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Ice cream extends life, ice cream expands consciousness

This Lego mech, by Paddy Bricksplitter, is one of my favorite kind of builds. Taking elements from Ice Cream Machine (70804) and adding some other necessary bits, this Ice Cream Marine is set to wage war on sugar free or low fat enemies everywhere. I really like color scheme and the tanks of dairy on…

Tech News Michael Schulte Jan 30 '15

Robots Are Now Learning How To Cook By Watching YouTube Videos

DARPA-funded researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a system that enables robot a robot to interpret, learn and perform the tasks demonstrated in YouTube cooking videos. Engadget has details on the work led by University of Maryland computer scientist Yiannis Aloimonos: The team’s research is funded by DARPA’s Mathematics of Sensing, Exploitation and…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 30 '15

Beware: Porn-Based Malware Is Sweeping Across Facebook

Don’t click any porn links on Facebook. Just don’t. It’s a good rule of thumb, but there’s an extra good reason right now. There’s a troubling type of porn-based malware that’s apparently infected over 110,000 Facebook users in two days. And you could get the same Click Transmitted Disease. The Facebook malware is disguised as…

Social Media Adam Clark Estes Jan 30 '15

The Future of GIFs Is Killing What Makes Them So Great

Those wonderful looping animations we call GIFs are an unlikely story of survival in an age when digital formats come and go like the wind. The lure of the decades-old GIF format has caused people to ignore its flaws, but those looking to bring the format into modern times might just be inadvertently drowning its…

Tech News Michael Hession Jan 30 '15

A fascinating view into one of the most violent years in NYC’s history

NYC had 328 murder victims in 2014, its lowest figure ever. For those who live or visit it’s hard to believe that this was one of the world’s most violent cities. 1990 was the pinnacle of a spiral of crime that started in the 1960s and exploded in the 1980s. Listen to some of the…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jan 30 '15

Nominate Your Favorite Works And People For The 2015 Hugo Awards

Award season is upon us. That means it’s time to nominate your favorite short fiction, novels, TV episodes, movies, podcasts, and other SF media for the Hugo Award. And your favorite new authors for the John W Campbell Award. Need a primer on the categories and what’s eligible for each? That’s easy (and found down…

io9 K. Tempest Bradford Jan 30 '15

The Winds Of Winter Will Not Blow in 2015

In an announcement that may temper your excitement from the new Game of Thrones season 5 trailer released earlier, HarperCollins has confirmed that the sixth book in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series will not be published in 2015. Which is kind of funny, because it blows. Immediately moving past…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken Jan 30 '15

Obama’s Precision Medicine Plan Sounds Great—Unless It’s an IT Nightmare

After teasing a “Precision Medicine Initiative” in his State of the Union address, President Obama today released the details of his $215 million plan: A massive database containing the genetic profiles and health records of at least a million volunteers. Genetics sequencing! Big data! These all sound like good things! But there is potential problem:…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Jan 30 '15

The Real Reason Why US Adaptations Of British TV Shows Rarely Succeed

When it comes to TV, us Brits get very defensive when America tries to adapt one of our shows – just look at the reaction to the announcement that Black Mirror is getting a US remake. There’s a good reason for the concern though: Most of the time these adaptations don’t really work… and that’s…

Television James Whitbrook Jan 30 '15

What’s Better For Hiking? Boots vs Trail Runners vs Approach Shoes

You want to wear hiking boots to go hiking, right? That may be conventional outdoors wisdom, but often, it’s not the right answer. Let’s examine the merits of each and try to help you find the right solution. https://gizmodo.com/whats-better-for-hiking-boots-vs-trail-runners-vs-appr-1682825752

Tech News Wes Siler Jan 30 '15

What Causes Rigor Mortis?

When you’re dead, you stiffen up. We all know this. But why? What is the process that goes on, inside a dead body, that causes muscle tissue to contract so tightly that the limbs can be impossible to move? We’ll take you into the wonderful world of rigor mortis. We think of the contraction of…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jan 30 '15

6 Supermaterials That Could Change Our World

Graphene isn’t the only game-changing material to come out of a lab. From aerogels nearly as light as air to metamaterials that manipulate light, here are six supermaterials that have the potential to transform the world of the future. Self-healing Materials — Bioinspired Plastics Self-healing plastic. Image credit: UIUC The human body is very good…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Jan 30 '15

What’s Better For Hiking? Boots vs Trail Runners vs Approach Shoes

You want to wear hiking boots to go hiking, right? That may be conventional outdoors wisdom, but often, it’s not the right answer. Let’s examine the merits of each and try to help you find the right solution. Each of us has our own individual needs for footwear. A lot of which shoe or boot…

Tech News Wes Siler Jan 30 '15

An Exclusive Preview Of Helix’s New Big Bad Virus

What’s the big new problem for the cast of Syfy’s Helix? See for yourself! If you’re unaware of the new viral outbreak that the cast is battling in season two, well here’s a face full of infectious insanity. Watch our exclusive clip from tonight’s episode. This season the crew has left the snowy, isolated labs…

Television Meredith Woerner Jan 30 '15

Cute miniature kitchen allows you to cook tiny breakfast on tiny pans

Japanese toy company Konapun has this cute but fully-functional miniature kitchen that is just perfect to cook a real Thanksgiving dinner for your hamster—or his favorite breakfast. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Jan 30 '15

F-35 gets turned into popsicle by giant fridge

Cool photo of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II undergoing tests in extreme freezing weather conditions. An F-35B from the F-35 Patuxent River Integrated Test Force in Maryland has undergone rigorous climatic testing at the U.S. Air Force 96th Test Wing’s McKinley Climatic Laboratory located at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. The laboratory supports all-weather testing…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jan 30 '15

A Tiny Moon Putters Away From Asteroid During Near-Earth Encounter

Asteroid 2004 BL86 charmed us with its tiny, dive-bombing moon during its close approach at the start of this week. Now JPL has released more radar data of the minuscule moon’s trajectory guaranteed to charm us with its unwavering obedience to the laws governing orbital dynamics. https://gizmodo.com/tiny-moon-dive-bombs-asteroid-during-near-earth-flyby-1681906555

Tech News Mika McKinnon Jan 30 '15

Paper Books Will Never Die

After eight years of writing about past visions of the future, I’ve learned to never make predictions of my own. But I’m about to break my own rule because I’m just so damn confident in my prediction: Paper books will never completely disappear. Okay, I’m going to almost immediately hedge and say that I can’t…

Tech News Matt Novak Jan 30 '15

This Weird Video Installation Shows How Cosmic Dung Beetles Really Are

What do you get when you combine a planetarium projector and footage of dung beetles? If you’re video artist Diana Thater, you get a science lesson as well as a meditation on how humans disrupt other forms of life on this planet without even meaning to. Top image via David Zwirner Gallery Thater’s new video…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 30 '15

How Americans Changed The Way Japanese People Ate Sushi

Sushi has taken on its own shape and form in the United States, but even before the first sushi restaurants opened up in California, America had an impact on the type of sushi eaten in Japan. During the American occupation after World War II, a food rationing program helped the rise of nigiri outside Tokyo.…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 30 '15

Ice cream extends life, ice cream expands consciousness

Robots Are Now Learning How To Cook By Watching YouTube Videos

Beware: Porn-Based Malware Is Sweeping Across Facebook

The Future of GIFs Is Killing What Makes Them So Great

A fascinating view into one of the most violent years in NYC’s history

Nominate Your Favorite Works And People For The 2015 Hugo Awards

The Winds Of Winter Will Not Blow in 2015

Obama’s Precision Medicine Plan Sounds Great—Unless It’s an IT Nightmare

The Real Reason Why US Adaptations Of British TV Shows Rarely Succeed

What’s Better For Hiking? Boots vs Trail Runners vs Approach Shoes

What Causes Rigor Mortis?

6 Supermaterials That Could Change Our World

What’s Better For Hiking? Boots vs Trail Runners vs Approach Shoes

An Exclusive Preview Of Helix’s New Big Bad Virus

Cute miniature kitchen allows you to cook tiny breakfast on tiny pans

F-35 gets turned into popsicle by giant fridge

A Tiny Moon Putters Away From Asteroid During Near-Earth Encounter

Paper Books Will Never Die

This Weird Video Installation Shows How Cosmic Dung Beetles Really Are

How Americans Changed The Way Japanese People Ate Sushi

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