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Remember when Nikola Tesla teamed up with Optimus Prime to battle Lovecraftian Decepticons?

Remember those curious Cthulhu Transformers? Courtesy of IDW Publishing, here’s a sneak peek at the second issue of the Infestation 2: Transformers miniseries, which features more tentacled robots and Optimus Prime meeting Tesla. Edison was hanging out with the Gobots, presumably. This issue hits stores Wednesday, February 15. Here’s the plot synopsis: https://gizmodo.com/cthulhu-transformers-something-wed-never-thought-wed-5879730 Infestation 2:…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Here Are the Crazy Things the TSA Found Last Week: Cannonballs, Grenades, Ninja Stars and More

We poke fun of the TSA for being dumb but sometimes we forget that normal people do even dumber things. Like pack a grenade launcher in their carry on. Or try to bring a cannonball on board. Here’s a list of the crazy things the TSA found just last week. In the picture above, from…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan

Watch the original footage of the “live woolly mammoth” video

Last week, the internet exploded when The Sun claimed to be in possession of footage that shows a live (albeit suspiciously blurry) woolly mammoth crossing a river in Russia. Now, the original video used to create the dubious clip has surfaced. https://gizmodo.com/woolly-mammoth-alive-and-caught-on-tape-maybe-5883483 In their original coverage, The Sun reported that the video had been shot…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Why I’ll Never Trust a Human With My Data Again (Updated)

On Valentine’s Day, I may have an unexpected present: My websites might all go dark, and a decade’s worth of data may vanish. My host’s domain registration is set to expire tomorrow, and the man behind it has disappeared. (Update: He’s back! See below.) Like a lot of other people, I came across Cornerhost when…

Tech News Mat Honan

Is the iPad Getting Pulled from China Stores?

Apple lost a lawsuit over the rights to the term “iPad” in China, and now its über-popular tablet might be in the process of being yanked out of Chinese stores. https://gizmodo.com/apple-may-have-to-stop-selling-the-ipad-in-china-5882609 There are reports that the Chinese Administrations of Industry and Commerce are confiscating iPads found on sale. The report says, though, that in some…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Funniest Movie Trailer We’ve Seen in Ages: A Dystopian Dance Dance Revolution Future [NSFW]

Check out the first trailer for The FP, a new dark dystopian movie in which gangs fight for supremacy… by playing Dance Dance Revolution. My favorite part? The bit where the gangsta tells the main character, JTro, “Dance with your mind!” Here’s the official synopsis: In a dystopian future, a relentless turf war rages. Two…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

What If iOS Looked Like the Original Mac OS?

One of the iPhone’s most striking qualities is iOS’ beautiful interface. Still, I love this conceptual rendering of iOS made to look like the OS on the original Macs. The iOS ’86 concept by Anton Repponen wonderfully re-imagines the default iOS home screen in the style of the original Mac OS, down to the classic…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Love and Sex

Tomorrow, as you are almost certainly aware, is Valentine’s Day. For some of us, this a particularly blissful time of year. For others it’s one that calls for intense cynicism. But regardless of your stance on Valentine’s Day, there’s no way to avoid being bombarded with romantic imagery. So you might as well take this…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The Two Faces of Lego Frodo—Plus My Precious Gollum Minifig

I love all the new Lego Lord of the Rings’ minifigs, but I have one favorite: Gollum. They truly captured his creepy nature, yet he still looks cute. My favorite detail, however, are the two faces of Frodo, showing his transformation through the story. https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-videos-of-the-new-lego-lord-of-the-rings-sets-5884547 Here’s Gollum, holding his precious fish and pissed off. My…

Movies Jesus Diaz

Mattel Is Finally Making the Back to the Future Hoverboard

First, the Back to the Future Nike Mags came out. Now, Mattel has announced that it’ll be making the pink hoverboard Marty McFly made infamous in Back to the Future II. My life is complete. Well, almost. https://gizmodo.com/the-nike-air-mag-aka-the-back-to-the-future-shoes-are-r-5838503 The Mattel hoverboard doesn’t actually hover as it’s only a 1:1 replica of the movie version but…

Tech News Casey Chan

When Anti-Theft Concept Devices Were More Brutal

In the digital age, anti-theft devices usually consist of some sort of location-based tracking service. The technology featured in this video brings us back to a simpler time, when thieves were stopped in the most physical way. Not only will this briefcase brutally crush the perp’s fingers, but anyone within a 10 foot radius should…

Tech News Michael Hession

This Week’s TV: Nathan Fillion saves America from weird science!

