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Olympus Pen-F Is the Artsiest Retro Camera Reboot Yet

Covetable retro camera reboots have been a thing for years, but oh my, this new Pen-F interchangeable-lens shooter from Olympus has my heart beating hard. Olympus, like Fujifilm, has had a good deal of success rehashing its classic film camera designs as powerful, modern digital cameras. The company’s excellent OM-D line, and especially the top…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

For Some Reason I Want This Impossibly Complicated Cutting Board

Cutting boards don’t need to be complicated: big, preferably wooden thing that you can chop on. Simple. But despite the flawless logic above, I still want this ludicrously expensive bells-and-whistles cutting station. First, let’s get this out of the way: $165 is an absurd amount of money to spend on a thing that you’re just…

Tech News Chris Mills

Lyft Partners With Waze to Pick Better Routes

For ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft with tens of thousands of cars on the road, small optimizations can make rides shorter and shareholders richer. So, Lyft’s announcement today that it’s switching to Google-owned Waze is only a surprise because it’s taken so long. Waze is rapidly becoming the number-one in-car navigation service, thanks to…

Tech News Chris Mills

Hilarious Animation Imagines Old Star Wars Characters Meeting New Star Wars Characters

Did you see the new Star Wars yet? Of course you did. You probably watched it twice (and if you didn’t watch it yet, stop reading). It was great, right? Such a fun time. Did the franchise good. A heck of a show. Until you realize (stop reading now if you still haven’t seen) that…

Sploid Casey Chan

Here’s a Homemade Exoskeleton Jacking Up a Small Car

There’s all sorts of expensive R&D facilities working frantically to make body-enhancing skeletons into actual things, but the research isn’t limited just to big companies. Two years ago, a YouTuber showed off his Elysium-inspired suit curling 170lbs; last weekend, he decided to life a Mini Cooper. James Hobson, the man behind YouTube channel The Hacksmith,…

Tech News Chris Mills

Watch This Snow Blower Tractor Monster Eat and Spit Out Snow

The worst part about a blizzard is the days after when the pristine white gives way to a dirty brownish gray. Where streets that once looked impossibly untouched transform into trampled reminders of our dirty footprint on this here world. I wish you could get that picturesque day of a blizzard and then immediately erase…

Sploid Casey Chan

This 1926 Poster Predicts London’s Transportation Future

An exhibition that opens this week at London’s Building Centre focuses on the future of London’s roads. But perhaps the most compelling image from the show was actually created in 1926, imagining London’s skies crowded with planes, helicopters, and dirigibles. The poster was commissioned by Transport for London and painted by the artist Montague Birrell…

Tech News Alissa Walker

A Bird Pees For 17 Seconds in the Full Trailer For The Angry Birds Movie

If you’re like me, when you heard that Sony was making a movie of Angry Birds, you weren’t surprised, you were confused. Of course making a movie based on an insanely popular game makes sense, but what’s the story outside of flying birds destroying pigs? Turns out, not much, but it involves a lot of…

Trailers Germain Lussier

Until the US Fixes its Backwards Transportation Spending It Should Stop Building New Roads

Hey, remember back when the US allocated $305 billion for roads we almost certainly don’t need? It’s no secret that the US needs a total overhaul of its transportation finance system, and a new movement wants a moratorium on all road-building projects until we get it under control. #NoNewRoads is a campaign by Strong Towns,…

Tech News Alissa Walker

The 24 Most Insane Theories About Who Rey’s Parents Are

There are a few big mysteries in The Force Awakens. We’ve discussed one already (the identity of the First Order’s Supreme Leader Snoke) so now it’s time to discuss an even more pressing question: Who are Rey’s parents? The internet has some ideas—lots of ideas, each crazier than the last. Here are two dozen possibilities…

Movies Rob Bricken

This Shark Shepherdess Looks Like She Stepped Out of an Underwater Fairy Tale

A lovely shepherdess in a flowing white dress tends to her flock in these gorgeous photographs reminiscent of a fairy tale. The twist: the shepherdess is underwater, and her charges are white-tipped reef sharks. The image is part of the latest series from conservation photographer Benjamin Wong, a.k.a. Von Wong, who has a bit of…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

How Grocery Stores Are Cleverly Designed to Make You Spend More Money

We’re all fools who get easily convinced by marketing and store design tricks because we can’t save ourselves from ourselves. Here is a short video from Wendover Productions detailing some clever layout design grocery stores use to get us to spend more money. They include putting the entrance to the right because we like to…

Sploid Casey Chan

You’ll Want to Put These Fractured and Pixelated Character Posters on All Your Walls

These are the work of Jesse Bray, whose portraits of famous pop culture characters have just enough geometry to them to be interesting but aren’t completely abstracted. See more of his work on Instagram and buy a few prints here. Contact the author at [email protected].

