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First Trailer for Joss Whedon’s The Cabin in The Woods

The first ever trailer for Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard’s twisty scifi horror film The Cabin In The Woods is out — and holy hell, does it look like bloody good fun. The only synopsis we had on this creature feature was the simple “kids alone in the woods” synopsis: “A group of friends at…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The secret to fighting Alzheimer’s Disease is…red food coloring?

For centuries, we’ve used a dye derived from lichens to provide the red coloring for food and fabrics. This dye contains a compound called orcein, and we’ve just discovered its most remarkable property: it can fight Alzheimer’s disease. Specifically, the compound, as well as a related substance called O4, is able to reduce the number…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Disaster Prevention Building Is a Disaster Itself

Turkey wants to build a Disaster Prevention and Education Center in Istanbul. This is the project proposal by ODA Architecture. It looks like the scene of a disaster itself which, you know, it’s exactly what the designers wanted. [T]his formal arrangement suffers the effect of a natural disaster—earthquake—and falls down until achieving its structural stability…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Urban Outfitters Wants $45 for an iPhone Case Glued Attached to a Retro Handset

This isn’t the only way to recreate the feeling of talking on an old clunky landline handset with your iPhone, but this overpriced $45 creation from hipster factory Urban Outfitters is certainly the most ridiculous. The Mofone case is quite literally just an old landline handset attached to an iPhone case. Once your iPhone is…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Luc Besson’s “Prison Break in Space” Movie: Like BSG on Speed!

Check out the first trailer for Lock-Out, the action movie which Luc Besson co-wrote and produced. Guy Pearce is a convict who has to go inside a maximum security prison — in space! — to rescue the president’s daughter (the perrenially captured Maggie Grace). If he succeeds, he gets his freedom. I just love Pearce’s…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

The Xbox Companion App for Windows Phone Drops Tomorrow, Giving You Mythical Remote Control Powers

The new Xbox dashboard design isn’t the only thing arriving tomorrow. Also scheduled for release is the Xbox Companion app for Windows Phone, which, among other things, will endow Xbox owners with remote control capabilities. Using the gaming controller for entertainment purposes on the Xbox is kind of clunky and awkward. Dropping money on the…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Fables creator weighs in on the Once Upon A Time Vs. Fables fight

Ever since ABC rolled out their nacho cheese fairy tale series Once Upon A Time, a large group of Fables loyalists have been pointing and shrieking Body Snatchers-style that Once is an obvious rip-off of the treasured comic book story. And the fact that ABC once planned on making a Fables series (which fell apart)…

Television Meredith Woerner

10 Things To Keep In Mind On Your First Trip To Low Earth Orbit

The future of civilian space travel in low Earth orbit (or “LEO,” for those in-the-know) is looking brighter by the day, but what will life be like when you’re soaring hundreds of miles above Earth’s surface? How will you eat, how will you sleep, and how will you go to the bathroom? We’ve got a…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

RIM Top Exec Suspect In Blackberry Riot—40 People Injured

Not only they keep screwing their technology and products, but RIM executives seem decided to burn the company down. Last week two execs got so drunk and crazy that a China-bound plane had to return to Canada. Now, RIM Indonesia president director Andrew Cobham has been charged with negligence after a BlackBerry promotional event turned…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Play with Gizmodo Gallery’s Santa Claw and Win Prizes RIGHT NOW

After a very long weekend of installation, the mammoth Santa Claw is ready to go at Gizmodo Gallery. Beginning immediately, you can play the mother of all claw games online and win prizes for yourself and visitors to the gallery. Update 12/6 1:45pm—So we’re changing the way prizes work a little bit. We’ve introduced wrapped…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

This Typewriter for Oil Painters Turns Hemingways Into Picassos

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, an oil painting has to be worth a few hundred more. At least oil paintings created with Tyree Callahan’s Chromatic Typewriter which lays down different hues of paint instead of letters. Built for the 2012 West Collection competition, Tyree replaced the characters on the ends of the typebars…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Secret Names of Apple iOS

These are the secret code names of iOS, the operating system in the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch: • 1.0: Alpine (1.0.0 – 1.0.2: Heavenly) • 1.1: Little Bear (1.1.1: Snowbird, 1.1.2: Oktoberfest) • 2.0: Big Bear • 2.1: Sugarbowl • 2.2: Timberline • 3.0: Kirkwood • 3.1: Northstar • 3.2: Wildcat (iPad only) •…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The race is on to save the Ozark Hellbender, the world’s most awesomely-named animal

