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Your Sweaty Ass Could Soon Be Charging Your Phone

If you generate a lot of excess body heat—and there’s no shame in it—then it would make sense to put it to good use. A new wearable fabric called Power Felt could be the answer; it can generate electrical current from temperature differences. Developed by researchers at the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials at…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 22 '12

The Foxconn Reality: “Better” Is Still Bad

Week after week we hear Foxconn horror stories, but Apple’s gadget metropolis is just one place inside an enormous country. Detractors say it’s inhumane; defenders say it’s way above the norm. But what does “bad” really mean inside a Chinese factory? Let’s put Foxconn in context. The latest appraisal of Foxconn comes from ABC’s Nightline.…

Tech News Sam Biddle Feb 22 '12

Is Google Trying to Kill Web Video?

Imagine if web video suddenly disappeared from smartphones one day. Well, Microsoft says that if Google isn’t stopped, that calamitous day might not be far off. That’s a lofty charge, but is it truth or hyperbole? Microsoft just filed an anti-trust complaint in the EU alleging that Google-owned Motorola Mobility is unfairly using its web…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Feb 22 '12

This Dell Fart Art Video Must Be A Hoax (Updated)

You’ve seen a thousand videos vaguely similar to this one—at least in the way it starts—but just be patient. Give it two minutes. There’s an unexpected payoff. A money shot, if you will. This is pretty clearly a hoax. I mean, did you see how bad that logo looked? Or checked out photographer Clayton Sotos’…

Tech News Mat Honan Feb 22 '12

If you could erase your most painful memories with a pill, would you take it?

Memories have a way of informing our identities, reinforcing our conceptions of who we are, and helping shape us into the people we will become tomorrow. In almost all cases, our memories — even the unpleasant ones — play a formative role in our lives; but they can also be so painful or traumatic that…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 22 '12

Telepathy? This External Speaker Works Without a Wired Or Wireless Connection

Instead of Bluetooth, wi-fi, or even a stereo mini cable, iFrogz’ new Boost speaker uses something the company is calling near field audio technology to amplify a given device’s own built-in speaker. To use it you just place an audio device on top of the boost with its own speaker turned up. The NFA tech,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 22 '12

Anthropodermic Bibliopegy, or The Truth About Books Bound In Human Skin

Rare old books are occasionally bound in human skin, including nipples, and even the face of a Guy Fawkes conspirator. Antiquarians have discovered these grisly leather covers on prayer books, astronomy treatises, court cases, and anatomy texts — all written in the past three to four hundred years. Let’s take a look at a how…

Books & Comics Keith Veronese Feb 22 '12

Cockpit photo from The Europa Report channels Kubrick’s Space Odyssey

We’ve seen possible footage from the mysterious space flick The Europa Report, which is about a team of astronauts headed out to explore one of Jupiter’s moons. This newly released production still reveals yet another sweeping view of the gorgeous ship. This image is taken from the “nose camera” on the ship and shoots straight…

Movies Meredith Woerner Feb 22 '12

This Is What You See When You Crash Into a Mountain at 120 MPH

Earlier this week we showed you Jeb Corliss’ brush with death, as he hit the side of Table Mountain while attempting a wingsuit jump. Now, the footage from the cameras mounted to his helmet is available—and it looks terrifying. https://gizmodo.com/crashing-into-a-mountain-during-a-wingsuit-dive-sure-lo-5886615 When Jeb jumped off of Table Mountain, he sure as hell wasn’t planning to hit…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 22 '12

Behold, the bizarre physics of the “Gobbling Drop”

The strange behavior you’re witnessing is not typical of pure water (and that includes water observed in super slow motion). The phenomenon is known as “the gobbling drop effect,” and was first observed and recorded just three years ago by a team of researchers led by MIT’s Gareth McKinley. So what’s the secret to these…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 22 '12

What if Worf left the Enterprise to work on the Nostromo?

