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Amazon’s Drone Delivery Patent Just Feels Like Trolling At This Point

The idea of receiving your Amazon delivery from drone is fanciful. It’s a total impossibility for the foreseeable future, sure, but Amazon just scored a patent for drone delivery system anyway. Originally filed in September 2014 the USPTO just granted Amazon a patent for an “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Delivery System,” in which UAVs are, ahem:…

Commerce Mario Aguilar May 8 '15

It took half a million bricks to build Legoland’s new Death Star

Even with gigantic stadiums dotting the earth, it’s hard for us to imagine just how massive the Empire’s Death Star really was. Over in California’s Legoland they recently added a scale model of the Death Star to their collection, and using around half a million bricks it still ended being only about eight-feet in diameter.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 8 '15

Sennheiser’s New $500 Wireless Headphones Only Work Well With a Wire

I love Sennheiser’s very expensive, very handsome wireless headphones. But, unfortunately, I can’t use my Sennheiser Momentum Wireless headset unless I plug in a cord. This is a big problem for wireless headphones—big enough that the company has now stopped shipping the product. This week, Sennheiser confirmed to me that there was a problem with…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes May 8 '15

We Had A Cure For Leprosy For Centuries, But Couldn’t Get It To Work

People in China discovered the cure for leprosy in the 1300s, and yet for six hundred years, the cure didn’t actually work. We’ll tell you why a known cure wasn’t good enough, and how to make it good enough. The chances that you’ll get leprosy are vanishingly small. That’s a good thing at any time,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell May 8 '15

400 Football Fields Could Fit Inside Samsung’s New Semiconductor Complex

Samsung already makes the most smartphones in the world, but now the South Korean company is pushing to make the most semiconductors. Samsung just started constructing its own version of Silicon Valley, starting with $14 billion semiconductor complex larger than 400 football fields. The “Pyeongtaek Semiconductor Valley” is set to open in 2017, and will…

Tech News Kate Knibbs May 8 '15

Every Masters of the Universe Action Figure, Ranked

The most powerful man in the universe was also part of the greatest toyline in the universe. MotU’s giant, wildly varied assortment of heroes and villains set it apart from its ‘80s counterparts — admittedly, some more so than others. So here are all 60 original action figures, scientifically ranked by awesomeness. 1) Skeletor Sorry,…

io9 Rob Bricken May 8 '15

Video: The stunning wonder and beauty of Vietnam

Vietnam is one of my favorite places in the world because the country is just beautiful, the food is absolutely fantastic and the people are so kind. I’m also completely biased because that’s where my family is from. But still! Watch this video that tours the wonders of Vietnam and try and say you don’t…

Sploid Casey Chan May 8 '15

There’s a Good Chance Your Tinder Crush Is Seeing Someone Else

Technology is filled with all kinds of rumors, real and fabricated. It gives us a look at what might be and will be. BitStream gathers the whispers all in one place to divine what the future has in store. Tinder is the unchallenged king of dating apps. It’s swipe left/swipe right format is so popular,…

Tech News Darren Orf May 8 '15

You can easily customize this Lego-friendly tie to match any outfit

Nothing makes a party feel like a chore like having to dress formal for the occasion. But if a special occasion calls for a jacket and tie, swap this Bricky Blocks plastic studded alternative for your traditional silk noose and at least you’ll have something to play with—if you remember to bring along a handful…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 8 '15

A Chart Of The Most Commonly Used Keys Shows Our Actual Musical Tastes

Switching a song into a different key can entirely change the way that song feels. So what does this chart, which shows which musical keys are most commonly used, tell us about the way we actually like to listen to music? Spotify’s Kenny Ning put together this chart of the most commonly used song keys…

io9 Ria Misra May 8 '15

A Terrifying Tale Of Greed, Copycat Schemes, And Cyanide-Laced Medicine

Nobody was ever convicted in the 1982 Chicago Tylenol Murders. But in 1986, when two Seattle-area people died after ingesting Excedrin laced with cyanide, Stella Nickell was nabbed for the copycat crime; one of the victims was her husband. Nearly 30 years later, the case hasn’t gotten any less bizarre. The tale, chronicled in Gregg…

Tech News Cheryl Eddy May 8 '15

Marvel Confirms Scarlet Witch And Quicksilver Are No Longer Mutants

In the run-up to their appearance in Age of Ultron, much hubbub was made over the true origins of Pietro and Wanda Maximoff. At first the comics cast doubt on Magneto’s parentage of the mutant twins, and then Marvel’s own movie altered their origin once more. And now, it’s been retconned again. A new page…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook May 8 '15

