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How cats master the physical universe when they lap up milk

When cats drink, they never splash or make a mess. It turns out there’s a solid scientific reason for that. As a group of MIT engineers discovered, feline lapping requires a finely-tuned mastery of fluid dynamics. It turns out that cats’ sense of balance and grace extends even to their drinking habits. Until this study,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Nov 12

Why You’ll Give Up Gmail for Facebook Mail

According to Techcrunch’s sources, a full webmail client integrated with The One and Only Social Network will debut next Monday. This is why it may become your favorite webmail service. If I were Google, Yahoo or Hotmail, I’d be very nervous. Facebook Mail could be a killer not only because of its potential instant size,…

Social Media Jesus Diaz Nov 12

Lightning Review: The $500 Rubber Band Gatling Gun

Landing a well-aimed rubber band—in the coffee, in the hair bun, in the ear—is one of the great pleasures of working in an office. So, how about about 100 of them? Specs Rubber Band Gatling Gun Price: $500 When: Now In the box: About 20 pounds of aluminum gun, custom inscription, Maglite, bag-o-bands (size 64)…

Reviews John Herrman Nov 12

Chewing gum makes you stand up straighter

It’s well-established folk wisdom that you can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. But it’s a very different story if you’re working on your posture. In that case, chewing gum is actually the best thing you can do. That’s the finding of a recent study about the effect of chewing gum on people’s…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Nov 12

Scientists Discover How Cats Drink, After 4 Years of Research and High-Speed Photography

Click to viewFor the last several years, four professors from prestigious institutions have been looking for the answer to a simple question: how does a cat drink? This high-speed footage helped them figure it out. Dogs use their tongues like ladles, sloppily carrying water up from the bowl to their mouths and often getting their…

Biology Kyle VanHemert Nov 12

The bizarre “ring UFO” that people have been seeing since 1957

Are they errant smoke rings or alien-controlled ships from Circleworld? Watch these videos of the “ring UFO” phenomenon and judge for yourself. Photograph by Paul Sonne. Here’s a 2008 ring sighting in the Rocky Mountains, right in the middle of the day: And another day sighting in Arizona, from an airplane window: Here’s a California…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 12

This Analog Network Bandwidth Meter Is What I Want for Christmas

For many, this Arduino-based MegaBitMeter—which measures your network data transfers—would be a useless piece of hardware. For me… I just like the idea of having analog meters all around my computer, like the cockpit of a P-51 Mustang. [dk7sl]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 12

Minority Report, Courtesy of Kinect

Hackers have wasted no time bending Kinect to their will, and this proof of concept video for a Minority Report-esque multitouch UI is probably the most exciting mod yet. Stretch to zoom, here we come! https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-kinect-hacked-to-run-on-mac-os-x-5687874 As modder floemuc explains, “I thought I’d get the mandatory picture-browsing stuff done so it’s out of the way…

Movies Kyle VanHemert Nov 12

The sound of plot hammers on Fringe

Last night, a big piece of Fauxlivia’s secret mission was revealed on Fringe — and the show’s mythology got a lot deeper. Too bad the episode itself was a little underwhelming. Spoilers ahead. This was the first episode of Fringe season three that hasn’t totally blown me away — I guess the law of averages…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Nov 12

US Marine Runs 26 Mile-Long Marathon Wearing Gas Mask

I’m sure you’ll agree with me that a marathon is tough work as is, but while wearing a gas mask? Which reduces oxygen intake by 30 per cent? It’s obvious Marine Sgt Jeremy Soles is tough as nails. He ran the marathon to draw attention to those who can’t run themselves—specifically, injured veterans. After 4hrs,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Nov 12

First “Nutcracker In 3D” clip ruins Christmas

Watch this terrifying clip from the horrific live-action Nutcracker adaptation, in which an evil wooden boy feasts on the entrails of Father Christmas. Or something. We’re not sure because we started crying and ran away. Christmas is canceled, everyone. Here it is, courtesy of ComingSoon. Remember what is seen cannot be unseen. Did you make…

Movies Meredith Woerner Nov 12

A Physical Galaxy Tab Teardown

What’s inside Samsung’s Galaxy Tab? Gorilla Glass, check. Two cameras, check. ARM A8 processor, check. A little man borking your browser on Flash-heavy pages? Can’t seen to find him anywhere. https://gizmodo.com/the-galaxy-tab-meets-its-air-pistol-executioner-5686491 There’s something special about the way iFixit tears down a gadget. A healthy reminder of how many moving parts go into making these machines…

Gadgets Brian Barrett Nov 12

A Scary Good iPhone Boxing Game

Beast Boxing 3D is in the Punch-Out!! mold of boxing games, which I can’t get enough of. It stands out for a few reasons. It oozes style. The “story” is the tried-and-true Rocky/Little Mac trope—a puny fighter pummels his way through an onslaught of wacky and progressively more difficult fighters—but the combatants are monsters. Mixed…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 12

The Star Trek 2 script is almost done, but will J.J. Abrams direct it?

