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Heat Seeking Robot Absorbs and Shares The Warmth In Your Home

It’s useless for keeping your floors clean, but those of us living in colder climates will certainly appreciate this concept Hagent robot that seeks out the warmest places in your home, absorbing the heat to share with you later. Think of it as an autonomous roaming heater, but instead of generating its own heat, which…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Who do you see in this massive silhouette in space?

The fierce ultraviolet radiation given off by the young stars of NGC 3324 has carved this giant cavity in space. And, thanks to our old friend pareidolia, that boundary between different gases looks an awful lot like a person’s profile. In fact, the astronomers at the La Silla Observatory in Chile’s Coquimbo Region have taken…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Handwritten pages from Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, illustrated by Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll’s first iteration of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was a much shorter work titled Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. Although the final product is well known for John Tenniel’s memorable illustrations, Carroll himself illustrated his original manuscript. In fact, many of Tenniel’s illustrations were actually based on Carroll’s own. Carroll gave the original, handwritten manuscript…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Need your jaw removed? Why don’t you just print out a new one?

That’s what an 83 year old woman in Belgium did. Her seriously infected jaw needed to be removed, but reconstructive surgery would have been too dangerous for such an elderly patient. That’s when the doctors fired up the 3D printer. The announcement comes from researchers at Belgium’s University of Hasselt, who say this represents the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Stylish Pendant Tools Keep You Fashion Forward, And Alive

That massive Gerber multi-tool on your belt probably comes in really handy during emergencies, but not on a catwalk. If you want to be prepared for whatever life throws out you and look fashionable, you’ll want to consider Wenger’s HypeX line. Consisting of six stripped down lightweight tools that can be worn as pendants hanging…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Grimm’s best episode yet harvests horror and teenagers’ organs

Finally! After two episodes of CG monster face of the week, Grimm is back and getting its hands dirty! I was genuinely surprised and highly entertained by the route and translation of this week’s fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel. Instead of a cannibal witch hungry for the flesh of little boys and girls, Nick must…

Television Meredith Woerner

Pin-up calendar ladies survive the sexy apocalypses

They’re not appropriately dressed, but these ladies are managing to get by in the apocalypse all the same. Illustrator Andrew Tarusov created a doomsday calendar, with a different gal and a different apocalypse for every month of the year. Apocalypse Tomorrow is a 2012 calendar with a goofy take on the end of the world.…

io9 Lauren Davis

No, a Chinese boy doesn’t have glow-in-the-dark cat eyes

A three-year-old video in which a young Chinese boy appears to demonstrate night vision is making the rounds once again, with news sources wondering if the boy really has mutant night vision or freaky alien powers. Yeah…this shouldn’t take long. We had a little fun with this story when it first hit back in February…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Recycled Air Bag Backpacks Save the Environment, Not Lives

After an airbag deploys it’s not like you can just cram it back into your steering wheel and carry on. They have to be cut out and replaced, which gives MariClaRo the materials it uses to create this lovely backpack. Because of the stresses it endures when it’s literally exploded into a driver’s face, the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Sky diver plans supersonic jump from suborbital space

Could space jumping be the next extreme sport? After all the objects that have gone into suborbital space: teddy bears, Lego men, plates of sushi, one man plans to send himself up to the edge, and then leap back down again. We first told you about Felix Baumgartner’s quest to be the first supersonic man…

io9 Lauren Davis

Watch OK Go’s New Desert Orchestra Stunt Driving Music Video

Last week we showed you a quick preview of OK Go’s new video for “Needing/Getting”, and now here’s the full monty, compiled from a literal drive-by of 1157 homemade instruments of melodic Rube Goldberg(ish) goodness. https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-preview-ok-gos-new-thousand-instrument-music-5880556 You can check out the full rundown of how everything was put together—including the band taking stunt driving courses—in…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The world’s largest museum collection of brains is on display in Peru

There’s only one place in the world where you can view row after row of brains afflicted by mad cow disease, Alzheimer’s, and alcoholism. It’s Lima’s Museo de Cerebros, home to the largest collection of gray matter that can be viewed by the public. More than 3,000 samples of diseased brains and fetuses have been…

io9 Lauren Davis

The New Orleans Saints hired a Voodoo priestess to fight a ghostly football curse

