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Licking Ice Cream To Make It Sing With NYC’s Weirdest Orchestra

Last week, at a former bodega in Alphabet City, food designer Emilie Baltz and smart object designer Carla Diana conducted the second performance of their “Lickestra“—a “musical licking performance” involving conductive ice cream cones, four volunteers, and a pre-recorded soundtrack of peculiar tones and baselines created by musician Arone Dyer of Buke&Gase. Lured by the…

Tech News Nicola Twilley Feb 20 '14

Looter caught trying to sell a hoard of Roman gold and silver

An amateur archaeologist — or more accurately, an opportunistic ass-wipe with a metal detector — recently uncovered a treasure trove of gold and silver artifacts in Germany. But he was promptly caught after trying to sell the rare items on the black market. The items, which date to the early part of the fifth century…

io9 George Dvorsky Feb 20 '14

Resurrecting Dinosaur-Age Proteins To Cure Human Disease

While dinosaurs have not yet been resurrected Jurassic Park-style, scientists fiddling with ancient DNA sequences have made a discovery that may turn out to be a tad more useful: a treatment for gout. That a 90 million-year-old protein could treat a modern disease is a fascinating window into evolutionary history. If you’ve heard of gout,…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Feb 20 '14

Scientists just created some of the most powerful muscles in existence

In a surprising breakthrough for the world of materials science, researchers have created some of the most powerful artificial muscles we’ve ever seen. And they did it with simple fishing line. These freakishly strong and cheap muscles could revolutionize robotics, and perhaps one day our own bodies. Ray Baughman, director of the NanoTech Institute at…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 20 '14

Darren Aronofsky wins battle with studio over cuts to Noah

For the past few months, we’ve been unsure which version of Darren Aronofsky’s Noah would be hitting theaters — there were tons of reports that Christian audiences reacted badly in screenings. Paramount had reportedly cut as many as six different versions of the film. But now, it appears Aronofsky has won. https://gizmodo.com/are-we-all-wrong-about-vin-diesels-role-in-guardians-o-1450447491 In an article…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Feb 20 '14

Some Guy Turned Each Episode of Breaking Bad Into Its Own Dope Poster

It’s been five months since one of the greatest shows ever to grace the small screen has gone off the air, but if you’re one of the many rapt Breaking Bad fans, you’re probably still pretty deep in mourning. Fortunately for you, Hungarian designer Zsolt Molnár (Zsutti) decided to pay homage to the meth-loaded masterpiece…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Feb 20 '14

Okay, So Vertical Videos Are Now Art?

Unperturbed by the scourge of vertical video shot on mobile phones, a bunch of Serious Artists have banded together for a film festival devoted exclusively to incorrectly oriented videos. Why subject our eyeballs to such unnatural composition? For art, duh. Vertical Cinema, made up of 10 specially commissioned works by experimental filmmakers, is a deliberate…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Feb 20 '14

This App Shows You What Your Photos Will Look Like With Any Lens

Sometimes when shooting or conceptualizing a scene, it’s hard to visualize composition without actually looking through a specific lens. This new iPhone app shows you just how hundreds of lenses will see your subject. The app is called Mark II Artist’s Viewfinder. Weird name. But yeah, what it does is simulate frame lines in your…

Tech News Michael Hession Feb 20 '14

Scientists Find Striking Similarities Between Human and Dog Brains

It’s funny watching dogs do human things. It’s funny to watch them drive cars. It’s funny to watch them sit in chairs. But, seriously, new research shows that dogs actually are just like us. At least they are when it comes to processing voices and emotion—and, now, we’ve got the brain scans to prove it.…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Feb 20 '14

When Edgar Allan Poe offered Americans interior design advice

While we might picture Edgar Allan Poe hunched over his writing desk in a drafty, sparsely furnished home, the famed horror writer actually had quite specific tastes when it came to interior design. And he believed that Americans simply did not know how to furnish a room. In his 1840 essay “The Philosophy of Furniture,”The…

io9 Lauren Davis Feb 20 '14

Cute arctic fox contemplates a massive solar wind storm hitting Earth

SunViewer posted this amazing photo by Vladimir Scheglov, taken on January 19 at the Kupol mine in the Chukotka region of Russia, just after a Coronal Mass Ejection hit Earth to produce some beautiful northern lights. He’s like “whatevs, I will just chillax and look cute here.” According to Scheglov, “the Kupol mine has banned…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Feb 20 '14

A Sliding Stool That Expands To Accommodate an Extra Person

With a design that promises to revolutionize flirting at the bar, Karthik Poduval’s Room For Two stool features an expanding design that allows it to seat two people when the need arises. So there doesn’t have to be an extra stool available when there’s someone you want to sidle up to. It’s of course also…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 20 '14

