’s? Or Roger Moore’s? Or Mr. Connery’s? Who is the best Bond? Everyone has an opinion, what nobody has is an objective way of measuring such a thing. That is unless you choose to do so in units of martinis consumed (you alcoholic!), women seduced…

Movies Robbie Gonzalez Oct 18 '12

Shooting Challenge: Big Eye

Eyes. They’re the windows to someone’s soul. They also look really cool when shot in an extreme close-up. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, capture eyes. Well, eye. The Challenge Capture an extreme close-up of someone’s eye. Really make it fill the frame. The Technique Many of you will dust off tripods and macro lenses for…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 18 '12

The Most Pro-Science Presidents In American History

One of the more frustrating aspects of this current election season is the disturbing willingness of both presidential candidates to conveniently set aside meaningful and timely discussions of science. And it’s not as if there isn’t a lot to talk about: there’s climate change, a public health crisis, a withering economy that could use a…

io9 George Dvorsky Oct 18 '12

Acer Aspire S7 Review: This Is How Windows 8 Should Feel (Almost)

We’ve been playing with Windows 8 for a while now—but not yet on a machine designed from the start to run on the new OS. Next week, when Acer’s Aspire S7 ultrabook launches, all that will change. Is this 11-inch wisp of a laptop a worthy debut for Windows 8? What Is It? A $1,200…

Reviews Adrian Covert Oct 18 '12

Heterochromia is very groovy mutation – maybe

In the latest X-Men movie, Professor Xavier called heterochromia a mutation. Turns out this condition, where your eyes are two different colors, is a little more complicated than that. Heterochromia can mean having each eye be a different color. It can mean one of your eyes has a patch with a different color in it.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Oct 18 '12

Mini Metropolis Bulb: Light Your Room With Softly Glowing Skyscrapers

Finding similarities between how penguins huddle together for warmth and humans create giant crowded cities, artist David Graas created this complex lightbulb that looks like a tiny metropolis is exploding from its glowing core. It was created using a 3D printer, and houses a modern 5-watt LED bulb so that it never gets hot enough…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Oct 18 '12

Dissolvable Breath Strips Promise Instant Relief From Food Burns

Thanks to researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, you may never have to gingerly sip a hot cup of coffee again to avoid burns. Because they’ve developed a dissolvable strip that numbs the pain of a bad burn in your mouth, instead of freshening your breath. The strip is placed directly onto the…

Health Andrew Liszewski Oct 18 '12

How Will Humans Get to Alpha Centauri?

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting a star in Alpha Centauri, just 4.3 light-years from Earth. With surface temperatures in excess of 2,000 degrees fahrenheit, this particular planet would be inhospitable, but the fact that it exists at all raises hopes of finding another, more human-friendly planet within the same star system. https://gizmodo.com/scientists-discover-a-planet-in-alpha-centauri-the-sta-5952357 Just…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 18 '12

The Craziest Home Desktop Computer Rigs on the Planet

Desktop computing may be dying, besieged by ultrabooks and tablets, but that doesn’t mean people aren’t still loving their crazy desktop setups. Here are the very best ones—located in the homes of artists, musicians, engineers, mad gamers and people who just love computers—compiled from readers’ submissions and hours of searching. It’s the definitive collection. Stefan…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 18 '12

Play This Periodic Table Board Game and Ace Your Chemistry Exam

Sadly there’s no movie version of your chemistry textbook to make studying easier. But someone out there with either a love for science, or a hatred for cramming, has created this Periodic Quest board game that tries its best to make learning fun. Thankfully, school sets the fun bar pretty low. There are multiple ways…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 18 '12

New study suggests animal intelligence is a lot more complicated than we realized

How do you calculate how smart an animal is? Sure, you could run rigorous tests and try to quantify the nature of “intelligence”, but the quick and dirty trick is often just a comparison between brain and body mass. However, since this is a ratio, shouldn’t evolution that changes body size also alter smarts? A…

io9 Tim Barribeau Oct 18 '12

Midgard D&D campaign world brings mythology to life

Midgard is a fantasy world filled with wizard colleges, dragon lords, humanoid ravens, and masked gods. Yet it’s bound to a map similar to Earth, and is filled with a mashup of mythological figures and folk legends. It can be used with a variety of RPG systems, but even if you’re not a gamer, it’s…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Oct 18 '12

German Neo-Nazi Tweets Are the First Ever Censored by Twitter

In an effort to stay on the right side of German law, Twitter has blocked access within Germany to all tweets by the neo-Nazi group Besseres Hannover. This is the first time Twitter has censored speech to keep a government happy. But before you cry “censorship,” keep in mind that this is just good business.…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Oct 18 '12

A sneak peek at next week’s issue of Justice League Dark

Here’s an exclusive first look at the next issue of Justice League Dark, which sees supernatural stalwarts John Constantine, Deadman, Zatanna, and Black Orchid engaging in mystical fisticuffs with magical nasties. This issue hits stores next Wednesday, October 24. Here’s the rundown: JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #13 Written by: Jeff Lemire Art by: Mikel Janin Cover…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Oct 18 '12

TweetBot for Mac: How Can a Twitter Client Possibly Be Worth $20?

The 10 Most Defining Performances in the History of Genre Television

New Google Chromebook Has a Great Price: $250

What Famous Paintings Look Like Without the People

A Magnetic Ball Joint Lets You Precisely Target This Lamp’s Glow

Google Spills Earnings Early, Made Way Less Money This Quarter Than Everyone Thought

Booze, Sex and Violence in the James Bond Franchise: A Handy Chart

Shooting Challenge: Big Eye

The Most Pro-Science Presidents In American History

Acer Aspire S7 Review: This Is How Windows 8 Should Feel (Almost)

Heterochromia is very groovy mutation – maybe

Mini Metropolis Bulb: Light Your Room With Softly Glowing Skyscrapers

Dissolvable Breath Strips Promise Instant Relief From Food Burns

How Will Humans Get to Alpha Centauri?

The Craziest Home Desktop Computer Rigs on the Planet

Play This Periodic Table Board Game and Ace Your Chemistry Exam

New study suggests animal intelligence is a lot more complicated than we realized

Midgard D&D campaign world brings mythology to life

German Neo-Nazi Tweets Are the First Ever Censored by Twitter

A sneak peek at next week’s issue of Justice League Dark

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