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This Incredible Lego Recreation Of Erebor Is Over Five Feet Tall

You can say a lot of bad things about Battle of the Five Armies, but its glorious shots of the Dwarven Kingdom of Erebor in the Misty Mountains were definitely a treat. It looks just as amazing when remade in Lego, on a truly massive scale — something that took Michał Kaźmierczak 7 months of…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Making Abandoned Homes Look Occupied Is a Booming Business

Sure, the foreclosure crisis has subsided from its peak a few years ago. But it’s left thousands of vacant homes in its wake—which are now decaying. One solution? Slapping on some stickers that give the appearance of habitation. Lead image: Baltimore by AP Photo/Patrick Semansky. The Minneapolis Star Tribune’s Eric Roper reports on one county…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

This Image Is Why Everyone’s So Excited About A NASA Mission To Europa

NASA wants to visit Jupiter’s moon Europa. Why’s that exciting? In a word: Water. As this visualization shows, the icy moon may look tiny next to our own planet, but it’s got 2- to 3-times as much H2O as we have here on Earth. That “little” moon is packing quite the store of water —…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

This time lapse of the Sun is just jaw dropping

Michael König’s Sun is a spectacular time lapse compilation of our star from the Solar Dynamics Observatory from 2011 to 2015. It includes fantastic clips of solar activity, coronal rain, plasma eruptions, planet flybys, eclipses and more in jaw dropping clarity that you feel like it’s alive, in an omnipotent God-like burning orb sort of…

Sploid Casey Chan

DJI Phantom 3: A Totally Loaded Video Drone For Cheaper Than You’d Think

The Phantom 3 is DJI’s aerial vision more fully realized: A tiny quadcopter drone with a professional-grade camera, endless configurability, user-friendly polish, and a price tag that won’t require a new credit card. A few years ago only nerdy hobbyists took to the skies with UAVs. But with its entry-level Phantom drones, DJI has been…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Moleskine Has Finally Put Batman On the Cover of Five New Notebooks

Despite living in a time when even our watches can take notes for us, Moleskine’s paper notebooks continue to thrive—and partly because the company has been cleverly branding its blank tomes with pop culture icons that now finally include Batman. The black and white covers of the five new notebooks serve as the perfect canvas…

Books & Comics Andrew Liszewski

Behold The World’s First Functional 3D Printed Metal Silencer

Additive manufacturing has come a long way in past few years, including recent advances in metal 3D printing. Given the penchant for firearms in the United States, it’s of little surprise to see the advent of the first functional 3D-printed metal silencer. A gun silencer, or what is more accurately called a “suppressor,” is a…

io9 George Dvorsky

Why ‘C’ is the Default Hard Drive Letter in So Many Computers

For nearly as long as hard disk drives have been placed in personal computers running certain popular operating systems (notably MS-DOS/Windows), the primary hard disk has been designated with the letter “C”. But why? The idea for designating different storage devices with simple letters is generally attributed to IBM’s virtual machine operating systems developed in…

Tech News Melissa - TodayIFoundOut.com

A Brief Guide To Ultron’s Crazy Comic History

In a few weeks, Avengers: Age of Ultron will be upon us, introducing the MCU to one of Avengers’ most iconic villains. Although this is Ultron’s first appearance on film, the character has had a long (and strange) history in comics. Here’s what you need to know about the insane robot. Spoiler Warning: The last…

io9 James Whitbrook

Seriously, Stop Demonizing Almonds

We have seen the real cause of the California drought, and it’s one crunchy inch tall. One gallon of water to grow a single nut? BAN THEM ALL, writes everyone. But almond outrage is misplaced. We shouldn’t stop eating any fruit or vegetable due to how much water it takes to grow it. Especially when…

Tech News Alissa Walker

The Plan to Build an Undersea Cable Around the US—and Why We Need It

There’s a new undersea cable in the works, unlike any system that’s been built before. It is almost 10,000 miles long. It winds under the Arctic Ocean, from the United Kingdom, over Canada, and down to Japan, offering the fastest possible route between London and Tokyo. It stops on icy Canadian shores along the way,…

Books & Comics Nicole Starosielski

Oliver Sacks On His Treatment And “General Feeling Of Disorder”

In the April 23rd issue of the New York Review of Books, Oliver Sacks – who, in January of this year, learned that his liver was overrun by metastatic cancer – writes with characteristic skill on the shifts in constitution that frequently accompany illness, treatment, and convalescence. Photo Credit: Luigi Novi | CC BY 3.0.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

