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First glimpse at Marvel’s Agent Coulson short, “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Thor’s Hammer”

You’ve seen the first ever clip from Marvel’s short film about S.H.I.E.L.D., The Consultant, featuring everyone’s favorite Agent Coulson! Now see a clip from his other short (adorably titled) “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Thor’s Hammer” in this footage from actor Clark Gregg’s Comic-Con appearance. https://gizmodo.com/first-clip-from-marvels-short-film-about-life-at-s-h-i-5827366 The shorts will be released on…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 1 '11

Where did the giant mammals of the ice age come from?

The most recent ice age was dominated by gigantic mammals like the mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, and saber-tooth cat. But there’s an evolutionary mystery here. How did these animals enter the ice age already perfectly adapted for such brutally cold climates? The answer lies in the Himalayas rising above present-day Tibet. Paleontologists recently discovered the remains…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 1 '11

NASA Trying to Distance Itself from Apollo 18

Now that NASA’s space shuttle program is over, and the agency is trying to hold onto its funding, NASA is eager to work with Hollywood any way it can, to keep itself in the public view. NASA worked with Michael Bay on Transformers 3, and a NASA scientist does a voice-over in Another Earth. But…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 1 '11

I Hope These Philips Headphones Sound as Good as They Look

I hope we see these Philips Fidelio L1 headphones—debuted at the IFA Conference in Berlin—in the U.S., because they just look so nice. Made of leather, aluminum and memory foam, these headphones mix retro inspiration with clean, modern lines. Philips hasn’t really been a high-end manufacturer of anything for awhile now, so who knows how…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 1 '11

How HP Tried to Sue Itself Over TouchPad Refunds

The latest bit in the increasingly amusing Laurel and Hardy routine that is the HP TouchPad: HP just tried to sue itself for offering HP TouchPad refunds. No, seriously. This is a thing that happened. The company got wind recently of a fraudulent “HP Refund Program” in Europe, targeting German TouchPad buyers looking to be…

Tech News Brian Barrett Sep 1 '11

A Murderer Tricked His Victim’s Family Into Thinking Their Son Was Alive By Sending E-mails Pretending to Be Him

Disturbing. Morbid. Calculated. Cold-blooded. Nothing can quite describe Edward Younghoon Shin, a man who murdered his business partner, Christopher Ryan Smith, and then sent e-mails to Smith’s family pretending to be Smith so they would think their son was still alive. It all started last summer when Smith’s family received an e-mail saying he was…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 1 '11

The 5 Most Evil Things Tech Companies Helped Happen

If oppressive regimes want to stay oppressive, they need to fear—and wield—technology like a sword covered in napalm. And in most cases, they can’t do that without using outside help. Here are the five worst corporate collaborators in technology. IBM & The Holocaust You really cannot get much worse than helping the Nazis perpetrate the…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 1 '11

10 Actual Mistakes that Syfy Has Made Over the Years

We expect a lot from Syfy, because it’s the only cable channel devoted to science fiction. So it’s inevitable that the network formerly known as the Sci-Fi Channel will disappoint us occasionally. And sometimes people blame Syfy unfairly — like when Syfy pulls the plug on a low-rated show. But at the same time, it’s…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Sep 1 '11

Gorgeous Jurassic Park Mondo poster spared no expense!

Check out the gorgeous Jurassic Park print released by Alamo Drafthouse & Mondo celebrating the Blu-ray release of everyone’s favorite dinosaur movie. But wait — this is only the first of many glorious Jurassic Park posters. Here’s the full image by artist Aaron Horkey. The next poster will be released the same time the Blu-ray…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 1 '11

These Unprecedented Hubble Movies Just Left Me Speechless

When I first saw these never-before-seen time-lapse videos—captured over the course of 14 years by the Hubble Space Telescope—I just couldn’t believe my eyes. Hubble photos can be beautiful, but these videos just left me speechless. The videos show stellar jets firing at 440,000 miles (770,000 kilometers) an hour. Stellar jets are a product of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 1 '11

Is your computer male or female?

Ships are ‘she,’ people have motherlands and fatherlands, but what about a picture of a baby with the number ‘1’ on it? What about a nice beef stew? Or a chair? Strangely, we tend to assign genders to all of them in a fairly predictable way. Many languages assign masculine and feminine genders to everyday…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 1 '11

A Stylus/Pen/Laser Pointer Is Pretty Much the Greatest Grade School Gadget Ever

You thought you were pretty awesome in grade school when you’d pull your laser pointer out of your TMNT pencil case and pretended to use it like a pen. Admit it, you did. I did. Well yeah, Griffin’s Stylus + Pen + Laser Pointer makes that thing look like an outmoded unitasker. It’s supposedly for…

Gadgets Kyle Wagner Sep 1 '11

Lenovo U400: Where Have I Seen This Laptop Before?

