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This Season’s Hottest Dadjoke: Become a Trillionaire For Just $5 on eBay

Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe has caused that country’s currency to be worth virtually nothing. So the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is ditching their local currency in favor of US dollars. Soon Zimbabwe’s cash will be used only in the American dadjoke economy, where being a trillionaire and meaning it is the height of comedy. There are…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Doctor Fights Monsters At Comic-Con In This Special Doctor Who Comic

The Doctor fights monsters all the time on Doctor Who — but in Titan’s San Diego Comic-Con 2015 special, he’s monster hunting at the biggest nerd event of the year. io9 has the exclusive first details, as well as some gorgeous covers and a few Who toys making their debut at the con! The special…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Is Dead Golden Girl Rue McClanahan Haunting Twitter?

Looking at Twitter yesterday, it looked like Rue McClanahan, erstwhile star of The Golden Girls, had just died. People were losing it over the death of saucy southern belle Blanche Devereaux. But McClanahan didn’t die yesterday. She left this earthly existence five years ago. So why the belated outpouring of inaccurately timed mourning? Are people…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Jaw-Dropping Footage Shows A “Superpod” Of Swarming Dolphins

While fishing off the coast of Cape Town in South Africa, a pair of fisherman were treated to an unbelievable sight — a massive pod of dolphins containing as many as a thousand individuals. As fisherman Robbie Ragless told Eyewitness News, “We just saw the frenzy on the horizon and didn’t know it was coming…

io9 George Dvorsky

This Incredible Wheelchair Can Climb Stairs Like a Tank

Technology has been making wheelchairs more convenient and easier to use, but this crazy amazing model that actually scales staircases is a metaphorical mic drop. This prototype, called the Scalevo, has rubber, tank-like treads mounted to the bottom of the chair. The user approaches a set of steps backwards with his or her back facing…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

Jurassic World Is All Park And No Bite

Despite an island’s worth of good intentions, Jurassic World is an uneven movie in a lot of ways. The human characters basically don’t work, the movie wallows in nostalgia, and the story is murky. But where it counts — beautiful dinosaur action! — this movie delivers enough to make us remember why we love these…

Movies Genevieve Valentine

Photoshop Contest: What Is VR Guy Experiencing?

With an expressionless face and a twitch of his head, VR Guy peered awkwardly into our souls when he bravely decided to break out his Samsung Gear VR on the subway. But the question remains: What exactly does VR Guy see that we cannot? We must turn the question over to you, readers. What makes…

Tech News Alissa Walker

The First Hose-Connected Super Soaker Blasts an Infinite Stream of Water

It’s a universal law that whoever controls the hose, controls the backyard water fight. And while Super Soakers have long provided a worthy opposition to a garden hose, the new Floodfire blaster is the first to combine both to create an unstoppable soaking machine with an infinite supply of water. Available now for $25, the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Slow motion video of a dry ice bomb exploding in water is pure awesome

Well, I didn’t expect that. When you throw dry ice inside a water bottle and then throw that water bottle in a pool, the explosion of the dry ice bomb is so epic that you can see it pulsate as it rips through the water. The Backyard Scientist shows off what it looks like in…

Sploid Casey Chan

These GIFs Have Come To Party

Cheer up, GIFs! Your party is here — and it brought you a balloon. You know what to do: Select your fashionably late party GIFs, practice some awkward digital mingling, try on an electronic party hat, and eat a slice of that vaguely depressing cheesecake that someone brought just to be polite. Because the GIF…

io9 Ria Misra

You Can Buy the First The Force Awakens Figure at Comic-Con

Can’t wait until September to get your hands on some new Star Wars toys? If you’re headed to the San Diego Comic-Con in July, you won’t have to wait because Hasbro will happily sell you this SDCC-exclusive Stormtrooper figure featuring the new helmet design seen in The Force Awakens teasers. Entertainment Weekly managed to get…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How to Turn Your Phone Into a Dash Cam

There are all kinds of reasons why you might want to set up a dash cam in your car: Everything from settling insurance claims to capturing footage of passing meteorites. And if you’re taking your smartphone along for the ride anyway, then you may as well get it to take over dash cam duties too.…

