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The Stoner Channel: South America’s Swanky Smugglin Subs, Mexico’s Blame Game, and Muddy Waters’ Blues Summit

Smoking Pot Could Cause Ball Rot According to a recent study from the University of Southern California, South Park may have had it backwards. They found that men who habitually toked were roughly twice as likely to develop testicular cancer than those that didn’t. Granted, this was a small scale study, interviewing 165 men who…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Is a Combo iPhone Case/Wallet a Great Idea or a Terrible Mistake?

Either you lose everything—phone, keys, wallet—all at once. Or, you never lose any of them because, at any given point, you are using one such feature… and so the other two will always be accounted for as well. Image via Apple Store

Tech News Molly Oswaks

In this week’s comics, Walt Simonson draws Batman and xenomorphs

What comic book debuts are on the stands tomorrow? First off, DC Comics releases their new anti-superhero espionage book Team 7, which stars a motley selection of characters from across the DC and Wildstorm universes: As Superman emerges, so too does the world’s counter measures against him and his kind! Dinah Lance, Amanda Waller, Steve…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The Undercover Story of How Someone Infiltrated Foxconn to See How They Make the iPhone 5

A reporter from the Shanghai Evening Post pretended to be a new worker at the Foxconn Tai Yuan factory to get an insider’s look at how the factory is going to make the next iPhone 5. He spent a total of 10 days inside and spilled the undercover story of what goes on in the…

Tech News Casey Chan

So-Called “Evernote for Women” Is Happening, Because Ladies Need Their Internet Pink and Simple

Evernote offers a pretty excellent family of products. Even as a woman*, I can affirm this. Skitch, in particular, is a personal favorite. You’ll see us use Skitch on photos in posts here on Gizmodo pretty regularly. https://gizmodo.com/your-nasty-nerdy-sexism-isnt-cute-5935440 Which is why the idea of an “Evernote for Women” seems, to me, completely ridiculous and unnecessary…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Watch an Awesome Man in a Wheelchair Build a Helicopter from Trash

This short documentary by Tyler Bastian, Trevor Hill, Tim Skousen and Cameron Trejo is called Everything is Incredible and well, it’s pretty freaking incredible. It’s about a man named Agustín from Honduras who can’t walk, lives in poverty yet still wants to fulfill a dream: to fly. He spends his days making a helicopter from…

Tech News Casey Chan

Kindle Fire HD Review: Everything a Tablet Should Be—And Not Much More

In some ways, the idea of the first Kindle Fire was more impressive than the product itself. It was a $200 tablet that actually worked. That alone was mind-blowing. But after Google’s Nexus 7 bombshell—and the iPad Mini looming—Amazon has to do more than cut costs this time. The Fire HD has to shine. What…

Reviews Kyle Wagner

Here’s the One Thing I Want to See at Apple’s iPhone 5 Event (Spoiler: A Steve Jobs Hologram)

Too bad Digital Domain, the company who made the Tupac hologram, is going bankrupt because seeing a Steve Jobs hologram at tomorrow’s iPhone 5 event would be the best One More Thing… ever. Seriously, just watch this humorous video to see what a rapping Steve Jobs hologram would look like. http://gawker.com/5942365/company-behind-tupac-reagan-holograms-now-bankrupt As an aside, I…

Tech News Casey Chan

And now, a cat sitting like a human. Y’know. Just thinkin’ about stuff.

Why? Because anthropomorphizing non-human animals is fun and useful. Yes, useful. There’s a reason humans love videos like this; after all, our tendency to project human qualities on animals stretches back well beyond the world’s first ridiculous cat photos. Some researchers even think that, without anthropomorphism, neither pet-keeping nor animal domestication would ever have been…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

200 Cigarettes: Socializing Before Smartphones Sure Was Hard

It’s New Year’s Eve 1981, and no one seems to know where the party’s at. Literally. A bunch of chain-smoking, sex-addled twentysomethings almost miss their New Year’s bash because they are having too hard a time finding their way to the house party they’d planned to attend. Oh, the days before drop pins! [HBOGo]

Tech News Molly Oswaks

How Neal Stephenson’s 20-Kilometer Space Tower Could Change Everything

Novelist Neal Stephenson wants to create a 20-kilometer space tower, which could inspire people to believe in innovation again — but also transform the way we travel in the air and into space. To this end, Stephenson has teamed up with structural engineer Keith Hjelmstad of Arizona State University in an effort to design and…

io9 George Dvorsky

What Have You Done with All Your Old CDs and DVDs?