Let’s call a spade a spade: the Lenovo U400 looks a lot like the MacBook Pro. But that’s not bad, because it’s a fantastic design. And don’t mistake it for a cheap knockoff either, because it stands up on its own. The U400 has an all-metal body that’s 0.8 inches thick, a 14-inch display, an…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 1 '11

Did Google Only Get “Crap Patents” When They Bought Motorola?

When Google ponied up $12.5 billion to swallow Motorola Mobility, many people thought it was to snare some patents to protect Android from the likes of Apple and Microsoft. But according to a patent expert, all Google got were some “crap patents”. https://gizmodo.com/google-is-buying-motorola-5830842 David Martin, the founder and chairman of patent consulting firm M-Cam, says…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 1 '11

How Good Design Gets Coffee Down Your Gullet on the Go

Modern humans make the simple task of drinking a hot morning beverage a challenge for industrial designers. You want our morning beverage hot, and you want it to stay that way for much longer than is reasonable to expect. You need to drink it with one hand because the other is steering the car, hailing…

Tech News Rachel Swaby Sep 1 '11

We Did Lollapalooza, Now We Need You for Austin City Limits

It’s happening again…Gizmodo and RadioShack are looking for one reader to cover Austin City Limits live from Austin, TX for @RadioShackLIVE. Tell us how amazing you would be at covering something as fun as a music festival, and you just might get the gig. (If you win, you’ll be doing what Mike, our reader/journalist and…

Tech News Sponsored post Sep 1 '11

Lenovo U300s Ultrabook Is Beautiful on the Inside and Outside

Lenovo’s ThinkPads have always been extremely well built, but pretty ugly. Lenovo’s all-metal U300s is another story. Only 0.6 inches thick and equipped with a 1.8 Ghz Core i7, it’s not merely interesting. Dare I say it’s a little exciting? Design-wise, the U300s has an all-metal body which strays from the usual plasticky designs of…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 1 '11

The World’s Most Accurate Clock. Ever.

138 Million years. That’s how long it’s been since dinosaurs first appeared on Earth. And how long it’ll take for this clock to lose a second. The clock, dubbed the NPL-CsF2 (sexy, right?), is one of an elite class of cesium fountain clocks that’s used by Europe, the US, and Japan as the primary frequency…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Sep 1 '11

The stolen, preserved, and eventually cubed brain of Albert Einstein

Einstein’s brain was saved after his death, and became a strange and morbid piece of scientific memorabilia. It changed hands several times before it came to rest – squared. What became of Einstein’s brain? First of all, not what he wanted. Einstein specified that he wanted his body, with his brain inside it, to be…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 1 '11

Toshiba AT200 ‘Excite’ Is the Thinnest Tablet Yet

If you were already amazed by the thinness of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the iPad 2, prepare to have your mind blown. Toshiba’s AT200 checks in at 7.7mm, which is about 1mm thinner than the two aforementioned tablets. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-tab-human-outside-android-inside-5806426 And not just content with form (which looks great, BTW), Toshiba made sure the specs…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 1 '11

First glimpse at Marvel’s Agent Coulson short, “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Thor’s Hammer”

Where did the giant mammals of the ice age come from?

NASA Trying to Distance Itself from Apollo 18

I Hope These Philips Headphones Sound as Good as They Look

How HP Tried to Sue Itself Over TouchPad Refunds

A Murderer Tricked His Victim’s Family Into Thinking Their Son Was Alive By Sending E-mails Pretending to Be Him

The 5 Most Evil Things Tech Companies Helped Happen

10 Actual Mistakes that Syfy Has Made Over the Years

Gorgeous Jurassic Park Mondo poster spared no expense!

These Unprecedented Hubble Movies Just Left Me Speechless

Is your computer male or female?

A Stylus/Pen/Laser Pointer Is Pretty Much the Greatest Grade School Gadget Ever

Lenovo U400: Where Have I Seen This Laptop Before?

Did Google Only Get “Crap Patents” When They Bought Motorola?

How Good Design Gets Coffee Down Your Gullet on the Go

We Did Lollapalooza, Now We Need You for Austin City Limits

Lenovo U300s Ultrabook Is Beautiful on the Inside and Outside

The World’s Most Accurate Clock. Ever.

The stolen, preserved, and eventually cubed brain of Albert Einstein

Toshiba AT200 ‘Excite’ Is the Thinnest Tablet Yet

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