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Watch this guy become the first person in history to safely land a skydive sans chute

WHERE WE’RE GOING, WE DON’T NEED PARACHUTES! Oh — but we will need cardboard boxes to break the fall. Lots and lots of cardboard boxes. Eighteen thousand, six hundred boxes. To be exact. [skyNEWS]

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How Can This Giant Twisting Bench Weigh Just Eleven Pounds?

Based on a smaller design he created a few years ago, Mathias Bengtsson’s gigantic Spun bench is now on display at an art gallery in Washington DC. But how can this giant installation only weigh just eleven pounds? It’s made from that uber-material known as carbon fiber. Normally, carbon fiber is woven into large panels…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This article about chickens is one of the most interesting things you’ll read this week

That’s right. I said it. Chickens. I know, I was skeptical at first, too; but earlier this morning, I sat down to glance at this longread by Smithsonian Magazine’s Jerry Adler and Andrew Lawler and I’ll be damned if I didn’t read it straight through. The piece — entitled “How the Chicken Conquered the World”…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Our Sun Like You Have Never Seen It Before

NASA just sent me this beautiful video of the Sun. “There’s no science behind it,” says Scott Wiessinger, Helio and Astrophysics Video Producer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, “but it’s very pretty.” You got it, Scott. It’s also very trippy. This video takes SDO images and applies additional processing to enhance the structures visible.…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Helicopter Drops 955 Hot Dogs Over Detroit

Is Detroit a humanitarian zone? No. But a helicopter just dropped 955 hot dogs over the beleaguered metropolis to commemorate the American Coney Island restaurant’s 95th anniversary. Things are looking up, Motor City! Below the chopper, 25 people waited to gather as many franks as they could, for a contest co-hosted by a local radio…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Who is this mysterious new Dark Knight Rises character?

A new crop of freshly released Dark Knight Rises toys from the Quick Tek line has potentially revealed the a brand new Batman character. Thanks to an io9 reader, we now have a close look at a brand new face, well a toy face. Who could this gentleman on the right be? We have three…

Movies Meredith Woerner

This Computer Desk Puts a Twist on Eliminating Clutter

Since the invention of drawers, people have been utilizing the space underneath a table-top. The Tambour Table puts a most mind-bending twist that concept. The table’s designer, Michael Bambino, decided to re-think the classic Tambour Door you might find on a old roll-top desk. His variation allows the seemingly solid piece of wood on top…

Tech News Michael Hession

Your first look at katana-wielding Michonne from The Walking Dead

We saw her briefly in the second season finale — now here’s our first clear shot of actress Danai Gurira as katana-swinging wasteland warrior Michonne from The Walking Dead’s third season (via Entertainment Weekly). As Walking Dead head honcho Robert Kirkman explains: https://gizmodo.com/on-the-season-finale-of-the-walking-dead-the-honeymoon-5894370 The essence of the character – her personality, her motives, everything that…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

Struggling HP Slashes 27,000 Jobs (Updated)

HP’s quarterly earnings may have outperformed expectations, but it’s not good enough: the Silicon Valley company confirmed rumors that it would cut lots of jobs. 27,000 jobs to be precise. That’s 8-percent of its workforce. According to the release from HP, which the company sent over when we emailed asking for comment: These moves are…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Wrong Way to Plan for the Future

We all know that thinking ahead is the only way to succeed in life. But a ton of new research shows that the more you think about future goals and events, the more mistakes you’re likely to make. So how can you make forward-looking plans in a way that maximizes your chances of winning out?…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Dropping Explosives From a Quadrotor Puts Tom Clancy to Shame

To a casual observer, this video might look like dropping high explosives from an RC helicopter. Which would be cool enough on its own. But the real case is so, so much better: This is the future of dropping tiny, deadly bombs from the sky. Richard Ryan continues his real life exploration of the military…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

You Don’t Have To Be Drunk To Want This R2-D2 Hoodie

Some Star Wars apparel requires a bit of ‘courage in a bottle’ to purchase and wear in public. But not this forthcoming R2-D2 hoodie from Mad Engine apparel. We love that little droid, and would happily wear this to school, work, or stock market IPOs. https://gizmodo.com/uhh-did-anyone-else-get-drunk-and-buy-a-wookiee-hoodie-5873440 Available sometime near the end of August for $70,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Confirmed: Geeks are the Best People to Watch Movies With

