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Robert Downey Jr. Explains How Iron Man’s Journey Leads To Civil War

Yet another Star Wars hero may show up on Rebels. Eve Myles talks about the possible return of Torchwood. Sasha may go to a darker place on The Walking Dead. Plus details on the future of Constantine. And hints for Sleepy Hollow, Arrow, The Originals, Orphan Black and iZombie. Hooray for Spoilers! Top image: Avengers:…

io9 James Whitbrook Feb 17

Bandai Want To Turn Your iPhone Into A Delorean

Well, not so much in a way that would allow it to travel in time or fly whatever, but it does turn your otherwise relatively sleek phone into a giant slab of Delorean-shaped plastic. So there’s that! The latest in Bandai’s line of ‘Crazy Cases’ for the iPhone 6 – no other phone is so…

Tech News James Whitbrook Feb 17

Sony’s SmartEyeglasses Are Here, and Even Dorkier Than Google Glass

Sony releases its AR eyewear, aggressive spyware is found on tons of hard drives, and the world’s best smartwatch gets even better. All this and more on BitStream. Sony’s Google Glass alternative has a better price—and that’s about it The death of Google Glass was well-documented. That little AR wearable went from an exciting technological…

Tech News Darren Orf Feb 17

I could spend hours watching this guy make his kitchen knives

Ben Edmonds is former graphic designer turned into an artisan. His kitchen knives are some of the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. He crafts them by hand in his small workshop in Derbyshire, England. Watch him make one of them in this beautiful, relaxing video. Here are some of the knives he makes: SPLOID is…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Feb 17

Bryan Singer Reveals Mysterious Concept Art From X-Men: Apocalypse

Director Bryan Singer’s teasing the next X-Men film with an Instagram post of concept art by Grant Major of something that presumably will appear in the actual film. Spoilers in the form of the image and speculation below. ?utm_source=partner&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=photo I assume the blurring is exhaust, but it does helpfully blur the face of whatever person…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Feb 17

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (for This Anti-Piracy Helicopter)

In this spectacular and dramatic long-exposure night shot you can see a Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin helicopter—Dolphin, to its friends—being towed into its hangar aboard Ventôse, a light monitoring frigate of the French Marine Nationale. The frigate was deployed in the Caribbean Sea on a mission to fight against drug trafficking between January 14th and February…

Tech News Attila Nagy Feb 17

The Loudest and Quietest Places in the U.S., Mapped

If you need some downtime, you could do worse than heading toward the darkest blue regions on this map. The image shows how the loudness of sound varies across the country, based on 1.5 million hours of acoustical monitoring. Freshly presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting, the map uses…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 17

The past, the present, and the (possible) future of movie trailers

This interesting video by filmmaker Steven Benedict explains the origins and evolution of movie trailers in American cinema. From the first in 1912, for What happens to Mary, to Kubrick’s great Dr. Strangelove, or the latest Hollywood blockbuster trailers. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Feb 17

A peek into the life of South Korea’s food porn superstars

Thousands of South Koreans tune in daily to Muk-bang (eating broadcasts): Online live-stream channels where people eats large amounts of food on camera. Those people, called Broadcast Jockeys (BJ’s), became real celebrities that could earn up to $9000 a month just by sharing meals with their lonely audience. This interesting video by Munchies shows how…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Feb 17

The Problem With Professional Test Subjects

PBS has an article about the the rising use of Mechanical Turk — Amazon’s marketplace for low-paying, one-shot jobs — for academic research surveys. In the old days, psychology students were the primary subjects. Not anymore. Research shows that the median “Turker” has completed 300 academic studies. Jenny Marder at PBS writes about the problems…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Feb 17

OpenStreetMap Finally Does Directions

OpenStreetMap is an amazing, free, open-source alternative to the other mapping tools on the Internet. And now, it just got a whole lot better: it now offers A-to-B directions, directly from its homepage. While third parties have used OpenStreetMap data to offer directions in the past, the main site now pulls together a number of…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 17

Hunting a Silent Killer: How to Cure Hepatitis C in the Undiagnosed

Hepatitis C has a cure, but how do we find those who need it? Patrick Strudwick reports on one attempt to identify some of the estimated 100,000 undiagnosed people in the UK. A young woman – jeans and boots and wild hair – is sitting in a cubicle in the Accident and Emergency department of…

Tech News Patrick Strudwick - Mosaic Feb 17

How Did This Skull Get Cut Clean in Half?

