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Unluckiest Trip Ever: Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th

Think you’ve been on some bad flights? At least they weren’t Flight 666 to HEL, departing Friday the 13th. It’s a very real trip, and it’s actually pretty crowded. Finnair flight AY666 from Copenhagen to Helsinki (HEL) will actually be taking off twice on Friday the 13th, but that doesn’t seem to have unnerved many…

Tech News Eric Limer Sep 13 '13

Penis reattachment, and other winners from the 2013 Ig Nobel Awards

Last night, scientists from around the world traveled (at their own expense!) to Harvard’s iconic Sanders Theatre for the “23rd First Annual” Ig Nobel Awards – a ceremony created to recognize those achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. Above: A dung beetle navigates via the Milky Way – image based…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Sep 13 '13

Life-Size. Stormtrooper. Action Figure.

The notion that less is more has no place in the world of action figures. At least, that’s the only reasonable conclusion you can come to after you see this life-size six-foot-tall Stormtrooper you can make your very own. https://gizmodo.com/this-life-size-skeletor-action-figure-is-the-ultimate-c-486217160 Who cares if you’ve got the original ultra-rare rocket-firing Boba Fett figure? That plastic projectile…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 13 '13

ISS Crew “Flew Blind” on Their Way Back to Earth

While exciting in some ways—homecoming, yay!—the trip home from the International Space Station is a scary enough journey even when everything goes right. Now imagine doing it with no height sensors to tell you how far from the ground you are and when to brace for impact. That’s exactly what happened earlier week. Two Russian…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Clark Estes Sep 13 '13

Holy bantha poodoo, Disney is making more Star Wars prequels

In what might be the most bombad idea of the year, a Disney executive has revealed that those Star Wars stand-alone movies that have been discussed will be prequels — specifically, origin stories, potentially focused on characters like Han Solo, Yoda, or that guy on Cloud City with the ice cream maker. Here’s the money…

io9 Rob Bricken Sep 13 '13

Insidious 2’s biggest crime isn’t failing to be scary

The only thing people really want to know about the sequel to James Wan’s Insidious is whether it’s as scary as the first movie. Insidious brought the scary, brought the horror and didn’t give a shit about being cheesy, wacky and just a little bit insane. While Insidious 2 is made in the spirit of…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 13 '13

Canon’s Experimental Video Sensor Sees the World in Utter Darkness

Back in March, Canon showed off an in-development video sensor that could capture the details of a scene in almost no light. The results were primitive, but impressive. A new video clip of fireflies in a dark forest shows the progresses Canon is making, and it’s pretty amazing. https://gizmodo.com/canon-built-an-image-sensor-that-sees-in-the-dark-5988361 The new clip was shot with…

Tech News Michael Hession Sep 13 '13

The Self-Powered Self-Balancing Skateboard, for Lazy Ass Tony Hawks

The Segway is probably never going to change the world the way Dean Kamen had hoped, but at the least it encouraged humanity to dare to dream of a world where we’d never have to balance ourselves ever again. And keeping that dream alive and well is the S-Walker Board. It’s like you tossed a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 13 '13

This is what a lightning strike does to a lightning rod

This is what a lightning rod looks like after it’s done its duty. Why does a lightning bolt crush it like a fist crushes a beer can? Because of what’s known as a “pinch.” The phenomenon is like a much more prosaic sight — a stream of water from a sink breaking into beads. Gravity…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 13 '13

Ginger’s heartbreaking story: the dog who forgot how to walk

It’s hard to believe, but this deformed hairy thing is a dog. Her name is Ginger, a “4-pound, 14-year-old poodle who had been the victim of a hoarding situation.” Her hair was so matted that some of her body parts were trapped by it. So much that the poor thing had to learn to walk…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Sep 13 '13

Man Flying to Europe with Helium Balloons Gives Up After Just 350 Miles

Well, that was quick. Balloon-loving daredevil Jonathan Trappe was supposed to float all the way to Europe under 370 helium-filled balloons in three to six days, but he gave up after only 12 hours citing technical difficulties. He hadn’t even made it out of North America. Late Thursday night, Trappe posted a vague message to…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Sep 13 '13

This video demonstrates that some low speed limits are dumb

Fact: the faster your drive, the shorter your reaction time is, the less probability to avoid an accident. Fact: the faster you drive, the more kinetic energy, the less probability of surviving an impact. Fact: some low speed limits are dumb—but not as dumb as people who drive recklessly around Manhattan. https://gizmodo.com/police-arrests-man-who-broke-the-drive-around-manhattan-1263160070 https://jalopnik.com/this-is-the-best-takedown-of-the-speed-kills-myth-you-1302382244

