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Shop at Appla and Drink Sffcccks Coffee on China's "Street of Fakes"
Jan 30, 7:00PM
A cursory glance at this street in Wuxi, China would give the impression of a booming downtown marketplace that runneth over with only the hottest international brands. Look a little closer, and you'll notice that some of the spellings are a bit—er, off. Look even closer than that, and you'll realize that this bizarro strip mall is even more off-kilter than you could have ever known—all of the buildings' interiors are totally bone-bare.
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IBM's Graphene Circuit: A Genius Reminder of How Far Graphene Has to Go
Jan 30, 6:40PM
IBM's mad scientists have created a graphene-based circuit that's 10,000 times more powerful than existing alternatives. This radio receiver is so sophisticated and futuristic, in fact, that it can... send a text message to your friends.
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Starting today, you'll be able to order from GrubHub and Seamless restaurants directly from Foursqua
Jan 30, 6:32PM
Starting today, you'll be able to order from GrubHub and Seamless restaurants directly from Foursquare. In addition to the usual info you see when you look up a restaurant, you'll also see the option to order from participating joints. Which is kind of weird because Foursquare is about going places and delivery is about sitting on your butt. Hurray for lazy.
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Explore Spotify's Millions of Unplayed Songs with Forgotify
Jan 30, 6:20PM
Four million songs on Spotify—a whopping twenty percent of the site's tracks—have never been streamed. That is a ton of lonely tunes, but thanks to Forgotify they're going to start getting some listening love; the service queues up stuff that's never gotten a spin—the non-Biebers, the un-Mileys, the bizarro-Beys—and creates a running playlist of all-but-unknown audio.
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Man Photoshops Technology Into 15th Century Paintings, Hilarity Ensues
Jan 30, 6:00PM
Not everyone appreciates a GIF. And not everyone appreciates an early Renaissance masterpiece. But there's more audience overlap than you'd think. Just ask Scorpion Dagger, née James Kerr, an artist whose GIFs feature subjects from 15th century paintings creeping on Instagram and unfriending each other on Facebook.
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The Air Force Prototype Fighter That Was Just Never Quite Good Enough
Jan 30, 5:40PM
Despite the US military's robust budget, not every design makes it onto the battlefield. In fact, only a select number of the very best designs ever actually fly. So what the hell was the USAF thinking choosing the defect-ridden F-22 Raptor over this gorgeous jet?
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Lego Ghostbusters is now official!
Jan 30, 5:34PM
Attenshun, Lego and Bill Murray fans all over the world! Start saving because the Keymaster has finally met the Gatekeeper and Gozer the Gozerian has materialized at Lego's headquarters in Billund, Denmark: The 30th Anniversary Ghostbuster set—designed by Lego fan Brent Waller— is going to be an official Lego product.
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Tiny Copper and Carbon Nanotube Wires Increase Current Flow 100 Fold
Jan 30, 5:20PM
Researchers in Japan have developed an incredibly thin wire—just half a micrometer in diameter—made from a new composite material composed of traditional copper and those new fangled carbon nanotubes. But what makes this creation particularly awesome is that the new wire allows over 100 times more current to flow than a traditional copper thread.
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This Genius App Would Turn Your Smartphone Pics Into Prints, For Free
Jan 30, 4:56PM
Where are the dozens of pictures on your smartphone or tablet going? Nowhere, probably. Printing them at home looks chintzy, and getting professional prints is expensive. Flag wants to change that, with an app that would give you high-quality prints and mail them wherever you want, all for free. Cool!
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Alien monsters or awesome spiders, I just love these little guys
Jan 30, 4:19PM
I can't stop looking at the extraordinary photos by Thomas Shahan, an Oregon-based artist and microphotographer who creates amazing portraits of arthropods, including these awesome jumping spiders. His beautiful monsters don't make me run in fear, but make me smile (knowing they are tiny, that is.) In fact, some of their faces are hilarious.
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Scarlett Johansson Chooses SodaStream Over Humanitarian Group
Jan 30, 4:04PM
Scarlett Johansson's SodaStream endorsement just came at a price; she's been ousted as an Oxfam International ambassador, with a spokesman citing "a fundamental difference of opinion" as her reason for stepping down (read: fired) from the international humanitarian organization.
