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The Strangely Hypnotic Sounds Your Bike Makes

People have been making noise with their bikes since the very first dandy stuck a cricket trading card from his latest pack of Maj. Reginald’s East Indian Cure-All Poultice into the wheels of his penny-farthing. But Stephen Meierding is perhaps the first to make that racket in to music with Bicycle Sounds, an entry into…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jun 7

Must Read: Ursula K. Le Guin discusses Jo Walton’s Among Others

Legendary author Ursula Le Guin published a roundup of new or recent fantasy books she’s read over at Bookview Cafe, and her thoughts on Jo Walton’s Nebula-winning novel Among Others are especially worth reading. In particular, she talks about what she likes about the way Walton depicts magic: Magic in Walton’s novel functions magically, yet…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jun 7

Why you probably won’t experience your own traumatic death

Ever wonder what it would be like to get shot in the head, or have your face smash into a car’s windshield? Well, you can stop wondering, because you’ll never know — even if it does happen to you. There are at least two major reasons why, if you die in a sudden and violent…

io9 George Dvorsky Jun 7

This Zing Air Z-Curve Bow Is Your Robin-Hood Deal of the Day

Despite my current tech obsession, when I was a kid I had no tech toys. The first console I ever owned was the Xbox. I was one of those kids who enjoyed Lego bricks and books and basically anything I could throw or shoot. The problem with most projectiles is that they got me into…

Tech News J.D. Levite Jun 7

The 9 Most Terrible Tech Tattoos

You’re free to ink whatever permanent monstrosity you want on your body, but when it comes to technology tattoos, be careful! Some tech tats have expiration dates. All technologies will eventually be replaced, but some will be remembered more fondly than others—and some won’t be remembered at all. Here are a few unfortunately souls who…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jun 7

Massive Dock From Japanese Tsunami Washes Up in Oregon

First it was a soccer ball in Alaska. Then it was a Harley Davidson in British Columbia. Now, even more debris from the Japan tsunami is showing up on the shores of North America. The latest find is a giant dock, discovered on a beach in Oregon. It’s massive—66 feet long by 19 feet wide…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jun 7

Why are American heads getting bigger?

Americans shouldn’t let this go to their heads — but recent forensic research suggests that their heads are getting bigger. National Geographic recently reported the discovery that skulls of white Americans have significantly increased in size since 1825, allowing for a tennis ball’s worth of new brain. But why? Scientists are stumped. To make this…

io9 George Dvorsky Jun 7

Everything you need to know about butts, farts, and Japanese water imps

Of all the ways to die, the most ignominious demise is having a kappa — or a Japanese demon — pull a magical orb out of one’s asshole. You can repel the beasts with a burst of powerful flatulence, but you must be certain that your fragrant blast is muscular enough to bowl them over…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 7

This Gross Piece of Crap May Be the Key to a New Technological Future

Look at this piece of disgusting crap. It looks like something you could find in a clogged bathroom sink drain after not cleaning it for a decade. But as gross as it looks, it may be the key to our technological future. It’s a living sponge. Or something like that. But it’s alive. Kind of.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 7

So Many Stones Fell in Last Night’s Freak Hail Storm, They Flooded This Denver Intersection

A Class 3 Kill-Storm tore through the greater Denver area last night, knocking down trees with heavy winds and rain, demolishing vehicle windshields with golf ball-sized hail, and no less than six separate tornado sightings. Welcome to June in our new globally warmed future! [Buzzfeed – Image: @CrazyJon85 / weather.com]

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jun 7

Apple’s New MacBook Air Wedge Design Patent Could Destroy Ultrabooks. Sigh.

Apple has been awarded a patent for the wedge design of the MacBook Air. The definition of the design is broad enough to cover many ultrabooks, extending Apple’s apparent ownership of black rectangles to thin, vaguely katana-like triangles. The design is defined by the solid lines in the patent drawings—the dotted lines are what Apple…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jun 7

The Most Adorable “Monster Martial Arts Training Montage” You’ll Watch This Week

Check out an exclusive clip from Saturday’s brand new episode of Kaijudo, the show about kids who fight using monsters. (Kaiju + Judo = Kaijudo. Geddit?) It’s surprisingly cute, especially when they all try to command the lethal firebird creature, using their energy gauntlets and soul power and stuff. I’m pretty much a sucker for…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 7

These Space Orbit Videos Just Keep Getting More and More Amazing Every Single Time

I thought I was tired of these space videos, but this one feels quite different from the many ones I’ve seen before. It may be the way it’s framed and cropped, or the post-processing, or the whimsical Moby soundtrack, or everything combines, but it left me in awe once again. The video was created by…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Jun 7

Great Scott! It’s a Flux Capicator chest tattoo!

