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What Are You Working On?

There is a time and place for you to talk about that 3D printed nebula desk ornament you made, your collection of reconstructed medieval dinner recipes, and that neatly framed collection of bacterial photographs you’ve been taking. That time is now and that place is here. That’s right, friends! It’s io9 show-and-tell time! What side…

You’ll Spend Hours Transforming This Expanding Cabinet Just For Fun

Shelves are like mini museums in your home, putting all your possessions on display. But if you prefer a little flair with added privacy, the Cubrick Cabinet keeps everything hidden until a rotating mechanism reveals all of your personal artifacts. Available in configurations with 12, 16, or 20 cubes, the Cubrick doesn’t take up any…

These Webspinning Insects May Look Like Spiders’ Prey—But They’re Not

If you’ve wandered through a wood and idly peeled back the bark of a tree, you may have found a little expanse of silk, like a nest, with insects stuck inside. If you thought that those insects were the prey of a spider, you might have been right, or you might have been looking at…

This Brilliant Touch System Lets the Visually Impaired See Colors

Color is a vital part of communication, and for the 285 million visually impaired people in the world, that presents a challenge. But a Portuguese designer has invented a Braille-like language that could help those very people “see” colors by touching raised shapes affixed to objects. It’s called the Feelipa Color Code, developed by product…

We May Finally Get The Green Lantern Hero We’ve Been Waiting For!

Arnold Schwarzenegger talks up the next Conan movie. The Mother of Dragons is divided on a certain Game of Thrones character’s fate. Gotham casts another comic book villain. Plus, more The Force Awakens casting, more Fantastic Four footage, and teasers for what’s to come on Hannibal and The Flash. Spoilers now! Green Lantern Fast and…

How To Use All The Weird Toilets You’ll Find Outdoors

There you are, visiting a remote cabin, when it’s time to poop. You walk into the bathroom and there’s a toilet seat, like normal, but underneath it is nothing but a hanging plastic bag. What do you do in it and how do you dispose of it after? Don’t worry, IndefinitelyWild is here to help…

Space Shuttle Wreckage Fills This Heartbreaking NASA Exhibit

One day before the unfortunate SpaceX launch failure—which proved once again that space is hard—a new, deeply saddening but inspiring exhibition was opened at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. NASA is exhibiting two remarkable pieces from its two doomed space shuttles, that have never before displayed for the public, along with other…

It’s Only Episode 2, But True Detective Just Dropped a Huge Dose of WTF

True Detective’s first episode ended with an eyeless corpse. In “Night Finds You,” it pulls a last-scene move that’s a zillion times more shocking, and could mean that season two is about to take a dramatic turn way early in the season. Spoilers follow! As the episode begins, Frank and Jordan are in bed in…

These Are the First Images From ESA’s Sentinel-2A Satellite

Late last week, the European Space Agency lofted its Sentinel-2A satellite into orbit. Now, just four days later, it’s started beaming its first images back to Earth. Part of the ESA’s Copernicus environmental monitoring program, the satellite provides images using a variety of multi-spectral instruments in amazing detail. Its sensors have a resolution that provide…

How Long Does It Really Take to Think a Thought?

As inquisitive beings, we are constantly questioning and quantifying the speed of various things. With a fair degree of accuracy, scientists have quantified the speed of light, the speed of sound, the speed at which the earth revolves around the sun, the speed at which hummingbirds beat their wings, the average speed of continental drift….…

BBC Is Listing Pages Removed By Google Under EU Right-To-Be-Forgotten

A year has passed since the EU ruled that people have the “right to be forgotten” online, and Google has been busy removing links when people ask it to. But the BBC has been keeping track of its articles that Google has de-listed—and now it’s published the list online. “The BBC has decided to make…

This Is the Robotic Rig That Google Uses to Test Android Latency

Latency on your phone is annoying. But Google feels your pain—which is why it has this dedicated robotic rig, used to test out hardware and software in order to keep Android and Chrome OS devices zippy. Known as the Chrome TouchBot, it was built by the Finish company OptoFidelity especially for Google. Using high-speed video…

Watch the Adorable Short That Played Before The Hunger Games

Trailer is a fun short about a voiceover artist having a bit of trouble selling the action film he’s supposed to be pumping up. If you saw The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 in a Pathe cinema in the Netherlands, then you’ve seen Trailer before. But for the rest of us, it’s a new experience.…

Solar Impulse Sets Off on Grueling 5-Day Flight From Japan to Hawaii

The Solar Impulse solar-powered airplane has set off from Nagoya in Japan on its 120-hour flight to Hawaii—one the most perilous legs of its round-the-world flight. At the start of the month the airplane attempted the trans-pacific flight—one of the most difficult on the first-ever solar powered round-the-world flight—but it had to abandon the attempt…

Facebook’s Testing New Snapchat-Style Features in Its Photo Editor

Facebook is testing new Snapchat-style features that allow you to add filters, text and goofy stickers to your photos to, ahem, delight you friends. TechCrunch reports that the new features are already being tested by some users, as they’ve been rolled out to a select few installs of the Facebook iOS app. There, they provide…

A Milky Cloud of a Nebula Floats Through Space

Nebula NGC 6153 is 4,000 lightyears away, located in the constellation of Scorpius. The elliptical cloud is the remains of the star that was once there, all its remains ejected once it ran out of fuel. In addition to being pretty, the European Space Agency explains why it’s interesting to scientists: Measurements show that NGC…

Apple has told Buzzfeed that Apple Music will work with Sonos devices by the end of 2015.

Somehow, There’s Going to Be a Sequel to Lucy.

From a pure profit perspective, a sequel to Lucy makes some sense. But from a story perspective? Nope. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp announced at CineEurope that there would be a sequel to last year’s Lucy. Given that movie made over $450 million at the box office on a $40 million budget,…

My Name Is Only Real Enough to Work at Facebook, Not to Use on the Site

I always knew this day would come. The day that Facebook decided my name was not real enough and summarily cut me off from my friends, family and peers and left me with the stark choice between using my legal name or using a name people would know me by. With spectacular timing, it happened…

Buy This Actual Velociraptor Claw for Surprisingly Little Money

I’m sitting here trying and failing to think of a cooler desk ornament than a bona-fide velociraptor claw. I mean sure, you could have a Newton’s cradle, but that doesn’t subtly hint in quite the same way that you might just have a trained dinosaur waiting to wreak havoc under your desk. The claw is…