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Apple Says Poor Performance in Aging iPhones Is Part of Delivering a Good User Experience

After poor performance in older iPhones prompted an investigation by a number of Reddit users and additional testing by benchmark app maker Primate Labs, Apple has finally weighed in on the controversy surrounding its aging handsets. The verdict? It seems the people were right. In a statement made to Techcrunch, Apple said “Our goal is…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Dec 20

Simple Benchmarks to Run on Your Computer to Check If It’s Working Well

At first glance the computer on your desk might look a lot like last year’s model or the model your colleague has, but looks can be deceptive—if you want to really rate your laptop and find its place in the power and performance stakes, that’s where benchmarks come in. Long revered by gamers as a…

Gadgets David Nield Oct 24

This Incredibly Lifelike Hand Puppet Can Even Move Its Fingers and Pick Things Up

Is Barnaby Dixon the reincarnation of Jim Henson? It’s hard to believe that there isn’t at least a little bit of Henson inside the young puppeteer as he demonstrates his latest creation, a glowing bug puppet that’s so articulated it even has moving fingers that can grasp tiny objects. Made from a lightweight, form-fitting plastic,…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Aug 25

4 Tricks to Make Your iPhone Faster

We’ve shown you quick tips for getting Windows, OS X, and Android running that little bit faster, and now it’s time to tackle the iPhone. If your iPhone is showing signs of sluggishness, here are a couple of quick fixes to put a spring back in its step. These tricks are fast, free, and easy…

Gadgets David Nield May 6

Three-Armed Cyborg Drummer Is the Killer Beat Machine of the Future

Seeking to “push the limits of what humans can do,” researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a wearable robotic limb that transforms drummers into three-armed cyborgs. The remarkable thing about this wearable arm, developed at GT’s Center for Music Technology, is that it’s doing a lot more than just mirroring the movements of the drummer.…

Tech News George Dvorsky Feb 19

Dance Meets Motion Capture In This Otherworldly Performance

Artists Maria Takeuchi and Frederico Phillips’ Asphyxia is more than an experimental dance film; it’s also one of the more creative uses of Xbox One Kinect’s motion-data capture capabilities we’ve seen. Much of the piece’s power is due to dancer Shiho Tanaka’s elegant grace, which somehow manages to transcend her body being transformed into a…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Mar 9

Why Your Next Tent Might Be A Cube

The next generation of ultralight backpacking tents is adopting vertical walls and square shapes to maximize living space while shedding weight. Here’s how they work and what these new tents mean for your next camping trip. https://gizmodo.com/why-your-next-tent-might-be-a-cube-1685252206

Reviews Wes Siler Feb 11

I Drifted Like a Madman on the Adult-Sized Crazy Cart XL

Last year’s Crazy Cart gave kids the ability to drift to their heart’s content, but there was one catch: with a maximum weight capacity of 140lbs, most adults couldn’t ride it. No longer, the adult-sized Crazy Cart XL brings 17mph sideways hijinks to everyone. And we rode it. 15 seconds into riding this thing, I…

Reviews Wes Siler Oct 29

A simple cure for public speaking anxiety: Get excited

To make public speaking easier, don’t calm down, scientists say. Instead, get excited. A study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology took a look at strategies for getting through a tense public performance — ranging from making a speech, to solving a math problem, to belting out a tune at karaoke — and found…

io9 Ria Misra Jan 13

Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty: The Vampire Ballet No One Knew Was Needed

A few weeks ago, Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty: A Gothic Romance ended its tour in Los Angeles, California. Much has been made of the way the well-known story was changed, but what was really striking was that the ballet actually felt like the natural collision of two of the biggest trends of the last decade:…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Dec 22

Teenage Angst Seems Less Angry When Expressed By Robots

End of Life is a robot band that makes Marilyn Manson’s Beautiful People song sound … beautiful. The robot trio uses a cello, yep a classical instrument, a guitar and drum set to make short work of this Industrial rock ballad. Though the band has perfectly choreographed movement and flawless technique, they do lack the…

Tech News Kelly Jul 18

Will.i.am Forgets His Own Lyrics During Performance, Reads Them from Cellphone

Have you ever unwittingly memorized the lyrics to a Black Eyed Peas song? Of course you have—they’re too damn catchy not to remember! Which is why this video, of frontman will.i.am resorting to reading the words to his own song from a cellphone during a recent performance of “Don’t Stop the Party” on French TV,…

