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How Can a Cathedral Built From Trash Look So Beautiful?

The Queen may have Buckingham Palace, Nicholas Cage may own half of Europe’s castles, but Don Justo has this beautiful cathedral of trash. He’s been building it in Madrid for 50-odd years now, and is almost finished. In fact, since he left his life as a monk 50 years ago and began building the cathedral…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Someone’s Stolen a 6-Foot Android Costume

There appears to be a roaring black-market in 6-foot Android costumes over in Cincinnati, Ohio. Cricket Communications uses the costume to promote its Androidphones, and has $1,000 for whoever returns it. Anyone seen Microsoft’s mascot recently? [WLWT via AndroidCentral]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Analogue Books, Turned Into Something Even More Analogue

I’m in love with these bespoke pinhole cameras, made from vintage hardbacks. But at $200 each, I’d almost rather cut out a cereal box and make my own. Nonetheless, it’s got a magnetic shutter and comes with a manual. [Petapixel]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Halp! That Commuter Is Being Burnt To a Crisp!

Let’s face it: most of the time advertising blows. You have to wonder what’s in it for you. Praise be to Caribou Coffee’s advertising team then, which attached heating elements to a bus shelter roof. [Adrants via PSFK via OhGizmo]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Gadget That Should Have Never Been Invented

Some technologies have a definitive impact in the progress of civilization that will leave a mark in Humanity forever. This utterly ridiculous contraption not one of them. Breast pumps are great for moms and babies, but this thing just goes beyond useful to get straight into idiotic territory for lazyasses with no sense of dignity…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

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io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Your Facebook Profile Might Get You Out Of Jury Duty Soon

I’ve never had jury duty, but I hear that it’s unpleasant. Maybe that’s why the Cameron County district attorney’s pushing for Facebook profiles to be viewed as part of the jury selection process—to give us a way out. At this point, the jury selection process doesn’t allow for access to too much information: Currently, the…

Social Media Rosa Golijan

Scientists Discover Time Teleportation

Physicists at the University of Queensland in Australia claim to have discovered time teleportation, no flux capacitors involved: Just like quantum physics allows for teleportation in space, they say that the same is possible in time. Time travel to… the future! https://gizmodo.com/quantum-teleportation-achieved-across-10-miles-5543923 Now, hold on to your plutonium-proof underpants. This doesn’t mean we are going…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Become an Office Hero By Making One of These Time-Bending, Lunch-Lengthening Clocks

Our lunch breaks have seemed downright luxurious this week, your coworker observes. You agree. Then you explain why: this diabolical clock, which speeds up 20% at 11am and slows down 20% at 11:48, adding 12 precious minutes to your lunchtime. No matter how hard you try, you can’t change time. But you can do the…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

A 34,000 year old bacteria has come back from the dead and is breeding

Thirty-four millennia ago, some bacteria got trapped inside salt crystals in what is now Death Valley. These crystals were recently dug up and the bacteria freed from their hibernation…and then they started reproducing. Salt crystals can grow incredibly quickly and are known to trap whatever tiny organisms don’t get out of the way. For most…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Uglier Fonts Could Mean Better Information Recollection

Most textbooks and e-readers tend to follow the same idea when it comes to their fonts: Easier to read means easier to absorb and recall later. Looks like they were wrong. A new study from Princeton University says those simple fonts might cause to you retain less. A font that’s easy to read lets your…

Tech News G. Jesse Martinez

Idiot’s Idiotic Live Grenade Bookend Explodes after Idiot Pulls Pin

Sort of stupid: using WWII grenades as bookends. Really stupid: giving one of those grenades to a neighbor, no questions asked. Extremely stupid: accepting said grenade. Maximum stupid: immediately pulling the pin from that grenade. Bomb squad, come on down! For the record, it’s surprising that someone dumb enough to use a grenade as a…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Kevin Costner’s supernatural experience is just as cheeseriffic as you’d expect

