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Tizi Puts Live TV on iPads With Just a Little Black Box

You can get live TV on your iPad with EyeTV just fine, but that requires streaming from a computer. Not so with Tizi, which packs it all into a tiny box that works from anywhere—in select European countries. https://gizmodo.com/eyetv-ipad-app-streams-live-tv-over-wi-fi-and-3g-5568836 Tizi pulls in DVB-T/DT signals, uses its ARM 9 processor to decode them, then streams to…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Revolutionary eye implants have restored sight to the blind

By tucking high-tech implants inside people’s eyes, researchers in Germany have given three blind people the ability to see. The implants only work for those suffering from a hereditary condition called retinal dystrophy, which causes the eye’s light receptors to degenerate. The implant is placed inside the rear wall of the eye, and completely replaces…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Facebook’s Mobile Platform: Not a Phone, Just Software

Facebook’s mobile platform has three parts, single sign on, location API and deals. And they’re focusing on doing software instead of making a phone. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-not-building-a-phone-5680720 Now you can use one login for all your mobile sites, meaning, log into Facebook, and then Facebook will handle your “logging in” to other sites through their APIs. There’s…

Social Media Jason Chen

A hoarder’s airplane graveyard in Ohio, reclaimed by nature

In northeastern Ohio, there’s a bucolic airplane graveyard filled with the decaying remains of old jets, like this Vought F7U Cutlass. Here’s an eerie video of these rotting old birds. Photographer Michael Wendell told Telstar Logistics about his encounter with the graveyard’s owner, who seemed to be hoarding the planes rather than repairing or scrapping…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Facebook Is Not Building a Phone

Mark Zuckerberg just said so, on stage, right now, at the Facebook mobile event. They’re instead, making their platform accessible on all phones.

Social Media Jason Chen

Another Halloween, Another Dude in a Breathalyzer Costume Busted For Drunk Driving

It’s like a tradition. Last year’s idiot was 18-year-old James Miller. This year’s idiot: 19-year-old Nebraskan Matthew Nieveen, who was arrested on Halloween for driving with a BAC twice the legal limit. While wearing a breathalyzer costume. https://gizmodo.com/moron-in-breathalyzer-costume-busted-for-driving-drunk-5396262 It was Nieveen’s second DUI offense, though presumably the first wasn’t nearly as ironic. The Lincoln Journal…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Millennium Falcon rear window sticker upgrades any car in less than 12 parsecs

Now you can get lucky in the backseat of the Millennium Falcon, with this decal. Just think of the annoying quotation potential! We’ll get you started: “She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts.” [Buzzfeed]

Movies Meredith Woerner

This Adorable Pocket Synth Will Make You an 8-Bit Legend

If I had one of these Pocket Piano synthesizers, I would just roam the streets playing it, without a care—much like the dudes in this video. It’s quite beautiful (those wooden buttons!), sounds great, and is hand-made. You play the Pocket Piano with its cute (and yet, so strong and awesomely retro—like Princess Leia) buttons.…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Gingerbread Menus Will Look Cleaner and Crisper

Android looks set to grow up, if a hidden Gingerbread screen contained within the updated Google Maps is anything to go by. The UI looks slightly more styled, with the lines separating options gone amongst other small changes. In the image above, Gingerbread is on the left, and Froyo is on the right. The screen…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

5 new Skyline clips will eat your brain

Don’t stare directly into these five new clips from the alien-invasion movie Skyline — it’s what the aliens want! Check out the alien madness in theaters November 12th.

Movies Meredith Woerner

Be Happy: More Lego Architecture Coming

I’m happy to see that my favorite Danish company keeps updating their Lego Architecture series. This is the Lego Rockefeller Center, a minimalistic reproduction of the magnificent 22-acre art deco building complex in Manhattan, designed by Raymond Hood.. https://gizmodo.com/lego-micro-scales-frank-lloyd-wrights-fallingwater-hous-5263558 This set is going to be released in 2011, but you can buy one now for…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Shooting Challenge: Fall Leaves Part II

Our first Shooting Challenge ever was “Fall Leaves.” This year, we’re running it again. But instead of accepting your photos from this week only, we’ve been allowing anything shot in fall 2010. Now, this week is your last to submit! https://gizmodo.com/48-stunning-photos-of-fall-5388614 The Challenge Capture autumn’s epic decay into winter through a photo that celebrates the…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Glasses-less 3DTV is “Eight to Ten Years Away” From Taking Off, Says James Cameron