Television Matt Cherette Jun 10

The World is Your Stage, With This Multimedia Party Truck

You can literally roll Visual Drugstore’s MMOV and stage a party anywhere, with the multimedia off-road vehicle bringing along a stage, speakers and a projection lighting system. Sure beats turning up to a party with some onion dip. With its rugged 6×6-wheel drive transmission, the MMOV looks more like a military transport vehicle than a…

Tech News Kelly May 12

The Church of the Sacred Hologram

Will you tell of your hopes and your dreams and the goodness you have seen? Or will you tell them of the darkness you’ve created with your own hands? The Park Community Church in Chicago is a multi-story Christian center that more closely resembles a Starbucks than any cathedral—and in fact houses its own coffee…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 28

Orchestra Generates Music Based On Its Own Heartbeats

The Heart Chamber Orchestra is a stirring audiovisual project, involving an orchestra that generates its own musical score (and accompanying visuals) in realtime. The catch? The source of the music is the heartbeats of the orchestra’s own members. Each musician is hooked up to an electrocardiogram sensor, which sends their heart rate to a computer…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 3

Test Notes: iPhone 4 App Speed

Day-to-day, the speed difference between the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3GS isn’t that different. But in more intensive apps and games? The iPhone 4 smokes the 3GS and is nearly as fast as the iPad. When we used basic apps—Notes, Calendar, Weather, etc—performance between the iPhone 4 and 3GS was nearly the same. The…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 24

Killing Joke’s Torture Porn Gets Turned Into Torture Titillation

Alan Moore may have distanced himself from the majority of movie versions of his work. But how would he feel about the Joker/Batgirl torture scene from The Killing Joke that appears in Epic Win’s Holy Sh*t…Batman! Burlesque show? Comics Alliance posted shots from Magdalena Fox’s performance of the scene yesterday, and while we give her…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan Mar 2

A Science Fiction Reading Set To Music, Beat Poetry-Style

We’ve been fans of Sue Lange‘s writing since we came across her unsettling chapbook We, Robots, from Aqueduct Press. And now if you’re in Landsdowne, PA later this month, you can see her do a beat-poet-inspired reading of her new story collection Uncategorized, with musical accompaniment by guitarist/vocalist Gary M. Celima. We’ve seen science-fiction authors…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Feb 3

Last Night, Monsters Took Over The Grammys

We were sad our favorites were snubbed when they handed out the Grammys last night, but at least the monsters ruled the show. Tron outfits, doom squads and Lady Gaga clawed their way to the top. Check out our gallery.

io9 Meredith Woerner Feb 1

The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of…the Hills

The Alunda Church Choir wanted to see what their giant earth phonograph, the terrafon, would sound like if they dragged it across the ground. Unsurprisingly, it sounds like dirt being plowed. But louder. Occasionally, nature’s music of scraped soil and rocks is augmented by a loud creak from the giant gramophone horn. If you must…

Tech News Chris Jacob Nov 14

performance

Apple Says Poor Performance in Aging iPhones Is Part of Delivering a Good User Experience

Simple Benchmarks to Run on Your Computer to Check If It’s Working Well

This Incredibly Lifelike Hand Puppet Can Even Move Its Fingers and Pick Things Up

4 Tricks to Make Your iPhone Faster

Three-Armed Cyborg Drummer Is the Killer Beat Machine of the Future

Dance Meets Motion Capture In This Otherworldly Performance

Why Your Next Tent Might Be A Cube

I Drifted Like a Madman on the Adult-Sized Crazy Cart XL

A simple cure for public speaking anxiety: Get excited

Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty: The Vampire Ballet No One Knew Was Needed

Teenage Angst Seems Less Angry When Expressed By Robots

Will.i.am Forgets His Own Lyrics During Performance, Reads Them from Cellphone

The World is Your Stage, With This Multimedia Party Truck

The Church of the Sacred Hologram

Orchestra Generates Music Based On Its Own Heartbeats

Test Notes: iPhone 4 App Speed

Killing Joke’s Torture Porn Gets Turned Into Torture Titillation

A Science Fiction Reading Set To Music, Beat Poetry-Style

Last Night, Monsters Took Over The Grammys

The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of…the Hills

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