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How would robotic prostitutes change the sex tourism industry?

Machines have already changed the face of manufacturing industries, but what happens when prostitutes find themselves replaced by robots? Will machines populate our brothels instead of flesh and blood people? Will the social stigma of paying for sex fade? And how will the availability of robotic sex partners impact countries whose economies depend, in part,…

io9 Lauren Davis

Genetically Engineered Weed: There’s an App for That

A small Amsterdam startup called Medicinal Genomics, has analyzed the marijuana plant down to its strands of DNA, and the company’s CEO says some analysis of the data will be available as an iPad app next fall. For now, they’ve released the estimated 400 million base pairs that make up the Cannabis sativa genome on…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

The First Solar Tunnel To Help Power High-Speed Trains Just Opened in Europe

This two-mile tunnel running on solar power just switched on today. It’s part of the Paris to Amsterdam line and the first in Europe, promising to save a ton of energy that would otherwise be wasted during the trip. Now Paris and Amsterdam obviously aren’t two miles apart. But this thing features a 16,000 solar…

Tech News Kwame Opam

A Single Tweet Led to the Highest-Altitude Dance Party Ever

Need proof of Twitter’s power? This heart-warming story is it. Of course, old school companies’ values such as KLM airline’s willingness to help—and the Guinness book of world records’ keenness to always be where the action is were the deciding factors in today’s lovely little tale of the world’s highest-altitude dance party. It all began…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Study Says Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick

Wi-Fi, sweet deliverer of information and porn, may be killing trees. A study by a Dutch university suggests that Wi-Fi radiation causes weird abnormalities in trees. This is disturbing, as we love both Wi-Fi and trees. The dutch city of Alphen aan den Rijn commissioned the study five years ago to figure out why their…

io9 Adrian Chen

Kissing Inclinations, Amsterdam

In today’s foray into improbable research, Martin Gardiner takes a look at a Dutch study about the awkward logistics of going in for a kiss. “…what happens if a person who prefers to kiss with the head turned to the right attempts to kiss a person who prefers to kiss with the head turned to…

io9 Martin Gardiner - Improbable Research

Augmented Reality Flashmob Kicking Off Tomorrow In Amsterdam

Armed with either an iPhone or Android, hundreds of Amsterdam residents are expected to converge on Dam Square tomorrow at 2pm for the first ever augmented reality flashmob. Darth Vader, Superman and various other characters will be making super-special appearances. It sounds like a lot of fun for anyone who can get over to Amsterdam,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

149 Inches of Goodness makes Mitsubishi Size Queen of OLED

It may be lagging three inches behind Panasonic’s big telleh, but Mitsubishi’s whopping great screen is OLED. Or should that be ZOLED? It was unveiled at ISE 2010, with Number 6 and Boomer dressy-likeys lending a hand. https://gizmodo.com/panasonics-152-inch-3d-plasma-the-biggest-tv-yet-5442012 The screen is actually made up of ten-centimeter-square panels, with a resolution of 1088 x 640p. Light…

Tech News AddyDugdale

ANOTHER NWA Amsterdam/Detroit Flight Requests Emergency Assistance

Another flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, bearing the same flight number as the flight that featured the Christmas Day Firecracker pants guy from Nigeria, has been the target of some kind of “bathroom disruption.” Updated. The man in this case, also from Nigeria, allegedly locked himself in the bathroom. Our tipster, Mike, asked, what’s next,…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Alien Windmills and Cyborg Prostitutes Invade Amsterdam

