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The Wild Journey of a Packet: How the Internet Works

The internet is vast and complex, and most users are completely oblivious to its inner-workings (which are amazing, by the way). If you find yourself in the dark, perhaps this video will help. Created by the World Science Festival, There and Back Again: A Packet’s Tale is the story of what happens each and every…

Tech News Michael Hession

So you want to hang your skeleton in public? Here’s how.

We had a human skeleton in our biology class in high school. I remember thinking it was shorter than I expected, but I didn’t know how, exactly, it ended up in our classroom. I suppose I assumed grave robbers, which lent a adventurous air to our teacher. But in fact, there are much more legitimate…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

This Razor Dirt Rocket Bike Is Your Hog Wild Deal of the Day

When I was a kid I had a little orange scooter. It was completely foot-powered—no motor or anything because that just wouldn’t have ended well. But I always craved more speed from their gas-powered cousins. Now as an adult, I would love to jet around on a motorcycle, but without the special license and training,…

Tech News J.D. Levite

New clip showcases the main reason to stay excited about Amazing Spider-Man

There are a lot of reasons to have misgivings about Amazing Spider-Man. It’s too soon after the last Spider-Man trilogy to reboot the character. The whole “Peter angsts about his missing parents” thing is too mythology-heavy, and possibly detracts from the key “I didn’t stop the mugger that killed Uncle Ben” part of his origin.…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Justice League Movie Still on Track?

Even before The Avengers made a billion dollars, Warner Bros. was “quietly” moving forward with a new Justice League movie, according to Variety. A film showcasing the team-up of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and a host of other heroes seems like a no-brainer — if Warners can duplicate the same intensity and charisma that gelled…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Cash Register of the Future Wraps the iPad in Beautiful Bamboo

You can add the cash register to the list of endangered technologies that tablets and smartphones are killing off. But the iPad and Square-powered Cashbox promises to give them one last hurrah before they completely fade away. The lovely wooden enclosure includes an iPad connected to a Square reader, which makes swiping credit cards a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph: If Tron and Toy Story Had an Adorable Baby

Remember those 8-bit arcade games you loved so much as a kid? Disney’s got a movie coming out this November called Wreck-It Ralph that imagines what the characters are getting into when you’re not feeding these machines quarters. Today it released the first trailer. And it’s a blast. It centers on Ralph (voiced by John…

Movies Leslie Horn

Best Behind-the-Scenes Hobbit Video Yet… With One Amazing Cameo

Peter Jackson has released the seventh video from The Hobbit set in New Zealand. Each one keeps getting better and better. But this “vlog” entry might be the best thus far. Not only does it show the dwarves’ “barrel escape” scene, it also has a dynamite cameo at the end. Definitely worth watching the whole…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Army Scientists Build a Better Battery

Single-cell batteries have an inherent design limitation that prevents them from producing more than 4 volts—they simply can’t do it, there isn’t enough energy density to produce that extra bit of output. That is, until now. “This is what you would call a quantum leap,” Army researcher Arthur Cresce said in a press release. “We’ve…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Letters From Ray Bradbury: ‘Love what YOU love!’

We’re still mourning the loss of legendary science fiction writer Ray Bradbury. The author of The Illustrated Man and Fahrenheit 451 has passed on, but his indelible writing will remain with us forever. And what better way to commemorate the legacy of Bradbury than with his own words? Bradbury claimed to have typed out over…

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner

Twitter’s New Bird Logo Is So Different You Might Not Even Notice It

Twitter introduced a new, updated bird logo today and it’s ever so slightly different from its previous bird logo. The color is a shade darker, the beak is a bit higher and it looks more like a soaring dolphin than a buoyed whale. According to Twitter: Our new bird grows out of love for ornithology,…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Awful Inhumanity of Using Bleach Enemas to Treat Autistic Children

There are almost no words for the inhumanity of this. Someone is not only promoting a treatment of bleach enemas to treat autistic children — every two hours, for 72 hours, every possible weekend — but they’ve started a religious organization to promote this, with “bishops” and other church officials touting the effectiveness of the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Google Has Its Own Fleet of Airplanes to Map the World in 3D

