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Incredible photographs capture the body-shattering war of the porcelain people

Martin Klimas drops porcelain statues and photographs them at the moment they shatter, creating scenes with incredible senses of movement. You can almost imagine that the figures in these pictures are actually alive, and that their bodies blow apart each time they make contact. I would love to see an animation inspired by these shattering…

io9 Lauren Davis

Tyrannosaurus on a truck might be the scariest thing you’ll see on your commute

These model dinosaurs are out for a Sunday drive, enjoying a little fresh air before they head to their next destination. Still, if I saw T-Rex staring down my windshield, I might get in the other lane. Just in case. [reddit]

io9 Lauren Davis

Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing is Booming

The file-sharing landscape is slowly adjusting in response to the continued push for more anti-piracy tools, the final Pirate Bay verdict, and the raids and arrests in the Megaupload case. Faced with uncertainty and drastic changes at file-sharing sites, many users are searching for secure, private and uncensored file-sharing clients. Despite the image its name…

Tech News Ernesto - TorrentFreak.com

Optimus Prime wants you to go to space in NASA’s inspiring new commercial

When NASA need a voice for their latest commercial — a voice that could instill dreams of outer space in our impressionable minds — who did they turn to? Transformers voice actor Peter Cullen, who lends a rich tone to the ad. The only problem is that every time he says “We are explorers,” I…

io9 Lauren Davis

What If You Could Use NFC to Make a Giant Display Out of Two iPads?

Imagine an iPad with an edge-to-edge retina display and NFC capabilities. Know what you could do with that thing? In the minds of those at Aatma Studios, you could connect two of them together and create a giant Franken-pad. I’m sure we’ve all thought about the possibility of bezel-less tablets, but seeing someone build a…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Mental disorders visualized in six minimalist posters

Mental and neurological disorders are hard enough to explain in words, but how about with just a few blocks of color? Graphic designer Patrick Smith tries to capture an impressionistic sense of some serious illnesses with his minimalist designs. Smith created these posters in the hope that they might be used for a mental health…

io9 Lauren Davis

SNL’s Real Housewives of Disney goes inside a drunken princess dinner party

Last night’s Saturday Night Live took us past happily ever after and into the not-so-magical realm of sham marriages, bankruptcy, and alcoholism, all with a confessional camera. It’s as filled with cat fights and eye-rolling as you’d expect, but with some inspired moments. Dwarven high-fives for all!

io9 Lauren Davis

What did Velociraptor have for dinner? Raptor skeleton discovered with bones in its gut

If you lie awake at night wondering Velociraptor’s favorite food was (and whether it tastes much like human flesh), you’re in luck. For the first time, a Velociraptor skeleton has been observed with its last supper still filling its guts, and this little guy feasted on long-dead pterosaur. Paleontologist David Hone has published a new…

io9 Lauren Davis

Photo manipulations offer realistic visions of life after the apocalypse

For his Life After the Apocalypse series, Russian artist Vladimir Manyuhin starts with real photographs, adding digital decay and overgrowth to create an eerily realistic sense of how the world might look long after most humans are gone. Although Manyuhin goes for realism in his digital illustrations, he does have a bit of fun with…

io9 Lauren Davis

Watch big cats get spooked by their own reflections

What do lions and tigers and jaguars see when they look in the mirror? Judging by the reactions of some of these cats at Tampa’s Big Cat Rescue animal sanctuary, it’s something pretty scary. What exactly makes a lion jump like that? Maybe he’s having a bad mane day. I’m not sure what prompted the…

io9 Lauren Davis

What if Disney made Game of Thrones?

