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Spoiler, a police procedural that takes place post-zombie apocalypse

This here is Spoiler, a nifty nugget of horror made by some special effects creators who worked on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Zodiac. Director Daniel Thron described it to us as “sort of like if Michael Mann stepped into the telepod with a blu-ray of 28 Days Later.” (And yes, that is…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

The Cheap, Charming, Kinda Crazy Lab of a Video Visionary

He once washed dishes full-time in a Connecticut trailer park. Now he uploads videos that break the 5,000,000-view mark in under three weeks. But when Casey Neistat isn’t leaping into a sinkhole in Oman or stealing his own bike on the streets of NYC, he’s busy working in this obsessively organized, fully functional, bare-bones 870-square-foot…

Tech News Amanda DeMatto

10 Best Comic Book Movies of All Time

Comics are among the most dynamic and immediate forms of storytelling. And movies have been trying to capture some of the energy and imagination of comic-book worlds for decades now. But a handful of great films have both done justice to their graphic origins and created something new and splendid. Lately, people have been debating…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The anatomical guide to a xenomorph, on a t-shirt

Holy crap, is this rad. Behold a gorgeous, wearable rendition of a xenomorph’s insides, created by Brad McGinty, the mind behind those insane Kaiju Santa Christmas Cards. We’re loving this artist’s obsession with cross section. Shirts are $20 at McGinty’s website. https://gizmodo.com/kaiju-santa-claus-christmas-cards-are-the-most-insane-t-5862614

io9 Meredith Woerner

Avengers Assemble! io9 Movie Meetup in San Francisco, 5/13

This coming Sunday, 5/13, join your fellow io9ers in San Francisco for your first (or tenth) viewing of amazing flick The Avengers. Afterwards, we’ll stick around for drinks, food, and hanging out. Here are the details! MOVIE: The Avengers, AMC Metreon 16, 5:30 PM Special Note: This is not a 3D show because — let’s…

io9 Annalee Newitz

London’s Rooftop Missile Sites Could Have Been Designed by Tony Stark

Those surface-to-air missile batteries that are being installed around Olympic Stadium must have been invented by Stark Industries. Each high-speed missile houses a trio of smaller projectiles—like a troika doll of fiery, explosive death. https://gizmodo.com/residential-buildings-in-london-will-house-surface-to-a-5906217 They’re officially known as the Starstreak HVM (High Velocity Missile) system, and are built by Belfast-based Thales Air Defense. These…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Breville Compact Juice Fountain Review: Fast. Efficient. Delicious.

Is it the bacon backlash? Juicing, once reserved for Jack LaLanne devotees and hippie health nuts, is suddenly de rigueur. But for all of the nutritional benefits that fresh juice promises to deliver, home juicers have never been worth the investment. The usual suspects are high-priced, hard to clean and hog up kitchen counter space.…

Reviews Debbie Lee - Food Republic

An interview with a woman who survived the 1958 atomic bombing of South Carolina

On the afternoon of March 11, 1958, Ella Hudson was nine years old and visiting her cousins’ home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina. After an otherwise normal school day wrapped up, Ella had the bizarre pleasure of witnessing firsthand the United States Air Force accidentally drop a nuclear weapon — with its fissile material fortunately…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Giant 1970s Fisheye Lens On a Nikon D800: Worth the $160k?

A few weeks ago we reported on the ridiculous $160,000 Nikon 6mm f/2.8 fisheye lens up for sale in the UK. But with no images utilizing the lens, we were left wondering what they might look like. Now we know, and kinda wish we didn’t. https://gizmodo.com/this-crazy-1970s-fisheye-lens-could-be-yours-for-160-0-5904586 Grays of Westminster, the period shop selling the lens,…

Tech News Michael Hession

This Intensive Care Art Installation Thinks It’s Alive

While many artworks might require you sell an organ to afford them, at least with this one you could survive: The Immortal is an installation made up of life-support machines, designed to makes us contemplate our dependence on medical technology. Put together by Revital Cohen, The Immortal features a Heart-Lung Machine, Dialysis Machine, an Infant…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Badass Paralyzed Woman Finishes London Marathon in a Bionic Suit

After 16 days of an agonizingly slow process, a paralyzed woman has become the first person to complete a marathon in a bionic suit. Talk about an inspiration. Claire Lomas was paralyzed from the chest down in 2007 when she was thrown off her horse and broke her neck, back, and ribs, and punctured a…

