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A Plate Made of Sand Sounds Like an Awful Dining Experience

Given that sand finds its way into every nook and cranny of your person when you go for a swim, the prospect of dining on the beach is even less appealing. So what possessed artist Victor Castanera to create a series of plaster-based dinnerware cast from the natural contours of a sandy beach? It’s unfortunately…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How a Simple Glass Case Terraformed the Entire World

If you walk by even the simplest garden, you’ll see plants that were transported there from other continents. If you walk by a field or an orchard, you’ll definitely see foreign plants brought close to help people survive or just enjoy themselves. It seems simple now, but the ability to do this easily changed nearly…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Let’s Talk About Anything You Want for the Next Hour

Hey there. It’s the end of the week and I’m sure you’re dying to get out of the office, so we’re gonna try and help make the rest of your day bearable. For the next hour, the entire Giz staff will be hovering around this thread, willing to shoot the shit about whatever your little…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Meet the Machine That Is as Alive as You Are

Some machines make light bulbs, and some machines make clothing. Some machines make our lives easier, and some make them more complicated. Some machines silently putter along, and some machines roar. As you’ll see in the video above, the Jaguar XF is one of those roaring machines. Jaguar’s full model line-up is the result of…

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The Psychotic Cabin in the Woods Monsters You Didn’t See in Theaters!

We’ve got an exclusive Blu-ray clip about the making of all the glorious monsters in Drew Goddard’s Cabin in the Woods. And it includes a whole heap of new monsters that the FX crew and make up crew created. Fresh nightmares we’ve spotted include: a giant woman in a bikini, upside-down-face goblins, the blob, a…

Movies Meredith Woerner

How NYC’s Underground Park Will Stay Well-Lit and Alive

Winter makes you crazy because you spend so much time cooped up without fresh air or sunlight. With that in mind, some people in New York City have plans in the works for an underground park—the Lowline—to be built in an abandoned trolley station and lit through a remote skylight system. Scientific American explains how…

Tech News Leslie Horn

How to Make Dry Ice from Scratch

Everybody loves dry ice. It’s mysterious, and sexy, and makes your whole life look like a 1980s music video. But it’s also expensive, and it’s generally only made in industrial facilities. The good news is, if you’re willing to go to a relatively large amount of trouble, you can make it at home. Just make…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

So you’re ready to come out as an atheist? Here’s how to do it

Patrick Mitchell of Coffee Shop Atheist has put together a comprehensive and practical guide for atheists looking to come out of the closet. Mitchell is aware that atheists risk censure, anger, and outright excommunication from family, friends, and their communities, for their belief in the non-existence of God. So Mitchell’s put together a set of…

io9 George Dvorsky

This Spray Bottle Trigger Has a Safety

Even with that twisty on/off knob at the end of the barrel, little tykes apparently still have no trouble using spray bottles filled with poisonous cleaning products. So to make them safer for households with inquisitive kids, researchers at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Ohio State University have created a new spray bottle design with…

Health Andrew Liszewski

These iPhone 5 Cases Are Your Investment-Protecting Deal of the Day

iPhone pre-order day has come and gone, and if you didn’t order yours in the wee hours of the morning, you’re looking at a two-week wait for shipping. But you’re a gadget guy’s gadget guy, and you knew that was coming. You got your upgrade in line, counted your dollars, and preordered a spanking new…

Tech News Kif Leswing

Dr Pepper releases evolution advertisement, the Internet loses its shit and America is fat

Yesterday afternoon, Dr Pepper posted an image to Facebook depicting human evolution, and now everyone is yelling at one another. This has been a monumental waste of everyone’s time. So let’s talk about it. http://io9.com/5895993/internet-debates-over-evolution-vs-creationism-summed-up-in-one-hilarious-video How to start an inane Internet flame war in three easy steps: 1. Be a major company with significant social…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

New Versions of Google Chrome Will Finally Let You Say You Don’t Want Advertisers Spying On You

If you’re paranoid about ad networks tracking your behavior and compiling a file on your tastes somewhere, there’s good news. Google Chrome’s developer build finally got built-in Do Not Track functionality, meaning Chrome will finally join the club with Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer. Google reluctantly agreed to add the feature back in February, but…

