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The Reports of App-Free iPads Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Recently we were rather skeptical about a report claiming that a third of iPad users have never downloaded an app. Now there’s confirmation that we weren’t just paranoid: Nielsen, the media-survey firm behind the numbers, has posted a major correction. https://gizmodo.com/a-third-of-ipad-users-have-never-downloaded-an-app-5669921 As you can see by the new chart above, it turns out that it’s…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Supernatural’s Twilight spoof transcends parody and becomes a work of greatness

Supernatural already did what few shows have managed: end all its storylines in a logical, even beautiful, fashion. So the idea of a tacked-on extra season made us nervous, but Friday’s episode helped prove this show deserves to go on. Spoilers ahead “Live Free Or Twihard” pulls the same trick as some other Supernatural episodes,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Your iPhone 4 Can Now Take a Charging PowerMat Nap

For those of you who prefer the inductive charging lifestyle, PowerMat now offers a charging pad and accompanying case for the iPhone 4. The iPhone 4 case we put our mitts on feels flimsy—like cereal box prize flimsy—but it charges wirelessly, as advertised. EVO, Droid X, BlackBerry Curve 8500, 9300, and Bold 9700 owners will…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Starting in March, Fantasy Magazine will be more like the fantasy version of Lightspeed

Fantasy Magazine has been an online-only publication since 2007, when its print edition ended. But starting in March, it’s going to be revamping its format to become more like its science-fiction-focused sister magazine, Lightspeed. They’ll share the same editor, John Joseph Adams, and the same format. According to a press release sent out by publisher…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Painter Transforms Google Maps Into Works of Art

Megan Scheminske has a great eye—she took the same mundane map imagery you look at every time you check directions with Google and spun it into minimalist, hyperlocal beauty—the “You Are Here” series. Scheminske’s website is essentially an art project in itself, pairing photographs on the terrain that inspired them with a google pin drop…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Sometimes We Think the Internet Is Real Too

Asked by Prosecutor Håkan Roswall about when was the the first time he met someone IRL (In Real Life), Pirate Bay co-founder’s Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi said he didn’t like IRL but AFK (Away From Keyboard) because he “thinks the Internet’s real.” After the judge adjourned that day’s questioning session, Sunde walked out of the District…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Download Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac Beta Now

Have you somehow wrangled yourself an early Windows Phone 7? Are you a Mac user who just wants to be really really prepared when WP7 launches officially next month? Either way, Microsoft just made a beta for Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac available for download in the Microsoft Download Center. Keep in mind that…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Somewhere in Ohio, the Internet Is Ruining Snow Days

The best part about growing up in Michigan, besides my pet wolverine, was the abundance of snow days. But a school district in Ohio is threatening to destroy the sacred snow day by making kids learn. On the internet. A snow day, for those of you who are unfortunate enough to have grown up in…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Most unneccessary science fiction TV spinoffs of all time

Caprica and Stargate Universe are both circling the drain, ratings-wise, but Syfy has already greenlit another Battlestar Galactica spinoff. Pointless TV spinoffs have a long history, littered with horrible failures. Here are the 9 most unnecessary science fiction TV spinoffs. A lot of the blame for pointless spinoffs can be laid at Star Wars’ massively…

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Awesome maps of the Marvel Universe’s mythological lands

Need to find your way around Thor’s Asgard or Hercules’ Olympus? These vintage maps from Marvel comic books will help you find your way from the Rainbow Bridge to the Temple of the Promethean Flame. It’s not entirely clear where these sweet maps are from, so if you know the issues and the artists, be…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Holy Cheap! Get a Froyo Phone For 30 Bones

Look, I’m not saying the LG Optimus T is the fanciest phone in the world. But it’s hard to argue with a $30 entry point to the latest and greatest version of Android. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-froyo-5543853 The T-Mobile offering requires a two-year contract and use of a $50 mail-in discount to hit the $30 mark, and the…

