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Adding a hairy coat to a building to capture wind power

Looking for an alternative to turbines for capturing wind energy, Belatchew Arkitekter has proposed adding a hairy addition to Stockholm’s Söder Torn. It would serve as more than an architectural toupee, capturing energy through the movement of all those tiny straws. Söder Torn was originally designed to stand 40 stories tall, but when it was…

io9 Lauren Davis

Justice League members walk their young sidekicks to school

Andry Rajoelina’s Justice Families series casts DC superheroes as the parents of their own little families, grabbing the hands of their now pint-sized sidekicks. It’s a mostly sweet series, although Hal Jordan has to improvise. You can see the rest of the series on Rajoelina’s blog. Justice Families [El Shango wuz here via Bleeding Cool]

io9 Lauren Davis

Share Your Rare Music Collection with the Internet

Sometimes, you love a song and it’s not on the web. That’s just not right, because the three or so generations alive today are largely responsible for making sure that all the important and interesting stuff (and not just cat videos) make it onto the Internet. Note: This tutorial for Windows was adapted from this…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm

A warrior’s daughter and a shop keeper’s son are switched at birth

In a land where demons roam the Earth, Guardians have always protected the villages. The role has always been passed from father to son—until one Guardian’s wife gives birth to a daughter. So the doctor and his assistant decide to quietly switch her with another baby, the newborn son of a local shop keeper. The…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

This Table Designs Itself With a Corrosive Chemical Dance Party

There are all kinds of ways to design a table, but most of them don’t include resonant frequencies or specially-designed abrasive enzymes, much less both. Bonus Table 571 isn’t most tables though, and that’s exactly how it gets its very specific pattern. Engineered by Colleen & Eric and shown off at NYC Design Week 2013,…

Tech News Eric Limer

Kirk and the Gorn duet in Star Trek: The Middle School Musical

Looking for an antidote to J.J. Abrams’ slick, lens-flared vision of Star Trek? The Mythical Show with Rhett and Link gives us a Star Trek that doesn’t even begin to take itself seriously, right down to its singing all-child cast. Star Trek: The Middle School Musical could have used a dose of Sulu, but the…

io9 Lauren Davis

The records for the greatest distances driven on Mars and the Moon

Yesterday’s 263-foot drive by the NASA’s Opportunity put Mars Rover’s total distance driven at 35.76 km, breaking the 40-year-old record for the greatest distance driven by a NASA vehicle on another celestial body. But Opportunity still hasn’t quite beaten the record set by the USSR’s Lunokhod 2. The Apollo 17 Lunar Rover was NASA’s previous…

io9 Lauren Davis

The World’s Fastest Wi-Fi Puts Your Sluggish Router to Shame

For the most part, we’re all happy if we can get Internet that’s fast enough to stream some HD video. But faster is always better, and a new, world-record setting network developed in Germany is so blazing fast you wouldn’t know what to do with it. It can deliver multiple HD films in a second.…

Tech News Eric Limer

Shockwave re-animates prehistoric Decepticon armies on Transformers

This week in the world of cartoons, the Decepticons take a cue from the Galactic Empire and begin cloning armies to fight the Autobots, Finn and Jake give up on their vocal cords, one of the regulars on Regular Show is in health trouble, and we take an advanced look at a new Disney/Marvel release.…

io9 Keith Veronese

Start Your Day Right With a Daft Punk Laser Bubble Rave

Lasers, bubbles, edge-tracking, and Daft Punk are all pretty awesome in their own separate ways, but put together, they can put one one hell of a useless, random, but awesome show. Messing with his Etherdream DAC laser to no end other than real craziness, Memo Akten of the group Marshmallow Laser Feast whipped up this…

Tech News Eric Limer

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Two Colors, Three Dimensions

Mixing surreal anaglyphic animation and a haunting soundtrack, this stunning short by Stephen Chan is cool enough to watch even without the glasses. Of course if you want the full effect but don’t have access to pair, just blink your eyes alternately real fast. That might work.