Tech News Eric Limer

Reviewer Has Sex With His iPhone 5 (NSFW)

The iPhone 5 is longer, it has a smaller port, and some people think it’s boring. But you can’t really form an opinion on a prestige piece of hardware like this until you’ve had sex with it. In the (very funny, sort of explicit, NSFW) iPhone review parody from Jest below, one reviewer gets right…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Dr. Pepper Facebook Ad Sparks the Most Surreal Creationist Debate You’ve Ever Seen

So this is a new one. Dr. Pepper made an aggressively silly ad about the “Evolution of Flavor.” It shows an early-evolution man finding a can of Dr. Pepper, and BOOM, full-fledged homo sapiens. Funny! And again, willfully goofy. And then it started a culture war. Here are some highlights from the flame fest: Frank…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

How to Live Forever By Turning Your Brain Into Plastic

We may never be able to freeze you at the moment of death and then reanimate you. But the good news is, there may be another way to keep your brain viable. A group of scientists have come up with a process called “chemical fixation and plastic embedding” — which essentially turns your brain into…

io9 George Dvorsky

Could the Rumored 6D Become Canon’s Cheapest Full Frame DSLR?

DigicamInfo says this is the Canon 6D. And if the specs the site obtained are correct, it will be a full frame beast of a camera, but with a price tag that makes it a bit more attainable for mere mortals. The rumored DSLR is believed to have a 20.2-megapixel sensor, DIGIC 5+ CPU, auto…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Don’t Be a Jerk With Your Cool New iPhone 5

You just pre-ordered the newest iPhone. Or you’re going to be the first in line to snatch one up next week. You’re beaming. You’re going to have the phone that everyone’s talking about—the best iPhone ever. Now please don’t be an awful person who pisses everyone off. Here’s what you can and can’t do in…

Tech News Sam Biddle

William Gibson tells us all about his next novel, and the Neuromancer movie! [Updated]

This week on the io9 show, we speak to William Gibson, who tells us that the best way to write about the present is to write about the future — or the recent past. Gibson explains why he had to write three books about the present, before he could go back and create a super-weird…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

How Common Are Plane Stowaways?

Imagine walking down a quiet street and suddenly, a body just falls out of the sky. It’s a crazy, horrifying thought. But it’s nearly what happened in a suburb of London last weekend, when a stowaway hiding in the undercarriage of a plane en route to Heathrow plunged to his death. Sounds like a freak…

Tech News Leslie Horn

The Best Mars Landing Video, Period

I’ve seen interpolated videos of the historic Mars Curiosity’s landing before, but this one truly left me in awe. It was painstakingly made during a period of four weeks. It’s truly feels like being aboard the ship. According to producer Bard Canning, it was “a labor of love.” Canning worked on this frame by frame,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

A Plate Made of Sand Sounds Like an Awful Dining Experience

How a Simple Glass Case Terraformed the Entire World

Let’s Talk About Anything You Want for the Next Hour

Meet the Machine That Is as Alive as You Are

The Psychotic Cabin in the Woods Monsters You Didn’t See in Theaters!

How NYC’s Underground Park Will Stay Well-Lit and Alive

How to Make Dry Ice from Scratch

So you’re ready to come out as an atheist? Here’s how to do it

This Spray Bottle Trigger Has a Safety

These iPhone 5 Cases Are Your Investment-Protecting Deal of the Day

Dr Pepper releases evolution advertisement, the Internet loses its shit and America is fat

New Versions of Google Chrome Will Finally Let You Say You Don’t Want Advertisers Spying On You

Reviewer Has Sex With His iPhone 5 (NSFW)

Dr. Pepper Facebook Ad Sparks the Most Surreal Creationist Debate You’ve Ever Seen

How to Live Forever By Turning Your Brain Into Plastic

Could the Rumored 6D Become Canon’s Cheapest Full Frame DSLR?

Don’t Be a Jerk With Your Cool New iPhone 5

William Gibson tells us all about his next novel, and the Neuromancer movie! [Updated]

How Common Are Plane Stowaways?

The Best Mars Landing Video, Period

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