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Razor’s New Crazy Cart Shift Feels More Like Drifting an Actual Car

Although designed for kids, we had an absolute blast with Razor’s original Crazy Cart. The XL version was an awesome upgrade for adults who wanted to play too, and now Razor is introducing an improved version of the original that makes it even easier for kids to drift around corners. The Crazy Cart Shift, designed…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Portable Bathtub Packs Flatter Than a Stolen Hotel Bathrobe

You can read every last online review, but you really have no idea what a hotel room is going to be like until you arrive. And if you’re the type who likes to travel with their own sheets and towels, you’re probably also the type who would be interested in a portable pack-flat bath tub…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Why Terror of the Zygons Is the Ultimate Doctor Who Story, for Better or Worse

There’s an age-old adage in Doctor Who fandom, most often credited to 1980s screenwriter Ben Aaronovitch: “Talent borrows, genius steals, and Doctor Who gets it off the back of a truck, no questions asked.” It’s meant to symbolize the show’s brazen yet endearing, lifting of story ideas from all over genre fiction over the years.…

Television James Whitbrook

Here’s Some Eye-Popping X-Wing Propaganda To Start Your Week

We never see it, but you have to think there’s propaganda art in the world of Star Wars. Be it the Rebellion, Empire, First Order or Resistance, it’s a simple, striking way to get your message across the galaxy. And if it is, artist Mike Kungl would be their go to guy. Kungl just released…

Movies Germain Lussier

We Just Reached Peak Urban Outfitters With a Cassette-Playing Turntable

Are you happy now, hipsters? Instead of walking away from your fashionable fad at its peak hipness, you’ve let it linger long enough to become a consumer commodity. Not only is Urban Outfitters thriving, it’s now spawning unholy consumer electronics like this cassette-playing turntable. It’s easy to point the finger at ION Audio for a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

We Were Wrong About What Happened After Europeans Reached America

The tale of Europeans explorers’ arrival in the Americas is a dark one, colored by slavery, slaughter, and smallpox. But a new study calls key details of that story into question, including how quickly Native American societies succumbed to disease, and how Earth’s climate responded. While many scholars believe that the diseases brought by early…

Climate Change Maddie Stone

Stem Cell Breakthrough Could Put an End to Daily Insulin Injections for Diabetics

People with type 1 diabetes have to inject insulin daily, and it often results in pain, redness, swelling, and itching at the injection site. But this could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a new breakthrough that takes us one step closer to a functional cure for type 1 diabetes. Researchers at…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Madrid Bans Cars, Plans Plants

Cities have been kicking out cars to curb pollution and boost the well-being of their residents. But Madrid has proposed something even smarter. It’s not only banning cars from its downtown, it’s adding more green space. This is an important part of the equation that many cities don’t get right. In 2014, Madrid announced a…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

Madballs Are Almost Back, But Now You Have to Call Them MondoBalls

Gross and disgusting was one of the hallmark toy trends of the ‘80s, and because almost everything from that decade is cool once more, Madballs are ready to make an appearance again. Except now they’re being produced by Mondo, who wants everyone to call them MondoBalls. Seriously? There’s nothing wrong with a company sticking its…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

If You Loved The X-Files, You’ll Probably Still Like The New X-Files

This Sunday, The X-Files returns for a six-episode miniseries. It’s been eight years since the last movie, and fourteen since the last TV episode. We’ve already watched the first three episodes of the new series, and are here to tell you, with no spoilers, that it’s worth your time. But it may not be worth…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

This Amazon Customer Service Story Will Freak You Out

Over the weekend a story appeared on Medium that will make any Amazon user wince. According to customer Eric Springer, all a hacker needs to unlock your whole damn life is your name, email address, and a mailing address—and the mailing address doesn’t even have to be correct. Here’s the story: Four months ago Springer…

Commerce Alex Cranz

There Are Some Major Revelations in the Latest Batch of Batman v Superman Footage

A large amount of new Batman v Superman footage and promo material was released today, and strangely all it includes some major new information on the heroes who will be v-ing each other in the film. Here are four things we gleaned from the new trailer, TV spot, and images. 1) Batman wants to kill…

