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These Photos Were Taken By A Dog

Ever wonder what would happen if you gave a dog a camera? You don’t have to anymore: Nikon did it, and the results are endearingly fun. Nikon strapped a Bluetooth heart rate sensor, a custom built camera case and a Coolpix L31 to an adorable border collie named Grizzler. The rig is pretty simple: if…

Tech News Sean Buckley May 26 '15

Robert Rodriguez Is Working On A Jonny Quest Movie

From Dusk till Dawn and Sin City director Robert Rodriguez is no stranger to children’s adventure movies, having created the Spy Kids franchise. Now, though, he’s delving into an existing children’s series, bringing the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Jonny Quest to the big screen. The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Rodriguez is onboard to direct an adaptation…

io9 Lauren Davis May 26 '15

Gorgeous Microscopy Images Are Actually Pictures of Sexual Biology

The Cell Picture Show has collected ten images of sexually significant science from labs around the world: the resulting slideshow (summarized in their image above) takes you on a walk through sex systems across many types of living things. Image: Cell Picture Show I’m having a hard time deciding on a personal favorite. Colorfully stained…

Biology Diane Kelly May 26 '15

Meanwhile in the Future: What If We Banned All Weapons?

This week’s future is a social experiment. What if Earth had a robotic overlord who decided to ban all weapons? All fights would have to be hand to hand. Would there be less death that way? Less casualties? What counts as a weapon anyway? Listen to the episode to find out! To work through what…

Tech News Rose Eveleth May 26 '15

This “40 Years Of ILM” Video Shows Just How Far We’ve Come

Industrial Light and Magic has a proud heritage stretching back to the original Star Wars. And to celebrate, they’ve put together a one-minute video that sums up 40 years of visual effects wizardry. How many of these movies can you name? Want even more VFX wizardry? Here’s a brilliant 1984 NOVA episode focusing on “The…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 26 '15

Now You Can Test Drive Android Auto

Starting today, you’ll be able to test the first wave of truly connected cars. Android Auto is now available on its first integrated vehicle, the 2015 Hyundai Sonata. As you head to your local dealership to test drive it, you can practice talking to your car on the way: “Ok, Google…” Android Auto will be…

Tech News Alissa Walker May 26 '15

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 May 26 '15

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 May 26 '15

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 May 26 '15

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 May 26 '15

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 May 26 '15

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 May 26 '15

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 May 26 '15

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 May 26 '15

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 May 26 '15

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 May 26 '15

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 May 26 '15

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 May 26 '15

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 May 26 '15

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 May 26 '15

These Photos Were Taken By A Dog

Robert Rodriguez Is Working On A Jonny Quest Movie

Gorgeous Microscopy Images Are Actually Pictures of Sexual Biology

Meanwhile in the Future: What If We Banned All Weapons?

This “40 Years Of ILM” Video Shows Just How Far We’ve Come

Now You Can Test Drive Android Auto

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

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