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Dock Connector-USB Hub Hybrid Mitigates the MacBook’s Biggest Shortcoming

All MacBooks ever made share two traits: thin, attractive design and a shortage of USB ports. Until now, the only solution was using a fat, ugly USB hub. With this cable-hub-hybrid, you can have your ports and thinness too. The otherwise normal looking dock connector cable from DITS has an inline three port USB hub.…

Tech News Michael Zhao Jul 12

Gorilla is given a video camera, awesomeness ensues

A gorilla at the UK’s Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust was recently given a video camera, and you can see the results in the video up top. Honestly, the gorilla’s cinematography is way more coherent than most action movies. Not to be outdone by a bunch of macaque photography enthusiasts, staff at the Jersey wildlife trust…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 12

Take a Stunning Five Day Cruise in Just Five Minutes

It takes the Norwegian Coastal Express 134 hours to get from Bergen to Kirkenes, a journey that’s filled with lush islands, plush sunrises, and hushed twilights. With this remarkable time-lapse video, it’ll take you five minutes. The shot is the (extremely) compressed version of a marathon live broadcast by Norwegian Public Service broadcaster NRK. It’s…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jul 12

Craftsman Hammerhead: Great for Pounding in Tight Spots

I’m not what you’d call “coordinated,” so the prospect of hammering nails without worrying about how many fingernails I’ll lose in the process is, um, appealing. The Craftsman HammerHead G2 Auto-Hammer does that—just not terribly well. Likes Handy in specific situations—namely, cramped and poorly lit areas where a full hammer swing isn’t possible. The articulating…

Reviews Andrew Tarantola Jul 12

The Craftsman Hammerhead Auto Hammer

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Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 12

Godzilla-Maru Deep Sea Drill Pokes the Ocean’s Deepest Holes

If Land of the Lost taught me anything, it’s that cool things lurk just below the surface of the earth (and Will Ferrel is the greatest actor of his generation). That’s where the Chikyu Hakken Deep Sea Drill comes in. The Deep Sea Drilling Vessel D/V Chikyū Hakken (“Earth Discovery” aka “Godzilla-Maru”) is a Japanese…

io9 Andrew Tarantola Jul 12

Hank Azaria calls out The Smurfs on their creepy co-habitation in 8 new movie clips

This new batch of clips from The Smurfs movie have us very confused. Do the characters know that this movie is horrific? Because Hank Azaria and Neil Patrick Harris are lighting the Smurfs up in these movie clips. Thank goodness NPH is here to point out some of the weird things about these creatures. Like,…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jul 12

Facebook for Every Phone: Now Even People With Crappy Dumbphones Can Check Facebook

Facebook just unveiled their Facebook for Every Phone app which will put a serviceable Facebook experience on even the crappiest of phones. I’m not kidding, Facebook for Every Phone will work on over 2,5000 different devices. Basically, if you have a Java-enabled phone, you can get a Facebook app now (…and my iPad can’t?). It…

Social Media Casey Chan Jul 12

We want your pictures of fake monsters!

Sick of all the crappy Bigfoot fakes? The blurry shots of Nessie? We know you can do better than that. Use your best image-doctoring skills, makeup wizardry, or just crafty DiY awesomeness, to create a photograph that looks like you’ve discovered a real monster. https://gizmodo.com/bigfoot-conference-verdict-big-fat-hoax-5037738 Give us your best faked image of a cryptid, or…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 12

Win Some Wireless, Waterproof Speakers With Which To Practice Sub-Aquatic Vocal Resonation

A.k.a., singing in the shower. All you have to do to win this wireless, waterproof speaker system that transmits audio from your mp3 player directly to your tub is head down below, take a simple one-question survey, then email your answer to [email protected] with “Waterproof Speaker Contest” as the subject line. Auditions for American Idol…

Tech News Sponsored post Jul 12

Win Some Wireless, Waterproof Speakers With Which To Practice Sub-Aquatic Vocal Resonation

A.k.a., singing in the shower. All you have to do to win this wireless, waterproof speaker system that transmits audio from your mp3 player directly to your tub is head down below, take a simple one-question survey, then email your answer to [email protected] with “Waterproof Speaker Contest” as the subject line. Auditions for American Idol…

io9 Sponsored post Jul 12

David Byrne: Computers Will Have No Effect on the Arts

I love David Byrne. The guy is a total geek. He makes great music. He rides bikes. What’s not to like? Well, his prognostication abilities, for one. Over at Paleofuture Matt Novak dug up a 1987 interview with David Byrne from Omni magazine. It was part of a package where the magazine had 14 “great…

