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23 Strange Creatures From the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons First Edition Monster Manual

How many brain-eating foes does a single role-playing game need?

Games Rob Bricken Mar 31

30 Bonkers New D&D Miniatures to Bring Your Spelljammer Games to Life

Mind-flayers, astral elves, space pirates, and inter-etheral dragons show off that Dungeons & Dragons can be fun as hell when it goes interstellar.

Games Linda Codega May 3

Why Do Giant People Die So Young?

Britain’s tallest man, Neil Fingleton, died Sunday at age 36. The seven-foot-seven actor played basketball in the United States before taking on roles from Game of Thrones’ Mag the Mighty to Doctor Who, Age of Ultron, X-Men: First Class, and Jupiter Ascending, as we reported earlier this week. https://gizmodo.com/game-of-thrones-actor-and-britains-tallest-man-neil-fin-1792763037 The cause has not been confirmed,…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 28

Look at This Giant Fucking Catfish

Here’s a fish tale for the ages: a North Carolina man says he reeled in a massive 112-pound catfish (just five pounds short of the state record). Riahn Brewington claims that he was fishing on the Cape Fear River the day before Thanksgiving when he felt a strong tug on the line. “In the water,…

Tech News Michael Nunez Dec 2

Large Looking Man Prepares Seemingly Small Lasagna

Without an outside reference point, it’s impossible to say whether Jay Baron is exceedingly large or the food he makes quite small indeed, but there’s a definite disparity of scale going on throughout his YouTube channel Walking with Giants. Like similar clips from the other side of the Pacific, the videos document a man of…

Sploid Hudson Hongo Sep 29

Watch giant machines forge a gigantic steel roll

It’s weirdly enjoyable to see a giant block of steel get squished and shaped into a giant roll of steel by giant machines. Seeing the hot flakes fall off, seeing a square slowly get squeezed into a circle, it’s something I can watch for a very long time. These steel rolls were made by the…

Sploid Casey Chan Dec 11

The world’s tallest cow is so comically ginormous that it’s hilarious

When you first see Blosom, a cow that measures in at 6 feet 2 inches from the hoof to the withers and is the Guinness World Record’s tallest cow ever, you can’t help but laugh. You don’t scream fake (that’s the second thing you do) or analyze the photo’s misleading angles meant to exaggerate the…

Sploid Casey Chan Jun 26

Biologist catches monster 70-year-old lobster in California

Biologist Forrest Galante was diving for lobsters off the coast of Anacapa Island, California, when he found this 70-year-old 12-pound monster. Instead of grilling it right away with tons of butter and lemon, he decided to keep it to show it to his family. Days later, he released it back into the ocean. This is…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Dec 3

Fisherman catches monstrous giant shrimp in Florida

A fisherman caught this monstrous 18-inch-long creaturewhile fishing from a dock in Fort Pierce, Florida. Scientists say it could be a rare kind of Mantis Shrimp but further analysis needs to be conducted in order to determinate what the hell is this mutant monster from hell. If it is a mantis shrimp, it’s an exceptional…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Sep 5

Two new mysterious giant holes found in Siberia, scientists puzzled

Scientists have found two new mysterious giant holes in Siberia, like the one that appeared in Siberia two weeks ago. The new craters are smaller than the first but they share a similar structure. Scientists are still puzzled by the origin of these formations. Here are all the details: https://gizmodo.com/mysterious-hole-discovered-in-siberia-1605872539 Crater of Antipayuta This hole…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Jul 28

The Ultimate Triathlon Outfit For Under $1,000

There are some significant barriers to entry in a triathlon. Physical fitness is one thing. What about all that gear? People routinely drop thousands of dollars to get outfitted for the race. The investment—maybe even more than the 1500-meter swim—is enough to scare most people away. But doesn’t have to be like that. In a…

Reviews Brent Rose Jul 27

The Giant Nine-Pound Rats Are Coming

Okay, let me just get this out of the way. AHHHHH HOLY CRAP THIS RAT WEIGHS NINE POUNDS! There, I feel better, but residents of the Florida Keys don’t. Why? Because these 9-pound Gambian giant pouch rats are on the loose. Here’s how this debacle happened. Some yahoo on Grassy Key island was breeding and…

Tech News Brent Rose Mar 25

Samsung’s Super-Sized Galaxy Note Changed My Life

Yeah yeah, the Galaxy Note is huge. But Abdel Ibrahim and Jon Dick at The Tech Block found ways to work the mobile colossus into their everyday lives. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve looked at my puny iPhone 4 with disgust, wishing with all my might that it were bigger. It’s too…