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An Entire City Under Construction to Save Another from Climate Change
Jan 30, 4:00PM
The African nation of Nigeria is experiencing many familiar problems in our age of climate change: rising sea levels, storm surges, devastating flooding. Now its coastal city Lagos is going to outrageous lengths to protect itself, both environmentally and financially, by building an entirely new city the size of Manhattan between it and the ocean.
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How Nintendo Plans on Tackling Its Toughest Year
Jan 30, 3:40PM
Last night was the night that Nintendo told investors—and the world—how they're going to meet the challenges they're facing.
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There's a Solar Eclipse Happening Now That Can Only Be Seen From Space
Jan 30, 3:40PM
This is a photo of what's happening right now above our heads. It's a solar eclipse near the moon. You just can't see it, because you're not in space.
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Can Motorola Still Be Awesome Without Google?
Jan 30, 3:20PM
You can make all kinds of guesses about why Google sold Motorola. Did it only want the patents all along? Is it making nice with Samsung? But a more pressing question has been weighing on our minds: "So uh... what about the Moto X?"
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Wastewater from Cheese is Generating Electricity in Wisconsin
Jan 30, 3:00PM
As the country's largest producer of cheese, Wisconsin is also the country's largest producer of cheese waste. But why think of that as a bad thing? In the hands of some enterprising Wisconsinites, what was once wastewater is now electricity. This is, after all, the same state that's using salty cheese brine to de-ice its roads.
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Mayan Modernism: Designs for a huge museum of Mayan Culture, planned for completion in Guatemala Cit
Jan 30, 2:40PM
Mayan Modernism: Designs for a huge museum of Mayan Culture, planned for completion in Guatemala City by 2017, are "inspired by the language of Mayan temple architecture," according to its architects. I wonder if the jungle overgrowth comes included. [Over,Under and Harry Gugger Studio]
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Gawker Man Asks Ex-Wife to Stay On As His Housekeeper | io9 College kids think other spring breakers
Jan 30, 2:27PM
Gawker Man Asks Ex-Wife to Stay On As His Housekeeper | io9 College kids think other spring breakers are having more sex than them | Jalopnik $14.5 Million Worth Of Super Bowl Ads For Failed Cars | Jezebel Get Psyched for the First Stoner Super Bowl
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This Wonder Tub Has a Built-in Sink, Speakers, and Digital Controls
Jan 30, 2:27PM
It might reduce the number of bathroom fixtures you need to scrub come cleaning day, but the built-in sink on this curvaceous Symbiosis bathtub from Desnahemisfera hopefully doesn't drain into the tub to conserve water usage—because that would be disgusting.
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20 Awesome Stickers From When Your Suitcase Told Stories
Jan 30, 2:20PM
There was a time when well-traveled luggage looked like the suitcase above: covered with travel stickers, trophies of every adventurous explorer. My father, who spent his youth traveling across Europe in the 60s and 70s kept his weary suitcase for a long time; as a child, I admired all those well-aged little pictures of remote hotels and places I'd never been to.
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SwiftKey's Coming to iOS! (Inside a Note-Taking App)
Jan 30, 2:01PM
SwiftKey is one of the best keyboard replacements you can get on Android, and now it's bringing its note-taking talents to iOS with the launch of a new app called SwiftKey Note.
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Twitter Shut Me Down
Jan 30, 1:30PM
At 25, I found myself running a very profitable black hat advertising platform. The platform was called Followgen, and I was its sole creator; a self-identified 'hacker' and reluctant resident of New York City. At the time, Followgen was just six months old, and I believed its days were numbered.
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Facebook's Reader App, Called Paper, Is Official--and It's Beautiful
Jan 30, 12:44PM
After much speculative rumor, Facebook this morning announced the arrival of a new standalone iPhone app called Paper.
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Mark Zuckerberg Talks Fragmenting Apps, Anonymous Facebook and... Poke
Jan 30, 12:40PM
Ahead of Facebook's 10th anniversary on February 4th, Bloomberg Businessweek scored an interview with Mark Zuckerberg to chat about the company's future. Here are some choice cuts from the social network's head honcho, before you go read the whole thing.
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A Stunning Visualization of the Polar Vortex
Jan 30, 12:00PM
There is no shortage of stunning photographs that record how the US was frozen solid earlier this month, but this animated GIF brings the big freeze to life in stunning technicolor.
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