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The Tech That Drives The New Tesla Model S, Explained

Last night, Elon Musk took the wraps off the new Tesla Model S. Dual motors and all-wheel drive don’t just make it faster, a new sensor array will make it safer too. Let’s break out each innovation, figure out what it is and how it works. Dual Motors: Putting the “D” in the Tesla Model…

Deals: Lego Exo-Suit back in stock on Amazon

Amazon has returned the extremely hard to get Lego Ideas Exo Suit to its online store. At $34.95 they even knocked 4 whole cents off the retail purchase price! Limit 2 per customer on these. I’m guessing they will go really quick as they are extremely hard to find. Classic Space Lego figs in green?…

Watch as a Hawk Knocks a Drone Out of the Sky

While flying his quadcopter earlier this week in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Christopher Schmidt experienced firsthand the problem that confronts drone-delivery startups: raptors don’t like sharing their airspace. What happened to Schmidt is a portent of what could happen to that package you’re waiting for if companies like Amazon begin flying the not-so-friendly skies. As bird expert…

The New Secret-Spilling App “Vent” Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen

There is a new iOS app called Vent devoted to letting people complain about their lives. It’s a shitstorm in the making. Like Whisper and Secret, you can post anonymously, though the app does require an email address (it’s not displayed publicly, but still), and you can choose to post your real name. Vent has…

Oh, if only this Doctor Who Paternoster Gang comic was real

Doctor Who’s Victorian trio of Vastra, Jenny and Strax have had fans begging for a spinoff since they first appeared in 2011’s A Good Man Goes To War – but while such an idea seems to remain an unlikely possibility, what if we could have the Paternosters starring in their own Comic adventures? This delightful…

Should You Really Be Blowing Your Nose Like That?

Your options are to blow or to snort ‘n swallow. Unless you prefer to let the snot just sort of dribble out and pool in your philtrum, giving your upper lip a damp, sickly glisten. Which, no – what are you, seven? It’s time you learned to get rid of mucus like a well-informed adult.…

Hawk attacks a drone mid-air bringing it down to the ground

A guy was flying his quadcopter at Magazine Beach Park, Cambridge, when a hawk suddenly appears and decides the sky is to small for both of them. The video shows how the hawk approaches the drone and knocks it down with a simple hit. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on…

io9 Newsstand: Best Stories of the Week for October 6 – 11

Last month, Nebula award-winning author and editor Eugie Foster passed away at the way too early age of 42. Eugie was, and is still, one of the most impressive people I’ve ever known. She was a prolific writer (over 100 stories published) but literature wasn’t the only artistic endeavor she engaged in. She danced, she…

Our BPRD Preview Shows How To Sell Coffee In A Town Full Of Monsters

No matter what horrors have been unleashed on earth, no matter how dangerous life gets, one truth will remain constant: we all need coffee. In our preview of BPRD: Hell on Earth #124 (due out October 15th), one Santa Fe coffee shop worker tries to live among the monstrous Ogdru Hem as best he can…

Dracula Gets a Makeover for the ISIS Age in Dracula Untold

Almost every modern Dracula retelling includes some kind of flashback to the vampire’s origin, which is more or less tragic depending on whether he’s the hero of the story. Now, with Dracula Untold, we’ve finally got an entire movie devoted to the undeath of Transylvanian prince Vlad Tepes — and it’s cheesy as hell. Probably…

Deals of Future Past, Scott Pilgrim Heads to Humble

Days of Future Past is the first X-Men film to be a Great Film in its Own Right. Grab some deals. Out Tuesday. Amazon-exclusive Collector’s Edition with Magneto Helmet, down to $70 3D Edition, down to $23 Best Buy-exclusive 3D Edition, down to $23 Standard Edition, down to $18 The Humble Oni Press Comics Bundle…

Zeiss VR One Is a $100 Virtual Reality Face Case For Your Phone

Carl Zeiss just announcedVR One, a virtual reality headset for use with a smartphone. It’s similar to the Gear VR by Samsung and Oculus, except at $100, it’s cheaper. The VR One is a head-mounted viewer for virtual reality content that’s playing on your phone. The viewer works with phones between 4.7 and 5.2 inches.…

Archaeologists Make Stunning Discoveries at the Antikythera Shipwreck

The international team of divers and archaeologists who are investigating the site of an ancient Greek ship that sank more than 2,000 years ago off the remote island of Antikythera have not been disappointed. Not only is the site bigger than they thought, it also contains a treasure trove of artifacts. First, an explanation for…

The Droid Turbo Could Have the Biggest Phone Battery You’ve Ever Seen

Want a phone with seriously killer battery life? I hope you’re on Verizon, because it looks like the new Droid Turbo was built specifically for you. An image that showed up on TaoBao (basically Chinese Ebay) says that sucker will pack a mammoth 3,900 mAh battery. That is a lot of power. An earlier manual…

How Robin Might Have Looked In Tim Burton’s Aborted Third Batman Film

Tim Burton was originally going to helm a third Batman movie after Batman Returns, but the studio bumped him from the director’s chair in favor of Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher. But this concept art gives us one possible look for Burton’s version of Robin. Originally, Burton had intended to debut Robin in Batman Returns,…

Marvel Plans Biggest Comic Event Ever With Return Of Secret Wars

Marvel is declaring war. More than 30 years after its arguably most popular comic crossover, Secret Wars, the publisher has declared a new comice vent that will engulf the Marvel universes — pitting Captain America against Captain America, Thor against Thor, and so forth. Details are of course sketchy — we know it’s being written…

10 TV Shows That Are Really Creepy If You Think About Them Too Much

Television is a medium that requires bizarre things to happen every week, like clockwork. So the most successful TV shows are often the ones which engineer recurring weirdness the most smoothly. And this can result in some… odd premises. Here are 10 classic TV shows that kind of creepy if you think about them too…

A 19th Century Math Genius Taught Us The Best Way To Hold Pizza

We’ve all been there. You pick up a slice of pizza and you’re about to take a bite, but it flops over and dangles limply from your fingers instead. The crust isn’t stiff enough to support the weight of the slice. Maybe you should have gone for fewer toppings? No. There’s no need to despair.…

Whoa, Driving Around In Nazi Germany Was Super Intense

Archivists at the Library of Congress recently discovered a “Nazi Driver Education Film.” It shows German society just a few years before the war, along with the rather bizarre — and frightening — driving culture of the times. It might seem like a slapstick silent film, but it’s a bona fide instructional video. Aside from…