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Human test flights begin on extraordinary jetpack, on sale in 2015

Remember how we all thrilled to see this test flight of the Martin jetpack a few years ago? It remained aloft, with a dummy in the driver’s seat, for over 7 minutes. Now humans are going to start testing this jetpack, which the manufacturer says could be on the market as early as 2015. According…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 14 '13

JFK’s Retro-Futuristic Pan Am Terminal Is Slowly Being Demolished

Despite some last ditch efforts to save it, the JFK airport’s 1960 Googie-style Pan Am terminal is currently being destroyed. Once an important symbol of tomorrowism, this iconic Worldport™ will soon find itself a pile of retro-futuristic rubble. https://gizmodo.com/googie-architecture-of-the-space-age-512620908 First opened to the public on May 24, 1960, Terminal 3 was designed by the firm…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 14 '13

Mysterious video shows new iPhone that’s shockingly yellow

Apple fans have recently enjoyed the two color choices offered in the iPhone models: black, or white. Maybe it didn’t matter because few people want to carry a $600 phone without a protective case. But today, iPhone lovers are in a state of shock because this video shows what might be a new, yellow iPhone.…

Sploid Ken Layne Aug 14 '13

A Rare Glimpse Inside a Magnificent, Abandoned Shrine to Electricity

At the dawn of the electrical age, power plants were more than just utilitarian buildings. They were grand, soaring temples to a near-magical substance that was changing the world. Most of these buildings are now abandoned or demolished. But I recently visited one of the few that remain: the 99-year-old Kelenföld Power Plant, one of…

Tech News Attila Nagy Aug 14 '13

Mathematician Designs a Time Cloak That Uses Just Light and Mirrors

You know what the futurists are always saying: Time cloaks are so cool but they’re so complicated. And it’s true! What were you expecting from a device that literally hides moments in time? A Northwestern mathematician has just shown, though, it doesn’t have to be quite so hard after all. Miguel Lerma just published a…

Physics & Chemistry Adam Clark Estes Aug 14 '13

Breakthrough: Scientists build a beating mouse heart with human tissue

In a major scientific first, a team of developmental biologists has built a functional mouse heart from human tissues. The results herald a future where specific patches of heart muscle – or even the whole organ – could be grown for transplantation. Top image of mouse heart by Wellcome Images via flickr. The work, which…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 14 '13

Was Jesus crucified on a leopard-skin cross?

A discount clothing chain for young women is again being mocked for its endless offerings of Jesus-themed young women’s casual fashion. This chain is owned by fundamentalist Christians, but instead of only selling burqas they just put ridiculous cross shapes on all their tacky clothes. Can you name this horrid store? https://jezebel.com/forever21-celebrates-jesus-in-all-his-forms-1134817189

Sploid Ken Layne Aug 14 '13

Watch the SpaceX Grasshopper Hop Into the Air and Fly Sideways

You’ve seen the SpaceX Grasshopper blast off, hover and land vertically. You’ve seen it fly higher than the Chrysler building and land vertically. Now you can see this innovative little rocket zoom 250 meters into the air and fly 100 meters sideways. You know what it does next? It lands vertically. https://gizmodo.com/watch-spacexs-grasshopper-hover-80-meters-in-the-air-5989978 The Grasshopper, of…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Clark Estes Aug 14 '13

A NASA Scientist Made an App Dedicated to More Secure Boobs

Bras are pretty much some of the oldest pieces of tech around—the undergarment can even trace its roots all the way back to the freelovin’ days of ancient Greece. So as something most women wear nearly every day, it’s amazing how many studies have come out claiming that ladies everywhere our wearing their bras all…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Aug 14 '13

Discover the grade level of your current beach read

Ever wanted to find out how people determine what grade level a book is? With the Fry Readability Graph and a little counting, you can! Grab the book you’re reading and figure out how much you’re taxing your mind. I was the kind of kid who would read whatever came to hand. If the cover…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Aug 14 '13

Got Blood on the Brain? Shove This Clot Buster Up Your Nose

The odds of suffering an intracerebral (IC) hemorrhage during your lifetime (1 in 50) are almost as terrifying as the as the chances are that it will kill you (4 in 10) if it does happen. IC hemorrhages (and the edemas, or clots, they produce) account for 11 percent of all strokes, and are far…

Health Andrew Tarantola Aug 14 '13

How Is This 8-Bit Blade Runner Game Not Actually Real?

