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Scanning Fast Food Makes Fast Food Look Even Worse

This isn’t exactly a news flash but hey, fast food isn’t good for you. And though sometimes that burger or that hot dog might look appetizing in your head, it never looks like that in real life. Jon Feinstein’s photography series about fast food takes the common items we know and love and uses a…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 17 '13

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Gary Busey’s Crazy Brain

So a hobo came up to me on the street last weekend to bum a smoke and regale me with a tale of how his forefathers invented the television. This, of course, brought about an almost immediate 1920s surveillance state with Big Brother watching us as we watched The Honeymooners. The CIA, clearly, then exploited…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 17 '13

How Much Does It Really Cost to Be Batman?

In what is quite possibly the most comprehensive look at the financial cost of being Batman, Movieclips Trailers analyzed the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy and compared Batman’s gear to current market prices to come up with the definitive price it would take to be the dark knight. The final tally? $79,237,480.98. Not too expensive for…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 16 '13

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: It’s Not You, It’s Me

Break ups are a horrible thing to go through! But what might be worse is that period of time right before a break up when you start to get annoyed with everything your girlfriend or boyfriend does. The way they slurp their food, the icky way they use napkins, their hygiene. Every once adorable tic…

Tech News Splitsider Aug 16 '13

Grumby: Mt. Fuji

I don’t care what anyone says—we are in a golden era of music. We’re still close enough to popular music’s origins to have an appreciation for the basics, the immediate earnestness of a musician and his guitar. But we’ve really just begun to scratch the surface of the wild, fantastical sounds we can make thanks…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Aug 16 '13

The underground city has thrown open its doors to the surface

At night, when we are safe from solar storms, the guards open our radiation-shielded gates. We are so used to living in darkness that the moonlight comes on like a tsunami, an uncontrollable riot of waves. It’s as if we are drowning in light, rather than illuminated by it. Jacek Irzykowski created this piece for…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 16 '13

Most Beautiful Items: August 10 – 16, 2013

You’re in the home stretch for the weekend. You haven’t crossed that much-desired finish line yet, so in the meantime, check out some of the wonders of design, art, and architecture we found this week. A trailer so beautiful that it will make you want to go on a road trip https://gizmodo.com/a-trailer-so-beautiful-that-it-will-make-you-want-to-go-1094621368 Behold, the new…

Tech News Leslie Horn Aug 16 '13

So apparently Voyager 1 left our solar system on July 27, 2012

A re-interpretation of Voyager 1 data is refuelling the debate over whether the spacecraft has truly left the cozy confines of our solar system. According to a new University of Maryland study, it exited the heliosphere last year. The confusion, say the researchers, stems from NASA’s failure to account for a particular magnetic phenomenon. So…

io9 George Dvorsky Aug 16 '13

This Animation Teaches You More About Physics Than High School Ever Did

It’s a shame I never paid attention in physics class because outside of Walter White’s school of chemistry, physics might be the coolest type of science around. It’s okay though. BBC Science Club has got me covered with a fantastic short animation video detailing the history of physics. You know most of it—Galileo, Newton, Einstein—but…

Physics & Chemistry Casey Chan Aug 16 '13

Video reveals incredible “acrobat” and “hunter” birds in flight

Not all birds fly the same way. Hardly a revolutionary statement (you don’t need a firm grasp of biomechanics to recognize that a sparrow gets around differently than an albatross). But things get more interesting when you stop to examine the differences. In this fascinating video from Earth Unplugged, we examine the difference in flight…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 16 '13

Glowing, fiber optic corset is perfect for Katniss in the Capitol

This wild fetish dress, accented with a fiber optic corset that throbs in time with music, is exactly what I’d expect to see Katniss wearing to celebrate her triumph in yet another dystopian round of the Hunger Games. Created by New York fashion designer Rachael Reichert, the dress is part of the designer’s 2013 fashion…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 16 '13