This week on television, Nathan Fillion’s Castle joins the CIA, to save America from an international conspiracy. And Ridley Scott explains just how Isaac Asimov changed the world, in Prophets of Science Fiction. Plus Ben Edlund writes a new Supernatural, and there’s an especially heartbreaking Adventure Time. Check out clips from most of this week’s…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Why Rubber Rules: A Short History of the World’s Favorite Stretchy Substance

When Charles Goodyear figured out how to take the smelly sap from some trees and turn it into the rubber of industry, the finished, stretchy product bounced a crazy diverse number of materials out of their soon-to-be former jobs. Like sheep intestines. Ick. Before rubber, wheels were made of wood and steel. That’s how we…

Tech News Rachel Swaby

How much milk would you have to vomit in order to levitate?

In X-Men: First Class, Banshee uses ultrasonic screaming like a jet pack to power his flight. In a recent video from special effects whiz Freddie Wong, a character named “Milk Man” gushes gallons of milk from his gullet to achieve a similar effect. This, of course, got MinutePhysics‘ Henry Reich thinking: how much milk would…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The Little Equation at the Heart of the Economic Collapse

When the global financial markets began to collapse in 2007, everybody turned on the banks and bankers — and they haven’t stopped since. But one of the culprits was a humble piece of mathematics: the Black-Scholes equation. Most people know that the financial crisis was a result of things called derivatives: investments made on investments.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

It’s Honest Abe versus bloodsuckers in the first Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter trailer

The trailer for the Tim Burton-produced, Timur Bekmambetov-directed Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has hit the web. After Lincoln’s mom is offed by hungry Nosferatus, he decides to build a log cabin out of their fangs. Will there be a stovepipe hat made of garlic? We will see June 22.

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar

Samsung’s Best Designers Toil in Obscure Hotplate Division

You’d think that Samsung would have placed its best industrial designers in divisions that focus on drool-worthy mobile products like smartphones and tablets, but apparently they’ve instead got them focused on the company’s more mundane offerings like hot plates. Without a sense of scale the O Table could easily pass for a sleek MP3 player,…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

I Just Fell In Love With iCade’s New Retro NES-Style Gamepad for iPhone and iPad

If you loved the latest iCade controllers for iPhone and iPad, you are going to want to have sex with their new iCade 8-Bitty, a Nintendo-style gamepad controller with eight buttons. https://gizmodo.com/the-rad-icade-mobile-icade-for-iphone-and-icade-core-j-5874342 The iCade 8-Bitty has surfaced at NYC’s Toy Fair 2012. Like the iCade controllers, the 8-bitty connects to your iPhone, iPad and iPod…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, Why Do You Exist?

While the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 appears to be a much better attempt at a seven-inch tablet than the original (it runs Ice Cream Sandwich, which, you know, is actually designed for tablets), is it reeeeeeally that necessary to revisit the past when the company already makes 7.7, 8.9, and 10.1-inch tablets as well? https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-tab-review-a-pocketable-train-wreck-5686161…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The St. Valentine’s Day Rollerdisco Massacre of 2008 = Important Medical Research

In 2008, Liverpool University decided to commemorate Valentine’s Day with a festive rollerdisco party. Little did the organizers know this party would be immortalized in a keystone piece of medical research, the 2008 paper “The University Rollerdisco: An unusual cause of a major incident” in the journal Injury Extra. According to the researchers, that evening…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Remember when Nikola Tesla teamed up with Optimus Prime to battle Lovecraftian Decepticons?

Here Are the Crazy Things the TSA Found Last Week: Cannonballs, Grenades, Ninja Stars and More

Watch the original footage of the “live woolly mammoth” video

Why I’ll Never Trust a Human With My Data Again (Updated)

Is the iPad Getting Pulled from China Stores?

Funniest Movie Trailer We’ve Seen in Ages: A Dystopian Dance Dance Revolution Future [NSFW]

What If iOS Looked Like the Original Mac OS?

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Love and Sex

The Two Faces of Lego Frodo—Plus My Precious Gollum Minifig

Mattel Is Finally Making the Back to the Future Hoverboard

When Anti-Theft Concept Devices Were More Brutal

This Week’s TV: Nathan Fillion saves America from weird science!

Why Rubber Rules: A Short History of the World’s Favorite Stretchy Substance

How much milk would you have to vomit in order to levitate?

The Little Equation at the Heart of the Economic Collapse

It’s Honest Abe versus bloodsuckers in the first Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter trailer

Samsung’s Best Designers Toil in Obscure Hotplate Division

I Just Fell In Love With iCade’s New Retro NES-Style Gamepad for iPhone and iPad

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, Why Do You Exist?

The St. Valentine’s Day Rollerdisco Massacre of 2008 = Important Medical Research

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