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Storm-Proofing NYC Will Cost At Least $11 Billion, But It’s Worth It

Humans are almost universally bad at planning for the distant future—most of us would rather live in blissful, unprepared ignorance than think about our Roth IRA. The same goes for cities: Dealing with the next storm is way easier than spending many billions of dollars to protect us from storms 20 years down the road.…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan May 2 '14

Streaming HD Video From The Space Station Is Now Available 24/7

NASA has launched a livestream from the International Space Station. Four HD cameras attached to the ISS are now providing an around-the-clock perspective of Earth, including audio conversations between the crew and Mission Control. You can watch it live right here. The live video from the ISS includes internal views when the crew is on-duty,…

io9 George Dvorsky May 2 '14

How To Jump Off A Cliff Like A Pro

Tall cliffs, deep water. It’s one of the easiest ways you could be risking your life this very weekend. Here’s how and why from one of the sport’s leading outlaws. Full Disclosure: I’m a big Fraidy Cat and won’t go off anything over about 20 feet and, even then, only when the ribbing from friends…

Tech News Wes Siler May 2 '14

How Much Do the Parts in Google Glass Actually Cost?

Google’s willingness to trash Glass for the sake of fashion might not be as insane as we previously thought. Because according to a recent estimate from Teardown.com, the actual parts going into the $1500 faceputer only add up to a measly 80 bucks. It’s important to note, of course, that this is just an estimate—more…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg May 2 '14

Watch the ISS’s View of Earth Live, Right Here, Right Now

NASA just switched on the High Definition Earth Viewing experiment, a live stream view of earth beamed directly from the International Space Station. See the view, hear the crew’s radio communications—it’s almost like being on board! The experiment, which starts today and runs through October of 2015, will help determine how earth-facing cameras survive in…

Space & Spaceflight Bob Sorokanich May 2 '14

This Cartoon About A Scorpion-Slaying Mouse Will Make You Cry

A tiny nomad who hates scorpions passes out in the desert one night and has a vision of his youth. But has he grown up remembering the wrong lessons from his childhood? Toniko Pantoja, a character animation student at CalArts, directed Tiny Nomad, and it’s not his first tearjerker. He also made the heartbreaking Wolfsong,…

io9 Lauren Davis May 2 '14

This App Lets Friends Track Your Bike Rides to Make Sure You’re Safe

RoadID has long made various fitness trackers and ID systems which help you monitor and map your rides. But their app has an interesting new feature called “eCrumb,” which allows you to share your progress with your friends and family—or contact them in an emergency. Using the app you simply pass along a link via…

Tech News Alissa Walker May 2 '14

How Iran Became One of the World’s Most Futuristic Countries

When we think about futurism, often we imagine cutting-edge technologies like bionic arms or weather machines for colonizing Mars. But if we really want to make it for another few centuries, we’re going to need something that Iran has already got. To understand Iran’s breakthrough, we need to go back in time to 1993, when…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 2 '14

A Subterranean Stroll Through NYC’s Newest Train Tunnel

New York City’s new 2nd Avenue subway line is a construction project of truly monumental scale. Decades of planning and billions of dollars have led to the near-completion of Phase 1 of the tunnel running underneath Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Gizmodo was lucky enough to take a tour through a section of the caverns and…

Tech News Michael Hession May 2 '14

I hope they build this vertical train station one day

Christopher Christophi and Lucas Mazarrasa came up with this surprising conceptfor the eVolo skyscrapercompetition: The Hyper-Speed Vertical Train Hub. I don’t really know how it would work—I’m guessing superconductors and magic—but I’d love to see it built, with all those maglev trains coming up and down the tower and in and out the tunnels under…

Sploid Jesus Diaz May 2 '14

How To Recognize The Signs of an Impending Landslide

Your odds of death by landslide are one in a million per year. If you get caught in one, you can’t do much to increase your odds of survival. Luckily, landslides frequently give warning before collapsing. These are a few precursors to a landslide, telling you to run before it’s too late. Reactivated La Chichita…

Tech News Mika McKinnon May 2 '14

Your Behavior In This Toilet Is Being Recorded For Analysis

Attendees at a Human-Computer Interaction conference in Toronto earlier this week found toilets that claimed to analyze each “deposit” and post it online. Don’t like that idea? Then go somewhere else. Quantified Toilets was perpetuated by folks at the Critical Making Hackathon, but it wasn’t really an example of critical making—it was critical faking. The…

