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Cut the Rope: As Addictive as iPhone Candy Bondage Can Get

Cut the Rope is a cheery new physics-based puzzler in which you slice ropes in an effort to feed candy to a green Miyazaki-esque monster. Hmm. It makes more sense when you see it in action. $1 [iTunes]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Oct 5 '10

A Sneak Peek At Sony’s Google TV Controller

ABC Nightline’s Google TV special gave us an early look at Sony’s Google TV controller. It’s got two circular directional pads, a QWERTY keyboard, and a lot of other buttons. Check out the video for more details. [Engadget]

Tech News Rosa Golijan Oct 5 '10

Firefighters Stood By and Watched While This House Burned to the Ground

Click to viewWell this is pretty sick. Residents in Obion County, Tennessee have to pay an annual fee of $75 for fire department service. The Cranick family didn’t pay, so firefighters stood around and watched their house burn to the ground. Initially, the South Fulton city fire department wouldn’t even respond to the family’s calls,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Oct 5 '10

Motorola Droid Pro: It’s Like a BlackBerry Impregnated by Android

The Motorola Droid Pro on Verizon isn’t what we expected: It’s a like a Motorola Droid, but with a BlackBerry keyboard bolted on the bottom. Or like a BlackBerry Torch that’s permanently stuck open, running Android. Take your pick. Weird. The Droid Pro’s running Android 2.2, and it’s a world phone, so it’s definitely aimed…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 5 '10

The Origins of That New Gadget Smell

Recently I found myself asking someone why the hell his company’s new product stinks so much that I want to leap out of my second floor window. Insulted by my question or not, he explained that new gadget smell. The product was a funky iPad stand/case and despite my desire to try it out right…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Oct 5 '10

Right Now a Computer Is Reading The Internet, Teaching Itself Language

In a basement at Carnegie Mellon University, a computer is reading the web. It’s been doing so for nearly nine months, teaching itself the complexities and nuances of the English language. And the smarter it gets, the faster it learns. That computer is NELL, the Never-Ending Language Learning system, and it’s the star of a…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Oct 5 '10

Why Jeffrey Combs is our ultimate avatar of sexy weirdness

You’re already a fan of Jeffrey Combs. Maybe you’ve seen him play a slew of all-too-human aliens on Star Trek, maybe you’ve watched him go too far in Re-Animator. But we bet you haven’t seen all his great genre roles. Welcome to “actors we love,” an irregular series where we pay tribute to the performers…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 5 '10

Hungary in State of Emergency After Waves of Toxic Burning Mud Pour Out of Chemical Plant

You might not know what alumina is—neither did I. But hundreds of Hungarians do, after torrents of the stuff poured out of a plant and through their villages, prompting the country to declare a state of emergency. UPDATED Click to view Waves of red toxic muck, gushing from a giant reservoir used by a bauxite…

Tech News Sam Biddle Oct 5 '10

Jezebel Addresses the Role of Women in The Social Network

Jezebel was concerned by the conspicuous lack of female characters of substance in this weekend’s top grossing movie, The Social Network. Check out our sister site for their take on the truth, lies, and gender roles put forth by the film.

Tech News Christina Bonnington Oct 5 '10

20 ways Zack Snyder’s Superman can avoid becoming a superdisaster

As most readers are aware, Zack Snyder’s directing the next Superman film. The Superman franchise has had a rocky history, but there are certain pratfalls the film can avoid. Here’s what we want to see from Snyder’s Kryptonian blockbuster. 1.) DO Give Superman a superpowered threat. Superman is the paragon of superheroic might. We want…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 5 '10

The Rube Goldberg Marriage Proposal

Marriage can be complicated. Everyone knows that. But marriage proposals can be complicated, too—just ask Robert, a Gizmodo reader who constructed an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine to deliver his girlfriend’s engagement ring. Watch the big moment zip-line in. Robert says: I”m a big fan of Gizmodo, it’s been my homepage for almost 5 years now.…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Oct 5 '10

Tangled takes us back to when Disney’s princesses reigned supreme

We’ve seen Tangled, Disney’s latest attempt to revive the great princess movies of its past. While we can’t share everything that happens in this movie, suffice to say it transported us back to our childhoods via a pumpkin carriage. Last night Disney hosted an even where they screened an unfinished version of Tangled, and showed…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 5 '10

