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An Action Cam on a Spinning Car Wheel Makes for One Mesmerizing Ad

An effective commercial doesn’t necessarily have to be a multi-million dollar production. Remember that Nike ad with Tiger Woods bouncing a golf ball on his club? It was supposed to be completely different until the director saw his skills on set. VW had similar luck with this ad made with nothing but an action cam…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How Much Does a Wiretap Go For These Days?

For years, the government and phone carriers have been squabbling over secret surveillance—because of the dollar amount on the bill. Most recently, AT&T’s thrifty little offshoot Cricket Communications has agreed to pay out $2.1 million in a settlement for overcharging federal and state law enforcement agencies for wiretaps and pen registers, and Sprint is also…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Wire: A Wonderful Messaging App Missing the Only Thing That Matters

Wire is a beautiful new messaging app created by some of the key people behind Skype. The app is an effort to streamline some of the clunkiness that exists in virtually every messaging app out there. After trying it out this morning, I can say that the app succeeds. Whether anybody will use it or…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Secret History of Hermits

In nearly every civilization with historical records, we find stories of people who went off by themselves to live in the wilderness. But not all hermits were the same: some were outcasts, some were holy, and others were extremely fashionable. All their stories are extraordinary. To the Mountains All hermits seem attracted to heights. This…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Large Hadron Collider’s Circuits Just Got Run Through A Dishwasher

Shield your eyes, electronics and physics fans! What you’re seeing is exactly what it looks like: the LHC’s circuit boards right before the door slammed shut and the rinse cycle began. Is it a tragic mixup on the part of some overworked lab assistant? All part of some elaborate ransom plot by a physics-hating supervillain?…

io9 Ria Misra

Stephen Hawking Wants To Play A Bond Villain. Make It Happen, Hollywood

Professor Stephen Hawking has appeared as himself on The Simpsons, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Futurama, and The Big Bang Theory, but for once, he’d like to play someone other than himself. And he even has the perfect role picked out: Professor Hawking wants to play the villain in a James Bond film. The Telegraph…

io9 Lauren Davis

The last of the DC Comics Lego variant covers is now available

It’s comic book Wednesday and the final comic in this series of DC Comics Lego variant covers is now available. Sinestro #7 can be purchased at Midtown Comics or you can head out to your local comic store to pick it up! You’re reading Leg Godt, the blog with the latest Lego news and the…

Books & Comics Michael Schulte

The Killer Chemists of Prohibition

In 1930, Prohibition had been the law of the land for ten years, and nearly everyone agreed it was a bad idea. Then people started collapsing. Some new chemical in seemingly legal liquor was to blame — but what? Back then, alcohol wasn’t only sold as a recreational substance. It formed the basis for a…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

What It Feels Like To Vomit, Just After Summiting A 20,000′ Peak

This is a brutally honest account of my first Himalayan climb — an attempt on the 20,305′ Imja Tse — more popularly known as Island Peak. While it’s a baby by Himalayan standards only a few other points on earth outside of Asia reach a higher altitude. I had been planning my Himalayan trip for…

Tech News Chris Brinlee Jr

Your Cable Box Is an Energy-Sucking Monster (But It Doesn’t Have to Be)

An innocent little cable box can suck up more electricity than your actual TV. The most galling part though? Up to two-thirds of its power-hogging actually happens in “idle” mode, when you’re not even using it. The good news is, device makers have the technical ability to make cable boxes that don’t waste so much…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

This Trusty U.S. Chopper Is Heading Home After a Decade of War

“We fly like nobody else in the Army,” Col. Michael Musiol, commander of the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, recently told Stars and Stripes. He’s right. The OH-58 Kiowa family of helicopters has been serving on the front lines—both as an advanced scout and emergency evacuator—for nearly 50 years. But as its tenure in Afghanistan comes…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The Agents of SHIELD Manage To Turn A Head Start Into A Faceplant

Last night’s Agents of SHIELD was just crushing, because it seemed as though the “good guys” were a step ahead of Hydra, for the first time since Captain America 2. Of course, it was too good to last, because this show loves to torture its characters (and us.) Spoilers ahead… There were two main storylines…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Stunning Film Shows How London’s Night Sky Would Look During A Blackout

