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Terrifying Helmet Doubles as Flamethrower

Two fundamental rules in most science labs are 1) always have protective eyewear on and 2) don’t stick your face next to stuff that’s on fire. For these reasons, Sufficiently Advanced’s flamethrower welding helmet presents a conundrum. Modeled after Cyclops from the X-Men, this deeply unsafe contraption shoots two lines of fire out of your…

Sploid Avery Ellis

Bumblebees Collide With Objects More Often Than You Think

This bee looks so shocked to be in this predicament. “How could I not see this pole?” it asks. “This was a huge mistake.” Despite its surprise, bumblebees actually bump into things pretty frequently—around once per second. It’s not that they’re bad at flying, but that the air around them tends to move unpredictably. The…

Tech News Carli Velocci

20 Heroes, Villains, Aliens, and Monsters Who Ran for President

We all have politics on the brain nowadays, but regardless of your political leanings or feelings about the candidates, it’s worth remembering that it could be weirder. Here’s our list of the best, the worst, and the strangest beings who tried to take residence in the White House. 1) Etrigan, the Demon In “Political Asylum,”…

io9 Gordon Jackson

We Want This Guide to ’80s Action Figure Carrying Cases So Bad

Okay, not everyone is going to be excited about a visual guide to the action figure carrying cases of the ‘80s. But for those select few that still obsess about the golden age of toys, you’ll absolutely want to kick in a few bucks to this Kickstarter. The book is by Philip Reed, proprietor of…

io9 Gordon Jackson

There Are Official Evangelion Dumbbells and Nothing Makes Sense Anymore

Do you like Evangelion? Do you like working out? Do you live in Japan? If you answered yes to all these questions, I’m pretty sure you still won’t want these utterly ridiculous, yet totally real Evangelion-branded dumbbells. Released by Army Dumbbell—which I believe is a brand in Japan, and not the actual Army’s hot new…

io9 Rob Bricken

The Most Terrifying Glass Slide Ever Opens Atop LA Skyscraper

Beware this new Los Angeles attraction if you’re afraid of heights. I know I am because nope. The Skyslide, a glass slide fixed along the tallest building west of the Mississippi River, is open for business this weekend. Thrill-seekers can pay $25 to slide down 45 feet of bulletproof glass nearly 1,000 feet in the…

Tech News Carli Velocci

The New Star Trek Series Can Feature All the Sex, Blood, and Profanity It Wants

Here’s something you may not have realized about Bryan Fuller’s upcoming Star Trek TV series being on CBS’ All Access thingie instead of CBS proper: it’s not beholden to Network Standards and Practices, meaning it can be more graphic than any Trek series before. But that doesn’t mean it will. Speaking with Collider, Fuller said…

Television Rob Bricken

Time To Think About How Short Human History Is

Here is your daily reminder that humans are just one animal among many that have existed on Earth, and that our species’ history is minute compared to the history of the rest of our planet. In a video posted to the Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell YouTube channel called “What Happened Before History? Human Origins,”…

Tech News Carli Velocci

Termites Have Been Farming Longer Than Us

Hey termites, we’re not so different, you and I. Termites are usually one of the banes of human existence as they feed on dead matter—such as the wood that we use to build our homes—but they supersede humans in one interesting way: they’ve been farming for millions of years longer than humans. According to a…

Tech News Carli Velocci

John Boyega Teases Talks With Attack the Block Director, World Explodes With Excitement

The majority of the world now knows John Boyega as Finn, the Stormtrooper-turned-hero of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. For some of us though, he’ll always be Moses, the badass star of 2011’s cult film Attack the Block, and the star just potentially teased a return to that world. Boyega dropped this tweet Saturday morning,…

io9 Germain Lussier

The Detail in This Apollo 11 Poster Is Almost as Amazing as the Trip Itself

Apollo 11 is the most famous space flight of all time, due to it being the trip that first brought human beings to the moon. Now, you can get a bit closer to what Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins experienced back in July 1969. Artist Rob Loukotka has made a poster consisting of…

io9 Germain Lussier

DC Did Something Pretty Radical to Distance Itself From Marvel, and You’ve Already Seen It

Recently, io9 was on the set of Zack Snyder’s movie Justice League. The trip was coordinated to try and change perception after the polarizing response to Batman v Superman, but it also provided answers to some burning questions. Among them, why the heck did DC release a deleted scene online immediately after that film’s opening…

io9 Germain Lussier

Could the Akira Movie Be Moving Closer to Reality?