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

This week on TreeHugger, crazy arm-powered tricycles, an app that turns your iPhone into a TomTom, wood floors that fold into stools, curvy cubicles for outside offices, and more. Smiling Switch Makes You Happy to Conserve Electricity Would making your switches look adorable help you to conserve energy? A design by Zhou Yide, Euphe Mo,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Oct 5 '10

Orbit offers cheap science fiction and urban fantasy e-books to make your iPad explode

Orbit Books just unveiled its new e-book promotion, The Orbital Drop, and it looks like you might want to sign up for this one. Here’s the spiel: You’ve got an ebook reader – now fill it with awesome ebooks from Orbit. Every month our office in geo-stationary orbit will release a special ebook deal. Deals…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 5 '10

Why you won’t want to miss space opera gangland in tonight’s Caprica

We’ve seen the first two episodes in the new season of Caprica, which starts tonight. And I’ve got two good, spoiler-free reasons why you need to tune in. First of all, one of the big question marks last season for many people was, “Why do we believe that the Graystones and the Adamas are so…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 5 '10

Lil Wayne’s iPod Lands Him a Month In Solitary Confinement

Lil Wayne’s only got a month left on his eight-month stint at Riker’s, but he’s going to be spending it all by his lonesome. The guards who found the rapper’s contraband iPod, charger, and headphones have banished him to solitary. Weezy will spend 23 hours out of every day in “punitive segregation” until he’s released…

Tech News Brian Barrett Oct 5 '10

Psychedelic heavy metal scifi, courtesy of The Sword

Austin, Texas metal band The Sword has forged their latest album, Warp Riders, around a scifi concept involving a time traveling cosmic wizard, a band of hyperspace pirates and two starship armadas above a tidally locked planet called Acheron. On their first two albums (Age of Winters and Gods of the Earth), The Sword carved…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Oct 5 '10

Google Goggles Arrives On the iPhone Today

The wait for Google Goggles—the crazy good visual search app—to hit the iPhone was shorter than we thought. Today, it’s finally been added as part of the Google Mobile App. Once you’re in the Google app, just click the camera to activate Goggles. From there, you can identify and search for info on landmarks, logos,…

Tech News Brian Barrett Oct 5 '10

Oprah’s Favorite iPad Apps

Oprah is a big iPad fangirl. Such a fangirl, in fact, that she bought one iPad for each of her magazine’s staffers. She’s also a big iPad applications buyer. These are her favorite iPad apps: Talking at the annual American Magazine Conference, Oprah said that she uses her tablet to be on top of news,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 5 '10

The 3-D craze comes to classic science fiction book covers

It’s not enough that Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit will be filmed in 3-D — now your favorite science fiction books will have 3-D covers too. Are you excited yet? Vintage Classics is reissuing five books with 3-D covers: Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 5 '10

Cut the Rope: As Addictive as iPhone Candy Bondage Can Get

A Sneak Peek At Sony’s Google TV Controller

Firefighters Stood By and Watched While This House Burned to the Ground

Motorola Droid Pro: It’s Like a BlackBerry Impregnated by Android

The Origins of That New Gadget Smell

Right Now a Computer Is Reading The Internet, Teaching Itself Language

Why Jeffrey Combs is our ultimate avatar of sexy weirdness

Hungary in State of Emergency After Waves of Toxic Burning Mud Pour Out of Chemical Plant

Jezebel Addresses the Role of Women in The Social Network

20 ways Zack Snyder’s Superman can avoid becoming a superdisaster

The Rube Goldberg Marriage Proposal

Tangled takes us back to when Disney’s princesses reigned supreme

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

Orbit offers cheap science fiction and urban fantasy e-books to make your iPad explode

Why you won’t want to miss space opera gangland in tonight’s Caprica

Lil Wayne’s iPod Lands Him a Month In Solitary Confinement

Psychedelic heavy metal scifi, courtesy of The Sword

Google Goggles Arrives On the iPhone Today

Oprah’s Favorite iPad Apps

The 3-D craze comes to classic science fiction book covers

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