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How to Make Your iPhone Charge Wirelessly (Without an Ugly Case)

Wirelessly charging your iPhone would be pretty great, but not with the dumb cases that inductive charging requires. That’s why this mod from Tanveer is so great. A regular iPhone that charges when you set it down. The future! Here’s what you’ll need, according to Tanveer, in addition to some serious soldering skills: patience a…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 6

Watch This Guy Survive a 393-Foot Fall Like Wile E. Coyote

This video seems out of a Chuck Jones cartoon of the Roadrunner and the Coyote, but it’s real. It happened in Konakova, Russia. A BASE jumper jumped off the top of an electric post, 393 feet (120 meters) over the snow surface below. Unfortunately, his parachute failed. He probably crashed at about 106 miles per…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 6

3 Computer Simulations that Changed The World (And 2 That Are on the Verge)

Computer simulations have already massively transformed our ability to study complicated situations and events. We can study the effects of disasters without having to suffer through the real thing, and we can test out solutions. Running simulated events on powerful computers, based on real-life factors, lets scientists test potential designs, predict future outcomes or get…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jul 6

Port Google Now To Your Ice Cream Sandwich Android Phone

With the right skills, you can port Jelly Bean’s Google Now over to your Ice Cream Sandwich Android device. If you want to try the oh-so-creepy predictive assistant, but you’re not yet running a build 4.1 operating system, you can do so following a set of instructions posted on the XDA Developers forums. User febycv…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jul 6

What makes polonium the ideal poison for assassins?

As poisons go, polonium-210 is a bit of a mixed bag. Is it effective? Absolutely. If you eat a piece of polonium-210 the size of a grain of salt, it’ll probably be enough to kill the average adult. That said, the highly unstable element is notorious for leaving an unmistakable calling card: ridiculously high levels…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jul 6

Scientists Observe the Mysterious Hidden Structure of the Universe for the First Time Ever

In 1933, Fritz Zwicky—a Swiss astronomer working at CalTech—had an amazing revelation. He realized that the amount of matter that we can see through our telescopes doesn’t match the behavior of the Universe. There had to be something else that we couldn’t see. Something that accounts for an astonishing 83 percent of all existing matter…

Physics & Chemistry Jesus Diaz Jul 6

Turning swords into bananas enhances all your favorite fantasy stories

What if George R.R. Martin’s third Song of Ice and Fire book was called A Storm of Bananas? That’s the sort of question you are forced to contemplate, after spending some time looking at the “Swords Replaced With Bananas” images over at SomethingAwful. This might be the best Photoshop meme in ages. Especially when you…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 6

This Ship Flips to Rise Five Stories Above the Sea Surface

In the early 1960’s, the US Department of Naval Research needed a new way to study the acoustic targeting for submarine rockets. The ship had to be silent and stable—more buoy than boat. The design that met the requirements became the world’s only vertically-flippable research vessel. Either that, or the lamest Transformer since Bumblebee. The…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 6

Don’t worry, people! We have a plan for moving the Earth.

In half a billion years, the sun will swell up like a blowfish and cause the Earth to become a parched moonscape, devoid of all but microbial life. But don’t worry about it. Scientists have a plan for moving the Earth to a more habitable zone. And all it’ll take is ten million years. Moving…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jul 6

Have You Seen This Rogue Weather Balloon?

Earlier this week, a group of middle schoolers at a summer science camp in upstate New York pumped a weather balloon with 300 cubic feet of helium and launched it high up into the stratosphere to gather photos of the Earth’s curvature. The team believed the balloon would land somewhere around Allentown, PA, and began…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jul 6

What the Internet’s Pop Culture Gurus are Looking Forward To at Comic Con

San Diego Comic Con is almost upon us! Prepare for four days of overstimulation and non-stop entertainment news, from the heart of the pop culture supercollider on the sea. To help us prepare ourselves for the madness, some of the sites that cover movies and pop culture got together to geek out about what we’re…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 6

Batman’s secret identity is . . . Bruno Díaz!

