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Desperate AOL Sells 800 Patents to Microsoft For $1 Billion

In an internal memo sent out this morning, AOL informed employees that it will sell 800 patents for $1 billion to Microsoft. Translation: AOL is severing organs and handing them over to Microsoft for badly needed cash. Microsoft, in turn, walks away with an arsenal of patents it can use to fight critical battles with…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Just what dangers lie ahead for Doctor Who‘s married companions?

The next Doctor Who series sees Amy and Rory complete their journey in the TARDIS, but what sort of shape will they be in when they depart? Plus lots more hints about what to expect from the show’s new companion! All that plus a Hulk-tastic new Avengers TV spot! The X-Men: First Class sequel moves…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

The World’s Largest Rube Goldberg Machine Is a Balloon-Busting Masterpiece

If you thought Purdue’s previous Rube Goldberg machine was impressive, a 156-step burger making contraption, you’ll be ‘blown away’ with its latest creation. A 300-step machine whose sole purpose is to blow up and pop balloons, and set world records. https://gizmodo.com/purdues-156-step-burger-maker-wins-rube-goldberg-contes-376561 And that’s exactly what the school’s Society of Professional Engineers did with this tribute…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Fleet of Buses Will Cure Your Hangover With IV Treatment

If you are ok with taking a 45-minute intravenous treatment to eliminate your hangover, rejoice: a new service in Las Vegas will do exactly that. You can hop into one of their buses or call them to your hotel room. 45 minute hangover treatment, receive IV hydration, and IV vitamins in a proprietary blend to…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Sephora’s New Site Is Crack for Beauty Junkies

Shopping for makeup should be fun. And it should not happen at Amazon. It’s unnatural to buy your mascara at the same place where you lock in low prices for monthly toilet paper delivery. Happily, Sephora’s website makeover ensures that you won’t be tempted to mix eyeshadow with MP3 downloads. The revamp has been three…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Why Person of Interest is one of those rare shows that deserves its popularity

Last week’s episode of Person of Interest basically brought together everything I love about this show: the brooding paranoia, the weird alliances between criminals and cops, the strange moments of humor, and the unapologetically intense violence. Now that this series’ first season is nearing its final few episodes, it’s time to assess. Unlike many of…

Television Annalee Newitz

io9 Roundup: April 8, 2012

TROUBLE ABOARD THE NOSTROLEGO | HP Mohnroth creates amazing Lego monsters and models, including this Ripley and xenomorph duo. Via Super Punch. How Las Vegas missed out on a life-sized Starship Enterprise https://gizmodo.com/how-las-vegas-missed-out-on-a-life-sized-starship-enter-5900012 In 1992, plans were in the works to create a life-sized Starship Enterprise in downtown Las Vegas. The model ship would have…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Grimm brings Ninja Cat to life! Behold the Ninja Man Cat and watch him stalk his prey

Does anyone care about Nick and Juliette getting married? This week’s Grimm was nearly perfect, had they not ended with the assumption that anyone gives a flying fig about Nick’s relationship with Juliette. It may be time to turn this relationship into a gingerbread man, and then smash it with a hammer. But all that…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Micro Organisms Make For One Mind-Bending Music Video

Watch this trippy video of microscopic creatures to make up for all those times you’ve looked through a microscope and been disappointed. Austrian filmmaker Clemens Wirth and Radium Audio make tiny life forms come alive with the film Micro Empire, which was filmed using a 5D Mark II adapted to shoot through a monocular microscope.…

Tech News Michael Hession

Tour the landmarks of Mars in these vintage travel posters

Mars tourism is still a long ways off, but it’s not hard to imagine that someday, tourists will visit the natural geological landmarks of Mars much like they tour the Grand Canyon. And every great tourist destination needs a retro travel poster to entice visitors. Ron Guyatt, who also created beautifully detailed maps of Westeros…

io9 Lauren Davis

Behold the dark beauty of Russia’s 1968 Little Mermaid cartoon

Disney’s The Little Mermaid may be the best-known animated film based on Hans Christian Andersen’s short story, but it was by no means the first. This Russian film, directed by Ivan Aksenchuk in 1968, uses a variety of animation styles to capture the sad tone of the tragic fairy tale, from the horrors of the…

Movies Lauren Davis

Why we won’t find Earth-2 around a red dwarf star

Red dwarfs are by far the universe’s most common stars, but it really doesn’t seem like they’re made for supporting life. The latest simulations suggest that the tidal forces of these stars’ gravity would wipe out any chance of life. A few months back, we learned about how axial tilt – or the lack thereof…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Wage War On Your Diet With a Chocolate Grenade

