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Navy Grounds Drone Copters, Then Spends Quarter-Billion to Buy More

Just weeks after the Navy grounded its favorite fleet of unmanned spy copters, the admirals announced that they’re spending another quarter-billion dollars to buy even more of the drones. Manufacturer Northrop Grumman will get $262,336,248 to provide the Navy with six MQ-8B Fire Scout copters and test two more. The single-sourced contract comes two weeks…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Robots are going after your prostate with knives

Knife-wielding robots are increasingly getting unleashed on prostates, a discovery likely to make men everywhere cross their legs. However, our future robot overlords may be gentle with us — it turns out surgery on your prostate that involves the machines seems much safer than surgery without them. Top image: Spencer Platt/Getty Images. The standard procedure…

io9 Charles Choi

The Bizarre Object We Believed Was Impossible to Visualize

Mathematicians have now visualized abstract mathematical objects called flat tori — items resembling donuts with corrugated, fractal surfaces. These were thought to be impossible to envision in ordinary 3-D space… until now. To imagine a flat torus, imagine a video game with a wraparound screen — for instance, if you go up the top side,…

io9 Charles Choi

Wrap Your iPhone In This Adorable 8-Bit Bumper

Does the iPhone 4’s Retina display make you nostalgic for the days when VGA was the equivalent of cutting-edge graphics? Well Big Big Pixels has the cure with its adorably pixelated 8-Bit bumper case that will transport your iPhone back to the Atari days. It’s just $25, comes with a matching pixelated Apple logo you…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Pakistani baby born with six legs recovering well, following removal of extra limbs

Doctors at Pakistan’s National Institue of Child Health say that a six-legged infant born earlier this month is alive and recovering well, after surgeons removed the baby’s extra limbs in an eight-hour surgery last Thursday. It’s almost hard to believe that the child, who appears otherwise normal in the post-surgery photograph featured up top, was…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Would You Scoop Dog Poop For Free Wi-Fi?

It seems to be the year of finding creative ways to get Wi-Fi outside. First, there was Homeless Hotspots, which offended a lot of people. Now, there are Dogshit Hotspots, which isn’t so much offensive as moderately gross. https://gizmodo.com/homeless-men-turned-into-human-routers-5892443 Creativity Online reports that the Mexican web portal Terra is plotting a new service in 10…

Biology Mario Aguilar

The Haiku Fan Is Perfect for Your Apartment or Zendo

Your ceiling fan is something you might not think about until it starts creaking in the night, keeping you from sweet sweet slumber. But it should be more than just a thing attached to your ceiling, collecting dust bunnies. The lovely Haiku is equally sleek and functional, a nice way to circulate the air in…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Rocket to the Stars at the 1939 New York World’s Fair

At first glance, the cover of the April 1938 issue of Popular Science magazine looks like a particularly odd vision of the future. Is that a 1930’s rocketship, blasting off into space? What about the door on the right with a clearly marked “EXIT” sign above it? Our Depression-era rocketship is indeed indoors and claims…

Tech News Matt Novak

Textercuff: The Ultimate Sex Toy for Those Addicted to Bondage and Smartphones

It has already been established there are people out there who feel the need to use their phone during sex. And presumably, there’s a very narrow subset of people who also enjoy some kinky BDSM action. For those rare individuals, there is Textercuff, which combines handcuffs and a gag ball into a text-denying thumb guard.…

Tech News Adrian Covert

This Is How Asteroid Mining Will Work

Yesterday, a group of billionaires, scientists and engineers announced what could become the most important enterprise in human history since Columbus sailed West: an asteroid mining company called Planetary Resources. They want to jump start a completely new industry between the Earth and the Moon, one that will add trillions of dollars to the world…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

The Postal Service Shipped This Guy’s Package Across the Country Twice for No Reason

This fellow wanted to have something shipped to his house in LA. It started off in Union City, California. Should have only taken a few days, right? Try two weeks—because USPS sent it across the entire continent. Twice. Why was the package routed thousand and thousands of miles instead of a few hundred? Why would…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Must watch: Neil deGrasse Tyson Discusses the Link Between Space and Culture

If you’ve been on the internet at any point in the last five years, there’s a good chance you’ve heard Neil deGrasse Tyson talk about the far-reaching scientific and technological benefits of space exploration. Now’s your chance to hear him discuss its cultural implications. Last week, Tyson delivered this keynote address at the 28th National…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Movies Where The World Actually Gets Destroyed In The End

