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Oculus Will Soon Be Able to Pull Real World Details into VR

The Oculus Rift VR headset lets you see into another world—but not your own. It’s not like Microsoft’s HoloLens, where you interact with 3D objects in your world. At least, not yet. Oculus just bought Surreal Vision, a startup dedicated to pulling the real world into VR. Surreal Vision specializes in something called “real-time 3D…

Tech News Sean Hollister

This Gory Comedy Explains Why Evil Henchmen Hate Getting Promoted

After the latest takedown by a costumed crimefighter, a crime boss kills his right-hand man and promotes a lowly henchman to Bad Guy #2. But in this splatter-filled comedy, a promotion isn’t necessarily a good thing. In fact, it can be downright dangerous. NSFW for language and gore. Chris McInroy wrote, directed, and edited Bad…

io9 Lauren Davis

Tomorrowland Is Like Watching A Jetpack Eat Itself

I saw two movies this past weekend. One was about a terrifying futuristic dystopia filled with endless betrayal and a complete lack of hope. The other one was Mad Max: Fury Road. There’s plenty to dissect in Disney’s new film Tomorrowland — from the misguided romanticization of the 1960s as a techno-utopian’s paradise, to the…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Latest Big Cable Consolidation Will Screw Consumers and Startups

America woke up to some frustrating news today. Charter, the fourth-largest cable company in America, wants to buy Time Warner Cable, the second-largest, as well as Bright House, the tenth-largest. If the deal goes through it’s going to affect come 23 million internet customers directly. Not in a good way. Major cable mergers like this…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Watching sixty seconds of slapping scenes from movies is pretty funny

This is beyond silly but to stitch together this wonderful minute clip of slapping from movies is a work of art. All kinds of slapping is going on here with all sorts of sound effects from all sorts of movies. It goes from being slightly amusing to giggle funny to ridiculously riotous. SPLOID is delicious…

Sploid Casey Chan

Do You Realize Mad Max: Fury Road Is A Miracle?

I’m serious. Mad Max: Fury Road should not exist. It should never have gotten made. It certainly shouldn’t be as awesome as it is. And yet somehow, against all odds, this impossible cinematic masterpiece is in theaters right now, in defiance of reality itself. Obviously, the fact that Hollywood decided to make a new Mad…

io9 Rob Bricken

Inside the Automated UPS Complex That Sorts 7,000 Packages a Minute

Just before midnight, UPS’s Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky begins to come alive. Boeing 757s start roaring overhead. Packages whoosh by on miles of conveyer belts. Before the sun is up, 1.6 million packages will be unloaded and loaded again, sent along toward their final destinations. As magically as packages seem to appear on our doorsteps,…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Here Are The 9 Instruments We’ll Use To Reveal The Secrets Of Europa

Europa, the icy moon of Jupiter, is a favourite target for everyone from serious exobiologists to optimistic science fiction authors as a likely setting to find alien life in our solar system. Today, NASA announced the nine instruments that will be on-board the next robotic explorer to investigate the enigmatic world. Artist’s concept of the…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

A Spy Ring Had Its Cover Blown By Giving Out The Wrong Change

In 1953, a news boy got a nickel that felt too light. He suspected that he’d been cheated. Actually, he’d been given a nickel full of microfilm. And it was worth considerably more than the paper he was selling. The crazy thing about this mystery is we still don’t know how the hollow nickel full…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

And Now IKEA Is Making Sofas Out of Paper

This is about as IKEA as it gets. The Swedish flatpack furniture giant is in the late stages of developing a line of furniture that’s made out of paper. That’s right: paper. Not cardboard. This durable stuff is a fascinating composite of repurposed pulp that can be molded into any shape. The craziest thing? It…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Apple Data Center Building In Mesa, Arizona Catches Fire

A Mesa, Arizona building owned by Apple, Inc. Caught fire today. The fire is reportedly out, according to multiple source, but you can still see the smoldering building and firefighters working the scene in images from the likes of NBC 12. The building looks suspiciously like the building that was subject to some Apple news…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Jony Ive’s Promotion Could Mean the Next Design Revolution at Apple

So Jony Ive has a new title. So what? This banal little reshuffling could have a much bigger impact on Apple than you’d think. As Ive steps back from running day-to-day operations, it will make room for new designers—and a new design language—to emerge from the studio he managed for 20 years. And it’s about…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

