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Community’s sappy space movie tribute had “The Right Stuff”

Last night, Community served up a spoof of sappy space movies that was just as great as its past tributes to action movies and Goodfellas. Here are our favorite moments. This week the gang was trapped inside a KFC-sponsored space flight simulator from the 80s. Here’s a few of our favorite moments. The top clip…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Gizmodo Pops the Question: We Need Your Help!

We need your help. We need you to not ask any questions. We need you to videotape yourself saying the following five words “Katie, will you marry me?” Please send your 30-second-long max videos to [email protected] by Monday, October 25th. Dress up. Dress down. Wing it. Have fun with it. Be creative. To get the…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Expensive, Yet Fast Describes Iomega’s USB 3.0 SSD Flash Drives

USB 3.0 is fast. Faster than standard 7200 RPM disks can handle. So how do you make external storage faster to better fill up the transfer pipe? By putting an SSD inside. As expected, these USB 3.0 SSDs are both costly and small, compared to your normal USB 3.0 disks. You’re getting a 1.8-inch drive…

Tech News Jason Chen

5 times we almost nuked ourselves by accident

We spent the Cold War in perpetual fear that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. would start an intentional nuclear conflict. The truth is, we came far closer to blowing ourselves up with nuclear weapons than we ever came to WWIII. Nuclear incidents have a bunch of ominous military code names, like Broken Arrow, Faded Giant or…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Band Rocks Out on iPhones After Their Instruments Are Stolen

New York band Atomic Tom’s instruments were stolen by some bastard(s). But rather than cry and break up, they brandished iPhones and executed an awesome, impromptu Subway performance. Neat! Or maybe just a viral video attempt. Sigh. Authentic or not, the dudes sound great with a very minimal setup, and their fellow passengers seem entertained…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Fringe tells the truth about your fake relationships

Fringe took on a heavy legacy when it decided to name an episode after one of Philip K. Dick’s greatest novels. But last night’s spectacular episode actually delivered something approaching a PKD-level of insanity and neuron disruption. Spoilers ahead. So who’s having real emotions in the Fringe-verse, and who’s just pretending? Who’s a machine and…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

It’s Time To Forgive George Lucas

George Walton Lucas, Jr. is only a man. Unlike in myth, gods never create men. Only men create gods. To father a family of immortals is a burden no man can really bear. Among adults of a certain age, it has been accepted that George Lucas has betrayed his fans. Star Wars is the central…

Tech News Joel Johnson

Play Hide-and-Seek With Garmin’s Chirp, a Geocaching Beacon With a Year’s Battery

Garmin’s $23 pet rock “Chirp” can last up to a year in the wilderness as it records the number of people who stumble across its coordinates. It’s for the more adventurous types, who love nothing more than geo-based activities. Ramblers can hook it up with any of Garmin’s products for programming it with various locations,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

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Marty McFly’s Resizing Jacket and Nike Sneakers Available Just In Time for Halloween

I’ve seen Back to the Future at least a hundred times with my brothers and sister, which is why I’m excited about sinking myself in debt to get Marty McFly’s resizing jacket, his Nike sneakers and Biff’s porn mag. https://gizmodo.com/michael-j-fox-goes-back-to-back-to-the-future-5663079 This is the real thing, not a fake. It will cost you from $25,000 to…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

What On Earth Is the Jawbone ‘Nerd Dongle’?

What’s it take to get us interested in an FCC filing from Aliph, a company best known for its comparatively stylish but still intrinsically uninteresting Jawbone bluetooth headsets? A name like Nerd Dongle and a bit of mystery, that’s what. The so-called Nerd Dongle looks like a USB stick and the FCC docs show that…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Mountain goats scramble up a near-vertical wall in Italy

Humans can erect walls hundreds of feet high, but they can’t keep the Alpine ibex from climbing over. Check out these insane pictures of the mountain-dwelling creatures scaling the Cingino Dam, licking salty minerals off the rock faces. These were taken in the mountainous Piedmont region of Italy, where local fauna treat massive industrial projects…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Shades of a Master Plan: Why Apple Won’t Get Beaten Again

