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Coca-Cola Filmed Noisy Filmgoers And Put Them In Fake Movie Trailers

To help drive home the point that you shouldn’t ruin a movie by talking, using your phone, or snacking excessively loud, Coca-Cola created a fake movie trailer featuring people in the actual theater disrupting the action on screen. Which served to drive home the clip’s tagline: “When you make noise during the movie, you become…

Movies Andrew Liszewski

365 Days of Weather in 35 Cities, All in a Single Beautiful Image

Next time your weather forecast predicts the blizzard of the century, you could gaze at this gorgeous weather visualization and find where in the world you should be vacationing. (Spoiler: it’s probably California.) The designers at Raureif, masterminds behind a successful weather app, have gone analog—packing a whole year’s worth of global weather into one…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

How the Solar Sail Could Fuel Interplanetary Travel

Stephen Baxter’s new novel Proxima includes a sentient solar sail, but this unique type of spacecraft has a long history in science fiction — and an even longer one in science. Though the idea is 400 years old, it might still become the kind of vessel that we eventually ride to the stars. A solar…

io9 Ron Miller

Already missing True Detective? Deleted scene examines Rust’s love life

If you’re going through True Detective withdrawal, then this might help ease your TV pain. Rust Cohle’s love life takes center stage in a clip that didn’t make it to air. Spoilers below. Rust mentions that he got close to marrying Maggie’s friend Lori, and in this scene, we get a glimpse at why their…

io9 Lauren Davis

Amazon Prime Will Cost $20 More a Year, Starting April 17th

The fateful day has come: Amazon is upping the price of its Prime membership. From April 17th, a year of Prime will cost $99 a year, up $20 from the current $79. Amazon has also changed the price its student members will pay, now asking for $49 a year. Its Prime Fresh membership will cost…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe

An Explorers remake is happening. Hey, remember Explorers?

Explorers, the little known film by Joe Dante about a couple of kids who build a spaceship, is getting a full-fledged reboot, thus creating the first remake from our childhood that we’re really indifferent towards. THR is reporting that Paramount’s smaller Insurge label has hired the writers behind Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and the…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Bourbon Tags Along with Shark Researchers for Faster Aging

Meet Lydia, the shark who crossed the mid-Atlantic ridge, sketched a self-portrait with her tracking data, and helped age bourbon into a smooth temptation for on-board researchers. Lydia is a 14-foot (4.4-meter) great white shark who was caught and tagged off the coast of Florida in March 2013. The transponder Ocearch placed on Lydia broadcasts…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Why I refuse to watch movies without spoilers

I love spoilers. Or, more accurately, I demand spoilers. And I don’t understand why you don’t. Let me explain to you what you’re missing out on. I hate reviews that mention they are “spoiler free.” This isn’t because I think reviews should have spoilers in them. It’s because, by mentioning spoilers at all, they screw…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Report: First U.S. Windows-Android Dual Boot Phones Will Arrive Spring

Dual booting is the latest mobile fad, and by all accounts it won’t be long before it arrives: according to Huawei, the first examples will be available in the US as early as this spring. Speaking to TrustedReviews, Huawei’s chief marketing officer, Shao Yang, explained that the company will release a phone combing Android and…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This scene from Spider-Man 2 is much more silly than it is amazing

When the Rhino steals a truck full of plutonium but fails to make sure the cargo bat is closed, Spider-Man must use his greatest flailing about powers in order to… uh… not accidentally create the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I think? To be honest, I hate this clip from The Amazing Spider-Man 2, because while…

io9 Rob Bricken

Rumor: Microsoft Making Windows Phone OS Free for Some Manufacturers

Desperate times, desperate measures: the Times of India is reporting that Microsoft is starting to give its Windows Phone OS away to phone manufacturers for free. The report claims that two Indian phone manufacturers will have the usual licence fee for Windows Phone waived as they roll out new handsets toting the OS. “For our…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

