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Pretty Persuasion: The Devil Wears a Grey Skirt, and Her Name Is Kimberly Joyce

In high school, there’s always that one teacher who everyone secretly thinks is a perv. Sometimes he really is. Usually, he’s just a weird guy who loves his job. In Pretty Persuasion, Kimberly Joyce (Evan Rachel Wood) is a popular, pretty, privileged student at ultra ritzy Roxbury High. Naturally, she wants to be a movie…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Picture of the Day: April 18, 2012

WATCH OUT BELOW | “Tragedy in the Sky” by Firstear, via CGHub. Want to read today’s io9 stories a different way? Check out our blog view. Or visit Observation Deck, our general discussion forum.

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Is the dramatic rise in chin implants due to video chat?

The Wall Street Journal reports that the American Association of Plastic Surgeons has seen a meteoric rise in chin implants over the past year. The number of chin implants, where a silicon implant increases the size of the chin, grew 71% in 2011. That’s 20,680 chin implants total in the U.S. According to the WSJ:…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Pioneer’s Gorgeous New Headphones Pack Up and Go With You Anywhere

There’s something pleasing about a beautiful set of headphones—especially if they’re portable, rugged, and made to travel. That in mind, Pioneer’s got a couple sets of new cans for you to consider. The $120 SE-NC21M active noise-canceling headphones (pictured above) are priced cheaper than some of the fancier models we’re often fond of, but Pioneer…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Surreal Graffiti Left Behind in an Abandoned Village

In the 1990s, the government of Belgium ordered everybody to abandon the small, historic village of Doel to make room for the port of Antwerp. Most residents left unwillingly, and in their wake came a wave of squatters and artists who turned the town into a strange, haunting art installation. Over at Weird Fiction Review,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Separating Space Shuttle from 747 Is Easier than It Sounds

NASA successfully transported the Space Shuttle from Florida to Virginia yesterday on its way to the Smithsonian. But how you get a 150,000-pound space vehicle off a 230-foot airplane without dropping it? https://gizmodo.com/nasa-captures-shuttles-capitol-hill-flyby-with-what-els-5902870/ The Shuttle is affixed to the 747, known as the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, with three struts—one on the nose, the other two…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

Ballistic Device Launches Analog Text Messages

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the text message, legendary notebook company Moleskine has come out with a limited edition notebook that becomes a ballistic device for launching mini (printed) text messages. Each notebook is filled with perforated pages of short printed notes, which are sent—launched, really—by the elastic-band slingshot on the book’s cover. The…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Watch a vomiting alien beat up the Pope, in the weirdest E.T. parody ever

We missed this news when it was announced a while back. The complete run of Get a Life, Chris Elliott’s cult comedy series, is finally coming to DVD from Shout! Factory. This show, in which Chris Elliott is an overgrown paperboy who still lives with his parents, had a writing staff that included Charlie Kaufman…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Garbage Men Take Amazing Photos With Giant Dumpster Cameras

The Trashcam Project is a group of garbage collectors from Hamburg, Germany who take stunning photographs using 1,100 liter dumpsters that have been transformed into pinhole cameras. The photos are stunning, and it’s great to see everyday folks taking on creative endeavors like this. Head to the Trashcam Project’s Flickr page to see the full…

Tech News Michael Hession

Shun’s Hiro Santoku is the Only Knife a Cook Needs

If you’re cooking with a mediocre knife, you don’t know what you’re missing until you use one that’s really top-notch. It’s a whole different game. Shun makes some of the highest-quality cutlery, and its new Hiro Santoku will have you slicing like a pro. This 7-inch blade is not for the casual cook. At $350,…

Tech News Leslie Horn

See the neck implants of Ender’s Game‘s teenage army

How do you transform a pack of genius teens into a blood thirsty mega army? Simple: Use futuristic implants that allow commanders to “see through their eyes” — plus lots and lots of training. The movie adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game is currently filming in New Orleans (directed by Gavin Hood). While we’ve…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Vibrating Seats Could Be Coming Soon To a Theater Near You

The whole 3D thing wasn’t quite a success when it came to convincing people to come back to theaters instead of just downloading movies at home. But you know what they say—if at first you don’t succeed, try adding a rumble feature to theater seats. A company called Tremor FX has designed a new kind…