Want to enjoy a pure movie-going experience? You’re going to have to stay up late. A new article claims midnight movie screenings are the only ones where you’re not likely to be disturbed by rude maniacs. The reason why midnight movies are so great? Because the audiences are fans. Top image: Midnight Screening of Harry…

Movies Michael Ann Dobbs

The 10 Most Asinine 1990s Comic Book Characters Who Never Caught On

The 1990s were a frenzied time for comic books. Sure, everybody was buying stacks of comics with hologram covers and quoting Wolverine non-ironically, but so, so many godawful new characters debuted during those years. For every Deadpool or Harley Quinn who captured fans’ hearts, there were a dozen gaudily dressed nutjobs with katanas growing out…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Run Like You’re on the Moon

What if you only weighed a fraction of what you actually do? You could run so fast. You could take an immense amount of pressure off your knees while still getting a workout. You could focus entirely on your form. And what if, as easily as you took the weight away, you could add it…

Tech News Brent Rose

Google Glasses Still Make You Look Nerdy

If you’re Katy Perry, you’ll look dumb wearing the Google Glasses—at least in their current prototype form. And unfortunately, being a Google billionaire won’t make it any easier to pull off the look, either. Larry. Larry… https://gizmodo.com/do-you-care-how-ugly-the-google-glasses-are-5899190 TechCrunch was tipped off by someone in Page’s London audience, where he strutted around stage with the futuristic…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Cancel Out the Distractions of the World With Tivoli’s New Headphones

Seemingly bored with just cranking out radios, Tivoli has shifted their focus onto the headphone space, particularly noise-cancelling headphones. The Radio Silenz headphones take Tivoli’s decades of experience and siphon it into a product they hope will please ears. The Radio Silenz headphones feature 40mm drivers enclosed in wood and attached onto a folding headband…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The Creepiest Haunted House in Silicon Valley

In the middle of sprawling Silicon Valley hub San Jose, surrounded by startups and tech campuses, there’s a monstrous anachronism of red-tiled roofs and Victorian curlicues. It’s the 1880s mega-mansion known today as the Winchester Mystery House. Built by heiress Sarah Winchester over a period of almost forty years, the place is an enormous, 6-acre…

io9 Annalee Newitz

This Keyboard Playmat Is Make-Like-Big Deal of the Day

Musicianship and long jump, combined at last! This is the keyboard is what you’ve all been dreaming of since Tom Hanks went all Chop Sticks with Robert Loggia in BIG. Unless you’re weren’t around when that movie came out, in which case this is probably a great gift for yourself. You can step out some…

Tech News Andrew James

The three main problems with sexual reproduction, as explained by science

Over at PLoS Biology, biologist Denis Roze has a fascinating article introducing a question that may at first seem obvious, but is in fact one of the enduring mysteries of biology: Why bother to have sex? People interested in evolutionary biology may already be familiar with the reasons why sexual intercourse is an improbable evolutionary…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Watch this guy become the first person in history to safely land a skydive sans chute

How Can This Giant Twisting Bench Weigh Just Eleven Pounds?

This article about chickens is one of the most interesting things you’ll read this week

Our Sun Like You Have Never Seen It Before

Helicopter Drops 955 Hot Dogs Over Detroit

Who is this mysterious new Dark Knight Rises character?

This Computer Desk Puts a Twist on Eliminating Clutter

Your first look at katana-wielding Michonne from The Walking Dead

Struggling HP Slashes 27,000 Jobs (Updated)

The Wrong Way to Plan for the Future

Dropping Explosives From a Quadrotor Puts Tom Clancy to Shame

You Don’t Have To Be Drunk To Want This R2-D2 Hoodie

Confirmed: Geeks are the Best People to Watch Movies With

The 10 Most Asinine 1990s Comic Book Characters Who Never Caught On

Run Like You’re on the Moon

Google Glasses Still Make You Look Nerdy

Cancel Out the Distractions of the World With Tivoli’s New Headphones

The Creepiest Haunted House in Silicon Valley

This Keyboard Playmat Is Make-Like-Big Deal of the Day

The three main problems with sexual reproduction, as explained by science

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