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A First Look at the Beautiful New Furniture IKEA’s Bringing To the U.S.

I’ll admit it: I love what IKEA’s been up to lately. They’re making high-tech however affordable desks. They’re reissuing simple but sophisticated midcentury modern designs. And now, they’re bringing a whole slew of drop dead gorgeous furniture to the United States, much of which is made of solid wood. I love it. IKEA just announced…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

A Cyberattack Caused Real-Life Chaos at a German Steel Mill

At this point, it’s obvious that cyberattacks can have devastating, far-reaching consequences. Look at the fallout from the Sony hack. But it’s still very rare for digital aggression campaigns to cause direct physical damage, which is why a recent cyberattack thatscrewed with a blast furnace at a German steel mill is so disturbing. Hackers infiltrated…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

These Are The Science Stories That Will Be Making News In 2015

The coming year is shaping up to be a rather extraordinary one. Over the next 12 months, we’ll be visiting dwarf planets, unlocking the secrets of a 400,000-year-old genome, and resuming the hunt for exotic particles. Here are the science stories to look out for in 2015. Above: Artistic depiction of Pluto’s surface with Charon…

io9 George Dvorsky

Now We Know The Second Most Important Star Wars Release Date Of 2015

Yeah yeah, December 18th 2015, some movie is coming out. But what about the toys? They’re almost as important to Star Wars as actual movies! But good news, toy fans – a new rumour suggests that we might be playing with the stars of The Force Awakens well ahead of the film’s release date. The…

Tech News James Whitbrook

An Experiment To Make Pigeons Into Art Critics Doesn’t Go Far Enough

If you’ve spent your week wondering if pigeons can distinguish Picasso from Monet, get ready to have your questions answered. But the answer just makes us want more. In 1995, scientists took “experimentally naive” pigeons, and put them in their own personal enclosures in a lab. The pigeons’ naivete wouldn’t last for long. They needed…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

No, that broken pencil illustration isn’t by Banksy

You may have seen a clever Banksy illustration of broken pencils being shared far and wide on social media yesterday. It’s a powerful message about optimism and rebuilding after facing adversity. But it’s not by Banksy. The illustration is actually by Lucille Clerc, a London-based illustrator. After being posted on an Instagram account purporting to…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Terrifying Resilience Of Fast Food That Refuses To Decompose

The “food” you see pictured here is nearly two years old. As Business Insider reports, A Michigan chiropractor has been saving a Taco Bell chicken taco and McDonald’s cheeseburger with fries for two years, and none of the items have appeared to rot. Dr. Jacqueline Vaughn purchased the meals in early 2013 and put them…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

NASA reveals incredible view inside the most massive star near us

A new long-term study of Eta Carinae—”the most luminous and massive star within 10,000 light-years”—has revealed amazing, never-before-seen features using data captured by multiple observatories during 11 years using multiple observatories, including the Swift and the Hubble. Located about 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina, Eta Carinae comprises two massive stars whose…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Bang & Olufsen Invented a Giant $2800 iPod

Something about Bang & Olufsen’s BeoSound Moment looks familiar, huh? The aluminum and glass slab is basically a big iPod that’s supposed to power wireless music throughout your house. This thing is going to cost a damn fortune, but there’s a lot of lovely design to admire—even if no normal human will be able to…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Top 10 Biggest Design Flaws In The U.S.S. Enterprise

Star Trek broke new ground by having a spaceship without fins and rockets, and by consulting with the RAND Corp. on its design. And the Enterprise is indeed a beauty. But the Federation’s coolest starship isn’t flawless, by any means. Here are the 10 biggest design flaws in the U.S.S. Enterprise. Image by Sam Woolley…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders and Diana Biller

Classic Metal Albums Redesigned As 1950s Jazz Records

Look at the covers of all your favorite metal albums. While they’ll probably fall into a few different schools of design, you can bet not a single one looks like anything that came out of the 1950s jazz scene. But judging from Brazilian designer Rafael Melandi’s redesigns—maybe they should have. The project, appropriately if not…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Two Men Become Robots, Cats, and Each Other In This “Face Hacking” Vid

Remember when the apex of what computers could do to morph faces was represented in Michael Jackson’s “Black or White” music video? Yeah, things have changed, and with jaw-dropping results. In Face Hacking, a stunning meld of real-time face tracking and 3D animation, artist Nobumichi Asai creates incredible illusions using living faces. The two men…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Wonderful Surprise! Critics Love The New Paddington Bear Movie