Tech News Leslie Horn

The first look at J.J. Abrams’ new post-apocalyptic TV show Revolution

Good news, J.J. Abrams fans — you’re getting a new (and hopefully better received) series from Abrams on NBC! It’s called Revolution, and it focuses on a band of survivors making their way in a new world after all of the world’s energy mysteriously disappears. And here’s your very first shot of the cast standing…

Television Meredith Woerner

Right Angle iPhone Dock Is a Beautifully Unobtrusive Travel Accessory

Yet another device that smartphones, like the iPhone, have made obsolete are alarm clocks. The only minor issue being that you need some way to prop them up to check the time, and Bracketron’s MetalDock does exactly that, with style. Available at the end of June for just $35, the all metal dock can hold…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

If you collected all of Earth’s water into a sphere, how big would it be?

Imagine the Earth in your mind’s eye. Now round up all the water on the planet into a sphere (we’re talking oceans, icecaps, atmosphere, everything — even the water bound up in you and me). How big do you think that sphere would be compared to the Earth? Got your answer? Our water sphere would…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

You Can Get Away with Being a Total Dick If You’re on the Phone

You know the move: Someone approaches, trying to talk to you—maybe it’s important!—but you hunch your neck, shoosh them, point at the phone, and stare at them like they just took a dump in the middle of your mother’s tupperware party. And they shut up. This works because we live in a totalitarian Phone Dick…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

In Austria, an ice cave is an earthbound stand-in for Mars

An ice cave in Austria was recently used as a test landscape for experimental spacesuits and instrumentation systems-including 3D cameras-that might someday be used by humans on Mars. The Dachstein ice cave was chosen, Stuff explains, “because ice caves would be a natural refuge for any microbes on Mars seeking steady temperatures and protection from…

io9 Geoff Manaugh - BLDGBLOG

How To Thoroughly Dry Your Hands With Just One Piece of Paper Towel

You don’t always walk away from a TED Talk feeling like you’ve learned something useful, but this time you will. Joe Smith presents a simple but incredibly useful technique that guarantees you can dry your hands using just a single square of paper towel. The technique uses a pretty basic shake and fold approach, which…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

A Storefront in SF Offers Timeless Tintype Photographs in 20 Minutes

Photobooth is an unassuming storefront in San Francisco’s Mission District that provides a unique service you probably won’t find at your local portrait studio. Unless your local portrait studio is from 150 years ago. This short doc produced by Cool Hunting Video brings us the goods from Photobooth’s proprietor and co-founder, Michael Shindler on the…

Tech News Michael Hession

You Can Buy an iPad 2 for $320 and That’s Freaking Cheap

Even though the new iPad came out recently, the iPad 2 is still alive and kickin’. Hell, it’s very probably the second best tablet out there right now. And if you can get the second best tablet for only $320? That’s a sick, awesome, definitely worth every penny steal of a deal. Apple is discounting…

Tech News Casey Chan

Important Tips For Surviving the Inevitable Robot Uprising

Like it or not, one day all of the robots we’ve designed and built are going to turn on us. Roombas, Aibos, even those arms working in factories are going to realize they’re better off without man. But that doesn’t mean we can’t fight them back into submission. This lovely how-to video by Epipheo picks…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Spoiler, a police procedural that takes place post-zombie apocalypse

The Cheap, Charming, Kinda Crazy Lab of a Video Visionary

10 Best Comic Book Movies of All Time

The anatomical guide to a xenomorph, on a t-shirt

Avengers Assemble! io9 Movie Meetup in San Francisco, 5/13

London’s Rooftop Missile Sites Could Have Been Designed by Tony Stark

Breville Compact Juice Fountain Review: Fast. Efficient. Delicious.

An interview with a woman who survived the 1958 atomic bombing of South Carolina

Giant 1970s Fisheye Lens On a Nikon D800: Worth the $160k?

This Intensive Care Art Installation Thinks It’s Alive

Badass Paralyzed Woman Finishes London Marathon in a Bionic Suit

The first look at J.J. Abrams’ new post-apocalyptic TV show Revolution

Right Angle iPhone Dock Is a Beautifully Unobtrusive Travel Accessory

If you collected all of Earth’s water into a sphere, how big would it be?

You Can Get Away with Being a Total Dick If You’re on the Phone

In Austria, an ice cave is an earthbound stand-in for Mars

How To Thoroughly Dry Your Hands With Just One Piece of Paper Towel

A Storefront in SF Offers Timeless Tintype Photographs in 20 Minutes

You Can Buy an iPad 2 for $320 and That’s Freaking Cheap

Important Tips For Surviving the Inevitable Robot Uprising

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