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The Game Boy Turns 25 Today

You’ve almost certainly played a game on your phone today. Some beautiful, high-res game with a rainbow of colors and fluid animation. You’ve got a lot of power in your pocket these days, but portable gaming owes a lot to the chunky old Game Boy, which is 25 years old today. Released in Japan on…

Tech News Eric Limer

New Paper Explains How To Make Supermaterial Graphene In A Blender

Supermaterial graphene is among the world’s strongest, thinnest, and most flexible substances, and, according to a newly published scientific paper, it can now be made using a standard kitchen blender. The paper was published by Jonathan Coleman of Trinity College in Nature Materials and details his efforts to mix up graphene using a variety of…

io9 Ria Misra

Ultra-realistic drawing shows the amazing skills of a 16-year-old girl

This is not a black and white photo but a pencil illustration by 16-year-old Shania McDonagh based on a photo of James Fennell. It took her a month to complete and made her win the Texaco Children’s Art Competition in Ireland. Shania—who has been drawing for “as long as she could remember”—says she spends most…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Impoverished Kids Love the Lamp-Powering Soccer Ball—Until It Breaks

Across the globe, even in impoverished communities where families can’t afford electric light, there is something you will almost always see: children kicking balls. What if you could harness that youthful energy to generate electricity? That is the inspiration behind an American invention called the Soccket. It looks like a soccer ball, but it contains…

Tech News Jennifer Collins - PRI's The World

Did Game Of Thrones Finally Go Too Far?

You might have thought the question of Game of Thrones going too far would have been moot a long time ago. This is the show that gave us “sexposition” and Joffrey brutalizing sex workers, after all. But a lot of people seem to feel as though one moment in last night’s episode was, finally, too…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Multiple Views of Galactic Chaos

Centurus A is an active galaxy 11 million light years away in the constellation Centaurus. It’s a complex knot of hot and cold gases and dust, tracing out a collision from time long gone past. By looking at it in multiple wavelengths, astronomers can get a better understanding of its structure. This top image is…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Man Explains Why He Prefers $50 3D-Printed Hand to $42,000 Prosthesis

Everybody’s excited about the possibilities of 3D printing, but, for some people, the technology stands to improve their lives on a daily if not hourly basis. Jose Delgado, Jr., a 53-year-old man born without most of his left hand, is one of them. Thanks to 3D-printing, Jose got a new hand. Well, to be perfectly…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

First Footage From True Blood’s Final Season Channels Hurricane Katrina

What social issue will True Blood tackle during the final season of its vampire sex show? We guess it’s Hurricane Katrina, because the first trailer with footage from the new season begs for help from FEMA, while the people from Bon Temps die in an infected vampire siege. Oh dear. Remember when this show was…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

How Are These Crisscrossing Waves Even Possible?

This remarkable image was captured just off the western point of France’s Isle of Rhé. It’s a beautiful demonstration of a natural phenomenon known as a cross sea — one that can be explained by a little bit of physics and math. A cross sea is a marine state with two wave systems traveling at…

io9 George Dvorsky

First Look At The Adventure Time Episode Made Exclusively In Japan

For one of season 6’s episode, the Adventure Time crew handed off an entire episode to anime director Masaaki Yuasa, who helmed his own episode without any creative input from the normal creative team. The results are insane, which, for AT, is saying something. Yuasa, who is currently directing the Ping Pong anime, wrote, storyboarded…

io9 Rob Bricken

Every Fireworks Show Should Have a Quadcopter Cameraman

Fireworks look awesome from the ground, but have you ever wished you could be inside them? Probably not because that’s verifiably insane, but this quadcopter footage shows off how great the view is from up there. Filming fireworks with a quadcopter isn’t an entirely novel idea, but we’ve never seen one fly quite as close…

Tech News Eric Limer

Star Trek for Oculus Rift brings us closer to virtual galactic trips

Thomas Kadlec has recreated the USS Voyager’s bridge for Oculus Rift—the ultra-realistic and totally immersive virtual reality headset recently bought by Facebook. Watch it in action in this video. For now it’s just the bridge itself, but I’m sure we will soon have the entire ship and, by the time the final consumer Oculus Rift…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

