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An iPhone Is the Latest Thing to Catch Fire on a Plane

Lithium-ion batteries and aircraft have some bad blood: Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners were grounded three years ago because of battery fires, the FAA banned all lithium batteries in hold luggage, and now an innocent iPhone has caused a fire on an Alaska Air flight. According to a KOMO news report, a girl on a spring break…

Tech News Chris Mills

How The Artificial Heart Went From Miracle To Medical Pariah And Back Again

On December 2nd, 1982, Barney Clark became the first human to receive an Jarvik-7 artificial heart. Suffering from congestive heart failure, he became a media sensation before he passed away. The Retro Report and New York Times take a look at the rise and fall of what had been hailed as a medical miracle. The…

Health Andrew Liptak

This Is Why You Don’t Ask the Internet to Name Things

Great Britain’s Natural Environment Research Council has a £200 million polar research vessel set for construction, and for some reason, they decided it was a good idea to ask the internet to come up with a name for it. The boat sounds pretty spiffy: it will be one of the world’s most advanced research vessels…

Tech News Andrew Liptak

The Magicians Is At Its Best When It Goes Dark, And It’s Getting Darker

The Syfy channel’s fantasy show The Magicians is coming in on its home stretch this week: as it does so, it’s starting to get dark, and really, really good. Since it got off to a really good start, the show has covered quite a bit of ground, touching base with the books each episode, but…

Television Andrew Liptak

Robots Are Getting Really Good at Running

First, we taught robots how to walk and keep their balance, even when we tried to push them over. Now we’re teaching them to run?! AMBER, which stands for Advanced Mechanical Bipedal Experimental Robotics Lab, is located at the Georgia Institute of Technology. There, they’re working on figuring out how to best construct robots that…

Tech News Andrew Liptak

Yes, Ben Affleck’s Daredevil is Just As Terrible As You Remember

Daredevil returned this weekend for its second season on Netflix, and it has become one of the more interesting parts of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While we’re marveling at how good the show is, I wanted to take a look back at the 2003 film, and see if it was as bad as I remembered.…

io9 Andrew Liptak

When Autonomous Vehicles Roam the Roads, We Won’t Need Stop Lights

Autonomous vehicles are going to radically change how we get around, and as they become commonplace in our streets, we’ll need to rethink how we design our roadways. MIT’s Sensable City Lab looked at this problem a couple of years ago, producing an installation called DriveWave, which is responsible for the above video. Simply put,…

Physics & Chemistry Andrew Liptak

William Shatner Recounts How Leonard Nimoy Approached Spock as a Character

The friendship of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner is legendary, and it is now the subject of a new book from Shatner: Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man. Fittingly, the audiobook edition of the book is narrated by the Captain himself. MacMillian Audio has provided us with an exclusive excerpt from the audiobook,…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Brian Staveley Shows How To End A Fantasy Epic With The Last Mortal Bond

Bringing a fantasy epic to an end is a lot harder than it looks, and as I cracked open the final installment of Brian Staveley’s Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne, The Last Mortal Bond, I wasn’t sure if he would be able to wrap everything up. My worries were unfounded. I’m not typically a fantasy…

Books & Comics Andrew Liptak

The World’s Tiniest Rube Goldberg Machine Made of Watch Parts Is a Masterpiece

The infinite number of ways you can build a complicated Rube Goldberg machine makes it infinitely fascinating to watch them run. Even when they’re built from tiny watch parts like this Seiko creation, and are so small they can easily squeeze onto a table, instead of filling a massive warehouse. It’s a little disappointing that…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

If You Want To Keep Using Your Kindle, You Should Update It Immediately

If you own one of Amazon’s pre-2012 Kindles, listen up: there’s a critical update that you need to install if you want to keep using it, and you must do so before March 22nd. According to an update on the company’s help community, a new update is required for anyone using a pre-2012 device that…

