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The bizarre musical instruments behind classic scifi movie sounds

Some of the strangest sounds in scifi movies and television come out of equally strange musical instruments. Here are three weird instruments you’ve probably never seen, but have almost definitely heard before. The Waterphone The video up top is of a waterphone. If you’ve seen a science fiction or horror movie in the last fifty…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jun 24

What Is This?

Is this an image of some horrible irradiated wasteland? Maybe this is what happens when Lindsay Lohan wades into the ocean at night? No, it’s actually a celebration, not cause for a full-body acid wash. Actually, that’s not entirely off base. It’s a long-exposure image of a celebration of Corpus Christi, a Catholic holiday where…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jun 24

This Massage Chair Has Everything But a Happy Ending

This massage chair by Panasonic has everything you’d want. 3D mapping! It creates a map of the body-height, weight, dimensions—and then massages accordingly. There’s even hot stones! It can heat itself up to 108 degrees. Happy endings? Uhm, well… Yeah, you dont get massages there but the chair, called the Panasonic EP-MA70 Real Pro Ultra…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 24

10 Super Cool Jobs You Can Get At Apple Right Now

You don’t have to simply be a fan of Apple products, you can actually help build them. The company has hundreds of job openings in everything from operations to HR to hardware and software engineering. It probably helps to have a friend at the company, but you can just cold apply for positions through Apple’s…

Tech News Jay Yarow - Business Insider Jun 24

If Television’s Greatest Scientists Worked in Tech Support

Scientists are all-purpose miracle workers on television. Whether it’s a rogue virus or a genocidal computer, there’s nothing that a television scientist can’t handle. Because they understand Science. But how would they handle the ultimate challenge: tech support? Tech support, as many of us know first-hand, poses challenges that go beyond the bounds of human…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 24

Blue light could cure diabetes

Over the past several years, genetics researchers have made great strides using optogenetics — the manipulation of genes with different colors of light — and now we’re starting to see this new field mature into potential therapies. A group of Swiss researchers published a paper in Science this week explaining how they could use doses…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 24

HTC Sensation 4G: Does Android Really Need Custom Skins Anymore? (No.)

It’s powerful. It’s fast. It’s responsive. It has 4G-ish internet powers. It feels more solid than Google’s Nexus. The HTC Sensation 4G is probably T-Mobile’s best Android phone. But there’s one pesky thing preventing it from Android superiority: HTC Sense. Plusses It’s like the Nexus One, evolved. Metal and Gorilla Glass, with a leathery back…

Reviews Adrian Covert Jun 24

12 Views from the Top

In honor of this week’s shooting challenge, our friends at Oobject.com have put together a collection of spectacular scenes from very high places. Enjoy, just don’t look down! https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-from-above-5814887 Looking to get even higher? Try these Arabian Megascapers, these twelve videos of a real-life Spiderman, or these videos of folks jumping off (and usually surviving)…

Tech News Oobject Jun 24

12 Views from the Top Oobject Gallery

Acrobats on the edge of the Empire State Building One of the lesser known pictures by Bettman, who created the classic images of workers having lunch on the girder of a skyscraper, under construction. Artis Li Wei creates these illusions without photomontage Chair balancing over the edge Cigarette on the Chrysler Iconic monster on iconic…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jun 24

Electronic Arts, Like Every Other Company, Was Hacked

Here’s the moment when we all feign shock and surprise that a big company like EA was hacked. One of the servers for EA’s was the target of the attack, which involved phone numbers and mailing addresses. Credit Card and Social Security numbers were not involved in the relatively minor breach, which revolved around the…

Privacy & Security Adrian Covert Jun 24

Wow! New Blackberry Bold Looks a Lot Like… Old Blackberry Bold

A Blackberry 9900 prototype model turned up today, and our friends at Engadget took it for a spin. It’s got a slick new carbon fiberish back piece and a decidedly iPhoney industrial design tweak, but mostly it seems like a standard Madden-of-smartphones Blackberry Bold refresh. [Engadget]

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jun 24

Experimental beer archaeology yields 3,000-year-old brew recipes spiked with thyme and poppy

