Charlie Jane Anders, Author at Gizmodo

io9 Roundup: July 13, 2011

EVEN IF YOU WIN, YOU COULD CUT YOURSELF | A scary vision of the Iron Throne from the new Game of Thrones video game, via Kotaku. (More at the link.) https://kotaku.com/more-glimpses-at-the-game-of-thrones-computer-game-5820392 https://gizmodo.com/10-greatest-unintentionally-hilarious-lines-from-scienc-5820727 10 Greatest Unintentionally Hilarious Lines from Science Fiction and Fantasy One of the great joys of watching science fiction and fantasy is to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 13 '11

This Gross Robotic Mouth Is Like a Singing Fleshlight

This is horrifying. Professor Hideyuki Sawada of Kagawa University demonstrated this rubbery nightmare today that can imitate human speech. It’s only a matter of time before someone tries to have sex with it. More details, including more video, at the link. [via Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/this-gross-robotic-mouth-is-like-a-singing-fleshlight-5820842

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 13 '11

An Exclusive Excerpt from Max Barry’s New Cyborg Novel, Machine Man

Max Barry blew our minds with his dystopian future novel Jennifer Government, and now he’s back with Machine Man, a cyborg novel that he premiered in a different form on his website last year. Darren Aronofsky is already attached to direct the movie version. We’ve got an exclusive chapter from Machine Man, in which Barry…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 13 '11

Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars universe gets even more complicated

Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn Trilogy revitalized the Star Wars universe, and created a new Star Wars mythos for a new generation. So a new Zahn Star Wars book is cause for celebration. Even when, like Star Wars: Choices of One, it’s kind of lukewarm. Spoilers ahead! Choices of One is a fun read, with some nifty…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 13 '11

Kelly Link blows your mind all over again

Kelly Link’s latest short story sneaks up on you — at first you think it’s just a concentrated dose of weirdness, a jarring head-trip like being suspended by your ankles over the ocean. But then her strange world-building starts to make sense, and you think the whole thing is becoming a demented thought experiment. It’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 13 '11

10 Greatest Unintentionally Hilarious Lines from Science Fiction and Fantasy

One of the great joys of watching science fiction and fantasy is to appreciate the unintentionally hilarious lines that come out of people’s mouths sometimes. It’s inevitable that when you’re exploring mind-expanding premises and weird worlds, you’re bound to run into some really insane conversations. Sometimes our favorite movies and TV shows feature some hideously…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 13 '11

Tilda Swinton: Our New Favorite Androgynous Alien

We’ve always loved Tilda Swinton — especially after seeing her as three color-coded dancing cyborgs — but her subversive new photoshoot for W Magazine has redoubled our affections. https://gizmodo.com/triple-tilda-swinton-happy-cyborg-dance-325667 She’s doing a tribute to David Bowie’s performance in The Man Who Fell to Earth — but with a lot of other insane stuff mixed in.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 13 '11

David Byrne: Computers Will Have No Effect on the Arts

I love David Byrne. The guy is a total geek. He makes great music. He rides bikes. What’s not to like? Well, his prognostication abilities, for one. [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/david-byrne-computers-will-have-no-effect-on-the-arts-5820431

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 13 '11

io9 Roundup: July 12, 2011

A SIGNAL INTO SPACE | Cryzlis, concept art by freelancah on Deviant Art. Computer teaches itself English so that it can play Civilization https://gizmodo.com/computer-teaches-itself-english-so-that-it-can-play-civ-5820624 Computers may be naturally fluent in binary, but how might they fare with learning human languages? Computers were tested by playing the game Civilization. More » With Great Beefcake: The Complete Guide…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 12 '11

Warehouse 13 defeats poetic injustice with the power of friendship

Last night’s Warehouse 13 was a good, solid middle-of-the-road “artifact of the week” romp that reintroduced the crew of America’s storehouse for weird shit. The main thing is, they managed to introduce a new character and actually make him pretty likable and cool, which isn’t that easy to do. And they continued the ongoing trend…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 12 '11

The Time the Inventors of the C Programming Language Guest-Starred on Doctor Who

A bunch of classic Doctor Who stories have appeared on DVD recently, and they’re full of little gems. Like this suite of deleted scenes in which we learn that two random guards are named Kernighan and Ritchie. What are the creators of the C programming language doing on Doctor Who? Blame Christopher H. Bidmead, computer…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 12 '11

Star Wars Lamborghini sadly not driven by Lambo Calrissian

For this year’s Gold Rush Rally, the owners of one Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 gave their ride a vinyl tribute to Star Wars, combining icons from across the galaxy and a few blasters. The Force is strong with this one. Check it out over at Jalopnik https://jalopnik.com/star-wars-lamborghini-sadly-not-driven-by-lambo-calriss-5820390

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 12 '11

10 Greatest Mentally Ill Superheroes

You don’t have to be crazy to put on a shiny costume and battle evil – but it doesn’t hurt. Here’s our list of the ten most awesomely insane superheroes. Ever. 10. Creeper. By day, he’s Jack Ryder, a loudmouthed TV pundit, sort of like Bill O’Reilly with better hair. And then by night, he…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jul 12 '11

George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire may turn out to be eight books instead of seven

Talking to the Atlantic, George R.R. Martin admits that he may not be able to wrap up his massive A Song of Ice and Fire series in just two more books. He says that wrapping everything up in two more books is “my plan, my intent, that’s what I’m going to try to do. But…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 12 '11

Wizard War!

