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Aphex Twin: Rubber Johnny (NSFW)

Sure hope you didn’t plan on sleeping tonight because after watching this, that option is effectively off the table. This is some assuredly freaky shit. It’s equal parts handicam horror show and handi-capable rave featuring a guy with a noggin like a Xenomorph’s skull. And you just know he’s going to eat that Chihuahua the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

How long ago did we finish domesticating horses?

From Black Beauty to My Little Pony: Frienship is Magic, humans have an ongoing love affair with horses (and their smaller pony cousins). But not too long ago, the wild creatures that became horses looked considerably different. Where did modern horses originate, and how did they become the domesticated species we know today? A new…

io9 Sophie Bushwick

The House That Can Live on the Water or in the Trees

Imagine spending a summer floating down a river in this magnificent barge, stopping only for food and water in some random backwater town, then returning to the top deck cargo net hammock to resume the lazy float to nowhere. That’s all that comes to mind when looking at this magnificent wood creation. That, and the…

Tech News Adrian Covert

An amazing short film about a beetle with surreal chemical powers

This is The Eagleman Stag, a BAFTA-award-winning stop-motion animated short by director Mikey Please. It’s about an entomologist who discovers a unique insect with an anatomy that can alter human consciousness in incredible ways. Here’s a synopsis: If you repeat the word ‘fly’ for long enough it sounds like you’re saying ‘life.’ This is of…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

It Takes Carbon Fiber and Kevlar to Make the Best Basketball Shoes in the World

When you look at basketball shoes, what do you see? A big swoosh. Three stripes. Michael Jordan. A billboard molded to your feet. But do you see the technology? Though maybe not as blatant as an Intel sticker on your laptop, every shoe showcases its own advanced technology. Don’t worry, you can’t miss it on…

Tech News Casey Chan

Watch this rare footage of the most endangered gorillas on Earth

Our planet is home to just four subspecies of gorilla. Every one of them is endangered, but rarest of all is the Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli). Fewer than 250 of these primates are thought to survive in the wild, they typically flee when encountered by humans, and are notoriously camera shy. All this…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

See an Adorable Kid on 13 Consecutive First Days of School

Classes are winding down, but one dad on Reddit is looking back on all the first days of school with his son. Which apparently were all spent posing in the driveway. Pretty cool, and only repeats outfits once. [Reddit via BIOTV via Daily What]

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Pentizel World-Building Sketches and Stuff

The rogue surgeon who operates on Pentizel to enhance her human qualities works out of an abandoned bus in a junk yard. Entrance to Biohabitat Gentech Gene Lab Gentech Gene Lab Gentech Reception Pentizel’s Hideaway Hideout Pentizel’s Lair Pentizel’s Lair Pentizel’s Lair Needle Gun Needle Gun Offices Omninet Building Omninet Building Omninet Console Omninet HQ…

io9 Ron Miller

There Are So Many Damn Android Phones That Some Aren’t Even Being Released

Do you remember the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket HD from CES? If you do, it’s probably because its big dumb name is so unthinkably big and dumb. Now, according to the Verge, it’s got a new distinction: It’s not even being released by AT&T, because it’s so late, and so very extraneous. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-sii-skyrocket-hd-massive-phone-massive-5874416 Sure,…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

This Phosphor E-Ink Watch Is Your Style-And-Substance Deal of the Day

Gone are the days of owning a watch with a million buttons, with a calculator that answers your homework, tells you the current barometric pressure on Mount Everest, and keeps you in radio communication with your best friend down the street. Nowadays it’s all about minimalism. Keeping things simple. Clean lines. Functionality. And you know…

Tech News Andrew James

Rolling Stone crowns Peter Dinklage our new rock star

Check out “Master of the Game” Peter Dinklage, on the cover of Rolling Stone. Notice that he’s on the cover alone. No naked Danny clutching and wailing about her dragons, no King Joffrey slicing and dicing his people, not even the skinny hipster boy from The Wall Jon Snow — this cover is all Tyrion…

io9 Meredith Woerner

This Ice Bra Is Designed to Fight the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe

These are Super Cool Bras, underwear full of a special gel engineered to remain “soft and supple even when frozen.” It’s been designed to fight the Fukushima atomic catastrophe, which has made Japan to shut down all of its reactors. But how? As the hot summer approaches, Japan is facing a power crisis. With no…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Magically Levitating Balls Could Be the Future of Computer Interfaces

Until we can activate our computers by simply addressing them (think more “Scotty to the Enterprise computer” than “Samuel L Jackson to Siri”), we’ll just have to rely on MIT Media Lab’s new floating-point system to talk to the machines. Like those animated photographs from Harry Potter, the ZeroN system is designed to provide a…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

10 Ridiculously Unsettling Old-Timey Robots

Nowadays everyone hems and haws about the uncanny valley, but we don’t realize how good we have it in the 21st century. Decades ago, anthropomorphic machines and animal-like automata straddled the line between goofy and “I did not sign up for this.” Here’s some irrefutable proof that machines have been planning our collective demise for…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Portable Bidet Takes Plastic Water Bottles To New Depths

Not every bathroom in the world is civilized enough to have a bidet. And so you never have to find yourself in a position where you’re reaching for toilet paper, the Hygienna Solo turns any plastic water bottle into a handheld portable bidet. How—um—practical? It sounds a little gross, and quite frankly, it kind of…

Health Andrew Liszewski

The Classic Origins of Today’s Hollywood Design

Science fiction and fantasy continue to rule at the movies — and with their reign comes a lot of nostalgia for the futuristic designs of yesteryear. Today’s movies are full of cool retro design elements — just check out our collection to nods to the pasts in new and upcoming movies, from Prometheus, Men In…

io9 Meredith Woerner

This guy hand-forged his own wedding ring. OUT OF A METEORITE.

That’s it. Game over. You will never have a wedding ring cooler than that of redditor laporkenstein. Not only did he fashion the band himself, in the formidable fires of… well… his garage — he forged the damn thing out of a chunk of meteorite. (A Gibeon meteorite, to be exact.) Laporkenstein… you, sir, are…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Ingenious Folding Ladder Practically Disappears For Easy Storage

The occasional time a ladder comes in handy makes it worth keeping one around, but they can be cumbersome to store in the meantime. So a Barcelona-based design shop has re-thunk the folding ladder idea, and come up with this brilliant design. The Corner Ladder, as it’s aptly-named, features rungs that split in two and…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Robots could soon be probing your brain

To figure out how your brain works, researchers need to be able to measure the electrical activity of neurons. But now, a new method allows robots to perform the task instead. Your brain and nervous systems are made up of neurons, sending and receiving the electrical signals that let us breathe, move, think, remember, and…

io9 Sophie Bushwick

Black Holes Can’t Hide from NuSTAR’s X-Ray Eyes

Sure, space-based X-Ray telescopes have been in service since the Einstein Observatory launched back way back in 1978. But the NuSTAR Project is different: It promises to illuminate at the heavens above as never before. While the Chandra Observatory and XMM-Newton improved upon the Einstein Observatory’s design, they only did a better job of studying…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

Aphex Twin: Rubber Johnny (NSFW)

How long ago did we finish domesticating horses?

The House That Can Live on the Water or in the Trees

An amazing short film about a beetle with surreal chemical powers

It Takes Carbon Fiber and Kevlar to Make the Best Basketball Shoes in the World

Watch this rare footage of the most endangered gorillas on Earth

See an Adorable Kid on 13 Consecutive First Days of School

Pentizel World-Building Sketches and Stuff

There Are So Many Damn Android Phones That Some Aren’t Even Being Released

This Phosphor E-Ink Watch Is Your Style-And-Substance Deal of the Day

Rolling Stone crowns Peter Dinklage our new rock star

This Ice Bra Is Designed to Fight the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe

Magically Levitating Balls Could Be the Future of Computer Interfaces

10 Ridiculously Unsettling Old-Timey Robots

Portable Bidet Takes Plastic Water Bottles To New Depths

The Classic Origins of Today’s Hollywood Design

This guy hand-forged his own wedding ring. OUT OF A METEORITE.

Ingenious Folding Ladder Practically Disappears For Easy Storage

Robots could soon be probing your brain

Black Holes Can’t Hide from NuSTAR’s X-Ray Eyes

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