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Motorola Xoom Is $800, Comes Out February 24th

Best Buy has a pre-order page for the Motorola Xoom, which we’re going to assume officializes the price and release date of the first best Android 3.0 tablet. It’s going to cost $800, which is a good chunk of change, and release on February 24th, which is this week. You can find out more about…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 20

Unknown Man’s Life Stolen, Including His Wife

So you’re Liam Neeson, and you’ve just woken up from a 4-day coma. You look around for your wife January Jones, and she’s nowhere to be found. You do finally find her, at a fancy party-with her husband, Aidan Quinn. What the? Thus begins Neeson’s (as Dr. Martin Harris) journey in Unknown—his hunt to reclaim…

Tech News Sponsored post Feb 20

Our galaxy is home to more than 50 billion planets…and 500 million potentially habitable ones

The Kepler telescope discovered more than 1,200 planets in just one tiny corner of the Milky Way. Crunching the numbers, a conservative estimate says there should be at least fifty billion planets in the entire galaxy, and about 500 million of those should be inside the habitable zone. But how many of those planets have…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Feb 20

Apple to Introduce New High-speed Connection with Next Macbooks, Possibly Light Peak

CNET is reporting that Apple will introduce a new high-speed connection technology with either their upcoming MacBook Pro or another product altogether. Supposedly, the technology is actually Intel’s Light Peak technology, which is expected to replace the various cables that connect multiple devices (your display, usb etc). Light Peak is originally fiber optic-esque but Apple…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 20

io9 Best of the Week: I Am Number Snore, anti-lasers, Felicia Day, and more!

Blaster artwork by Miles Donovan. https://gizmodo.com/important-safety-instructions-for-ray-guns-teleporters-5761729 I Am Number Four: Because you don’t deserve anything better It’s no accident that the hero of I Am Number Four has a number instead of a name. He’s a cipher. One of the most generic heroes ever created, he has absolutely nothing to distinguish him from every other…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 19

Kayaker Takes “Best Ever” Shot of English Sea Monster Using Cellphone

Cellphone cameras are everywhere. Kids, adults—all armed to the teeth with capable cameras. With so many in so many hands, it’s no surprise that a kayaker just captured the best photo ever of an infamous English sea monster using—you see where I’m going with this, yes?—his cellphone. The kayaker was Tom Pickles, and IT guy…

Tech News Jack Loftus Feb 19

Spanish Convent Gives Facebook Savvy Nun the Boot

I was hitting Command-r for the eightieth time this afternoon on Facebook when I stumbled across this story about a Spanish nun who was expelled from her order for spending too much time on Facebook. That’s ridiculous! Dislike! It’s ridiculous because from the sounds of things, Maria Jesus Galan’s sisters at the Santo Domingo el…

Social Media Jack Loftus Feb 19

Work Begins On World’s Largest Antimatter Containment Unit

When matter touches antimatter, bad things happen. Getting the two to play well together, or at least store antimatter in a way that keeps it separate from matter, could yield an amazing energy source. Substantial work began this week to do just that. The work involves constructing an antimatter “trap.” With this trap, physicist Clifford…

Tech News Jack Loftus Feb 19

On Supernatural, the incoherent story of a ghost, a sex doll, and a daddy

Something really strange happened last night on Supernatural, which was that the episode was internally inconsistent, full of unfunny jokes (a Snookie joke? really?), and contained a subplot that in no way illuminated the main plot. Plus, the whole “Sam goes to Hell” issue from last week was swept clumsily under the rug, into a…

Television Annalee Newitz Feb 19

You probably shouldn’t put a busy farmers’ market on train tracks

In Bangkok, the Maeklong Line runs through a produce market, and the vendors must scatter whenever once they hear the train’s horn. The poor fruits and vegetables are less lucky. This cramped tableau brings to mind the shoulder-to-shoulder existence within the Kowloon Walled City. https://gizmodo.com/incredible-claustrophobic-footage-from-inside-the-kowlo-5713565 [ISO8 via Laughing Squid]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 19

Best Stories of This Week

Here are the best stories on Gizmodo, this week. Enjoy! A Guide to Fox’s Guide To Sexting Have you heard about this hot new sexting craze? All the kids are doing it, according to Fox News. And they’re here to help you navigate the potential sociological minefield that is flirty SMS. Let’s take a walk…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Feb 19

Where’s all the water in our Solar System?