Movies Andrew Liszewski

Dinosaurs were doomed because laying eggs made them too huge

Sure, an impact event is what started wiping out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But why did some species manage to survive while most of the dinosaurs perished? A fascinating new theory suggests it’s all about laying eggs. To understand what’s going on here, we first have to consider just why so many dinosaurs…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

An entire day represented in one 360° panorama photo

Greek photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos recently decided to try visualizing a full day in a single photograph. What he ended up with was the incredible, 360°, time-spanning panorama pictured here. We’ve featured Kotsiopoulos’ breathtaking photography before, but this is the first time we’ve seen him produce something like this. According to him, the composite image [hi-res…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The Day Your Car Kidnaps You

Phillip K. Dick’s The Game Players of Titan takes place in a near future where cars drive their passengers, recording the day’s stops and visits. At the end of they day, the cars transmit everything they know about their drivers’ habits over to the police. Google’s fleet of self-driving Toyota Priuses have succeed in driving…

io9 Keith Veronese

Sierra Club Trail Explorer: Discover Great Hikes in Your Area

Even if you live in a big city, there are probably tons of open spaces to explore in your backyard. But you don’t even know it. If you’re an avid hiker, or even if you dabble, Sierra Club Trail Explorer for iPhone is a wonderful guide to the great outdoors. What does it do? Powered…

Tech News Leslie Horn

New cosmic survey might mean serious trouble for dark matter

Dark matter makes up approximately 83% of the matter in the universe. We need it to explain why galaxy clusters hold together. All available evidence suggests it’s very real. So why is there almost none of it around the Sun? That’s the troublesome result from a new survey conducted by the European Southern Observatory. The…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Real-life Futurama tube-transport will catapult you from New York to Beijing in 2 hours

The Simpsons have the monorail. Futurama has the Tube Transport System. The difference is that tube-transport is a fantasy — at least for now. The folks at ET3 want to make what they call “Evacuated Tube Transport” a reality. Their proposed maglev system would be capable of propelling six-person-capacity cylinders to speeds of over 4000…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How To Train Your Dragon reviewer explains why dragons are like Hitler

Were you offended by the ending of How To Train Your Dragon, with its dragon-appeasement? If so, you’re not alone. One viewer of the movie was so incensed, he took to Amazon to complain. Thank you Least Helpful for finding this review, and for this hilarious statement: “THIS KIND OF BLEEDING-HEART DRAGON APPEASEMENT IS WHAT…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The First Digital Font Wasn’t Made For Computers

This is Digi Grotesk. On the suface it might not look like much. But it’s the first font that could truly call itself digital. Digi Grotesk was derived from other fonts by a German businessman in 1931. As our friends at Buzzfeed explain, the font wasn’t developed for computers, which didn’t exist until 1968. Instead…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Pretty Persuasion: The Devil Wears a Grey Skirt, and Her Name Is Kimberly Joyce

Picture of the Day: April 18, 2012

Is the dramatic rise in chin implants due to video chat?

Pioneer’s Gorgeous New Headphones Pack Up and Go With You Anywhere

The Surreal Graffiti Left Behind in an Abandoned Village

Separating Space Shuttle from 747 Is Easier than It Sounds

Ballistic Device Launches Analog Text Messages

Watch a vomiting alien beat up the Pope, in the weirdest E.T. parody ever

Garbage Men Take Amazing Photos With Giant Dumpster Cameras

Shun’s Hiro Santoku is the Only Knife a Cook Needs

See the neck implants of Ender’s Game‘s teenage army

Vibrating Seats Could Be Coming Soon To a Theater Near You

Dinosaurs were doomed because laying eggs made them too huge

An entire day represented in one 360° panorama photo

The Day Your Car Kidnaps You

Sierra Club Trail Explorer: Discover Great Hikes in Your Area

New cosmic survey might mean serious trouble for dark matter

Real-life Futurama tube-transport will catapult you from New York to Beijing in 2 hours

How To Train Your Dragon reviewer explains why dragons are like Hitler

The First Digital Font Wasn’t Made For Computers

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