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How to Score an Epic Movie Trailer

When you’ve got a packed theater full of people who are really excited to watch the movie they paid money to see, the trailers you’re going to force-feed them before the feature better fucking kill. Usually, those trailers are awesome, and the composers at Immediate Music are a big part of the reason why you…

Movies Mario Aguilar Mar 12 '13

Comics This Week: Currently, the best superhero in comics has no powers

Leia fights with Luke! Batman goes extra crazy! Marvel’s version of Washington, D.C., goes bye-bye! And somebody has a tiger who probably shouldn’t have a tiger, all in this week’s comics! New Issues Dark Horse: • Star Wars #3: Leia’s stealth squadron discovers a spy in the Rebel ranks, but this puts her at odds…

io9 Rob Bricken Mar 12 '13

Swarms of robotic bees could pollinate the flowers of the future

With the bee population in distressing decline, Harvard roboticists have been looking into an artificial solution for pollinating plants. That solution: Robobees, tiny winged robots that the team hopes will autonomously fly from flower to flower, spreading the pollen around. But these creepy little beauties may do more than pollinate — and they may be…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 12 '13

Barista Bot Paints Your Portrait On Your Latte

Starbucks baristas will write your name on the side of your coffee cup, but that’s no where near the level of personalization the Barista Bot is capable of. After snapping your portrait with a webcam, it uses a robotic arm to then draw your face in the milk foam atop your latte. That’s overkill in…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 12 '13

A Train Set Placemat Is the Best Kind of Placemat

Doesn’t this placemat make you want to be five-years old again? It’s a real Brio-style train set that you eat off of. You’d be able to convince even the pickiest little guy to eat any leafy green veggie if he was distracted by this awesome breakfast board. Or just channel your own inner child. The…

Tech News Leslie Horn Mar 12 '13

Kaiju vibrator is possibly the greatest thing we’ve ever seen

We all knew that bullet vibrators could result in — ahem — pyrotechnics, but we didn’t know they could be used to fight giant monsters, too! That’s the takeaway from this mind-boggling, kaiju-themed packaging for a Japanese DiY kit that allows you to make a simple vibrator. Here’s the full packaging, in all its glory…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 12 '13

Mood Indigo trailer is proof that life would be better if we all lived inside Michel Gondry’s brain

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry’s new movie Mood Indigo looks like his long-awaited return to whimsy. The latest trailer is full of bubbles, kisses, flying cloud cars, and tiny drawer worlds. Even the premise is adorable: “A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.”…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 12 '13

On Lost Girl, it’s the Dawning of the Valkcubus

In Fae-ge Against the Machine, we learn of the existence of the fae X-Men while Bo goes off on a MacGuffinQuest and Lauren gets a trophy. My notes for this episode look like a list of random terms and names. The plot was total nonsense, yet it was still fun. It felt at times like…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Mar 12 '13

How to Not Get Stuck Sitting Next to a Jerk at Dinner

Ugh, it never fails. No matter the size of the group, you always seem to get stuck sitting next to someone you’d rather not be—an overtly intoxicated uncle at your brother’s wedding, a co-worker that believes closed-mouth chewing is more suggestion than rule, or the girl you wish you hadn’t started a conversation with at…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Mar 12 '13

Curiosity Confirms That Mars Was Once Capable of Harboring Life

The Curiosity Rover has just accomplished exactly what it was set out to do. According to NASA scientists, the probe’s latest analysis of a Martian rock sample shows that ancient Mars was once capable of supporting living microbes. It’s not confirmation of life; rather, it’s evidence for the Red Planet’s historical potential to host life.…

io9 George Dvorsky Mar 12 '13

Look at This Idiot Using His Typewriter in a Starbucks

We’ve already been plenty vocal on our opinions of people who use coffee shops as their personal office. But this guy—this digital rebel found by Twitter user @DGoddamnGlover—makes those non-ordering, space-consuming table squatters look like saints—and this their new pope. https://gizmodo.com/coffee-shops-are-not-your-fucking-office-dickheads-5936954 This can’t possibly be convenient, nor does he need the free internet access. But…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Mar 12 '13

Lomography’s Smartphone Scanner Digitizes Film Right To Your Mobile Device

Lomography has made sharing photos from a film camera a heck of a lot easier with its new Smartphone Scanner that’s finally available from the company’s online store. It replaces a desktop scanner and PC with a compact collapsible rig that uses your smartphone’s camera to digitize negatives and slides. The $60 scanner is mostly…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 12 '13

