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Reading Glasses With a Built-In Secret Neck Strap

If you require reading glasses, you’ll inevitably get to an age where you tire of constantly misplacing them, and just accept that a neck strap is the way to go. But they’re actually a handy accessory, and if you want to make the upgrade earlier without looking twenty years beyond your age, this pair of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Singapore looks like Blade Runner in this hyper-lapse video

Singapore is one of the most futuristic looking cities in the world thanks to its gorgeous architecture but this video, using a hyper-lapse technique—like a time-lapse but with long camera movements— makes it look like a location from Blade Runner. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Hacker Turned FBI Informant Sabu Sentenced to One Year Probation

Hector Xavier Mansegur (otherwise as known as the notorious LulzSec hacker/backstabber Sabu) has just been sentenced to time served plus one year “supervised release.” In other words—Sabu’s walking. During this year-long period (and on top of a $1200 fine), Sabu, his vehicle, and his residence will be subject to search pretty much any time an…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg and Adam Clark Estes

Now This Is The Updated Power Rangers Series We Deserve

What’s the best way to fight a mutant lobster? With science! In this wonderfully campy short film, a trio of high school students discover their chemistry teacher is a Power Ranger and must use what they’ve learned to help him fight a monster. Jon Truei’s Secondary Education is a fun and silly blend of ’90s…

io9 Lauren Davis

A Human Experimenter Was Vice-President Of The American Cancer Society

A doctor who was once vice president of the The American Cancer Society turns out to have had a dark history. He twice experimented on human beings, injecting them with cancer cells. Learn about the human experimentation of Chester Southam. In 1964, Doctor Chester Southam, a well-known cancer researcher, got elected vice-president of the American…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Decorate Your Temple of Doom With a Monkey Head Bowl Full of Fake Brains

Until Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull came along, The Temple of Doom was considered the least enjoyable of the Indiana Jones films—due in no small part to the dinner scene involving baby snakes, and chilled monkey brains served in their own skulls. A meal you can finally serve at home, or…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

What Causes the Smell After It Rains?

There are three primary sources of smells that commonly occur after rain. The first, the “clean” smell, in particular after a heavy thunderstorm, is caused by ozone. Ozone (scientifically known as trioxygen due to the fact that it is comprised of three oxygen atoms) is notably pungent and has a very sharp smell that is…

Tech News Karl Smallwood - TodayIFoundOut.com

The Science Of Why Bacon Smells So Goddamn Good

Bacon smells good. Like, unreasonably good. There are many reasons for this, say food chemists — 150 to be exact. As this Reactions/ACS video points out, there are about 150 volatile organic compounds that contribute to bacon’s incredible aroma, many of them hydrocarbons and aldehydes, along with some nitrogen-containing compounds. Cooking bacon facilitates the Maillard…

io9 George Dvorsky

NASA’s Space Rats Are Checking Into This Swanky New Rodent Hotel

31 years is a long time for a hotel to keep the decor the same. But things are a little different aboard the ISS, where lab rats have been shuttled back and forth from Earth in the same modular boxes since 1983. Now, NASA has unveiled a new rat pod—and it could help us learn…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

The Syndrome That Makes People Lie About How Many Legs Are On A Dog

For a long time, this controversial syndrome was thought to manifest itself only in prisoners. When it spread to the general public, doctors began questioning whether it really exists or not. You decide whether there is such a thing as Ganser Syndrome. Sigbert Ganser’s Inmates In 1897, Sigbert Ganser noticed four different prison inmates exhibiting…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Trailer For Stanislaw Lem’s The Congress Explains The Beautiful Madness

This new trailer for The Congress goes much deeper into the surreal world that was adapted from Stainlaw Lem’s The Futurological Congress. We had no idea there was a whole other future dystopia hiding in this feature! Robin Wright plays a version of herself as an aged star, who sells her likeness to a movie…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

What Was The First Scientific Question You Ever Asked?

