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Watch As Zoo Keepers Struggle To Contain a Deadly Rhino Pinata

Even zoos have to prepare for worst-case-scenarios, like when an animal escapes its enclosure. But I’m not so sure the paper mache rhinoceros used at the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo really drives the point home of how dangerous this could be. I doubt a wall of nets is going to deter it from charging, nor…

Privacy & Security Andrew Liszewski Feb 9 '12

This chimp will kick your ass at memory games — but how the hell does he do it?

This is Ayumu, he’s an 11-year-old chimpanzee who lives and trains at Kyoto University’s Primate Research Institute. In his time there, Ayumu has come to excel at an incredibly difficult — albeit very straightforward — memorization game. If you challenge him to this game, you will lose. Allow me to be perfectly clear: there is…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 9 '12

Windows on ARM Will Support Desktop Mode, But Won’t Emulate Legacy Apps

Ever since Microsoft decided Windows 8 will support ARM-based CPUs, many wondered if that meant the traditional desktop experience would be supported as well. And if so, what about all the legacy apps developed for x86 CPUs? Windows 8 boss Steven Sinofsky has spoken. Yes, desktop mode is coming, but the old apps aren’t. In…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 9 '12

Scientists blast iron with lasers, and it disappears from X-rays

Scientists have found a way to turn iron nuclei transparent to X-rays, using lasers. And besides the coolness of making things disappear using lasers, this could have huge applications in optical computing. One of the fun things about science is every now and then something pops up that is extremely cool and that you were…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Feb 9 '12

Sigma Sticks Its Huge DSLR Sensor Into Tiny Cameras

You probably know Sigma for its inexpensive alternatives to brand-name lenses, but the company also makes some fine digital cameras. The newly rebooted DP-series compact cameras pack the same sensor technology as the company’s excellent $3300 SD1 DSLR. https://gizmodo.com/foveon-x3-packing-sigma-sd14-dslr-to-finally-ship-238400 The new DP Merrill cameras feature the company’s proprietary Foveon x3 46-megapixel, APS-C sensor, which sounds…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Feb 9 '12

The Enormous Secret Weapons Depot Hidden Underneath Manhattan

Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood is mostly filled with bored models and stupid-expensive boutiques. But on one grimy, absolutely ignorable corner is the entrance to a cavern stuffed with guns, rockets, cocaine, and riot shields. This is where Hollywood locks and loads. The Specialists LTD is a family business. Ryder Washburn, the current VP and son of…

Movies Sam Biddle Feb 9 '12

Totally Badass Cyborg Costume Made of Old Apple Computers

This is the greatest thing ever. Somebody in Chongqing, China decided to show their love for Apple products by dressing up in a homemade cyborg costume made of iMacs and other outdated Macs. Now he needs to go out and fight crime, with the awesome power of OS 2. [MIC Gadget via Cult of Mac]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 9 '12

This Edimax Mini USB Wireless N Adapter Is Your HOLY-F&*K-That-Is-Tiny Deal of the Day

Things that always amuse the heck out of me: tiny, shrunken, miniaturized, small, microscopic, itty bitty, teeny things. Those smart cars? Makes me chuckle every time I see them. The HP Veer? Brings a smile to my face. That candy Nerds? I inhale ’em. The little person (dwarf? midget?) on Game of Thrones? Hilarious! If…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Feb 9 '12

There Is a Spaceship Hidden In This Image of Mars

This image was captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter while flying over the Bonneveille Crater on January 29, 2012. There’s a spaceship hidden in plain view, sightly red because of the planet’s dust. Can you see it? It’s the “first color image from orbit showing the three-petal…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Feb 9 '12

Dad Shoots Daughter’s Laptop With .45 Because of Facebook Post

So this happened. It’s a father reacting to a post his daughter made on Facebook. He wasn’t happy. You can skip ahead to 7 minutes for the big reveal. I’m not convinced this is real, but it’s an interesting look at modern parenting. The link to a Facebook page that appears at the beginning of…

Social Media Mat Honan Feb 9 '12

The Most Precise Image of a Post-Earthquake Landscape Ever Created

A new measurement tool that uses light detection and ranging (or LiDAR) can show how earthquakes have changed the landscape down to a few inches—and that can help us prepare for difficult-to-predict earthquakes. In the image above, blue means the earth has descended, and red shows upward movement compared to a 2006 survey. LiDAR makes…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Feb 9 '12

