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Detroit plans to shrink by leaving half the city in the dark

Detroit’s population is shrinking. The city boasts 60% fewer residents today than it did in 1950, and, as we’ve seen, many of its grand buildings have been left to rot. Now Detroit Mayor Dave Bing wants to concentrate the population in a smaller area by reducing the number of streetlights and leaving nearly half the…

io9 Lauren Davis May 26 '12

Build Your Own Hovering Lawn Chair For the Perfect Long Weekend Lounger

Long weekends are all about maximizing your laziness before you have to return to work. And over on Wired’s Geek Dad blog, Adam Savage, of Mythbusters fame, has an easy to follow tutorial on building a hovering lawn chair so you can be mobile without ever having to actually get up all weekend. All you…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 26 '12

Monsters season their meat with salt made from human tears

What do the creatures from your closet use to add a floral quality to their chocolate souffle? The lavender-scented salts derived the tears of human sorrow. If they want more of a kick to their meat, they may choose the peppery salt from tears of sneezing, or the powerful salt from tears of anger. England’s…

io9 Lauren Davis May 26 '12

Concept Art Writing Prompt: The City Made of Gears

There are eight million stories in the Clockwork City; will you write one of them? This week’s Concept Art Writing Prompt is all about location, location. Can you come up with a brief story set in this city of endlessly turning gears? This bit of mad urbanism was created by video game concept artist Daniel…

io9 Lauren Davis May 26 '12

There Needs To Be an Adult Version of This Transforming Seesaw Bench

We completely disagree with the notion that one day everybody has to grow up. We will never get tired of enjoying playground equipment, and quite frankly, are a little sad that this transforming seesaw bench was only designed with tiny tots in mind. Created by artist Dirk Ploos van Amstel who obviously hasn’t let his…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 26 '12

Watch Snow White invade every movie of 2012

Not content to star merely in Once Upon a Time, Snow White and the Huntsman, and Mirror, Mirror (not to mention all those Fables comics), Snow White brings her songbird-summoning voice and lips as red as blood to the rest of 2012’s big movies, from Prometheus to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Snow White and the…

Movies Lauren Davis May 26 '12

You Should Spend Your Entire Long Weekend With This Ice Cream Sandwich Maker

Slapping a dollop of ice cream between two cookies is the best thing to happen to that frozen treat since chocolate syrup. But there’s nothing quite as satisfying as the soggy chocolate wafers of an ice cream sandwich, which this brilliant machine lets you churn out by the hundreds. It might look like one of…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 26 '12

Rare and eerie photos from an early atomic bomb test

In the first half of 1955, the United States performed more than a dozen tests of atomic weapons in Nevada, studying the destructive power of the country’s most powerful weapons. These photos, from the 44th nuclear test explosion ever performed on US soil, capture the varied effects. Photographer Loomis Dean took these pictures of a…

io9 Lauren Davis May 26 '12

Destroying the Internet, Dragon Capsule in Space, Execs on the Run and More…

This week was a busy week! Whether it’s Facebook’s stock concerns, the real story of the McAfee executive on the run, Space X’s Dragon Capsule making it to the ISS or a hypothetical look at how to destroy the internet, there’s no shortage of exciting news. Here are our top stories of the week. Watch…

Tech News Adrian Covert May 26 '12

These retrofuturistic magazine covers sat in the background of Blade Runner

Ridley Scott’s incredible attention to detail in Blade Runner stretched all the way to the newsstands sitting in the background. He asked concept artist Tom Southwell to create these magazine covers for his dystopian Los Angeles. These covers actually appear in the film, sitting on a newsstand during one of the movie’s street scenes. I…

Movies Lauren Davis May 26 '12

Specially Sculpted Pot Creates a Whirlpool When Cooking So You Never Have to Stir (Updated With Video)

A Japanese dentist, of all people, has invented a sculpted pot that will automatically stir its contents as they heat up. It promises to completely revolutionize cooking, at least for the world’s laziest chefs. The Kuru-Kuru Nabe (aka the ‘Pot Round and Round’) was invented by Hideki Watanabe, who came up with the design after…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 26 '12

What is the shiniest thing in the solar system?

A New Moon is rising in the next few days, giving us a chance to bathe in the Earthshine, the light from the Earth that illuminates the Moon. Earth shines bright for the Moon, and the Moon shines for the Earth, but what’s the shiniest thing in the solar system? Right now is the perfect…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell May 26 '12

Cardboard Mecha Kitty commands you to put down the catnip. Slowly.