Gadgets Abdel Ibrahim and Jon Dick Feb 16

Concept Art Writing Prompt: A giant’s skeleton slumbers beneath a frozen lake

Welcome to the Concept Art Writing Prompt, a new, much-demanded feature here at io9. Each Saturday, we’ll post a piece of artwork, and ask you to write a piece of fiction based on that artwork in the comments. Our first-ever concept art writing prompt comes from illustrator John Hendrix. The piece, titled “Autopsy Lake,” was…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 7

BGR: Samsung’s Making a Giant-Sized Retina Screen Galaxy Tab

So this one landed on our desk with a big ol’ thud of a HUH? BGR is reporting that, according to a trusted source, Samsung is making a 11.6-inch, 2560 x 1600 resolution Galaxy Tab that will be announced next February. You’re going to need a bigger—actually—just use that humongous tablet as the boat. The…

Gadgets Kyle Wagner Dec 8

Holy F**K That’s a Big Crocodile

This 21-foot, 2,375 pound megacroc destroyed four traps, one water buffalo, and possibly a fisherman before finally being captured in a specially-designed, reinforced, steel-wire trap. Trapped, not killed? And cue Jurassic Park theme music in 3… 2… 1… Dang, Philippines, y’all got some big reptiles. This crocosaurus stands accused of killing one large water buffalo,…

Tech News Brent Rose Sep 6

Jaw-Dropping Super Slow-Motion Footage of the World’s Scariest Wave

Tahiti is home not only to a million resorts, but also to the deadliest wave in the world. Known as “The End of the Road”, it is the stuff of hydraulic nightmares, and this new footage is absolutely jaw-dropping. This footage was shot with one of our favorite toys: the super slow motion camera by…

Tech News Brent Rose Aug 29

To Protect and Kill: Morality in Action Manga

Just as Watchmen criticized the morality of superhero comics, manga like Bokurano and Fullmetal Alchemist criticize the “smiles and happy endings” of shonen manga. “I…hate hurting things…and breaking things…I wish we could all get along…If I can avoid a battle…I think that’s best…” — To-Ru Zekuu and Yuna Takanagi, Shiki Tsukai “I’m not going to…

io9 Jason Thompson Mar 11

Giant iPhone Display Runs OS X (This Time, At Least)

Eagle-eyed reader Phelipe Hamoui snapped these shots of the giant iPhone display in Hong Kong running Mac OS X. This marks a nice change from that embarrassing little slip-up that revealed a U.S. display was running (gasp upon gasp!) Windows XP. So take a deep breath, Mac Army. Everything’s gonna be okay. [- Thanks, Phelipe!]

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 4

Miele’s New Giant Fridge Can Double as a Morgue

I don’t know if these fridges are the norm in the US, but it seems to me like Miele’s latest giganormous fridge from their Master Cool line—shown here at IFA 2008—has to be the biggest fridge ever available to megalomaniac consumers and potential serial killers. They should christen it The Walk-In Fridge, because this thing…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 2

Giant

23 Strange Creatures From the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons First Edition Monster Manual

30 Bonkers New D&D Miniatures to Bring Your Spelljammer Games to Life

Why Do Giant People Die So Young?

Look at This Giant Fucking Catfish

Large Looking Man Prepares Seemingly Small Lasagna

Watch giant machines forge a gigantic steel roll

The world’s tallest cow is so comically ginormous that it’s hilarious

Biologist catches monster 70-year-old lobster in California

Fisherman catches monstrous giant shrimp in Florida

Two new mysterious giant holes found in Siberia, scientists puzzled

The Ultimate Triathlon Outfit For Under $1,000

The Giant Nine-Pound Rats Are Coming

Samsung’s Super-Sized Galaxy Note Changed My Life

Concept Art Writing Prompt: A giant’s skeleton slumbers beneath a frozen lake

BGR: Samsung’s Making a Giant-Sized Retina Screen Galaxy Tab

Holy F**K That’s a Big Crocodile

Jaw-Dropping Super Slow-Motion Footage of the World’s Scariest Wave

To Protect and Kill: Morality in Action Manga

Giant iPhone Display Runs OS X (This Time, At Least)

Miele’s New Giant Fridge Can Double as a Morgue

Amazon Is Sticking With ‘Rings of Power’ to the End

Trump Is Reportedly Going Full Steam Ahead with the Golden Dome

‘Kamen Rider’ Is Ready to Take on the World

Twitter Just Can’t Stop Leaking Movies

The ‘Mass Effect’ Show is Getting Rewritten to Get Greenlit

See the Early Stages of How ‘Project Hail Mary’ Brought Rocky to Life

‘Cognitive Surrender’ Is a New and Useful Term for How AI Melts Brains

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Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

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