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This Is London’s Floating Bike Road Dream

A team of architects has updated and fleshed out its SkyCycle plan—a bizarre concept that would use the empty channels above some train lines to build floating, bike-only cycle superhighways. The idea, should it ever be allowed, approved, funded and built, is to create a 136-mile network of elevated cycle routes spanning the city of…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - Gizmodo UK Dec 31 '13

What is this?

The first thing I thought when I saw this was “nice abstract painting.” So pretty and delicate. But it’s not. Like Steve Coogan says in The Trip: “You can’t paint this. I mean, you can, but it would be rubbish.” What is it? It’s an aerial photo of an Icelandic river, taken by Andre Ermolaev,…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Dec 31 '13

How the 20/20 Vision Scale Works

With more than 150 million people in the United States (nearly half of the population) requiring some form of corrective eyewear to compensate for visual impairment, chances are you have had your eyesight graded on the 20/20 scale before. If you haven’t, you have probably heard other people saying they have “20/20 vision” or even…

Tech News Emily Upton - TodayIFoundOut.com. Dec 31 '13

Awesome ad erases all the animals in The Lion King’s opening sequence

This is a great ad by Greenpeace Netherlands, brilliantly executed by Studio Smack: They erased all the animals of The Lion King’s opening sequence to show kids and adults how the African savanna would look if we don’t protect its animals. I can imagine the kids first puzzled, then crying, as all their favorite animals…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Dec 31 '13

Crooks Have Been Hacking ATMs With Infected USB Sticks

Criminals will go to all lengths to cheat an ATM out of its cash. But now, a team of researchers has discovered that skimmers may be a thing of the past: crooks have been targeting cash machines directly using infected USB sticks instead. https://gizmodo.com/you-cant-even-see-the-latest-atm-card-skimmers-5928513 The findings, presented at the Chaos Computing Congress in Hamburg, Germany…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe Dec 31 '13

Why Times and Timezones Still Confuse the Hell Out of Developers

There have been no end of time and calendar mess-ups in software over the years, and they still seem to keep happening. So why is it that times and timezones still confuse the hell out of developers? In truth, it’s because it’s an insanely complex subject. It’s not just that countries are in different timezones,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Dec 31 '13

The NSA Has Crazy Good Backdoor Access to iPhones

We already knew that the NSA had developed a taste for intercepting packages to put backdoors in electronics. Now, it turns out that those hacks provide it with almost complete access to the iPhone, too. https://gizmodo.com/the-nsa-actually-intercepted-packages-to-put-backdoors-1491169592 Documents shared by security researcher Jacob Appelbaum and German magazine Der Spiegel reveal that the NSA can spy on…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Dec 31 '13

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: I Am the Walrus

LSD is a hell of a drug.

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Dec 31 '13

Holy crap, this train derailment created a massive freaking explosion

Oh my. This is beyond scary. A mile-long train carrying crude oil derailed near a small town in North Dakota and sent explosions, flames and dark black smoke into the sky. Luckily (and almost unbelievably), no one was hurt in the accident that looked a lot more like a nuke exploding than a train derailment.…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 30 '13

Here’s why Google is building a robot army

For the past couple of weeks, we’ve all been wondering why Google bought Boston Dynamics, the company that makes those creepy Big Dog and PETMAN robots for the military. This comes after the company announced a project to eliminate death, and after building a secret installation out of cargo crates on a barge in San…

io9 Annalee Newitz Dec 30 '13

Watch one woman’s face morph into many different faces with lighting

Your eyes might tell you differently, your brain might make you believe something else and that gut of yours will say you’re right but you’re not. There is only one person in this video. You will only see one woman’s face. It may look like a different person but it’s not. The magic is in…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 30 '13

You won’t believe this picture of Santa Claus was drawn with MS Paint

The things some people can do with a pencil and paper are just ridiculous. The things some people can do with Photoshop or iPad apps is just unreal. Art is amazing! But what might be as impressive as any of that is what this guy did with MS Paint. He created an unbelievably photo realistic…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 30 '13

