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This Flying Origami Crane Proves Drones Could Be Beautiful, Too

Drones may be known for a lot of things: large-scale forestation, sticky legal battles, crashing into things. Being good-looking isn’t one of ’em. But this new R/C that’s modeled after a paper crane shows that other flying gadgets like drones can actually be pretty, too. Called the Lazurite Fly, it’s an open-source device that made…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

The New iZombie Status Quo Is the Same as the Old

iZombie’s first season ended with a fairly intense finale. People got changed, healed, exploded . . . so now that “Grumpy Old Liv” has started season 2, what’s changed? Not much, surprisingly. Liv Just like last season, Liv is still solving murders by eating the brains and assuming the personality of murder victims. This week…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Infographic: The evolution of the Batmobile

What’s your favorite Batmobile? They all have their own charm, don’t they? The Tumbler was brute force bicep flexing whilst kissing bad ass. The 60’s Batmobile was fanciful and fun and totally goofy but cool in all the right ways. But my favorite is probably the Batmobile from the Tim Burton movies. It’s slick and…

Sploid Casey Chan

Watching A Dalek Explode In Slow-Motion Is Strangely Cathartic

Look, it’s Wednesday. The week’s half way done. Sometimes you just gotta watch a Dalek get absolutely blown to bits to see you through to the weekend, right? This spectacular sight to behold comes from a new advert for next month’s Doctor Who Festival in London, an official BBC convention for the show that promises…

io9 James Whitbrook

What Those Frost Patterns on Your Car Window Have To Do With Ice in Space

As we head into winter, many people will see these frosty figures show up on their windows, or on the hoods of their cars. And though you’re seeing them here on earth, such patterns are excellent examples of how ice forms in outer space. We’ve been hearing a lot about water in space lately. Metaphorical…

Space & Spaceflight Esther Inglis-Arkell

Limitless: This Show Should Be Popping More Super Pills to Crank Up the Goofiness

This week on Limitless, we learn that a super drug—that grants you Watson-like mental powers but also destroys your body—is actually an effective dating tool, as well. But surprise! It also makes things a lot more complicated, which Brian learns the hard way as he continues his tenure as FBI consultant-slash-human guinea pig while souped…

io9 Bryan Lufkin

Learn About Coding with These Ultra Nerdy Playing Cards

Everybody loves playing cards because they’re fun. But as the geeky designers behind code:deck prove, playing cards can be educational, too! Each of the numbers in a code:deck shows an example of a programming language. The Jack, for instance, is JavaScript and features a snippet of code that defines the cards. Here’s a breakdown of…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Adidas Wants to 3D-Print Running Shoes That Perfectly Fit Your Feet

What if you could walk in a store, jog on a treadmill, and walk out with a pair of shoes that are custom manufactured for your feet and gait? That’s exactly what Adidas wants to do with its Futurecraft 3D project. And unlike most of the trash produced by 3D printing, the shoes look pretty…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

The 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You Must Read Before You Die, According to Amazon

Assembling the list of the most essential science fiction and fantasy books is a huge undertaking, but Amazon has tackled it. And their list is not bad. Good mix of old and new, and enough different types of book to please almost anybody. Talking to CNN, Amazon Editor Adrian Liang explained this list: We wanted…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The New Sherlock Trailer Is A Full-On Victorian Extravaganza

We’ve known for a while that Sherlock’s upcoming special would be set in Victorian London, but man, even we weren’t expecting this much 19th Century love-in goodness. Carriages! Deerstalkers! John Watson’s amazingly fantastic moustache! This is certainly a trailer that has all of those things. It’s old-Holmes meets new-Holmes sensibilities, as we get the best…

Tech News James Whitbrook

F-18s against a wall of fire totally look like they’re escaping explosions

Oh, nothing to see here. Just two F-18 fighter jets sitting there, looking cool… while a giant wall of fire blazes on behind them. The photo was taken at the 2015 Air Show at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, California. It also looks like it could have been taken from explosions. Or…

Sploid Casey Chan

Rick Moranis Turned Down A Cameo in the New Ghostbusters

Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot has finished shooting and while it’s set in a world where the previous two movies don’t exist, it’s going to pay tribute. Almost every living star of those films has been revealed to have a cameo save for one, Rick Moranis. Moranis, who hasn’t appeared on screen in a film in…

Movies Germain Lussier

Dammit, Agents of SHIELD! Don’t Toy With My Emotions Like That!