Tech News Mat Honan Jul 12

Wear your favorite shows with this amazing technicolor video coat

This LED video coat by David Forbes may look like a souped-up lab coat, but when the juice is on, this wearer becomes a 360° view screen. We’re that much closer to corporations buying out informericals on your torso. Check our Forbes’ designs for this futuristic frock here. Some day your favorite label will be…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 12

7 Tools to Show Muggers Who’s Boss (That Would Be You)

These are dangerous times. And since you can’t just keep throwing your wallet at attackers and running, you’d better learn to defend yourself. Here are seven tools that will help you walk the mean streets without fear. [Top art courtesy of Shutterstock] Taser X26C The latest generation of Taser drops an attacker with 50,000 volts.…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 12

io9 Book Club reminder: Meeting 7/26 to discuss Genevieve Valentine’s Mechanique

The io9 Book Club meets once per month to discuss a book, and then the author usually joins us for a chat. In July, we’re meeting on the 26th to discuss Genevieve Valentine’s Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti. Watch for a post that day announcing the book club, and jump into comments for…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Jul 12

The Time the Inventors of the C Programming Language Guest-Starred on Doctor Who

A bunch of classic Doctor Who stories have appeared on DVD recently, and they’re full of little gems. Like this suite of deleted scenes in which we learn that two random guards are named Kernighan and Ritchie. What are the creators of the C programming language doing on Doctor Who? Blame Christopher H. Bidmead, computer…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 12

The Zoom H2n Will Record Warfare Five Times Better

Zoom’s recorders have always been pretty solid, but their latest seems like it was made for action. With its five onboard “studio quality” microphones, the Zoom H2n can hone in on the timidest of interviewees even under heavy fire. The H2n features a 1.8-inch backlit LCD screen and built-in speaker for instant playback. It’ll also…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 12

The Best Deal of the Day

I like getting things for “free.” That’s why I walk into the grocery store in search of a cool, refreshing soda and walk out with five because there was a “buy four, get one free” deal. It’s also the reason why I will absolutely be on an episode of Hoarders someday (you should see my…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Jul 12

Woot Stages a Choose Your Own Adventure Bargain Quest

You know what would be a really awesome seventh birthday party? An elaborate choose your own adventure with a bunch of awesome prizes. That’s what Woot’s doing today, in honor of their seventh anniversary. Instead of their usual daily deal, you pick and choose your way through a wootfully goofy story to get at multiple…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 12

This lost continent off the coast of Scotland disappeared beneath the ocean 55 million years ago

This week, a group of geologists report that they’ve found a lost continent off the coast of Scotland. 55 million years ago, about 10 million years after dinosaurs died out, a chunk of the seafloor erupted from beneath the water. It created a small continent that existed for at least a million years, covered in…

Tech News Annalee Newitz Jul 12

Dock Connector-USB Hub Hybrid Mitigates the MacBook’s Biggest Shortcoming

Gorilla is given a video camera, awesomeness ensues

Take a Stunning Five Day Cruise in Just Five Minutes

Craftsman Hammerhead: Great for Pounding in Tight Spots

The Craftsman Hammerhead Auto Hammer

Godzilla-Maru Deep Sea Drill Pokes the Ocean’s Deepest Holes

Hank Azaria calls out The Smurfs on their creepy co-habitation in 8 new movie clips

Facebook for Every Phone: Now Even People With Crappy Dumbphones Can Check Facebook

We want your pictures of fake monsters!

Win Some Wireless, Waterproof Speakers With Which To Practice Sub-Aquatic Vocal Resonation

Win Some Wireless, Waterproof Speakers With Which To Practice Sub-Aquatic Vocal Resonation

David Byrne: Computers Will Have No Effect on the Arts

Wear your favorite shows with this amazing technicolor video coat

7 Tools to Show Muggers Who’s Boss (That Would Be You)

io9 Book Club reminder: Meeting 7/26 to discuss Genevieve Valentine’s Mechanique

The Time the Inventors of the C Programming Language Guest-Starred on Doctor Who

The Zoom H2n Will Record Warfare Five Times Better

The Best Deal of the Day

Woot Stages a Choose Your Own Adventure Bargain Quest

This lost continent off the coast of Scotland disappeared beneath the ocean 55 million years ago

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