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Ants Are So Passé, You Need a Termite Farm On Your Desk

Is there any better way to relax than being reminded of your species’ dominance on this planet while watching a bunch of bugs trapped in a clear plastic enclosure? Not likely. But ant farms are so yesterday, what you need is your own personal termite farm, and that’s exactly what the Termitat delivers—complete with a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

You Can Get A Pox From Seals

This cute little guy is just waiting to infect you. In the late 1960s, scientists realized that seals had a virus that they could share back and forth with other pinnipeds. Over 30 years later, scientists have confirmed that it can be given to humans. Sealpox isn’t as bad as it sounds. Although it shares…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

This Is Not A Screenshot From Star Wars, It’s A @#$%ing Toy

Hot Toys has done it again. They’ve used their dark magics to somehow create a 12-inch Darth Vader action figure so stunning, so accurate, that it could honestly be used in the actual movie itself. Get all the details (and more unbelievable pics) here! https://gizmodo.com/hot-toys-darth-vader-is-impressive-most-impressive-1676954463

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The Definitive Darth Vader Figure Even Has His Iconic Breathing Sounds

Every time Hot Toys announces a new figure it’s a chance for fans and other toy companies to see exactly how a collectible should be made. And while there have been thousands of Darth Vader toys released since Star Wars premiered in 1977, Hot Toy’s 14-inch version is easily the definitive Vader figure thanks to…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Hot Toys’ Darth Vader Is Impressive, Most Impressive

2015 is upon us, and that means the deluge of money falling out of Star Wars fan’s pockets will begin this year as Hot Toys’ line of figures starts coming out – and they’re being headlined by the most gorgeous figure of the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, Darth Vader. Vader is the fourth-revealed…

Tech News James Whitbrook

What This Bond Villain Can Teach You About Extra Nipples

In The Man with the Golden Gun, Francisco Scaramanga is a typical Bond villain, flamboyant and menacing, with a supposedly unusual feature — a third nipple. But it’s actually not that unique an identifier. One in 18 men have third nipples, while one in 50 women have them — and many people may have more…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

What Is a Hangover?

Yippee! Let’s poison ourselves with beverages that will make us violently ill! It was your battle cry last night, and today you’re paying the price. But what is that hangover you’re experiencing, exactly? A hangover is your body’s reaction to drinking too much alcohol… Everyone has a different tolerance (it’s usually lower for women than…

Tech News Gizmodo

It Took This Guy Over 7 Hours To Solve the World’s Hardest Rubik’s Cube

Seven hours sounds just about right for the average puzzle enthusiast to solve a standard 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cube. But Youtuber RedKB isn’t your average puzzle enthusiast. Instead of tackling a 3x3x3 cube, he solves this incredibly complex 17x17x17 cube designed by Oskar Van Deventer. In the end it took him about seven-and-a-half hours to get…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

What’s Your Pop Culture Resolution For 2015?

Every time New Year’s Day rolls around, people fall all over each other to make resolutions about losing weight, stopping smoking, being better people, and other nonsense. But what about what’s really important — namely, your continued pop culture education? Is this the year you fill in the gap and watch that Star Trek TV…

io9 Rob Bricken

8 Healthy Tech Habits to Adopt in 2015

Hello, 2015. How are you? I’m fine, I’m just currently bouncing back from last night’s rager that left me with a bad hangover. Not a great start to the day, but that doesn’t mean we can’t better ourselves this year. It’s 2015, and if we’re going to live in the bright future that Robert Zemeckis…

Tech News Darren Orf

What Is Howard Stark Hiding in Agent Carter?

