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True love beats douchebaggery in a schizophrenic (but good) Grimm

Did anyone feel like they were watching two separate Grimm episodes last night? Because for the first 35 minutes, I honestly thought we were getting the most boring, useless Grimm of the season. Then, shit started happening. Good shit. So good that we’ve got some actual momentum heading into the last two episodes. Let’s recap…

Television Rob Bricken

Here’s What $100 Worth of Gaming Console Looks Like Inside

Oh hai, Kickstarter success story. So this is what it looks like when you disassemble an open-platform Android console. Today, we get to look deep within this animal’s soul thanks to our friends at iFixit. Yes, Ouya only costs $100, but you’re getting a the guts of a solid—if not industry-leading—smartphone: An Nvidia Tegra 3…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The scientific equivalent of “When did you stop beating your wife?”

There’s a famous joke question: “When did you stop beating your wife?” The structure of the question is funny — or disturbing — because any response condemns you. You’d assume that a quick-witted person could see through it. But this study proves that you’re wrong. “Do you think your contempt for America might influence your…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

A Jacket Made from Ziploc Bags Is a Never-Ending Supply of Pockets

Genius comes in all shapes and sizes, and today it’s in the form of a surprisingly stylish jacket made from nothing but resealable Ziploc sandwich bags. It probably doesn’t breathe in hot weather, you can’t put it in the wash, and you can forget about ironing. But in terms of available pockets, it simply can’t…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Google Doodle pays a stylish tribute movie artist Saul Bass

Today would have been legendary graphic designer Saul Bass’ 93rd birthday. As a tribute, Google has transformed their doodle into an amazing collection of Bas- inspired movie titles and posters, and it’s gorgeous. Bass created over 40 title sequences including Psycho, Vertigo, Around the World in 80 Days, Big and has created many classic posters…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Koss Fit Series Ears On: Big Sound from Tiny, Cheap Headphones

It’s great when you find a pair of headphones that you can wear while you’re working out without thinking about them. Koss’s new line of Fit Series Headphones are just that—they’re lightweight, they fit well, and sound pretty damn good for something that’s super dinky and only $30. But, they’re Just for Women. Groan away,…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Seaweed-Sucking Truck to Clean Spain’s Hottest Beaches

Keeping Alicante’s miles of shoreline pristine for the multitudes of beachgoers that congregate to the Mediterranean city every year is no small feat—what with all the seaweed that washes up there. Problem is, the city’s existing seaweed mitigation techniques end up eroding the beaches they’re meant to clean. This automated seaweed collector, however, removes all…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Spoken in the ice age, these words might actually have made sense

The sentences above are special. According to newly published research, they comprise words that have been passed down for millenia, from a language that all but disappeared toward the end of the last ice age. What remains of that tongue are words like the ones above – words that mean the same thing today, and…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Xerox’s New Grading Copiers Will Finally Make Scantron Obsolete

Not content with having them only print, copy, collate, and staple, Xerox is adding a new trick to its photocopiers that promises to give teachers more time with their students. Custom software will actually let a school’s photocopier not only grade papers, but also keep tabs on which students are struggling in certain subjects. Automated…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

“She Hulk” Attacks Teen Girl On Rampage Through U.K. McDonald’s

A rash of Hulk attacks continues with a “She Hulk” accused of running wild in a McDonald’s and smashing a teenaged girl. The red-haired assailant, covered in green body paint and wearing ripped clothes, was captured on closed-circuit security cameras in York, England, but police have yet to catch the monster. http://gawker.com/300-pound-drunken-monster-attacks-stormtrooper-and-ghos-493166278

Sploid Ken Layne

Air Force Fires 17 Incompetent Nuclear Missile Launch Officers

The AP is reporting that the US Air Force has decided to strip “an unprecedented 17 officers of their authority to control nuclear missiles after a string of unpublicized failings.” The Minot Air Force Base officers failed their tests to launch Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles, the backbone of the US atomic arsenal. [Gawker] http://gawker.com/no-biggie-but-our-nuclear-missile-launch-teams-are-inc-496036588

Sploid Jesus Diaz

How good is Batman at sex?