What if all of the lights in the South East of England suddenly went out, eliminating the light pollution that blocks the stars from London’s view? This fantastical timelapse video imagines just that, pouring oceans of stars into the London sky. Nicholas Buer explains on Vimeo how he created Blackout City and the work he…

io9 Lauren Davis

10 Nearly Perfect Movies, And What They Teach Us About Storytelling

Maybe there’s no such thing as a perfect movie. It’s usually enough of a miracle that a movie gets made. But every once in a while, a movie manages to tell a great story without a brush stroke noticeably out of place. Here are 10 nearly perfect movies, and what they teach us about storytelling.…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Hashtag Gloves :(

There are gloves called Hashtag Gloves. If you make a hashtag symbol with your fingers and then speak, the gloves will tweet what you say. They are, objectively, the worst gloves. If watching The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon has taught us anything in life it is 1) Fallon possesses breezy interviewing skills and 2)…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Bilbo Baggins is getting a cutesy makeover to star in a JRPG

D’aaw. Let’s ignore the fact that the poor Hobbit appears to have lost his nose and mouth in the transition, but still, he’s made it largely okay in his transition to one of Japan’s biggest mobile games later this month. Brave Frontier (which you can play here in the west too) is a big Mobile-based…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Build This Wave Machine With Duct Tape, Kebab Skewers, and Candy

A lot of people use Slinkies to introduce kids to waves. But Slinky waves can move too fast for people to really wrap their heads around. Instead, science teacher and filmmaker Alom Shaha suggests, they should try this wave machine. You can build it yourself, and you can do it on the cheap. Here’s how.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

ASUS ZenWatch Review: The First Smartwatch I’d Wear As a Watch

For years, I’ve wanted a smartwatch: a device that would blend style with digital convenience. Unfortunately, the first crop of smartwatches have predominantly been bulky pieces of plastic and glass for which adjectives like “elegant” seem disingenuous. But the Asus ZenWatch is evidence that things are getting better. With a slim watchface body, a snap-and-go…

Reviews Darren Orf

First Footage From Terminator: Genisys Brings Back A T-1000

Did you know that there is a T-1000 in the new Terminator: Genisys movie? The new Terminator: Genisys teaser trailer just revealed a face full of mimetic poly-alloy, which means the T-1000 is back. Or at least some version of the T-1000. We highly doubt this is the Robert Patrick—or maybe it is (it’s probably…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Bruce Willis Builds Utopian Paradise Run By Robots Not Called Westworld

In this trailer, Bruce Willis has built a pleasure island where people can do whatever they want to robots, including kill them. But what happens when one of the robots REMEMBERS her copious murders? Uh-oh. The name of the place is Vice. Get it? You get it. And this movie’s premise is oddly similar to…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

An Action Cam on a Spinning Car Wheel Makes for One Mesmerizing Ad

How Much Does a Wiretap Go For These Days?

Wire: A Wonderful Messaging App Missing the Only Thing That Matters

The Secret History of Hermits

The Large Hadron Collider’s Circuits Just Got Run Through A Dishwasher

Stephen Hawking Wants To Play A Bond Villain. Make It Happen, Hollywood

The last of the DC Comics Lego variant covers is now available

The Killer Chemists of Prohibition

What It Feels Like To Vomit, Just After Summiting A 20,000′ Peak

Your Cable Box Is an Energy-Sucking Monster (But It Doesn’t Have to Be)

This Trusty U.S. Chopper Is Heading Home After a Decade of War

The Agents of SHIELD Manage To Turn A Head Start Into A Faceplant

Stunning Film Shows How London’s Night Sky Would Look During A Blackout

10 Nearly Perfect Movies, And What They Teach Us About Storytelling

Hashtag Gloves :(

Bilbo Baggins is getting a cutesy makeover to star in a JRPG

Build This Wave Machine With Duct Tape, Kebab Skewers, and Candy

ASUS ZenWatch Review: The First Smartwatch I’d Wear As a Watch

First Footage From Terminator: Genisys Brings Back A T-1000

Bruce Willis Builds Utopian Paradise Run By Robots Not Called Westworld

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