The greatest newspaper correction ever written (49 years too late)

In 1920, rocket scientist Robert Goddard wrote up an article postulating how we could use rocket fuel to launch a ship into space — perhaps even all the way to the moon. His ideas did not meet with a warm reception in the media, where he was roundly mocked. 49 years later, Apollo 11 took-off…

io9 Ria Misra Dec 30 '13

What happens when people draw a map of the world from memory

Can you draw a map of the world just from memory? And if you did, how accurate do you think your map would be? Probably not very. You’d forget some land masses, make things too close too each other, bulge continents the wrong way and hastily add stuff without knowing where they would go. But…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 30 '13

This spidery spacecraft will be the first to soft-land on a comet

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft is preparing to wake up in January from a nearly three-year-long hibernation period as it prepares for a close encounter with Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. If all goes well, Rosetta should reach its destination in August and, after a couple of months in a mapping orbit, the probe will deploy a…

io9 Elizabeth Howell — Universe Today Dec 30 '13

Heat maps reveal where you feel emotions in your body

Emotions are as much physical as they are mental, and it appears that people from a wide range of cultures feel their emotions in the same places on their bodies. This map shows where those places are — from the blush of shame, to that warm lower-belly feeling in love. According to Gemma Tarlach, writing…

io9 Annalee Newitz Dec 30 '13

Classic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films That You Can Watch on YouTube

The year is ending and things are winding down — but maybe you’re still stuck at work, repairing arcane electrical equipment or drafting memos that nobody will read. For you, our downtrodden comrades, we present the ultimate distraction: Classic SF movies you can watch in their entirety on YouTube. The Lost World, 1925 IMDB |…

Movies Vincze Miklós Dec 30 '13

“Worlds’ Oldest Diamonds” Turned Out to Be Leftover Cleaning Supplies

Back in 2007, scientists found evidence of our planet’s first continents in the form of 4.3 billion-year-old diamonds—old as the very Earth itself. And these diamonds were finally going to give us the insight into the evolution of Earth’s crust that we’ve been searching for. Now, six years later, there’s just one little problem: Those…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Dec 30 '13

Watch this video to see how incredibly awesome people were in 2013

The end of the year is here and hopefully you did something awesome in 2013. And if you didn’t, that’s okay because you have one more day to get crazy. Actually, you have a brand new year ahead of you to do something memorable. Luc Bergeron compiled 253 YouTube videos that popped up in 2013…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 30 '13

The U.S. has designated six sites for testing commercial drones

After a rigorous 10-month selection process, the FAA has announced the six U.S. states that will host sites for testing commercial-built drones. It’s an important next step for developing the rules and standards under which drones will fly in U.S airspace. https://gizmodo.com/heres-the-delivery-drone-that-could-be-showing-up-at-y-1474718537 The Federal Aviation Administration received 25 proposals from 24 states for the research…

io9 George Dvorsky Dec 30 '13

This Is London’s Floating Bike Road Dream

What is this?

How the 20/20 Vision Scale Works

Awesome ad erases all the animals in The Lion King’s opening sequence

Crooks Have Been Hacking ATMs With Infected USB Sticks

Why Times and Timezones Still Confuse the Hell Out of Developers

The NSA Has Crazy Good Backdoor Access to iPhones

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: I Am the Walrus

Holy crap, this train derailment created a massive freaking explosion

Here’s why Google is building a robot army

Watch one woman’s face morph into many different faces with lighting

You won’t believe this picture of Santa Claus was drawn with MS Paint

The greatest newspaper correction ever written (49 years too late)

What happens when people draw a map of the world from memory

This spidery spacecraft will be the first to soft-land on a comet

Heat maps reveal where you feel emotions in your body

Classic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films That You Can Watch on YouTube

“Worlds’ Oldest Diamonds” Turned Out to Be Leftover Cleaning Supplies

Watch this video to see how incredibly awesome people were in 2013

The U.S. has designated six sites for testing commercial drones

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