After tireless investigation, this reporter has at last found out Batman’s secret identity. The caped crusader who keeps Gothamites safe doesn’t stalk the alleys of the city full time. By day he’s well-known billionaire playboy Bruno Díaz! Ah, the things you learn when you idly change the language settings on your DVDs. For example, a…

Books & Comics Esther Inglis-Arkell Jul 6

This Million Dollar Vacuum Cleaner Has Its Own Totally Worthless Rap

The price of gold is at a record high ($1500-$1700 this year, depending on the day) and it will only continue to rise, based on current pattern of growth. All of which is to say, manufacturing a set of 100 24-carat gold-plated vacuum cleaners—each with a price tag of $1 million—takes a kind of hubris…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Jul 6

These biologically-inspired robotic legs are the most accurate yet

There’s a new robot in town that may not have the confident swagger of Boston Dynamics’ PETMAN, but it does have something special going for it: biological accuracy. Developed by a group of researchers from the University of Arizona, the new bipedal robot is equipped with the fundamental neuromuscular architecture of human walking — right…

io9 George Dvorsky Jul 6

The Autism Vaccination Hoax and Other Science Scams

In this week’s io9 show, we take a look at the shady side of science, and talk about some of our favorite scientist con artists. We discover how the “vaccines cause autism” hoax was perpetrated, and how inter-species cross-breeding among mice turned out to be a fake. But are online genetic testing services a scam,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 6

Google Beats Galaxy Nexus Ban By Making It Worse

Last week, Apple secured an injunction against the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus by claiming that the quick search on the phone’s Android OS violates its patent for a “universal interface for retrieval of information in a computer system.” Google’s got a “fix” coming, but you’re not going to like it. Google will be…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jul 6

10 Science Experiments That Looked Like the End of the World

It’s official: The Large Hadron Collider helped to find a new particle, and it didn’t turn the world inside out. Everybody relax! But history is full of strange experiments that people predicted might bring about the end of the human race… and in some cases, they might actually have had a point. Here are 10…

io9 Keith Veronese Jul 6

The Motherlode of High-Res Dark Knight Rises Photos

Batman is coming back to save Gotham City, in the final installment of Christopher Nolan’s Bat-trilogy. Just how messianic will Bruce Wayne become? What will become of Batman, and will anything be left of Gotham afterwards? We’ll find out when you do. But for now, Warner Bros. has released a slew of super-high-res promotional photos…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jul 6

Here’s Why Your Geek Squad Appointment Has Been Delayed Until Half Past Never

A tipster who works for Best Buy has told us that the company on Tuesday began implementing a “restructuring plan,” which is PR-speak for massive layoffs and the reason your Geek Squad appointment has been indefinitely delayed. So if you got a call earlier this week letting you know that your appointment must be rescheduled…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jul 6

An amazing behind-the-scenes look at the animation behind John Carter

John Carter may not have conquered the box office, but this groovy animator’s-eye-view of the special effects workflow shows just how much effort it took to bring Mars to life. Watch as Blue Sky Studios animator Patrick Giusiano pushes around (folks who I’m assuming are) his family members to give the Tharks’ baby rodeo some…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Jul 6

How to Make Your iPhone Charge Wirelessly (Without an Ugly Case)

Watch This Guy Survive a 393-Foot Fall Like Wile E. Coyote

3 Computer Simulations that Changed The World (And 2 That Are on the Verge)

Port Google Now To Your Ice Cream Sandwich Android Phone

What makes polonium the ideal poison for assassins?

Scientists Observe the Mysterious Hidden Structure of the Universe for the First Time Ever

Turning swords into bananas enhances all your favorite fantasy stories

This Ship Flips to Rise Five Stories Above the Sea Surface

Don’t worry, people! We have a plan for moving the Earth.

Have You Seen This Rogue Weather Balloon?

What the Internet’s Pop Culture Gurus are Looking Forward To at Comic Con

Batman’s secret identity is . . . Bruno Díaz!

This Million Dollar Vacuum Cleaner Has Its Own Totally Worthless Rap

These biologically-inspired robotic legs are the most accurate yet

The Autism Vaccination Hoax and Other Science Scams

Google Beats Galaxy Nexus Ban By Making It Worse

10 Science Experiments That Looked Like the End of the World

The Motherlode of High-Res Dark Knight Rises Photos

Here’s Why Your Geek Squad Appointment Has Been Delayed Until Half Past Never

An amazing behind-the-scenes look at the animation behind John Carter

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