There’s a terrific article in the Smithsonian today about “beer archaeologist” Patrick McGovern, a scholar who has unearthed millennia-old alcohol recipes by analyzing residues in ancient pottery. Now he’s working with a brewer, Sam Calagione, whose pub Dogfish Head serves up beers based on recipes that are thousands of years old. In the Smithsonian, Abigail…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 24

Dress Your iPad as a Stylish Notepad

Some of you enjoy flaunting the beauty of a naked iPad, but Pad and Quill’s gorgeous birch wood Contega for iPad 2 gives your device both rugged protection and good looks, without losing any of your device’s functionality. This week’s Gizaway brings you the chance to win one of these elegantly designed cases. How to…

Tech News Keenen Thompson Jun 24

Here’s how to hack electronic road signs

Two-and-a-half years ago we published a guide on how to hack electronic road signs. Now America finds itself drowning in a sea of zombie warnings – and we’ve become the unofficial whipping boy of the highway Lite-brite hacking community. [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/how-to-hack-an-electronic-road-sign-5141430

Tech News Adam Pash Jun 24

Why Hasn’t Air Travel Gotten Faster?

Whenever I’m at the airport I wonder two things: why can’t they invent teleportation and how can airplanes still be so slow. We’ve been flying for decades and air travel hasn’t gotten faster. Why the heck is it still slow? The big answer: fuel. As in, if you fly too fast, you’ll burn too much…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 24

Neil Gaiman Reveals the Future of American Gods

It’s a big year for Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. There’s a fancy anniversary edition, “updated and expanded with the author’s preferred text.” There’s the promise of a big-budget TV adaptation. And most of all, a long-awaited sequel on the way. https://gizmodo.com/tom-hanks-producing-6-seasons-of-neil-gaimans-american-5811012 So we were excited to be able to talk to Gaiman about the tenth…

Books & Comics Kelly Faircloth Jun 24

How Incandescent Lightbulbs Really Work?

While you probably know the basics, perhaps you don’t really know exactly how the magic of incandescent lightbulbs happens. This video does an excellent job at explaining the true complexity of this extremely simple device. [Thanks Karl!]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 24

The Best Deal of the Day

One time I referred to Lego as Legos in front of Jesus, and holy mother god, was that a mistake. Jesus, whose love of Lego is well documented (I think he once found a way to marry the intellectual property), not only threatened to rip out my heart with his bare hands, but also lawyered…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Jun 24

“Iron Curtain” Defense Computer Punches Rockets Out of the Sky

Dodging an incoming RPG is a pretty tall task for anyone, unless you’re a ninja on meth. For the rest of us, it’d be easier to just blow the damn thing up before it hits, right? That’s the Iron Curtain system in a nutshell: It uses “active protection” technology to blow RPGs and anti-tank missiles…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jun 24

Both the US and UK versions of Torchwood will have different extra scenes

When Torchwood returns to television next month, there’ll be two different versions of every episode. Some scenes will only be in the US version, while other scenes will only be in the UK version. What’s that about? Doctor Who Magazine editor Tom Spillsbury tweeted yesterday: Interesting that US Torchwood will have bits UK won’t &…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 24

The bizarre musical instruments behind classic scifi movie sounds

What Is This?

This Massage Chair Has Everything But a Happy Ending

10 Super Cool Jobs You Can Get At Apple Right Now

If Television’s Greatest Scientists Worked in Tech Support

Blue light could cure diabetes

HTC Sensation 4G: Does Android Really Need Custom Skins Anymore? (No.)

12 Views from the Top

12 Views from the Top Oobject Gallery

Electronic Arts, Like Every Other Company, Was Hacked

Wow! New Blackberry Bold Looks a Lot Like… Old Blackberry Bold

Experimental beer archaeology yields 3,000-year-old brew recipes spiked with thyme and poppy

Dress Your iPad as a Stylish Notepad

Here’s how to hack electronic road signs

Why Hasn’t Air Travel Gotten Faster?

Neil Gaiman Reveals the Future of American Gods

How Incandescent Lightbulbs Really Work?

The Best Deal of the Day

“Iron Curtain” Defense Computer Punches Rockets Out of the Sky

Both the US and UK versions of Torchwood will have different extra scenes

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