This Revolutionary New Battery Charges To 70% In Just Two Minutes

Whether it’s mobile phones or electric cars, consumers tend to be put off by the long recharge times and limited battery life. Now, thanks a team of engineers at Nanyang Technology University, there’s a lithium-ion battery on the horizon that dramatically improves both of these limitations. In addition to to the rapid charging times, the…

Gotham‘s Version Of American Idol Is A Lot More Brutal

In the various Batman tales, someone is always trying to put something into the water of Gotham City. Poison, chemicals, mutagens, liquid fear gas… but the prequel show Gotham conclusively reveals that the water supply already contained critical levels of lead, lowering everybody’s IQ to single digits. Spoilers… Seriously. I don’t actually expect people to…

My Goodness, These Book of Life Clips Are Gorgeous

There is absolutely no doubt in our minds that Jorge R. Gutierrez’s animated movie Book Of Life will be stunning. The images and trailer alone have given us so much to look forward to, and now there are clips—gorgeous, cheeky clips of the wonderful world of the dead. Take a look. https://gizmodo.com/the-book-of-life-trailer-is-so-beautiful-it-will-give-y-1583328068

Here’s What Wonder Woman’s Origin In Batman V. Superman Will Be

BvS producer Charles Roven accidentally revealed the origin of the new DC cinematic universe’s Wonder Woman. It really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, but just in case some folks consider it a spoiler for Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice, I’ll put it after the jump. The movie Wonder Woman will very unsurprisingly…

The Hindenburg Wasn’t The First Experimental Airship To Explode

We think we got the first hydrogen-based airship disaster caught on tape. In fact, the first horrific explosion of an airship came over a century before the Hindenburg, and it combined a military test ship disaster with a tragic love story. The First Airships Air balloons are now the stuff of festivals and the eccentric…

This Moderately Immoral Study Shows How We Misidentify Our Emotions

In today’s experiments, one of the most common tricks that experimental psychologists play is giving people placebos instead of drugs. In the past, it was pretty much the reverse. Doctors would call people in, tell them they’d get an innocuous substance, and then inject them with something a thousand times more powerful. https://gizmodo.com/bramitol-the-fictional-drug-that-still-turns-people-in-1641445929 In 1962,…

What Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady might have looked like in the TMNT film

Although this year’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie only dealt with Shredder, it looks like some point a plethora of villains from the Turtles past were going to show up – including the loveably goofy henchmen Bebop and Rocksteady from the TMNT cartoon! UPDATE: Images removed at the request of Aaron Sims Co. This concept…

It’s Marvel Vs. Game Of Thrones On io9’s Halloween Costume Show!

It’s only week one of io9’s Halloween costume show, and already the competition is fierce. Will it be paper-maché Groot, a pitch-perfect take on the Hound, an Iron Man made of repurposed auto body repair parts, or someone else entirely to run away with the title of this week’s favorite? Check out some of the…

Is This Concept Art From The Teenage Mutant Ninja Alien-Turtle Movie?!

Artist Tsvetomir Georgiev just released a bevy of unused villain concept art for the Michael Bay-produced TMNT movie, seemingly back from the first draft when the Turtles were going to be aliens. Which means this may be the first look at “Schrader,” the soldier-Shredder William Fichter was supposed to play. Supposedly the early draft of…

What’s The Fate of The Walking Dead‘s New Villain?

More Star Wars concept art sheds light on another possible character. A producer explains how Ben Affleck’s Batman differs from all the rest. J. Michael Straczynski promises to change the face of television with Sense8. And another Gotham Easter egg is revealed! Spoilers now! Top image: Walking Dead Star Wars Welcome back to the land…

They are impressive puzzle-solvers, have seemingly distinct personalities, use tools — and they are also food. Over at The New Yorker, they’re taking a deep dive on whether the high (if alien) intelligence of octopuses makes their continued presence on our menus a troubling proposition.

Preston McAfee, now Microsoft’s chief economist, once wrote a paper pondering what if Columbus had sailed off the edge of the world? How would that have affected U.S. history and economic growth? His goal was to ridicule economists who sought precise statistical answers to impossible questions. Read more about it here.

The Giant Tortoise Carries Its Home and Yours on Its Back

We thought they might be operating on the same principle as decorator crabs, but how does it get all of that on its back without arms that reach its back? This is “The Lost World” by Benajmin Haley, aka ElementOfOne1 on deviantART

This bodes ill: Syfy’s announced that all six episodes of its alt-history space show Ascension will air in three days. Its release date has also moved from November to December 15, 2014. With two episodes airing every day, the miniseries will be gone by December 17. Watch the trailerand tell us if this makes sense.

A Comedy Club Is Using Facial Recognition to Charge by the Laugh

Never more shall you pay full price for a sub-par comedian. A comedy club in Spain is using tablets with facial recognition software to figure out how much to charge its customers. The future is now. As with all really important advancements, this one was spurred on by taxes. The Barcelona club Teatreneu introduced this…

Robert Downey Jr.’s In Captain America 3. And It’s to Start Civil War

We may finally know what Robert Downey Jr. was talking about when he said that there he was working on a deal with Marvel to do something that wasn’t Iron Man 4. According to Variety, Downey’s in the final stages of negotiations that’ll bring Tony Stark in to Captain America 3 and begin the movies’…

This Is Like The Sexy David Bowie Music Video We Always Craved [NSFW]

Shit, you guys — this video for Daphne Guinness’ song “An Evening in Space” is so great. It’s just nonstop weird fashions and bodypaint and decadance and spaceships, with a very David Bowie-esque sound and feel. Oh, and it’s probably NSFW, so watch out. Daphne Guinness is an artist and style icon, who’s getting into…

Previously Unseen E.T. Concept Art Reveals The Alien’s Alternate Faces

Steven Spielberg called the alien puppet for E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial “something that only a mother could love.” And a good deal of concept art went into creating that cute and ugly creature and getting its expressions just right. Production designer Ed Verreaux, who worked with Spielberg on the Indiana Jones movies, Poltergeist, and Empire of…

Once Upon A Time Forever Changes Frozen Canon

So Once Upon A Time is expanding the Frozen universe, which is fine by me because I don’t really have any dog in the Frozen fight, unless you want to screw with living legend Idina Menzel. NO ONE MESSES WITH MENZEL. Spoilers ahead. So after the weird wig episode, we have THIS episode. And seriously,…

4.5 Billion Years Of Earth’s History In One Chart

Parsing out how to picture time is a tricky process. When we talk about time on a human scale — in seconds, minutes, days, years, decades — it’s not so difficult to grasp. But when we shift to the universe’s scale and begin to grapple with billions, things get much more complicated. Commenter SexyDinosaurCostume nominated…