Commerce Andrew Liptak

All of the DC Films Shine In This Cinematic Retrospective

Film editor Miguel Branco has gone and taken most of the films adapted from DC Comic properties, and it makes them all look pretty good together, even if they’re not part of the same cinematic universe. There’s some real clunkers here: Green Lantern, and depending on who you talk to, Man of Steel and Watchman,…

io9 Andrew Liptak

The Vernal Equinox Isn’t What You Think It is

Tomorrow is the vernal equinox! You might think that it’s simply the mid-point between each solstice, but that’s not exactly correct. Joe Hanson, host of It’s Okay to be Smart, explains. The equinoxes aren’t in the middle of the solstices, and it doesn’t mean that day and night are exactly equal. It’s the point in…

io9 Andrew Liptak

Peter Capaldi: A New Companion For Doctor Who Has Been Cast

Speaking to a Brazilian website, Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi noted that the BBC has cast a new companion for the Doctor, and we should know very soon who that is. Jenna Coleman left the show last year, opening up the spot for a replacement. In an interview with Brazilian website Omelete, Capaldi noted that…

Television Andrew Liptak

Harry Potter Recut By The Way Of The Force Awakens Is Perfection

That first big trailer for The Force Awakens was great, and we’ve established that anytime you cut another movie in the same style, the end result is just as great. So what happens when you recut Harry Potter with it? Perfection. https://gizmodo.com/masters-of-the-universe-recut-into-the-force-awakens-tr-1753455123 Jonny Holloway, a UK screenwriter and filmmaker has gone and taken Harry Potter…

io9 Andrew Liptak

After Years of Deforestation, China’s Forests Are Starting to Return

A new report from Michigan State University is praising China’s efforts to roll back decades of deforestation and habitat destruction, noting that there are major implications for global climate change and local biodiversity. During China’s Great Leap Forward of the 1950s, governmental officials pushed the country to quickly industrialize. To literally help fuel the revolution,…

Climate Change Andrew Liptak

New Realtime 3D Modeling Can Turn You Into Any Celebrity on Camera

A university research team recently developed a new method for real-time facial reenactment that works with a regular web camera, overcoming several challenges in computer vision technology. It’s also creepy as hell. In a paper, the researchers lay out some key challenges facing computer modeling: reconstructing a scene from a video is difficult for computers…

Tech News Andrew Liptak

This Acapella Version of the Daredevil Theme is Awesome

When Netflix’s Daredevil first appeared last year, one of the things that stood out was its striking opening credits and theme song. Now, The Warp Zone has gone and put together their own version of the theme, acapella-style. I really love the opening credits for the show: the music and the animation are both stellar,…

io9 Andrew Liptak

These 21 Enormous Man Made Holes Will Give You Vertigo

Nietzsche said: if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you. If we look deep into these man made holes we might face our own monstrosity we fight ever since, or witness humankind’s majesty. The following collection of mining pits, atomic craters, scientific achievements show some of the largest scale direct impact…

Tech News Attila Nagy

After Being Dropped By Paramount, The Little Prince Will Be Distributed By Netflix

Remember when Paramount dropped the animated film The Little Prince last week? It turns out that we will get to see it after all, but not in theaters: Netflix will be distributing the film. The Hollywood Reporter has noted that The Little Prince, which was supposed to arrive in theaters yesterday, will now be distributed…

io9 Andrew Liptak

An iPhone Is the Latest Thing to Catch Fire on a Plane

How The Artificial Heart Went From Miracle To Medical Pariah And Back Again

This Is Why You Don’t Ask the Internet to Name Things

The Magicians Is At Its Best When It Goes Dark, And It’s Getting Darker

Robots Are Getting Really Good at Running

Yes, Ben Affleck’s Daredevil is Just As Terrible As You Remember

When Autonomous Vehicles Roam the Roads, We Won’t Need Stop Lights

William Shatner Recounts How Leonard Nimoy Approached Spock as a Character

Brian Staveley Shows How To End A Fantasy Epic With The Last Mortal Bond

The World’s Tiniest Rube Goldberg Machine Made of Watch Parts Is a Masterpiece

If You Want To Keep Using Your Kindle, You Should Update It Immediately

All of the DC Films Shine In This Cinematic Retrospective

The Vernal Equinox Isn’t What You Think It is

Peter Capaldi: A New Companion For Doctor Who Has Been Cast

Harry Potter Recut By The Way Of The Force Awakens Is Perfection

After Years of Deforestation, China’s Forests Are Starting to Return

New Realtime 3D Modeling Can Turn You Into Any Celebrity on Camera

This Acapella Version of the Daredevil Theme is Awesome

These 21 Enormous Man Made Holes Will Give You Vertigo

After Being Dropped By Paramount, The Little Prince Will Be Distributed By Netflix

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