Science is filled with unanswered questions. What’s the first scientific question you ever remember asking? Maybe you wondered why the sky was blue or how gravity worked or something else entirely. Tell us in the comments what the question was and when (or if) you ever got your answer. Image: Vladitto / Shutterstock.

io9 Ria Misra

Google Changed Its Logo This Weekend and You Didn’t Even Notice

If you were browsing the internet at all this past weekend, there’s a good chance you came across Google’s ubiquitous logo at some point during your travels. What you didn’t notice, however, is the fact that Google adjusted the letters in its logo ever so slightly—and it actually makes a pretty huge difference. As any…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

All the Saturn V rockets launching at the same time in a single video

If you think watching the launch of a single rocket is cool get ready to see all the thirteen Saturn V rockets launching at the same time. The video is composed in a single screen so you see all of them ignite and launch at once—like if it was a horse race. SPLOID is a…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

How To Make Your Social Media Accounts (Almost) Unhackable

It can be easy to dismiss social media security as a chore to save for another day. Getting hacked is serious business though, and you could find your online identity stolen, your precious photos erased and your devices inaccessible. Fear not! We’ve put together some simple but effective ways of keeping the hackers out. Of…

Gadgets David Nield

This Abandoned Wasteland Was Once America’s Largest Mall

The life and death of the American mall is a familiar story by now. A few decades ago, these shrines to consumerism dotted suburbia, only to be denied relevance by a push back towards city centers. But few images express the scale of this trend as much as those in Black Friday: The Collapse of…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Real Life Mosquito Tornado Is Far More Terrifying Than Sharknado

While visiting Leziria Grande at Vila Franca de Xira in Portugal recently, photographer Ana Filipa Scarpa noticed something off in the distance that resembled a funnel cloud. But it wasn’t a tornado, or even a funnel for that matter. Rather, it was something… alive. Photo credit: Ana Filipa Scarpa; republished here with permission. What you’re…

io9 George Dvorsky

Lomography’s First Instant Camera Uses Real-Life Filters

The retro camera fanatics at Lomography are diving into the world of instant photography with a colorful new shooter packed with all the charm and nostalgia of the 35mm Lomos you’ve known for years. It follows from the spirit of the Impossible Project, which proved that stirring up interest in lo-fi photo is eminently possible…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Doctor Who Sings Rocky Horror‘s “Time Warp” As Fate Always Intended

It seems like the most obvious mash-up of all time in retrospect. But it took the Hillywood Show to finally, finally bring us the Tenth Doctor performing Rocky Horror Picture Show’s quintessential song “The Time Warp.” Kismet! I believe Torchwood’s Captain Jack Harkness singing “Rose Tint My World” should be next on the agenda, don’t…

io9 Rob Bricken

Sydney morphs into a psychedelic wonderland using projected lights

Sydney is a beautiful city on its own, but this light show fully transforms it into a magical wonderland. Some of the projected lights are also interactive. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Sploid James Baker

Reading Glasses With a Built-In Secret Neck Strap

Singapore looks like Blade Runner in this hyper-lapse video

Hacker Turned FBI Informant Sabu Sentenced to One Year Probation

Now This Is The Updated Power Rangers Series We Deserve

A Human Experimenter Was Vice-President Of The American Cancer Society

Decorate Your Temple of Doom With a Monkey Head Bowl Full of Fake Brains

What Causes the Smell After It Rains?

The Science Of Why Bacon Smells So Goddamn Good

NASA’s Space Rats Are Checking Into This Swanky New Rodent Hotel

The Syndrome That Makes People Lie About How Many Legs Are On A Dog

Trailer For Stanislaw Lem’s The Congress Explains The Beautiful Madness

What Was The First Scientific Question You Ever Asked?

Google Changed Its Logo This Weekend and You Didn’t Even Notice

All the Saturn V rockets launching at the same time in a single video

How To Make Your Social Media Accounts (Almost) Unhackable

This Abandoned Wasteland Was Once America’s Largest Mall

Real Life Mosquito Tornado Is Far More Terrifying Than Sharknado

Lomography’s First Instant Camera Uses Real-Life Filters

Doctor Who Sings Rocky Horror‘s “Time Warp” As Fate Always Intended

Sydney morphs into a psychedelic wonderland using projected lights

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