Gadgets David Nield

These Are the Sad Remains of the Soviet Space Shuttle Program

Russian photographer and urban explorer Ralph Mirebs just published one of the saddest photoseries on space exploration. He managed to get inside an abandoned hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, where two Burans—the prototype space shuttles of the Russian space program—are slowly decaying in their burial crypt. The Soviets’ Buran program lasted nearly two decades (from…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

The first Star Wars: The Force Awakens Lego set has been revealed

San Diego Comic-Con has established itself as one of the premiere opportunities for film studios to reveal merchandise connected to upcoming blockbuster films. So just ahead of SDCC 2015, Entertainment Weekly got a glimpse of some exclusive The Force Awakens toys, including Lego’s new Buildable First Order Stormtrooper. The set is another in Lego’s Buildableline,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Awesome Hellboy Statue Looks Just Like Mike Mignola’s Original Art

When Mike Mignola first imagined Hellboy nearly 25 years ago, the demon was a little bit different to what we now know as the iconic character. But now Mondo are taking that original artwork and turning it into an awesome figure — one that looks just like the original artwork. Unlike their previous Teenage Mutant…

Tech News James Whitbrook

9 awesome facts about Jurassic Park

Even though I’m not totally sold on Jurassic World from the trailers, I know that I’ll have a jolly ‘ol time because Jurassic Park is one of the funnest movies ever, Chris Pratt is starring in the movie and there’s going to be dinos, man. But just in case Jurassic World disappoints me, I’ll just…

Sploid Casey Chan

You Must Watch This Great Computer-Obsessed YouTube Channel

Do you like computers? The good folks at YouTube’s Computerphile really like them. In case you’re not familiar, let me introduce you to Numberphile’s equally nerdy, equally fantastic sister site that demystifies computer science. Nearly 400,000 subscribers strong, videos dive into 3D X-ray images, the disadvantages of JPEGs, the end of Moore’s Law, how hyperlinks…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

Spinning Magnetic Cores Make These Brawlasaurs Dinos Battle It Out

Dinosaurs aren’t supposed to be cuddly. The Greek origins of their name actually means ‘terrible lizard’, so kudos to Hasbro for making its new Jurassic World Brawlasaurs toys live up to that legacy. Thanks to a wind-up magnetic core, when two of them meet face-to-face they don’t talk out their differences, they just battle. To…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The FCC Wants all Phones to Feature Theft Prevention Features

The Federal Communications Commission’s head Tom Wheeler has issued a challenge to the smartphone industry: he wants them to roll out a range of theft prevention features across the board at “no cost to the consumer.” In a statement issued yesterday, Wheeler explained that he wants the industry to make services such as remote-locking, remote-data-wiping…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Could This Be The ESA’s Missing Comet Lander?

After months of searching, the European Space Agency says it may have finally caught a glimpse of the missing Philae Lander on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. During its historic descent back in November 2014, the lander’s harpoons failed to properly deploy and its ice screws were not enough to secure it at its intended…

io9 George Dvorsky

This Season’s Hottest Dadjoke: Become a Trillionaire For Just $5 on eBay

The Doctor Fights Monsters At Comic-Con In This Special Doctor Who Comic

Is Dead Golden Girl Rue McClanahan Haunting Twitter?

Jaw-Dropping Footage Shows A “Superpod” Of Swarming Dolphins

This Incredible Wheelchair Can Climb Stairs Like a Tank

Jurassic World Is All Park And No Bite

Photoshop Contest: What Is VR Guy Experiencing?

The First Hose-Connected Super Soaker Blasts an Infinite Stream of Water

Slow motion video of a dry ice bomb exploding in water is pure awesome

These GIFs Have Come To Party

You Can Buy the First The Force Awakens Figure at Comic-Con

How to Turn Your Phone Into a Dash Cam

These Are the Sad Remains of the Soviet Space Shuttle Program

The first Star Wars: The Force Awakens Lego set has been revealed

This Awesome Hellboy Statue Looks Just Like Mike Mignola’s Original Art

9 awesome facts about Jurassic Park

You Must Watch This Great Computer-Obsessed YouTube Channel

Spinning Magnetic Cores Make These Brawlasaurs Dinos Battle It Out

The FCC Wants all Phones to Feature Theft Prevention Features

Could This Be The ESA’s Missing Comet Lander?

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