Talking about what goes into its improved 3D maps, Google casually mentioned today that it uses a fleet of airplanes to repeatedly fly over cities, shooting photos at 45-degrees and from directly overhead. That’s cool tech, and all, but, like, Google has its own damn fleet of airplanes. The data from the planes is combined…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

WondLa: Probably Your Kid’s New Favorite Science Fiction Book Series

Middle grade science fiction has always been a somewhat underserved genre, compared to young adult SF. Luckily, Tony DiTerlizzi’s second WondLa book came out recently, to provide some great sci-fi adventures for the 8-12 year-olds in your life. The science fiction aimed at this age group tends to be in the comic vein (who didn’t…

Books & Comics Michael Ann Dobbs

These Incredible Lego Beasts Liven Up Iowa State’s Reiman Gardens

Reiman Gardens, the 14 acre park that serves as entrance to Iowa State University already supports a wide variety of local wildlife. But this summer, the gardens will host another type of menagerie—one made entirely of Lego. As part of the “Nature Connects” exhibit at Iowa State, Certified Lego Builder Sean Kenney and his team…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Google Has Adorably Goofy 360-Degree StreetView Backpack Cameras Now (Updated)

So on top of its fleet of world-roaming StreetView cars, Google’s now got 360-degree backpack cameras to take in the world. And now you want one, too. The packs aren’t the most inconspicuous of cameras—sorta like a Ghostbuster fighting a giant green ladybug—so they’ll probably get pranked and mugged-for pretty hard. But who cares! Giant…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Dean Koontz tells io9 about the Odd Thomas movie… and a possible Frankenstein TV show

The movie version of Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas is done, Koontz tells io9. He’s actually seen the finished film, and he told us what he thinks of it. Koontz also talked to us about the prospects for a TV show based on his Frankenstein series, and what’s next for Odd Thomas. Plus Koontz has a…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Shooting Challenge: Stacked Long Exposures

Remember this amazing photo from the ISS? It was actually a series of 30-second exposures, glued together as one. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, I can’t get you into space, but I can teach you the technique. The Challenge Take two (or many more!) long exposure shots and combine them into one image. The…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Meet Swumanoid, Japan’s swimming robot

For those of you who thought you could escape to the water during the robopocalypse, you thought wrong. Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology are working on a robot that can accurately mimic a human swimmer’s whole-body motion. Called Swumanoid — an awkward portmanteau of “swimming humanoid” – the swimbot is intended to measure…

io9 George Dvorsky

New Google Maps: Offline Mobile Access, Improved 3D and More

Google Maps announced it is rolling out offline maps for mobile, showed a new person-mounted Street View camera and is improving the 3D capabilities of its maps via aerial data. It’s a major overhaul, one that comes in the face of Google reportedly losing one of its biggest partners. Users can look up a map…

Tech News Mat Honan

The Wild Journey of a Packet: How the Internet Works

So you want to hang your skeleton in public? Here’s how.

This Razor Dirt Rocket Bike Is Your Hog Wild Deal of the Day

New clip showcases the main reason to stay excited about Amazing Spider-Man

Justice League Movie Still on Track?

The Cash Register of the Future Wraps the iPad in Beautiful Bamboo

Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph: If Tron and Toy Story Had an Adorable Baby

Best Behind-the-Scenes Hobbit Video Yet… With One Amazing Cameo

Army Scientists Build a Better Battery

Letters From Ray Bradbury: ‘Love what YOU love!’

Twitter’s New Bird Logo Is So Different You Might Not Even Notice It

The Awful Inhumanity of Using Bleach Enemas to Treat Autistic Children

Google Has Its Own Fleet of Airplanes to Map the World in 3D

WondLa: Probably Your Kid’s New Favorite Science Fiction Book Series

These Incredible Lego Beasts Liven Up Iowa State’s Reiman Gardens

Google Has Adorably Goofy 360-Degree StreetView Backpack Cameras Now (Updated)

Dean Koontz tells io9 about the Odd Thomas movie… and a possible Frankenstein TV show

Shooting Challenge: Stacked Long Exposures

Meet Swumanoid, Japan’s swimming robot

New Google Maps: Offline Mobile Access, Improved 3D and More

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