Easter is one of those magical days in the year when diets don’t exist. So today, in addition to a mountain of other sweet confections, you can enjoy Raphael Volkmer’s chocolate ‘Calories Bomb’ grenade that explodes with even more delicious shrapnel. Just think of it as an uneasy truce with your diet, although when you…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Watch the world’s most complex Rube Goldberg machine in action

Yesterday, Purdue University’s Society of Professional Engineers broke a world record, creating the world’s largest Rube Goldberg device. “Largest” here means containing the most steps, and Purdue’s machine goes through 300 steps to inflate and then pop a balloon. The previous record-holder? Purdue University, which debuted its 232-step Rube Goldberg machine just last year. [via…

io9 Lauren Davis

Serving-Sized Wine Wets Your Whistle While You Wander

What is a bottle of wine, really? Four glasses of the good stuff. But unless you’re drinking wine in your house or at a fancy restaurant, chances are you don’t have a corkscrew or stemware on you. Stacked wine eliminates the need for both. Each 750 mL “bottle” of Stacked wine consists of four individually-sealed,…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Why are thousands of dolphins dying off the coast of Peru?

For the past three months, something has been very wrong along the Peruvian coast. Nearly 3,000 dolphins have washed ashore dead, making it one of the largest marine mammal die-offs ever recorded…and it likely isn’t even close to over. Such animal die-offs aren’t totally unheard of – you may remember all those birds and fish…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Movie posters for DC’s imaginary superhero flicks

Each month, the blog Super Punch hosts an inspired concept art contest. This month’s topic is DC movie posters, and there are some fun ideas in the mix. Maybe DC should start taking pitches? See all the entries at Super Punch, including more gorgeous Mad Love posters. I know that we’ve already seen Mad Love…

Movies Lauren Davis

Another solar system has more planets than ours…and here’s what we’re going to do about it!

We keep making amazing exoplanet discoveries, but our solar system has still had two big trump cards: we’re the only one known to have life (obviously), and we’ve got the most planets of any known solar system. Well, about that… HD 10180, located about 130 light-years away, was already known to have six planets, five…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

An Ada Lovelace-Mary Shelley team-up, an encyclopedia of Golden Age superheroes, and a Jurassic Park stage show

There are always wonderful projects in need of crowdfunding, and we’ve rounded up some fun campaigns vying for your dollars: a children’s book about the early adventures of Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace, a US stage tour for a Jurassic Park parody, some mathematically beautiful wall clocks, and an encyclopedia of our earliest comic book…

io9 Lauren Davis

Watch Guy Pearce get punched in the head for the first five minutes of Lockout

We’ve seen Lockout’s Guy Pearce navigate an orbiting space prison, and we’ve heard his cheesetastic snark with the President’s daughter. Now we give you the first five minutes of this futuristic action flick, which consists mostly of Guy Pearce getting punched in the head in between fight-it-out flashbacks. Guy Pearce, handy with a hairdryer. https://gizmodo.com/watch-five-minutes-of-gravity-defying-craziness-from-th-5894183…

Movies Lauren Davis

Desperate AOL Sells 800 Patents to Microsoft For $1 Billion

Just what dangers lie ahead for Doctor Who‘s married companions?

The World’s Largest Rube Goldberg Machine Is a Balloon-Busting Masterpiece

Fleet of Buses Will Cure Your Hangover With IV Treatment

Sephora’s New Site Is Crack for Beauty Junkies

Why Person of Interest is one of those rare shows that deserves its popularity

io9 Roundup: April 8, 2012

Grimm brings Ninja Cat to life! Behold the Ninja Man Cat and watch him stalk his prey

Micro Organisms Make For One Mind-Bending Music Video

Tour the landmarks of Mars in these vintage travel posters

Behold the dark beauty of Russia’s 1968 Little Mermaid cartoon

Why we won’t find Earth-2 around a red dwarf star

Wage War On Your Diet With a Chocolate Grenade

Watch the world’s most complex Rube Goldberg machine in action

Serving-Sized Wine Wets Your Whistle While You Wander

Why are thousands of dolphins dying off the coast of Peru?

Movie posters for DC’s imaginary superhero flicks

Another solar system has more planets than ours…and here’s what we’re going to do about it!

An Ada Lovelace-Mary Shelley team-up, an encyclopedia of Golden Age superheroes, and a Jurassic Park stage show

Watch Guy Pearce get punched in the head for the first five minutes of Lockout

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