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Here’s an iPad Controlled by a Magic Mouse

OK, so remind me…how is this thing not considered a netbook? I mean, I’m half-kidding, but with keyboard and Bluetooth mouse support (granted via jailbreaking of course), the iPad in this video is basically a shinier non-portable touchscreen netbook. Redmond Pie provides a summary of this fairly regressive “hack”: So the other day, I gave…

Tech News Jack Loftus May 9

Turtle On Roomba

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you what may very well be the perfect Gizmodo Sunday post: A terrified turtle riding a robot vacuum. Keep that head tucked in, little dude. [Animals Don’t Think…]

Biology Jack Loftus May 9

A List Of Jason’s Body Count From The (Watchable) Friday The 13th Movies

Need to know who Jason Voorhees killed before he went to Hell or became a cyborg? This chart from a 1993 issue of Cracked magazine is your fix. Find out who was “stabbed in neck while eating banana by road!” Okay, so saying Jason Takes Manhattan is watchable is a bit of a stretch (after…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar May 9

Why Are There Three Suns In The Sky?

Sun dogs, or parhelia, are little back-up suns that appear on either side of the sun. They are the Pips to the sun’s Gladys, the Lion and the Witch to the sun’s Wardrobe, and they look way cooler than rainbows. What is it that makes these parhelia possible? Only the most badass shape in the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell May 9

Leak: Parallax 3D Motorola Clamshell Phone Gets Named, Sports 720p Video

Motorola’s 3D clamshell phone (via parallax craziness), previously called Ming, would like to be called MT810 now. No reason was given by the leaker for the sterile naming conventions, but they did say 720p video is the latest confirmed feature. https://gizmodo.com/3d-motorola-ming-clamshell-turns-up-in-china-could-u-5525291 That HD camera can also snap 5MP pics and has an LED flash to…

Tech News Jack Loftus May 9

New Intel Core i7 Quad Mobile and i5 Mobile Processors Spied In HP Service Manual

Some leaks happen in secret, on the phone or behind closed doors. Others, like this little HP one today, happen in service manuals. What we know: As the headline implies new Core i5 and Core i7 mobile processors are coming. Intel Core i7 840QM Quad-core processor Intel Core i7 740QM Quad-core processor Intel Core i5…

Tech News Jack Loftus May 9

Happy Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother’s Day to the lovely moms reading! And a quick reminder to the rest of you to order some flowers—or buy an iPad—for the most important woman in your life. [Joy of Tech]

Books & Comics Rosa Golijan May 9

What Will The Citizens Of New Jersey Mutate Into?

So apparently there’s tritium leaking into one of New Jersey’s main aquifers. As a proud Garden Stater, I have no choice but to hope that this environmental clusterfuck will give us fancy new phenotypes and not horrible, horrible cancer. Even though the radioactive run-off from the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township, New…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 9

One Of The Most Profound and Asskicking Supernatural Episodes Yet

Thursday night’s Supernatural episode, “Two Minutes To Midnight,” was one of the best episodes this season. Pestilence was nauseating, and Death was sublime. Prepare to have your mind blown . . . spoilers ahead. This episode concluded the season-long arc about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, four mega-demons whose power rings fit together to…

Television Annalee Newitz May 8

Great Stupid Moments In Posthumanity: Teenage Caveman (NSFW)

In Larry Clark’s 2002 Teenage Caveman, a virus wipes out humanity, leaving only scattered human tribes and teenage immortals who love blowing lines and orgies. And if you have sex with the immortals, you gain superpowers or spontaneously combust. WTF? Ostensibly a remake of Roger Corman’s 1958 Z-grade classic of the same name, Clark’s Teenage…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar May 8

Bugplug Does Battle Against Vampire Draw

Has saving energy ever sounded so exciting? No! And it’s never looked as cool, either, as it does with Bugplug, a little monster of a device that uses sensors to switch your electronics off when you leave the room. Some planet-friendly endeavors have been successfully romanticized—our need for sustainable energy, for example, is already capturing…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert May 8

Rumor: HP’s WebOS Tablet “Hurricane” Coming Out In Q3 2010

Here’s a brief history of the internet’s infatuation with the idea of a Web OS tablet: First we heard that HP was buying Palm. Interesting! Then we heard that the Windows 7-running HP Slate was canceled. Very interesting. Now, a post on the Examiner citing “industry insiders” says that a WebOS tablet dubbed “Hurricane” could…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert May 8

How Much Tech Companies Are Spending On Advertising

Yahoo’s reportedly ponying up $85 million for an upcoming ad campaign—nearly twice as much as they spent on advertising in all of 2009. But as this chart shows, Yahoo’s wager looks puny next to Microsoft’s massive ad spending. https://gizmodo.com/yahoo-bitch-slaps-google-in-85-million-ad-campaign-5532171 According to Kantar Media, who provided Silicon Alley Insider with numbers for total ad spending (print,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert May 8

This Cave House Was Built By A Cow. Seriously.