Collage artist Sam Van Olffen takes the Holland’s most iconic features — its windmills, its tulips, its bicycles, and Amsterdam’s Red Light District — and meshes them with dieselpunk elements to create strange, overstuffed scenes of the Netherlands’ unlikely future. Netherlands Outrezone [Sam Van Olffen] Don Quixote of Amsterdam vs. The Alien Windmills Red Light…

io9 Lauren Davis

Floating Campgrounds for Your Waterworld Vacation

If rising sea levels wipe out Earth’s landmasses, you might miss the quiet days of camping by the lake and sinking your bare toes in the grass. Or just build your own campground, like the one spotted floating through Amsterdam. To deal with rising tides and flooding, the Netherlands has begun to turn to floating…

io9 Lauren Davis

Abandoned Silos to Be Converted Into Amazing Inside-and-Out Climbing Walls

What do you do with three abandoned sewage treatment silos? If you’re the city of Amsterdam, you convert them into absolutely incredible climbing towers. These incredible structures are the results of a contest to determine their best adaptive reuse, won by Amsterdam’s own NL Architects. The towers now have climbing surfaces both inside and out…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Building-Mounted Hammock is a Scary Space Saver

I’m all about space-saving, but I draw the line at being suspended from a swinging hammock several stories up on a building. Nonetheless, that is exactly what the Hammokum is designed for. More specifically, the Hammokum concept was designed for the scary space-saving needs of Amsterdam residents. And don’t worry, should anything happen, a safety…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Airplane Crashes Breaking In Three Pieces, Only Nine Dead

A Boeing 737-800 has crashed this morning at the Schipol Airport, in Amsterdam, breaking in three pieces. The amazing news: Only five out of 135 people are dead. Update: Some sources are reporting nine dead. They weren’t as lucky as the Hudson waterlanding passengers, but close enough. Apparently, the place was about to land when…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

80,000-Brick Lego Ferrari F1 Needs Giant Schumacher Minifig

I don’t know what can I say about this gigantic 80,000-brick Lego Ferrari model except that 1) it’s amazing, 2) it’s a blow up of the Ferrari F1 Racer 1:8 that I bought earlier this year in my trip to Lego’s Factory, and 3) it was unveiled in the Netherlands for a special Lego event…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Craneway Office Building Makes Me Want to Move to Amsterdam

I know it’s an office building, but really, I want to have an apartment at the Kraanspoor, this beautiful glass and steel structure constructed over an old craneway at a former shipyard in Amsterdam. The titanic 134,548-square-foot edifice is 885 feet long and 45.2 feet wide has a perfect view over the largest waterway in…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Subterranean Slaves Of Amsterdam

A Dutch company wants to build a massive underground city beneath Amsterdam, going six stories below the space-challenged city. Strukton, owned by the Dutch railway, wants to drain Amsterdam’s canals one by one and then refill them with water after it builds its enormous troglodyte structure. The “web-like complex” would include parking, sports, movie theaters…

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Silicon Graphics Refrigerator

Sure, the company may be going belly-up, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still pop a cold one. This case mod melds the best of two worlds—antiquated high-end computing and mini-fridges. https://gizmodo.com/bye-bye-sgi-former-workstation-giant-bankrupt-172251 This Challenge DM workstation gave up the ghost and some students in Amsterdam decided to stuff a hotel fridge inside it. The result…

Gadgets Johnb

How would robotic prostitutes change the sex tourism industry?

Genetically Engineered Weed: There’s an App for That

The First Solar Tunnel To Help Power High-Speed Trains Just Opened in Europe

A Single Tweet Led to the Highest-Altitude Dance Party Ever

Study Says Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick

Kissing Inclinations, Amsterdam

Augmented Reality Flashmob Kicking Off Tomorrow In Amsterdam

149 Inches of Goodness makes Mitsubishi Size Queen of OLED

ANOTHER NWA Amsterdam/Detroit Flight Requests Emergency Assistance

Alien Windmills and Cyborg Prostitutes Invade Amsterdam

Floating Campgrounds for Your Waterworld Vacation

Abandoned Silos to Be Converted Into Amazing Inside-and-Out Climbing Walls

Building-Mounted Hammock is a Scary Space Saver

Airplane Crashes Breaking In Three Pieces, Only Nine Dead

80,000-Brick Lego Ferrari F1 Needs Giant Schumacher Minifig

Craneway Office Building Makes Me Want to Move to Amsterdam

Subterranean Slaves Of Amsterdam

Silicon Graphics Refrigerator

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