This Italian ‘Adolf Hitler wine’ has infuriated just about everybody

Holy hell, this is in poor taste — both figuratively and probably literally. Italian prosecutors are investigating how bottles of wine adorned with images of Adolf Hitler got on to store shelves. And now human rights organizations are entering into the fray. The winemaker responsible for this abomination, Andrea Lundardelli, claims the line is all…

io9 George Dvorsky Aug 16 '13

It’s All Music to Your Ears With the SoundFocus App

Unless everyone around you took a vow of silence the moment you were born and you spent the intervening years in a sensory deprivation tank, a sound isolation chamber of some kind, or one of our planet’s rare, ultra-quiet environments, your hearing is already damaged, at least a little. It’s a part of life. Because…

Tech News Elliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm Aug 16 '13

This short about a princess with a badass sword is absolutely lovely

This Must Be the Only Fantasy is a Dungeons & Dragons style collaboration between fashion line Rodarte and photographer Todd Cole. The short movie is packed with amazing unicorns, badass ear cuffs, Elijah Wood drop ins, faeries, and self important pauses. But we love it. The soundtrack was scored by Beach House. Look — if…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 16 '13

iPad Apps of the Week: Editorial, Slack, and More

You and your iPad fought your way through the week hand-in-tablet. Time to enjoy the weekend by continuing to tap away at a touchscreen, but for funsies this time. Check out our favorite apps of the week, and reflect on the good things you accomplished in the past 5 days. Editorial: Does all the basic…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Aug 16 '13

iPhone Apps of the Week: Slack, MedSnap, and More

It’s Friday (Friday, gotta get down on NEVER MIND), and your iPhone has been the social safety blanket that’s saved you from another week of actually talking to the people around you. Reward that glowing little rectangle with some shiny new apps! Slack: Aims to simplify three main things: messaging, file sharing, and the ever-present…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Aug 16 '13

Android Apps of the Week: Slack, Dots and More

Well, you made it all the way to Friday. Congratulations! Kick off your shoes, crack open a cold beverage, and download some sweet apps. Just like your old man used to do on Friday nights. Slack: If you’re like most people, you work email account is an absolute disaster—most likely some unholy combination of short…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Aug 16 '13

The jury is still out on whether this is science fiction or not

Is Breaking Bad science fiction? I mean, it’s fiction about science. What about William Gibson’s novel Pattern Recognition? Don’t even get me started on Person of Interest and Sneakers. We could argue all day! And we will. What’s your candidate for the story that defies categorization? Tell us about stories — books, movies, comics, TV,…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 16 '13

Newly-discovered mammal is ‘mix of house cat and a teddy bear’

Say hello to the olinguito, the first carnivorous mammal to be discovered in the Western hemisphere in 35 years. And HOLY CRAP is this thing ever cute. It took more than a decade for Smithsonian Institute researchers to properly identify the mammal — a story that began when zoologist Kristofer Helgen found some bones and…

io9 George Dvorsky Aug 16 '13

A House With a Roof That Retracts, Thanks to a Hand-Operated Winch

If you happened upon architect Javier Corvalán‘s house in rural Paraguay while its roof was down, you probably wouldn’t give it a second thought—this tiny aluminum box looks more like a bunker than a home. But thanks to a simple winch, the client who lives inside can tilt the entire roof upward by 25 degrees…

Physics & Chemistry Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Aug 16 '13

Scanning Fast Food Makes Fast Food Look Even Worse

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Gary Busey’s Crazy Brain

How Much Does It Really Cost to Be Batman?

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: It’s Not You, It’s Me

Grumby: Mt. Fuji

The underground city has thrown open its doors to the surface

Most Beautiful Items: August 10 – 16, 2013

So apparently Voyager 1 left our solar system on July 27, 2012

This Animation Teaches You More About Physics Than High School Ever Did

Video reveals incredible “acrobat” and “hunter” birds in flight

Glowing, fiber optic corset is perfect for Katniss in the Capitol

This Italian ‘Adolf Hitler wine’ has infuriated just about everybody

It’s All Music to Your Ears With the SoundFocus App

This short about a princess with a badass sword is absolutely lovely

iPad Apps of the Week: Editorial, Slack, and More

iPhone Apps of the Week: Slack, MedSnap, and More

Android Apps of the Week: Slack, Dots and More

The jury is still out on whether this is science fiction or not

Newly-discovered mammal is ‘mix of house cat and a teddy bear’

A House With a Roof That Retracts, Thanks to a Hand-Operated Winch

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