If people can ride around in lion-shaped mechas, why can’t cats cruise in their own bipedal mecha suits? Reddit user Tastybread crafted this bad-ass cat bed for his cardboard-loving kitty. His next project: Krang’s human-shaped exo-suit. [reddit via Ian Brooks]

io9 Lauren Davis May 26 '12

The Best Ice Cube Tray of All Time

It’s pretty much summertime. It’s hot out. You want a cold drink. You need ice to make your drink cold. Here lies the best tray for slinging cubes. Ahhhhhhhhhh. This ain’t smartphone and tablet territory, boyscouts—this is primal stuff. The spec that matters most here is the ease with which you can pry those precious…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 26 '12

What are the tax implications of the zombie apocalypse?

The only certainties in life are death and taxes, but how do you handle the taxes when death doesn’t go quite as planned? Law professor Adam Chodorow takes a stab at estate planning for the undead in perhaps the only legal paper to cite both the Internal Revenue Code and Weekend at Bernie’s II. Photo…

io9 Lauren Davis May 26 '12

Artist Makes Creepy Self-Portraits Using His Own Frozen Blood

Many years ago British artist Marc Quinn started an art project where he created cast self-portraits using his own frozen blood. On one hand, it’s incredibly creepy and unsettling. But on the other, how many artists’ can turn to their creations during a medical emergency? Starting as far back as 1991, Marc has been creating…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 26 '12

In the webcomic Dawn of Time, a time traveler and a barbarian team up in the age of dinosaurs

If paleontologists had access to time machines, they could solve innumerable mysteries about the terrible lizards who once walked the Earth. But if the past is anything like Michael Stearns’ webcomic Dawn of Time, the age of dinosaurs may not be quite what they expected. Last I checked, few scientific theories included a bikini-clad barbarian…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis May 26 '12

Insane 33 Megapixel 120fps Video Camera Captures 4 Billion Pixels Per Second

We’ve already brought you news that Japan’s NHK was developing a mind-boggling 33MP video camera to capture footage for its new Super Hi-Vision format (7580×4320) that will one day supplant HDTV. But with a frame rate of 120fps, it means it’s capturing some 4 billion pixels every second. https://gizmodo.com/you-can-watch-the-olympics-in-insaneballs-33-megapixel-5859080 The boost in frame rate, from…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 26 '12

Kick Off Your Weekend With Skydives Gone Wrong, SpaceX, and Supercarriers

Your brain can melt trying to keep up with the endless torrent of video content on the web each day. That’s why we are here to ease your fatigue with the best videos of the week. Enjoy! Did You Miss the Solar Eclipse? Check Out This Gorgeous Time Lapse Video Cory Poole—science teacher at University…

Tech News Michael Hession May 26 '12

Matt Smith carries the Olympic Torch, but not as the Doctor

After the Tenth Doctor lit the London 2012 Olympic Flame in the Doctor Who episode “Fear Her,” many Who fans were clamoring for David Tennant or Matt Smith to carry the Olympic Torch. This morning in Cardiff, those fans got their wish as Matt Smith participated in the Olympic Relay and helped the Torch along…

io9 Lauren Davis May 26 '12

Detroit plans to shrink by leaving half the city in the dark

Build Your Own Hovering Lawn Chair For the Perfect Long Weekend Lounger

Monsters season their meat with salt made from human tears

Concept Art Writing Prompt: The City Made of Gears

There Needs To Be an Adult Version of This Transforming Seesaw Bench

Watch Snow White invade every movie of 2012

You Should Spend Your Entire Long Weekend With This Ice Cream Sandwich Maker

Rare and eerie photos from an early atomic bomb test

Destroying the Internet, Dragon Capsule in Space, Execs on the Run and More…

These retrofuturistic magazine covers sat in the background of Blade Runner

Specially Sculpted Pot Creates a Whirlpool When Cooking So You Never Have to Stir (Updated With Video)

What is the shiniest thing in the solar system?

Cardboard Mecha Kitty commands you to put down the catnip. Slowly.

The Best Ice Cube Tray of All Time

What are the tax implications of the zombie apocalypse?

Artist Makes Creepy Self-Portraits Using His Own Frozen Blood

In the webcomic Dawn of Time, a time traveler and a barbarian team up in the age of dinosaurs

Insane 33 Megapixel 120fps Video Camera Captures 4 Billion Pixels Per Second

Kick Off Your Weekend With Skydives Gone Wrong, SpaceX, and Supercarriers

Matt Smith carries the Olympic Torch, but not as the Doctor

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