Yes, that is a real life Back to the Future Flux Capacitor tattoo. Now all he needs to do is get up to 88 Miles Per Hour and he can send those nipples back to the future! Well done. [Fuck Yeah Tattoos via Fashionably Geek]

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 7

The World’s Thinnest LTE Chip Will Make Your Next 4G LTE Device Less Fat

4G LTE devices are usually a bunch of fatties because the size of 4G LTE modules is ginormous (relatively, at least). Sometimes that tradeoff is too much! But it looks like things are a-changin’ because Sierra Wireless just introduced the world’s thinnest 4G LTE module at 2.5mm skinny. The anorexic AirPrime EM7700 will only work…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 7

America was bombed 1,000 times during World War II

Among the lesser known weapons used in World War II were airborne bombs, that drifted across the ocean like flying jellyfish. They were known as fugo, or fire balloons, and they were the only successful attack on the mainland United States. Top image: Steve Lacy/Flickr.com. Drifting across the skies above the Pacific Ocean, during 1944…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jun 7

An NYC Staircase a Giant Could Climb—And You Can Live In

The Mercedes House is a 30-story residential building under construction in New York City. With steps heading towards the sky, it’s the closest we’ve gotten to a real-life Stairway to Heaven yet. Conceived by Ten Arquitectos, it’s set to be open later this summer. The winding design bathes each of the 865 units in the…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jun 7

This is what 200 tons of sardine carcasses look like

Yes, you read that correctly — 200 TONS worth of dead sardines. That’s how many fish are believed to have washed ashore in Japan’s Isumi City since June 3rd. Even more disconcerting? Nobody’s really sure what’s causing the massive die-off. Some outlets are reporting that the fish died due to lack of oxygen; but while…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jun 7

Hydroponics Island Lets You Secretly Grow All Kinds of Herbs In Your Kitchen

There is nothing like cooking or ‘baking’ with fresh ‘herbs’, but if you live in an apartment perched high above the city, you probably don’t have room for a garden. Unless you can find space for Peter Buley’s kitchen island which hides a secret hydroponics garden. Inside its lovely white-washed maple exterior you’ll find a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jun 7

We’re breaking our planet once and for all, warn scientists

A report just published in Nature by a group of 22 international scientists warns that human activity is quickly pushing the planet to a tipping point, after which time the Earth’s ecosystem will suffer a rapid and irreversible collapse. What’s worse: They suggest we’re nearly there. By using recent scientific theories, ecosystem modeling, and paleontological…

io9 George Dvorsky Jun 7

The Strangely Hypnotic Sounds Your Bike Makes

Must Read: Ursula K. Le Guin discusses Jo Walton’s Among Others

Why you probably won’t experience your own traumatic death

This Zing Air Z-Curve Bow Is Your Robin-Hood Deal of the Day

The 9 Most Terrible Tech Tattoos

Massive Dock From Japanese Tsunami Washes Up in Oregon

Why are American heads getting bigger?

Everything you need to know about butts, farts, and Japanese water imps

This Gross Piece of Crap May Be the Key to a New Technological Future

So Many Stones Fell in Last Night’s Freak Hail Storm, They Flooded This Denver Intersection

Apple’s New MacBook Air Wedge Design Patent Could Destroy Ultrabooks. Sigh.

The Most Adorable “Monster Martial Arts Training Montage” You’ll Watch This Week

These Space Orbit Videos Just Keep Getting More and More Amazing Every Single Time

Great Scott! It’s a Flux Capicator chest tattoo!

The World’s Thinnest LTE Chip Will Make Your Next 4G LTE Device Less Fat

America was bombed 1,000 times during World War II

An NYC Staircase a Giant Could Climb—And You Can Live In

This is what 200 tons of sardine carcasses look like

Hydroponics Island Lets You Secretly Grow All Kinds of Herbs In Your Kitchen

We’re breaking our planet once and for all, warn scientists

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