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A Waffle Maker To Help You Through a Lifetime of Hangovers

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Especially after a night of drinking. And those often bleak mornings will be made better after you’ve eaten to soak up all the alcohol—like waffles. For that of course you need a waffle iron, and no shock that All-Clad has a really good offering. It comes…

Tech News Leslie Horn

This was the first time New York was destroyed on film

1933 was a strange year for New York on film. When a giant ape wasn’t climbing the Empire State Building in King Kong, a massive earthquake was shaking the city’s skyscrapers to the ground in Deluge. Watch how New York City met its doom long before Roland Emmerich knocked down his first Lincoln Log cabin.…

Movies Lauren Davis

The Anti-Skyscraper Law That Shaped Sydney, Australia

When we look at visions of the future from the 20th century we often imagine the lone inventor or solitary artist concocting the fantastical world of tomorrow in isolation. But it’s amazing how frequently both government regulation and the lack of regulation can influence the future of a given city in ways we don’t often…

Tech News Matt Novak

Hot Mars Theory suggests life never had a chance on the Red Planet

As NASA’s Curiosity rover scours the Martian surface in search of signs that Mars was once capable of fostering complex life, a team of researchers from the University of Poitiers, France, and Caltech have issued a paper that casts serious doubt on the notion that the planet was once habitable. The new theory, which was…

io9 George Dvorsky

5 Reasons Why Spotify in Your Browser Is a Good Idea

A Saturday TechCrunch report about a browser-based version of Spotify led to thousands of posts over the weekend. https://gizmodo.com/spotify-could-finally-be-coming-to-a-browser-near-you-5941639 The odd thing about Spotify’s reported makeover as a web app: Its status as a desktop client is responsible for at least some degree of its success. Being a desktop app allows Spotify to gobble upstream…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm

The Tiny Yellow Sticker That Detects Accidents and Alerts Your Emergency Contacts

Expanding on its product line which makes it easy for someone to find your emergency contacts if you’re injured, ICEdot (In Case of Emergency) is taking the idea one step further. Working with a company called SenseTech LLC, it’s developing a tiny helmet sensor that knows when you’ve been in an accident, how severe it…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Gojee: Make a Meal With the Scraps in Your Pantry

You can get stuck in a rut in the kitchen where you end up making the same boring dishes night after night. If you find yourself in this position, Gojee will save your from culinary boredom. What does it do? It offers up different recipes for drinks or food based on either what you’re craving…

Tech News Leslie Horn

The Iodine Clock is uncanny in at least two different ways

This is one of those fun science experiments that most closely approximates magic, because it’s spooky in two different ways. The first is that something happens in, sometimes literally, the blink of an eye. The second is something that seems to hold off for a command from the demonstrator. Learn the astonishing secrets of the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

What if WALL-E was a gun-toting battle bot?

When WALL-E sleeps, does he dream that he’s a big-armed, gun-hauling scifi action hero? Artist Rafael Benedicto (SgtHK on deviantART) corrupts Pixar’s sweet natured trashbot and transforms him into the rock ’em sock ’em sidekick to a newly leggy EVE. Benedicto has named his shiny battle bot WALLD-O 5000, partner to E.V.A. 5000. For a…

io9 Lauren Davis

What’s Your Favorite Site Affected by the GoDaddy Outage?

In case you’ve been living under a rock, GoDaddy was the victim of an attack which took everything down today. Anonymous is claiming responsibility for the attack and million of sites are unaccessible as a result. Surely some of the sites you read use GoDaddy for your internet hosting purposes. Which makes me curious: which…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Did Muse rip off a songwriter’s science fiction rock opera?

Muse’s 2009 album The Resistance won raves for its prog-rock storylines about humanity fleeing the Earth and exploring the galaxy. But did Muse come up with all of this space-rock-opera gold on their own? Songwriter Charles Bolfrass claims not. In a newly filed lawsuit, Bolfrass says he conceived a “cinematic rock opera” called Exogenesis, and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Duck’s Foot Pistol Put a Firing Squad in the Palm of Your Hand

Flintlock pistols may have been super effective against single opponents because, as Boris the Bullet Dodger once said, “If it doesn’t work you can always hit them with it.” Against groups, however, they were comically useless—that is, until enterprising gunsmiths added some extra barrels. Officially known as Volley Guns but colloquially dubbed the “duck’s foot”…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Google Has Officially Started Censoring the Pirate Bay In Search Results

