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36 Tantalizing Photos Of Textures

Rough. Smooth. Sandy. Variegated. Machined. Organic. They’re the textures all around us, and for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you captured them with a keen eye. Winner: Obligatory Lego Canon 60D — f/10 — 1″ — ISO100 — 75mm Mike Case Subway Ceiling I like simple. I wanted to focus only on texture, so I chose…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 27

Wearable Tech In 1922 Was a Radio Inside Your Top Hat

Many people are convinced that wearable tech will revolutionize our relationship with technology in the coming decades. But we’ve been waiting on this revolution in some form or another for a century. Case in point: This kid who had it all figured out in 1922 when he invented a radio that fit inside his top…

Tech News Matt Novak Jan 27

Sleepy Hollow Really, Really Wants You to Come Back

This week, Sleepy Hollow is sorry for everything that’s happened in Season Two. It still loves you, and it wants you to come back. It even makes two promises that could change the show – but can it deliver? In discussing last week’s episode, in which the show assumed Katrina would be a valuable asset…

io9 Genevieve Valentine Jan 27

This Chris Evans Captain America Figure Could Not Be More Perfect

If you thought Avengers: Age of Ultron could sneak into theaters without a monumental amount of movie merchandise accompanying it, you’ve clearly been living on Mars for the past decade, in a cave with your eyes shut, and your fingers in your ears. Hot Toys new sixth-scale Captain America figure isn’t the first bit of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 27

Science And Art Need Each Other, And Here’s Why

The University of California’s Fig. 1 YouTube series takes on the question of “Why Science Needs Art,” breaking it down in less than a minute. Right brain, meet left brain! The star researcher in this week’s episode is UC Santa Cruz professor Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, a big believer in computer simulations, who explains, “In astronomy, we…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Jan 27

High-Speed Cameras Reveal Why Sodium Explodes in Water

You remember the sodium demo from chemistry class: Just a small chunk of the pure metal dropped into water causes a great big flash and bang. You might even remember your chemistry teacher’s explanation for why. But there’s always been a missing piece of the puzzle, which scientists have finally figured out using high-speed video…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Jan 27

Dell XPS 13 Review (2015): The Windows Laptop To Beat

Are you thinking of buying a Windows laptop? Don’t, until you’ve read this review. The new Dell XPS 13 isn’t perfect, but it’s freaking incredible for the $800 you’ll spend to bring one home. What Is It? The latest version of Dell’s 13-inch MacBook Air competitor, now thinner and lighter than before. A laptop with…

Reviews Sean Hollister Jan 27

10 Valuable Life Lessons We’ve Learned From Disney Villains

Sure, the heroes in Disney movies are supposed to embody desirable traits: bravery, kindness, a sense of adventure. But sometimes, it’s the villains who have the most to teach us about the world — in their successes and their failures, too. 1. Scar, The Lion King: It’s not enough to want power; you have to…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 27

Striking images of the first war that felt like a video game

The USAF Air Combat Command just tweeted this photo: “Today in 1991, US-backed coalition air forces attained air supremacy over the Iraqis.” Aside from any geopolitical consideration, there’s something unsettling about it. It is simultaneously imposing for what it shows and terrible for what it doesn’t. Above: Formation of three F-15 Strike Eagles and two…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jan 27

How Your Connected Devices Could Get You Fired or Ruin Your Credit

There’s probably something you do right now you wouldn’t really want everyone to know about. Maybe you’re letting a Fitbit gather dust while you eat Doritos and watch The Good Wife (understandable). Maybe you’re in the habit of driving around at 3 AM when you can’t sleep. Whatever you do, if you’re doing it while…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs Jan 27

This Is How You Unboil An Egg

Every one knows how to boil an egg (egg + water + heat + time), but is it possible to reverse the process and take a boiled egg back to its previous state? The answer is, incredibly, yes. Here’s how. In a paper published in ChemBioChem by chemists from the University of California in Irvine…

io9 Ria Misra Jan 27

This “Super Saturn” Has An Enormous Ring System And Maybe Even Exomoons

Astronomers watching the repeated and drawn-out dimming of a relatively nearby Sun-like star have interpreted their observations to indicate an eclipse by a gigantic exoplanet’s complex ring system, similar to Saturn’s except much, much bigger. Illustration by artist Ron Miller of the gigantic ring system around J1407b. (© Ron Miller. Used with permission.) What’s more,…

io9 Jason Major — Universe Today Jan 27

There’s an Awesome Tiny Apartment Hidden Inside This 100-Year-Old Turret

For more than a century, the incredible neoclassical turret that crowns Amsterdam’s oldest department store has sat unused. Today, an artist moved in—the tower’s very first resident and the lucky first guest of a program that’s turning the empty structure into a tiny apartment for artists. This is the city’s largest department store: De Bijenkorf,…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Jan 27

