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Would You Use These Pointed Puppets to Spear Your Snacks?

A company by the name of Fred and Friends has come out with possibly the most pointless product of our time. Food Fingers—the “FingerPickin Cocktail Picks”—are multicolored plastic caps that fit over your finger and end in a tiny three-pronged food spear. They seem almost like a good idea, for party platters and such, until…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Greenpeace Ambushes Apple Stores with Balloon Prank

Apple’s iCloud is powered on the back of some seriously dirty electricity. That truly sucks. You know what else sucks? Cleaning dozens of balloons out of a cavernous Apple store after Greenpeace protesters attack. https://gizmodo.com/apple-is-one-of-the-heaviest-coal-users-in-the-industry-5902712 The stunt, further confirming that Apple has very little left of its hippie rebel bandana spirit left, is now in…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Puppy Social Networking Is Here to Rescue Lonely People

You’d do anything for your dog. It keeps you company and does the cutest things which you can Instagram and post to Twitter. All it asks in return is a few walks and treat every now and then. Your dog does not need a social network for its dog park parties, but obsessed dog owners…

Biology Mario Aguilar

NASA’s Building of the Future: a Model for Tomorrow’s Moonbases

Check out this gorgeous cutting-edge building, which NASA just opened in Moffett Field, CA and won the coveted Platinum LEED certification. Ames Research Center director Pete Worden described the Sustainability Center as “the first Moon building on the planet Earth,” because of all the insane technology that’s been deployed here. A water recycling system, similar…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

These Sleek Salt and Pepper Shakers Have Only One Opening

Moloko’s Vortex Salt and Pepper Shakers are beautifully minimalist—so minimalist, they have no plug and only one opening. To fill them, salt or pepper is poured into the top funnel, where it flows down into the inner chamber. Later, when you want to dispense some seasoning onto your food, turning the shaker upside down will…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Why does this blue stone have yellow light coming out of it?

You’d expect this cloudy blue glass to throw a blue light onto its surroundings. The light it throws, though, is clearly a bright orange-yellow. Can you guess why? Put a red vase up to a window and anything it its light will be covered in red. A blue piece of plastic should work the same.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Dolby’s New Atmos System Will Pipe 128 Channels of Audio Bliss Into Movie Theaters

It will take a few years before the technology trickles down to home theaters, but at CinemaCon this year Dolby introduced a new surround sound system called Atmos that promises to create the illusion that sounds are coming from everywhere inside the theater. Using improved sound rendering algorithms and additional speakers located in the middle…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

When scientists work with creative people, cooler stories get told

Six major British science fiction authors have released an open letter calling for greater cooperation between scientists and creative people, saying that the U.K. is falling behind the U.S. in communication between the arts and sciences. The authors, including Paul McAuley, Geoff Ryman, Ken Macleod and Justina Robson, say that balancing scientific accuracy with storytelling…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The Most Highlighted Book Passage of All Time on the Kindle Is Like So Deep Man

“Because sometimes things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.” Whoa. So deeeeeeeeeep. That line, from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, is the most highlighted passage of all time on the Kindle. What’s crazy is that the fauxdeep line is nearly two times as popular as the second most highlighted passage,…

Commerce Casey Chan

John Cusack explains why Edgar Allan Poe created everything you love

Before there was black eyeliner-ed youths rocking out to death rock, there was Edgar Allan Poe, the Godfather of Goth. But John Cusack — who plays the thirsty scribe in his wild horror flick The Raven — wants you to know that this angry (and very broke) poet is responsible for so much more. Everyone…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The harvest mouse is nature’s most adorable acrobat

The Harvest Mouse, aka Micromys minutus, measures just two-to-three inches in length, and weighs about half as much as your typical house mouse. But M. minutus — which makes its home in wheat fields, reed beds, and other forms of tall vegetation — has a unique and enviable skill that its more domestic cousins simply…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Eureka finally does something genuinely shocking

There are many reasons to love Eureka, but massive plot twists aren’t usually among them. Well, the end of last night’s episode definitely qualified, as our heroes tried to figure out the dangerous secrets of virtual reality. Major spoilers ahead! While last week’s episode restricted itself solely to the Astraeus crew’s computer-simulated prison, “The Real…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Apple CEO Tim Cook Made a Funny! (Updated)

