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Mankind’s Crowning Achievement Might Be This Sofa That Folds Into a Briefcase

Conference rooms, airport lounges, hospital waiting rooms, there’s an endless list of places that can benefit from more comfortable seating. So ditch carrying a briefcase full of reports and legal forms for this awesome alternative that unfolds into a comfy two-person sofa. Yeah, that’s right. A skinny laptop with a high-res display doesn’t seem quite…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Is What It Looks Like When a Giant Drone Crashes on US Soil

We often think of drones as distant hovering sparrows in the sky, buzzing and cooing, firing off the occasional Hellfire missile. But they’re enormous flying machines with massive wingspans. And when they crash, they sure leave a giant flaming mark. The AP footage above was captured in the aftermath of yesterday’s crash of an RQ-4…

Tech News Sam Biddle

This Bench Looks Like It Has Wheels for Legs

Maybe it’s not a shocking revelation that a wooden bench used to be a tree, but the reason this bench is such a surprising piece of furniture is precisely because it confronts that reality head on. Sometimes the hardest thing you can do is tell truth, and in this case, truth is beauty. The Holzbank…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Biggest Mystery in Continuum

We’re still massively enjoying Continuum, the Canadian time-travel cop show. Episode three, “Wasting Time,” which aired Sunday on Canada’s Showcase network, was a an awesome blast of action and betrayal. The show is continuing to make great use of its setup, in which the future cop Kiera is always bouncing off her two “partners”: Alec…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Carnivorous Plants Are Becoming Vegetarian Because of Pollution

Carnivorous plants, like the Venus flytrap, are apparently becoming less bug eating and more root-using because of the pollution humans cause. Nitrogen in the air is giving them enough nutrients that they don’t need to eat as many bugs. It’s actually a logical transformation that us excess-loving humans might find a hard time relating to.…

Tech News Casey Chan

Quip: Make Sense of Your Twitter Feed

If the official Twitter iPad app isn’t for you, you might use some kind of alternative. Quip is just one option, and a pretty useful one at that. What does it do? It builds on basic Twitter features to provide a way to organize your feed. You can apply various filters, so if you only…

Tech News Leslie Horn

What if Pixar made a Justice League movie?

Given Disney’s affiliation with Marvel Comics, there’s scant chance we’ll ever see a Pixar Justice League film happen. But if the tides ever someday magically turned, these concept sketches by artist Daniel Araya would be a great place to start. Explains Araya of these designs: Just for fun I started doing concepts for a faux…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The Army Will Pay You to Riot

How does the US Army know if its less-than-lethal armaments are effective without being deadly? Live fire training exercises employing a mob of volunteers, of course. That’s right, if you are over 18 and live in the greater New Jersey area, you too can get $20/hour to be whacked with batons and shot with rubber…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Picture of the Day: June 12, 2012

COUNTDOWN MOON LAUNCH | “Firing Room” by James Wyeth, a painting of Launch Control at the Kennedy Space Center, circa 1969, which was included as part of the “Artist and Space” exhibit from December 1969 to January 1970. See more beautiful space art over at Bibliodyssey. Want to read today’s io9 stories a different way?…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Sony NEX-F3 Review: The Best Photos $600 Can Buy

To create the NEX-F3, Sony took its predecessor—the best-in-class NEX-C3—loaded it with revamped hardware aimed at everyday consumers, and gave the camera’s shooting specs a boost. The finished product looks promising, and the price remains $600. Is it still the best camera in its category? Why It Matters The superb NEX-C3 was almost militant in…

Reviews Mario Aguilar

Tim Cook Reveals Secret Mac Pro in an Email to Random Apple Fan

Though the Mac Pro got a half-assed update yesterday that was promptly forgotten today, it’s really been on life support for years. But don’t worry professional people! Tim Cook has officially said that Apple is “working on something really great” for the Mac Pro and that it’ll be coming next year. Sadly, it’s “late” next…