Yesterday we looked at the many occasions in which the rest of the Enterprise crew craps all over Worf’s judgment. The character’s ongoing disenfranchisement has been a source for consternation for artist Andrea Tsurumi, who recently laid out the Klingon’s workplace dissatisfaction in this zippy cartoon. Explains Tsurumi: https://gizmodo.com/and-now-15-minutes-of-worfs-ideas-getting-shot-down-by-5886955 Although everything tends to work out…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Feb 22 '12

Watch Steve Jobs’ Life In a Facebook Timeline (Updated 3)

Someone built a Facebook timeline with the life of Steve Jobs. It’s quite nice to go through it and look at his life in this format, rather than having to suffer through Isaacson’s rushed out prose. It is actually a great idea that I want to see more: build timelines of famous dead people in…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 22 '12

Vote for the greatest non-human president of the United States

With every passing election year, the statistical likelihood increases that we’ll elect a U.S. president who’s really a robot, or an alien. Or maybe a charismatic plant, grown in some kind of tank. How will you recognize a non-human candidate for president when one comes along? And more importantly, which non-human would be the best…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 22 '12

Tetris Lamp Lights Up When Stacked Instead of Disappearing

It doesn’t include that oh-so-catchy theme song, but as a deskcessory this Tetris lamp is thankfully not just a cheap cash grab tie-in to the famous puzzle game. Well, as an officially licensed product it technically is a cash grab, but it’s still pretty neat. The various tetriminos are all individual pieces and they only…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 22 '12

The New Nike+ Is a Futuristic Sensor That Brings the Power of Nike’s Research Labs to Your Shoes

If you’ve ever played sports, you’ve always wanted to find a way to measure your athletic ability. How fast can you run? How high can you jump? Are you any good? The new Nike+ Sports Sensor puts a super smart sensor in your shoe that can measure all that. It’s like wearing Nike’s research labs…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 22 '12

The 20 Million MPH Cosmic Hurricane Tearing Through Our Universe

If you thought space was a peaceful vacuum, think again: scientists have discovered the fastest winds ever observed on a stellar-mass black hole, and they reach an incredible 20 million mph. The winds, detected using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, are ten times faster than any detected at similar black holes in the past, reports Space.…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe Feb 22 '12

Photographer refuses to reveal how she made her baby fly

Photographer Rachel Hulin has captured her baby mid-flight throughout their lovely home. But how has this infant mastered the art of levitation, we’re not sure. And artist swears this is no cut-and-paste job. In an interview with Time Magazine, Hulin was completely mum on how she mastered these shots: “I wanted the flights to feel…

io9 Meredith Woerner Feb 22 '12

Insanely Strong Molecular Glue, Inspired by Flesh-Eating Bacteria

If you’ve ever stuck your fingers together with super glue, you know pain. But imagine sticking them together with glue that bonds materials at the molecular level: that’s real pain. It’s also what scientists are doing, with the help of flesh-eating bacteria. A team of researchers from the University of Oxford has created a molecular…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 22 '12

Inside Foxconn: TV Crew Enters Apple’s Factories for the First Time Ever

ABC News’ Nightline program delivered what they claimed would be an unprecedented look inside the Foxconntroversy: their TV crew would have unfettered access to facilities and people. So what did they expose? The ABC team, along with members of the Fair Labor Association, toured the plant, occasionally shaking hands with a laborer or being fed…

Tech News Sam Biddle and Michael Hession Feb 22 '12

Alex the counting parrot was even smarter than we thought

Alex the gray parrot was no ordinary bird. The subject of a thirty-year investigation into avian cognition, by the time he died in 2007, numerous scientific publications had pointed to Alex as proof that a bird’s mathematical abilities could be on par with — and even exceed — those of chimps and other non-human primates.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 22 '12

Your Sweaty Ass Could Soon Be Charging Your Phone

The Foxconn Reality: “Better” Is Still Bad

Is Google Trying to Kill Web Video?

This Dell Fart Art Video Must Be A Hoax (Updated)

If you could erase your most painful memories with a pill, would you take it?

Telepathy? This External Speaker Works Without a Wired Or Wireless Connection

Anthropodermic Bibliopegy, or The Truth About Books Bound In Human Skin

Cockpit photo from The Europa Report channels Kubrick’s Space Odyssey

This Is What You See When You Crash Into a Mountain at 120 MPH

Behold, the bizarre physics of the “Gobbling Drop”

What if Worf left the Enterprise to work on the Nostromo?

Watch Steve Jobs’ Life In a Facebook Timeline (Updated 3)

Vote for the greatest non-human president of the United States

Tetris Lamp Lights Up When Stacked Instead of Disappearing

The New Nike+ Is a Futuristic Sensor That Brings the Power of Nike’s Research Labs to Your Shoes

The 20 Million MPH Cosmic Hurricane Tearing Through Our Universe

Photographer refuses to reveal how she made her baby fly

Insanely Strong Molecular Glue, Inspired by Flesh-Eating Bacteria

Inside Foxconn: TV Crew Enters Apple’s Factories for the First Time Ever

Alex the counting parrot was even smarter than we thought

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