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The cookbooks I’ve used in my life have endured drippings, grease splatters, and one especially harrowingly bath in a pot of tomato soup. Let’s face it, a big block of paper is an inconvenient thing to lug around the kitchen. But there’s an ingenious little idea that puts tattoos in a perfectly convenient place to…
In the world of animation, there are few universal truths. But one, at least, is that everyone loves dinosaurs. Whether you think they’re fascinating or just plain awesome, few stories were made worse by the presence of our prehistoric friends. And since today is dino-day across the io9 sub-sites, let’s celebrate by looking at some…
A bridge crane the size of a city block begins work, laying a new foundation for skyscrapers that will soon stand over the East Hudson Rail Yards. [Nicholas Stango]
According to Jalopnik’s Damon Lavrinc, the BMW i8 is the “first attempt at defining what the future [of cars] will be, and like all first attempts it’s a mix of exciting and the not-yet-well-thought-out.” It’s also elegant and beautiful and I want one to go across the country. OK, that or the Porsche 918 Spyder.
Like the new Boreas Trava and Tiago tents? Win one of their backpacks! Update: Reader David Camp has been randomly selected as the winner. Congrats David! We’re giving away one Boreas Hopper day pack and its Bootlegger suspension system. The pack measures 28L in volume and weighs just 1lbs 90z, making it ideal for hiking,…
BMW’s i8 is the kind of gorgeous, $140,000 sports car that most of us will never get to own. It’s packed with supercar tech like a carbon fiber passenger cell and a turbocharged, hybrid powertrain that kicks out Porsche-beating acceleration and Prius-like fuel economy. But it’s not just an engineer’s flight of fancy, nor a…
It’s a rare kind of person who has the foresight (and cash) to hire an architect to design their own funeral mausoleum. But this engineer in Mucia, Spain, did just that—commissioning this incredible structure for when he shuffles off this mortal coil. The black steel and concrete structure is nestled into a shady lane full…
Above, Jimmy Carter holds a June 21, 1979 press conference in front of the White House’s then-new solar panels. Ronald Reagan quietly tore them down in 1986 during renovations. But thanks to the Obama administration, the White House now has solar panels on its roof again. We’ll see how long they last this time. Photos:…
If you’ve scampered barefoot across asphalt on a sunny day, then you know driveways are already absorbing plenty of solar energy. What if we could actually harness it? Solar Roadways has created solar panels so strong you could drive a tractor right over them—plus they light up at night and heat to melt snow. In…
Shifting some of the structure off the poles and into the fabric, new tents from San Francisco-based Boreas are using design innovation to keep weight off your back and a roof over your head. Boreas is a new Bay Area company that’s shaken up the backpack space with drastically simple and lightweight trekking packs that…
Today President Obama continued his tour of California with a stop in a somewhat unlikely place: Walmart. The company has pledged to double the number of solar projects at its stores and distribution centers by 2020, and the president used the Walmart in Mountain View, California as a backdrop to discuss the importance of solar…
Lensbaby’s lenses add a lot of unique effects and even more fun to your photography experience. Today Canon users can grab the Pro Effects Kit which features 3 lenses, macro converters, and more for $100 off the regular price. [Lensbaby Pro Effects Kit, $629] Nikon users aren’t being left out though, the Composer Pro Lens,…
An empty hotel that’s symbolic of Vegas’s bust. A parking app that’s about to turn San Francisco into one big $20/hour parking lot. And why it’s really, really important that you spend your formative years working at a Dairy Queen. Let’s look at What’s Ruining Our Cities. A lack of working teens is ruining the…
Apple wants to buy Beats? It’s one of the stranger Apple rumors we’ve ever heard and it would be Apple’s most expensive acquisition ever by a long shot, but you better believe it’s good business. And for regular folks, the deal has enormous potential to improve one of Apple’s most flawed products: The EarPod. The…
A really cool poster was recently posted to Behance featuring an illustrated chronology of cameras going back to the 1860s. The poster was made by Carlos Ramos and Carolina Borrero. Any particular camera you feel has been egregiously left out of their lineup? [PetaPixel]
Here’s 31-year-old Canadian cyclist Matt Hunter riding his S-Works Enduro 29 bike completely parallel to the ground. It may seem impossible but that’s what happens when you go around a sharp curve at very high speed. You know, physics! (and skills!) SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
It’s the year 2044—what does your kitchen sound like? What about your power supply? How about the laundry room, or even your new, high-tech burglar alarm? Disquiet, Gizmodo’s subdomain of all things sonic and ambient, is challenging its readers to come up with a speculative soundtrack for the home of the future—or, more specifically, for…
A research team in China just successfully tested a blisteringly fast transportation concept: super-maglev, a high speed train that could theoretically hit speeds of up to 1,800 miles per hour. That’s three times the speed of a passenger jet. The concept, put forth by the Applied Superconductivity Laboratory of Southwest Jiaotong University, uses the same…
If you’re not a current Netflix customer, the price of streaming just hopped up to $9 a month. There is a way out though; new members can choose an SD-only plan at the classic price of $8 per month if that extra dollar is really killing you.
Undersea energy pipelines constitute a vital physical link between deep water wells and onshore refineries, but it’s not like we can just lay these lines like oversized bendy straws. That task of constructing and sinking these tubes instead falls to vessels like Allseas’ newest addition to its pipelaying fleet, the Audacia. Over short distances, sure,…
