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This Is the iPhone 5 You Should Get

If you’re considering buying a new iPhone 5, you have three important decisions to make—carrier, capacity, and color. To help you in your quest, we’ve determined exactly which iPhone will serve your needs best. https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-5-everything-you-need-to-know-5942588 For almost everybody: It’s the 32 GB Verizon iPhone 5, in black. Why 32 gigs? We don’t need as much…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 13

If you’re going to get your DNA analyzed, you’d better brace yourself for the results

Genetic testing has taken off in recent years. Companies like 23andMe and Medcan are finally allowing people to get their DNA tested so that they can better understand their genetic lineage and determine if they’re prone to certain diseases. Now all this sounds good in theory — but what if your genetic tests yielded some…

io9 George Dvorsky Sep 13

There’s No Way This Ridiculous Hot Tub Exercise Bike Is Real

The fitness industry thrives by preying on people’s insecurities about their bodies. It means even the craziest of contraptions—from Thigh Masters to Tae-Bo dummies—fly off the shelves. But who in their right mind would drop over $18,000 on this hot tub-wrapped Fit-Wet exercise bike that flushes itself after every use? (What are they expecting people…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 13

Get your book read by the top editors at Harper Voyager — without needing an agent!

Breaking in to the book world can feel like an impossible quest — but now, there may be a major shortcut. Harper Voyager, one of the top science fiction and fantasy publishers on three continents, is open to unagented submissions for the first two weeks of October. They’ve put up a portal at HarperVoyagerSubmissions.com, which…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Sep 13

Scientists Invent Levitation Method to Create More Effective Drugs

The demonstration in the video may seem like MAGIC! but it’s real: scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory are employing a levitation machine that uses sound waves to make liquids float and create “more effective pharmaceuticals with fewer side effects.” The project’s lead researcher—physicist Chris Benmore—claims that this levitation method will…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 13

The Worst Thing About the iPhone 5 Is Also the Most Brilliant

The iPhone 5 is many things. It’s a pinnacle of product design. It’s a mild annoyance for iOS app developers. It’s very probably the next phone you buy. And it’s also, by broad consensus of the people who follow these things, totally boring. https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-5-everything-you-need-to-know-5942588 Of course it is. Anything else, at this point, would be…

Tech News Brian Barrett Sep 13

The Deadliest Poisons in History (And Why People Stopped Using Them)

Once people figured out they could kill each other with special substances instead of sharp sticks, the proverbial poison cookie was born. However, there are only so many times you can use the same trick. As people caught on to how poisons worked, and moved them to the forefront of investigations, certain poisons fell out…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 13

The Brave Little Toaster gets CG remake, most likely to change toaster to iPhone

The 1987 animated classic The Brave Little Toaster followed a bunch of outdated objects as they traveled across the land to be reunited with their owner. And it’s a classic piece of cinema, with glorious music, great voice actors, horribly frightening moments — and it turned us all into hoarders. And like everything great from…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 13

Artist Skywrites the First Thousand Digits of Pi over San Francisco

Any eyes in San Francisco that weren’t focused on Apple’s announcements yesterday might have noticed something peculiar in the skies over the Bay area. As part of the ZERO1 Biennial—a months long festival celebrating the coming together of art and technology—an artist known only as Ishky used several planes to skywrite the first 1,000 digits…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 13

This Weed-Killing Robot Dispatches Dandelions with 98 Percent Accuracy

A prototype weed-seeking automaton could change the way seven billion humans eat, as well as help to end industrial agriculture’s reliance on toxic herbicides and itinerant labor. The “Lettuce Bot” is a four-wheeled weeding machine designed and built by Indiana-based startup Blue River Technology, using a $400,000 angel investment as well as an early grant…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Sep 13

Google’s Star-Searching Bacon Number Tool Makes Your Brain One Degree Less Necessary

Do you know how many movies Kevin Bacon has been in? Like, seventy. He’s so prolific that the the world’s intellectuals widely accept the theory that every single person in Hollywood is removed from Kevin Bacon by no more than six direct associative on-screen links. Google recognizes that this “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” phenomenon…

Tech News Leslie Horn Sep 13

Apple Might Bring Siri Voice Control to Macs

Dictation on the Mac is pretty nice, for what it is, but Apple isn’t the first to pull that off. According to a new patent application though, it might be eyeing something more ambitious: full Siri control on the Mac. Here’s an excerpt from a revised application: The electronic device may process voice commands locally…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Sep 13

