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A Star Wars Speeder Bike Quadcopter Looks Perfect Racing Through Forests

Inspired by that wonderful scene in Return of the Jedi where Luke and Leia race through the trees of Endor using speeder bikes, there’s a small group of enthusiasts who do the same thing using camera-equipped remote control drones. Like Adam Woodworth who decided to take his hobby one step further by building a quadcopter…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

These Scientific Names Were Chosen Purely To Insult Certain People

What is the best way to make sure your insult lasts a really, really long time? Well, if you’re a scientist who has the pleasure of naming a newly described genus or species, you might be able to get away with inserting your insult into biological nomenclature. After the rise of modern taxonomy, a few…

io9 Lauren Davis

This Michael Keaton Batman Statue Can Do The Impossible: Turn His Head

An oft-repeated story about Michael Keaton’s Batman outfit was that it was impossible for the actor to turn his head thanks to the tough cowl, necessitating a ‘turn with your body’ style of movement that defined the actor’s portrayal. But in statue form, it seems being able to turn his head is much easier! Another…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

A Weird Neuroscientific Explanation for Why We Love Cheetos

Getting sticky, tangy orange dust everywhere is usually considered a drawback of snacking on Cheetos. But that messy, colorful coating is actually one of the reasons people love Cheetos so much. Or at least that’s what companies analyzing our brain activity think. Back in 2008, Frito-Lay hired a company called NeuroFocus (later bought and folded…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

There May Be More Water On Jupiter’s Largest Moon Than On Earth

By studying the subtle shifts of aurorae on Ganymede, scientists working with the Hubble Space Telescope have concluded that Jupiter’s largest moon hosts a massive subterranean ocean. Quite suddenly, the outer reaches of our solar system appear to be a very wet place, indeed. Ganymede, in addition to being the largest moon in the solar…

io9 George Dvorsky

This Amphibious Tank Sub ATV Boat Looks Like a 6-Year-Old’s Doodle

Do you remember doodling what your perfect car would look like when you were six years old? There’s a good chance it looked exactly like this amphibious tank-treaded ATV that Hammacher Schlemmer is now selling for the princely sum of $300,000. It’s the kind of creation you’d expect an evil genius to use to escape…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Here’s What Richard the Lionheart’s Heart Looks Like Now

This is the lead box that contained Richard the Lionheart’s embalmed heart. If you want to see what a heart looks like after 800 years — or at least learn about how people in medieval times made souvenirs out of corpses — go ahead and click this story. Most of us know Richard the Lionheart…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

A Water Slide With a Loop That Won’t Break Your Neck Is Coming in 2016

Before you start screaming in the comments that New Jersey’s Action Park was actually the first amusement park to have a water slide with a vertical loop back in the ’80s, you’ll be happy to hear that’s exactly where this one is headed come 2016. Except that this updated version will actually house riders in…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

First Thunderbirds Trailer Is Filled With Gorgeous Models And CG Mayhem

We’ve had teasers for a while, but the first trailer for Thunderbirds Are Go!, ITV’s remake of the classic British puppet series Thunderbirds is here — and it’s packed with beautiful practical models, slightly creepy CG people, and plenty of nods and winks to the classic works of Gerry Anderson. Check it out! The new…

Trailers James Whitbrook

The sounds in this video are so satisfying it makes me miss winter

There’s an awesome story here about a mom and dad who built a backyard ice rink during the winter so that their two boys could have fun skating and playing hockey outdoors. But what I love most about this excellent quick cut video is just hearing all those sounds come together. It’s enough to make…

Sploid Casey Chan

The New Flash Gordon May Be A Sequel To The 1980 Movie For Some Reason

We all agree that Hollywood is probably too quick to reboot film franchises. However, if there was a scifi property actually ripe for a reboot, it’s Flash Gordon, whose last real outing was as a movie in 1980. So of course, instead, Hollywood suddenly wants to make a sequel to the the 35-year-old film. This…

Movies Rob Bricken

NYPD Caught Editing Wikipedia Articles on Police Brutality

Looks like the long arm of the law is trying to diddle Wikipedia into submission. Members of the NYPD are trying to scrub Wikipedia’s entries about police violence. Capital New Yorktraced edits to IP addresses registered to the NYPD. Looking at which entries the NYPD tried to alter highlights a disturbing pattern. These are blatant…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Crazy guy rode his snowmobile off a cliff and then started flying

