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What Is Lowtide?

The iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch all use a menu system called “Springboard” that doesn’t exist on the new Apple TV. But what the Apple TV uses instead might be coming to iPad. Lowtide is the AppleTV iOS app… While the new Apple TV uses the iOS operating system, its interface is even more closed…

Tech News Joel Johnson

ABC greenlights cat-girl series, hairballs and all

ABC Family is making a curious show based on Celia Thomson’s novel Nine Lives. A young girl realizes that she has cat-like superpowers. So does that mean when she’s sick, she takes a dump on your bed? [TVGuide]

io9 Meredith Woerner

Amazon’s T&Cs Leak Out for Android App Store

A mere day after news first broke of Amazon’s app store for Android, and their terms and conditions have been leaked to SlashGear. Importantly, they back-up what TechCrunch had heard previously about mirrored updates between apps on different platforms. While the T&Cs haven’t been copied below in full, you can see what a large chunk…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Watch This Super-Powered Bike Shoot Flames Out of Its Handles

Whatever you’re pedaling, it’s time to give it a stern, disappointed look. Because it just got obliterated by this flame-thrower strapping, ejector seated, caterpillar tracked monster. The BOND Bike, friends, leaves me shaken and stirred. The working concept won’t be up for sale—for reasons both legal and practical—pretty much ever, but it will be making…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Firefox Browser Will Never See the Light of Day on an iPhone

In a blog post talking about the future of Firefox Home (their iPhone app that syncs Firefox history, bookmarks and open tabs from desktop to iPhone), Mozilla dashed any dreams we possessed of a true Firefox browser for iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/firefox-home-iphone-app-approved-and-available-now-5588488 While Apple authorized Opera’s browser app, Mozilla isn’t too keen to try with their browser.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Sam Raimi and Brian K. Vaughan co-creating a series about alien-hunters. Fox, please don’t kill this show!

A documentary crew follows “working class heroes who exterminate alien threats in deep space.” Smokers sounds like a dream TV series, even before you hear it’s the brainchild of Brian K. Vaughan, co-produced by Sam Raimi. Too bad it’s Fox. Smokers is based on an original idea from Vaughan, who created some of our favorite…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

There Is an Airplane On the Moon (and It’s Not a Photoshop)

No, this incredible image is not a Photoshop montage and that’s not Batman’s plane. It’s a Qantas Dash 8 Q 400, a twin propeller passenger airplane passing in front of the Moon in Australia. This is how it was taken: Today, I achieved something I have wanted to do for a considerable length of time:…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Is Airplane Fuel Responsible For 8,000 Deaths A Year?

A new report from MIT is linking airplanes to deaths…on the ground. The study suggests that airplanes flying at their normal altitude (35,000 ft) are emitting dangerous pollutants that contribute to 8,000 deaths a year. Currently, aircraft emissions are only regulated up to 3,000 feet. Why? Because it’s been long assumed that anything emitted over…

Tech News Casey Chan

The future of sexology comes to San Francisco with the Arse Elektronika conference

Starting Thursday and going through the weekend, a group of scifi-minded sex geeks will gather in San Francisco at the annual Arse Elektronika conference. Here are some highlights from the program, including contributions from a couple of io9 editors. You can read all about the conference and performances on the Arse Elektronika website. On Thursday,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

It’s a trap! All six Star Wars movies getting 3-D theatrical re-release

First Lucasfilm announces a Star Wars box set on Blu-ray, and now they’re planning to re-release them theatrically in 3-D. But are you willing to sit through the prequels to see Empire in 3D? You may have to. http://io9.com/5612939/star-wars-blu+ray-boxed-set-coming-in-fall-2011 Lucasfilm has announced that 2012 will see the beginning of the 3-D conversion of the Star…

io9 Meredith Woerner

X3 Gyroplane Uses 15 Blades to Race at 253MPH

Looks like the autogyros, a.k.a., gyrocopters, are definitely back in fashion. Following the Sikorsky X2 demonstrator, here is the latest one, the Eurocopter X3. It uses twin five-blade turboprops in addition to its main five blade rotor. https://gizmodo.com/sikorsky-x2-helicopter-tested-even-cooler-than-expecte-5044737 Invented by Juan de la Cierva in 1923, the autogyro was the precursor of the modern helicopter.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Darren Aronofsky could bring his own very famous Lois Lane to the Superman reboot

If Darren Aronofsky gets the job directing Superman, he might cast one of his Black Swan stars as Lois Lane. The Flash offers his own very special brand of athletic wish fulfillment. See behind-the-scenes videos from Monsters and The Bay. Superman Reboot: Speculation has already begun that, should Darren Aronofsky get the directing gig, his…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Hacked iPad Shown Running Chromium OS

