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Everything You Need To Disappoint Kids Who’d Hoped For a Real Pool This Summer

Year after year they beg and plead, but kids don’t realize just how expensive it is to install a pool in your backyard. Not to mention all of the constant maintenance and cleaning. It’s your summer too, and you don’t want to spend it tending to a pool they’ll probably get tired of in a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The lost art of sculpting cathedrals out of lard

From bacon suits to flying buttresses made of dead hog. Here are some panels from Otto F. Fleiss’ floridly titled pamphlet (deep breath) White Art in the Meat Food Business. A Practical Handbook for Butcher, Pork Stores, Restaurants, Hotels and Delicatessens on How to Make Lasting and Transferable White Art Decorations out of Bacon Fat…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The physics of wine bottle opening

Did you know that you can open a bottle of wine by whacking it against a wall? If you’ve read Lifehacker, you know it’s possible. But what about the physics behind this phenomenon? Let’s talk about why gas in the bottle pops the cork, even if the alcohol isn’t champagne. https://lifehacker.com/open-a-bottle-of-wine-with-your-shoe-5396212 I know we’re all…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

ABC’s Fall Schedule: Wacky Aliens and a Magical Apartment Building

We’d been keeping our fingers crossed that ABC would pick up Jessica Jones, the noirish superhero show based on Brian Bendis’ amazing comic. But ABC passed on Jessica, and instead we’re getting Terry O’ Quinn in 666 Park Avenue, a conspiracy theory drama, and a disconcerting comedy about alien neighbors. Take a look at the…

Television Meredith Woerner

Police Tasings Might Finally Be Ruled Brutality

Tasers are used across the nation by police as a “pain compliance technique.” But do the powerful electroshock weapons amount to police brutality? A case that lands before the Supreme Court next week could decide the fate of tasers. Malika Brooks sued three Seattle police officers who tased her when she was seven months pregnant.…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Intrepid Adventurers Can Couchsurf This Jordanian Cave

If you’re looking for somewhere a bit more er, rustic, for your next trip to the Middle East, Ghassab Al-Bedoul of Petra Jordan has the perfect accommodations—his 150 square foot cave home. Al-Bedoul, 42, is offering up the stone domicile where he was born and raised to prospective travelers on the popular vacation rental site,…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

This Paint Sprayer Is Your Paint-The-Fence-Like-Karate-Kid Deal of the Day

There’s something soothing about painting a room. The calm pace with Karate Kid-like strokes, the knowledge that with each swipe you’re one step closer to a brand new room, wait maybe that’s just the every-so-slightly toxic fumes. Then there’s the sore shoulders from the repetitive movements, the negative after-effect from staring at the same color…

Tech News Andrew James

ESPN Might Be Coming to the Apple TV

Already on the iPhone and iPad, WatchESPN is a wonderful app that lets users well, watch ESPN on their er, iPhone and iPads. It’s wonderful though! And it’ll be even more wonderful once it hits Apple TV. According to Bloomberg, ESPN is currently in talks with Apple to bring the WatchESPN app to the Apple…

Tech News Casey Chan

Please Don’t Learn to Code

For a while now, we’ve heard how anyone who doesn’t know how to code will be resigned to a life of servitude in the technological underclass. Writer, developer, and Stack Overflow kingpin Jeff Atwood disagrees. The whole “everyone should learn programming” meme has gotten so out of control that the mayor of New York City…

Tech News Jeff Atwood - Coding Horror

Piezoelectric Viruses Produce Electricity in a Pinch

The problem with current piezoelectric systems is that they’re typically made from toxic materials. But boffins at the Berkeley Lab have devised an ingeniously green alternative—current-creating bacteriophages. The M13 bacteriophage virus normally spends its time infecting and replicating within E. coli bacteria. However, it also has a couple of handy perks including the ability to…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

A brilliant, satirical indie flick about the future of dead-end jobs

Last week marked the debut of Jim Munroe’s latest indie flick, Ghosts with Shit Jobs, at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival. It played to a rapturous, sold-out crowd, and for good reason: As one of the festival organizers said, it’s rare to see really smart, biting science fiction satire these days. Made for a budget…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Shooting Challenge: Frame