Lots of movies try to end with a bang — but only a few end with the entire human race being wiped out, or the world being torn asunder. Hollywood all too often wimps out on showing us total oblivion, but there are a few movies that go all the way. In honor of a…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders and Gordon Jackson

180 Beautiful Black & White Images

Our cameras have captured color for a long time, but we’re all still obsessed with black & white. How could that be? Participants to this week’s Shooting Challenge offer 180 reasons why: https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-black-white-5903368 Winner – Six Feet Under I was out doing some timelapse shooting at a plane spotting location outside the airport at Zürich…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Humanity and nature become one in these beautiful metamorphic illustrations

It’s easy to regard humankind as a species that exists apart from the rest of the natural world. Dwell on that idea too much, however, and it can grow into an unsettling feeling of detachment. The next time you’re feeling isolated from nature, let these breathtaking illustrations, which seamlessly weave the bodies of humans with…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Couple Busted Trying to Sell Meth and a Military Drone to China

Meth and drones, meth and drones—there’s hardly a more imaginable combo that pairs better. The PB&J of espionage. At least according to a Taiwanese duo, accused of an attempt to smuggle out military secrets and drugs to China. ABC News reports the couple—Hui Sheng “Charlie” Shen and Huan Ling “Alice” Chang—were “arrested after they told…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Carbon Fiber Bookshelves Are Novel Objects of Lust

You don’t see it used in furniture very often, but Davide Anzalone’s Aliante bookshelf, which took the top prize at Olympus RFP’s 2012 Carbon Fiber Design Contest, makes a strong case for using carbon fiber everywhere. Looking like it could serve alongside the stealth fighter in the U.S. Air Force, you can actually fill the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Glittering trails of giant snowballs seen in weirdest ring of Saturn

Weird half-mile-sized objects have now been seen punching through what may be Saturn’s strangest ring, leaving sparkling trails behind them. And researchers say these findings could shed light on the oddball behavior of that ring. The Saturnian ring in question is the planet’s F ring, the outermost discrete ring of the planet. The F ring…

io9 Charles Choi

A Professional Recording Studio in an Unbelievably Tiny Room

Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, and The Foo Fighters have something in common with Brooklyn-based musician Neil Shah—they all made great music in a basic home studio. McCartney and Springsteen had a four-track cassette deck, and Dave Grohl used a garage. But Shah’s setup is even more limited—his whole studio measures all of 66 square feet.…

Tech News Amanda DeMatto

This is what a TARDIS dildo looks like

Ok, we gotta hand it to the creators of this Doctor Who dildo — it’s pretty clever. Bear in mind, we’ve seen a lot of miserable dildos (hello sparkle vampire cock). And this still might be one of the weirdest yet. https://gizmodo.com/twilight-inspired-sparkle-sex-toy-heralds-the-coming-ap-5344802 Officially called “The TARDIS Ticker,” this toy shows that people are thinking outside…

Television Meredith Woerner

Navy Grounds Drone Copters, Then Spends Quarter-Billion to Buy More

Robots are going after your prostate with knives

The Bizarre Object We Believed Was Impossible to Visualize

Wrap Your iPhone In This Adorable 8-Bit Bumper

Pakistani baby born with six legs recovering well, following removal of extra limbs

Would You Scoop Dog Poop For Free Wi-Fi?

The Haiku Fan Is Perfect for Your Apartment or Zendo

Rocket to the Stars at the 1939 New York World’s Fair

Textercuff: The Ultimate Sex Toy for Those Addicted to Bondage and Smartphones

This Is How Asteroid Mining Will Work

The Postal Service Shipped This Guy’s Package Across the Country Twice for No Reason

Must watch: Neil deGrasse Tyson Discusses the Link Between Space and Culture

Movies Where The World Actually Gets Destroyed In The End

180 Beautiful Black & White Images

Humanity and nature become one in these beautiful metamorphic illustrations

Couple Busted Trying to Sell Meth and a Military Drone to China

Carbon Fiber Bookshelves Are Novel Objects of Lust

Glittering trails of giant snowballs seen in weirdest ring of Saturn

A Professional Recording Studio in an Unbelievably Tiny Room

This is what a TARDIS dildo looks like

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