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Please Buy This Space Shuttle Food Truck and Name It the Crepe Canaveral

Seriously, you purchase this converted DC-3 from eBay for $150,000, slap on some new lettering, maybe put a speaker on the roof that makes shuttle sounds when you leave a red light, and sell deliciously-filled thin pancakes out of the back. People will be fighting to give you their money. As the truck’s product page…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

Roll Up Blanket Chair Gets Extra Cozy If You Can Figure Out How To Use It

Design is often described as a perfect balance of form and function, but sometimes the former can outweigh the latter. In chair mode, the Collerette has a built-in rolled up blanket forming its arms and backrest. But how exactly you use it when the blanket is unfurled isn’t immediately obvious. The blanket is padded with…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

A sneak preview of The Flash, guest-starring Gorilla Grodd!

The Flash is one of the most handsome comics on the stands currently, and it says a lot that the creative duo of Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato can make an evil sentient gorilla eating brains look good. Here’s an exclusive first look at next week’s issue of The Flash, which reintroduces readers to longtime…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The last 12 months were the warmest in US history

Did April seem feel unusually balmy to you this year? It probably had to do with the fact that it was the third warmest April ever recorded. Come to think of it, March was pretty warm, as well — the warmest ever documented, to be exact. In fact, NOAA is reporting that, as of April,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The Nicest Micro-Cabin $10,000 Can Buy

Are you one of those people who constantly threatens to detach from society and go live out in the woods? But you’re probably baffled as to how you’d go about making that a reality, right? Well for $10,000 and a little bit of elbow grease, you could finally make good on those empty threats with…

Tech News Adrian Covert

This sculptor builds incredible dead sea monsters trapped on land

The artwork of Argentinian sculptor Adrián Villar Rojas evokes such themes as fantastic adventure in the otherwise normal material realm, the passage of time, and the last days of humanity. Perhaps his most striking series of sculptures depict giant dead sea leviathans beached far from any bodies of water. Here’s an interview with Rojas about…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

What Google Could Learn from Windows 8 About User Experience

Windows 8 is built on the idea that the web has great functions, but a lousy user experience—and it uses apps to pull everything into a bright, clean parallel world. FastCo Design’s Austin Carr shows how Windows 8 will make using the web a better, more pleasant experience. “What we are trying to do is…

Tech News Austin Carr - FastCo Design

Why Octopuses Should Run Our National Security Infrastructure

Next time the government wants new ideas about how to protect our nation’s security, it should consult an octopus. That’s the unusual proposition of marine biologist Rafe Sagarin, a pioneer in the infant field of “natural security,” where experts use models from nature to help them come up with emergency responses to everything from terrorist…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Merrell Barefoot Road Glove Lightning Review: Minimalist Foot Heaven

So, you’ve heard about all of this minimalist, “barefoot-style” running, and you want in. Thing is, those toe-shoes look really weird. You don’t want any padding, but you don’t want your foot pierced by rocks either. Is there a balance point? Yes, there is. What Is It? Merrell’s second generation of minimalist road runners, very…

Reviews Brent Rose

Verizon to Kill Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans. This Is Bullshit.

Unlimited data on Verizon is dead. The death rattle just wheezed out during Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo’s dream-killing presentation at the JP Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom conference. Everyone with a grandfathered unlimited data plan will be forced to switch to a tiered plan when they upgrade to LTE. It’s absurd, warrantless, and sadly,…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

What Samuel R. Delany Can Tell Publishing About Its Latest “Trend”

Almost every article you read about books lately bemoans the fact that nobody reads any more — except that now, in the age of ebooks, you’re starting to hear the opposite complaint. A recent New York Times article says people are reading too much, and too quickly. This, in turn, is meaning authors are under…

Books & Comics Michael Ann Dobbs

These Girls Are Wearing Nothing But Light

Light painting is one of those magical photography techniques that never gets old. Batman logos! Fancy effects! And even… dresses? Mmhmm. Atton Conrad, an advertising and art photographer, used light painting to dress his beautiful models to make them look even more gorgeous. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-body-light-painting-5587069 It’s lovely. The models are only wearing light! And it’s super…