Equipment: manfrotto tripod, canon EOS rebel t2i, Focal Length: 35, ISO 100, Shooting in Raw, edited on Photoshop CS5.5 My friend and I LOVE gizmodo as well as photography. Even though we just photograph for a hobby, in high school we hope to become really really good photographers. My backyard is beautiful (as you see)…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

20 Photos of Creative Frames Within Frames

Using a frame within a frame is one of the easiest ways to spice up a dull photo. And with Photoshop, it’s also a way to create something totally mind-bending. These 20 Shooting Challenge entries celebrate both schools of thought. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-frame-within-a-frame-5908908 WINNER: Hole In the Wall This picture involves 4 components that I’ve taken with…

Tech News Mark Wilson

The New Do-It-All Airbus Tanker Transport Will Keep the RAF Flying High

As the Royal Air Force’s fleet of heavy transport and tanker jets come to the end of their operational service lives, the RAF is faced with replacing a lot of planes. Luckily, the new Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport is a union jack of all trades. As its name implies, the Airbus A330 Multi…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

How a newborn baby saved Toy Story 2 from being lost forever

When an accidental computer command starting wiping animation data from the drive where Toy Story 2’s files were kept, a year’s worth of work was erased in a matter of seconds. Under normal circumstances this wouldn’t have been an issue; Pixar maintains backups of all its films throughout the production process. But the backups for…

Movies Robbie Gonzalez

In this week’s comics, it’s the BPRD and Ed Brubaker writing the post-apocalypse

What’s on the stands this week? First off, there’s Dark Horse’s new miniseries BPRD: Hell On Earth – Devil’s Engine… Caught between bat-faced monsters, a devastating earthquake, and the mad science experiments of Zinco, Devon and Fenix form an uneasy alliance in order to get to safety! There are also new issues of Daredevil, Fury…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

These Kids Have No Idea Their Teachers Are Videobombing Them

Ugh, when you’re 16, adults are just the lamest. But these high schoolers have no idea just how cool their teachers are. Seriously, the kids are completely oblivious— as they’re interviewed on camera, their instructors are dancing around behind them. And who cares what the students are saying because some of these educators are really…

Tech News Leslie Horn

10 Best Time Travel Movies of All Timelines

Some day, people from the distant future will travel back to our era and inform us that science has conclusively identified the best movies about time travel. Until then, though, we’re forced to make our own judgements. Luckily, there are a few time-travel movies that have rocked our space/time continuums more than any others. In…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

What’s the Mailing Address of the International Space Station?

One day, when the price is low enough, we would be able to send actual letters and packages to space. But what would a mail address look like? Example: what’s the street and zip code of the Internation Space Station? Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit asked himself that very same question during his stay…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

How do we measure the vast distances of the Universe?

Space, as we all know, is big. In fact, it’s more than big; it’s vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big. But how big is that, exactly, and how do we go about assigning actual, quantifiable distances between planets, nebulae, and other cosmic entities? In this beautifully animated video, produced by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, astrophysicist Olivia Johnson…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Everything You Need To Disappoint Kids Who’d Hoped For a Real Pool This Summer

The lost art of sculpting cathedrals out of lard

The physics of wine bottle opening

ABC’s Fall Schedule: Wacky Aliens and a Magical Apartment Building

Police Tasings Might Finally Be Ruled Brutality

Intrepid Adventurers Can Couchsurf This Jordanian Cave

This Paint Sprayer Is Your Paint-The-Fence-Like-Karate-Kid Deal of the Day

ESPN Might Be Coming to the Apple TV

Please Don’t Learn to Code

Piezoelectric Viruses Produce Electricity in a Pinch

A brilliant, satirical indie flick about the future of dead-end jobs

Shooting Challenge: Frame

20 Photos of Creative Frames Within Frames

The New Do-It-All Airbus Tanker Transport Will Keep the RAF Flying High

How a newborn baby saved Toy Story 2 from being lost forever

In this week’s comics, it’s the BPRD and Ed Brubaker writing the post-apocalypse

These Kids Have No Idea Their Teachers Are Videobombing Them

10 Best Time Travel Movies of All Timelines

What’s the Mailing Address of the International Space Station?

How do we measure the vast distances of the Universe?

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