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The Oldest Musical Instruments Ever Found Are 43,000-Year-Old Mammoth Tusks

Scientists have found the oldest musical instruments ever recorded, which are carbon dated from 42,000 to 43,000 years old, and have turned up just in time to ask your dad if they’re what he listened to on the radio as a kid. A team from Oxford University found the flutes in a cave in southern…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Season Your Food With Salt From Real Human Tears

Would you like to season your french fries with some anger? No, really. I’m not being aggressive. Would you? Because the folks at Hoxton Street Monster Supplies have gotten really weird with it and made a line of salts from different types of human tears. Just in case you didn’t process that one, yes, these…

Tech News Leslie Horn

15 Human Cocoons

See, unlike human-centipedes, human-caterpillars spin gorgeous human-cocoons like these to protect themselves as they grow into human-butterflies. It’s the circle of life and it moves us all. After you emerge and unfold your delicate wings, be sure to also check out these 15 odd jobs, some examples of instant architecture, and these eight imflatable decoys.…

Tech News David Galbraith - Oobject.com

Watch a Lingerie-Wearing Hologram Model Strut Half-Naked

Tupac hologram, you were amazing. Beautiful girl in lingerie hologram, you might be even better. A lingerie store in France called Empreinte is using a hologram woman in lingerie after the store closes to attract people. I think it’s working. The hologram actually looks pretty well done. See it from the right angles and you…

Tech News Casey Chan

SpaceX Success! The Era of Private Space Flight Has Officially Begun

SpaceX has done it. At 12:02 p.m. EDT, the company’s Dragon capsule became the first commercial spacecraft in history to be captured and berthed to the International Space Station, and the first U.S. spacecraft to visit the ISS since the Space Shuttle Atlantis last July. A Mission briefing is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. EDT to…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Movie Science That Fails

I’m at WisCon this week, so we got special guest host Veronica Belmont from Tekzilla to co-host We Come from the Future! We look at the top movie tropes that get a F in science. Plus, in this week’s Esther Gets Experimental we show you how to create plasma using a humble grape and your…

io9 Annalee Newitz

10 Real-Life Public Figures, and The Fictional Sidekicks They Deserve

We can all think of characters that we’d like as sidekicks. But sometimes things aren’t all about us, personally. There are people out there who just plain need those sidekicks more. (And some need to have those sidekicks inflicted on them more.) Here are ten fictional sidekicks that we want to pair up with ten…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Spinning Indoor Garden Built Using NASA Technology

What was once intended to be a garden for outerspace could someday be a garden for your living room. The DesignLibero Green Wheel is a planter box fashioned into a rotating wheel, offering the benefit of light and space economy for small, sun-starved environments. Equipped with an LED light in the middle, the Green Wheel…

Tech News Adrian Covert

What if the X-Men were a Disney cartoon?

If Disney ever decided to animate Marvel Comics’ mutant roster, the final product might just look like these character designs by Matthew Humphreys. Bonus points for mohawk Storm, and I can appreciate how he utilized Psylocke’s blindingly purple 1980s armor. Hat tip to Mogo!

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Report: Google’s Supercheap Nexus Tablet Will Be at Google I/O

According to TechnoBuffalo, Google’s forthcoming cheap, 7-inch Nexus tablet will be announced at Google I/O, which starts June 27th. And, like, why wouldn’t it be? https://gizmodo.com/report-super-cheap-google-tablet-coming-in-july-5899752 The tablet was reportedly pushed back from its original May estimate in order to trim the price down to $200, which puts it in direct competition with the Kindle…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Dad Creates Fake Porn Site Profile for Principal Who Confiscated Son’s iPod

When an assistant principal confiscated his 13-year-old son’s iPod, Robert Dale Esparza Jr. did what any responsible parent would: He started a fake profile under the principal’s name on a hardcore porn site, and impersonated him via email. Yep! Frank Hendricsen, the assistant principal, allegedly confiscated the son’s iPod last year, but denied to inquiring…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Microsoft To Offer 80-Inch Windows 8 Tablets for Offices

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announces plans about Xbox at CES 2010. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired “Steve Ballmer has an 80-inch Windows 8 tablet in his office. He’s got rid of his phone, he’s got rid of his note paper. It’s touch-enabled and it’s hung on his wall.” This description of the Microsoft CEO’s workspace, given to…

Tech News Nate Lanxon, Wired UK

What is the chemical composition of the perfect tomato?