Today, the New York Giants and the New England Patriots battle for football supremacy, while fans sit at home with their lucky jerseys and their game day rituals. But some teams need a bit more mystical help than others. In 2000, the New Orleans Saints called in the big guns to combat the ghostly curse…

io9 Lauren Davis

The Best Big Screen 3D HDTV

No, the Super Bowl is not going to be in 3D this year. Again. But that doesn’t mean you don’t want a 3D set. Here’s the thing: The best 2D TV is a 3D TV. The burlier image processors required to render the third dimension make everything look better. So how are you going to…

Gadgets Andrew Tarantola

Meet Iran’s 3,500-woman-strong ninja army

To round out their squadron of flying boats and UFO project, an estimated 3,500 Iranian women are training in Japanese ninjutsu, according to a state-run news station. It’s official — the Iranian government is in cahoots with COBRA from G.I. Joe. https://gizmodo.com/irans-flying-boat-squadron-is-right-out-of-a-james-bond-5654389 https://gizmodo.com/iran-rounds-out-its-mad-scientist-air-cavalry-with-zoha-5783425 The Iranian channel Press TV has produced the above 6.5-minute segment about…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

In Sarah and the Seed webcomic, a woman gives birth to a giant seed instead of a baby

When an older woman becomes pregnant, there are always a lot of concerns. Will the baby be born healthy? Will the labor be difficult? In Ryan Andrews’ short and sweet webcomic Sarah and the Seed, a woman’s pregnancy results in something her husband never thought to worry about: a giant seed. Sarah and the Seed…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Lego Lord of the Rings Sets First Look: They Are Awesome!

Rejoice fellows of the Lego ring, because we got the first close-up look of the Lego Lord of the Rings sets coming out this year. And they are amazing, from the Mines of Moria—cave troll included!—to Helm’s Deep to Shelob! Yes, that was a Lego LOTR nerd squeaky scream. Look at the Hobbit mini-minifigs fighting…

Movies Jesus Diaz

What do you name an adorable two-faced kitten? Meet Harvey Dent

There’s a new two-faced character in the world, and he’s a lot cuddlier than Aaron Eckhart. Newborn Janus cat Harvey Dent has four eyes, two noses, two mouths, and one appropriate name. Little Harvey was born in this week in Port Charlotte, Fla. Janus cats are frequently plagued with health issues, which can be especially…

io9 Lauren Davis

Are there really more people alive now than have ever lived?

There’s a popular claim that the seven billion people alive today outnumber all other humans who have ever lived. It’s meant as a stark reminder of humanity’s population explosion over the last 200 years…but is it true, or total crap? This idea has gained a bit of new currency with the recent UN announcement that…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The Tale of El Chullanchaqui: The Miniature Man With a Goat Foot

Countless threats exist deep in the jungle. But it’s not just poisonous, candy-colored frogs or fish with rows of razor teeth that trouble intrepid explorers—the jungle is home to a host of wild, unexplained happenings and folklore that all carry real, bone-chilling consequences. So, to celebrate the series premiere of The River, ABC’s new documentary-style…

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Heat Seeking Robot Absorbs and Shares The Warmth In Your Home

Who do you see in this massive silhouette in space?

Handwritten pages from Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, illustrated by Lewis Carroll

Need your jaw removed? Why don’t you just print out a new one?

Stylish Pendant Tools Keep You Fashion Forward, And Alive

Grimm’s best episode yet harvests horror and teenagers’ organs

Pin-up calendar ladies survive the sexy apocalypses

No, a Chinese boy doesn’t have glow-in-the-dark cat eyes

Recycled Air Bag Backpacks Save the Environment, Not Lives

Sky diver plans supersonic jump from suborbital space

Watch OK Go’s New Desert Orchestra Stunt Driving Music Video

The world’s largest museum collection of brains is on display in Peru

The New Orleans Saints hired a Voodoo priestess to fight a ghostly football curse

The Best Big Screen 3D HDTV

Meet Iran’s 3,500-woman-strong ninja army

In Sarah and the Seed webcomic, a woman gives birth to a giant seed instead of a baby

Lego Lord of the Rings Sets First Look: They Are Awesome!

What do you name an adorable two-faced kitten? Meet Harvey Dent

Are there really more people alive now than have ever lived?

The Tale of El Chullanchaqui: The Miniature Man With a Goat Foot

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