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This Ice Cream Maker Is Your Gettin’-Ready-For-Summer Deal of the Day

I used to camp a lot when I was a kid. We’d go with these huge groups of people. I never enjoyed it. Even when we bought a big camper that had a TV in it. I would’ve almost always preferred to be back at home playing video games or watching paint dry. Still, the…

Tech News J.D. Levite

The USS Iowa Battleship Will Be a Museum That Lets You Blow Stuff Up

The USS Iowa recently arrived in Los Angeles, completing the last voyage of its storied career. Now the ship will be transformed into a museum. We know what you’re thinking: borrrring. Not so! There are plans to create a crazy-sounding, multiplayer game room that recreates the ship’s history. The USS Iowa is a very important…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

First Details About Gareth Edwards and Timur Bekmambetov’s Robot Movie

Over two years ago news broke that Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov and indie movie maker Gareth Edwards of Monsters were collaborating on a post human adventure. But the details were scarce, until we caught up with the producer on the project Bekmambetov while doing press for his latest film Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. In our…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Does a galaxy filled with habitable planets mean humanity is doomed?

Last week, we reported on the astounding confirmation that all solar systems in the Galaxy probably have planets, and that Earthlike planets are more common than previously thought. While this seems like good news for SETI-enthusiasts, the revelation is actually quite disturbing. Given that we have yet to meet any extraterrestrials, the finding could mean…

io9 George Dvorsky

9 Things a Microsoft Tablet Needs to Succeed

Today, Microsoft will—reportedly, hopefully—finally unleash its tablet on the world. But other than that it might possibly exist, not much is known about Redmond’s iPad and/or Kindle Fire fighter. Since we don’t know what it is, let’s talk about what it should be. Here are the nine pieces to the tablet puzzle that Microsoft needs…

Tech News Brian Barrett

This Adjustable Chair Keeps Musicians Comfy During Long Concertos

A push for better ergonomics has vastly improved office chairs, so interior design professor David Brothers took those same ideologies and created a better chair for musicians. Not only does it improve their posture making it easier to sit longer, but it also helps improve their performance. Musicians in an orchestra are accustomed to all…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Will Microsoft’s Major Announcement Be a Xbox Surface Tablet?

Microsoft is announcing something today and no one has any idea what it will be. Barnes and Noble officially said that they have nothing to do with whatever is happening today so the rumor mound is eagerly hopping to the next rumor: a Xbox Surface tablet. It’s a 7-inch tablet that’s probably going to play…

Tech News Casey Chan

Bicycle Handlebar Bag Mutates Into Carry-All Purse

It’s cycling season once again, which means everyone’s trying to remember how the heck they managed to carry around groceries, laptops, and the rest of our daily baggage while riding around on a bike. This smart new bag from Freitag could be the answer. The new Freitag F60 Joan—named, if you must know, for the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

IBM’s Sequoia crushes all other supercomputers in new ranking

Step aside, Fujitsu K — there’s a new king of the mountain, and its name is Sequoia. For the first time in three years, an American-built device has taken top spot in a ranking of the 500 most powerful supercomputers. Developed by IBM, Sequoia will be used to – get ready for the letdown –…

io9 George Dvorsky

Reality Check: Most Internet trolls are probably trolls in real life, too

One of the biggest myths about the Internet goes like this: people who are perfectly pleasant and reasonable in real life become total jerkfaces when they get online. It conjures up the image of a mild-mannered office clerk, who talks courteously and sweetly to everyone, and then goes home and spews venom on comment sections…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

This Is Airbus’ New Crazy Airplane Design

If you thought that the monster Airbus A380 wasn’t crazy enough, you have to check out their latest design, which just got awarded a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The “double fuselage aircraft” designed by Airbus uses turboprop propulsion to reduce fuel consumption, as well as a twin forward-swept wing configuration. Combined…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The IKEA TV Reviewed: Worse Than Assembling 100 Bookshelves at Once

Uppleva, Ikea’s magical TV-cum-entertainment center meatball, won’t be arriving in America until next year. Fortunately, we’ve got an early review from friends in Sweden. The bad news: it’s really bad. We had high hopes for the all-in-one Uppleva—after all, if there’s a company that can produce a single unit with a TV, Blu-ray player, 2.1…