The difference between a locally grown heirloom tomato and the mass produced one is pretty obvious to anyone with a palette — but amongst the infinite variation of different varieties of a fruit, is there something you can link directly to deliciousness? Through the chemical analysis, and blind taste tests, of 152 different varieties of…

io9 Tim Barribeau

The Bow Size of the Navy’s New Nuclear Supercarrier Defies Belief

This is something you can’t usually see: the bow of an American nuclear aircraft supercarrier, the new Gerald R. Ford—the lead ship of a new class that will start replacing the Nimitz-class in 2015. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-how-the-navy-is-building-their-new-nuclear-supe-5911974 It was just put in place at Huntington Ingalls’s Newport News shipyard, at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, along…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

You Can Jailbreak Your Apple TV Now, Too

Along with being able to jailbreak your iPhone or iPad, you can jailbreak the Apple TV now too. It’s the first untethered jailbreak for the new Apple TV software (5.0.1) and it’s all thanks to Seas0nPass. Why would you jailbreak your Apple TV though? For the plugins! https://gizmodo.com/ios-5-1-1-untethered-jailbreak-is-out-now-5913317 According to Seas0nPass, you can add these…

Tech News Casey Chan

Men in Black 3 will erase all meaning in your life

Will Smith has starred in lots of formulaic movies. And he knows better than anyone that there’s something comforting as well as exhilarating about a movie that plays out according to a set of steps. Which is what makes Men in Black 3 so weird: it’s a movie where the blockbuster formula is the opposite…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Siri Tells John Malkovich a Better Joke

In John Malkovich’s iPhone ad, Siri tells him a joke. The only thing is, it’s not that funny. Good one, Siri (forced laughter, forced laughter). https://gizmodo.com/what-do-zooey-deschanel-samuel-l-jackson-and-john-ma-5912890 In this parody, he requests a better one. Siri must have her mind in the gutter, because not only is it better, it’s much filthier. Actually, it has a…

Tech News Leslie Horn

The Chernobyl Diaries is not this year’s Toxic Avenger

In the so-so thriller The Chernobyl Diaries — which was co-produced and co-created by Paranormal Activity franchise magnate Oren Peli — a group of affably nondescript American twentysomethings go on an “extreme vacation” to Pripyat, Ukraine. Once there, everything goes predictably wackadoo. Wouldn’t it be great if — just for once — there was a…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Will Explore Mars—Like a Boss

NASA may not be sending up manned shuttles anymore, but that doesn’t mean we’re done exploring the solar system—not by a long shot. On August 5th, the space agency’s new flagship rover is expected to land on Mars as part of an unprecedented search for traces of life on the Red Planet. You can ascertain…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Big Things Ahead… But Keep Your Shirt On

The October 1944 issue of Science and Mechanics looked at what technological advancements Americans might expect after WWII with an article titled, “Big Things Ahead — But Keep Your Shirt On,” by John Silence. What makes this article so fascinating is that it looks at the advances of the future with optimism, but tempers that…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Oldest Musical Instruments Ever Found Are 43,000-Year-Old Mammoth Tusks

Season Your Food With Salt From Real Human Tears

15 Human Cocoons

Watch a Lingerie-Wearing Hologram Model Strut Half-Naked

SpaceX Success! The Era of Private Space Flight Has Officially Begun

Movie Science That Fails

10 Real-Life Public Figures, and The Fictional Sidekicks They Deserve

The Spinning Indoor Garden Built Using NASA Technology

What if the X-Men were a Disney cartoon?

Report: Google’s Supercheap Nexus Tablet Will Be at Google I/O

Dad Creates Fake Porn Site Profile for Principal Who Confiscated Son’s iPod

Microsoft To Offer 80-Inch Windows 8 Tablets for Offices

What is the chemical composition of the perfect tomato?

The Bow Size of the Navy’s New Nuclear Supercarrier Defies Belief

You Can Jailbreak Your Apple TV Now, Too

Men in Black 3 will erase all meaning in your life

Siri Tells John Malkovich a Better Joke

The Chernobyl Diaries is not this year’s Toxic Avenger

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Will Explore Mars—Like a Boss

Big Things Ahead… But Keep Your Shirt On

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