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Sounds of Street View Lets You Listen to Google Maps

When Google launched its Street View experiment in 2007, it was an ambitious plan. It promised to give us all a more familiar POV of the world rather than Google Maps’ familiar bird’s eye vantage point, and six years later we can travel to thousands of locales, scale Mount Everest or meander down Diagon Alley.…

Tech News Darren Orf Aug 13 '14

Here’s Why Superhero Movie Romances Suck

Greetings, little letterings. It’s been a tough week here in the post-apocalypse, but looking at the date this column is going back in time to I can see it’s been a tough week for you guys too. Take solace in this: It’ll be years before President Brett Ratner has Joss Whedon executed for being so…

io9 Rob Bricken Aug 13 '14

Dinosaurs Can Roam the Earth Again With Righteous Tricera Hi-Top Shoes

The news has been rough this week, but you can have faith that some things are still going right because someone has invented a pair of dinosaur sneakers called Tricera Hi-Tops. They’re about as close as we can get to bringing dinos back from extinction. Also they’re super cool. Dinosaurs have long been gone from…

Tech News Leslie Horn Aug 13 '14

The making of Futurama 3D is even cooler than the original video

If you were wowed by thestunning version of the Futurama intro inphotorealistic3D, you will be equally amazed by the incredible amount of work that artist Alexy Sakharov put into it using 3ds Max, Nuke, Photoshop and After Effects. The amount of detail that you can barely see in the final product is stunning. SPLOID is…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Aug 13 '14

Snowden: The Worst NSA Revelations Are Yet to Come

Just when you thought Edward Snowden was finally finished trying to convince you that he’s a great American, the exiled whistleblower gave an unprecedented interview to Wired magazine. It wasn’t just any writer asking the questions either. Snowden sat down for three days with James Bamford, the other NSA whistleblower. Bamford spent three full days…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Aug 13 '14

Turn Your Favorite Pen Into a Stylus With This Stretchy Rubber Wrap

Your finger works just fine as your body’s built-in stylus, but sometimes—like when checking Twitter while eating wings—you’d rather not touch your screen with your filthy digits. It’s those times when carrying a stylus is perfectly justified, and with the clever rubber StretchWrite, you can just use your favorite pen to poke away at your…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Aug 13 '14

An Always Charging Flashlight That Could Serve As a Centerpiece

The only thing worse than the power outage that has you reaching for a flashlight in the middle of the night is finding that it too is out of power. But the Trioh is a flashlight you don’t have to hide away in a drawer, it’s designed to be as aesthetically pleasing as it is…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Aug 13 '14

This Temporary Tattoo Is Actually a Battery That’s Powered By Your Sweat

What if the sweat produced by your body could power your gadgets? And what if the connection between the two could be made by a temporary tattoo, the more you sweat, the more power the tattoo generates? That’s exactly what researchers at UC San Diego have developed—and one day, it could power your wearables. Interestingly,…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Aug 13 '14

This Is the Nicest Explanation of How Life Began You’ll Ever See

Every living thing comes from another living thing. But billions of years ago, nothing was really alive: the Earth just had a bunch of chemicals on it. So where did life appear from? This lovely animation from New Scientist explains just that in perhaps the nicest way we’ve ever seen. It starts simple—explaining how those…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Aug 13 '14

5 Important Artifacts That Were Lost—And Found—In Museum Storage

“It belongs in a museum!” It’s a common refrain among archaeologists who are passionate about preserving artifacts for future generations. But anyone who’s seen the end of the 1981 documentary Raiders of the Lost Ark knows that precious relics can be easily forgotten once they make it into storage. Okay, Indy’s not real. But it…

Tech News Jordan Kushins Aug 13 '14

A Murder Suspect Actually Asked Siri Where to Hide the Body (Updated: Not Quite)

Answering “I need to hide a body” used to be one of Siri’s little jokes. She used to give suggestions. She doesn’t anymore. Why? We can’t be sure, but it miiight have something to do with an accused murderer who apparently asked the question in earnest. Florida man Pedro Bravo is accused of murdering his…

Tech News Eric Limer Aug 13 '14

F-18 fighter jet jumps into hyperspace

Cool photo of the M61A2 Vulcan nose cannon in a FA-18E Super Hornet jet fighter taken by it Lieutenant Chris Nigus, Weapons Training Officer with the Strike-Fighter Squadron VFA-27 Royal Maces, based at Naval Air Facility Atsugi, in Japan. It looks like the cockpit of an A-Wing jumping into hyperspace. SPLOID is a new blog…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Aug 13 '14

