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Buy a Poster of All Your Facebook Friends For $20

A new service called PrintingFacebook will put your friends’ profile pictures—every last one of them—on a high-quality, 20″ x 40″ poster for just $20. Throw a dart at it to decide which smoldering friendship to rekindle first! $20 is not that much money. It’s like the price of a large pizza, or one goddamn movie…

Social Media Kyle VanHemert Oct 11 '10

The most expensive costumes at NYCC

We saw quite a few amazing displays of creative cosplay at New York’s Comic Con. We’ve collected not only the best, but the most pricey ensembles at NYCC. Guess which one of these cost the most to put together? AVATAR AMP Suit It took creator Tom DePetrillo over 450 hours to construct this fully mobile…

io9 Chelsea Lo Pinto and Kelly Faircloth Oct 11 '10

Watch Superpowered Stick Figures Demolish Your Desktop In Animator Vs. Animation III

The Chosen One: rising up from the bonds of captivity to battle a loathsome oppressor. The Dark Lord: conceived of hate and fire. Watch them do inestimable damage to each other… and your desktop. Oh, also, they’re animated stick figures. You might have seen this Animation vs. Animator III trailer before—or seen some of the…

Tech News Brian Barrett Oct 11 '10

Lifechanger: Contigo Vacuum Sealed West Loop Stainless Steel Travel Mug

I’ve got a horrible habit of obsessing over a supposed need to be filled by a product, then instantly forgetting it once I buy it. But I’ve had a Contigo Autoseal mug for a year. I just bought two more. Last fall I was living in Eugene, Oregon, on a long ridge a few blocks…

Tech News Joel Johnson Oct 11 '10

Vancouver knows where its towel is, as the whole city reads Douglas Adams

Yesterday was 42-day, the day when we ponder the meaning of Life, The Universe, and Everything. But Vancouver is still celebrating Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: the book is Vancouver’s “One Book One Vancouver” pick, causing some controversy. Writing in the Vancouver Observer, Terry Lavender complains that Douglas Adams wasn’t Canadian, and had…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Oct 11 '10

6 upcoming movie prequels, and why they might not suck

We caught our first glimpse of The Thing’s creepy Arctic horror this past weekend. But it’s just one of a half-dozen movie prequels in the pipeline. Past experience shows many of these prequels may suck. Here’s your prequel suckitude forecast. https://gizmodo.com/first-thing-prequel-footage-cracks-open-the-alien-ice-b-5659890 https://gizmodo.com/prequels-arent-just-dumb-theyre-evil-362816 https://gizmodo.com/10-science-fiction-prequels-ranked-by-crappiness-5223980 https://gizmodo.com/arriving-pre-spoiled-why-prequels-suck-5450198 Fairly minor spoilers ahead… And welcome, once again, to Monday Hate…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Oct 11 '10

This Man Made Enough Germ Weapons to Destroy the World (And Now He’s Dead)

William C. Patrick III died last week. He was responsible for enough bio-weaponry to kill every single person on the planet. And several other planets. And then, he spent the rest of his life fighting against his own deadly creations. To say the least, he was a complicated guy. One of his most notorious (and,…

Tech News Sam Biddle Oct 11 '10

The buzziest tidbits to hit NYCC 2010

The New York Comic Con is a frothing bouillabaisse overflowing with panels and pageantry. Here are some of the juicier news bites to come out of Javits Center this weekend. – Geoff Johns announced that Hot Pursuit, a police officer who can use the Speed Force to power his motorcycle will debut in the team…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 11 '10

Tarantino on Computer Graphics, Nintendo, and His Dick

I always thought Tarantino should have directed the Star Wars prequels, using old style effects techniques, with some computer touches. After all, they had motherf*cking Samuel L. Jackson in them. That’s half the movie right there.

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 11 '10

There’s no substitute for getting your hands dirty when you research a story

Comic book writer and novelist Greg Rucka lists some of the craziest things he’s done in the name of research. You can find out a lot of stuff on the Internet, but there’s no substitute for real experience. Best interview question I’ve ever been asked: What’s the worst thing your parents think you’ve done? Not…

io9 Greg Rucka Oct 11 '10

Oh Man, Aralon For iOS Is Gonna Be Good

Here’s a trailer for Aralon: Sword and the Shadow, an upcoming RPG for iOS that looks very massive and very awesome. I’m going to start sharpening my swords right now. [Cult of Mac]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Oct 11 '10