Art from Avengers: Age of Ultron indicates a showdown between two of the new characters. Weta confirms that Batman v. Superman will have a huge standalone scene that they’re working on. Plus a look ahead to the rest of The Walking Dead season five. Spoilers now! Top image: Agents of SHIELD Batman v. Superman It’s…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

I Hope You Can Eat Every Part Of This Incredible Batman ’66 Cake

Yes, right down to the itty-bitty Adam West and Burt Ward. But then again, how do you eat any of this marvellous cakey recreation of the Batcave from the classic Batman ’66 TV show? This delightful creation was made earlier this month by Mike’s Amazing Cakes for a client, and although it’s hard to tell…

Tech News James Whitbrook

The World’s 19 Weirdest Hangover Remedies

Hope you had fun last night. Now it’s time to kick that hangover, whatever it takes. Okay, well, maybe not the Sicilian method. Whether you find the preferred ritual to be shocking, disgusting, or delightful, here are 19 of the strangest remedies you’ll encounter. It’s the morning after New Year’s Eve. You survived. Now it’s…

Tech News Brent Rose

Back to the Future II Takes Place This Year. How Close Did We Get?

Every decade produces iconic pieces of futurism that help to define a generation. For the 1960s it was The Jetsons and Star Trek. For the 1970s it was Future Shock and Soylent Green. What about the 1980s? It was almost certainly Back to the Future Part II. Sure, Back to the Future Part II didn’t…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Seine Is A River Of Clouds And Water

Weather is oddly topographical. Rarely is it as clear as in this photograph snapped by astronaut Terry Virts from the International Space Station, where clouds have settled into the Seine river valley meandering near Paris, France. We have a truly beautiful planet. Can we try to take a bit better care of it this year…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

The only reason we need to celebrate the New Year—and every year until we die

The New Year is here. A unit of time that doesn’t mean anything to the Universe—stars, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, quasars, dark matter, and the other living beings that for sure populate the cosmos don’t care about the arbitrary dates that we little humans have created. And yet, we celebrate. We celebrate this time despite…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Nice Solar System, Would Travel Around Its Star Again

The main sequence star Sol sits at the center of a pretty nice system on the outer edge of a spiral galaxy. I did a full revolution on its third planet, and the view was great. Definitely up for another one. This lovely image of Sol’s corona comes to you from NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Cool slow motion shots from movies, TV shows and music videos in 2014

Good riddance, 2014. And to celebrate turning a new calendar year, Evan Puschak, the Nerdwriter, put together this nifty look at how movies, TV shows and music videos used slow motion in 2014. It’s interesting to see all these different types of films and shows use the same effect and question if they are even…

Sploid Casey Chan

Video: Turning soda cans into liquid metal looks so fun

I’m not going to give my aluminum cans to recycling centers anymore. Instead, I’m going to melt them down to liquid metal and create awesome metal objects with them. All I need is a hair dryer and some charcoal to create this awesome mini metal foundry. It turns about 40 cans into a pound of…

Sploid Casey Chan

What’s Your Favorite Twilight Zone Episode?

We’re smack dab in the middle of SyFy’s New Year Twilight Zone marathon. And I truly wish I had time to watch it all. But this annual tradition always gets me thinking about what episode is my favorite. I honestly don’t know how to decide! There’s the classics like “To Serve Man” and “Eye of…

Tech News Matt Novak

Ants Are So Passé, You Need a Termite Farm On Your Desk

You Can Get A Pox From Seals

This Is Not A Screenshot From Star Wars, It’s A @#$%ing Toy

The Definitive Darth Vader Figure Even Has His Iconic Breathing Sounds

Hot Toys’ Darth Vader Is Impressive, Most Impressive

What This Bond Villain Can Teach You About Extra Nipples

What Is a Hangover?

It Took This Guy Over 7 Hours To Solve the World’s Hardest Rubik’s Cube

What’s Your Pop Culture Resolution For 2015?

8 Healthy Tech Habits to Adopt in 2015

What Is Howard Stark Hiding in Agent Carter?

I Hope You Can Eat Every Part Of This Incredible Batman ’66 Cake

The World’s 19 Weirdest Hangover Remedies

Back to the Future II Takes Place This Year. How Close Did We Get?

The Seine Is A River Of Clouds And Water

The only reason we need to celebrate the New Year—and every year until we die

Nice Solar System, Would Travel Around Its Star Again

Cool slow motion shots from movies, TV shows and music videos in 2014

Video: Turning soda cans into liquid metal looks so fun

What’s Your Favorite Twilight Zone Episode?

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