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It Could Be Worse — The Bionic Woman Could Be Your Therapist

After Jaime Somers quit fighting international naughtiness as the Bionic Woman, she got her PhD and became a therapist to other secret agents, according to the last ever Bionic TV movie Bionic Ever After. (Which, as you might guess, sees the Six Million Dollar Man marrying the Bionic Woman.) And yeesh, she’s a really really…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 13

Modified New Zealand Wool Resists Blowtorches, Dog Bites, Sharp Knives

Call it cliche (or just inevitable), but those sheep-herders down not-quite under have created the ultimate fabric by weaving a synthetic textile fiber called Vectran with ordinary sheep’s wool. It’s so amazing, its said to withstand blowtorches, dog bites and even knife attacks. “We have tested it…putting the fabric over a cushion. With a screwdriver…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Sep 12

Camera Nerd Puzzle: WTF Is the Nikon D60 “Black Gold” Edition?

The folks at Nikon Rumors are puzzling over a new product SKU appearing on inventory lists, a Nikon D60 body only that lists for $649.99, $50 more than the standard D60. As you can see in the listings, it’s named “Black Gold,” utilizing all two of Nikon’s favorite colors. We don’t know what it is,…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Sep 12

Hackers Hit LHC, Sorta Maybe Came Close To Actual Damage

Bad news today at the Large Hadron Collider, that big-bang tester everyone’s been nervously joking about all week: Some badasses who call themselves the Greek Security Team hacked computers at the facility. In fact, they got in so deep, say reports, that they were “one step away” from cracking into the computer control system of…

Privacy & Security Wilson Rothman Sep 12

Vote For The Greatest Non-Human President Of The U.S.A.!

Click to viewWith every passing election year, the statistical likelihood increases that we’ll elect a U.S. president who’s really a robot, or an alien. Or maybe a charismatic plant, grown in some kind of tank. How will you recognize a non-human candidate for president when one comes along? And more importantly, which non-human would be…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 12

App Store Blacklist: Podcaster Too iTunesy

The latest casualty in Apple’s App Store blacklisting is Podcaster. A native app built according to exact SDK specifications, it goes beyond its creator’s web-bound streaming-only Podcaster.fm by letting you download and manage podcasts in a nice straightforward interface. Insidious, right? Apple thought so. According to Podcaster’s blog, Apple at least explained why it booted…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Sep 12

A Planet of Boiling Water and Lava

One of the most gorgeous images from National Geographic’s recent photography contest is this one, of a boiling lake under cloudy skies. It looks like what I imagine the methane lakes might look like on Titan. Taken by Ben Hattenbach, this pool of intensely (and naturally) blue water is a geothermal oasis in an arctic…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 12

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Too busy playing Large Hadron Collider drinking game all week? Don’t worry, we’ve compiled a list of the best stories of the week, just for you.10 Suckiest Video Games People Play In Science Fiction Science fiction is all about advancing into a shinier future – so why are people always playing such crufty video games…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 12

Novint Falcon Controller with Gun Attachment Reviewed (Verdict: Awesome)

It has been almost a year since we first heard that Novint would add a pistol grip accessory to their 3D Haptic Joystick—but the update has yet to hit the market. Nonetheless, Wired got a chance to play a few FPS games with the add-on and were blown away by the level of feedback and…

Tech News Sean Fallon Sep 12

Amish Farmers Fight Government to Battle Bovine Mark of the Beast

Generally, the government doesn’t meddle too much in Amish affairs—it doesn’t make them educate children after the eighth grade, for instance, ’cause of the First Amendment and all that. So it’s kind of surprising to see many Amish threaten to quit farming in a battle with the government over lojacking their livestock with the Mark…

Biology Matt Buchanan Sep 12

Brand Wants To Be New Doctor

Fresh off his… controversial appearance at this weekend’s MTV Video Music Awards, British comedian Russell Brand has admitted that he’s set his sights much higher than making jokes about the Jonas Brothers or pretending that he is in any way interested in Britney Spears: he wants to be the new Doctor Who. If ever there…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 12

Europeans Pick Mates By Smell More Often than Africans Do

Scientists have known for a while that humans seem to pick mates partly based on the way they smell. That’s because a person’s smell is related to their Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC), a cluster of genes that shape a person’s immune system. For years, scientists have debated whether people pick mates based on scent cues…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 12

Marilyn Monroe’s Typewriter: Used By One of the Great Minds of the 20th Century

Yesterday we feasted our eyes on the wristwatch of the great Albert Einstein, today we get a look a personal effect from a celebrity of a very different sort. Behold…Marylin Monroe’s typewriter. One has to wonder whether the essence of these icons lives on in these artifacts, and whether or not using them would somehow…

Tech News Sean Fallon Sep 12

How Much Ass Will Nic Cage Kick?