Making a cube in a cube in a cube from one block of metal is impressive

There is probably some negotiation with the Earth’s magnetic poles or some sort of magic going on here because somehow this guy is able to make a cube inside a cube inside a cube from a metal block. I have no idea what’s going on in the video half the time but watching the block…

Sploid Casey Chan May 8 '15

Even An Android Would Cry At These Age Of Ultron Toys

Hot Toy’soddly adorable line of “Artist Mix” vinyl toys is back, and although there’s lots of cool looking stuff to be seen, let’s be real: The best of the bunch is the wonderful little vinyl Vision. Eschewing the company’s usual brand of jaw-droppingly lifelike (and ridiculously articulated) for a chunky Vinyl style, Hot Toy’s collaboration…

Tech News James Whitbrook May 8 '15

Stars Get All Lopsided And Slosh Around Before Exploding

Stars may be spherical, but that doesn’t mean they explode in a symmetrical and uniform fashion. As a new study shows, stars dramatically writhe and contort before going supernova, blasting their cores in one direction and ejected material in another. Supernova 1987A (Credit: ESA/Hubble/NASA). The new study by astrophysicists from UC Berkeley and the California…

io9 George Dvorsky May 8 '15

13 Years of Cloud-Watching Makes a Beautiful Visual of the Earth

This beautiful map shows an average of all of the available cloud observations from the Aqua satellite. The shades of blue represent the cloudiness of our planet. The visual is based on data acquired from July 2002 until April 2015, offering a top-down view that shows where the satellite’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer saw clouds…

Tech News Attila Nagy May 8 '15

BOOMco’s New Dartsplosion Fires 72 Rounds Ensuring Total Dart Supremacy

A lot of blaster fans were skeptical when Mattel decided it wanted a piece of Hasbro’s near-dominant marketshare; after all, we were all weened on Nerf weaponry. But the BOOMco line has so far delivered some impressive blasters, and its new 72-round Dartsplosion looks like it’s poised to snatch the crown from Nerf’s giant Rhino-Fire.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 8 '15

How to Use the Bento App for an Ultra-Personalized Android Home Screen

There are plenty of alternative Android launchers looking to replace your stock experience—Nova, Apex and Aviate among them—but Bento is designed to take on Google Now at what it does best: personalization. The launcher’s features include smart app sorting, prioritized notifications and embedded app information and here’s how to set it up. Right now Bento…

Gadgets David Nield May 8 '15

Dark Star Offers A Melancholy, Intimate Portrait Of Artist H.R. Giger

There’s a sadness running through Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World — a portrait of the Swiss artist whose most famous creation was the title character in Alien. It comes from knowing that its subject died last year. But the mood suits this appreciative study of a man who counted fear and death among his muses.…

io9 Cheryl Eddy May 8 '15

The Reason We Won’t Have Autonomous Cars Any Time Soon

Driving a car is easy. Engine on, eyes open, foot on the gas and you’re all set. So why is it taking autonomous cars so long to learn? Right now, a fleet of self-driving cars is cruising the roads of Mountain View daily—along with some smaller fleets of custom prototypes that Google’s also testing in…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 8 '15

Amazon’s Drone Delivery Patent Just Feels Like Trolling At This Point

It took half a million bricks to build Legoland’s new Death Star

Sennheiser’s New $500 Wireless Headphones Only Work Well With a Wire

We Had A Cure For Leprosy For Centuries, But Couldn’t Get It To Work

400 Football Fields Could Fit Inside Samsung’s New Semiconductor Complex

Every Masters of the Universe Action Figure, Ranked

Video: The stunning wonder and beauty of Vietnam

There’s a Good Chance Your Tinder Crush Is Seeing Someone Else

You can easily customize this Lego-friendly tie to match any outfit

A Chart Of The Most Commonly Used Keys Shows Our Actual Musical Tastes

A Terrifying Tale Of Greed, Copycat Schemes, And Cyanide-Laced Medicine

Marvel Confirms Scarlet Witch And Quicksilver Are No Longer Mutants

Making a cube in a cube in a cube from one block of metal is impressive

Even An Android Would Cry At These Age Of Ultron Toys

Stars Get All Lopsided And Slosh Around Before Exploding

13 Years of Cloud-Watching Makes a Beautiful Visual of the Earth

BOOMco’s New Dartsplosion Fires 72 Rounds Ensuring Total Dart Supremacy

How to Use the Bento App for an Ultra-Personalized Android Home Screen

Dark Star Offers A Melancholy, Intimate Portrait Of Artist H.R. Giger

The Reason We Won’t Have Autonomous Cars Any Time Soon

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