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Hear Bucky Fuller Talk About Life, Airplanes, and the Future

There’s something jarring about hearing old interviews of legendary futurist Buckminster Fuller. He speaks at a rapid pace, like each word is racing to get out before the next. But both Fuller’s style and his self-assuredness make it hard not to get swept up in his unbridled optimism about the future of technology — especially…

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 17 '15

Map Shows How Quickly A Zombie Outbreak Would Spread From Your Town

If Patient Zero for a zombie outbreak were to turn up somewhere in the United States, how long would it take the hordes of undead to take over the country? With the interactive Zombietown, USA map, you can click on a town and watch the zombies eat their way across the nation. Zombietown, USA is…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 17 '15

Mike Mignola Returns With A Gorgeous Comic About Frankenstein’s Monster

The legendary Mike Mignola returns to pen a new miniseries, but that’s not all this week’s latest comics have to offer. There’s time travelling shenanigans from Mark Millar, an intriguing new Image series about the fall of a space empire, and a graphic novel about the crew behind a Super Sentai robot. Comics! Dark Horse…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Mar 17 '15

A 3D View Inside the Earth’s Liquid Core, Based On Earthquakes

Every so often, earthquakes remind us that the solid ground beneath our feet can tremble and shake like rock jello. But there’s an upside to all this shaking: Seismic waves are how we peer deep inside the Earth to map what’s under the crust. The Titan computer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Mar 17 '15

Gorgeous silk lamps bloom like flowers when you turn them on

Studio DRIFT made these lovely lamps that feel alive because they’ve been designed to bloom like a flower. It’s a beautiful idea that’s even more gorgeous when you see it happen, I would love to walk into my living room and have these ethereal lights dance for me as they descend and shine up the…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 17 '15

A Case With a Pop-Up Crank Keeps Your Smartphone Charged Forever

Hand crank-powered flashlights and radios for weather emergencies are nothing new, but what about when your smartphone dies in the middle of the day? That’s just as dire an emergency, and it’s inspired the creation of this smartphone case with a built-in charger and pop-up crank that can, at least in theory, keep your phone…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Mar 17 '15

Live-Action Daredevil And FF Will Have Their Classic Costumes After All

Worried that Reed Richards and his pals would be stuck in those strange gray science suits all movie? Or that Matt Murdock would only fight crime in his black pajamas? Worry no more! All these Marvel heroes will don their classic superhero outfits in their first respective outints, and sooner than you think. First, here’s…

Movies Rob Bricken Mar 17 '15

2 Secrets To Writing A Story That People Can’t Tear Themselves Away From

When people talk about how to write a great story, you hear a lot about structure, and how to lay down the track so that the audience is swept along. But writer Frank Cottrell Boyce has some fantastic advice about the true secret of writing a story (or movie) that people can’t get enough of:…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 17 '15

How A Terminal Illness Can Change Your Perception Of Time

Last week, Paul Kalanithi – a writer and new dad, who recently completed his residency in neurosurgery at Stanford – died from metastatic lung cancer. In this video, released last month, Kalanithi addresses the “strange relativity” that accompanied his diagnosis. The video is full of insights about how Kalanithi’s diagnosis altered his relationship with time.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 17 '15

The Fantastic Wrist Gadgets That Came Way Before the Smartwatch

Humans have been putting technology on their wrists for a long time—and not just to tell the time. The Apple Watch and others are just the latest in a long line of wrist-borne devices, so here’s a brief history of “watches” that were smart for their time, too. An AK-39, a German pilot and navigator’s…

Tech News Attila Nagy Mar 17 '15

This Slow Motion Footage Of Popcorn Popping Is Utterly Hypnotic

Some researchers at GE got hold of a super slow motion camera. You know what that means. They started messing around with what was to hand — and so the rest of us get gorgeous footage that makes popping popcorn look like buds blooming into strange flowers. In the above video, things go slightly awry.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 17 '15

You Can Send Money To Your Friends Through Facebook Messenger Now

Facebook Messenger now lets you send payments to your friends—exactly as you would with Venmo or Paypal. Except it’s way easier, because just about EVERYONE already has Facebook. The new functionality is built directly into the Facebook Messenger app. The only thing you need to do to pay your roommate for bills, rent, or dinner…