There are animals with badass names, and then there’s the Ozark Hellbender. This salamander-like creature might sound like a reject from a particularly gritty and/or rural episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender, but it’s actually a critically endangered species. The St. Louis Zoo and the Missouri Department of Conservation have worked for over a decade…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Intel’s Next Processors Detail Leak: Ivy Bridge Benchmarks, Specs, and Release Date

Ivy Bridge has been on our radar for almost a year now, but with the 2012 release date fast approaching, leaks from the partner channel were inevitable. According to documents obtained by X-bit labs, Intel’s new Ivy Bridge chips will be shipping in Q2 2012, and eighteen parts are listed. Of these only eight are…

Tech News Justin Kerr - MaximumPC

What would Battlestar Galactica: The Animated Series have looked like?

If Battlestar Galactica had attempted to capitalize on the Saturday morning cartoon demographic, chances are the show would’ve resembled Otis Frampton’s stylized gang of survivors and toasters. And after every episode, there would be a stern anti-youth ambrosia consumption PSA from Salty Uncle Tigh! You can find more of Frampton’s artwork at his DeviantArt page,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

This Week’s TV: Stephen King saves you from a week of Christmas specials

Thank Baby Jesus for Stephen King: his new horror miniseries is almost the only thing on television that’s not Christmassy this week. The Christmas specials do include some fun new episodes of Adventure Time, Eureka and Warehouse 13, though. And American Horror Story is ramping up to its shocking season finale with more rubber-suited insanity.…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Atheist scientists often expose their children to religious views for “scientific reasons”

It turns out that atheist parents don’t attempt to raise their children in an “atheist tradition” the way religious parents do with religious traditions. Rice University sociologist Elaine Ecklund surveyed over 2,000 scientists and found that half expressed “no religious identity.” She pulled 275 of these atheists, and found that at least 17% had brought…

io9 Annalee Newitz

First Ever Molybdenite Microchip Promises Smaller, Cooler, Bendable Computing

Silicon is great. Our computers wouldn’t work without it. But it’s nearing the limits of what it can achieve — which is where molybdenite, the new kid on the chip, can take over to provide smaller, more efficient processors. The problem with silicon is that it’s not possible to use layers less than two nanometers…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Hey everybody: cool your jets on the whole supervirus thing

Many of you probably read last week about a supervirus, engineered by dutch virologist Ron Fouchier, that has the potential to wipe out half of humanity. Is the virus potentially dangerous? Absolutely. Could it really kill off half the world’s population? That… isn’t exactly likely. And scientists in support of Fouchier think that a much…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How Riot Gear Has Changed Over the Years

While the behavior of riot police may not have become any more sophisticated since they were cracking skulls during the ’60s, their equipment has. As the New York Times’ illustrated evolution shows, they’ve gone from billy clubs, rudimentary gas masks and tear gas, to kevlar, non-lethal shotguns (?!) wireless communications and flash bangs. But one…

Tech News Adrian Covert

First Trailer for Joss Whedon’s The Cabin in The Woods

The secret to fighting Alzheimer’s Disease is…red food coloring?

Disaster Prevention Building Is a Disaster Itself

Urban Outfitters Wants $45 for an iPhone Case Glued Attached to a Retro Handset

Luc Besson’s “Prison Break in Space” Movie: Like BSG on Speed!

The Xbox Companion App for Windows Phone Drops Tomorrow, Giving You Mythical Remote Control Powers

Fables creator weighs in on the Once Upon A Time Vs. Fables fight

10 Things To Keep In Mind On Your First Trip To Low Earth Orbit

RIM Top Exec Suspect In Blackberry Riot—40 People Injured

Play with Gizmodo Gallery’s Santa Claw and Win Prizes RIGHT NOW

This Typewriter for Oil Painters Turns Hemingways Into Picassos

The Secret Names of Apple iOS

The race is on to save the Ozark Hellbender, the world’s most awesomely-named animal

Intel’s Next Processors Detail Leak: Ivy Bridge Benchmarks, Specs, and Release Date

What would Battlestar Galactica: The Animated Series have looked like?

This Week’s TV: Stephen King saves you from a week of Christmas specials

Atheist scientists often expose their children to religious views for “scientific reasons”

First Ever Molybdenite Microchip Promises Smaller, Cooler, Bendable Computing

Hey everybody: cool your jets on the whole supervirus thing

How Riot Gear Has Changed Over the Years

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