Kevin Costner has an encounter with the other side, and there are flashy lights and montages of children shouting, and a white light, and then his dead wife reaches out. Is Dragonfly the worst supernatural film of the early 2000s? Spoilers ahead, if anybody cares. So add Dragonfly to the long list of movies that…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Jennifer Love Hewitt Meets the World’s Largest Magnetic Sculpture

Nanodots—those tiny magnetic pellets that you can sculpt with—have reached new heights and widths. To celebrate the Golden Globes, their creators linked over 550,000 pellets into a 600lb award statuette. It’s not real, Jennifer Love Hewitt! The faux-Globe shattered the previous record of 32,786 magnetic dots, although it seems a little bit like the contest…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Sony Ericsson Sues Clearwire Out Of Fear That You’ll Mix Up Their Logos

Pop quiz: Which of these logos belongs to Sony Ericsson and which belongs to Clearwire? If you don’t know the answer, then you’ve justified the federal trademark lawsuit Sony Ericsson just filed. Apparently Sony Ericsson is concerned that Clearwire might confuse folks by using a logo consisting of a “sphere with swirl marks” in the…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

The Pretty Lamp, the Hooker and the Spotlight Test

A hooker once told me: “If you take a girl, make sure to get her through the spotlight test.” I asked: “What’s that?” She replied: “Just slowly take her under one of the halogen lights in the club while chatting, then look at her. You will see if she’s all make up or if she’s…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Jennifer Finney Boylan Loves Monsters in Episode 28 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror, joins us this week on io9’s Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast to talk about literal and metaphorical monsters, and growing up transgender. Falcon Quinn book cover illustration by Brandon Dorman. The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is hosted by John Joseph Adams and…

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Underground robot boxing matches have been around for 80 years

In the upcoming film Real Steel, robot boxing is the wave of the future. But as this article from a 1931 issue of Modern Mechanics demonstrates, robo-boxing’s been around forever. Hopefully the movie can write a better ending than reality. https://gizmodo.com/real-steel-trailer-looks-like-a-robo-fighting-champ-5710464 [Via Modern Mechanix]

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Booking Flights Online’s Only Getting More Annoying

Great news! Booking flights online is increasingly difficult and irritating. The reason? As the NYT explains, many airlines are locked in grappling matches with fare aggregators like Orbitz and Expedia over who gets paid how much. Either way, we lose. American and Delta have been the most active in their site-skirting, ducking out of agreements…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Gigantic Neanderthal noses are an evolutionary mystery

Neanderthals may have been our closest evolutionary ancestors, but they had at least one feature that alway set them apart from early humans: their incredibly large noses. But just why Neanderthals had such huge noses is an enduring evolutionary mystery. Neanderthals lived during some of the most extreme climatic conditions in recent history, as they…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

How Can a Cathedral Built From Trash Look So Beautiful?

Someone’s Stolen a 6-Foot Android Costume

Analogue Books, Turned Into Something Even More Analogue

Halp! That Commuter Is Being Burnt To a Crisp!

The Gadget That Should Have Never Been Invented

Now reshoot set photo

Your Facebook Profile Might Get You Out Of Jury Duty Soon

Scientists Discover Time Teleportation

Become an Office Hero By Making One of These Time-Bending, Lunch-Lengthening Clocks

A 34,000 year old bacteria has come back from the dead and is breeding

Uglier Fonts Could Mean Better Information Recollection

Idiot’s Idiotic Live Grenade Bookend Explodes after Idiot Pulls Pin

Kevin Costner’s supernatural experience is just as cheeseriffic as you’d expect

Jennifer Love Hewitt Meets the World’s Largest Magnetic Sculpture

Sony Ericsson Sues Clearwire Out Of Fear That You’ll Mix Up Their Logos

The Pretty Lamp, the Hooker and the Spotlight Test

Jennifer Finney Boylan Loves Monsters in Episode 28 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Underground robot boxing matches have been around for 80 years

Booking Flights Online’s Only Getting More Annoying

Gigantic Neanderthal noses are an evolutionary mystery

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