Disney wants to ruin Beauty and the Beast just like Alice and Oz

Not a big fan of Tim Burton’s befuddling take on Alice in Wonderland or the recent James Franco-ed Oz movie? Well you’re gonna hate this. The next fairy tale Disney has decided to strip of all magic and throw trembling in front of a green screen is Beauty and the Beast. Deadline is reporting that…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 12 '13

Jonas Venture battles the Scientology robot in a glorious new Venture Bros. trailer

Yes, ladies and clones, The Venture Bros. is really coming back! Adult Swim has finally confirmed the date when we can once again revel in the triumphs and hilarious failures of Rusty and the gang. On May 19th at midnight, Season Five appears at last, and to celebrate the announcement, the Venture team has unleashed…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 12 '13

J.J. Abrams’s robot cop show Human has found its human cop, and it’s Judge Dredd

When we last talked about Human, J.J. Abrams’ upcoming human cop/robot cop TV show, we were discussing how Californication’s Michael Ealy had taken the role of the android. We were also calling it Untitled J.J. Abrams’s Robot Cop Show, since it didn’t have a title. But now it has a title — Human — as…

io9 Rob Bricken Mar 12 '13

Virgin Galactic Nearing First Rocket-Powered Test Flight

The photo you see above was taken on February 28th when the Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites team tested, for the first time, the rocket that will power its first test flight before going into orbit. And it was a raging success. It’s hard to believe that Virgin Galactic has been around since 2004 when…

Tech News Peter ha Mar 12 '13

How Records Are Made

While 8-tracks and cassettes are as relevent to the digital world as wax cylinders, the vinyl LP is still being steadily produced and collected despite, or perhaps thanks to, their imprecise warm analog acoustics. Here’s how LPs get their unique sound. Thomas Edison is credited with inventing the phonograph, the first device to both record…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Mar 12 '13

io9’s March TV Madness: Pick the greatest science fiction TV show ever made!

It’s March, which means it’s time once again for the most important tournament of our age: io9’s March TV Madness. Yes, after crowning the best and worst sci-fi movies of all time, this year we turn our attention to television, as 64 of the best sci-fi and fantasy shows ever made square off in our…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Mar 12 '13

Dropbox Gets a Slick New Desktop Client

Even as online storage options proliferate, Dropbox has managed to stay ahead of the pack thanks to better features. Well now Dropbox’s desktop client is getting a prettier Version 2.0 overhaul to match its excellence. Dropbox has basically ditched its bland, text-based menu for a graphic, button-based interface. The taskbar drop down menu with basic…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Mar 12 '13

Our spoiler-free review of Syfy’s new Western, Defiance

We’ve seen the first three episodes of Syfy’s biggest gamble to date, the half-futuristic neo-Western, half-MMO game Defiance. Was it worth the risk? Can Syfy resurrect the sci-Western without stepping in a big pile of “Firefly did it better?” Here are our first impressions. Here’s the backstory: On April 14th 2013, the Votanis Collective arrives…

Television Meredith Woerner Mar 12 '13

How to Score an Epic Movie Trailer

Comics This Week: Currently, the best superhero in comics has no powers

Swarms of robotic bees could pollinate the flowers of the future

Barista Bot Paints Your Portrait On Your Latte

A Train Set Placemat Is the Best Kind of Placemat

Kaiju vibrator is possibly the greatest thing we’ve ever seen

Mood Indigo trailer is proof that life would be better if we all lived inside Michel Gondry’s brain

On Lost Girl, it’s the Dawning of the Valkcubus

How to Not Get Stuck Sitting Next to a Jerk at Dinner

Curiosity Confirms That Mars Was Once Capable of Harboring Life

Look at This Idiot Using His Typewriter in a Starbucks

Lomography’s Smartphone Scanner Digitizes Film Right To Your Mobile Device

Disney wants to ruin Beauty and the Beast just like Alice and Oz

Jonas Venture battles the Scientology robot in a glorious new Venture Bros. trailer

J.J. Abrams’s robot cop show Human has found its human cop, and it’s Judge Dredd

Virgin Galactic Nearing First Rocket-Powered Test Flight

How Records Are Made

io9’s March TV Madness: Pick the greatest science fiction TV show ever made!

Dropbox Gets a Slick New Desktop Client

Our spoiler-free review of Syfy’s new Western, Defiance

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