Antón García-Abril’s Trufa house in Costa da Morte, Spain was built by pouring concrete over bales of hay and then letting Paulina – a hungry cow – carve out the living space. García-Abril of Ensamble Estudio built the Trufa (a.k.a “the truffle”) by stacking bales of hay, dousing them in concrete, and burying them underground…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 8

Sun Boxes, For the Post-Apocalyptic Audiophile

Once we run out of fossil fuels and our society devolves into a violent, resource-hoarding dystopia, the audiophiles of the world are going to have to get creative with their set-ups. This looks about right. The Sun Boxes are a collection of independently-operating, solar powered speakers created by designer Craig Colorusso. Each speaker is loaded…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert May 8

Your Posthumanism Is Boring Me

Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2009, Jamais Cascio is a futurist who writes about the environment, technology, and culture. Here he argues that yesterday’s posthumanism is today’s boring quotidian. We will never be posthuman, because we have always been posthuman. “Posthuman” is a term with more…

io9 Jamais Cascio May 8

Fritz Kahn’s Cybernetic Body Art Is Like Terminator Circa 1920

Berlin gynecologist Dr. Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) was a titan of anatomical illustration thanks to his imaginative portrayals of the human body as a living factory. Pop on some Kraftwerk, because here come the man-machines! Here’s his bio from Fritz-Kahn.com In the 1920s, his magnum opus, “Das Leben des Menschen” (The Life of Man) – a…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 8

Conjoined Fan Born With Two Heads

Doctors aren’t hopeful about their prospects for separating the fledgling fan, which was born recently in Germany and is named Double Circulator, but it seems to be doing pretty well, all things considered: In addition to juggling inflatable watermelons, the Double Circulator has a built-in ionizer and three adjustable speeds. You can adopt it for…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert May 8

New Zealand Man Attacked By A Gang Of Vampires

On February 20, three vampire punks assaulted and drank the blood of a victim outside of Wellington, New Zealand. According to one of the kiwi bloodsuckers, “Yeah, I bit a guy. He hit on my missus.” On February 20, James Phillip Brooks (22), Xenia Gregoriana Borichevsky (19), and James Eric Orr (19) reportedly drank an…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 8

Watch Conan O’Brien’s Hilarious Visit to Google

If you thought seeing Conan with a beard was weird, wait until you see Conan with a beard razzing Google VP Vic Gundotra. Really weird. Also really funny. The full, 48-minute clip includes bonus Andy Richter action—watch it! I sort of wish he’d just stay unemployed forever. [LiquidSquid]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert May 8

Here’s an iPad Controlled by a Magic Mouse

Turtle On Roomba

A List Of Jason’s Body Count From The (Watchable) Friday The 13th Movies

Why Are There Three Suns In The Sky?

Leak: Parallax 3D Motorola Clamshell Phone Gets Named, Sports 720p Video

New Intel Core i7 Quad Mobile and i5 Mobile Processors Spied In HP Service Manual

Happy Mother’s Day!

What Will The Citizens Of New Jersey Mutate Into?

One Of The Most Profound and Asskicking Supernatural Episodes Yet

Great Stupid Moments In Posthumanity: Teenage Caveman (NSFW)

Bugplug Does Battle Against Vampire Draw

Rumor: HP’s WebOS Tablet “Hurricane” Coming Out In Q3 2010

How Much Tech Companies Are Spending On Advertising

This Cave House Was Built By A Cow. Seriously.

Sun Boxes, For the Post-Apocalyptic Audiophile

Your Posthumanism Is Boring Me

Fritz Kahn’s Cybernetic Body Art Is Like Terminator Circa 1920

Conjoined Fan Born With Two Heads

New Zealand Man Attacked By A Gang Of Vampires

Watch Conan O’Brien’s Hilarious Visit to Google

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