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Solar and Wind Could Be the Dominant Source of Power in the US by 2030

The price of wind and solar is steadily dropping, leading researchers to conclude that CO2 emissions from power production in the US could be significantly reduced within 15 years. And to distribute this energy, they’re calling on America to build an “electron superhighway.” Simulations developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and researchers…

Tech News George Dvorsky

We’re Growing Twice as Much Food (with Far Fewer Farms) Than We Used To

How do you grow more food? One answer that makes sense is with bigger farms and more farmers. But if you look at the last half century-or-so worth of data, that’s not at all what’s been happening. The USDA put together this curious little chart of what we’ve been putting into our farms since 1948,…

Tech News Ria Misra

Damien Wayne Gets to Work Out Some Anger Issues in the First Look at Justice League vs Teen Titans

Damien Wayne isn’t much of a team player at the best of times, but when the Justice League gets possessed by evil aliens and he gets the chance to beat up Superman and pals? You bet he’s going to team up with the Teen Titans, in their first foray into DC’s original animation movie series.…

Trailers James Whitbrook

Why Apple Doesn’t Need to Sell iPhones Anymore

Apple reported record-breaking quarterly earnings today, but—for the first time ever—the company also projected a decline in iPhone sales. Not that any of that really matters. The future of Apple is secure, thanks to a little help from a higher power. Pope Francis talks with Apple CEO Tim Cook, during a private audience at the…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Ben Carson Wants to Make a NASA for Cyberattacks

GOP presidential candidate and fart-pill shill Ben Carson guest-blogged on Recode to promote his new prescription for cybersecurity: “Heal + Inspire + Revive.” The plan is a mushy combination of buzzwords and contradictions. Carson’s “prescription” (GET IT??) is to start a whole new government agency for cyber-security, similar to NASA: Just as we established the…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

iPhone Sales Have Finally Stalled

It looks like interest in the iPhone is finally waning. For the first time since its creation in 2007, Apple is reporting a year-over-year dip in demand for its pricey pocket computer. That said, Apple still sold a lot of iPhones! https://gizmodo.com/holy-shit-apple-made-a-lot-of-money-1755279497 In a quarterly earnings call, Tim Cook just revealed that Apple has sold…

Tech News Darren Orf

Spaceport America Wants $2 Million More From Taxpayers For Its Space Tourism Fantasy

If you build it, the space tourists will come. That was the promise to the taxpayers of New Mexico back in 2009 when Spaceport America broke ground. Seven years and roughly $220 million later, New Mexico has little to show for it. And now the private space facility is asking for even more money. New…

Tech News Matt Novak

Olympus Pen-F Is the Artsiest Retro Camera Reboot Yet

For Some Reason I Want This Impossibly Complicated Cutting Board

Lyft Partners With Waze to Pick Better Routes

Hilarious Animation Imagines Old Star Wars Characters Meeting New Star Wars Characters

Here’s a Homemade Exoskeleton Jacking Up a Small Car

Watch This Snow Blower Tractor Monster Eat and Spit Out Snow

This 1926 Poster Predicts London’s Transportation Future

A Bird Pees For 17 Seconds in the Full Trailer For The Angry Birds Movie

Until the US Fixes its Backwards Transportation Spending It Should Stop Building New Roads

The 24 Most Insane Theories About Who Rey’s Parents Are

This Shark Shepherdess Looks Like She Stepped Out of an Underwater Fairy Tale

How Grocery Stores Are Cleverly Designed to Make You Spend More Money

You’ll Want to Put These Fractured and Pixelated Character Posters on All Your Walls

Solar and Wind Could Be the Dominant Source of Power in the US by 2030

We’re Growing Twice as Much Food (with Far Fewer Farms) Than We Used To

Damien Wayne Gets to Work Out Some Anger Issues in the First Look at Justice League vs Teen Titans

Why Apple Doesn’t Need to Sell iPhones Anymore

Ben Carson Wants to Make a NASA for Cyberattacks

iPhone Sales Have Finally Stalled

Spaceport America Wants $2 Million More From Taxpayers For Its Space Tourism Fantasy

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