Tech News Brian Barrett

App Deals of the Day

Do you like free and discounted apps? Well we’ve got more than a few for you today. Come on in and check ’em out. Giz Specials: • Balloon Mail (iPhone) for $0.99 Free Promo Codes (US): MFP69TR7946F – 6MLMA7AN6HMH – MRA4MLAEFR6J – JFP93MW4MA6N – JRP3LM49NTLW – P9EJJ9E9F9PH – MTY3EPYL74P9 – L3AJWT4W66MX – 3JRY6H7FWAKN – X7EWR6EL9NA6…

Tech News Adam Harris

Charles Dickens the latest author to get hit with the “monster mash-up” craze

It had to happen eventually — someone is doing a Charles Dickens horror mashup. Sherri Browning Erwin, who already scored with the vampire-heavy Jane Slayre, is following it up with Grave Expectations, due in May 2011. Here’s the blurb: Young werewolf Pip struggles to win society’s acceptance, and the heart of the lovely Estella. But…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Antonio Banderas to direct and star in the science fiction mind-job movie Solo

Antonia Banderas is returning to the director’s chair for an interesting film penned by Band of Brothers scribe Erik Jendresen. He’ll play a Spanish colonel who is suffering from PTS, and apparently Solo deals with the future of solitude. [Variety]

Movies Meredith Woerner

Apple and Google Tag-Teaming Paul Allen Over Patent Attack

You might recall Paul Allen’s August bombardment of seemingly every tech company in the US over some rather tenuous patent accusations. Google and Apple? Not havin’ that. The two are teaming to have the case dismissed with a legal counterattack. https://gizmodo.com/does-paul-allen-suing-the-entire-internet-prove-our-pat-5623893 Apple and Google, along with other members of the accused, filed back to back…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Ridiculously creepy illustrations from Stephen King’s new collection

You really have to go for the full creep-out when you’re illustrating Stephen King’s stories. And Full Dark, No Stars, a new collection of King novellas from Cemetery Dance Publications, has the goods. Check out a few of our favorites. According to Cemetery Dance: Cemetery Dance Publications is very pleased to announce our Deluxe Special…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Watch These Impossible Gears Turn Anyway

Square gears. Oval gears. Friggin goldfish and squid gears. My brain says none of these should work, but my eyes beg to differ. It feels like I’m breaking the rules. Every time Clayton Boyer whips out another one of these, I’m confident that it’s going to fail. And yet! Here’s to living in a state…

Tech News Brian Barrett

An amazingly versatile robot hand, made of balloons and coffee grounds

You’d think hands would be the hardest part of a robot to put together, with all those bones and tendons. But somebody’s managed to create a new robot hand out of objects that you can find around the house. The human hand is a fantastically complicated apparatus. Not only can each finger move, they can…

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Tech News Christopher Mascari

It’s Friggin’ Packed With Stars, Dave

Photographer Stéphane Guisard went to Paranal Observatory, in Chile, to record this overwhelming interactive panorama of the sky there: The Darkest Sky. It shows the Milky Way spread all across the horizon in a 360-degree view. [Astroturf via NASA Goddard Pictures]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Reports of App-Free iPads Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Supernatural’s Twilight spoof transcends parody and becomes a work of greatness

Your iPhone 4 Can Now Take a Charging PowerMat Nap

Starting in March, Fantasy Magazine will be more like the fantasy version of Lightspeed

Painter Transforms Google Maps Into Works of Art

Sometimes We Think the Internet Is Real Too

Download Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac Beta Now

Somewhere in Ohio, the Internet Is Ruining Snow Days

Most unneccessary science fiction TV spinoffs of all time

Awesome maps of the Marvel Universe’s mythological lands

Holy Cheap! Get a Froyo Phone For 30 Bones

App Deals of the Day

Charles Dickens the latest author to get hit with the “monster mash-up” craze

Antonio Banderas to direct and star in the science fiction mind-job movie Solo

Apple and Google Tag-Teaming Paul Allen Over Patent Attack

Ridiculously creepy illustrations from Stephen King’s new collection

Watch These Impossible Gears Turn Anyway

An amazingly versatile robot hand, made of balloons and coffee grounds

Sign up for the Gizmodo Newsletter, Win an iPad

It’s Friggin’ Packed With Stars, Dave

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