Director Jaume Collet-Serra released The Shallows this week but, before that, he was long attached to adapt Akira into a live action film. Akira, of course, is famous for its 1988 animated adaptation but the new version didn’t happen. (Insert “Tetsuo” scream here). “It is very difficult,” he told us of the task. “It’s bigger…

io9 Germain Lussier

Louis CK’s New Show Brings Game of Thrones to the Coffee Shop

Louis CK’s upcoming series, Better Things, may be another depressing round of barely exaggerated situational comedy, but at least this new show is heavier on the Game of Thrones references! In the exclusive clip from Vulture, Pamela Adlon’s character, Sam, waits in line for coffee, intoning “Shaaame” after the chime of each customer entering and…

Television Gordon Jackson

This Fan-Made Rogue One Poster Is Gorgeous, As Are These New Photos

It was a good week to be a Star Wars fan. We learned and saw a ton of new stuff from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and, well, that continues this weekend. A few more photos popped online, along with a simply beautiful fan-made poster. The poster, glimpsed above but full below, is by…

io9 Germain Lussier

The Beginner’s Guide to the Raspberry Pi

You’ve probably seen mention of the Raspberry Pi in your travels across the internet, but what exactly is this compact piece of circuitry? What can you do with it and why would you want to? If you’re new to the life of Pi then we’re here to explain everything you need to know and then…

Gadgets David Nield

Use These Secret Codes to Unlock Hidden Features on Your iPhone

Since the earliest days of cellular technology, secret codes have been embedded into the software of our mobile devices, and they’re still in place today. Included in these hidden codes for the iPhone is a special diagnostics mode you can use to troubleshoot problems, get a more accurate signal reception measurement, and more. This diagnostics…

Gadgets David Nield

In Defense of Squeeks, Michael Bay’s Goofy-Ass New Transformer

This past Thursday, director Michael Bay introduced a new robot that will be joining his upcoming Transformers movie, The Last Knight. Some fans were quite upset at the addition of this tiny, goofy-looking Autobot to the Transformer movie pantheon, and I have a question for those fans: Really? (I also have a follow-up question: Really?!)…

io9 Rob Bricken

What Was Going On With Earth’s Magnetic Field A Billion Years Ago?

We know about our North and South poles, but what about an East, West, or slightly-to-the-left pole? According to new research published in Geophysical Research Letters, around 1 billion years ago, that might have been a possibility. Peter Driscoll, a staff scientist at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, said…

Tech News Carli Velocci

Deadpool Hijacks Japanese X-Men: Apocalypse Trailer Just to Deliver a Sick Burn on Fox

Not content to wait idly by until Deadpool 2 starts shooting next year, the merc with a mouth infiltrated this Japanese trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse. It was partly in preparation for the Japanese release of his own film (where it opened earlier this month; this is a few weeks old) but mainly to continue biting…

io9 Gordon Jackson

Terrifying Helmet Doubles as Flamethrower

Bumblebees Collide With Objects More Often Than You Think

20 Heroes, Villains, Aliens, and Monsters Who Ran for President

We Want This Guide to ’80s Action Figure Carrying Cases So Bad

There Are Official Evangelion Dumbbells and Nothing Makes Sense Anymore

The Most Terrifying Glass Slide Ever Opens Atop LA Skyscraper

The New Star Trek Series Can Feature All the Sex, Blood, and Profanity It Wants

Time To Think About How Short Human History Is

Termites Have Been Farming Longer Than Us

John Boyega Teases Talks With Attack the Block Director, World Explodes With Excitement

The Detail in This Apollo 11 Poster Is Almost as Amazing as the Trip Itself

DC Did Something Pretty Radical to Distance Itself From Marvel, and You’ve Already Seen It

Could the Akira Movie Be Moving Closer to Reality?

Louis CK’s New Show Brings Game of Thrones to the Coffee Shop

This Fan-Made Rogue One Poster Is Gorgeous, As Are These New Photos

The Beginner’s Guide to the Raspberry Pi

Use These Secret Codes to Unlock Hidden Features on Your iPhone

In Defense of Squeeks, Michael Bay’s Goofy-Ass New Transformer

What Was Going On With Earth’s Magnetic Field A Billion Years Ago?

Deadpool Hijacks Japanese X-Men: Apocalypse Trailer Just to Deliver a Sick Burn on Fox

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