While it could just be a screengrabbed imaged displayed in the Photos app, we’re inclined to believe it’s the real deal as Hexxeh already has a proven track record in Chromium OS builds. The UK-based hacker tweeted from his compromised iPad, but did say that “I’ll dash your hopes later, there are a few catches.”…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Avatar 3D Porn Parody Trailer: First Look at Porndora

Hustler’s breaking the bank on its 3D—er—reimagining of Avatar, and here’s the trailer to prove it. Those noble Na’vi will stop at nothing to protect their Viagratanium. https://gizmodo.com/hustlers-highest-budget-movie-to-date-a-3d-porn-parody-5566690 And to be honest, the dialogue in This Ain’t Avatar XXX seems just about as good as the original. Surprisingly safe for work! [Hustler via Topless Robot…

Movies Brian Barrett

Of Course Gold-Dispensing ATMs Are Coming to the States

The number of times you’ve been caught out and about without a bar of gold is set to be a distant memory—at least for Florida and Las Vegas residents, who’ll see hundreds of these ATMs installed next year. The Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi was the first place to install cash machines that hand…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

7-Inch Tablet Will Launch in Coming Weeks, Says Dell

That 7-inch tablet Michael Dell confirmed the other week? It’s launching in a matter of weeks, and an even larger one similar to the iPad’s size will trot out in 6 – 12 months’ time. https://gizmodo.com/dell-confirms-7-android-tablet-in-the-works-5645166 So says Amit Midha, the President of Dell Greater China, who also spoke intriguingly of 3 and 4-inch tablets.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Rent the Balancing Barn at Your Own Peril

Architects took on gravity and won, and now daredevils can pay almost $300 a night to stay in the “balancing barn,” where 50 per cent of the building dangles precariously off a slope. https://gizmodo.com/why-doesnt-balancing-barn-home-fall-on-that-little-girl-5246324 Thankfully it doesn’t appear that a swing was built-in under the barn as the concept pictures suggested last year. Everything else…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Cisco’s Telepresence Video Chat is Expected for Homes Next Week

We’ve been hearing for a while that Cisco was wanting to get down with Joe Blow on the street, so it’s not at all surprising to hear that next week they’re rumored to unveil a “cheap” home-telepresence product. When we say cheap, we mean it won’t cost much more than one of their Flip camcorders,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

BlackBerry Doesn’t “Need 200 Fart Apps in App World”

Been wondering about BlackBerry’s app strategy? Never have I been so infuriated with a phone than when I look at their undernourished App World. According to RIM however, they “aren’t focusing on, say, hitting the 50,000 app mark.” Their VP of platform product management, Alan Panezic, spoke at the Developers’ Conference in San Francisco about…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Next Generation Kobo Ebook Reader Finally Goes Wireless

With a $140 price point, the next generation Kobo ebook reader might struggle to compete with devices such as the Kindle, but its still got some reasonable upgrades since the last generation—such as a basic Wi-Fi feature. https://gizmodo.com/kobo-ereader-looks-pretty-nice-for-150-5501866 The device offers built-in Wi-Fi, access to Borders eBook store, and 100 preloaded classic novels. It is…

Books & Comics Rosa Golijan

What Is Lowtide?

ABC greenlights cat-girl series, hairballs and all

Amazon’s T&Cs Leak Out for Android App Store

Watch This Super-Powered Bike Shoot Flames Out of Its Handles

Firefox Browser Will Never See the Light of Day on an iPhone

Sam Raimi and Brian K. Vaughan co-creating a series about alien-hunters. Fox, please don’t kill this show!

There Is an Airplane On the Moon (and It’s Not a Photoshop)

Is Airplane Fuel Responsible For 8,000 Deaths A Year?

The future of sexology comes to San Francisco with the Arse Elektronika conference

It’s a trap! All six Star Wars movies getting 3-D theatrical re-release

X3 Gyroplane Uses 15 Blades to Race at 253MPH

Darren Aronofsky could bring his own very famous Lois Lane to the Superman reboot

Hacked iPad Shown Running Chromium OS

The Avatar 3D Porn Parody Trailer: First Look at Porndora

Of Course Gold-Dispensing ATMs Are Coming to the States

7-Inch Tablet Will Launch in Coming Weeks, Says Dell

Rent the Balancing Barn at Your Own Peril

Cisco’s Telepresence Video Chat is Expected for Homes Next Week

BlackBerry Doesn’t “Need 200 Fart Apps in App World”

Next Generation Kobo Ebook Reader Finally Goes Wireless

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