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Motion test for Mama‘s ghostly creature is freaky all by itself

This test to develop Javier Botet’s movements as the lady ghost of Guillermo del Toro’s Mama is delightfully spooky, especially in black and white. Botet (whose especially thin physique is a result of Marfan syndrome) really knows how to maneuver his body to create something otherworldly and menacing. Mama Motion Test [JoBlo – h/t to…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 27 '13

Nokia Music+ Offers Premium Streaming for Half the Going Rate, If You’ve Got a Lumia

Nokia launched its free, ad-free, Lumia-exclusive, and pretty sweet streaming music service “Nokia Music” in September of last year, and now it’s upping the ante with a moderately priced paid version that comes with all the fixin’s. https://gizmodo.com/your-lumia-phone-just-got-a-sweet-free-music-streamin-5940209 Nokia Music+ is pretty much like your paid versions of services like Spotify, but at just $3.99/€3.99…

Tech News Eric Limer Jan 27 '13

Animal-Shaped Armor for the Eternal Battle of Cats vs. Mice

Jeff de Boer’s elaborate suits of armor imagine a fanciful world in which cats and mice have learned to smith metal and construct for themselves often ornate suits of armor. Through the years, he’s expanded his visions of animal armor, creating armor inspired by Medieval times, Ancient Rome, the Renaissance Era, and Japan’s Edo period.…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 27 '13

Sometimes all it takes is a cape to transform into someone’s superhero

Redditor resgestae spotted this pair in a hardware store and titled the resulting photo, “I know a good dad when I see one.” Here’s a guy who knows his kid is super and understands the power a symbolic article of clothing can lend to a hero—be they superpowered or just big-hearted. [reddit via Neatorama]

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 27 '13

This Snow-Chomping Beast Cuts Half-Pipes For Breakfast

If you’re watching the Winter X Games this weekend, you might see that insane Super Pipe course and wonder how they cut something that big (22 feet tall) out of snow and make it so perfectly symmetrical. The answer is the Zaugg Pipe Monster. It’s like a Zamboni for frozen half-pipes. Zaugg builds a lot…

Tech News Brent Rose Jan 27 '13

Not content to merely revolutionize our ideas about space and time, Einstein also studied this obscure geological law

So you thought that all Einstein did was reinvent everything we thought we knew about space and time. Fool. In his spare time, Einstein wrote papers in support of another multidisciplinary badass. He studied Baer’s Law, the law that governs the erosion of rivers, and gives us his version of its mechanics. We know about…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jan 27 '13

Star Trek & The City looks for love where no sex columnist has gone before

Twitter novelty account Star Trek & The City connects two franchises once linked only by Kim Cattrall. It imagines Ensign Carrie Bradshaw and her Sex and the City compadres on their continuing mission to explore strange new bedchambers, to seek out new lays and new sexual positions, and boldly pun where so many have punned…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 27 '13

The New H.265 Video Format Will Help Chew Up Video So Your Network Can Swallow It

Streaming video is the future. Well, it’s the present, but the future too. And as resolutions increase, it’s going to be a tougher and tougher proposition to pipe all that data to your screen of choice in a timely fashion. Fortunately, the new H.265 standard has been approved by the ITU and it’s here to…

Tech News Eric Limer Jan 27 '13

Revel in the technical details and biomechanical weirdness of The Matrix concept art

After the Wachowskis saw his vision of dystopian Los Angeles in Frank Miller’s comic miniseries Hard Boiled, they approached Geof Darrow to work as a conceptual designer on their Matrix films. Darrow’s visual fingerprints are all over life outside the program, and he’s responsible for some of the most iconic images in the film, including…

Movies Lauren Davis Jan 27 '13

This Is How You Build a Ford-Class Supercarrier

The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is a beast. It’s the first of the new Ford-class supercarriers, and arguably the best aircraft carrier ever designed. And building these mammoths is a serious undertaking. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-makes-the-uss-gerald-r-ford-the-best-airc-5944380 Here we see the ships 555-metric ton island being lowered onto the deck. 60 feet long and 30 feet wide, the…

Tech News Eric Limer Jan 27 '13

jOBS Review: A Satisfying Experience for an Apple Fan

Gizmodo reader Seth Kinkaid was one of the first people to watch jOBS—the first Steve Jobs’ biopic starring Ashton Kutcher—at Sundance 2013. These are his impressions. Today I saw jOBS at Sundance, the story of a young Steve Jobs, the now legendary co-founder and CEO of Apple Computer. And although I know it may be…

Reviews Seth Kinkaid Jan 27 '13

Jumping Out of a Helicopter’s Ramp Looks Like a Lot of Fun

It seems that if you join the USAF you may become a superhero. But if you join the US Marines, you will turn into some kind of Peter Pan, like Sgt. Michael Murphy: https://gizmodo.com/if-you-join-the-usaf-you-may-become-a-superhero-5946372 Sgt. Michael Murphy, a reconnaissance Marine with Force Reconnaissance Company, II Marine Expeditionary Force, poses as he jumps out of a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 26 '13

