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A Look Inside the Obsessive Mind of a Fanboy

Are you a Mac? Or are you a PC? Are you an iPhone guy or a soldier in the Android Army? If you feel strongly about any of these questions, chances are, you’re a fanboy. What is a fanboy? It seems strange to think that the definition of fanboy isn’t obvious or self-explanatory. But it’s…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Space age fashion comeback crashes and burns

Even Lady Gaga can’t make space age fashions cool again. She wore a bubble dress based on Pierre Cardin’s designs last year, making waves. But when Cardin tried to bring back space-age fashions at Paris Fashion Week, but people sneered. The New York Times sums up the response to Cardin’s space-age collection, which included silver…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

AT&T Adds Visual Voicemail For U-Verse Landlines

It comes with a few big “ifs”—if you’re a U-Verse subscriber, if you have a landline, if you have an iPhone or BlackBerry—but if you meet those preconditions, AT&T’s Voicemail Viewer will give your home visual voicemail superpowers. The free app lets you access home voicemails from your phone, using roughly the same visual voicemail…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Watch Steve Wozniak On Last Night’s Big Bang Theory

Apple co-founder and Gizmodo Spiritual Mascot Steve Wozniak made a hilarious appearance on last night’s Big Bang Theory. Here’s what he had to say about Steve Jobs, black turtlenecks and Apple II. https://gizmodo.com/heroes-and-friends-of-gizmodo-5261460 It’s easily our second-favorite Steve Wozniak acting gig ever, only because that Datsun ad set the bar impossibly high. https://gizmodo.com/steve-wozniak-car-salesman-5315886

Tech News Adam Harris

Inside the San Francisco Fire Department’s Wooden Ladder Factory

Sounds crazy (wood + fire?) but the SFFD’s one of the few to still use wooden ladders—they don’t conduct electricity—which they build with Douglas fir that’s been matured for 15 years. [ASK Media via Neatorama via Laughing Squid]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

California State University sends the first creatures from Earth to the asteroid belt

It’s a scifi thought experiment in the form of transient plant art. Author and artist Jonathon Keats, who previously created pornography for trees, worked with California State University to send some cacti and potatoes to Mars and beyond. In theory, at least. Keats is known for his strange experiments with nature, where he only half-jokingly…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Where’s My Taxes App? [Updated]

I’m liking Thirdway.org’s proposal that every taxpayer should get a detailed receipt [pdf]. But let’s go further: An iPhone app that shows exactly where your tax dollars go. Punch in taxes paid; see where your money has gone. [Via] Update: Who needs an iPhone app when you have a handy website?

Tech News Joel Johnson

12 Hundred-Year-Old Submarines

Nowadays we tend to think of submarines as sleek,

Tech News Christina Bonnington

NBC remaking The Munsters with Pushing Daisies’ Bryan Fuller

Pushing Daises’ Bryan Fuller has been hired by NBC to polish off his Munsters TV pilot. But that’s not all: apparently, Guillermo Del Toro wants to get involved in some manner. In the words of Herman Munster, “Oh, goody!” [EW]

io9 Meredith Woerner

Real Moleskine Covers for iPhone and iPad

I will feel so much cooler with a legitimate Moleskine cover—sorry, “analog-digital ultra-portable workstation for the contemporary nomad”— wrapped around my iPad. But no iPhone 4 case, really? What kind of contemporary nomad hasn’t upgraded? They are really, really nice. [Moleskine, Amazon]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

India’s Terminator/Spider-Man/Matrix/Avatar mash-up isn’t afraid to get crazy, say reviewers

For many of us, one of the year’s most anticipated science fiction films is Endhiran/Robot, the Indian movie about a scientist (Rajnikanth) who creates a robot, which becomes a little too human. The first reviews are in. Spoilers ahead. The overall theme of the reviews is that Endhiran is a totally crazy over-the-top mess, which…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

This Crazy Kid is Waterskiing On a Freaking Fountain

This is one of the best great bad ideas in a long while, Marty McFly: Waterskiing on a fountain. It looks like it can be a lot of fun, all the way to the hospital. It’s pretty simple: You just need a large fountain, a cable, a traffic sign and a car. Find a large…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Why is Amazon Making an Android App Store?