While glasses-less 3DTV is already winging its way to Japan in the shape of Toshiba’s two tiny TVs, James Cameron reckons it’s “eight to ten years away” until it autostereoscopic 3DTV properly takes off. For now, we’re stuck with glasses. https://gizmodo.com/glasses-less-3dtvs-from-toshiba-will-be-available-in-ja-5654805 He spoke about 3DTV at the Blu-Con 2010 conference today, and shared some interesting…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Best Camera Apps

Smartphones are the new portable cameras—almost. With these apps, though, you can turn your iPhone or Android handset into a true pocket camera killer. iOS GOLD MEDAL: ProCamera A little known camera app with all the standard trappings, like brightness, color tools, video recording, grids, anti-shake and a full-screen shutter, to name just a few.…

Tech News John Herrman

What’s standing between us and time travel?

In this week’s “Ask a Physicist” we’re going to give some design specs to the practical time traveler. Astute readers of the “Ask a Physicist” column may have noticed that I’ve had a time obsession over the last few weeks, leading up to a big time travel extravaganza. A number of you took the bait…

io9 Dr. Dave Goldberg

Watch the birth of “super Monarch butterflies” that live 10 times longer than their parents

Every four generations, Monarch butterflies create a “super generation” that lives long enough to migrate to Mexico. In this video from National Geographic, we see how the butterflies engineer their children for such astonishing longevity. This is part of a special called Great Migrations that National Geographic is airing this Sunday, Nov. 7. (Thanks, Marilyn…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Chimneys of Hell Are In Russia

This is Cherepovets. And those are not nuclear weapons exploding in the horizon, but massive smoke columns from the factories that saturate this Russian city, one of the most polluted in the world. And I thought LA’s smog was bad. The name of the city—located near the Sheksna River—basically means city of skulls. Looking at…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

This Is the Future of Attack Helicopters

This is Sikorsky’s new attack helicopter, the X2 Raider. It’s based on the 299.2mph X2, but it will be able to carry troops and weapons at extreme altitude. And according to Sikorsky, it’s almost as silent as the fictional Airwolf. https://gizmodo.com/watch-the-sikorsky-x2-breaking-the-worlds-helicopter-sp-5659576 Given its size, the X2 Raider won’t fly as fast as the X2, but…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Reality mirrors art: real-life superhero Civil War goes down in Stamford, CT

In Marvel Comics’ 2006 miniseries Civil War, unruly superheroes brawl in Stamford, Connecticut, and Captain America and Spider-Man consequently fight each other. This Halloween, an unruly Captain America and Spider-Man were arrested for brawling in Stamford. It’s all coming true! In Civil War, a disastrous superhero battle in Stamford leads to the passing of the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Every aspect of the landscape was a result of biological engineering

Autotrophic mountains of cellulose respired beneath the genetic engineers’ podship. Their motto was “no cell shall remain unchanged.” They took a planet full of ragged trees and mismatched flowers and made it a monument to perfect biological efficiency. This is the work of Dan McPharlin, an artist whose future retro aesthetic is like Zardoz crossed…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Tizi Puts Live TV on iPads With Just a Little Black Box

Revolutionary eye implants have restored sight to the blind

Facebook’s Mobile Platform: Not a Phone, Just Software

A hoarder’s airplane graveyard in Ohio, reclaimed by nature

Facebook Is Not Building a Phone

Another Halloween, Another Dude in a Breathalyzer Costume Busted For Drunk Driving

Millennium Falcon rear window sticker upgrades any car in less than 12 parsecs

This Adorable Pocket Synth Will Make You an 8-Bit Legend

Gingerbread Menus Will Look Cleaner and Crisper

5 new Skyline clips will eat your brain

Be Happy: More Lego Architecture Coming

Shooting Challenge: Fall Leaves Part II

Glasses-less 3DTV is “Eight to Ten Years Away” From Taking Off, Says James Cameron

The Best Camera Apps

What’s standing between us and time travel?

Watch the birth of “super Monarch butterflies” that live 10 times longer than their parents

The Chimneys of Hell Are In Russia

This Is the Future of Attack Helicopters

Reality mirrors art: real-life superhero Civil War goes down in Stamford, CT

Every aspect of the landscape was a result of biological engineering

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