As the script for the Star Trek sequel nears completion, the question becomes who will direct it. Disney’s adaptation of its Magic Kingdom theme park attracts Jon Favreau and Ron Moore. Star Trek 2: The screenplay, written by the first movie team of Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzmann, and Damon Lindelof, is reportedly nearing completion and…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Nov 12

The Friends App Might Be the Only Contact List You Need

Cyberstalking: it’s exhausting! First you’ve gotta check Facebook statuses, then move over to Twitter updates, maybe give a quick call for a nice heavy breathing moment. Thank goodness this Friends app collects all that info in one place. Time: saved. As you can see in the video above, Friends aggregates Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn (!), and…

Tech News Brian Barrett Nov 12

Tweeters Risk the Law by Retweeting Same Message That Found a Man Guilty

Following Paul Chambers’ guilty verdict yesterday over a joke tweet where he “threatened” to blow up a British airport, tweeters have rallied together, tweeting the offending message with the hashtag #IAmSpartacus. Will the police arrest them all? [Twitter via TechRadar] https://gizmodo.com/twitter-joker-found-guilty-after-harmless-tweet-about-a-5687489

Tech News Kat Hannaford Nov 12

How Phones Get Tested and Abused by Manufacturers

We might have a few issues with Nokia and their phones, but there’s no disputing they’re made from hardy stuff. It’s why we recall our first handsets so fondly—those drops barely scuffed the fascia, unlike today’s fancy blowers. https://gizmodo.com/why-were-not-reviewing-the-nokia-n8-5667723 Like a car manufacturer crash-test dummying their new wheels, Nokia (and other manufacturers) use rigorous test…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Nov 12

Here Are Some Limited Edition BlackBerry Bolds For the Wayfarer-Wearing Mob

Limited to 10 of each color, these Bold 9780s have been created by fashion designer Bill Amberg for UK department store Selfridges. They may cost £1,000 each ($1,600) but my goodness that yellow-on-black is tickling my fancy. [Selfridges]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Nov 12

So, is Google Building a Facebook Rival Or Not?

Facebook’s former-CTO confirmed Google was building a Facebook “killer,” perpetual rumormonger Kevin Rose tweeted it’d be called “Google Me”—but Google has said (again) that “we’re not working on a social network platform.” https://gizmodo.com/googles-facebook-killer-google-me-confirmed-by-former-5575237 Going on, their head of mobile product development, Hugo Barra, said that they’re not “working on a social network platform that’s just…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Nov 12

The TSA’s Sense of Humor Makes Me Nervous

This is a photo of the TSA booth by the security check-in point at Indianapolis International Airport. Take a close look at the wallpaper on the computer in that booth. Nervous yet? In case you don’t recognize the image in the wallpaper, it’s this fake children’s book cover: While I’m really glad to see that…

Privacy & Security Rosa Golijan Nov 12

How cats master the physical universe when they lap up milk

Why You’ll Give Up Gmail for Facebook Mail

Lightning Review: The $500 Rubber Band Gatling Gun

Chewing gum makes you stand up straighter

Scientists Discover How Cats Drink, After 4 Years of Research and High-Speed Photography

The bizarre “ring UFO” that people have been seeing since 1957

This Analog Network Bandwidth Meter Is What I Want for Christmas

Minority Report, Courtesy of Kinect

The sound of plot hammers on Fringe

US Marine Runs 26 Mile-Long Marathon Wearing Gas Mask

First “Nutcracker In 3D” clip ruins Christmas

A Physical Galaxy Tab Teardown

A Scary Good iPhone Boxing Game

The Star Trek 2 script is almost done, but will J.J. Abrams direct it?

The Friends App Might Be the Only Contact List You Need

Tweeters Risk the Law by Retweeting Same Message That Found a Man Guilty

How Phones Get Tested and Abused by Manufacturers

Here Are Some Limited Edition BlackBerry Bolds For the Wayfarer-Wearing Mob

So, is Google Building a Facebook Rival Or Not?

The TSA’s Sense of Humor Makes Me Nervous

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