Trailers Rob Bricken

Uber Screwup Exposed Driver’s Social Security Number and Tax Info

Tax season already sucks for independent contractors, but some Uber drivers who logged on to the company’s Partners portal to receive their 1099s are complaining about an especially nasty surprise: Instead of their own information, drivers say they received the tax forms of other drivers. According to Uber drivers posting to Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

Here Are All the Space Stations in History

Sending something up into space? Having it stay up there while people live there as it orbits the Earth? Becoming an outpost far, far away from home? Just incredible. Building a habitable space station satellite will always be an amazing feat of engineering and planning and sheer human ingenuity. Here are all the space stations…

Sploid Casey Chan

This Weekend’s Colossal Snowstorm Shattered Even More Records than Expected

Blizzards. Floods. Ice storms. Thundersnow. Hurricane-level winds. Plagues of locusts. Okay, maybe not that last one. But all the rest of these hit hard this weekend, breaking records just as predicted—and in some cases even more than predicted. Going into this weekend’s storm, we knew we were likely to see some unprecedented weather, as predictions…

Tech News Ria Misra

65,000-Piece Lego Concorde Reveals all the Plane’s Inner Workings

In addition to wowing us with a heartbreaking 120,000-piece model of the Titanic breaking in two, Ryan McNaught also spent the month of December building an incredibly-detailed model of an Air France Concorde that reveals all of the supersonic plane’s inner workings and details. On the right side, McNaught’s 13-foot long Concorde is a near…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Soundnode Turns Soundcloud Into a Spotify-Like Desktop App

Remember the time Soundcloud made an awesome free desktop app and then killed it for no good reason? Well, a brave developer is bringing it back in a simplified form. It’s called Soundnode, and you’re going to love it. Soundnode is basically a desktop version of Soundcloud. You can listen to songs from your stream,…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

13 Superhero TV Shows That It’s Hard To Believe Somebody Greenlit

We’re living in the Golden Age of superheroes on television. But capes and superpowers have lived on the small screen for decades—and there have been some truly bizarre ideas for how to translate them from comics. Here are 13 superhero shows it’s hard to believe someone thought were a good idea. 1) Captain Caveman Always…

Television Gordon Jackson

Everyone in This Animated Short Is Stuck in a Time Loop

We’ve seen things with these intricately intertwined time-loops of action before, but the remain fascinating to see executed. Every character is locked in their predestined routine, their actions affecting one another, but also totally separable. Plus, there’s a clown looking for its wig. “A Brief History of Time” by CraveFX was made as a response…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Use OttoPlay to Watch Netflix Like It’s Old-School Cable

Are you a fervent acolyte of the on-demand video streaming revolution and yet still yearn for some of the old-school television charm? OttoPlay is an add-on for Netflix (and YouTube and Hulu) that brings back the old channel surfing feel, letting you skip across “channels.” It may be more rewarding than normal recommendations, at least.…

Gadgets David Nield

Razor’s New Crazy Cart Shift Feels More Like Drifting an Actual Car

Portable Bathtub Packs Flatter Than a Stolen Hotel Bathrobe

Why Terror of the Zygons Is the Ultimate Doctor Who Story, for Better or Worse

Here’s Some Eye-Popping X-Wing Propaganda To Start Your Week

We Just Reached Peak Urban Outfitters With a Cassette-Playing Turntable

We Were Wrong About What Happened After Europeans Reached America

Stem Cell Breakthrough Could Put an End to Daily Insulin Injections for Diabetics

Madrid Bans Cars, Plans Plants

Madballs Are Almost Back, But Now You Have to Call Them MondoBalls

If You Loved The X-Files, You’ll Probably Still Like The New X-Files

This Amazon Customer Service Story Will Freak You Out

There Are Some Major Revelations in the Latest Batch of Batman v Superman Footage

Uber Screwup Exposed Driver’s Social Security Number and Tax Info

Here Are All the Space Stations in History

This Weekend’s Colossal Snowstorm Shattered Even More Records than Expected

65,000-Piece Lego Concorde Reveals all the Plane’s Inner Workings

Soundnode Turns Soundcloud Into a Spotify-Like Desktop App

13 Superhero TV Shows That It’s Hard To Believe Somebody Greenlit

Everyone in This Animated Short Is Stuck in a Time Loop

Use OttoPlay to Watch Netflix Like It’s Old-School Cable

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