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How To Keep Your Cellphone from Getting Buried Under all the Crap on Your Desk

No, someone else isn’t playing Ratatat at work (anywhere), that’s your phone ringing. But where is it? Under the napkins? Beneath that stack of TPS reports? Who knows. A problem with our ever-shrinking cellphones is that they’re getting harder to find. So how do you keep your cell in plain site while maintaining a properly…

Tech News Joe Brown Aug 19 '11

How Pulp Science Fiction Cover Art Got Its Sense of Wonder

We all love the colorful richness of science fiction pulp cover art. But pulp art didn’t spring into the world fully formed, full of beautiful women adventurers and marauding robots. Science fiction book cover art as we know it today was born in the pulp era of 1920-1955, but the process of evolution actually started…

io9 Natalie Baaklini Aug 19 '11

Sunspot predictions now as accurate as your local weather report

How accurate do you expect your local weather report to be? Honestly, I’ll believe their predictions up to 48 hours, but anything beyond that is pushing it. Now it looks like our ability to predict sunspots is now at that same level, giving us valuable warning time for people in space, and infrastructure on the…

io9 Tim Barribeau Aug 19 '11

Unedited Thoughts About Technology Better Left Unposted

We just tried to send everybody home for the day. It’s just Joe, Barry, Jesus and me. And it’s Friday. So fuck it. Apple You totally care more about design and user experience than any other major tech company in the world, and, by and large, make the best products for real humans. That’s great!…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Aug 19 '11

The Beautiful View of Earth and the Moon From Seven Million Miles Away

Back in 1977, Voyager 1—still flying off the Solar system—took a look at Earth for a last goodbye. After leaving on July 20, 1975, she was already 7.25 million miles from her home. This is what she saw. Beautiful Earth and the Moon, together for the first time in the sky as entire objects. The…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Aug 19 '11

You Can Rent Movies on Facebook Now

Man, things just are not looking good for Netflix: Universal is experimenting with movie rentals on Facebook. First foray? The Big Lebowski, which you can rent for 30 Facebook credits—that’s $3—right now from the film’s fan page. Sorry about your business, Reed Hastings. It really tied the room together.[ZDnet] UPDATE Giz commenters are smart! tonyn84,…

Social Media Joe Brown Aug 19 '11

Maxim Nixes iPad Vixens, as Privileged Youthful Horndogs Weep

Friends, the iPad just got 80% less B-list-in-a-bikini-pretty. Maxim’s last HD issue, made especially for tablets, came off the digital presses in June, meaning you won’t be able to fork over four bucks to read about what a guy’s girl that pretty lady with two lines in that Judd Apatow movie trailer is. But! Praise…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 19 '11

Eoin Colfer Demolishes the Earth to Make Way for an Interstellar Bypass in Episode 42 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Eoin Colfer, author of And Another Thing, book six in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, joins us to discuss working in the universe created by Douglas Adams. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is hosted by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley. You can download the MP3 for this episode…

Books & Comics Johnjosephadams Aug 19 '11

Hey PC Makers: Don’t Quit, Fight!

What does it mean when the world’s largest PC manufacturer quits? Some say it’s the death knell for PCs. That may be the case, but only because companies, like HP, are turning tail and running rather than fighting back. Don’t. HP announced yesterday that not only will they stop making WebOS devices, but they’re considering…

Tech News Brent Rose Aug 19 '11

7 Tools to Help You Go on the Best Pretend Vacation of Your Life

August is nearing its completion. Did you hit all your goals? Find sunshine romance? Take a dip in the pool? Roast some meat? Dance in a backyard? Chug some beers? Maybe! But a vacation? Sigh. Here’s how to fake it. Sunlight Desk Lamp You know what the opposite of a vacation is? Being stuck at…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 19 '11

Let’s play Where’s Wall-E!

Can you spot Wall-E among this amazing collection of famous robots? Check out this amazing collection of robots, drawn Where’s Waldo-style. Artist Richard Sargent also included this fantastic number chart so you can try and guess all the robots in the picture. So… can you name them all?