Tech News Casey Chan

Brain Tapeworms Are Real, And They’re Disgusting

You might think of tapeworms as awful parasites that find their way into your intestine, grow as big as 50 feet long, and cause horrible gastrointestinal issues. But that’s only one step of a larger infectious chain the tapeworm is a part of. The alien life-form doesn’t only cause crippling stomach pain; it could also…

Health Leslie Horn

Watch this paralyzed woman control a robotic arm using only her mind

Watch this video, and witness a breakthrough in the field of brain-machine interfaces. Researchers have been improving upon BrainGate — a brain-machine interface that allows users to control an external device with their minds — for years, but what you see here is the most advanced incarnation of the implant system to date. It is…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Anyone Using a Flip Phone Is Probably a Serial Murderer or a Drug Dealer

Are we entering a new age when a flip-phone is the mark of either drug trafficking or hired assassination? Are we there already? Maybe we’ve all just been watching too many episodes of The Wire. Stand-up comedian Hannibal Buress performed on Conan last night where he voiced a suspicion regarding the illicit activities of flip-phone…

Tech News Michael Hession

How to Tell From a Trailer That a Movie Is Going to Suck

Right now, in the middle of summer movie season, it’s easy to get sensory overload. Big-budget movies are coming thick and fast, each of them trying to overwhelm us into opening our wallets. And the more movies you go to see, the more hyperactive trailers you’re going to see on the big screen. Is it…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

This Pistol Wall Safe Is Your International-Person-Of-Mystery Deal of the Day

If there’s one thing I can assure you about a wall safe, it’s that no matter how mundane your life may be you’ll automatically seem interesting with one. Who owns wall safes? Secret agents, criminals, international people of mystery, and pretty much anyone belonging to any unsavory organization. This In-Wall Pistol Cabinet is perfect for…

Tech News Andrew James

Google Knowledge Graph: Search Results Packed With Worlds of Information

Google search has always been about connecting you to information. The new Google Knowledge Graph makes the process faster than ever by delivering a summary of important info on your search results page. Google’s been moving in the direction of delivering information rather than links for some time by adding sports scores, election results, and…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

These Clutter-Saving Locks Open With Your Car Keys

Helping to wage the war on keychains that look like medieval weaponry, these Bolt locks don’t come with keys of their own. Instead, the first time you insert your ignition key they’re ‘programmed’ to only open with it in the future. The locks come in different models designed for tail gates, toolboxes, and trailer hitches,…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

A Map Reveals How Much of London Actually Lurks Below the Earth

Much of a city’s history is written in its architecture, its infrastructure, and even its natural geographical features. Over time, however, much of that history is lost. Buildings are leveled, and rivers and subway lines are entombed in the ground, interred forever to make room for taller buildings, wider roads, and longer passages. That’s what…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Please Buy This Space Shuttle Food Truck and Name It the Crepe Canaveral

Roll Up Blanket Chair Gets Extra Cozy If You Can Figure Out How To Use It

A sneak preview of The Flash, guest-starring Gorilla Grodd!

The last 12 months were the warmest in US history

The Nicest Micro-Cabin $10,000 Can Buy

This sculptor builds incredible dead sea monsters trapped on land

What Google Could Learn from Windows 8 About User Experience

Why Octopuses Should Run Our National Security Infrastructure

Merrell Barefoot Road Glove Lightning Review: Minimalist Foot Heaven

Verizon to Kill Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans. This Is Bullshit.

What Samuel R. Delany Can Tell Publishing About Its Latest “Trend”

These Girls Are Wearing Nothing But Light

Brain Tapeworms Are Real, And They’re Disgusting

Watch this paralyzed woman control a robotic arm using only her mind

Anyone Using a Flip Phone Is Probably a Serial Murderer or a Drug Dealer

How to Tell From a Trailer That a Movie Is Going to Suck

This Pistol Wall Safe Is Your International-Person-Of-Mystery Deal of the Day

Google Knowledge Graph: Search Results Packed With Worlds of Information

These Clutter-Saving Locks Open With Your Car Keys

A Map Reveals How Much of London Actually Lurks Below the Earth

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