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Deals: Hard to get Lego Exo-Suit now available at Target

Target is now stocking the Lego Exo-Suit (21109) in their online store for $39.99. While this price is five bucks more than RPP, if you have a REDcard, you can get 5% off and free shipping on your order. At Target the limit is 3 per household, unlike Amazon’s two or the one per household…

Space & Spaceflight Michael Schulte

Tuesday Game Room: Return of the Hair Witch Edition

Bayonetta is back in action! Platinum Games, err, games are like buses this week – you wait ages for one, and two come along at once. There might not be many ‘huge’ titles coming out, but there’s a lot to love in this week’s edition of Tuesday Game Room! What have you been playing this…

Tech News James Whitbrook

The US Cities That Allow the Tiniest Apartments (Not Where You’d Think)

The development of micro-housing—apartments and other dwellings smaller than 300 square feet—is a growing trend in many popular cities cramped for space. But where in the country can you find the teeniest examples of this trend? Maybe not the cities you’d first guess. Right now, the micro-unit leader in the U.S. is the city of…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Don’t Get Too Excited About That New “Hoverboard” Just Yet

People are understandably really excited about the latest hoverboard currently being crowdfunded at Kickstarter. It’s called the Hendo and it’s being developed by Greg and Jill Henderson for their company Arx Pax. Is it real? Yes. Has our Back to the Future hoverboard finally arrived? Sadly, no. The New York Times reporters who tried out…

Tech News Matt Novak

The New Hunger Games Propaganda Web Series Is Delightfully Creepy

We love how so much of the marketing for the Hunger Games movies builds on the world of Panem, and the new web series to promote Mockingjay, District Voices, is a perfect example of that. In each episode, members of a Panem district describe their labor with Capitol-enforced cheer. You can see the trailer for…

Movies Lauren Davis

Flying Over A Martian Chaos Terrain Is Our New Favorite 3D Movie

Blockbuster 3D movies can be tremendously disappointing. But you know what’s not disappointing at all? This video that lets you fly across a Martian chaos terrain, in 3D. The brief flight comes to us courtesy of the ESA, who used footage from their Mars Express Orbiter to give us a taste of what it would…

io9 Ria Misra

Whitney Museum Earnestly Proclaims “KOONS IS GREAT FOR SELFIES”

The Whitney Museum just closed out one of the most influential selfie backdrops of the past three decades. Er, I mean the Whitney just closed out its Jeff Koons retrospective, an exhibit where it encouraged #teens to post #selifes with #balloondogs. Cool. Forget for a minute that Jeff Koons is one of the most successful…

Tech News Leslie Horn

This skeleton will help you make a Lego robot if you are a lazy ass

Hero Design Studio has shared the downloadable instructions for a 3D printable skeleton to make building a Lego robot a little bit easier. Though the majority of bends and joints can be done in actual Lego, there are a few custom bricks that would certainly take the guess work out of construction with the framework…

Tech News Michael Schulte

Now You Can Book a Hipmunk Hotel Room Through Yelp

Researching a vacation but are too busy to click through a hotel’s Yelp reviews to see if it actually has rooms available? Fear not because starting today, you’ll be able to book hotels through Hipmunk without ever navigating away from Yelp. As Yelp’s newest “Platform Partner” Hipmunk is the only approved hotel provider for the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The Best Biology Photos Of 2014 Will Take You To Another World

The Society of Biology has announced the winners of its 2014 photo contest. The annual competition is open to amateur photographers, but you’ll scarcely believe it after looking at these stunning photos. The theme for this year was “Home, Habitat, and Shelter.” Judges evaluated over 800 entries, granting a top prize of £1,000 (USD$1,617) and…

io9 George Dvorsky

Google Play Music Gets a New Look and Songza’s Suggestion Superpowers

Today, Google Play Music gets smarter about the suggestions it offers, by taking into account the time of day, day of the week, and device you’re using. So when you’re dragging at the end of the work day, you get just the jams you need to get through it. You might recognize that the new…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

These Lego Classic Space builds make me want a new official Space line

When someone builds in the classic Lego space palette, that mix of blue, grey and yellow, I am instantly transported back to my childhood. Builder SweStar has shared a diorama of various Mecha, ships and vignettes that show what could have been if the Lego Space theme continued another 30 years. You’re reading Leg Godt,…