Tech News Lev Bratishenko May 2 '14

Cobra Learns Why It’s Best To Leave The PSAs To GI Joe

I can’t believe it took anyone this long to think of this idea, but thank goodness Robot Chicken finally tackled the question of what it would be like if Cobra tried their hand at those PSAs tacked on to every ARAH episode. Now we know! And knowing is something something-or-other. [Via Geeks Are Sexy]

Television Rob Bricken May 2 '14

The Carl-Gustaf Looks Like a Bazooka But Shoots Like a Rifle

Sometimes, small arms fire just doesn’t cut it. So when special forces teams around the world need more long-range, tank-stopping punch than a conventional bazooka or panzerschreck can deliver, they give Carl a call. The M3 Carl Gustaf Multi-Role Anti-Armor Anti-Personnel Weapon System (MAAWS) is a shoulder fired, recoilless rifle—yes it’s a rifle—originally devised by…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola May 2 '14

Could Microbes From Earth Make It To Mars — And Survive There?

When we think about life on Mars, we don’t typically imagine that it will be life that we (accidentally) brought there. But a trio of new studies looks at the possibility of how some bacteria from Earth could be able to survive — perhaps even thrive — on Mars. The three studies, all published in…

io9 Ria Misra May 2 '14

A Remote Control for Your Smartphone Camera, Built Right Into a Case

A remote shutter release for your smartphone’s camera can help you get better photos, but they’re not terribly useful unless you’ve got one with you when it’s time to take one. iLuv’s new Selfy offers a clever solution to the problem of carrying one around everywhere by building one right into a case. Selfy’s remote…

Tech News Mario Aguilar May 2 '14

These Are The Most Devastating Twisters In The Solar System

Researchers at NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) posted a short video on their Facebook page, showing a “small, hovering mass of twisted strands of plasma” as it “shifted back and forth before erupting into space.” You can see at least three giant solar tornadoes in the footage, which was captured on April 29-30, 2014. A…

Tech News Attila Nagy May 2 '14

The Absolute Best Comics To Grab This Free Comic Book Day

Got plans this Saturday? You do now. It’s the 2014 Free Comic Book Day, when publishers give out their wares to the masses, and we can assure you their offerings are going to be worth far more than what you (didn’t) pay for them. Here are the 16 comics you need to be looking out…

io9 Rob Bricken May 2 '14

Barchan Dunes on Mars

These dunes are a fleet of Star Fleet communicator badges (combadge), flying in formation across the Martian surface. The geomorphology of why this happens has nothing to do with Star Trek or transporter beams, and everything to do with aerodynamics. Why do these dunes look like something ripped from the chest of Spock, Captain Kirk,…

Tech News Mika McKinnon May 2 '14

Chat With a Paleontologist About Pterosaurs and the AMNH’s New Exhibit

The American Museum of Natural History here in New York just kicked off an exhibit about those ancient flying reptiles called pterosaurs. These rulers of the sky happen to be the least understood of prehistoric creatures, so we’ve got Mark Norell, the curator in charge of the paleontology department at the AMNH and master of…

Tech News Leslie Horn May 2 '14

Storm-Proofing NYC Will Cost At Least $11 Billion, But It’s Worth It

Streaming HD Video From The Space Station Is Now Available 24/7

How To Jump Off A Cliff Like A Pro

How Much Do the Parts in Google Glass Actually Cost?

Watch the ISS’s View of Earth Live, Right Here, Right Now

This Cartoon About A Scorpion-Slaying Mouse Will Make You Cry

This App Lets Friends Track Your Bike Rides to Make Sure You’re Safe

How Iran Became One of the World’s Most Futuristic Countries

A Subterranean Stroll Through NYC’s Newest Train Tunnel

I hope they build this vertical train station one day

How To Recognize The Signs of an Impending Landslide

Your Behavior In This Toilet Is Being Recorded For Analysis

Cobra Learns Why It’s Best To Leave The PSAs To GI Joe

The Carl-Gustaf Looks Like a Bazooka But Shoots Like a Rifle

Could Microbes From Earth Make It To Mars — And Survive There?

A Remote Control for Your Smartphone Camera, Built Right Into a Case

These Are The Most Devastating Twisters In The Solar System

The Absolute Best Comics To Grab This Free Comic Book Day

Barchan Dunes on Mars

Chat With a Paleontologist About Pterosaurs and the AMNH’s New Exhibit

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