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Iowa Farms Can’t Seem to Keep Their Pig Shit from Exploding

Pig farming is tough, foul-smelling, and dirty work. Turns out, that’s the good part of it. See, since 2009 the American hog farming industry has been struck with an explosive pork poop problem—in that the decomposing porcine waste will go boom under the right conditions. Since the phenomenon was first described four years ago, a…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The Vampire Diaries and the Pitfalls of the Season-Ending Twist

We’re familiar with the phenomenon where a show is in the final moments of its season finale, and all of a sudden there’s a wacky twist that the writers thought would make people freak out over the summer. Often, viewers are left wondering more “What were they thinking?” than “What’s next?” As in the case…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Vine Tries to Make a Vine Ad in Vine

Vine might be the communication tool of the future, but it’s not without its limitations. Not the least of which is how impossible it is to describe Vine in a Vine-length blurb. Irony, thou art cruel! -Bill Hader is leaving SNL after eight years, and we made a videolist of his best sketches. Fred Armisen…

Tech News Splitsider

RIP Frank Kendig, original editor of Omni Magazine

Omni Magazine was a huge inspiration to all of us at io9. And its original editor, Frank Kendig, just passed away yesterday. Here’s a great tribute to his legacy, including helping to form the unique mix of stories that Omni boasted. UPDATE: Terribly sorry about this. Apparently, he actually died on May 16, 2008, and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

NASA Designs the Scientifically Perfect Space Meal

After being strapped onto the front of a 15-story controlled explosion and launched clear out of the atmosphere to live in an experimental laboratory orbiting around the Earth at thousands of miles an hour, the least NASA can do is give you a good meal. Feeding the crew of the ISS and other manned excursions…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

Red Waves Are Breaking Across the Land

There is nothing that embodies the idea of “terrible beauty” more than an approaching sandstorm. Here is what these awe-inspiring forces of nature look like, right before they consume the ocean or landscape in blinding clouds. Onslow storm, Western Australia, 9 January 2013 Pictured above. (via The Roosevelts, Levi Cooper and Brett Martin/PerthWeatherLive.com) Phoenix, Arizona,…

io9 Vincze Miklós

Energizer 180W Cup Inverter: Juice Your Gadgets on the Go

It’s been a brutal week at work, you’ve spent what? Maybe 15 seconds of it without your phone on your ear and your computer on your lap? At this point, your electronics are just as drained as your are. Give them a jump start on your drive home with this 180W car charger. What Is…

Reviews Andrew Tarantola

An experiment shows how people deliberately sabotage themselves

If you got a great score on a test, you’d like to continue your winning streak, wouldn’t you? One experiment proves you wouldn’t. You’d self-sabotage. Not unintentionally and not subconsciously. You’d knowingly and deliberately screw up. We sometimes engage in behaviors that scuttle our chances of getting what we want. This is a baffling behavior…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

When forests glow green in the night

There are certain times when the woods begin to glow. Sometimes they glow so much that people call the Park Service and ask them to send a hazmat team. What they’re actually seeing is foxfire. And although we know how it happens, we don’t know exactly why. The picture above is a lovely example of…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Adding a hairy coat to a building to capture wind power

Justice League members walk their young sidekicks to school

Share Your Rare Music Collection with the Internet

A warrior’s daughter and a shop keeper’s son are switched at birth

This Table Designs Itself With a Corrosive Chemical Dance Party

Kirk and the Gorn duet in Star Trek: The Middle School Musical

The records for the greatest distances driven on Mars and the Moon

The World’s Fastest Wi-Fi Puts Your Sluggish Router to Shame

Shockwave re-animates prehistoric Decepticon armies on Transformers

Start Your Day Right With a Daft Punk Laser Bubble Rave

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Two Colors, Three Dimensions

Iowa Farms Can’t Seem to Keep Their Pig Shit from Exploding

The Vampire Diaries and the Pitfalls of the Season-Ending Twist

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Vine Tries to Make a Vine Ad in Vine

RIP Frank Kendig, original editor of Omni Magazine

NASA Designs the Scientifically Perfect Space Meal

Red Waves Are Breaking Across the Land

Energizer 180W Cup Inverter: Juice Your Gadgets on the Go

An experiment shows how people deliberately sabotage themselves

When forests glow green in the night

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