The iPhone is coming to Verizon, soon. That’s the blinking-neon-light message tucked inside the iPad’s arrival on Verizon. Apple is in this to win it. https://gizmodo.com/ipad-coming-to-verizon-stores-on-october-28th-5663702 It’s always been politics, not chipsets, that have kept the iPhone off of Verizon. Steve Jobs famously offered the iPhone to Verizon before AT&T—then Cingular—and Verizon turned down Apple’s…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Airplane food tastes bad because your brain can’t handle the noise

For as long as there have been hack comedians, humanity has pondered the question: “What’s the deal with airline food?” Well, science has figured it out: airplanes are just too damn loud for food to taste good. Generally speaking, it’s not just that airplane food tastes bad – most passengers, when asked, report that the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

One of the best comic books of the 1990s is coming back at last

The mid-1990s was the heyday of Vertigo Comics, DC’s trippy, grown-up imprint. But one of the best Vertigo-esque comics appeared instead, almost unnoticed, on DC’s Milestone Imprint. And after 14 years, the unsettling supernatural nanotechnology tale XOMBI is coming back. XOMBI is definitely in my top 10 favorite comics ever, and might be in the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Statue of Liberty Hit By Lightning

I know that this must have happened more than once, but for the love of Thor, what a spectacular shot this is. The Lady of the Harbor standing still against the forces of nature. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, and 1.21 gigawatts of electricity, indeed. I was…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Why boomerangs come back

Here’s a guide to the physics of a boomerang’s mid-air turn. If you, like many others, have ever received a boomerang as a present, then you know its remarkable achievement; getting people to buy, throw, and then chase and retrieve sticks. I have never in my life thrown a boomerang in such a way that…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Windows Phone 7 Is the Real Facebook Phone

When Microsoft and Facebook announced that they were partnering to integrate Facebook and Bing for social network–powered search, it confirmed something I thought Monday: Windows Phone 7 is the real Facebook phone. I don’t know whether Facebook has a secret team working on a phone where they control the OS. But the company don’t need…

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In Which the Wall Street Journal Devotes an Entire Article to How Much BlackBerry Apps Suck

No really, that’s about the long and short of this article in the Wall Street Journal: BlackBerry apps suck for users and for developers. And don’t expect Plants vs. Zombies for BlackBerry for a long, long time. [WSJ]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Steampunk Iron Man Costume Embroiled in Scandal

Earlier this week, this steampunk Iron Man suit won best costume at New York Comic Con. Turns out it’s just a repainted getup from an indie movie, and the film’s creator is “royally angered” by its new superhero paint job. https://gizmodo.com/steam-punk-iron-man-suit-is-what-tony-starks-great-grea-5661110 The suit was originally created for a Tin Man character in the indie short…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Community’s sappy space movie tribute had “The Right Stuff”

Gizmodo Pops the Question: We Need Your Help!

Expensive, Yet Fast Describes Iomega’s USB 3.0 SSD Flash Drives

5 times we almost nuked ourselves by accident

Band Rocks Out on iPhones After Their Instruments Are Stolen

Fringe tells the truth about your fake relationships

It’s Time To Forgive George Lucas

Play Hide-and-Seek With Garmin’s Chirp, a Geocaching Beacon With a Year’s Battery

Testing for Bold intro=

Marty McFly’s Resizing Jacket and Nike Sneakers Available Just In Time for Halloween

What On Earth Is the Jawbone ‘Nerd Dongle’?

Mountain goats scramble up a near-vertical wall in Italy

Shades of a Master Plan: Why Apple Won’t Get Beaten Again

Airplane food tastes bad because your brain can’t handle the noise

One of the best comic books of the 1990s is coming back at last

The Statue of Liberty Hit By Lightning

Why boomerangs come back

Windows Phone 7 Is the Real Facebook Phone

In Which the Wall Street Journal Devotes an Entire Article to How Much BlackBerry Apps Suck

Steampunk Iron Man Costume Embroiled in Scandal

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