During Apple’s call today to discuss its monster earnings last quarter, CEO Tim Cook was asked his opinion on Windows 8. He said all of the expected things about how the iPad has unlimited potential, but also weighed in on tablet-PC hybrid devices with this little bon mot: https://gizmodo.com/apple-hauls-insane-39-billion-revenue-despite-selling-5904803 You can converge a toaster and…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Behind the Scenes of a Colossal Car Crash Test

You’ve seen slow-mo footage of crash tests before. For some weird reason, auto makers love to show its cars being demolished. This awesome short shows all of the preparation that goes into recreating the chaos and carnage at moment of impact. Filmed and edited by Jay Gillespie, “Point B” shows you everything about a crash…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

SayHi Translate: An Interpreter Inside Your iPhone

If you’re traveling in Brazil and you’d like to ask your cab driver which bar in Rio serves the best caipirinha, you’re going to need to know Portuguese. Thumbing frantically through a phrasebook is difficult, and you might not string the sentence together properly. And would you even understand your cabbie’s answer? SayHi Translate solves…

Tech News Leslie Horn

100 Albums Every Science Fiction and Fantasy Fan Should Listen To: 71-100

Science fiction and fantasy have colonized every corner of pop culture — especially the world of music. From awesome movie soundtracks to science fiction-inspired rock operas, genre stories have always gone along with sonic landscapes. You can’t really know science fiction and fantasy without knowing the music these genres have inspired. So we’ve compiled the…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders and Cyriaque Lamar

Sriracha Lollipops Are a Wonderful Invention

Sriracha is the most complete condiment. You can put it on almost anything—eggs, pizza, noodles, sandwiches. Don’t get me started. But some Sriracha fanatics out there had the ingenious idea to put the delicious, delicious Thai hot sauce into a lollipop. It’s a wonderful twist on Atomic Fireballs. A bag of four is $10, but…

Tech News Leslie Horn

The first 4,000,000 digits of Pi, visualized in a single image

Pi is what’s known as an irrational number, which means that its decimal representation is both infinite and non-repeating. We’ve been using computers to calculate the digits of Pi for decades. In 1949, John von Neumann and his colleagues used ENIAC — the world’s first general-purpose electronic computer — to calculate Pi to the 2,037th…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Shooting Challenge: BlackWhite 16

Hey, Perfect timing on the contest! I shoot film so the processing and scanning never seem to match up for a entry. Shot this one while doing some bike riding around Denver. I stumbled upon a cool looking plastic chair. I moved it out into the nice spring sun to get a cool shadow snapped…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Shooting Challenge: Gallery 15

Camera: Sony SLT-a35 Lens: 18-55mm with +10 enlargement filter and 16 point star filter ISO 500 (used flash for reflection) f/4.5 Being fans of photography, my wife and I like to experiment with various aspects of the art. I was having fun taking shots with a new 16 point star filter I got and on…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Would You Use These Pointed Puppets to Spear Your Snacks?

Greenpeace Ambushes Apple Stores with Balloon Prank

Puppy Social Networking Is Here to Rescue Lonely People

NASA’s Building of the Future: a Model for Tomorrow’s Moonbases

These Sleek Salt and Pepper Shakers Have Only One Opening

Why does this blue stone have yellow light coming out of it?

Dolby’s New Atmos System Will Pipe 128 Channels of Audio Bliss Into Movie Theaters

When scientists work with creative people, cooler stories get told

The Most Highlighted Book Passage of All Time on the Kindle Is Like So Deep Man

John Cusack explains why Edgar Allan Poe created everything you love

The harvest mouse is nature’s most adorable acrobat

Eureka finally does something genuinely shocking

Apple CEO Tim Cook Made a Funny! (Updated)

Behind the Scenes of a Colossal Car Crash Test

SayHi Translate: An Interpreter Inside Your iPhone

100 Albums Every Science Fiction and Fantasy Fan Should Listen To: 71-100

Sriracha Lollipops Are a Wonderful Invention

The first 4,000,000 digits of Pi, visualized in a single image

Shooting Challenge: BlackWhite 16

Shooting Challenge: Gallery 15

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