We were not hopeful for the Paddington Bear movie. The first images of the newly made CG bearwere frightening. And the initialtrailer was vile. But as it turns out, Paddington the actual movie might be kind of great. Phew! After the first trailer of Paddington showed our lovely marmalade chomping friend from Peru licking his…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Science Behind Freak Snowstorms

If you’ve ever experienced the overwhelming “flash snowstorm” that is lake effect snow, you know that the sudden white-out conditions can disappear just as quickly as they came, a giant pile of freshly fallen snow the only evidence they were there at all. But how does it work? Here it is, explained in one picture.…

io9 Ria Misra

Neat IKEA ad shows the winter migration of the summer t-shirt

This neat Ikea commercial feels like a National Geographic documentary about bird migrations. But instead of birds, it is your beloved t-shirts. They did it to illustrate how, when the cold time comes, it’s time to use Ikea’s storage to put your summer clothes away. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Next Month You Could Own Part Of Laika’s Gorgeous Movies

Part of the appeal of Laika’s stable of films is their fantastic hand-made aesthetics. They’re all stylistically interesting, but the commitment to traditional stop-motion animation is what makes them so great – and also means that next month you could own a little bit of Coraline, Paranorman or Boxtrolls! Heritage Auctions will be selling off…

Tech News James Whitbrook

A Rare Look Deep Inside an Old-Fashioned Hydroelectric Power Plant

As a longtime fan of industrial aesthetics, I always look for the chance to get inside any building where roaring machines, buzzing wires, crackling pipe, and chaotic control rooms sit waiting to be explored and photographed—like this 99-year-old Art Deco power plant or this 70-year-old Bauhaus sewage pumping building. I visited Hungary’s Tiszalök Barrage and…

Tech News Attila Nagy

What Early American “Pet Cemeteries” Reveal About American Dogs

There are burial sites for dogs all over the Americas. Scientists doing a study of mitochondrial DNA found ways that ancient dogs are, in many ways, just like our own pets. But they also found something surprising! Domestic dogs have been part of human civilization for 16,000 years. While they aren’t always regarded as pets,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Grapes Are Magnetic, And Here’s Proof

It’s true! We’ll explain how and why grapes can be shoved around with a magnet — at least under the right circumstances — and why the phenomenon behind it is helping physicists levitate things. Top image from the YouTube video “Magnetic Grapes” by Mark Lorch. Grapes and Rare Earth Magnets Here’s a quick, easy experiment.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

This 4-Mile Pier Leaves Devastatingly Beautiful Patterns in Its Wake

This pier extends out from Progreso into the Gulf of Mexico a staggering 4 miles. But just as astonishing as the structure itself is the beautiful wake it creates as the waters in the sea pass by. Construction of the pier began in 1985, and the orginal strucutre has been extended from 1.2 miles to…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

A First Look at the Beautiful New Furniture IKEA’s Bringing To the U.S.

A Cyberattack Caused Real-Life Chaos at a German Steel Mill

These Are The Science Stories That Will Be Making News In 2015

Now We Know The Second Most Important Star Wars Release Date Of 2015

An Experiment To Make Pigeons Into Art Critics Doesn’t Go Far Enough

No, that broken pencil illustration isn’t by Banksy

The Terrifying Resilience Of Fast Food That Refuses To Decompose

NASA reveals incredible view inside the most massive star near us

Bang & Olufsen Invented a Giant $2800 iPod

Top 10 Biggest Design Flaws In The U.S.S. Enterprise

Classic Metal Albums Redesigned As 1950s Jazz Records

Two Men Become Robots, Cats, and Each Other In This “Face Hacking” Vid

Wonderful Surprise! Critics Love The New Paddington Bear Movie

The Science Behind Freak Snowstorms

Neat IKEA ad shows the winter migration of the summer t-shirt

Next Month You Could Own Part Of Laika’s Gorgeous Movies

A Rare Look Deep Inside an Old-Fashioned Hydroelectric Power Plant

What Early American “Pet Cemeteries” Reveal About American Dogs

Grapes Are Magnetic, And Here’s Proof

This 4-Mile Pier Leaves Devastatingly Beautiful Patterns in Its Wake

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