Because we’re not all artists who can turn dead media into a gigantic skull, I’m curious as to what you guys have done with your dusty collection of CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, Laserdiscs, VHS Tapes and all other old, physical media? It seems heartless to toss ’em out but they’re also so completely useless. What to…

Tech News Casey Chan

Here Are Two Photos From Tomorrow’s Apple Event Sent From the Future

Apart from that phone lost in a bar, the iPhone 5 is the most leaked phone in Apple’s history. We basically know—with 99% certainty—what it will look like when it gets announced tomorrow, both in white and black versions. https://gizmodo.com/how-apple-lost-the-iphone-4-5520438 So why wait to get pictures of Tim Cook doing his show-and-tell? Everything is so…

Tech News Marty McFly

A Tribe Called Quest: Buggin’ Out

There are a million good things to be said about A Tribe Called Quest’s 1991 track “Buggin’ Out” and the legendary album it came from (The Low End Theory). But don’t worry about any of that. Just meditate on that bassline and let Phife Dawg invade your brain.

Tech News Adrian Covert

Amazing, Giant Nature Posters to Adorn Your Bare Walls

The amazing lifeforms that inhabit our planet are art in and of themselves. Often pictures of these wonderful living creatures and organisms speak for themselves—a little goes a long way, which makes artist Debbie Carlos’s simple black and white posters so lovely. Plus they’re huge and affordable. When you move and you have spent all…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Dear science: please, please name this dancing spider after Zoidberg

Some spiders can actually be kind of adorable. Others are surprisingly colorful. Male peacock spiders, like the one featured here beginning at 1:15, are both. They also bear a striking resemblance to Futurama’s John Zoidberg. The genus encompassing peacock spiders is known as Maratus, and is relatively new to science. First formally described in the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Have mathematicians finally discovered the hidden relationship between prime numbers?

Okay, math lovers, this is the one you’ve been waiting for: Shinichi Mochizuki of Kyoto University in Japan is claiming to have found proof (divided into four separate studies with 500+ pages) of the so-called abc conjecture, a longstanding problem in number theory which predicts that a relationship exists between prime numbers. The tricky part?…

io9 George Dvorsky

All Circuit Boards Should Be As Pretty As This One

Though it might look a lot like your typical circuit board on first glance, this board designed by Yuri Suzuki actually hides the London Underground Map in plain sight. As you look closer, you’ll see all the resistors and components matching up to re-create the London Tube. Designed by Yuri Suzuki, the engineering was done…

Tech News Casey Chan

Terra Nova wants you to figure out how the series should have ended

The Shannon family and the wailing baby dinosaur of Fox’s Terra Nova are long gone — but not forgotten. But even though Fox pulled the plug on this incredibly expensive time-traveling series, that doesn’t mean you have to be left feeling unsatisfied. Instead, Fox is starting a contest where Terra Nova fans can submit their…

Television Meredith Woerner

Feed: Make Music that Moves on Your iPad

There are plenty of apps that let you record field noises and tinker with sounds on your iPad, but none as beautiful as Feed. What does it do? Records, loops, changes the pitch, and otherwise manipulates audio files or sounds taken from the iPad’s microphone. Why do we like it? While other music making apps…

Tech News Leslie Horn

The Stoner Channel: South America’s Swanky Smugglin Subs, Mexico’s Blame Game, and Muddy Waters’ Blues Summit

Is a Combo iPhone Case/Wallet a Great Idea or a Terrible Mistake?

In this week’s comics, Walt Simonson draws Batman and xenomorphs

The Undercover Story of How Someone Infiltrated Foxconn to See How They Make the iPhone 5

So-Called “Evernote for Women” Is Happening, Because Ladies Need Their Internet Pink and Simple

Watch an Awesome Man in a Wheelchair Build a Helicopter from Trash

Kindle Fire HD Review: Everything a Tablet Should Be—And Not Much More

Here’s the One Thing I Want to See at Apple’s iPhone 5 Event (Spoiler: A Steve Jobs Hologram)

And now, a cat sitting like a human. Y’know. Just thinkin’ about stuff.

200 Cigarettes: Socializing Before Smartphones Sure Was Hard

How Neal Stephenson’s 20-Kilometer Space Tower Could Change Everything

What Have You Done with All Your Old CDs and DVDs?

Here Are Two Photos From Tomorrow’s Apple Event Sent From the Future

A Tribe Called Quest: Buggin’ Out

Amazing, Giant Nature Posters to Adorn Your Bare Walls

Dear science: please, please name this dancing spider after Zoidberg

Have mathematicians finally discovered the hidden relationship between prime numbers?

All Circuit Boards Should Be As Pretty As This One

Terra Nova wants you to figure out how the series should have ended

Feed: Make Music that Moves on Your iPad

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