Questions are still swirling around how much Nicholas Cage’s sudden attack of squeamishness will tone down the violence in the movie version of Mark “Wanted” Millar’s superhero splatterthon Kick-Ass. But at least we know one thing now: he’ll have a killer porn-stache. TheBadAndTheUgly posted some pics of Cage looking appropriately sleazy, and Millar posted a…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Sep 12

Paralympics: The Games Where Bionic Athletes Reign

Tech and the Olympics are a recipe for controversy. Before double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius (right) was finally approved to compete in the Olympics (he failed to qualify, barely), naysayers claimed his carbon-fiber Cheetah blade prostheses gave him an advantage over non-cyborg competitors. And Speedo’s LZR suit has been decried for rendering meaningless any world records…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 12

Philippe Stark Crystal Clear Watch: Cherry-Colored Wrist Candy

If you haven’t ditched the good old fashioned wristwatch for the cellphone clock yet, Philippe Stark would like to reward your loyalty with this beautiful Crystal Clear Watch. While it may not be “clear,” the watch does feature a bright red crystal display that looks so good you may be tempted to lick it to…

Tech News Sean Fallon Sep 12

Science Has Gone Mad Because It Lacks A Purpose, Say Fringe Creators

Why is the science in Fringe so out-of-control and scary? Turns out it’s because science hasn’t had a real goal since the 1960s, according to Fringe writer/producers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Jeff Pinker, who talked to reporters on a conference call today. (I think the designers of the LHC might disagree.) They also answered…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 12

Feed Your Watchmen Action Figure Addiction on the Cheap

We were trolling one of our favorite Watchmen sites recently and noticed that the movie’s action figures are available for pre-order at about 20 bucks a piece. Because we are itching to reenact, say, the Doc Manhattan fighting in ’Nam scene a casa, we naturally need them all—and, well, that’s gonna add up. So instead…

io9 Nisha Gopalan Sep 12

Ten Facts You Should Know About the LHC

Neatorama has put together a good list of 10 basic questions on the Large Hadron Collider. It doesn’t answer questions like “Why the heck can’t Michael Zeller quote Star Trek correctly?” but it solves others, from why is it called Large Hadron Collider to why is it underground. My favorite, however, is Why is the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 12

Making Cotton Candy Using a Bike

Who says you need to have a fancy carnival-worthy setup to make cotton candy? In China, they make cotton candy using a simple bike. There’s propane underneath the apparatus, heating up the sugar, but then it’s all spun around and stretched out by simple pedal power. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like they figured out a…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Sep 12

It Could Be Worse — The Bionic Woman Could Be Your Therapist

Modified New Zealand Wool Resists Blowtorches, Dog Bites, Sharp Knives

Camera Nerd Puzzle: WTF Is the Nikon D60 “Black Gold” Edition?

Hackers Hit LHC, Sorta Maybe Came Close To Actual Damage

Vote For The Greatest Non-Human President Of The U.S.A.!

App Store Blacklist: Podcaster Too iTunesy

A Planet of Boiling Water and Lava

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Novint Falcon Controller with Gun Attachment Reviewed (Verdict: Awesome)

Amish Farmers Fight Government to Battle Bovine Mark of the Beast

Brand Wants To Be New Doctor

Europeans Pick Mates By Smell More Often than Africans Do

Marilyn Monroe’s Typewriter: Used By One of the Great Minds of the 20th Century

How Much Ass Will Nic Cage Kick?

Paralympics: The Games Where Bionic Athletes Reign

Philippe Stark Crystal Clear Watch: Cherry-Colored Wrist Candy

Science Has Gone Mad Because It Lacks A Purpose, Say Fringe Creators

Feed Your Watchmen Action Figure Addiction on the Cheap

Ten Facts You Should Know About the LHC

Making Cotton Candy Using a Bike

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