Space & Spaceflight Michael Schulte

The Entire Halloween Franchise Explained In Two Exhausting Minutes

Did you know that Paul Rudd killed Michael Myers? Also, Halloween 3 really didn’t have anything to do with anything? Here is the entire Halloween franchise in two minutes. No, seriously — Paul Rudd was in Halloween 6. Here’s the clip where he tries to trick Michael and then stabs him with so much poison.…

io9 Meredith Woerner

This Electronic Stonehenge Once Divined the Secrets of Soviet Radio

In the early days of electronic espionage, the US intelligence community didn’t have the benefit of all-seeing spy satellites—it had to intercept and interpret high-frequency radio waves transmitted by the Soviet Union. To do so, the Americans relied on a network of mysterious structures whose real purpose was kept highly classified throughout the Cold War.…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

A Plush Serenity Will Even Turn Toddlers Into Firefly Fans

Is there anything in the universe more powerful than a rabid fan base? Seemingly not. Firefly, a show cancelled way back in 2002, is still alive and well in the hearts of those who lament its early demise. And thanks to Netflix, its popularity continues to grow, spawning more and more merchandise, including this adorable…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Engineers create real Back to the Future hoverboard and it really works

Holy crap, they did it! The engineers at Hendo just released this video showing a real-world Back to the Future style hoverboard! And it actually works! And they are Kickstarting it! And yes, I’m VERY EXCITED, which is why I’m putting exclamation marks everywhere! From the company: So where does the HENDO hoverboard stand today?…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Sea Monkeys Are The Guardians Of Earth’s Oceans

They never built castles like we were promised in the ads on the back of comic books, but it turns out that Sea Monkeys (a.k.a. brine shrimp) might have the power to move oceans and transport nutrients to deep underwater environments. Although brine shrimp don’t grow any larger than 0.6 inches, researchers from the California…

io9 Mark Strauss

How to Try Out Apple’s New Photo Storage Service Now

There’s no end to the list of services wanting to store your photos—Flickr, Google+, Dropbox, Facebook—and Apple knows it needs to up its game. Enter iCloud Photo Library, available in beta form now on any device running iOS 8.1. It won’t be available on the desktop until the OS X Photos app upgrade arrives early…

Gadgets David Nield

Walking On The Alien World From Interstellar

You probably recognize Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier from countless movies and TV shows including Game of Thrones, Batman Begins, and most recently Christopher Nolan’s upcoming SciFi epic, Interstellar. We went hiking on it. Ever since seeing Batman Begins for the first time in 2005, I’ve been intrigued by the scene where Bruce Wayne journeyed to the…

Tech News Chris Brinlee Jr

How To Force People To Do Anything (And Have Them Thank You For it)

Does someone in your life not want to do something? Do you not care, even the slightest bit, about their wishes? Here’s how to force them to complete a task they don’t care about, and even feel superior while you’re doing it. The Endowed Progress Effect The Endowed Progress Effect is something you’ll see quite…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Deals: Hard to get Lego Exo-Suit now available at Target

Tuesday Game Room: Return of the Hair Witch Edition

The US Cities That Allow the Tiniest Apartments (Not Where You’d Think)

Don’t Get Too Excited About That New “Hoverboard” Just Yet

The New Hunger Games Propaganda Web Series Is Delightfully Creepy

Flying Over A Martian Chaos Terrain Is Our New Favorite 3D Movie

Whitney Museum Earnestly Proclaims “KOONS IS GREAT FOR SELFIES”

This skeleton will help you make a Lego robot if you are a lazy ass

Now You Can Book a Hipmunk Hotel Room Through Yelp

The Best Biology Photos Of 2014 Will Take You To Another World

Google Play Music Gets a New Look and Songza’s Suggestion Superpowers

These Lego Classic Space builds make me want a new official Space line

The Entire Halloween Franchise Explained In Two Exhausting Minutes

This Electronic Stonehenge Once Divined the Secrets of Soviet Radio

A Plush Serenity Will Even Turn Toddlers Into Firefly Fans

Engineers create real Back to the Future hoverboard and it really works

Sea Monkeys Are The Guardians Of Earth’s Oceans

How to Try Out Apple’s New Photo Storage Service Now

Walking On The Alien World From Interstellar

How To Force People To Do Anything (And Have Them Thank You For it)

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