For a moment there on last night’s Agents of SHIELD, I thought I was going to have to throw my TV set out the window and possibly set fire to some stuff. Spoilers ahead… Luckily, everything turned out okay. But this was very nearly a “burn everything down” situation. The big fakeout in “Purpose in…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Best All-Purpose Hiking Boots For Women

Time to hit the trail? I’m a field geologist, so that’s my job. I wanted to find the best hiking boots for general outdoors activities, so spent months testing these at work. And I think we found a winner. These aren’t boots dedicated to mountaineering, heavyweight backpacking, ice climbing or trail running. Instead, we wanted…

Reviews Becky Steever

Daniel Craig Is So Done With James Bond

I cannot imagine a better media campaign for an upcoming film than having the star repeatedly talk about how tired he is, how little he cares about the next film, and how he’ll only do it again for the money. Daniel Craig is the best possible salesman for Spectre. Speaking to Time Out, Craig made…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

A 125-Million-Year-Old Fossil Indicates Birds Lived (And Flew) Like This

Birds have been around for a good 150 million years, but they likely looked very different from the birds we see today. Some paleontologists have wondered if early birds were even able to fly. A newly discovered fossil clears that up. There isn’t much to the fossil found recently in Spain. It isn’t big and…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell

We Cannot Allow This Design for Acrobatic Airplane Seating to Become Real

It already feels like we’re sitting on top of each other in airplanes. But what if we actually were sitting on top of each other? That’s exactly what a newly awarded Airbus patent suggests. The ludicrous design sounds like a joke, but it’s not. Airbus actually proposed stacking a second layer of seats above the…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Why Valiant Comics Are A Fantastic Alternative To Marvel And DC

Marvel and DC have a near-monopoly on superhero comics. They even have a joint copyright on the word “superhero.” But if you’re tired of the endless reboots, crossovers and revamps, then there’s an alternative. Valiant Comics has been kicking all kinds of ass lately. It’s Small… Befitting their nature as the giants of superhero comics,…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

This 500-Year-Old Additive Makes Your Cheddar Turn Pink

If you’re the type with enough self-restraint to allow cheese to stay in the fridge for a while, you might be alarmed by the fact that it’s turned pink. Not to worry. It’s probably due to a harmless, and ancient, additive. Pink cheese isn’t appetizing. In many cases, this is a good thing. It keeps…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell

Google Swears Android Auto Isn’t Spying On You (That Much)

The era of car computers is upon us, and it’s a little scary from a privacy perspective. Look no further than the recent controversy of how much data Google is collectingabout drivers using Android Auto. We know this much: Google is probably collecting more data than you realize. The Android Auto strife started witha Motor…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

This Flying Origami Crane Proves Drones Could Be Beautiful, Too

The New iZombie Status Quo Is the Same as the Old

Infographic: The evolution of the Batmobile

Watching A Dalek Explode In Slow-Motion Is Strangely Cathartic

What Those Frost Patterns on Your Car Window Have To Do With Ice in Space

Limitless: This Show Should Be Popping More Super Pills to Crank Up the Goofiness

Learn About Coding with These Ultra Nerdy Playing Cards

Adidas Wants to 3D-Print Running Shoes That Perfectly Fit Your Feet

The 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You Must Read Before You Die, According to Amazon

The New Sherlock Trailer Is A Full-On Victorian Extravaganza

F-18s against a wall of fire totally look like they’re escaping explosions

Rick Moranis Turned Down A Cameo in the New Ghostbusters

Dammit, Agents of SHIELD! Don’t Toy With My Emotions Like That!

The Best All-Purpose Hiking Boots For Women

Daniel Craig Is So Done With James Bond

A 125-Million-Year-Old Fossil Indicates Birds Lived (And Flew) Like This

We Cannot Allow This Design for Acrobatic Airplane Seating to Become Real

Why Valiant Comics Are A Fantastic Alternative To Marvel And DC

This 500-Year-Old Additive Makes Your Cheddar Turn Pink

Google Swears Android Auto Isn’t Spying On You (That Much)

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