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You Can Climb Through This Web Made From 27 Miles of Tape

12 people and ten days: That’s how long the artist collective Numen / For Use says it took to create a cellophane jungle gym inside this gallery in Paris, where visitors can crawl inside their milky, transparent network like spiders on a web. How much tape did they use? Almost 30 miles. The installation at…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

BlackBerry Will Give You Up To $600 If You Just Please, Please Switch

How much would someone have to pay you before you willingly swapped your phone for a BlackBerry? The Canadian phonemaker is hoping that number is less than $600 for iPhone users, because that is how much they are prepared to give people to trade in their Apple phones for a shiny, square Passport. From December…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

NASA Built a Grappling Claw With Just Household Objects and LittleBits

There were plenty of engineering-themed toys on view at this weekend’s Toy and Game Fair in Chicago, but none of them came close to NASA’s contribution in terms of sheer cred. On hand at the fair were NASA reps who demonstrated a mechanism built from the agency’s new LittleBits kit. First announced in April, LittleBits’…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

What It Feels Like to Fly in NASA’s Crazy Zero-Gravity Plane

Last week we showed you how NASA simulates space here on Earth, with everything from advanced virtual reality to monstrous thermal vacuum chambers. But all of that still can’t prepare you for how an object, or an experiment, will behave in zero gravity. Sometimes you just have to fly. Luckily, NASA doesn’t have to spend…

Space & Spaceflight Brent Rose

This gorgeous Star Trek Clock uses Starships to tell the time

It’s D’kora past D’deridex! If you love the myriad ships of the Trek universe, this elaborate hand-made clock might just be for you. This amazing bit timekeeping comes from Etsy User YougNeek (which as much as it looks like that’s an old Star Trek race, is meant to be pronounced ‘Unique’, apparently), and actually uses…

Tech News James Whitbrook

This Weird Vintage Airplane Flies With Cylinders Instead Of Wings

The Flettner Airplane made its debut in the 1930s. Instead of wings, it flies using rotating cylinders that stick out from either side of its body. We’ll tell you about its inventor, and show you how it flies. Anton Flettner and His Rotorcraft Anton Flettner was a German engineer who didn’t see why things needed…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

This mid-swing Spider-Man is a wonderful display

This upside down Spider-Man caught my eye while browsing models this morning. Builder nobu_tary did an excellent job of floating the figure with the use of a clever base. It really does look like he is swinging through the air. I’d like to see what it looks like off the base. It is nicely done,…

Tech News Michael Schulte

How Ross Perot Saved the World’s First Electronic Computer

Ross Perot is a collector. He once bought a copy of the Magna Carta in 1984. But more intriguingly, he also bought and resurrected ENIAC, the world’s first electronic computer. ENIAC stands for the “Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer” and was conceived of during World War II to help calculate the arched paths of artillery…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Why Dogs Are Sloppier Drinkers Than Cats

Cats and dogs both lap up liquids with their tongues, but new research describes in detail why dogs are inherently sloppier drinkers. The findings also help to explain why large, hefty dogs produce more backsplash mess than tinier ones. This and more related info was discussed today during the presentation “How Dogs Drink Water,” made…

io9 Jennifer Viegas — Discovery News

Sideshow Fills the Joseph Gordon-Levitt Hole In Your Figure Collection

Before it’s through, Sideshow Collectibles will have turned every single character appearing in a comic book movie into an impossibly lifelike and detailed 12-inch action figure. And that’s perfectly ok, because it means we even get a miniature version of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s John Blake from The Dark Knight Rises, and we (those who saw the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

A Congressman Has Named A Climate Change Denial Theory After Himself

A bill has been introduced in the House to study the “Stockman Effect,” which stipulates that changes in Earth’s magnetic field could impact global temperature. But no record of a Stockman Effect exists in scientific literature, since, it seems, the term was invented by the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX). Even by congressional standards,…

io9 Mark Strauss

Underwater city could fit 5,000 people and draw energy from the seabed

Japanese construction firm Shimizu Corp just revealed their new project: An underwater city capable of fitting 5,000 people and draw its energy from the seabed. Shimizu says the project would take five years to build and the technology required would be ready in 15 years. The structure is divided in three sections: The sphere—just below…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

The Worst Bugs in Android 5.0 Lollipop and How to Fix Them

Android 5.0 Lollipop is now upon us, and while you might be rejoicing at all the new features you can take advantage of, you might also be cursing at the state that the new OS has left your device in. We’ve rounded up the most common Lollipop issues so far, together with the fixes you…

Gadgets David Nield

What Futuristic Technology Are You The Least Excited For?

