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The Art of Japanese Manhole Covers

Your current favorite manhole fact: they’re round so that they can’t fall in the manhole, even when they’re turned sideways. Your new favorite manhole fact: in Japan, they serve as canvasses for hundreds of beautiful, vibrant artworks: Photographer Remo Camerota catalogs the circular works in his new book Drainspotting, which recently took the award for…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Aug 23

Draganflyer X8: The Dreamboat UAV

All respects to whatever UAV you’ve got on your pin-up calendar. The Draganflyer X8 has it beat in the beauty department. And wait until you see how flexible it is. DraganFlyer X8 complete spec list is pretty ridiculous, so let’s just gun through some of the highlights: GPS that can track up to 16 satellites…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 23

The solar system is two million years older than we thought…and that changes everything

An ancient meteorite reveals the solar system is 4.5682 billion years old, 1.9 million years older than we thought. The difference seems insignificant, but it could mean our solar system was actually born in the blast furnace of a supernova. In order to determine the age of the solar system, scientists look for meteorites that…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 23

Watch the bloody Piranha 3D footage that was banned from TV

Piranha 3D might not have made huge waves at the box office, but maybe if the networks were bold enough to run these smutty ads, it would have done better. Check out the promo that was too hot for TV. Click to view According to Blastr, here are a few of the comments/problems that the…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 23

Watch Hayao Miyazaki’s early post-apocalyptic film “Nausicaä” online

Hayao Miyazaki created movies like Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and My Neighbor Totoro. Now you can see his brilliant, early film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind free online – it’s about a biotech war, millennia after an eco-catastrophe. The film is based on a long-running manga series, also created by Miyazaki, and it…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 23

Watch This Skyscraper Appear Out of Thin Air

Now that’s a handy magic trick: Observe! This lot, empty but for the world’s largest augmented reality marker. Astonish! As a towering skyscraper flickers to life in its place. Wonder! At just how big a camera they must have needed. The record-setting AR marker—Guinness-certified!—was dreamt up by architects at Königsberger Vannucchi, a Brazilian firm that…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 23

Australians rounded up and put into concentration camps: the invasion begins next week

The remake of Red Dawn may or may not be coming out this fall, but Australians are already getting something better: the film adaptation of the classic invasion novel Tomorrow When The War Began. And the first review is out. As we mentioned a while back, Tomorrow is the directorial debut of Stuart Beattie, who…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Aug 23

Lost: The Complete Blu-ray Collection Lightning Review

Lost! For $195, you can own all six seasons on Blu-ray, re-living the last six years of ups and downs and sideways emotions you experienced along with the show. Oh, and there are bonus features. I can’t talk about the extra New Man in Charge feature or some of the hidden details within the packaging…

Reviews Jason Chen Aug 23

Gadget Deals of the Day

Monday Blues got you down? Cheer up with some red-hot #dealz action! Today, we have a new low price on an HP Core i5 Laptop, a Logitech G9x Laser Gaming Mouse, and a free Zappos VIP Membership. Top Deals: • 18.4″ HP dv8t Core i5 Laptop w/ 6GB RAM for $899.99 plus free shipping (normally…

Tech News Adam Harris Aug 23

The strange history of the Frankenstein carnival sideshows

After the 1930s Frankenstein movies took the world by storm, people began creating carnival sideshows devoted to Frankenstein freaks. Film writer Pierre Fournier takes us back to a time when carnies mixed with The Monster. Step right up! The place is somewhere in England. The time, perhaps the late Thirties or the early post-war years.…

io9 Pierre Fournier - Frankensteinia Aug 23

The art of what went wrong

Robert Overweg is an artist who captures unintended moments of artistic weirdness in videogames. In a series of images called “Glitches,” he shows us the strange beauty spawned by errors in Left 4 Dead and Half-Life. There’s something poignant about this pictures, where men embrace while floating in the air and half-rendered houses look like…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 23

Eight Great Tips For Traveling With the iPad

The iPad is an almost perfect travel computer. But as convenient as it is, a little preparation will make things even smoother. Here are some things you should do before you leave the house. Go Offline A 3G iPad is a wonderfully useful machine, but outside of your home country, unless you’re willing to pay…