A collection of gorgeous world maps made out of local foods

These country maps made entirely out of local foods are beautifully executed — but they also have something interesting to say about the way we eat. The maps are the work of Henry Hargreaves and Caitlin Levin. What I particularly like about this series is that, unlike maps that I’ve seen executed on a similar…

io9 Ria Misra

Damn if NBC’s Constantine doesn’t look exactly like John Constantine

Hey! I… I recognize that guy! That’s John Constantine, noted magician/asshole! This firsty official photo of Matt Ryan as the titular character is some major proof that the NBC pilot is looking to stay close to the comic’s roots. For comparison: Not bad, NBC — not bad at all. Casting John Constantine as a British…

io9 Rob Bricken

Inside the Teenage Brain

The teenage brain can be a very strange place indeed—for the owner and anyone around it. This video peers inside the adolescent skull to explain exactly why that’s the case. We all think of adolescence as being a time of physical development, but in fact many of the hormones responsible for those changes also affect…

Health Jamie Condliffe

Is Fantastic Four close to a Dr. Doom? And Doctor Strange a director?

A toy box reveals the backstory for Godzilla. Karen Gillan talks her big fight with Zoe Saldana in Guardians of the Galaxy. And just what is the history between Sarah and the new character Cal on Orphan Black? Plus a major Hulk character comes to Agents of SHIELD. Spoilers now! Godzilla A description of the…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

Watch This Animated Fairy Tale About a Noble Quest to Fix Wi-Fi

In this modern age, there aren’t many sleeping beauties to wake, dragons to fight or treasures to hunt. But there are plenty of ageing family members whose Wi-Fi needs fixing—and that’s the tack this animated fairy tale takes. Mike Lacher wrote the wonderful fairy tale-cum-article ‘In which I fix my girlfriend’s grandparents’ Wifi and am…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How Apple Became the Choice of Creatives Everywhere, 30 Years Ago

These days we take design on computers for granted, but 30 years ago we were still surrounded by low-res screens, clunky interfaces and command prompts. Way back then, though, was when Apple stole the lead and became the choice of creatives everywhere. This video describes how the Apple Laserwriter—a printer, of all things—cemented Apple as…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Texture First

Rawore’s “Industrial Sands” is pure texture as foreground, a slow roil of granulated sound running at length — like a sour pipe organ heard through a veil of vinyl surface noise. It’s sound as fabric, to be enjoyed not for some pre-determined melodic procession but for slight variations playing out in realtime. Track originally posted…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

Nikon 1 V3: A Pricey Mirrorless Camera That Acts Like a Point-and-Shoot

Here’s Nikon’s new top interchangeable-lens compact. The Nikon 1 V3 is a mirrorless camera that hopes to break from the mold by being simpler than the rest. Last year, the company completely redesigned the V2, adding a more substantial grip to the V1’s point-and-shoot-like body. Now, Nikon is ditching that new design—sort of. The grip…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

This Macabre Claymation Tale Comes with Its Own How-To

Mixing a manic first person prelude with a grotesquely deformed claymation style reminiscent of Adam Jones’ work for Tool, animator Sunshaku Hayashi delivers a hypnotizingly frantic story of police brutality, death, and zombied rebirth. And how to make all of it out of little balls of clay.

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Coca-Cola Filmed Noisy Filmgoers And Put Them In Fake Movie Trailers

365 Days of Weather in 35 Cities, All in a Single Beautiful Image

How the Solar Sail Could Fuel Interplanetary Travel

Already missing True Detective? Deleted scene examines Rust’s love life

Amazon Prime Will Cost $20 More a Year, Starting April 17th

An Explorers remake is happening. Hey, remember Explorers?

Bourbon Tags Along with Shark Researchers for Faster Aging

Why I refuse to watch movies without spoilers

Report: First U.S. Windows-Android Dual Boot Phones Will Arrive Spring

This scene from Spider-Man 2 is much more silly than it is amazing

Rumor: Microsoft Making Windows Phone OS Free for Some Manufacturers

A collection of gorgeous world maps made out of local foods

Damn if NBC’s Constantine doesn’t look exactly like John Constantine

Inside the Teenage Brain

Is Fantastic Four close to a Dr. Doom? And Doctor Strange a director?

Watch This Animated Fairy Tale About a Noble Quest to Fix Wi-Fi

How Apple Became the Choice of Creatives Everywhere, 30 Years Ago

Texture First

Nikon 1 V3: A Pricey Mirrorless Camera That Acts Like a Point-and-Shoot

This Macabre Claymation Tale Comes with Its Own How-To

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