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Watch this man marvel at his wife’s beauty after losing his memory

If this video doesn’t bring you a tear of emotion or at least make you smile and feel good for the rest of the day, you aren’t human. Watch Jason Mortensen react to the news of being married to his beautiful wife after waking up after surgery with no memory of it at all. My…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Sep 11

Here’s a Website That’ll Make You Instantly Feel Better

If you’re having a crappy day, go grab yourself an emergency compliment at this thoughtful website which serves up, you guessed it, emergency compliments. I already found out that I have the best blog, that my prom date still thinks about me all the time and that I lost some weight (not that I needed…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 25

Does Grant Morrison know the secret of the Wu-Tang Clan?

At New York Comic Con, io9 met up with famed comic scribe Grant Morrison. We picked his brain about such topics as the RZA, Batman and Superman’s S&M games, and that time Wonder Woman built a sneaky sculpture of herself out of cured ham. First off, you recently announced that your DC Comics alternate reality…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Oct 12

19 Gadgets With Happy and Sad Faces

We like to anthropomorphize the objects in our lives, assigning our tools and tech personalities of their own. But some just go ahead and do it for you. The gadgets you are about to see wear their hearts on their sleeves. HAPPY: That wide-eyed innocence. “Everybody is going to want me,” thinks the Sony HDR-TD10e…

Gadgets Brent Rose Oct 1

Over Two Dozen Reasons To Get Jazzed About Comic Books This Fall

Can you feel a nip in the air? We sure as heck can’t, because it’s still August and hotter than the Twilight Sword of Surtur the fire demon. But when the weather turns, these titles will be landing in your neighborhood comic shop. What weirdness is coming out this fall? Alan Moore’s collaboration with the…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Aug 17

The Biggest Winners and Losers of Comic Con 2012!

Comic Con is the pop culture Thunderdome. Every year, studios bring dozens of their massively expensive properties to the San Diego Convention Center, and only some will emerge with victory. Comic Con can’t make or break a project — but it can generate tons of buzz, which is a priceless commodity. So which movies and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 16

Watch an Old Man in a Nursing Home Get Excited When He Hears Music from His Era

An old man in a nursing home is described as being depressed, unresponsive and ‘un-alive’ until he hears music from his era. When his caretaker puts the headphones on him and flips on the iPod, you can see the pure joy on his face. So awesome. He starts listening to music around the 2:15 mark…

Tech News Casey Chan Apr 10

Women Are Happier in Relationships When Their Partner Knows They’re Miserable

Sometimes, science doesn’t provide radical new findings, it just confirms what we’ve all suspected for generations. Take, for instance, a recent study that shows women are happier in relationships when men know they’re miserable. Men on the other hand, they’re just happy when their partner is happy. The research, which appears in the Journal of…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Mar 6

Study Claims That Gadgets Make People Happy

After surveying 35,000 people around the world and analyzing the results, researchers came to a conclusion: Gadgets make us happy. Don’t laugh just yet though, because they’ve got reasonable explanations for this theory. Researcher Paul Flatters of Trajectory Partnership explains: Whether young or old, we’re all social beings, we all have a need for the…

Gadgets Rosa Golijan May 13

Happy Moments at CES

Through the photonic assault, I saw a patch of green in a booth. I walked up and touched it. The grass, it was real, and cool and fresh for the moment. I could not have smiled more broadly. Happy Moments… …at CES are rare for attendees, in my experience. It’s hard work and a monumental…

Tech News Brian Lam Jan 9

Do Gadgets Make You Happy?

I like this NYTimes blog about happiness. Our relationship with our personal tech is complicated, but overall, do you think we’re better or worse off for being so addicted to our gadgetry? Does your phone help you remember things you might have forgotten, and take photos of memorable events? Does it piss you off when…

Tech News Brian Lam Jun 30

303,000 People Extremely Terrified of Chinese People

Sometimes, Google gives you these amazing pearls of insight into the world’s extreme state of mind: Go into Google in Firefox and type “I am extremely” in the search box. You will get these most searched queries: • 12,300,000 pages with people saying they are extremely tired • 11,100,000 pages of extremely tired people •…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 9

Sony’s Happy Face Cameras Contort Frowns Into Awkwardness

Katie B. over at the WSJ did a roundup of camera tech. I liked this section on Sony’s Happy Face Retouch that automatically turns frowns into smiles. Sort of: It took already captured images of my friends’ faces and turned their frowns or ambivalent looks into smiles, but didn’t adjust the subjects’ eyes. Though this…

Tech News Brian Lam Apr 23

Donkey Powered Mobile Business Unit Comes Fully Loaded

The HAPV or “Human and animal powered vehicle” puts a high tech twist on the old fashioned donkey cart by adding a solar panel that charges a 12-volt battery under the driver’s seat. The power is then used to facilitate cell phone connectivity, front and rear emergency lights and a small neon tube at night.…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 9

A Moment of Reflection

Not to bum everyone out or anything—this is a gadget blog after all—but here’s a comic titled “The History of Technology” on No Exit by Andy Singer. It’s pretty much self-explanatory, so we’ll just pose this question to our readers: Do you think all the gadgets we’ve amassed are making us more happy, less happy,…

Gadgets Jason Chen Apr 18

Happy Hacking Lite 2 For Your Mac

The Happy Hacking Lite 2 keyboard is now compatible with Macs, and by compatible I mean Fujitsu painted it white and added an Apple system button. Aww so cute, finally something small to match your itty bitty mac-mini. The board is half the size of a standard keyboard, but unfortunately, Fujitsu also skimped on the…

Tech News Todd Haselton Jan 26

Watch this man marvel at his wife’s beauty after losing his memory

Here’s a Website That’ll Make You Instantly Feel Better

Does Grant Morrison know the secret of the Wu-Tang Clan?

19 Gadgets With Happy and Sad Faces

Over Two Dozen Reasons To Get Jazzed About Comic Books This Fall

The Biggest Winners and Losers of Comic Con 2012!

Watch an Old Man in a Nursing Home Get Excited When He Hears Music from His Era

Women Are Happier in Relationships When Their Partner Knows They’re Miserable

Study Claims That Gadgets Make People Happy

Happy Moments at CES

Do Gadgets Make You Happy?

303,000 People Extremely Terrified of Chinese People

Sony’s Happy Face Cameras Contort Frowns Into Awkwardness

Donkey Powered Mobile Business Unit Comes Fully Loaded

A Moment of Reflection

Happy Hacking Lite 2 For Your Mac

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