Sexually aroused women find everything less disgusting

Let’s face it: Sex can be kinda gross. With all those body odors and fluids being traded back and forth, it’s no small miracle that humans voluntarily choose to copulate at all. But as scientists from the Netherlands have recently pointed out, our willingness to engage in sexual acts despite the yuck factor may be…

io9 George Dvorsky Sep 13

The Best Bluetooth Headphones for Less Than $500

The technology driving wireless headphones has not yet reached its full potential. But over the past few years, Bluetooth has advanced to a point that less than $500 can buy a pair of headphones with decent audio and respectable battery life. We rounded up four pairs and let ’em duke it out to see if…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 13

Help this teacher expose her kids to some great young-adult science fiction

Here’s your worthy cause for the day. A junior high school teacher has put up a request for some funding to get her classroom new copies of Scott Westerfeld’s classic young-adult dystopian novel Uglies — and all you have to do is go over to OO.com and vote for this project to be funded by…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Sep 13

Jimmy Kimmel Confirms People Love the New iPhone 5, Even Though They’re Being Pranked With an iPhone 4S

The iPhone 5 has been criticized for being a boring and marginal update to the iPhone 4S—at least in terms of design, since the new handset looks a lot like its predecessor. The two phones are so similar, that when Jimmy Kimmel showed the iPhone 4S to random people on the street, passing it off…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 13

This Beautiful 1980s Radio Looked Vintage Before “Vintage” Was a Thing

Take one look at this old teak and leather-clad Roberts radio, and you’ll swear it dates to the 1950s. But this UK-made Rolls Royce of radios comes straight from the polyester 1980s. The Roberts R900 is quite possibly the last great radio made before video killed the radio star. The R900 was produced from 1985-1990,…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Sep 13

What if you woke up in a different person’s body every single day?

There have been plenty of young-adult novels about young people searching for their identity — literally or figuratively. But few have taken the concept as far as Every Day, the new young-adult novel from David Levithan, the co-author of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. This is a coming-of-age story that manages to pack some age-old…

io9 Michael Ann Dobbs Sep 13

Malcolm McDowell explains why the death of Captain Kirk was such a waste

Just in case you needed another reason to love Malcolm McDowell, here you go. The Clockwork Orange star, who played the villain Soran in Star Trek: Generations, explains in a new interview with Metro why he thought Kirk’s death was a waste: “Poor old Captain Kirk,” he said in a telephone interview from California with…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 13

This Film Reel from 1902 May Be the World’s Oldest Color Footage

The oldest known color film footage has long been traced to a reel from 1909. But that was before Michael Harvey, the curator of cinematography at the National Media Museum in England, discovered an old forgotten tin in the museum’s archives. After examining the stock, Harvey discovered it was actually color test footage dating all…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 13

This Is the iPhone 5 You Should Get

If you’re going to get your DNA analyzed, you’d better brace yourself for the results

There’s No Way This Ridiculous Hot Tub Exercise Bike Is Real

Get your book read by the top editors at Harper Voyager — without needing an agent!

Scientists Invent Levitation Method to Create More Effective Drugs

The Worst Thing About the iPhone 5 Is Also the Most Brilliant

The Deadliest Poisons in History (And Why People Stopped Using Them)

The Brave Little Toaster gets CG remake, most likely to change toaster to iPhone

Artist Skywrites the First Thousand Digits of Pi over San Francisco

This Weed-Killing Robot Dispatches Dandelions with 98 Percent Accuracy

Google’s Star-Searching Bacon Number Tool Makes Your Brain One Degree Less Necessary

Apple Might Bring Siri Voice Control to Macs

Sexually aroused women find everything less disgusting

The Best Bluetooth Headphones for Less Than $500

Help this teacher expose her kids to some great young-adult science fiction

Jimmy Kimmel Confirms People Love the New iPhone 5, Even Though They’re Being Pranked With an iPhone 4S

This Beautiful 1980s Radio Looked Vintage Before “Vintage” Was a Thing

What if you woke up in a different person’s body every single day?

Malcolm McDowell explains why the death of Captain Kirk was such a waste

This Film Reel from 1902 May Be the World’s Oldest Color Footage

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