Scientists Turn Off Pain Using Nothing But Light

Pain is a hard problem. Sure, we can throw a little morphine at pain in the short term, but researchers continue to struggle with solutions for chronic pain. New research from Stanford’s futuristic Bio-X lab looks like a light at the end of the tunnel—literally! Put simply, a team of scientists has developed a way…

Health Adam Clark Estes Feb 20 '14

Fearless men repair the Graf Zeppelin in mid-flight back in 1934

German photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt—one of the greatest artists in the history of the medium—used his Leica to take this stunning photo of a crew repairing the Graf Zeppelin in mid-air, after a storm in the middle of the Atlantic damaged the airship’s skin en route to Rio de Janeiro in 1934. It looks so surreal—like…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Feb 20 '14

Here’s Why Ikea Is Discontinuing Everyone’s Favorite Shelf

Expedit, we hardly knew ye. Ikea recently announced that the popular shelving system is not long for this world, and the internet responded with rage. But there’s a really good reason for Ikea to get rid of Expedit. And in fact, it’s not really going away at all. Ikea says it’s replacing Expedit with a…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Feb 20 '14

The Worst Blunders People Make in Inventing Fictional Alien Worlds

We love stories that take us to alien planets and let us explore whole new environments. But not every alien planet is totally realistic, especially given how much we’ve learned about exoplanets lately. So we asked six experts to tell us the biggest mistakes they see in fictional habitable worlds — and here’s what they…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 20 '14

This Shocking Prototype Condom Puts Some Wiring On Your Pole

It’s been almost a year since Bill Gates put out his $100,000 call for better, high-tech condoms, and we haven’t found a new defacto standard yet. But Firaz Peer and Andrew Quitmeyer of Georgia Tech have a potential solution, if you’re OK with putting electrodes on your manparts. Warning: that video might be NSFW if…

Tech News Eric Limer Feb 20 '14

Artist makes gorgeous sculptures in collaboration with bees

Winnipeg artist Aganetha Dyck is fascinated by the power of small animals, and over a decade ago she set out to create art with the help of a bee hive. Working with bee keepers, she set up a special apiary where bees could build their honeycombs on top of dolls and other objects. The results…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 20 '14

Watch Die Hard boiled down into 60 seconds of zany animation

Everybody loves Die Hard. It’s the best Christmas movie, and the foundation that so many other awesome thrillers are built on. Plus it has lots of guns and explosions. This 60-second animation of the entire movie by 1A4STUDIO is just as great as the original, but in a completely different and hilarious way. Yippe-ki-yay! SPLOID…

Sploid Eric Limer Feb 20 '14

Rocket Raccoon speaks in the new Guardians of the Galaxy promo

We got to see a little of Rocket Raccoon in action in the first Guardians of the Galaxy trailer, and in this Rocket-centered promo, we get to hear Bradley Cooper give him voice. Update: Now with the rest of the Guardians! https://gizmodo.com/the-first-full-length-guardians-of-the-galaxy-just-got-1525683892 Judging from the style of the promo, it looks like we’ll gradually be…

io9 Lauren Davis Feb 20 '14

Licking Ice Cream To Make It Sing With NYC’s Weirdest Orchestra

Looter caught trying to sell a hoard of Roman gold and silver

Resurrecting Dinosaur-Age Proteins To Cure Human Disease

Scientists just created some of the most powerful muscles in existence

Darren Aronofsky wins battle with studio over cuts to Noah

Some Guy Turned Each Episode of Breaking Bad Into Its Own Dope Poster

Okay, So Vertical Videos Are Now Art?

This App Shows You What Your Photos Will Look Like With Any Lens

Scientists Find Striking Similarities Between Human and Dog Brains

When Edgar Allan Poe offered Americans interior design advice

Cute arctic fox contemplates a massive solar wind storm hitting Earth

A Sliding Stool That Expands To Accommodate an Extra Person

Scientists Turn Off Pain Using Nothing But Light

Fearless men repair the Graf Zeppelin in mid-flight back in 1934

Here’s Why Ikea Is Discontinuing Everyone’s Favorite Shelf

The Worst Blunders People Make in Inventing Fictional Alien Worlds

This Shocking Prototype Condom Puts Some Wiring On Your Pole

Artist makes gorgeous sculptures in collaboration with bees

Watch Die Hard boiled down into 60 seconds of zany animation

Rocket Raccoon speaks in the new Guardians of the Galaxy promo

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