A Strange Event Links Doctors Together In This Doctor Who Comic Preview

In August, Titan Comics will bring their three ongoing Doctor Who series together for a massive multi-Doctor adventure — and now you can see what brings John Hurt’s War Doctor into the fray alongside his Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth incarnations in this exclusive preview of the first issue! https://gizmodo.com/titans-doctor-who-comics-are-getting-their-own-multi-do-1686771130 Written by Doctor Who and comics…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

The “Necks for Sex” Hypothesis

Sexual selection doesn’t necessarily just shape sexual anatomy – it can have as profound an effect on the rest of an animal’s body as natural selection does. In both cases, the end result is more babies for animals that look or act a particular way. Image: Greg Willis via flickr | CC BY-SA 2.0 That’s…

Biology Diane Kelly

Hot Topic Buys ThinkGeek

Timmy the ThinkGeek Monkey isn’t sad. Not one bit. He’s just trying to fit in with his new friends! They’ve got, shall we say, a darker taste in fashion. They shared his love of Star Wars, Doctor Who, and Minecraft, so why not reciprocate? Oh, and $122 million in cash didn’t hurt either. Today, Hot…

Tech News Sean Hollister

Astronaut Celebrates Towel Day By Showing Many Uses Of Towels On The ISS

Yesterday was Towel Day, a day for celebrating the works of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams. Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti apparently agrees with Adams about the supreme usefulness of a towel, and demonstrates how astronauts use them aboard the International Space Station. In addition to recording a video of herself reading from…

io9 Lauren Davis

How To Kick A Bad Habit

After our call to stop drinking bottled water, we asked for reader advice for how to kick a bad habit. You responded with with hard-earned wisdom and tips for how to cut back or cut out everything from sugar to smoking. Here’s how to break free. From a professional: BrianF wrote: I am a Behavior…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

Snowboarding the clouds is so much cooler than normal snowboarding

If there is no snow to snowboard it only makes sense to hook yourself onto a helicopter and take your snowboarding to the clouds. Watch as stuntman Wildman Adrian Cenni carves on clouds 6,000 feet in the air while the helicopter flings him around at 80mph. It looks so sick. Like a human Silver Surfer…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Air Force Can Use an Electromagnetic Pulse to Kill Enemy Computers

One of the US Air Force’s most high-tech weapons is a tool that can’t hurt people — but it kills electronic devices. The CHAMP (Counter-Electronics High-Powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project) is a computer-frying device that emits a strong blast of targeted microwave energy that can take down enemy data centers and infrastructure without blowing anyone…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Why Are You Still Washing Your Clothes In Warm Water?

More than 60% of Americans still wash their laundry in warm water. It’s a practice that’s as costly as it is environmentally unfriendly. What’s more, it doesn’t make our clothes appreciably cleaner. Here’s why you should make the switch to cold water. Illustration by Tara Jacoby. Given that we all have to do it, it…

io9 George Dvorsky

Oculus Will Soon Be Able to Pull Real World Details into VR

This Gory Comedy Explains Why Evil Henchmen Hate Getting Promoted

Tomorrowland Is Like Watching A Jetpack Eat Itself

The Latest Big Cable Consolidation Will Screw Consumers and Startups

Watching sixty seconds of slapping scenes from movies is pretty funny

Do You Realize Mad Max: Fury Road Is A Miracle?

Inside the Automated UPS Complex That Sorts 7,000 Packages a Minute

Here Are The 9 Instruments We’ll Use To Reveal The Secrets Of Europa

A Spy Ring Had Its Cover Blown By Giving Out The Wrong Change

And Now IKEA Is Making Sofas Out of Paper

Apple Data Center Building In Mesa, Arizona Catches Fire

Jony Ive’s Promotion Could Mean the Next Design Revolution at Apple

A Strange Event Links Doctors Together In This Doctor Who Comic Preview

The “Necks for Sex” Hypothesis

Hot Topic Buys ThinkGeek

Astronaut Celebrates Towel Day By Showing Many Uses Of Towels On The ISS

How To Kick A Bad Habit

Snowboarding the clouds is so much cooler than normal snowboarding

The Air Force Can Use an Electromagnetic Pulse to Kill Enemy Computers

Why Are You Still Washing Your Clothes In Warm Water?

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