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Timur Bekmambetov will lead the insane Warriors of Oz to Syfy

Syfy has tapped Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter director Timur Bekmambetov to create an action-fantasy “reimagining” of The Wizard of Oz. The miniseries will be called Warriors of Oz and it sounds completely fucking insane. Deadline describes it thusly: It is a fantasy-action reimagining of the classic story in which a warrior from present day Earth…

Collectively, scientists love adverbs. Here are the ones they love most.

Recently, statistical bioinformatician Neil Saunders decided to look for sentence adverbs in close to 100,000 scientific abstracts. (You know sentence adverbs: “Remarkably, the guinea pigs were wearing armor they had fashioned themselves. Unfortunately, it seems humanity’s days are numbered.”) This is what he found. Writes Saunders: It seems that the most popular use of the…

3D Simulator Lets You Nuke Any City With Your Favorite Nuclear Warhead

This is all sorts of twisted, but a new interactive map allows users to drop a nuclear bomb on any location of their choosing. The results, which are shown in Google Earth generated maps, are truly horrifying. Called NUKEMAP3D, users can select a city, the size of the bomb in kilotons (the app also provides…

No, Star Trek 3 is probably not filming in 2014

But the Mummy reboot really is filming next year. Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn gives insight into Rocket Raccoon. Check out some totally awesome X-Men: Days of Future Past posters. Ivan Reitman updates us on Ghostbusters 3. Is Syfy really making a TV show based on Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys? Spoilers ahead! Top…

Nokia’s Lumia 625: A 4.7-Inch Windows Phone on the Cheap

Nokia’s follow up to the mid-range-to-budget Lumia 620 has gone bigger than ever, taking Windows Phone to an Android-like 4.7-inches. Shame about the resolution. The budget phone will come packing an 800 x 480 IPS 4.7-inch LCD with “supertouch” so you can use it with gloves on; great, I guess, but it looks decidedly low-res…

This Is What Gravity Looks Like

You can’t see gravity, right? It’s just an invisible, natural force of attraction, created by mass, yeah? Well, almost—but in this image you can see its effects in still and breathtaking glory. The ripples in the clouds of this images are known as gravity waves. NASA explains exactly what they are: Offshore and to the…

How to Get Rid of Google’s Annoying New Gmail Ads

Google’s new tabbed inbox is designed to declutter your email, but actually it’s a bit irritating. If you are using it, though, you may have noticed a new rash of irritating, targeted ads that look like email. The good news is, you don’t have to put up with them. Appearing in the Promotions tab, there…

Another day, another Moto X leak: this time, it seems Motorola’s new camera software will feature a slick swipe-based navigation system and sloooow-mooootion mode.

This 3D-Printed Bungalow Is the Ultimate Birdhouse

When you ask a bunch of 3D printing nerds to design a better birdhouse, you can expect some wild and wacky offering—but this thing is perhaps the ultimate avian abode. MakerBot recently ran a competition on Thingiverse which asked users to design the best future birdhouse—and the results are quite something. This one, by y…

An Underwater Bullet In Super Slo-Mo Is Breathtakingly Beautiful

You may remember our friend Destin at Smarter Every Day shooting an AK-47 underwater. It was a cool experiment, but the pressure caused the aquarium to shatter, ruining what we now know would have been an amazing shot. To solve this problem, he built a sort of reverse-periscope for a Phantom camera and shot the…

Watching a Timelapse of Plants Growing Is Grossly Alien

It’s easy to forget plants are “alive” because they hardly move on their own. No more. This timelapse of plants growing and blooming and shooting up and blossoming shows plants move like aliens. Every time you see a new plant, you think it’s a new species from outer space. It’s not until you see the…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Tulkou

Things in this quiet seaside town are not what they initally appear. Not the faux-colored pencil on cardboard animation motif and especially not the gigantic green liquidus humanoid that just washed into this old man’s fishing net. Animated by Mo’Sam, the team of Mohamed Fadera and Sami Guellaï, and co-produced by Dailymotion, Tulkou follows the…

Driving a Car with Pliers As a Steering Wheel Is a Hilariously Dumb Idea

Imagine you’re the police. Imagine you’re in your police car. Imagine eating a donut. Imagine complaining about life to your partner. Imagine seeing a car with two obviously blown tires drive by. Imagine pulling that car over. Imagine seeing that the driver driving the car was using a makeshift steering wheel made from… locking pliers.…

Comic-Con Rocked!

Comic-Con is over, but we’re still abuzz about everything we saw. You can read all our coverage at io9.com/sdcc2013, including cosplay, winners and losers, Joss Whedon’s bombshell, Doctor Who, X-Men, Marvel movies, Godzilla, Warcraft, Superman/Batman, Walking Dead, Alfonso Cuaron, Ender’s Game, TV pilots and cool displays. Top image: Davann Srey.

Here Are Famous Art Paintings Amazingly Recreated with Deli Meat

Well, to consider this anything other than fantastic is to be wrong. Photographer Karsten Wegener teamed up with designer Silke Baltruschat and food stylist Raik Holst to create ‘Sausage in Art’, art which recreates famous paintings by using… deli meats, sausages, eggs, pickles and more. It might not look as good as the original, but…

Dan Black: Hearts

My music taste can be regarded as anywhere from generally untrustworthy to unforgivingly mainstream. So if you don’t enjoy this soundtrack selection, I don’t blame ya. Put it on mute. This ain’t about the music. What’s awesome about this music video is that it’s a 24 hour timelapse video. As in it was created in…

Find Some Hot Bricking Love at This Dating Site For Lego Lovers

Internet dating site Plenty of Fish is making it easier than ever for star-crossed lovers of Lego to find each other. Just peruse their “Users Interested In legos” tag to learn more about these love-lorn Lego Romeos. Take CrazyLegoMan for instance. He majored in biology and is looking for some sexy Christian Lego fan to…

What Van Gogh’s Paintings Would Look Like If They Came to Life

Like the awesome moving pictures in Harry Potter and the silliness of six second Vines, this video shows what art by Van Gogh would look like if the paintings he created could move. That is, how the candles would flicker, how the shadows would be cast, how the Sun would rise, how people would move,…

Disney’s New Algorithm Turns Any Photo Into a 3D Wonderland

Disney Research, a partnership between the mouse-eared entertainment juggernaut and universities around the globe, is on a virtual reality roll. Its latest development, an algorithm that turns 2D photographs into 3D landscapes, can transform a regular photo into a video game-style environment, using consumer-grade computer hardware. The program senses the depth of objects in a…

UCLA’s 1948 Mechanical Computer Was Simply Gorgeous To Watch in Action

The mechanical computers of yesterday may have been enormous, difficult to program, and amazingly clunky—but they sure were beautiful to watch in action. Released theatrically by Popular Science on August 6, 1948, this short film played before Paramount Pictures movies and demonstrated to the public how computers were freeing “research of old limitations” and provided…