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Garrett Hedlund offered lead role in Akira. Crap.

Here’s some horrible news coming straight from the Hollywood adaptation of Akira. Garrett Hedlund has reportedly been offered the role of Kaneda. Now we can trade in our fears about whitewashing for a new set of worries about the world’s blandest Kaneda to ever ride a Huffy into a futuristic McDonalds. Twitch Film is reporting…

Movies Meredith Woerner Nov 3

Oops, Siri Isn’t Working Right Now

It looks like Siri, the iPhone 4S’ do it all personal assistant is suffering from an outage right now. As in, it’s not working. So hold off asking her silly questions or making her write down important notes for you. Because Siri has to tap into Apple’s servers to work, a snafu on Apple’s end…

Tech News Casey Chan Nov 3

Why the Mars500 mission doesn’t prove we’re psychologically capable of a trip to Mars

Space travel is a cramped and isolating endeavor, one that can weigh heavily on the mind of a spacefarer. How well we handle conditions like these over long periods of time is something we must consider more seriously in the years ahead, as humanity looks to venture deeper into space than we’ve ever been. For…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Nov 3

A Stop Motion Video Made With a Quarter Million Jelly Beans

Kina Grannis’ In Your Arms videoclip was animated using 288,000 jelly beans. The effect is great, but the behind-the-scenes how-to video really gives an idea of the gigantic dimension of this project. The jelly bean animation required 30 people, which worked for 1,357 hours over the course of 22 months. Too bad the music makes…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 3

Tank Case: Watch the iPhone 4s Survive a Vicious Hammer Blow

Mil-Spec cases have been around for a while, but the Tank Case is ridiculous. Case Mate is so sure of the Tank’s toughness that it hired third-party testers to subject a Tank-protected iPhone to a grueling, cringe-inducing battery of tests. To the Thunderdome! https://gizmodo.com/a-mil-spec-everything-proof-iphone-case-with-a-freakis-5769882 The Tank looks pretty rugged—but how do we know for sure…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Nov 3

What Are Those Strange Thin Smoke Columns Around Nuclear Bomb Tests?

This video shows part of a nuclear blast test. Notice those parallel smoke trails? They are present in many other nuclear test images and videos, but they are not created by the blast itself. What are they? Back in the early days of the Cold War there were no computers capable of modeling nuclear explosions…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 3

Pulp Fiction on Blu-ray Is Your Royale-With-Cheese Deal of the Day

The best movie year of all time? Has to be 1994, right? It was ah-maze-balls. You have Lion King, the best Disney movie of all time. The Shawshank Redemption, another GOAT movie. Exemplary action flicks like Speed and True Lies. One of my favorite docs in Hoop Dreams. Dumb and Dumber, Clerks, The Mask, The…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Nov 3

The Weirdest Home I’ve Ever Seen Is an Exhibitionist Wet Dream

It’s hard to believe that this house in Japan is real, but it is. Not just a project, but a home. Designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects, its metal structure and the division of space defy any convention or logic. In other words: I don’t know what the heck is going on here. And yet, I…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 3

British pop star performs dressed like Leeloo from The Fifth Element, doesn’t look totally ridiculous

The secret to making a Leeloo costume that you can run around and sing and dance in? Flesh-colored cloth. At least, that seems to be the decision that British pop star Jessie J’s costume makers made, and it appears to have paid off pretty well. Jessie J performed at the Hammersmith in London the other…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Nov 3

Watch this: thousands of starlings take wing in the form of a swirling “murmuration”

Check out this jaw-dropping video of a natural phenomenon known as a “murmuration.” The collective noun is used to describe vast numbers of starlings as they whirl through the air like billowing clouds of black, biological smoke. This footage comes to you courtesy of Sophie Windsor Clive, who recently encountered the birds by chance while…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Nov 3

Sun-Loving mPowerpad Keeps Insects and Dead Batteries at Bay

Solar powered backup batteries make the great outdoors even better by keeping all your toys running, and Third Wave Power makes a convincing case for its new mPowerpad with the inclusion of extra functionality like a flashlight, radio and ultrasonic insect repeller. The laptop sized device is covered on one side with a solar panel…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Nov 3