Tech News Charlie Sorrel - Wired Aug 23

Obsession: Video Pinball

You’re gonna want to either get comfortable or move on, because I’m fixin’ to write about 700 words on video pinball. Seriously. Let me give you a sample month from the past year. Let’s call it November: bus bus bus bus bus bus (lotsa rain) taxi airplane. wait. airplane. passport control (wait). Train “metro” “metro”…

Tech News Joe Brown Aug 23

Google Mobile App Adds Push Notifications For iPhone

Gmail and Google Calender notifications, pushed to your iPhone home screen? Yes please. This might be enough to lure me away from the iPhone’s native mail app. The Google Mobile iTunes app update should be available here any time now. The interface, shown above, looks intuitive, and I can see it being especially helpful on…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 23

Cybernetic penis allows everyone to pack a package (NSFW)

Hiromi Ozaki’s Penis Cybernetique is a prosthetic John Thomas that rises and falls with the user’s heart rate. It emulates what it’s like to sport a penis, albeit one that was rendered on an Atari 2600. NSFW for geometric nudity. Here’s how Ozaki explains her project at her site, Sputniko: The project draws inspiration from…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 23

Tell Us How This Object-Detecting iPhone Game Works, Please

We’re not exactly sure how Volumique’s forthcoming (i)Pawn game actually works (some are calling French shenanigans), but even if it is fake, it’s an intriguing idea with limitless possibilities. If you take a look at the video here, you’ll see that two different figurines (or “pawns”) can be recognized after being placed on the touchscreen,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Aug 23

The search is on for Earth’s missing two billion years

2.5 billion years ago, some highly-efficient bacteria began what’s known as the oxygen revolution. 600 million years ago, the first multicellular animals appeared. What happened in between? We’re really not sure – but geologists are working on it. Here’s the quick version of Earth’s 4.54 billion year history. When the Earth first formed, the atmosphere…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 23

The Sailboat Race that Outpaces the Wind

Re-adjust what you imagine when you think of a fast sailboat. Forget the floppy sails, majestic prows, and guys scurrying around in silly caps. Those would fly off on a C-class catamaran. Hell, the boats even fly. C-cats, as they’re affectionately known, are the most efficient wind-powered vessels on water. They’re light, weighing about as…

Tech News Kate Greene Aug 23

Dual Core Atom Processors Now Adding a Little Pep to Netbooks

Intel’s promised dual-core Atom processors are finally coming to a netbook near you. The N550 will help battery life a bit, and may improve 720p video playback, but by all accounts it’s not going to magically turn netbooks into fully functional PCs. Still, you’re getting DDR3 memory and easier Hulu watching—two things I certainly wouldn’t…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 23

Virtual Router Hits Blistering 40GB/Sec Speed Record

South Korean researchers have created a software-based router that leaves similar devices in the dust. The virtual box can transmit data at 40 gigabytes per second—compared to the typical 2 or 3—and runs on cheap, store-bought components. Virtual routers work by emulating the proprietary components of a hardware router on inexpensive, easily procured chips—what’s known…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 23

The Art of Japanese Manhole Covers

Draganflyer X8: The Dreamboat UAV

The solar system is two million years older than we thought…and that changes everything

Watch the bloody Piranha 3D footage that was banned from TV

Watch Hayao Miyazaki’s early post-apocalyptic film “Nausicaä” online

Watch This Skyscraper Appear Out of Thin Air

Australians rounded up and put into concentration camps: the invasion begins next week

Lost: The Complete Blu-ray Collection Lightning Review

Gadget Deals of the Day

The strange history of the Frankenstein carnival sideshows

The art of what went wrong

Eight Great Tips For Traveling With the iPad

Obsession: Video Pinball

Google Mobile App Adds Push Notifications For iPhone

Cybernetic penis allows everyone to pack a package (NSFW)

Tell Us How This Object-Detecting iPhone Game Works, Please

The search is on for Earth’s missing two billion years

The Sailboat Race that Outpaces the Wind

Dual Core Atom Processors Now Adding a Little Pep to Netbooks

Virtual Router Hits Blistering 40GB/Sec Speed Record

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