Marvel Has A Serious Problem Merchandising Its Female Characters

In between marketing winding up for its May release and Toy Fair around the corner, merchandise for Age of Ultron has been showing up everywhere. But one Avenger has been largely absent: Black Widow. It’s not something new to Marvel — and that’s starting to be a problem. Let’s just think about the array of…

io9 James Whitbrook Jan 27

Pushbullet Is a Fantastic App Every Phone Should Have

Pushbullet isn’t new, but since I installed it maybe a year ago, it has sneakily gotten a lot better, especially for Android phones. And as I used to it to text from my browser for the umpteenth time yesterday, it struck me how great it’s really become. So maybe you’ve heard already but let me…

Tech News Eric Limer Jan 27

Can You Guess What This Image Tests For?

This is called the Gollin figures test. It’s used as a way of assessing visual information — and also something more. Here’s a hint: These images are often shown to amnesiacs. You are meant to see this picture as a series of images, starting with the lower right and moving to the upper left. The…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jan 27

Jim Gordon Isn’t The Hero Gotham Needs, Just The Idiot It Deserves

Gotham is getting worse. I don’t mean the city; even though it has increased its Noble Cop quotient by +1 with Jim Gordon’s arrival, it seems to be just as messed up as it was before he arrived. No, I mean the show, and the most obvious example is the way Gordon is somehow turning…

io9 Rob Bricken Jan 27

A Giant Foam Ravage Is The Ultimate Transformers Kitchen Accessory

I was thinking the other day, ‘You know what every Kitchen in the world needs? A giant model of Ravage!’. It would seem that I was not the first person to have this thought. This incredible (and bloody massive) model of Ravage’s Gen 1 appearance is by Jamie Young of Foamtastic Props, and was made…

Tech News James Whitbrook Jan 27

Freakishly Old System Of Planets Hint At Ancient Alien Civilizations

Kepler scientists have discovered the oldest known system of rocky, Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way. This suggests that terrestrial planets have appeared throughout most of the Universe’s 13.8 billion year history — a potential indication of just how ancient some extraterrestrial civilizations could be. Sadly, these five planets are not habitable; they’re all parked…

io9 George Dvorsky Jan 27

Which Religions Are Prepared to Accept Life in Space?

Assuming we don’t blow ourselves up before then, colonizing other planets may be the last hope for the survival of humanity. Most of the preparation for this cosmic expansion has centered around solving the more immediate, physical problems of transporting our bodies into deep space, but what about our culture? Therein lies an issue that’s…

Space & Spaceflight Ashley Feinberg Jan 27

36 Tantalizing Photos Of Textures

Wearable Tech In 1922 Was a Radio Inside Your Top Hat

Sleepy Hollow Really, Really Wants You to Come Back

This Chris Evans Captain America Figure Could Not Be More Perfect

Science And Art Need Each Other, And Here’s Why

High-Speed Cameras Reveal Why Sodium Explodes in Water

Dell XPS 13 Review (2015): The Windows Laptop To Beat

10 Valuable Life Lessons We’ve Learned From Disney Villains

Striking images of the first war that felt like a video game

How Your Connected Devices Could Get You Fired or Ruin Your Credit

This Is How You Unboil An Egg

This “Super Saturn” Has An Enormous Ring System And Maybe Even Exomoons

There’s an Awesome Tiny Apartment Hidden Inside This 100-Year-Old Turret

Marvel Has A Serious Problem Merchandising Its Female Characters

Pushbullet Is a Fantastic App Every Phone Should Have

Can You Guess What This Image Tests For?

Jim Gordon Isn’t The Hero Gotham Needs, Just The Idiot It Deserves

A Giant Foam Ravage Is The Ultimate Transformers Kitchen Accessory

Freakishly Old System Of Planets Hint At Ancient Alien Civilizations

Which Religions Are Prepared to Accept Life in Space?

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