9 Types Of Bacteria You Didn’t Know You’re Sharing Your House With

We all know that the homes we believe belong to us are actually varied landscapes in which billions of creatures live, but we usually try not to think about our microbial roommates. Find out why your bathroom is the ultimate bacteria battleground, and why cleaning it can sometimes make it worse. 9) Fecal Bacteria Is…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

A T-Rex Skull Token Makes Jurassic World Monopoly the Best Version Yet

You could dedicate an entire blog to covering all of the different versions and variations of Monopoly that are now available. But why bother because an official Jurassic World version of Monopoly is coming in June that swaps those boring car, top hat, and cat tokens for a DNA sequence, a park tour vehicle, and…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

DEA Was Dragnet Spying on Billions of American Phone Calls for Decades

Indiscriminate spying was the DEA’s blunt force weapon of choice in its “War on Drugs.” The Drug Enforcement Agency and the Justice Department tracked billions of Americans’ phone calls, even people not suspected of crimes, for decades—and it looks like collateral damage wasn’t much of a concern. New details from a USA Today investigation made…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

What’s Causing This Weird Desert “Hot Spot” NASA Spotted From Space?

There’s a patch of desert in the American southwest where something odd is happening. What is it — and what’s causing it? Last year, while analyzing satellite data of greenhouse gas emissions from the ESA, NASA noticed something weird: At the “Four Corners” section of the desert (the place where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and…

io9 Ria Misra

Human Centipede 3 Will A Have 500-Person Human Centipede. Yep.

The third film about sewing people’s faces to other people’s butts now has a disgusting plot synopsis. This world cannot stand. Entertainment Weekly has released the long and vile synopsis for Human Centipede 3. It’s predictably awful and includes a 500-person human centipede. That’s the thing where one human’s face is sewn to another person’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner

An Age Of Ultron Figure Set For The Comic Fan, Rather Than The Moviegoer

The Age of Ultron merchandise train is well and truly rolling — but it’s not just the movie versions of Earth’s finest getting the spotlight. If anything, it means it’s an easy opportunity to sell old comics toys, now that you can say ‘look they’re in the new movie!’. Hasbro are mooshing together a few…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Mattress Sensor Only Silences Your Alarm Clock When You Get Out of Bed

How many times do you need to snooze your alarm clock before you actually climb out of bed in the morning? Enough to be late for work every day, right? So while there are lots of crazy alarm clock designs out there that make it harder to snooze, the Chipper—which uses a sensor strip to…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Build a Bulletproof Fortress For Figures With Tiny Cement Cinder Blocks

When your action figures are at war, the last thing they need is a fortress made from stacked wooden building blocks that even a crawling infant could destroy. So the next time you’re drawing up plans for a new action figure HQ, why not consider building it using these tiny 1/12-scale cinder blocks that are…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Incredible Lego Recreation Of Erebor Is Over Five Feet Tall

Making Abandoned Homes Look Occupied Is a Booming Business

This Image Is Why Everyone’s So Excited About A NASA Mission To Europa

This time lapse of the Sun is just jaw dropping

DJI Phantom 3: A Totally Loaded Video Drone For Cheaper Than You’d Think

Moleskine Has Finally Put Batman On the Cover of Five New Notebooks

Behold The World’s First Functional 3D Printed Metal Silencer

Why ‘C’ is the Default Hard Drive Letter in So Many Computers

A Brief Guide To Ultron’s Crazy Comic History

Seriously, Stop Demonizing Almonds

The Plan to Build an Undersea Cable Around the US—and Why We Need It

Oliver Sacks On His Treatment And “General Feeling Of Disorder”

9 Types Of Bacteria You Didn’t Know You’re Sharing Your House With

A T-Rex Skull Token Makes Jurassic World Monopoly the Best Version Yet

DEA Was Dragnet Spying on Billions of American Phone Calls for Decades

What’s Causing This Weird Desert “Hot Spot” NASA Spotted From Space?

Human Centipede 3 Will A Have 500-Person Human Centipede. Yep.

An Age Of Ultron Figure Set For The Comic Fan, Rather Than The Moviegoer

Mattress Sensor Only Silences Your Alarm Clock When You Get Out of Bed

Build a Bulletproof Fortress For Figures With Tiny Cement Cinder Blocks

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