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Watch the first four and a half minutes of Duncan Jones’ Source Code now

Want to know what it’s like to be zapped into the brain of a guy who’s about to be blown up on a train? You can get your first real taste. The first four and a half minutes of Duncan Jones’ Source Code are online. Witness for yourself Jake Gyllenhaal’s confusion at finding himself in…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Hobo With a Shotgun: The Game Is Exactly What It Sounds Like Except Better

You’re familiar with Hobo With a Shotgun by now, aren’t you? What started as a joke trailer in Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse was later turned into a real movie that should be hitting theaters next month. Until then, you’re strongly encouraged to get your homeless vigilante on with the 8-bit HWaS iOS game. The three dollar…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Anna Torv’s greatest acting challenge yet, on last Friday’s Fringe

Here’s the scene where Anna Torv really proves what a versatile actor she is — first she registers a ton of different emotions as Peter shows her his secret. And then she turns into a whole new person. Honestly, last Friday’s episode of Fringe was one of the least memorable overall, except for a couple…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Ultimate Anti-Bullying PSA: Kid Fights Back With Devastating Body Slam

Casey’s had enough. The bigger kid on the right “has been bullied his whole school life,” says the video description, “and this is what happens when he snaps!!” Hence the jackknife powerbomb. [Deadspin: The Ultimate Anti-Bullying PSA: Kid Fights Back With Devastating Body Slam]

Tech News Barry Petchesky

The Best Deal of the Day

The Family Guy Laugh It Up Fuzzball Blu-Ray set is on sale for $19.50? That reminds me of the time I was changing a lightbulb in my apartment and my cat asked me, “How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb”-the insinuation being that I was the hipster-and I begrudgingly said, “how…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

What can science fiction tell us about the future of social media?

Right now, you are reading a piece of social media. That means it’s designed to be passed around on social networks – though it appears on io9.com, can easily be transplanted to Facebook, Twitter, Stumble Upon, and dozens of others. Or it can be converted to email or a text message you can pass along…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Yves Behar Designs a Sleek Handset for Those Who Really Hate Smartphones

Yves Behar thinks there some merit to a phone that does one simple thing well: make calls. So he tossed out the touchscreens and complex operating systems, teaming up with Aesir to produce a well-constructed, tactile dumbphone, the +YvesBehar phone. Designing the UI and hardware himself, Behar got some of the best watch component makers…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Free Pie on Pi Day

The traditional free pie on Pi day (3/14) is here, so go grab a slice today at participating restaurants/pie shops/pie food trucks. [Walletpop]

Tech News Jason Chen

Are book genres being replaced by tags?

Back when I was Literary Fiction guy, I had a conversation about books with a girl I knew who was, if not exactly well-read, did certainly read books regularly. In the course of the conversation I mentioned Don DeLillo and Dave Eggers, and she referred to them off-handedly as “people no one had ever heard…

io9 Eric Rosenfield

The Numbers Behind Twitter

It’s the 5th anniversary of Twitter. They’ve broken down some interesting numbers for you. [Twitter] • 3 years, 2 months and 1 day. The time it took from the first Tweet to the billionth Tweet. • 1 week. The time it now takes for users to send a billion Tweets. • 50 million. The average…

Tech News Jason Chen

This Kinect Hack Puts Supervillan Electricity At Your Fingertips

When you’ve got hacked Kinect and two Tesla coils at your disposal, you’re just an evil cackle away from being a fully credentialed evil genius. The 50Hz-200Hz coils here have been rigged to respond to your (sinister) hand movements, giving you the illusion of pure madness. Or just nicely accentuates the madness you’re already rocking.…

Tech News Brian Barrett

How to Find Airplay-Enabled Apps

Apple’s got a convenient AirPlay-Enabled Apps section in the App Store for you to browse through, in case you want to test out your new iOS 4.3 to Apple TV functionality. I’m confused as to why Martha Stewart Makes Cookies needs AirPlay, but who’s to say that it doesn’t? (She’ll cut you if you do.)…

