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Sports Are Hard Enough Without Competing Against Dinosaurs

And now, competing for Team Cretaceous, it’s Parasaurolophus! Artist Woon Jung has a series of fantastic art incorporating dinosaurs into everyday sports. In addition to being wonderfully bright and fun, the little details really make these. Look at the expressions on the humans. And the dinosaurs. More of Woon Jung’s art can be found here.

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Aug 15 '16

Watching Bugs Crawl Across Blooming Flowers Is Quite Lovely

Watching flowers bloom in a timelapse is always fun because they sprout up in this graceful, almost balletic way. Artist Yoshiyuki Katayama somehow managed to add bugs crawling to that dance of flowers which makes it even more lovely to see because it’s like watching life happen at two different speeds all at the same…

Sploid Casey Chan Aug 15 '16

How’s It Feel to Be the Damsel, Batman?

Batwoman’s saving your life, you grumpy ol’ billionaire. The words you’re looking for are “thank you.” The newly relaunched Detective Comics is undeniably fun. One of the reasons it’s so enjoyable is that it’s had a Batman who isn’t unbeatably good at all the things, coming up against a better organized enemy that managed to…

io9 Evan Narcisse Aug 15 '16

This 125-Foot ‘Leap of Faith’ Stunt Is Completely Bonkers

With the Assassin’s Creed film quickly approaching, the one stunt all fans of the video game series knew couldn’t be avoided was The Leap of Faith. It’s a move where the main character—Altaïr, Ezio, Connor, etc.—jumps off of church steeples into bales of hay with physics-defying splendor you can only find in video games. But…

Sploid Darren Orf Aug 15 '16

Time Appears to Slow Down Inside This Magical Picture Frame

Like the animated portraits and paintings hanging in Hogwarts and the rest of the Harry Potter world, Jeff Lieberman’s Slow Dance picture frame appears to rely on magic to make time run more slowly. But it’s science that gets all the credit here, cleverly manipulating what your eyes see. Lieberman is no amateur when it…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Aug 15 '16

James Cameron Will Unveil New Details on the Avatar Theme Park in November

There’s news coming from the world of Pandora. As most of us are patiently twiddling our thumbs waiting for Disney to open its Star Wars lands, James Cameron’s Avatar is going to beat it into the parks. Pandora: The World of Avatar will open in 2017 at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida and io9 can…

io9 Germain Lussier Aug 15 '16

This Device Was the iPod of the 1970s (Sort Of)

When it was first released, the iPod flew off shelves with the promise of storing 1,000 songs. Thirty years prior, fitting that much music in a single piece of consumer equipment was unheard of—except in the case of the Panasonic RS-296US. While it was far from portable at 40lbs, the RS-296US could “store” roughly two-days…

Tech News Avery Ellis Aug 15 '16

The Women of NASA Take the Spotlight In the First Trailer for Hidden Figures

The stories of NASA’s formative years and the early days of the space program have been chronicled time and time again, but Theodore Melfi’s Hidden Figures is telling one we’ve not seen before about the African American women who helped send rockets to the stars. It’s looking great so far. Based on Margot Lee Shetterly’s…

Trailers James Whitbrook Aug 15 '16

Obsessed Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles To Improve Sound

To an audiophile, there’s no such thing as ‘too expensive’ if it means an upgrade to their setup could improve their listening experience. And in Japan, some acoustic connoisseurs are now installing their own utility poles, with custom transformers, to ensure all of their audio gear is getting the purest power possible. The Wall Street…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Aug 15 '16

You Can Finally Build the US Capitol Out of Lego

Almost every building in Washington DC is iconic and recognizable in its own way. But no structure in the city, or the country, serves as a more iconic symbol of America than the US Capitol building, with its soaring dome and imposing structure…one that’s now slightly less imposing as Lego’s newest Architecture set. The real…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Aug 15 '16

The Deadpool Sequel May Have Found Its Cable

Gotham’s David Mazouz wants a young Clark Kent on the show. Felicity Jones talks Jyn Erso in Rogue One. Agents of SHIELD will make some changes to Robbie Reyes’ origin story. Plus, Constantine’s future in the CW/DC universe, and rumors abound for the Han Solo spinoff’s female lead. To me, my Spoilers! Deadpool 2 According…

Television James Whitbrook Aug 15 '16

Researchers Find Another Flaw in Apple’s iMessage Encryption

Cryptography researchers at John Hopkins University have found another flaw in the encryption used by Apple’s iMessage. The good news? The flaw has already been patched; you just need to update iOS. Apple has been criticized before by the computer security community for not making the details of how it encrypts messages open source. While…