Do flying cars only make you imagine sky-traffic jams? Do Star Trek-style communicators just make you anticipate the inevitable invention of Star Trek-style communicator spam? We want to know what’s your least anticipated futuristic technology. Tell us your choice in the comments — and be sure to tell us just why you’re dreading its appearance.…

io9 Ria Misra

Matthew McConaughey In (Evil) Talks To Be The Stand‘s Randall Flagg

Jesus. Sometimes, a movie casts a role so perfectly you have to stop and give it a round of applause. So get ready to clap, because the movie adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand may cast Matthew McConaughey as the evil man in black, Randall Flagg McCounaughey’s been rumored for the role for a while…

Movies Rob Bricken

Chrysler’s Using Oculus Rift To Put You Inside a Car As It’s Built

It seems a test drive just isn’t enough to sell customers on a new car these days. So to help promote the new Chrysler 200, the automaker partnered with Wieden+Kennedy Portland, Stopp, and MPC Creative to produce an Oculus Rift virtual reality experience that gives buyers not only a tour of the car, but the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

“Throckmorton Sign” Is A Rather Naughty Medical Condition

Here’s a hint as to what the Throckmorton Sign is. It’s also known as the John Thomas Sign, and it’s going to make the x-ray in this entry ever so slightly not safe for work. Doctors have all kinds of medical slang, much of which they keep from the public for obvious reasons. Here’s a…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Worst Airport In America

More than 46 million Americans will travel further than 50 miles for this week’s turkey-based festivities, and many of us will do it via air. And while very few airports deal well with holidays swarms, some of them excel at misery. Last month, we set out to find America’s worst airport. We asked you to…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

A Game Controller Coffee Mug Provides Unlimited Caffeine Power-Ups

Video game worlds are littered with health packs, energy potions, even random piles of food that your character can take advantage of for a quick energy boost. At most offices, though, the only power-up you’re going to find is a pot of coffee—and even when it’s stale and awful that shot of caffeine can revive…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Is James Bond’s Most Famous Arch-Nemesis Coming Back At Last?

Read a description of a Tomorrowland scene that takes place at the 1964 World’s Fair. Is the Star Wars trailer coming to your town this weekend? Frank Grillo talks Captain America 3. Learn what’s ahead for Arkham, Poison Ivy, and Dr. Leslie Thompson on Gotham. And where is Father Gabriel on The Walking Dead? Spoilers…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

You Can Climb Through This Web Made From 27 Miles of Tape

BlackBerry Will Give You Up To $600 If You Just Please, Please Switch

NASA Built a Grappling Claw With Just Household Objects and LittleBits

What It Feels Like to Fly in NASA’s Crazy Zero-Gravity Plane

This gorgeous Star Trek Clock uses Starships to tell the time

This Weird Vintage Airplane Flies With Cylinders Instead Of Wings

This mid-swing Spider-Man is a wonderful display

How Ross Perot Saved the World’s First Electronic Computer

Why Dogs Are Sloppier Drinkers Than Cats

Sideshow Fills the Joseph Gordon-Levitt Hole In Your Figure Collection

A Congressman Has Named A Climate Change Denial Theory After Himself

Underwater city could fit 5,000 people and draw energy from the seabed

The Worst Bugs in Android 5.0 Lollipop and How to Fix Them

What Futuristic Technology Are You The Least Excited For?

Matthew McConaughey In (Evil) Talks To Be The Stand‘s Randall Flagg

Chrysler’s Using Oculus Rift To Put You Inside a Car As It’s Built

“Throckmorton Sign” Is A Rather Naughty Medical Condition

The Worst Airport In America

A Game Controller Coffee Mug Provides Unlimited Caffeine Power-Ups

Is James Bond’s Most Famous Arch-Nemesis Coming Back At Last?

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