The New Fields Medal Winner Was Inspired By a Rubik’s Cube

The Field medal is mathematics’ answer to the Nobel Prize, and this year’s winners have just been announced. Amongst them is Manjul Bhargava, one of the youngest people to be made a full professor at Princeton University, aged 28, whose work is inspired by… the Rubik’s Cube? Odd as that may seem, in an interview…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Aug 13 '14

A Multi-Year Sunny Spell on Titan Ends With Methane Clouds

During a flyby in July, Cassini recorded clouds drifting across the largest moon of Saturn, Titan. This may be the kickoff of summer storms on the massive moon, the first time researchers have observed cloud formation since 2010. A time-lapse of clouds slipping around Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Aug 13 '14

Lev Grossman Goes Where Other Coming-Of-Age Books Fear To Go: Adulthood

The world is full of magical coming-of-age books… and they generally don’t show much of what happens after the age has come. We only glimpse thirtysomething Harry Potter. But in The Magicians Land, Lev Grossman uses his meta-fantasy world to create a thoughtful portrait of what it’s like to be a functioning adult. Top image:…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 13 '14

This New Technology Will Finally Bring Flexible Displays To Market

Flexible touch screens have been “just round the corner” for some time now. Heck, Samsung showed off a flexible screen at CES in January 2013. Sadly, it was just a prototype. The truth is that flexible displays just haven’t been durable enough for mass production. Until now. A Menlo Park-based startup named Kateeva will start…

Tech News Pranav Dixit Aug 13 '14

What’s Your Favorite Obsolete Technological Term That People Still Use?

We live in a time of super-rapid technological change. CDs replaced vinyl, only to be replaced in turn by digital downloads. But language doesn’t change as fast — we talk about camera shutters, touching that dial, and “tuning in.” What’s your favorite obsolete term that’s still used all the time? Please mention the term, what…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 13 '14

Why Deer Freeze in Your Headlights

Less a function of fear than bewilderment; simply put, deer freeze in headlights because they can’t see. Deer Eyes vs. Human Eyes The eyes of deer and people share a number of features, but they also have a few significant differences. Pupil Unlike human pupils, which are round and when dilated do not span much…

Tech News Melissa - TodayIFoundOut.com Aug 13 '14

This ad is the definition of cool

The latest Southern Comfort campaign should be included in the dictionary entry for cool. There are other commercials out there that are also very cool but they don’t depict coolness in the same way these ads do. Here is the newest commercial from the series: Check out my other Southern Comfort favorite ads here and…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Aug 13 '14

The Ronin Rabbit Returns In This Great Stop-Motion Usagi Yojimbo Short

Fans of Stan Sakai’s long-running rabbit-based samurai epic rejoice! Check out this seven-minute stop-motion animated short, titled “The Last Request” — and then get ready for a full-length, direct-to-DVD movie in the same style! This short is definitely a bit rough, but don’t worry — it’s just a proof-of-concept video made by Lintika Films to…

io9 Rob Bricken Aug 13 '14

Sounds of Street View Lets You Listen to Google Maps

Here’s Why Superhero Movie Romances Suck

Dinosaurs Can Roam the Earth Again With Righteous Tricera Hi-Top Shoes

The making of Futurama 3D is even cooler than the original video

Snowden: The Worst NSA Revelations Are Yet to Come

Turn Your Favorite Pen Into a Stylus With This Stretchy Rubber Wrap

An Always Charging Flashlight That Could Serve As a Centerpiece

This Temporary Tattoo Is Actually a Battery That’s Powered By Your Sweat

This Is the Nicest Explanation of How Life Began You’ll Ever See

5 Important Artifacts That Were Lost—And Found—In Museum Storage

A Murder Suspect Actually Asked Siri Where to Hide the Body (Updated: Not Quite)

F-18 fighter jet jumps into hyperspace

The New Fields Medal Winner Was Inspired By a Rubik’s Cube

A Multi-Year Sunny Spell on Titan Ends With Methane Clouds

Lev Grossman Goes Where Other Coming-Of-Age Books Fear To Go: Adulthood

This New Technology Will Finally Bring Flexible Displays To Market

What’s Your Favorite Obsolete Technological Term That People Still Use?

Why Deer Freeze in Your Headlights

This ad is the definition of cool

The Ronin Rabbit Returns In This Great Stop-Motion Usagi Yojimbo Short

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