Today’s “Postal Apocalypse” will satisfy you like nothing ever has. And while you read it, your cat will be giving you a judging look. Make sure to email your questions to [email protected], but for now, on with the sexy times! Partyman Todd R.: Rob, our apocalyptic postman! This may fall out if your jurisdiction, but…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

How Adobe Built a Stylus Fit For the Cloud

Yesterday we learned that Adobe is abandoning Creative Suite for the cloud. But at the tail end of its announcement, the company also revealed a surprising little hardware project that shows how it plans to augment Creative Cloud: a pressure-sensitive iPad stylus called Project Mighty and its ruler cousin, Napoleon. https://gizmodo.com/say-goodbye-to-creative-suite-adobe-rebrands-cs-as-cre-493155052 A digital stylus (much…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

This may be the oldest dome-headed dinosaur ever discovered

Paleontologists from Canada have unveiled a newly identified species of a dog-sized pachycephalosaurs. It’s considered the oldest of its kind ever discovered in North America — and quite possibly the world. Called Acrotholus audeti, the two-legged herbivore roamed the plains of southern Alberta about 85 million years ago. The name is derived from the Greek…

io9 George Dvorsky

New Under The Dome footage displays double the dome action

This new footage from Brian K. Vaughan’s Under The Dome looks good — it looks really good. Especially the cow part. Perhaps this could be the show that saves us all from crappy mainstream scifi TV, like The Cape. Based on the Stephen King book, Under The Dome premieres Monday, June 24th.

Television Meredith Woerner

Printable Self-Assembling Bots Will One Day Be Our Affordable Minions

There seem to be two major camps when it comes to robotic research these days: those working to create the most capable and human-like robots with no concern over cost, and those looking to build useful robots but on the cheap. And the researchers at Harvard and MIT behind this printable inchworm, obviously fall into…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

An interactive animation of every recorded meteorite impact in history

Say hello to your new favorite time-suck. (Pew pew pew!) It’s called Bolides. Its creator, datavisualization designer Carlo Zapponi, calles Bolides “an attempt to visualize and explore the meteorites that have collided with the Earth.” The visualization focuses primarily on “fell” meteorites – i.e. meteorites that were observed by people or automated devices during their…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Photoshop Proves Once and For All That Shakespeare Was a Hipster

Photoshop has changed the world, but it’s not content with just the future; it’s going back to grab the past too. These digitally modernized portraits of historical figures were put together to promote History TV’s new series, the Secret Life Of…, and will make you wonder if maybe you’ve passed a modern-day Shakespeare on the…

Tech News Eric Limer

Google Glass Update Adds Google+ Integration

If you’re one of the lucky Google Glass “Explorers” wandering the world barking at your augmented-reality headset prototype get very excited about a new software update that’ll make talking to nerdy computer spectacles more social. Amongst the additions in the “XE5” update is Google+ integration, including the ability to comment and +1 posts on Google’s…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Today’s Google Doodle: A Tribute to Movie Title Master Saul Bass

If you happen to grace the Google home page today, you will find a bit more than the garden variety doodle. On this day, Google is tipping their hat to legendary movie title designer Saul Bass. Bass, whose birthday is today, was responsible for the lead-ins to some of the most iconic movies in cinema…

Tech News Michael Hession

True love beats douchebaggery in a schizophrenic (but good) Grimm

Here’s What $100 Worth of Gaming Console Looks Like Inside

The scientific equivalent of “When did you stop beating your wife?”

A Jacket Made from Ziploc Bags Is a Never-Ending Supply of Pockets

Google Doodle pays a stylish tribute movie artist Saul Bass

Koss Fit Series Ears On: Big Sound from Tiny, Cheap Headphones

Seaweed-Sucking Truck to Clean Spain’s Hottest Beaches

Spoken in the ice age, these words might actually have made sense

Xerox’s New Grading Copiers Will Finally Make Scantron Obsolete

“She Hulk” Attacks Teen Girl On Rampage Through U.K. McDonald’s

Air Force Fires 17 Incompetent Nuclear Missile Launch Officers

How good is Batman at sex?

How Adobe Built a Stylus Fit For the Cloud

This may be the oldest dome-headed dinosaur ever discovered

New Under The Dome footage displays double the dome action

Printable Self-Assembling Bots Will One Day Be Our Affordable Minions

An interactive animation of every recorded meteorite impact in history

Photoshop Proves Once and For All That Shakespeare Was a Hipster

Google Glass Update Adds Google+ Integration

Today’s Google Doodle: A Tribute to Movie Title Master Saul Bass

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