Back in January, Google bowed down to corporate monoliths and started censoring “piracy-related searches” containing terms like BitTorrent, torrent, RapidShare, etc, so that they won’t appear on Google’s autocomplete and instant search results. Looks like The Pirate Bay is the latest to be added to the list. TorrentFreak points out what you can see in…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Incredibly Lovely: Milla Jovovich marches with Jenny Holtzer slogans in a dystopian future

We haven’t seen Resident Evil 5 yet, but there’s a strong chance these new photos from Vogue Italia are the most interesting thing we’re seeing Milla Jovovich in this week. In the photoshoot by Peter Lindbergh, it’s some kind of dystopian future, and Jovovich is a protester sporting Jenny Holtzer propaganda signs. It’s like a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Lonely Scientists Make a Robot With a Gentle Touch

A typical robot does not know that you must never shake a baby. And a typical robot just doesn’t have a tender touch. But now scientists at Harvard have developed a robotic tentacle so gentle that it can wrap around flower without breaking it. How does it do it? New Scientist explains: The tentacle is…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Tiny Floating Donut Turns a Glass Of Water Into a Humidifier

The next time you travel to a particularly dry part of the world, you’ll wish you could bring along this tiny plastic Fogring donut to ensure your sinuses aren’t destroyed while you’re supposed to be relaxing. It floats on water and uses ultrasonic vibrations to turn liquids into refreshing vapors—humidifying a room with nothing but…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Early reviews for Cloud Atlas range from “slog” to “soulful”

Cloud Atlas made its big debut at the Toronto International Film Festival to a rousing chorus of “Hell yes!” and “What the hell was that?” The audience is sharply divided on the adaptation of David Mitchell’s acclaimed novel, directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis. Some people walked out feeling deeply moved, while others couldn’t…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Buffy comic is getting a gay male vampire slayer

The Buffyverse has gone through its share of changes since it moved from television and into comics: dealing with hundreds of Slayers in the world, the aftermath of the Twilight events. But its focus has remained on female monster hunters. Soon, though, the comics will feature a teenaged boy who has decided that superpowered ladies…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

This Ridiculous Bike Mutates While You Ride It

There are a million different bike designs out there, each suited to a different terrain. The Continuously Ergonomic Race Vehicle—Or CERV—is Cannondale’s attempt at making a single bicycle that can adapt to the course you’re on. It’s a bonkers concept that looks just as crazy as it sounds. Immediately upon looking at CERV you know…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Do You Use Your eReader for Anything Besides Reading Books?

E-Ink readers are great for reading books, or anything really, but mainly books. But many of them offering 3G, and apparently non-book-reading-and-buying activity is high enough that Amazon had to limit browser usage to 50MB per month. That raises the question, though: Do you use an e-ink reader for anything but reading books? Even articles…

Commerce Kyle Wagner

A Waffle Maker To Help You Through a Lifetime of Hangovers

This was the first time New York was destroyed on film

The Anti-Skyscraper Law That Shaped Sydney, Australia

Hot Mars Theory suggests life never had a chance on the Red Planet

5 Reasons Why Spotify in Your Browser Is a Good Idea

The Tiny Yellow Sticker That Detects Accidents and Alerts Your Emergency Contacts

Gojee: Make a Meal With the Scraps in Your Pantry

The Iodine Clock is uncanny in at least two different ways

What if WALL-E was a gun-toting battle bot?

What’s Your Favorite Site Affected by the GoDaddy Outage?

Did Muse rip off a songwriter’s science fiction rock opera?

The Duck’s Foot Pistol Put a Firing Squad in the Palm of Your Hand

Google Has Officially Started Censoring the Pirate Bay In Search Results

Incredibly Lovely: Milla Jovovich marches with Jenny Holtzer slogans in a dystopian future

Lonely Scientists Make a Robot With a Gentle Touch

Tiny Floating Donut Turns a Glass Of Water Into a Humidifier

Early reviews for Cloud Atlas range from “slog” to “soulful”

Buffy comic is getting a gay male vampire slayer

This Ridiculous Bike Mutates While You Ride It

Do You Use Your eReader for Anything Besides Reading Books?

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