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Someone Added Spider-Man To The Avengers 2 Trailer And It’s Glorious

Unfortunately, it’s just this single gif (so far), but still… holy crap. I’m not entirely unconvinced we aren’t going to be getting a tiny Spider-Man cameo inAge of Ultron, but if it doesn’t happen, this should keep us happily satisfied until Captain America: Civil War. [NeoGAF via /Film]

5 Ludicrous Controllers That Help You Touch the Virtual World

Virtual Reality is a really neat idea but it’s also problematic. The Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Samsung Galaxy Gear VR all let us see new, virtual worlds but none of them let us touch it. How do you physically feel what’s not really there? Maybe with one of these batshit crazy controllers. There are…

McDonald’s Chickens Going Antibiotic Free Is a Really Big Deal 

McDonald’s announced todayit will begin only sourcing chickens raised without medically important antibiotics in the U.S. When a juggernaut like McDonald’s makes such decisions, the food world listens—and sourcing only antibiotic-free chicken is a big deal. For decades, poultry farmers have routinely used low doses of antibiotics to help chickens gain weight. The antibiotics are…

The Creepy, Surreal Apocalypse of The Sims Online

A few months before the end of the world, everyone was saying their goodbyes. The world that was ending was The Sims Online, an online version of The Sims. Even though The Sims was one of the most popular computer games ever made, the massively-multiplayer online version did not do well. Despite rebranding the game…

IMAX’s New Laser Projectors Make Me Wish I Lived In a Movie Theater

Surround sound and 4K TVs are great for watching movies at home, but there’s still nothing like sitting in front of a gigantic screen in an IMAX theater. I recently got an exclusive first look at the company’s next-generation digital laser projectors, and I walked away from the experience wanting to see every single movie…

Official Korrasami Art Will Make Its Début At A New Korra Art Show

When Legend of Korra came to a close, our sadness was tinged with the delight of confirmation that Korra and Asami were now officially a couple. Unfortunately, we’ve not had any official adventures for the two since — until this beautiful bit of art from Korra-co-creator Brian Konietzko appeared, that is! Konietzko drew the piece,…

‘Dog Kennel Of The Future’ Is Even More Insane Than That Title Implies

Things the Samsung Dream Doghouse (a one-off, created for a contest giveaway in conjunction with England’s Crufts dog show) contains: A treadmill covered in AstroTurf “so it reminds them of the outdoors” A hydrotherapy pool “for rejuvenation” An automated feeder so Mr. Fluffystuff can feed himself Luxury decor custom-crafted for doggie comfort, including designer vinyl…

You Can Play This Tiny Keyboard With Your Gestures

Keys is a MIDI keyboard, built with aspiring piano students in mind. It’s a pretty small guy, making it a great traveling companion (who says you can’t play a keyboard by the campfire?). But the coolest thing about Keys is it incorporates gestures—so you can travel up and down octaves by just waving your hands.…

How Sharlto Copley Became Chappie And Why Hugh Jackman Has To Kill Him

Sharlto Copley (District 9) brought the titular robot of Chappie to life, thanks to performance capture and director Neill Blomkamp, but as it turns out everyone wanted him dead. We spoke with the Chappie’scast — Copley, Hugh Jackman and Sigourney Weaver — about the violence they inflicted upon this adorable robot. Sharlto Copley io9: You’re…

Mos Eisley — you’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and ravers. Tunisian dance festival Les Dunes Electroniques staged a dance party last week on the Star Wars sets used for Mos Eisley and Mos Espa in the prequels. You can see a variety of extremely surreal pics from the event here. [Via…

El Niño Is Finally Here, But Not Quite How We Expected It

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA] has announced the long-predicted El Niño for this year has finally arrived. But it doesn’t look quite like we thought it would. Despite last year’s predictions that we could see a weather event that might rival the incredibly powerful El Niño of 17 years ago, the actual conditions…

Not Even Science Could Explain the Bacteria In My Apartment

Three years ago, I gently brushed fiber-tipped swabs against the surfaces of my tiny New York apartment. Microbes live everywhere, and I was gathering samples for genetic analysis — I wanted to identify my microscopic housemates. Just as microbes live all over our bodies, they also live all over our pillows and furniture and doorknobs.…

A Stop-Motion Etch A Sketch Made of Dominoes Is Even Harder To Draw With

To help promote its online store that sells nothing but tiny plastic bricks, Bulk Dominoes enlisted the help of the extremely patient FlippyCat to build a giant Etch A Sketch that only works through the magic of stop motion. But it’s the perfect way to represent just what a pain it is to draw anything…

The CIA Is Investing In 3D Printers That Can Build Electronics

The 3D printing industry is still very much in its infancy. But that could change if the CIA has its way. The intelligence agency’s venture capital firm just invested in Voxel8, the company behind the first multi-material, 3D electronics printer. What does the CIA want with 3D printing? We can only guess at this point,…

Tattoos Can Burn You During An MRI

Here’s an odd by-product of body art. In an MRI machine, a tattoo can start generating heat to the point where it burns your skin. In 2011, a football player went in for an MRI, presumably to see what horrible, horrible things his chosen profession was doing to his body. He came out of the…

Every City Should Use Hydrophobic Paint That Shames Public Urinators 

If you’ve ever lived in a bar neighborhood, you know the smell. It’s the stench of idiots peeing all over the walls, doors, and sidewalks of your street—and until now, there really hasn’t been a solution. The proactive residents the “party district” of Hamburg took matters into their own hands by painting the walls of…

Why Hillary Clinton’s Homebrew Email Is a Political Nightmare

You’ve probably heard: Hillary Clinton used a private, personal email addressfor all of her official business as Secretary of State. She didn’t even have a State Department email address. As a result, her email was far from secure — and that is a big problem, but it’s not the only one. The security issue is…

Take a Terrifying Test Drive of This New 95 mph Mega Rollercoaster

An amusement park called Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina, is putting the finishing touches on its new mega coaster called the Fury 325. The first hill sends riders plummeting down an 81-degree drop at 95 miles per hour and before the ride is officially open, you can now take a test drive from the comfort…

Patton Oswalt Has A Completely Serious Idea For An Unbreakable Trilogy

And it’s pretty goddamn good, too! Screen Junkies sat down with the actor/comedian, who explained his thorough and exceedingly clever plan for two sequels to M. Night Shyamalan’s superhero movie, which starred Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson. I’d sure as hell watch them. Contact the author at [email protected].

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Congratulations! We all just survived another seven complete revolutions aboard Mothership Earth. Time to celebrate with new apps. This week we got stuff that’s going to make eating food better, Tweeting better, making music better, and chatting securely better. Let’s find out how. Android Caviar As the name suggests, Caviar is food delivery at a…