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 19 '11

These Are the Trippiest Animated GIFs You Will See Today

I don’t know how Ignacio Torres captures and processes these mashups of falling people, smoke and 3D galaxies, but his animated 3D GIFs are simply awesome. [Ignacio Torres] https://gizmodo.com/learning-from-carl-sagan-even-cat-sh-t-is-made-of-star-5605805

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 19 '11

Gizmodo and io9’s Late-Night AMNH Adventure Was the Coolest Thing That Ever Happened to Me

Last night, a few hundred lucky readerfolk and museum fanboys got the chance to steal away into the American Museum of Natural History for an after hours, behind-the-scenes tour of one of the great nerd meccas in the world. The evening’s revelries began in the Hayden Planetarium, where we got a quick tour of the…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Aug 19 '11

Tony Hawk: Ride Skateboard Bundle Is the Olliefied Deal of the Day

When I was in college—college, my god, did that really happen? like really truly, with the shots and the khakis and the one roommate who never showered but knew Yeats better than Yeats’ mother?—we played video games. We played them with the kind of high functioning beta-male vigor that would’ve been better spent on grades…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Aug 19 '11

Could global warming lead to alien intervention? Scientists say yes.

The unchecked rise of greenhouse gasses could spell destruction for the human race — but not in the way you might expect. In a recently published paper, a NASA scientist speculates that rising levels of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere could attract unwanted attention from intelligent extraterrestrial life. The report, written by Shawn Domagal-Goldman —…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 19 '11

Switchboard Uses Cell Phones to Improve Healthcare in Africa

In the US you can see four different specialists when your plugs need work. Why not? But in Liberia, where 181 doctors treat four million people, the doctor you’re seeing is the only game in town. Several towns, actually. The featured group on Philanthroper today is Switchboard, a nonprofit started earlier this year to adress…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman Aug 19 '11

Babylon 5 creator denies the series is coming back

Actor Walter Koenig sparked a rumor that Babylon 5 was possibly gearing up for a big comeback. Sadly, Chekov misspoke. B5 creator J. Michael Straczynski took to twitter to deny rumors that he was working on bringing back the series stating: https://gizmodo.com/is-babylon-5-gearing-up-for-a-big-comeback-5832315 “Walter misspoke: I am not in negotiations with WB to develop more Babylon…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 19 '11

12 NASA Blueprints For Building Your Own Spaceship

Just because the Shuttle Program is kaput doesn’t mean you can’t cobble together a lunar lander from spare parts. Our friends at Oobject have collected 12 of NASA’s best to get you started. And if you need more inspiration to get your spacecraft out of the garage and onto a home-brew launch pad in the…

Space & Spaceflight Oobject.com Aug 19 '11

Sprint Might Buy Out Clearwire to Own Its 4G Destiny

Sprint owns a majority of Clearwire, the company it partners with to deliver 4G WiMax. Clearwire is a troubled little company: It poops money like a baby with bloody diarrhea, and it needs to spend $600 millionish to upgrade its network to LTE. https://gizmodo.com/clearwire-joins-team-lte-effectively-abandoning-wimax-5827500/#comments So Sprint’s thinking about buying the rest of the company outright,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Aug 19 '11

How Is It Possible that 90% of People Don’t Know About Command + F?

This seems impossible. The thought of having to use a computer every single day without knowing how to keyboard search is maddening. And yet, according to a Google researcher, almost the entire human population lives this way. The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal relays this confounding stat after sitting down with Google’s Dan Russell: “I do these…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 19 '11

How To Keep Your Cellphone from Getting Buried Under all the Crap on Your Desk

How Pulp Science Fiction Cover Art Got Its Sense of Wonder

Sunspot predictions now as accurate as your local weather report

Unedited Thoughts About Technology Better Left Unposted

The Beautiful View of Earth and the Moon From Seven Million Miles Away

You Can Rent Movies on Facebook Now

Maxim Nixes iPad Vixens, as Privileged Youthful Horndogs Weep

Eoin Colfer Demolishes the Earth to Make Way for an Interstellar Bypass in Episode 42 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Hey PC Makers: Don’t Quit, Fight!

7 Tools to Help You Go on the Best Pretend Vacation of Your Life

Let’s play Where’s Wall-E!

These Are the Trippiest Animated GIFs You Will See Today

Gizmodo and io9’s Late-Night AMNH Adventure Was the Coolest Thing That Ever Happened to Me

Tony Hawk: Ride Skateboard Bundle Is the Olliefied Deal of the Day

Could global warming lead to alien intervention? Scientists say yes.

Switchboard Uses Cell Phones to Improve Healthcare in Africa

Babylon 5 creator denies the series is coming back

12 NASA Blueprints For Building Your Own Spaceship

Sprint Might Buy Out Clearwire to Own Its 4G Destiny

How Is It Possible that 90% of People Don’t Know About Command + F?

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