Those who settle first, breed best

What will happen when we colonize a new planet? Will the first settlers become the planet’s ruling class, or spread their bloodline across the entire planet’s surface? Quite possibly. A new study indicates that you might want to be one of the first to land on a new world. A huge new study of Quebecois…

io9 Tim Barribeau Nov 3

3.5 Million People Are Still Using AOL Dialup (!!!)

EEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRNDguzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzdungahdungahdungahhhhhhh. That sound you hear isn’t a 56k modem, it’s the sound of my brain collapsing upon itself as I read AOL not only has 3.5 million dialup users, but added 200,000 since last year. How can this be? It can be because there are still large swaths of our country without broadband—mostly rural areas—and…

Tech News Sam Biddle Nov 3

Exclusive: All Marvel Digital Comics Will Be Available Same Day as Print

Marvel is taking its entire line of comics “day-and-date” digitally, meaning you’ll be able to download all of the company’s comics on the its mobile app just as soon as they’re available in physical stores. That polishes off one of the few downsides to digital comics: Having to wait for the latest and greatest. The…

Books & Comics Kyle Wagner Nov 3

Faraway gamma-ray burst reveals what the most ancient galaxies were made of

The image up top is an artist’s impression of a gamma-ray burst blasting through a pair of galaxies on its billion-year journey to Earth. These ancient, incredibly powerful explosions reveal the composition of early galaxies. It’s not what we expected. One recent gamma-ray burst, which has the catchy name of GRB 090323, has attracted a…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Nov 3

Flat Pack Disposable Contacts You Can Stash with Your Credit Cards

Not only are Menicon‘s new flat pack daily disposable contact lenses thin enough to stash in a wallet, but they’re also made with specially developed materials to keep the lenses clean while you put them on. To reduce the volume of a standard disposable contact lens case by about forty percent, Menicon secures them between…

Health Andrew Liszewski Nov 3

James Bond’s 23rd movie gets an absurd new name

James Bond is back! The 23rd Bond film now has a name, Skyfall. Yep, that’s not what we were expecting either, but at least it’s a little science fiction-y, right? In a press conference today it was announced that Daniel Craig would be slipping on the Brioni suit one more time, with director Sam Mendes.…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 3

The Craziest Megalomaniac Engineering Project Since the Pyramids Is In England

This is the Thames Hub airport, part of a gigantic project that would also include a railway terminal connecting to England and Europe through high speed trains, huge storage depots and a port. Total cost: $80 billion. This thing is crazy. It aims to be a central hub for absolutely everything, with multi-level underground railroads…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 3

10 Debut Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels That Took the World by Storm

This month, many of us are trying to pound out a novel. The ultimate dream is to break into the publishing world with a debut that makes people sit up and take notice. And there’s some good news on that front — some of science fiction and fantasy’s most beloved writers have made a splash…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Nov 3

Cuisinart Soup Maker And Blender: Because You Need Warm Food When the Weather Gets Cold

The staff over at Food Republic spend their days obsessing about all the delicious things that go into our stomach. So it makes sense they’d know what gadgets are best suited to the creation of good food. And now that the weather has cooled off, they’ve turned their attention to warm foods… The $200 Cuisinart…

Reviews Nicholas Kavalier - FoodRepublic.com Nov 3

Garrett Hedlund offered lead role in Akira. Crap.

Oops, Siri Isn’t Working Right Now

Why the Mars500 mission doesn’t prove we’re psychologically capable of a trip to Mars

A Stop Motion Video Made With a Quarter Million Jelly Beans

Tank Case: Watch the iPhone 4s Survive a Vicious Hammer Blow

What Are Those Strange Thin Smoke Columns Around Nuclear Bomb Tests?

Pulp Fiction on Blu-ray Is Your Royale-With-Cheese Deal of the Day

The Weirdest Home I’ve Ever Seen Is an Exhibitionist Wet Dream

British pop star performs dressed like Leeloo from The Fifth Element, doesn’t look totally ridiculous

Watch this: thousands of starlings take wing in the form of a swirling “murmuration”

Sun-Loving mPowerpad Keeps Insects and Dead Batteries at Bay

Those who settle first, breed best

3.5 Million People Are Still Using AOL Dialup (!!!)

Exclusive: All Marvel Digital Comics Will Be Available Same Day as Print

Faraway gamma-ray burst reveals what the most ancient galaxies were made of

Flat Pack Disposable Contacts You Can Stash with Your Credit Cards

James Bond’s 23rd movie gets an absurd new name

The Craziest Megalomaniac Engineering Project Since the Pyramids Is In England

10 Debut Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels That Took the World by Storm

Cuisinart Soup Maker And Blender: Because You Need Warm Food When the Weather Gets Cold

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