Social Media Mario Aguilar Mar 17 '15

The Complete History Of Marvel Superhero Movies: 1990-2008

Iron Man may have changed the game for Marvel movies, but Marvel already had a long history of movie-making before the creation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Here’s part two of our look back at the history of Marvel comic book movies, as we head into the 90’s and come right up to 2008. In…

Movies James Whitbrook Mar 17 '15

What It Will Really Cost to Ditch Cable for à la Carte TV

That final unwavering bastion of old media—cable TV—is crumbling. And, surprise, tech giants are the ones putting the last nail in its coffin. But what will their alternative cost us? Let’s take a look. Last night, the Wall Street Journal gave unprecedented credence to a years-long list of rumors about Apple’s TV subscription service, a…

Television Darren Orf Mar 17 '15

This video about space and life is so inspiring

Supersymmetry is a short film made by Trent Jaklitsch as an ode to his father. But really, it’s an inspirational tale for all of us. Using personal footage from his childhood along with NASA archival footage and other publicly available clips, he stitches together a story about how the universe created us and how we…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 17 '15

All Five Minutes Of Avengers: Age Of Ultron Footage Released So Far

Chomping at the bit to finally watch Avengers: Age of Ultron? Well, you’ll still have to wait until May 1st. But maybe this will help — someone’s taken the time to piece together all the footage from the upcoming movie into one single, five minutes-plus mega-trailer. The video also claims it’s all in chronological order,…

io9 Rob Bricken Mar 17 '15

GTX Titan X: Nvidia’s Absurd New $1,000 Graphics Card Is a Beast

Two years ago, Nvidia announced its original Titan graphics card, a bad-boy built on the company’s Kepler technology and for a time the most powerful card out there. Now, the Titan X is here and it’s ready to reclaim the throne. The new Titan X is the fastest single-GPU card around, and it looks to…

Tech News Eric Limer Mar 17 '15

How LA Is Building the World’s Most Futuristic Port

If you live anywhere in the US, chances are that you have a product in your home right now that came through the Port of Los Angeles. The largest port in the Western hemisphere handles about a quarter of all cargo distributed throughout the country—about $1 billion a day. Now LA is working to make…

Tech News Alissa Walker Mar 17 '15

How The Great French Wine Blight Changed Grapes Forever

One hundred fifty years ago, the Great French Wine Blight nearly wiped out an industry that today produces some 40 billion bottles of wine a year. The only solution was a radical fusion of species that remains essential to the success of the wine market. Here’s the story of how humanity hacked the wine grape.…

io9 Levi Gadye Mar 17 '15

This Watch Puts a Celestial Dance Between the Sun and Moon On Your Wrist

Once they figured how to use gears and other mechanisms to accurately keep track of time, watchmakers expanded what their clockwork creations could do. Timepieces became even more mesmerizing to look at, and as Frédéric Jouvenot’s new Sîn watch proves, that’s kept mechanical watches relevant and desirable even in a time where everyone has a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 17 '15

Hear Bucky Fuller Talk About Life, Airplanes, and the Future

Map Shows How Quickly A Zombie Outbreak Would Spread From Your Town

Mike Mignola Returns With A Gorgeous Comic About Frankenstein’s Monster

A 3D View Inside the Earth’s Liquid Core, Based On Earthquakes

Gorgeous silk lamps bloom like flowers when you turn them on

A Case With a Pop-Up Crank Keeps Your Smartphone Charged Forever

Live-Action Daredevil And FF Will Have Their Classic Costumes After All

2 Secrets To Writing A Story That People Can’t Tear Themselves Away From

How A Terminal Illness Can Change Your Perception Of Time

The Fantastic Wrist Gadgets That Came Way Before the Smartwatch

This Slow Motion Footage Of Popcorn Popping Is Utterly Hypnotic

You Can Send Money To Your Friends Through Facebook Messenger Now

The Complete History Of Marvel Superhero Movies: 1990-2008

What It Will Really Cost to Ditch Cable for à la Carte TV

This video about space and life is so inspiring

All Five Minutes Of Avengers: Age Of Ultron Footage Released So Far

GTX Titan X: Nvidia’s Absurd New $1,000 Graphics Card Is a Beast

How LA Is Building the World’s Most Futuristic Port

How The Great French Wine Blight Changed Grapes Forever

This Watch Puts a Celestial Dance Between the Sun and Moon On Your Wrist

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