Our view of the Solar System has changed utterly in the last fifty years. Mention that at a cocktail party and your listener will assume you’re talking about Pluto, the demotion of which has stirred more response than any other recent planetary news. But in addition to all we’ve learned through our spacecraft, our view…

io9 Paul Gilster - Centauri Dreams Feb 19

iPads Helped Direct I Am Number Four

From the sounds of director DJ Caruso’s remarks on the iPad, the tablet did everything on the set of upcoming sci-fi flick I Am Number Four but order coffee and belittle the extras. He gushes: “Well I think people who are making movies now, I can’t imagine they’re not doing it [using the iPad] because,…

Tech News Jack Loftus Feb 19

And now, your 100% context-less kaiju clip of the day

I have no idea where this clip is from and — truth be told — I don’t want to. Knowing its origins would destroy its mystique, its utter inexplicability, the fugitive promise that there’s a plot hidden somewhere within this scene. Behold!

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 19

Alex Trebek and Watson Tear Up Las Vegas

Poor Watson. He just wanted to play some Blackjack and that mean old dealer wouldn’t let him. If not for a cool-headed Trebek, we’d be looking at thermonuclear war. A defused punchline awaits… [Joy of Tech]

Books & Comics Jack Loftus Feb 19

Mobility Master M1 Robot Has 80s Era Movie Star Looks

This real life Johnny Five is not alive (credit to technabob for noticing the resemblance), but that’s OK because it wasn’t designed to star in any movies—it was designed to move things. Called the M1 Mobile Manipulator, this robo hauler was created by former MIT roboticists at Maka Robotics to allow an operator to remotely…

Movies Jack Loftus Feb 19

Latest Pie in the Sky Apple Rumor Hints at Branded HDTVs

Apple is on the lookout for an engineer with HDTV power supply expertise (among other things), indicating the company could be getting serious—stress could—about a foray into the cutthroat world of HDTVs. Note that the listing specifically mentions both standalone displays and the phrase “TV” so this probably isn’t a case of Apple calling on…

Tech News Jack Loftus Feb 19

In 1926, Tesla predicted the portable TV

In 1926 Nicola Tesla gave an interview to Collier’s Weekly in which he predicted something that sounds remarkably like portable television. Perhaps most interestingly, he mentions that this technology would be used to watch war unfold, “just as though we were present.” NEW YORK, Jan 25 – (AP) – Application of radio principles will enable…

io9 Matt Novak -- Paleo-Future Blog Feb 19

The Black Mamba, Robert Rodriguez’s insane shoe ad starring a demonic Kanye West and mutant Danny Trejo

Here’s Robert Rodriguez’s movie for Nike, The Black Mamba, which stars Kobe Bryant as a basketball player with Last Dragon-like superpowers, Danny Trejo as a henchman with giant claws, Bruce Willis as some guy in a suit, and Kanye West as a supervillain who collects shoes (or something). There’s also a basketball bomb. None of…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 19

Robotic hummingbird is right out of a James Bond film

Here’s footage of AeroVironment’s Nano Hummingbird, which was built with DARPA funding. This robot bird was built to be a spy ornithopter, can fly at a speed of 11 miles per hour, and weighs as much as a AA battery. Here are the traits DARPA required of this mechanical bird: 1. Demonstrate precision hover flight…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 19

Motorola Xoom Is $800, Comes Out February 24th

Unknown Man’s Life Stolen, Including His Wife

Our galaxy is home to more than 50 billion planets…and 500 million potentially habitable ones

Apple to Introduce New High-speed Connection with Next Macbooks, Possibly Light Peak

io9 Best of the Week: I Am Number Snore, anti-lasers, Felicia Day, and more!

Kayaker Takes “Best Ever” Shot of English Sea Monster Using Cellphone

Spanish Convent Gives Facebook Savvy Nun the Boot

Work Begins On World’s Largest Antimatter Containment Unit

On Supernatural, the incoherent story of a ghost, a sex doll, and a daddy

You probably shouldn’t put a busy farmers’ market on train tracks

Best Stories of This Week

Where’s all the water in our Solar System?

iPads Helped Direct I Am Number Four

And now, your 100% context-less kaiju clip of the day

Alex Trebek and Watson Tear Up Las Vegas

Mobility Master M1 Robot Has 80s Era Movie Star Looks

Latest Pie in the Sky Apple Rumor Hints at Branded HDTVs

In 1926, Tesla predicted the portable TV

The Black Mamba, Robert Rodriguez’s insane shoe ad starring a demonic Kanye West and mutant Danny Trejo

Robotic hummingbird is right out of a James Bond film

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