Television Sam Biddle

Technicolor Bullet Holes Make This the Perfect Home for Olympic Shooting

This pock-marked trio of buildings comprises the venue for the shooting events at the 2012 London Olympics. Designed by Magma Architecture, the colorful structures look like someone unloaded a bunch of rounds into them, fitting for the place that hosts gun-toting competitions. Each 3,800-seat building will be home to events in the 10, 25, and…

Tech News Leslie Horn

China is the third country to dock a crewed vessel in space

Early this morning, China’s manned Shenzhou-9 spacecraft successfully docked with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space lab, becoming the third country on Earth — behind the U.S. and Russia — to do so. It brings the country one step close to having the world’s only space station. On board the docking vessel were taikonauts Jing Heipeng, Liu…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Can You Really Bang Out a Wicked Drum Solo at 65 MPH?

We’re not sure about the provenance of this totally bad-ass BMW motorcycle outfitted with a drum kit side car. It could be from a custom builder who loves percussion as much as they do biking, or just a marketing stunt waiting to go viral. But from just a single photo we can certainly make the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This New Artificial Pancreas Could Solve Type 1 Diabetes

Type 1 diabetes afflicts some 30,000 Americans every year. The disease is marked by a complete shutdown of the body’s insulin production. It requires regular blood testing and insulin injections throughout the day. It’s a burden. But a new artificial pancreas could soon change the entire process of regulating a patient’s glucose by making it…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Spend Your Summer Hiding in a Cold, Dark Room

The grass is bright and green, but, ew, it makes you sneeze. The nights are warm and balmy, but, ugh, there are mosquitos. The bars are filled with tempting flesh, but, harrumph, that flesh expects you to pay for its drinks. What’s an allergy-prone, bug bite-covered, misanthrope supposed to do in the summer? Well, you…

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The 1958 Plan to Turn Ellis Island Into a Vacation Resort

After Ellis Islandwas closed in November 1954, no one was quite sure what to do with it. The 27-acre government facility located in New York Harbor had stopped processing immigrants coming into the United States and no government entity was stepping up with a plan for the site. So in 1956 the U.S. government started…

Tech News Matt Novak

Watch Ice Crystals Bloom Into Mesmerizing Chaos

You’re about to watch a beautiful music video, which sets a precise yet delicate piano line to one of the most wonderful pieces of scientific footage you’ll have seen in a long time. Directed and produced by Craig Ward, the video accompanies the haunting track by Ryan Teague, called Cascades—a piece in which “the movements…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Did Apple and Book Publishers Collude to Break Amazon’s Monopoly on Ebooks?

In April, the Department of Justice filed an antitrust complaint against Apple and four major book publishers alleging that they colluded against Amazon by setting prices. As The New Yorker points out, that’s hard to prove, but either way, their cooperation may have broken Amazon’s early monopoly on ebooks. This lawsuit could give Amazon its…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

This Ice Cream Maker Is Your Gettin’-Ready-For-Summer Deal of the Day

The USS Iowa Battleship Will Be a Museum That Lets You Blow Stuff Up

First Details About Gareth Edwards and Timur Bekmambetov’s Robot Movie

Does a galaxy filled with habitable planets mean humanity is doomed?

9 Things a Microsoft Tablet Needs to Succeed

This Adjustable Chair Keeps Musicians Comfy During Long Concertos

Will Microsoft’s Major Announcement Be a Xbox Surface Tablet?

Bicycle Handlebar Bag Mutates Into Carry-All Purse

IBM’s Sequoia crushes all other supercomputers in new ranking

Reality Check: Most Internet trolls are probably trolls in real life, too

This Is Airbus’ New Crazy Airplane Design

The IKEA TV Reviewed: Worse Than Assembling 100 Bookshelves at Once

Technicolor Bullet Holes Make This the Perfect Home for Olympic Shooting

China is the third country to dock a crewed vessel in space

Can You Really Bang Out a Wicked Drum Solo at 65 MPH?

This New Artificial Pancreas Could Solve Type 1 Diabetes

Spend Your Summer Hiding in a Cold, Dark Room

The 1958 Plan to Turn Ellis Island Into a Vacation Resort

Watch Ice Crystals Bloom Into Mesmerizing Chaos

Did Apple and Book Publishers Collude to Break Amazon’s Monopoly on Ebooks?

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