A snowmobile weighs nearly five hundred pounds and isn’t meant for flying and yet, that’s what professional crazy person Antti Pendikainen did with his snowmobile. He gunned it down the mountain and then launched it off a cliff and then started soaring, reaching heights in the air typically meant for helicopters and planes. You know,…

Sploid Casey Chan

15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Farts

Admit it. You’ve always wanted to know whether farts can carry germs. Photo Credit: John Sibley | CC BY-NC 2.0 1. Farts can probably carry germs, but you don’t really need to worry about it unless you’re naked A brief entry in the British Medical Journal’s 2001 holiday issue recounts how one Dr Karl Kruszelnicki…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

California Has Just One Year of Water Reserves, So… Water Cannons?

Jay Famiglietti, a senior water scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has a terrifying piece in the Los Angeles Times about the future of California’s water. According to Famiglietti, the state has just one year of water in reserves: Data from NASA satellites show that the total amount of water stored in the Sacramento…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Pilot Who Drew This Giant Dick in the Sky Is the Hero We Deserve

GPS trolling is an art form spawning a movement of walkers, runners, and auto enthusiasts to create map-based creations. But one enterprising pilot, with a private plane and time to kill, took to the skies to draw the an image that fills the notebooks of 8th graders and college art majors alike — a big…

Tech News Darren Orf

Stephen King’s Teleportation Tale “The Jaunt” Will Be A Feature Film

The 1981 Stephen King short story The Jaunt (popularized by its inclusion in 1985 collection Skeleton Crew) will be made into a feature film by Andy Muschietti, director of Guillermo del Toro-produced horror flick Mama. Deadline reports that Plan B (Brad Pitt’s production company) optioned the rights to the tale, which first appeared in Twilight…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

io9 Newsstand: The Best Stories from the Week of March 8 – 14

This week’s stories are about the things that come at us out of the dark — be it the star-specked darkness of space, or the conscience-riddled darkness of our souls. Plural by Lia Swope Mitchell | Cosmos Magazine The aliens come in peace, as they always do, bearing gifts and a banner printed with hopeful…

io9 K. Tempest Bradford

Facebook Fraudster Jumps Bail By Giving His GPS Anklet a Mind of Its Own

A man under house arrest for faking an ownership stake in Facebook is missing after rigging up an elaborate contraption to make it look like he was still in his home. Paul Ceglia filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg using falsified emails and an edited contract that made it look like the Facebook…

Social Media Kate Knibbs

This Technology Can Prevent a Superbug Apocalypse

Nearly a century after scientists dug up penicillin, researchers are turning once more to the soil for new pharmaceuticals. But this time, they have tiny, powerful technologies on their side. Here’s how scientists are unlocking the secrets of soil microbes and discovering the next generation of medicine. Soil is the most biodiverse habitat on the…

Tech News Maddie Stone

A Star Wars Speeder Bike Quadcopter Looks Perfect Racing Through Forests

These Scientific Names Were Chosen Purely To Insult Certain People

This Michael Keaton Batman Statue Can Do The Impossible: Turn His Head

A Weird Neuroscientific Explanation for Why We Love Cheetos

There May Be More Water On Jupiter’s Largest Moon Than On Earth

This Amphibious Tank Sub ATV Boat Looks Like a 6-Year-Old’s Doodle

Here’s What Richard the Lionheart’s Heart Looks Like Now

A Water Slide With a Loop That Won’t Break Your Neck Is Coming in 2016

First Thunderbirds Trailer Is Filled With Gorgeous Models And CG Mayhem

The sounds in this video are so satisfying it makes me miss winter

The New Flash Gordon May Be A Sequel To The 1980 Movie For Some Reason

NYPD Caught Editing Wikipedia Articles on Police Brutality

Crazy guy rode his snowmobile off a cliff and then started flying

15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Farts

California Has Just One Year of Water Reserves, So… Water Cannons?

The Pilot Who Drew This Giant Dick in the Sky Is the Hero We Deserve

Stephen King’s Teleportation Tale “The Jaunt” Will Be A Feature Film

io9 Newsstand: The Best Stories from the Week of March 8 – 14

Facebook Fraudster Jumps Bail By Giving His GPS Anklet a Mind of Its Own

This Technology Can Prevent a Superbug Apocalypse

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