LLEH HAEY! | Zatanna saves John Constantine from a nasty demon. https://gizmodo.com/lets-grade-cinema-and-tvs-unheralded-wizard-battles-5820144 Let’s grade cinema and TV’s unheralded wizard battles We’ve all seen Voldemort duke it out with Dumbledore and Saruman slapping Gandalf silly, but there are plenty more brawling mages deserving of our scrutiny. Here are some magic beat-em-ups, rated purely by the whims…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 11 '11

A single clip shows Falling Skies at its best — and its worst

Last night’s Falling Skies showed just how much potential Steven Spielberg’s post-alien-apocalypse show has. And yet, the major flaw that drags the show down was still much in evidence. Just watch this clip, in which you can see the awesome exploration of alien-fighting, including some intense squickiness and an attempt to make the aliens seem…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 11 '11

A New Approach to Crowd Control at Comic-Con: Lottery Tickets for Autograph Signings

The crowds at San Diego Comic-Con are getting bigger and more insane every year — so you’re going to see more and more creative ways of dealing with them. Case in point: if you want an autograph from the stars of True Blood, Fringe, Game of Thrones or Batman: Year One, you’ll have to go…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 11 '11

Today is the first anniversary of the discovery of Neptune — in Neptune years

July 11, 2011 marks the first full orbit of the planet Neptune since its discovery on the night of September 23-24, 1846. The discovery of Neptune is a fascinating story, full of near misses and the triumph of math. For many years we’ve been taught that the discovery of Neptune was done by mathematical calculations.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 11 '11

Watch Leia freaking out about her slave outfit, in a Robot Chicken Star Wars deleted scene!

Robot Chicken Star Wars Episode III was the most ambitious of Seth Green and Matt Senreich’s Star Wars spoofs: a 45-minute spoof opera that narrated the rise and fall of Emperor Palpatine, plus the adventures of Boba Fett and Gary the Stormtrooper. Now Episode III comes out on DVD tomorrow, with three fricken hours of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 11 '11

The Most Hilariously Wrong Spoilers for George R.R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons

The internet recently flooded with spoilers for George R.R. Martin’s latest tome, A Dance With Dragons. Some of these were dead-on accurate, like a dwarf with a crossbow. And some of them… weren’t. The internet being what it is, there were tons of incorrect, misleading and downright ludicrous spoilers for A Dance With Dragons. Here…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 11 '11

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io9 Roundup: July 13, 2011

This Gross Robotic Mouth Is Like a Singing Fleshlight

An Exclusive Excerpt from Max Barry’s New Cyborg Novel, Machine Man

Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars universe gets even more complicated

Kelly Link blows your mind all over again

10 Greatest Unintentionally Hilarious Lines from Science Fiction and Fantasy

Tilda Swinton: Our New Favorite Androgynous Alien

David Byrne: Computers Will Have No Effect on the Arts

io9 Roundup: July 12, 2011

Warehouse 13 defeats poetic injustice with the power of friendship

The Time the Inventors of the C Programming Language Guest-Starred on Doctor Who

Star Wars Lamborghini sadly not driven by Lambo Calrissian

10 Greatest Mentally Ill Superheroes

George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire may turn out to be eight books instead of seven

Wizard War!

A single clip shows Falling Skies at its best — and its worst

A New Approach to Crowd Control at Comic-Con: Lottery Tickets for Autograph Signings

Today is the first anniversary of the discovery of Neptune — in Neptune years

Watch Leia freaking out about her slave outfit, in a Robot Chicken Star Wars deleted scene!

The Most Hilariously Wrong Spoilers for George R.R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons

Apple’s Incoming CEO Makes His Earnings Call Debut

Spotify Will Now Verify Non-AI Artists

‘Macross Plus’ Is an Ultra-Romantic Classic That Refuses to Age

Stick It to Jeff Bezos by Turning Your Defunct Kindle Into the World’s Worst Typewriter

‘De-extinction’ Startup Wants to Revive Antelope Killed Off by South African Colonists

The Best Toys of April 2026

Dreame L60 Ultra Robot Vacuum and Mop With 35,000Pa Suction Is Now Over $400 Off as a Launch Exclusive Deal

Under-Oath Elon Musk Seems to Run a Different Company Than Public-Figure Elon Musk

Ambitious Experiment Aims to Test Tiny Nuclear Reactors for AI Data Centers

Here’s the Very Normal Reason the ‘Lanterns’ Trailer Disappeared

Steam Controller Review: Trackpads Change Everything for PC Gaming

Soundcore Space 2 Review: A Shockingly Stellar Value for Budget ANC Wireless Headphones

Anker’s UV Printer Can Handle Almost Anything… If You Know What You’re Doing

HP’s EliteBoard Keyboard-Computer Proves We Can Stick a PC in Anything

Sleep-Tracking Earbuds Didn’t Fix Me, but They Did Open My Eyes

I’ve Tested a Lot of Bad Smart Glasses and These Are the Worst Yet

Roborock’s Qrevo Curv 2 Flow Is the Ultimate Robot Mop—If You Don’t Have Corners or Walls

Alienware’s $350 QD-OLED Gaming Monitor Nixes Everything for a Pretty Screen

Sony Inzone H6 Air Review: A Perfect Case for Open-Back Gaming Headsets

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages