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The Most Comfortable Pile of Rocks You Will Ever Sit On

You go to a rocky beach, you dig for a few seashells, skip a few stones on the water, and make a couch. Wait, what? Ok beach rocks might not be the first inspiration that comes to mind when crafting new furniture, but in the case of GumDesign’s Isola couch, the finished result came out…

Tech News Adrian Covert Oct 2 '12

Newest Smart TV Makes Leaving the House Unnecessary

A recent study by Nielsen showed that almost 70% of tablet and smartphone users engage with their devices while watching TV. That means that the majority of hate-tweets you’re reading about Greenpoint-dwelling, funny, wunder-gurls are being posted as the show airs. And while that’s all well and good — and very developed compared to ten…

Tech News Sponsored post Oct 2 '12

An Exclusive Excerpt from Little Star, From the Author of Let the Right One In

Before Let the Right One In was one of the best horror movies of the past decade, it was a novel by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist. In addition to tackling vampires, Lindqvist has written about zombies and other supernatural creatures. But his new novel, Little Star, is about something… weirder. Check out a couple…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Oct 2 '12

Sinister scary or not? Watch these new clips and decide

We’ve got a bunch of new clips from the horror movie Sinister — which manages to be pretty scary, while also being more creative than your run-of-the-mill “found footage” movie. Sinister follows Ethan Hawke, true crimes novelist, as he tries to unwind the mystery behind a family that died of a mass hanging. All together,…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 2 '12

Bizarre “Biblical” and “Fantasy” Maps of the World, Circa 1580

From the famous maps of cartographer Heinrich Bünting‘s Itinerarium Sacra Scripturae (Travels According to the Scriptures), come these fascinating mashup of religion, fantasy and map-making. Described by the Yale University Map Collection as a “cartographic oddity,” Bunting’s map was published in 1581, and serves as a symbolic depiction (Bünting knew the world didn’t actually look…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 2 '12

Why You Have Bad Breath in the Morning

You brush. You floss. You swish some burning mint-laced liquid around in your mouth until it hurts. You go to bed with an oral hygiene gold star, and you wake up with white gloop connecting your lips and some vile odor emanating from it. Wtf happens in our mouths while we sleep? The short answer…

Tech News Rachel Swaby Oct 2 '12

Revolution has grown its characters more in three episodes than Terra Nova did in a season

A while back, we asked: Is Revolution the new Terra Nova, or the new Supernatural? And now we can say definitively that it’s closer to the latter. You may hate this show’s magical premise, but you can’t deny it’s doing the right things to develop staying power. https://gizmodo.com/this-weeks-tv-is-revolution-the-new-supernatural-or-t-5943755 The show’s characters started as one-dimensional archetypes,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Oct 2 '12

Razer Blade (Late 2012) Review: Sharper, Better, But Still Not a Revolution

In retrospect, the first Razer Blade only seemed insane because we’d gone down such a preposterous path with gaming laptops. Bigger, huger, less practical. Then Razer decided to bring premium gaming back to regular computers. Its first outing succeeded with looks, but choppy gameplay fell way short of “premium.” The new Blade is its stab…

Reviews Kyle Wagner Oct 2 '12

This Vizio Thin+Light Is Your What’s-An-Ultrabook-Anyway Deal of the Day

The term “Ultrabook” may be just an Intel marketing buzzword, but it’s actually a pretty useful way to describe a specific kind of laptop: portable, with great battery life, and preferably no moving parts. The problem is that Ultrabook is being used to describe all manner of laptops, like (relatively) boxy, cheap machines with spinning…

Tech News Kif Leswing Oct 2 '12

New project aims to upload a honey bee’s brain into a flying insectobot by 2015

Every once in a while, there’s news which reminds us that we’re living in the age of accelerating change. This is one of those times: A new project has been announced in which scientists at the Universities of Sheffield and Sussex are hoping to create the first accurate computer simulation of a honey bee brain…

io9 George Dvorsky Oct 2 '12

How the Obama Campaign Uses Your Personal Information to Get Your Money and Your Vote

In 2008, the Obama campaign enlisted the help of Facebook and Google bigwigs to help raise massive sums from a lot of small donors. Back then, the key was just a few pieces of data—today, that data mining effort has been expanded to a huge and very creepy degree. Mother Jones has a great profile…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Oct 2 '12

Androids, Comics, and Ghost Prostitutes: A Conversation With The Legendary Lance Henriksen