The Periodic Table Of Storytelling Breaks Story Tropes Into Elements

The periodic table of the elements breaks down the elements that make up our world into their base chemical components. This periodic table of storytelling does the same thing, except for the elements that make up our stories. Image: Periodic Table of Storytelling / clickable version James Harris (poster version DawnPaladin). It’s the work of…

io9 Ria Misra

A GPS Surfer’s Watch That Keeps Track of Every Wave Conquered

Metrics and data analysis are a big part of any sport. Every athlete is always pushing themselves to be faster, stronger, and better, and now even surfers have a way to keep track of their performance when they hit the surf (other than knowing they survived) with the Search GPS watch from Rip Curl. The…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

This Huge Nuclear Waste Dump Will Be Washed Away By Rising Sea Levels

A dumping ground for nuclear waste located near the British coast is “virtually certain” to be washed away by rising sea levels, a new report warns. The UK Environment Agency has admitted that constructing the Drigg Low-Level Waste Repository so near the coast was a mistake, and that one million cubic meters of nuclear waste…

Climate Change Geoff Manaugh

What If Other Planets Orbited Earth At The Same Distance As The Moon?

There are many ways that I could convey the size of Neptune relative to Earth. I could tell you that Neptune is 3.9 times larger. Or, that you could fit about 57 Earths inside of Neptune. Or, best of all, I could show you how Neptune would appear if it were orbiting our planet. Fortunately,…

io9 Mark Strauss

How You Can Make Graphene at Home in Your Blender

Graphene may be the supermaterial to rule them all—but it turns out you can make it at home. In your kitchen blender. Here’s how. A team of researchers from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland have been trying to work out the best way to mass produce graphene, those sheets of carbon that are just one…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

9 of the Coolest Prefab Houses in History

Prefab is a buzzy topic in architecture and design circles right now, but it’s hardly a new concept. The idea of building houses in factories and shipping them to their destinations is at least a century old. Now, Taschen has published the history of these homes in a lovely coffee table book. Prefab Houses isn’t…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Massive Spoilers For Godzilla And Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes!

The original Boba Fett might be returning Star Wars. Patrick Stewart hints at another new X-Men project. And Dennis O’Hare gives some American Horror Story details. Check out the first set videos from The Flash. Plus Hayden Panettiere reacts to the return of Heroes. Spoilers now! Top image: Godzilla Star Wars At the the Salt…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

Amateur Michelangelos Can Sculpt This Marble Vase Themselves

It’s been said that sculpting a masterpiece from a chunk of marble is easy; all you have to do is remove the unnecessary bits. So even if they lack any talent, aspiring Rodins and Michelangelos can turn this Introverso2 vase into a curvy room accent. All you need to know is how to swing a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Game Boy Turns 25 Today

New Paper Explains How To Make Supermaterial Graphene In A Blender

Ultra-realistic drawing shows the amazing skills of a 16-year-old girl

Impoverished Kids Love the Lamp-Powering Soccer Ball—Until It Breaks

Did Game Of Thrones Finally Go Too Far?

Multiple Views of Galactic Chaos

Man Explains Why He Prefers $50 3D-Printed Hand to $42,000 Prosthesis

First Footage From True Blood’s Final Season Channels Hurricane Katrina

How Are These Crisscrossing Waves Even Possible?

First Look At The Adventure Time Episode Made Exclusively In Japan

Every Fireworks Show Should Have a Quadcopter Cameraman

Star Trek for Oculus Rift brings us closer to virtual galactic trips

The Periodic Table Of Storytelling Breaks Story Tropes Into Elements

A GPS Surfer’s Watch That Keeps Track of Every Wave Conquered

This Huge Nuclear Waste Dump Will Be Washed Away By Rising Sea Levels

What If Other Planets Orbited Earth At The Same Distance As The Moon?

How You Can Make Graphene at Home in Your Blender

9 of the Coolest Prefab Houses in History

Massive Spoilers For Godzilla And Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes!

Amateur Michelangelos Can Sculpt This Marble Vase Themselves

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