Don’t worry: that vertical cut was made after the subject died. In fact, it’s an incredibly rare example of vertical skull dissection, most likely performed at the end of the 1800s as a teaching aid. The skull was discovered by Jenna Dittmar from the University of Cambridge in the UK. Found in a dusty part…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 17

Exposed: The Backdoors Spying on Majority of the World’s Hard Drives

New research from Russian researchers at the Kaspersky Lab reveals that the someone—most likely the NSA—has developed spying software that can be hidden deep with hard drives. Known to work with hardware made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and more, it’s said to provide the agency with the means to eavesdrop “on the majority of…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe Feb 17

Posters of Classic Movies, Boiled Down to Circles

Designer Nick Barclay’s Circle Movies poster series takes a very minimalist approach to classic films. And yet, even rendered in only circles, the films are still instantly recognizable. We asked Barclay, “Why circles?” and he told us: I chose circles because after watching interstellar me and a friend were talking about 2001 a space odyssey…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Feb 17

Magneto Cat Has the Most Useful Superpower for a Cat Ever

The ability to manipulate the food holders and weapons? Yeah, this is all cats have ever wanted. This video is by Kaipotainment, which also brought us Magneto Cat’s nemesis, Professor X Cat. [via Tastefully Offensive]

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Feb 17

Video: What having super vision to see the wind blowing must look like

We can feel the wind when it hits us and we can track wind patterns when we check the weather and when it’s really strong, we can totally see the effect wind has on the world around us but this video let’s us imagine what seeing actual wind would look like. It looks like ghosts.…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 16

Pouring paint on top of paint creates mind melting art

Here’s a nice way to have fun without doing drugs: pour different colors of paint on top of other colors of paint on top of a wooden block. The layers of paint will stack on top of each other and the colors will expand and you’ll get a super psychedelic art piece that looks like…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 16

Another Reason To Worry About The Measles

We’re in the middle of a scary measles outbreak, and reminding ourselves just how deadly this disease can be. But in case you needed another reason to be alarmed by the measles, here’s one: It was brought to Earth by Doctor Who’s cybernetic war machines, the Daleks. That’s just one of the fascinating Dalek facts…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 16

This Century-Old Audio Technique Could Be Key to Virtual Reality

Binaural audio sounds like a no-brainer. Humans have two ears, so we should record sounds with two microphones, right? But the late 1800s technique of sticking microphones inside a pair of life-like ears mounted on a fake head has never been more than a novelty. Which is a shame, because as you’re about to hear,…

Tech News Sean Hollister Feb 16

Robert Downey Jr. Explains How Iron Man’s Journey Leads To Civil War

Bandai Want To Turn Your iPhone Into A Delorean

Sony’s SmartEyeglasses Are Here, and Even Dorkier Than Google Glass

I could spend hours watching this guy make his kitchen knives

Bryan Singer Reveals Mysterious Concept Art From X-Men: Apocalypse

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (for This Anti-Piracy Helicopter)

The Loudest and Quietest Places in the U.S., Mapped

The past, the present, and the (possible) future of movie trailers

A peek into the life of South Korea’s food porn superstars

The Problem With Professional Test Subjects

OpenStreetMap Finally Does Directions

Hunting a Silent Killer: How to Cure Hepatitis C in the Undiagnosed

How Did This Skull Get Cut Clean in Half?

Exposed: The Backdoors Spying on Majority of the World’s Hard Drives

Posters of Classic Movies, Boiled Down to Circles

Magneto Cat Has the Most Useful Superpower for a Cat Ever

Video: What having super vision to see the wind blowing must look like

Pouring paint on top of paint creates mind melting art

Another Reason To Worry About The Measles

This Century-Old Audio Technique Could Be Key to Virtual Reality

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