Throughout his career, Lance Henriksen has played everything from curious androids to paranormally powered FBI agents. But with his upcoming comic book To Hell You Ride, the actor gets to spin a Weird Western horror yarn that’s been haunting him for decades. (Also, what did Bishop himself think of Prometheus?) Courtesy of Dark Horse Comics,…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Oct 2 '12

This Amazing Knife Can Split a Water Droplet in Half

Sometimes science truly is indistinguishable from magic: a team of engineers at Arizona State University has created a knife that can actually cut water. Cut it clean in two parts, no little droplets, no mess. Like Moses parting the Red Sea, but without killing any Egyptians. What kind of sorcery is this? Was this forged…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 2 '12

Cars Shooting Challenge

I took this photo with my Canon T1i using a 55-250 mm lens. I noticed the reflections on the car and thought it would make a really nice picture. I set up my tripod and took 3 pictures, one at high exposure, normal exposure, and low exposure. I then stitched them together in Photoshop using…

Tech News Nicholas Stango Oct 2 '12

20 Gorgeous Photos of Cars

You kids and your cars. Since you send them to us each week anyway, we decided to make it official. Here are the results of our Shooting Challenge: Cars. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-cars-5946634 Winner: It’s The Paint Job One of my buddies at work is really into cars, and by really I mean he practically washes his car…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 2 '12

One Way That Bird Brains Could Be Superior to Mammal Brains

Mammals are unique in that they’re the only animals whose brains feature a neocortex — a recently evolved structure that’s responsible for higher order functioning like conscious thought, sensory perception, spatial reasoning, and language. But now, scientists working at the University of Chicago have confirmed that birds have their own version of the neocortex —…

io9 George Dvorsky Oct 2 '12

The io9 Book Club is in session! Let’s talk about John Scalzi’s Redshirts!

Welcome to the monthly meeting of the io9 Book Club. In September, we read John Scalzi’s Redshirts. Jump into comments to get started talking about it! For those unfamiliar with the io9 book club, here’s how it works: You read the book. We create a special book club post on io9 when the meeting is…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Oct 2 '12

Would an Unlimited Subscription Get Your Ass Back in a Movie Theater Seat?

Going to the movies is expensive. Here in New York a regular adult ticket costs about $12, which doesn’t even include the price of popcorn and soda. MoviePass, which is currently in beta, wants to fix this by offering an all-you-can-watch subscription to the movies. TechCrunch reports that for a subscription fee of $25-$40 per…

Movies Mario Aguilar Oct 2 '12

Report: Microsoft Is Developing Its Own Phone

Microsoft has tried it everyone else’s way, and Windows Phone still hasn’t made much headway. That could still change, but two separate reports, from WPCentral and BGR, are claiming that Microsoft’s taking the next step and making a phone on its own. Here are the details from WPCentral: Information has come forward to Windows Phone…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Oct 2 '12

The AT&T Custom Cable Ship That Made Modern Telecommunications Possible

Cable ships that criss-cross the world’s oceans, laying lines to facilitate communications, have existed since the 1850s. But in 1961 AT&T launched what was then considered the world’s most modern cable layer, the C.S. Long Lines, which could hold almost 2,500 miles of cable at a time. During its first two decades of operation starting…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 2 '12

The Most Comfortable Pile of Rocks You Will Ever Sit On

Newest Smart TV Makes Leaving the House Unnecessary

An Exclusive Excerpt from Little Star, From the Author of Let the Right One In

Sinister scary or not? Watch these new clips and decide

Bizarre “Biblical” and “Fantasy” Maps of the World, Circa 1580

Why You Have Bad Breath in the Morning

Revolution has grown its characters more in three episodes than Terra Nova did in a season

Razer Blade (Late 2012) Review: Sharper, Better, But Still Not a Revolution

This Vizio Thin+Light Is Your What’s-An-Ultrabook-Anyway Deal of the Day

New project aims to upload a honey bee’s brain into a flying insectobot by 2015

How the Obama Campaign Uses Your Personal Information to Get Your Money and Your Vote

Androids, Comics, and Ghost Prostitutes: A Conversation With The Legendary Lance Henriksen

This Amazing Knife Can Split a Water Droplet in Half

Cars Shooting Challenge

20 Gorgeous Photos of Cars

One Way That Bird Brains Could Be Superior to Mammal Brains

The io9 Book Club is in session! Let’s talk about John Scalzi’s Redshirts!

Would an Unlimited Subscription Get Your Ass Back in a Movie Theater Seat?

Report: Microsoft Is Developing Its Own Phone

The AT&T Custom Cable Ship That Made Modern Telecommunications Possible

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