Tech News Casey Chan

Iconic Photos Aren’t So Iconic When Left Uncropped

These are all pictures you have probably seen hundreds of times. But the ones you’re familiar with are sliiiiightly different. You see, these are the uncropped versions, which offer some a glimpse into the way just a little editing can completely change the whole story. With out that a little tweaking, these images might never…

Tech News Leslie Horn

These live stem cells were recovered from a 17-day-dead human corpse

Researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Paris have discovered that certain stem cells can stay alive in human corpses for at least 17 days after that person is declared dead. What were we saying the other day about the difficulty with defining death? The research, which is published in this week’s issue of Nature Communications,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

What It’s Really Like to Be a Fly On a Wall

You might look at your kitchen, bedroom, even your bathroom, and only see a messy disaster. But photographer Menno Aden doesn’t. He sees a work of art. Except that it probably helps that he photographs various rooms from the ceiling with a unique top-down perspective. The results are a series of photos of Berlin-based spaces…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The reason casinos track your behavior? To lure you into gambling too much

Online culture magazine limn has published a sobering article about how casinos are using hi-tech behavioral profiling of its customers to maximize patron engagement. Nearly 70% of casino-goers participate in loyalty programs which require them to use player cards instead of coins, paper money, or tickets. This have given casinos the opportunity to do something…

io9 George Dvorsky

Apple: Nevermind, There’s No New Mac Pro

Perhaps realizing that calling yesterday’s Mac Pro update “new” was like hammering a nail into your wall and calling it a renovation, Apple fessed up today: there’s nothing that new about it. The Mac Pros got a spec bump. A pretty insulting spec bump, really—slightly faster processors. That’s it. No Thunderbolt, no USB 3.0, nothing…

Tech News Sam Biddle

What human traits were evolved only for sexual attractiveness?

Some traits get passed down because they help animals stay alive. Some traits get passed down because they enhance fertility. And some traits get passed down because they just make creatures more sexually attractive. Which aspects of the human race only exist because at some point, enough of our ancestors decided they were too sexy…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Brewtruc: San Francisco’s First Bar on Wheels Updated

San Francisco is a food truck mecca. From burritos to Irish/Eritrean fusion—if you can think of it, someone’s probably already serving it out the back of a van. But where does one get a sudsy man soda to wash down his artisan lamb sliders? From the only mobile taproom within city limits—Brewtruc. The Brewtruc, which…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Medieval Hoodie Makes You a Knight In Shining Cotton

One hit from a sword and you’ll be dead faster than your social standing once you wear this out in public, but you won’t find a more comfortable suit of armor than this plated hoodie created by Etsy seller Chadwick Dillon. It comes complete with a fully retractable face plate and visor built into the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Humans Love Apple Events Because Humans Love Spaceships

Dan Lyons, the guy who used to be Fake Steve Jobs, has a story today that asks “once upon a time we put a man on the moon. Now we pee our pants over retina displays. WTF happened to us?” The answer is really easy: We’re the same as we’ve always been. We love to…

Space & Spaceflight Mat Honan

Mankind’s Crowning Achievement Might Be This Sofa That Folds Into a Briefcase

This Is What It Looks Like When a Giant Drone Crashes on US Soil

This Bench Looks Like It Has Wheels for Legs

The Biggest Mystery in Continuum

Carnivorous Plants Are Becoming Vegetarian Because of Pollution

Quip: Make Sense of Your Twitter Feed

What if Pixar made a Justice League movie?

The Army Will Pay You to Riot

Picture of the Day: June 12, 2012

Sony NEX-F3 Review: The Best Photos $600 Can Buy

Tim Cook Reveals Secret Mac Pro in an Email to Random Apple Fan

Iconic Photos Aren’t So Iconic When Left Uncropped

These live stem cells were recovered from a 17-day-dead human corpse

What It’s Really Like to Be a Fly On a Wall

The reason casinos track your behavior? To lure you into gambling too much

Apple: Nevermind, There’s No New Mac Pro

What human traits were evolved only for sexual attractiveness?

Brewtruc: San Francisco’s First Bar on Wheels Updated

Medieval Hoodie Makes You a Knight In Shining Cotton

Humans Love Apple Events Because Humans Love Spaceships

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