If you love Blade Runner (and how could you not), you’ve just got to have a soft-spot for old-school games (and how could you not). This little masterpiece proves that they’re two great tastes that taste great together. Whipped up for 8-Bit Cinema by the folks who brought you 8-Bit Star Trek, this isometric Blade…

Tech News Eric Limer Aug 14 '13

Your Busted Apple MagSafe Cords Power These Clever Lamps

The MagSafe power cord is one of Apple’s smartest features. They tend to crap out after a few months of hard use, though, thanks either to your poor wire-wrapping technique or your dog’s penchant for copper wire. But that doesn’t have to be the end of the line. https://gizmodo.com/the-macbooks-most-underrated-feature-511300704 For Brian Richer, who co-owns the…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Aug 14 '13

The U.S. Has More Internet Porn Than Any Other Country

America: land of the free, home of the most internet porn in the universe. According to a study, the U.S. of A hosts 60 percent—or 428 million pages—of the world’s porn. The data was collected by Paul Walsh of a company called Metacard. He found that the U.S. is second only to the Netherlands, which…

Tech News Leslie Horn Aug 14 '13

Why did the ‘80s turn so many of us into nerds?

The ol’ mailbag isn’t short this week, but it only has a few letters. Why? Because someone accidentally asked me the question that has consumed me during my entire career as a professional nerd (…turned post-apocalyptic fake mailman). Why did an entire generation turn out so damn nerdy? The Ultimate Question Ken P.: Why don’t…

io9 Rob Bricken Aug 14 '13

Is Your YouTube Slathered In Counterfeit Ads?

It’s bad enough seeing ads all over YouTube, but some shifty malware has been making things even worse. A couple of YouTube-downloader apps have been sliding in a bunch of unauthorized ads and selling them to big brands like Amazon, Blackberry, Kellogg’s and Toyota. So if you’ve been trying to snag some free YouTube vids,…

Tech News Eric Limer Aug 14 '13

Archeologist badger reveals 12th Century tombs

Badgers are cool. They don’t give a damn about anything, not even Slavic lords or warriors from the 12th century. That’s why this badger excavated his lair on top of their tombs, making a great discovery in the process. https://gizmodo.com/badger-unearths-medieval-graves-in-germany-1133762133

Sploid Jesus Diaz Aug 14 '13

This Could Be a Yellow iPhone 5c Next to an iPhone 5

A blogger/possible Apple sleuth named Sonny Dickson showed us a gallery of lovely candy colored iPhones that might be Apple’s next smartphone earlier this month. Now Dickson’s released a video that gives us an even closer look at the housing of the purported iPhone 5c. https://gizmodo.com/oh-man-i-want-these-budget-iphone-photos-to-be-real-1054208244 The video is further pushing the rumors that the…

Tech News Leslie Horn Aug 14 '13

Japan Wants to Build an Ice Wall to Contain Fukushima’s Radioactive Water

Radioactive water full of carcinogenic chemicals is leaking out of the Fukushima power plant at a critical rate, critical enough for the Nuclear Regulation Authority to deem the situation an “emergency.” It’s one of those desperate times, and the measures under consideration sound a little bit desperate. https://gizmodo.com/fukushimas-leaking-radioactive-water-into-the-ocean-aft-870532242 One of the leading candidates for a…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Aug 14 '13

These WWI aerial dogfight photos are incredible. Too bad they’re fake.

During the 1930s, a woman claiming to be the widow of a British Royal Flying Corps pilot sold 34 photos featuring scenes from a dramatic WWI aerial battle to a publisher for U.S. $20,000. The pics were later published in a popular book — but it was all an elaborate hoax. The woman, who went…

io9 George Dvorsky Aug 14 '13

Human test flights begin on extraordinary jetpack, on sale in 2015

JFK’s Retro-Futuristic Pan Am Terminal Is Slowly Being Demolished

Mysterious video shows new iPhone that’s shockingly yellow

A Rare Glimpse Inside a Magnificent, Abandoned Shrine to Electricity

Mathematician Designs a Time Cloak That Uses Just Light and Mirrors

Breakthrough: Scientists build a beating mouse heart with human tissue

Was Jesus crucified on a leopard-skin cross?

Watch the SpaceX Grasshopper Hop Into the Air and Fly Sideways

A NASA Scientist Made an App Dedicated to More Secure Boobs

Discover the grade level of your current beach read

Got Blood on the Brain? Shove This Clot Buster Up Your Nose

How Is This 8-Bit Blade Runner Game Not Actually Real?

Your Busted Apple MagSafe Cords Power These Clever Lamps

The U.S. Has More Internet Porn Than Any Other Country

Why did the ‘80s turn so many of us into nerds?

Is Your YouTube Slathered In Counterfeit Ads?

Archeologist badger reveals 12th Century tombs

This Could Be a Yellow iPhone 5c Next to an iPhone 5

Japan Wants to Build an Ice Wall to Contain Fukushima’s Radioactive Water

These WWI aerial dogfight photos are incredible. Too bad they’re fake.

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