Andrew Liszewski's posts

There’s a famous story (also proven false) that NASA spent millions of dollars inventing a pressurized pen that…

Despite building a toy empire on interlocking plastic bricks, Lego hasn’t shied away from modern technologies.…

With millions of students now attending school from home, affordable laptop alternatives like the Chromebook are…

The Mythbusters proved that shooting bullets in a dramatic curve like Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy did in the…

The ultimate goal to making virtual reality feel more like reality is letting users physically touch non-existent…

A screen protector that does its job well is also a screen protector that you never see. It’s a product you want to…

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the coolest nerdy merch floating around the internet. This…

According to the Guinness World Records, Germany’s Niels Herbrich flew a rocket-powered remote control plane to a…

The Apple TV might be shiny, black, and sleek, but it’s also kind of boring. If you’re unimpressed by its design,…

Visit the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, The Netherlands, and you’ll have a chance to see Johannes Vermeer’s…

K’Nex has been around for less than 30 years but has already become the building toy of choice for elaborate…

Unless you grew up in a time after cameraphones arrived, there’s a very good chance your first digital camera was a…

Velcro is great when you need to open stuff fast or with ease, but Velcro is not so great when you’re trying to…

Back in 2018, Mattel created a real-life version of the video game Rocket League where a pair of remote control cars…

It turns out the big news from last week wasn’t that Samsung finally ditched the bizarre bean design for its…

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the coolest updates in the world of wallet-draining geek merch.…

By now we’ve all seen the astonishing results of covering an object in black paint that absorbs over 99% of light—it…

A big TV no longer needs an even bigger home entertainment center to support it thanks to hidden wall mounts, but…

From games like Wii Tennis to accessories like the Wii Balance Board, Nintendo has mad it possible to turn its…

Soccer is the world’s most popular sport partly because the only piece of equipment you need is a ball. But to…