Tech News William Turton Aug 15 '16

This Fire and Tornado Combination Is What Nightmares Are Made Of

As if tornados aren’t destructive and terrifying enough, there’s a ‘firenado’ which scorched five acres this weekend in Oregon. This isn’t exactly a new phenomenon, but it’s still terrifying. Here’s video of a bigger firenado from 2013 in Australia. “The core of a typical fire tornado is usually about 1 to 3 feet wide and…

Tech News William Turton Aug 15 '16

Crashing a Lego Plane in Slow Motion Is Spectacularly Destructive

The Slow Mo Guys have channeled their inner 10-year-olds for their latest high-speed experiment that involves crashing a Lego airliner into a miniature city built of plastic bricks. It’s something we all probably did as kids at one time or another, but the results are far more satisfying when filmed at 2,500 frames per second.…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Aug 15 '16

Why Inbox Is Way Better Than Gmail

Inbox by Gmail has been around for almost two years, and while it continues to exist alongside Gmail, it’s easy to see that Google engineers see Inbox as the email app of the future. New features are being added on a regular basis, and with each one, it’s slowly becoming smarter and easier to use.…

Gadgets David Nield Aug 15 '16

We Finally Know Why The Olympic Diving Pool Turned Green

For nearly a week now a mystery has surrounded the Olympics and it wasn’t what country would reign supreme: why did those pools turn green? https://gizmodo.com/why-did-the-olympic-diving-pool-just-turn-green-1785047698 Officials have run the gamut on possible explanations, including algae bloom and a chemical imbalance caused by too many people using the pool. Now, Olympic officials are handing out…

Tech News Carli Velocci Aug 14 '16

This Paper Calculator Adds Via a Series of Tubes

Human beings have always created tools for calculating numbers, from the ancient abacus to today’s electronic calculators. But here’s an ingenious calculator drawn on paper—the creation of comic book artist Jason Shiga. And he and the folks at Numberphile have created an explanatory video of how it works. It’s basically a simple binary system using…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette Aug 14 '16

Guardians 2 Director Shares First ‘Still’ of Baby Groot

Spoilers: It’s actually a literal baby Groot, but he’s so cute you won’t even care. Guardians of the Galaxy 2 director James Gunn shared this “1st still” of Baby Groot from this year’s Boston Comic Con. While he might not actually be Groot, it doesn’t matter because he’s a baby and he’s precious and he’s…

io9 Beth Elderkin Aug 14 '16

Kevin Smith Brings the Feels About Supergirl Directorial Debut

It turns out “Martha” isn’t the only name that has a strong impact in the DC Universe. There’s also “Supergirl Lives.” That’s the name of the Supergirl episode that Kevin Smith has signed on to direct for the second season. Smith’s directorial debut on the CW show was confirmed late last week at the TCA…

io9 Beth Elderkin Aug 14 '16

We Are All Intuitive Physicists, Scientists Say

Most of us are pretty good at acting on the fly: swerving to avoid an obstacle in the road, ducking to keep from being hit, or reflexively catching a fly ball. We can do this because the brain is constantly running simulations of the physics involved as we scan our environment, according to a new…

Physics & Chemistry Jennifer Ouellette Aug 14 '16

Sports Are Hard Enough Without Competing Against Dinosaurs

Watching Bugs Crawl Across Blooming Flowers Is Quite Lovely

How’s It Feel to Be the Damsel, Batman?

This 125-Foot ‘Leap of Faith’ Stunt Is Completely Bonkers

Time Appears to Slow Down Inside This Magical Picture Frame

James Cameron Will Unveil New Details on the Avatar Theme Park in November

This Device Was the iPod of the 1970s (Sort Of)

The Women of NASA Take the Spotlight In the First Trailer for Hidden Figures

Obsessed Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles To Improve Sound

You Can Finally Build the US Capitol Out of Lego

The Deadpool Sequel May Have Found Its Cable

Researchers Find Another Flaw in Apple’s iMessage Encryption

This Fire and Tornado Combination Is What Nightmares Are Made Of

Crashing a Lego Plane in Slow Motion Is Spectacularly Destructive

Why Inbox Is Way Better Than Gmail

We Finally Know Why The Olympic Diving Pool Turned Green

This Paper Calculator Adds Via a Series of Tubes

Guardians 2 Director Shares First ‘Still’ of Baby Groot

Kevin Smith Brings the Feels About Supergirl Directorial Debut

We Are All Intuitive Physicists, Scientists Say

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