Judging by the leaked terms and conditions, Amazon plans to swagger into the Android world with an alternative app download store, fists a-whirling. Are they building it to co-exist with Android’s Market…or for an Android-powered SuperKindle? https://gizmodo.com/amazons-t-cs-leak-out-for-android-app-store-5651048 Google isn’t exactly a liberal, supportive father when manufacturers want to fool around with their open source software.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Dinosaurs were even taller, scarier than we thought

The image of a gigantic dinosaur towering above its helpless prey just got a little bit more frightening, as it turns out dinosaurs had thick layers of cartilage between their bones that added up to an extra 10% of height. Casey Holliday, a professor of anatomy at the University of Missouri, explains how his team…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Are You Directionally Challenged?

Just take this little survey, email the last question to [email protected], and you’ll be entered to win a $150 bestbuy.com gift card that you can put toward a GPS if you so choose. Then, a future of being directed toward your destinations by a firm yet soothing voice is that much closer. Turn right. [Rules]

Tech News Gawkercreative

Every Laptop Plagued by Explode-y Nvidia Graphics Cards

It’s been a while, but remember the epidemic of defective Nvidia graphics cards that had a tendency to off themselves? One class-action law suit and settlement later, Nvidia’s listing every affected laptop, 50 models sold from 2005-2010. [Nvidia via MaximumPC] https://gizmodo.com/apple-confirms-failing-nvidia-graphics-cards-in-macbook-5061605

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Are evil little kids still scary? You decide with 3 new Case 39 clips

Case 39, the child-demon-baby horror movie filmed back in 2006 when the Ring “kids are evil” horror phase was still popular, has released a mess of clips. But will this movie hold up in today’s theaters? You be the judge. Here’s the synopsis for Case 39: “A social worker fights to save a girl from…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Watch Apple TV Get Immediately, Inevitably Jailbroken

Let’s be clear: the only reason a new Apple TV hadn’t been jailbroken yet is that new Apple TVs hadn’t shipped yet; the Dev Team hackers figured out how to do it days ago. Here’s how it was done. Turns out the SHAtter exploit that sprung the fourth-generation iPod Touch also—not totally surprisingly, since they’re…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Giant Sculpture Is Made of 420,000 Balls

This sculpture—called Geometric Death Frequency-141’—shows a liquid splashing in a 20-by-50-foot invisible cube. Made entirely of small black spheres, it’s so complex that is being completely manufactured by robots, who glued the balls one by one. The scultpure plans were created in a 3D program by Federico Díaz for MASS MoCA 2010—the Massachusetts Museum of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Your first look at the new Professor X and Mystique. Plus Roland Emmerich mulls an alternate reality ID4 sequel!

New X-Men: First Class photos show Professor X, Moira MacTaggert and Mystique. A Nickelodeon star might be the first Runaways cast member. Plus Captain America set photos, casting for Rian Johnson’s Looper, and major Doctor Who hints! X-Men – First Class: Check out the some of the first cast photos to show Professor X (James…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

A Look Inside the Obsessive Mind of a Fanboy

Space age fashion comeback crashes and burns

AT&T Adds Visual Voicemail For U-Verse Landlines

Watch Steve Wozniak On Last Night’s Big Bang Theory

Inside the San Francisco Fire Department’s Wooden Ladder Factory

California State University sends the first creatures from Earth to the asteroid belt

Where’s My Taxes App? [Updated]

12 Hundred-Year-Old Submarines

NBC remaking The Munsters with Pushing Daisies’ Bryan Fuller

Real Moleskine Covers for iPhone and iPad

India’s Terminator/Spider-Man/Matrix/Avatar mash-up isn’t afraid to get crazy, say reviewers

This Crazy Kid is Waterskiing On a Freaking Fountain

Why is Amazon Making an Android App Store?

Dinosaurs were even taller, scarier than we thought

Are You Directionally Challenged?

Every Laptop Plagued by Explode-y Nvidia Graphics Cards

Are evil little kids still scary? You decide with 3 new Case 39 clips

Watch Apple TV Get Immediately, Inevitably Jailbroken

Giant Sculpture Is Made of 420,000 Balls

Your first look at the new Professor X and Mystique. Plus Roland Emmerich mulls an alternate reality ID4 sequel!

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