What It’s Like To Go Off the World’s Largest Ski Jump

You probably don’t have the balls to go ski jumping. If you do, congratulations; I hope you’re reading this in flight. For the rest of us, this video is a great (read: less scary) way to get just the smallest slice of that action. A piece you can safely chew and swallow. Filmed at Vikersundbakken,…

Tech News Eric Limer Jan 26 '13

Deadpool ruins classic works of literature, one book cover at a time

The always excellent Mike Del Mundo is currently running a fun and rather brilliant series of illustrations featuring everyone’s favorite Merc with a Mouth. Deadpool Killustrated places Deadpool in a number of classic works of literature, where he promptly wrecks everything in sight. Head over to Del Mundo’s deviantART gallery to see the rest of…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 26 '13

Bear Vs. Shark: Catamaran

I discovered Bear vs. Shark by accident. A college roommate had insisted I listen to Minus the Bear, and I wasn’t paying attention, so only the “Bear” part stuck. It proved to be a serendipitous little mistake though, because Bear vs. Shark is as awesome as the battle portrayed in their name would be. “Catamaran”…

Tech News Eric Limer Jan 26 '13

Scientists Have Created a Microscopic Tractor Beam

Spaceships can’t pull in foreign objects with a almost-magical tractor beam yet, but researchers have been making progress towards that goal. Scientists have now shown that tractor beams are possible, and can actually work. For microscopic objects over microscopic distances at least. Researchers from the Czech Republic’s Institute of Scientific Instruments and Scotland’s University of…

Tech News Eric Limer Jan 26 '13

Script pages from The Shining reveal the ending Kubrick had destroyed

The original cut of The Shining contained a short scene after Jack Torrance found himself stuck in the snow featuring Wendy and Danny in the aftermath of their night of terror. But a week after the film’s release, director Stanley Kubrick ordered the scene to be cut from all prints of the film and sent…

Movies Lauren Davis Jan 26 '13

Bryan Singer is bringing three more X-Men trilogy actors to Days of Future Past

Bryan Singer has just announced three more cast members for X-Men: Days of Future Past, and they are three very familiar faces. More and more, it seems that Days of Future Past is going to link X-Men: The First Class with the previous X-Men trilogy and its actors. Singer tweeted this earlier today, announcing the…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 26 '13

Creep On Strangers’ Lives Six Seconds at a Time With Vinepeek

Some people are out there using Vine for pretty dumb things. Others are capturing more interesting six-second snippets their actually interesting lives, or making stop-motion videos. And you can creep on all of them, one after the other, in a constant fire-hose of anonymous, random video with Vinepeek. https://gizmodo.com/the-single-dumbest-way-people-are-using-vine-5978709 The new site has a simple…

Tech News Eric Limer Jan 26 '13

French chapel traded its gargoyles for Gizmo, Gremlins, Grendizer, and one toothy Xenomorph

When the sculpture and stone mason Jean-Louis Boistel set to renovating the Chapelle de Bethléem (Bethlehem Chapel) in Nantes, France, he decided to add some unorthodox decorations to the 15th century church. While some of the newer stone gargoyles (or, to be more accurate, chimeras) adorning the pinnacles are inspired by Christian tradition, others come…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 26 '13

Motion test for Mama‘s ghostly creature is freaky all by itself

Nokia Music+ Offers Premium Streaming for Half the Going Rate, If You’ve Got a Lumia

Animal-Shaped Armor for the Eternal Battle of Cats vs. Mice

Sometimes all it takes is a cape to transform into someone’s superhero

This Snow-Chomping Beast Cuts Half-Pipes For Breakfast

Not content to merely revolutionize our ideas about space and time, Einstein also studied this obscure geological law

Star Trek & The City looks for love where no sex columnist has gone before

The New H.265 Video Format Will Help Chew Up Video So Your Network Can Swallow It

Revel in the technical details and biomechanical weirdness of The Matrix concept art

This Is How You Build a Ford-Class Supercarrier

jOBS Review: A Satisfying Experience for an Apple Fan

Jumping Out of a Helicopter’s Ramp Looks Like a Lot of Fun

What It’s Like To Go Off the World’s Largest Ski Jump

Deadpool ruins classic works of literature, one book cover at a time

Bear Vs. Shark: Catamaran

Scientists Have Created a Microscopic Tractor Beam

Script pages from The Shining reveal the ending Kubrick had destroyed

Bryan Singer is bringing three more X-Men trilogy actors to Days of Future Past

Creep On Strangers’ Lives Six Seconds at a Time With Vinepeek

French chapel traded its gargoyles for Gizmo, Gremlins, Grendizer, and one toothy Xenomorph

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