Sploid Jesus Diaz Sep 13 '13

Last Days on Mars trailer spills some blood on the red planet

From the director who brought us the beloved short “Blinky TM” comes The Last Days on Mars, a film about the first manned mission to Mars, and what goes wrong on the big, red planet. Check out the new blood-splattered trailer. https://gizmodo.com/the-full-short-for-blinky-the-bloodthirsty-pet-robot-5783831 Last Days on Mars will premiere in the UK on September (no word…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 13 '13

James Cameron loves the hell out of the CG Captain Harlock movie

James Cameron knows movies in general, and he knows 3D CG movies in specific. So if James Cameron likes your 3D CG film, you’ve probably done something special. If he calls your movie “majestic” and “epic in every sense,” then you’re Shinji Aramaki, and the movie Cameron is praising is Captain Harlock. Yes, the acclaimed…

io9 Rob Bricken Sep 13 '13

Google Street View Driver Rams 2 Buses, 1 Truck in Failed Hit-and-Run

It’s not a good year to be a Google Street View driver—or rather, in this case, to be anywhere in the vicinity of one. In Bogor, Indonesia, one ill-fated Google Street View car got itself into a bit of trouble when the driver’s failed attempt at a hit-and-run involved him ramming into two large public…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Sep 13 '13

The unlucky beasts that were too close to NASA’s rocket launches

Despite the fact that all NASA’s launch sites are natural paradises thanks to the agency’s conservationists efforts, sometimes accidents happen when frogs, bats, pelicans or turkey vultures cross the path of rockets as they soar into space. Here are some sad examples. Of course, there were other lucky ones who survive. In fact, the norm…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Sep 13 '13

What Would a City Based On Your Foursquare Data Look Like?

Most cities evolved based on centuries of complex economic and cultural forces. But what would it look like if that process were reversed? That’s the concept behind Generating Utopia, a program that turns a user’s location-based data into a sprawling, Rio de Janeiro-style cityscape. German interaction designer Stefan Wagner wrote the script, which he describes…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Sep 13 '13

Watch How a Man Turns Guns into Musical Instruments

Artist Pedro Reyes takes confiscated weapons and turns them into fully mechanized instruments in an ongoing project called Destroy. Here’s a look at how. We saw the remains of 6,700 guns turned into an entire orchestra that played John Lennon’s “Imagine” last winter. Now Reyes is back again with eight new instruments, and a look…

Tech News Leslie Horn Sep 13 '13

Relativity goes underwater with Supplee’s Paradox

Too often relativity is confined to space ships and interplanetary travel. It’s time to dive and see what weird ideas relativity can bring to us from beneath the sea. Jim Supplee first thought up a novel spin on the weirdness of relativity when he was a graduate student, and came back to it years later…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 13 '13

A map of our solar system that puts it into proper perspective

Now that the Voyager 1 space probe has officially left the solar system, it would be nice to know where it is, exactly, in the large scheme of things. This crafty map will help. https://observationdeck.kinja.com/this-time-its-official-voyager-1-has-left-the-solar-1302056512 Given the vast distances involved, it’s impossible to create a scale map of the solar system and the immediate interstellar…

io9 George Dvorsky Sep 13 '13

Unluckiest Trip Ever: Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th

Penis reattachment, and other winners from the 2013 Ig Nobel Awards

Life-Size. Stormtrooper. Action Figure.

ISS Crew “Flew Blind” on Their Way Back to Earth

Holy bantha poodoo, Disney is making more Star Wars prequels

Insidious 2’s biggest crime isn’t failing to be scary

Canon’s Experimental Video Sensor Sees the World in Utter Darkness

The Self-Powered Self-Balancing Skateboard, for Lazy Ass Tony Hawks

This is what a lightning strike does to a lightning rod

Ginger’s heartbreaking story: the dog who forgot how to walk

Man Flying to Europe with Helium Balloons Gives Up After Just 350 Miles

This video demonstrates that some low speed limits are dumb

Last Days on Mars trailer spills some blood on the red planet

James Cameron loves the hell out of the CG Captain Harlock movie

Google Street View Driver Rams 2 Buses, 1 Truck in Failed Hit-and-Run

The unlucky beasts that were too close to NASA’s rocket launches

What Would a City Based On Your Foursquare Data Look Like?

Watch How a Man Turns Guns into Musical Instruments

Relativity goes underwater with Supplee’s Paradox

A map of our solar system that puts it into proper perspective

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