Tech News Jason Chen

First Look at the Batman Crossover We’ve All Been Waiting For

Batman and Scooby-Doo are teaming up for the first time since the early 1970s, in a bizarre episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold airing April 1. And here’s our first glimpse! The crossover airs as part of a special episode called “Batman’s Strangest Cases,” in which the all-powerful Bat-Mite (Paul Reubens) takes us…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

A Journey Through Japan’s Demolished Infrastructure

Over at Jalopnik, a tour of the devastation last week’s earthquake caused to Japan’s infrastructure. The time it will take to rebuild the country is incalculable. [Photo Credit: Noboru Hashimoto / AFP – Getty Images; Jalopnik]

Tech News Brian Barrett

BMW’s Mission Impossible Hybrid Car Goes for an Icy Test Run

Sneaky spy shots of BMW’s carbon-fiber hybrid car have surfaced from Scandinavia’s icy plains, showing a lean profile and superb handling in tough conditions. That’ll come in handy for Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible character, who is due to drive it in The Ghost Protocol. While the i8 won’t hit showrooms until 2013, it’s said BMW…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

What’s Inside the Shelter Boxes Going to Japan?

ShelterBox is sending their awesome, super-compact, heavy duty disaster relief boxes to Japan (you can help them with a single $1 donation). They pack 100 pounds of equipment in just 33 x 24 x 22 inches. Here’s what is inside: • A custom-made shelter tent that fits up to 10 people, designed to withstand extreme…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Rumor: 10-Inch HTC Tablet Coming?

A Staples training document has appeared, showing that oft-mentioned 8.9-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab, as well as 10-inch tablets from Acer, Toshiba and HTC. As HTC’s only shown a 7-inch Flyer tablet previously, we’re quite intrigued by this mention. [Droid-Life]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The sad fate of a demoted, briefly Earth-like exoplanet

Of the 1235 possible planets discovered by NASA’s Kepler telescope, one of the most exciting was KOI 326.01, which appeared to be roughly Earth’s size and temperature. But it turns out the planet’s habitability is just a big clerical error. It’s all because the planet’s star isn’t as bright as astronomers thought. Its star, KIC…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Grey Market iPad 2s Sells For Double Overseas

The iPad 2 may be sold out here, but it’s not even for sale anywhere else in the world. So what do people do? Buy units here and send them to places like Hong Kong, where the $500 16GB Wi-Fi model resells for $1014. What’s also interesting is how the guy in Hong Kong got…

Tech News Jason Chen

Where Disaster Struck, Before and After

On the left: Ishinomaki, Japan as it was captured by GeoEye’s imaging satellites in April of last year. On the right: the exact same area as it looked on Saturday, just one day after last week’s devastating tsunami. The image is part of an astonishing interactive feature on NYTimes.com that illustrates just how drastically Japan’s…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Watch the first four and a half minutes of Duncan Jones’ Source Code now

Hobo With a Shotgun: The Game Is Exactly What It Sounds Like Except Better

Anna Torv’s greatest acting challenge yet, on last Friday’s Fringe

The Ultimate Anti-Bullying PSA: Kid Fights Back With Devastating Body Slam

The Best Deal of the Day

What can science fiction tell us about the future of social media?

Yves Behar Designs a Sleek Handset for Those Who Really Hate Smartphones

Free Pie on Pi Day

Are book genres being replaced by tags?

The Numbers Behind Twitter

This Kinect Hack Puts Supervillan Electricity At Your Fingertips

How to Find Airplay-Enabled Apps

First Look at the Batman Crossover We’ve All Been Waiting For

A Journey Through Japan’s Demolished Infrastructure

BMW’s Mission Impossible Hybrid Car Goes for an Icy Test Run

What’s Inside the Shelter Boxes Going to Japan?

Rumor: 10-Inch HTC Tablet Coming?

The sad fate of a demoted, briefly Earth-like exoplanet

Grey Market iPad 2s Sells For Double Overseas

Where Disaster Struck, Before and After

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