Blender

This Absurdly Complex Star Destroyer Model May Be the Most Detailed Ever Created

It has 172,340 pieces and just under 1.4 billion triangles, and it induced a panic attack in our copy of Blender.

Culture Tom Hawking Mar 5

Flow, One of 2024’s Best Movies, Hits Max Next Week

Latvia's acclaimed, award-winning breakout hit Flow comes to Max just in time for Valentine's Day.

Movies Justin Carter Feb 8

Nutribullet Flip in Black, White, and Silver

The New NutriBullet Is the Drinkable Blender I’ve Always Wanted

The NutriBullet Flip blends up your drink and lets you carry the whole unit around like a thermos.

Gadgets Kyle Barr Jul 25

AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 Series Punches Well Above Its Price Point

RDNA 3 delivers massive performance in a manageable package.

Tech News Damien Gula Dec 12

M2 MacBook Air Review: Appealing Inside and Out

Apple’s newest thin and light fanless laptop runs like a dream, and looks good doing it.

Laptops Michelle Ehrhardt Jul 14

Choose Or Die Looks Like an 8-Bit Horror Version of Jumanji

The new Netflix film with Ender's Game star Asa Butterfield and The 100 's Iola Evans is out April 15.

Trailers Germain Lussier Mar 29

Watch This Robotic Camera Rig Create 3D Animations With Light

Instead of repeatedly standing in front of a camera and waving an LED bulb to create long-exposure light paintings, Josh Sheldon automated the process with an impressive photography rig that takes orders directly from 3D animation software. The resulting animations, made with precise camera moves and robot-controlled lights, are like nothing you’ve ever seen. But…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 30

How to Rebuild Bruce Willis Inside of a Computer

Blender is some impressive free, open-source animation software. It can be used to make some terrifying garbage if you don’t know what you’re doing. But some people are really, really good at it. Like a modern-day Prometheus, watch César Salcedo mold digital clay into the shape of Emmy-winning actor and sort of musician Bruce Willis’s…

Sploid Avery Ellis Feb 29

For No Reason, Here is Bubble Gum in a Blender

This ultra-slow motion video of bubble gum balls getting slowly demolished by a blender is almost festive. Stressed out? Feeling the pressure of the holiday season? Make yourself a cup of tea, sit down, and watch this blender slowly demolish a bunch of gum balls. Sometimes it doesn’t have to be any more complicated than…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell Dec 23

Watch a Drone Violently Chop the Hell Out of Different Kinds of Food

Watching this drone play the part of a blender is loads of fun because you get to see foods explode and get chopped up in beautiful slow motion. The propellers of the drone act as the blades of a blender and all kinds of different foods are dropped in—eggs, bananas, sausages, blackberries, and so on—and…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 21

How to make a latte with regular drip coffee and no espresso or milk

Here’s a fun little trick to turn regular drip coffee into a frothy and delicious latte-esque drink that’s not a latte but totally looks and feels like a latte, courtesy of our friends from ChefSteps. It’s pretty simple, actually. Just brew your normal coffee and throw it in a blender with a bit of xanthan…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 17

The interesting science of how your blender works

If you think your blender is just a crazy powerful tornado smasher of things, you’re not wrong! But there’s also some other fascinating things going on inside of that do it all wonder device. And one of the secret weapons of a blender is the tiny little bubbles it creates. It’s called cavitation, when those…

Sploid Casey Chan Jun 10

Creepy Simulation Shows How Ancient Arachnids Actually Walked

After modeling the exceptionally well-preserved remains of a 410 million-year-old arachnid, researchers from the University of Manchester in the UK used an open-source computer graphics program to bring the extinct predator back to virtual life. It’s called trigonotarbid and, in addition to being an early relative of spiders, it was one of the first predators…

io9 George Dvorsky Jul 9

How You Can Make Graphene at Home in Your Blender

Graphene may be the supermaterial to rule them all—but it turns out you can make it at home. In your kitchen blender. Here’s how. A team of researchers from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland have been trying to work out the best way to mass produce graphene, those sheets of carbon that are just one…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe Apr 21

Hybrid Fruits Sound Delicious And Sort Of Exist A Little Bit

I would do basically anything to try a bananaberry, kiwigerine or pinegrape. No matter how varied and colorful nature is, I will always want more delicious fruit options. And Ogilvy Brazil knows. They sense my weakness. To sell Philips’s new blender, the Walita Avance, Ogilvy Brazil designed this ad campaign . . . and created…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman May 26

The Science Inside Your Blender

You might think that your blender is just a glorified mixer—but you couldn’t be more wrong. In fact, your blender exploits some interesting scientific concepts to break down your food, and these slow-motion videos help explain how it works. Flip the switch, and the blender’s blades create a suction effect, pulling contents down before throwing…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Mar 15

Tears of Steel: Don’t Piss Off Your Robot Girlfriend

Tears of Steel is a crowd-funded short from the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, and was made using Blender, an open source 3D content creation suite. It’s also pretty awesome. The 12-minute film is chock-full of effects, and for the most part they’re pretty good. Some of the effects can look a little silly at points,…

Tech News Eric Limer Sep 30

Cuisinart Soup Maker And Blender: Because You Need Warm Food When the Weather Gets Cold

The staff over at Food Republic spend their days obsessing about all the delicious things that go into our stomach. So it makes sense they’d know what gadgets are best suited to the creation of good food. And now that the weather has cooled off, they’ve turned their attention to warm foods… The $200 Cuisinart…

Reviews Nicholas Kavalier - FoodRepublic.com Nov 3

A Boat Motor That Blends A Fine Cocktail

Anyone with a boat powered by a vintage Johnson motor will tell you that a well-maintained outboard engine can last decades. When then motor finally dies, don’t discard it. Convert the engine into the best-looking blender ever. Spotted on Etsy is a 1958 18 HP Johnson outboard motor that was gutted and modded into a…

Tech News Kelly Sep 1

The incredibly sad tale of a woman and her dragon

This indie short called “Sintel” is a startling combination of cuteness and tragedy. The short was created as a proof-of-concept for an open source 3D animation package called Blender. The Blender Foundation explains: “Sintel” is an independently produced short film, initiated by the Blender Foundation as a means to further improve and validate the free/open…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 1

Blender

This Absurdly Complex Star Destroyer Model May Be the Most Detailed Ever Created

Flow, One of 2024’s Best Movies, Hits Max Next Week

The New NutriBullet Is the Drinkable Blender I’ve Always Wanted

AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 Series Punches Well Above Its Price Point

M2 MacBook Air Review: Appealing Inside and Out

Choose Or Die Looks Like an 8-Bit Horror Version of Jumanji

Watch This Robotic Camera Rig Create 3D Animations With Light

How to Rebuild Bruce Willis Inside of a Computer

For No Reason, Here is Bubble Gum in a Blender

Watch a Drone Violently Chop the Hell Out of Different Kinds of Food

How to make a latte with regular drip coffee and no espresso or milk

The interesting science of how your blender works

Creepy Simulation Shows How Ancient Arachnids Actually Walked

How You Can Make Graphene at Home in Your Blender

Hybrid Fruits Sound Delicious And Sort Of Exist A Little Bit

The Science Inside Your Blender

Tears of Steel: Don’t Piss Off Your Robot Girlfriend

Cuisinart Soup Maker And Blender: Because You Need Warm Food When the Weather Gets Cold

A Boat Motor That Blends A Fine Cocktail

The incredibly sad tale of a woman and her dragon

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