The Top 7 Android Music Apps for Apple AirPlay

Apple’s AirPlay gives people the pleasure of watching movies, looking at photos, and of course listening to music wirelessly, zapping the content from their iPhones, iPod Touches, or iPads to their televisions and home speaker systems with a variety of popular iOS music apps. What about Google’s Android devices – do those work with AirPlay…

Tech News Wren Leader - Evolver.fm Feb 9 '12

My Encounter With The World’s Cutest Swarm of Toxic Bugs

Ladybugs are the one kind of bug you don’t mind crawling on you. They’re cute. They’re pretty. And they swarm. They swarm by the tens of millions. I had a personal encounter with a smaller swarm when hiking. Find out about my brush with nature’s most adorable fury. Ladybugs – also known as ladybirds –…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Feb 9 '12

Samurai Star Wars characters, out of a movie too awesome to exist

Artist Clinton Felker has given some of the Star Wars universe’s most iconic characters a bushido makeover. Check out his takes on Darth Vader, Yoda, the stormtroopers, and that notorious ronin Boba Fett. The only thing we’re missing here is Oni The Hutt. [Clinton Felker via Comics Alliance]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 9 '12

This Is the Center of the Universe: NASA’s Deep-Space Command Central

Through technology, we’ve developed the ability to reach out into the distant corners of the universe. Rovers, orbiters, and deep-space probes. But regardless of how far away from us they extend, they all reach from a single point of origin: Earth. Or, to be even more specific, they all extend out from this one room…

Tech News Brent Rose Feb 9 '12

This is the “stretchable gold” that will power rubber circuit boards

We’ve been hearing a lot about how the future of electronics will involve stretchy circuit boards, or circuits you can glue to your skin. In this video, you can see one crucial ingredient in bendy electronics — stretchable, electrically-conductive gold that can bend with the rubber it’s printed on. University of Cambridge engineering researcher Ingrid…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 9 '12

New device hacks into blind people’s visual cortex to let them “see”

This Sensory Substitution Device uses the camera to gather visual data and then uses a rather nifty computer algorithm to translates this data into sound. With a little practice, blind users can identify complex objects, and even read words. The invention is the invention of Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Dr. Amir Amedi, who you can…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Feb 9 '12

10 Sexiest Evil Twins of All Time

Fringe keeps proving over and over that everybody’s sexier when they come from a dark, dystopian alternate universe. But it’s basically a law of science fiction that the evil twin is always the sexier one. Throughout science fiction, you’ll find darker duplicates of your “hero” characters — hence the “evil twin” trope, even though they’re…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 9 '12

They Know You’re Reading This

I was recently complaining to a teller at my bank that the another bank down the street had given my 3 year-old daughter a stuffed horse for nothing more than walking past the front door. I jokingly asked her what gifts my own bank would be willing to offer to compete for the affections of…

Privacy & Security Dave Pell Feb 9 '12

This baby wolf and grizzly bear cub became lifelong best friends

Animals strike up plenty of strange interspecies friendships, but this one in particular is DEFCON 1 adorable. At the Woodland Zoo in Farmington, Pennsylvania, Lil’ Bear the grizzly and Tala the wolf have struck up a friendship that has lasted six years. The only thing that could make this tableau any cuter is if the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 9 '12

Watch As Zoo Keepers Struggle To Contain a Deadly Rhino Pinata

This chimp will kick your ass at memory games — but how the hell does he do it?

Windows on ARM Will Support Desktop Mode, But Won’t Emulate Legacy Apps

Scientists blast iron with lasers, and it disappears from X-rays

Sigma Sticks Its Huge DSLR Sensor Into Tiny Cameras

The Enormous Secret Weapons Depot Hidden Underneath Manhattan

Totally Badass Cyborg Costume Made of Old Apple Computers

This Edimax Mini USB Wireless N Adapter Is Your HOLY-F&*K-That-Is-Tiny Deal of the Day

There Is a Spaceship Hidden In This Image of Mars

Dad Shoots Daughter’s Laptop With .45 Because of Facebook Post

The Most Precise Image of a Post-Earthquake Landscape Ever Created

The Top 7 Android Music Apps for Apple AirPlay

My Encounter With The World’s Cutest Swarm of Toxic Bugs

Samurai Star Wars characters, out of a movie too awesome to exist

This Is the Center of the Universe: NASA’s Deep-Space Command Central

This is the “stretchable gold” that will power rubber circuit boards

New device hacks into blind people’s visual cortex to let them “see”

10 Sexiest Evil Twins of All Time

They Know You’re Reading This

This baby wolf and grizzly bear cub became lifelong best friends

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