What if the House of Mouse bought the rights to produce George R.R. Martin’s fantasy saga instead of HBO? The folks at Dorkly have meshed one of the new Game of Thrones trailers with footage from Disney classics, creating the most family-friendly tale of incest and war you’re bound to see today. [via Geeks are…

io9 Lauren Davis

If you’re in Australia, beware of deadly watermelon-sized pine cones

As if Australians didn’t have enough to worry about from their deadly fauna, now their flora are out to get them as well. The town of Warragul, Victoria, houses a 120-year-old bunya pine whose pine cones are the size of watermelons. The behemoths weigh up to 10 kilograms each, and, the local council warns, can…

io9 Lauren Davis

Tour the former ruins of Steve Jobs’ now-demolished mansion

In 1984, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs purchased Jackling House, a mansion that had been built for the copper magnate Daniel Cowan Jackling. Although Jobs had the building demolished last year prior to his death, it spent several years as a crumbling ruin of its former glory, a fading memorial to one of the great architects…

io9 Lauren Davis

I Want These Headphones’ Quick-Folding Design On All My Cables

I’ve seen countless attempts to tackle the problem of tangled headphone cables, but this approach—which uses thicker less-flexible sections to make them easier to bundle—looks like it has a lot of potential. Instead of sticking your headphones in your pocket all mashed up into a ball that’s destined to become one large knot, the segments…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Brilliant Spherical Solar Cells Don’t Need To Be Pointed Directly At the Sun

Current solar cell designs need to be aimed directly at the sun to be most efficient. But a Japanese company has come up with a clever new approach using spherical micro cells that can harness the sun’s rays from any direction. The flat solar cells we typically see dotting roofs and filling fields only really…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Best of the Week: February 25-March 2, 2012

FOUR GALAXIES | Four galaxies smushed together in one corner of the universe, plus a fifth which only appears to be part of the group due to an optical illusion. Together, they are “Stephan’s Quartet.” More details here. We’re on the verge of two world-changing antimatter discoveries While the Large Hadron Collider is looking for…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Real-Life King Kong Story of the Land Lobster

If you think this island looks like it might be the secret, centuries-old hideout of a gigantic creature, you’re absolutely right. Welcome to Ball’s Island, the ancient former volcano that’s also the home of the land lobster. At first glance, the land lobster (Dryococelus australis) looks like the nightmarish spawn of a cockroach and a…

Tech News Michael Zhao

R.I.P. Ralph McQuarrie, the man who designed Darth Vader

It’s a sad day for the concept art world. Ralph McQuarrie, the artist who created concept designs for the first Star Wars trilogy, the original Battlestar Galactica television show, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., and other science fiction classics, has passed away at age 82. He set our minds on fire and made…

io9 Lauren Davis

Glowing Bubbles Turn Any Occasion Into a Kid-Safe Rave

I don’t know why black lights make everything cooler, but they do. And if your ten-year-old has been asking for a rave-themed birthday party, these Tekno Black Light Bubbles are the perfect favor. You know, instead of psychedelic drugs and alcohol. The $4 bottles are available in blue or gold colors, and have the added…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Even the Most Incompetent Chef On Earth Has No Need For a Stupid Banana Slicer

My immediate reaction of flying into a tirade against useless kitchen gadgets is probably going to end with me having a heart attack in Williams-Sonoma one day. But ridiculous crap like this Hutzler banana peeler needs to be called out. When ripe and edible, bananas are one of the easiest foods to cut. You could…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Incredible photographs capture the body-shattering war of the porcelain people

Tyrannosaurus on a truck might be the scariest thing you’ll see on your commute

Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing is Booming

Optimus Prime wants you to go to space in NASA’s inspiring new commercial

What If You Could Use NFC to Make a Giant Display Out of Two iPads?

Mental disorders visualized in six minimalist posters

SNL’s Real Housewives of Disney goes inside a drunken princess dinner party

What did Velociraptor have for dinner? Raptor skeleton discovered with bones in its gut

Photo manipulations offer realistic visions of life after the apocalypse

Watch big cats get spooked by their own reflections

What if Disney made Game of Thrones?

If you’re in Australia, beware of deadly watermelon-sized pine cones

Tour the former ruins of Steve Jobs’ now-demolished mansion

I Want These Headphones’ Quick-Folding Design On All My Cables

Brilliant Spherical Solar Cells Don’t Need To Be Pointed Directly At the Sun

Best of the Week: February 25-March 2, 2012

The Real-Life King Kong Story of the Land Lobster

R.I.P. Ralph McQuarrie, the man who designed Darth Vader

Glowing Bubbles Turn Any Occasion Into a Kid-Safe Rave

Even the Most Incompetent Chef On Earth Has No Need For a Stupid Banana Slicer

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