Awkward Toys

Yep. That’s a vagina. On legs. He loves that horse so much. Pervy caterpillar. Pervy parrot. Creepy breasted cat people. Death and nudity — too much to handle? Worlds are colliding. Naked Namor. Creepy baby-faced Harry Potter dolls give us the chills. We love Angel, but we don’t really know what we’d do with a…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 11 '10

Mysterious language spoken by less than 1000 people, discovered in remote village

A group of linguists doing research in northeastern India have accidentally stumbled across the linguistics equivalent of a rare jewel: Koro, a language completely unlike others in the region, spoken by only a tiny number of people. The researchers had journeyed to the remote region trying to find native speakers of various small languages in…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 11 '10

Toys that made us uncomfortable at New York Comic Con

Naked Namors, vaginas on legs, oddly placed pets and more — New York Comic Con was full of toys that made us shudder. Check out our round-up of both the awesome, and the awesomely distasteful. This is the second year we’ve done a round-up of toys that made us uncomfortable at NYCC, but after this…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 11 '10

This Boeing 747 Didn’t Crash On the Golden Gate Bridge

This Boeing 747-400 didn’t crash on the Golden Gate Bridge, but it sure made a very close pass. The photo was taken by Brad Waler during San Francisco Fleet Week. On video, the United’s aircraft approach is even more impressive. Image by Brad Waler [Flight Global]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 11 '10

New evidence that Mars may have once had an Earthlike atmosphere

Mars’s thin atmosphere is now about 95% carbon dioxide, but when the planet’s atmosphere is only 1/200th the size of Earth’s, that doesn’t mean very much. Now deeply buried minerals reveal Mars once had nearly Earth-like levels of carbon dioxide. One of the best ways to reconstruct Mars’s ancient atmosphere is to examine the mineral…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Oct 11 '10

SkyMall’s Most Fanciful Product Yet

This is the cover of the Holiday 2010 issue of SkyMall. It prominently features an iPhone 4 in some wacky solar charger/nose hair trimmer/automatic kitty litter dispenser/world’s largest crossword puzzle contraption. But something else is strange about this particular iPhone…Enhance! We told you SkyMall, it ain’t gonna happen! Not before your Spring 2011 issue is…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Oct 11 '10

AT&T’s Windows Phone 7 U-Verse App Is What a TV Guide Should Be

AT&T’s U-Verse app for Windows Phone 7 is fairly snazzy. It’s got a full programming guide with DVR remote controls, and you can also download shows to watch later (no streaming yet, boo). A 30-minute show averages around 80MB, according to AT&T, and should take around 10 minutes to download over Wi-Fi. Yes, you gotta…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 11 '10

I Got Your Twitter Right Here

BOOM. You see that? We just made our Twitter feed more awesomer. Starting today, a different staffer will man it every week, making it more personal and fostering a better dialogue witcha. I’m your huckleberry this week. Hit me up!

Tech News Joe Brown Oct 11 '10

The first step toward building a mouse from synthetic DNA

Scientists have successfully created a small part of the DNA needed to build a mouse from scratch. It’s just a step on on the long road to synthetic life, but in the short term their breakthrough could prevent genetic disease. Previously the researchers, at the Venter Institute, synthesized an entire bacterial genome. That genome was…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 11 '10

Buy a Poster of All Your Facebook Friends For $20

The most expensive costumes at NYCC

Watch Superpowered Stick Figures Demolish Your Desktop In Animator Vs. Animation III

Lifechanger: Contigo Vacuum Sealed West Loop Stainless Steel Travel Mug

Vancouver knows where its towel is, as the whole city reads Douglas Adams

6 upcoming movie prequels, and why they might not suck

This Man Made Enough Germ Weapons to Destroy the World (And Now He’s Dead)

The buzziest tidbits to hit NYCC 2010

Tarantino on Computer Graphics, Nintendo, and His Dick

There’s no substitute for getting your hands dirty when you research a story

Oh Man, Aralon For iOS Is Gonna Be Good

Awkward Toys

Mysterious language spoken by less than 1000 people, discovered in remote village

Toys that made us uncomfortable at New York Comic Con

This Boeing 747 Didn’t Crash On the Golden Gate Bridge

New evidence that Mars may have once had an Earthlike atmosphere

SkyMall’s Most Fanciful Product Yet

AT&T’s Windows Phone 7 U-Verse App Is What a TV Guide Should Be

I Got Your Twitter Right Here

The first step toward building a mouse from synthetic DNA

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