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The Five YouTube Live Shows Worth Watching

Click to viewYouTube’s rolling out their new live streaming platform trial today and tomorrow. It sounds neat! But you’re not really going to watch two full days of YouTube programming, are you? Here are the five shows actually worth your time. YouTube has streamed live content before—most notably a U2 concert and E3—and there have…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Venture Brothers take a fantastic voyage into their dad’s prostate

The first episode of Season 4.5 of The Venture Bros., “The Diving Bell Vs. The Butter Glider,” probed the dark secrets (literally) lodged inside Doc Venture. Also, the Monarch wants to diddle a mechanical butterfly. Damn we missed this show. So Venture Bros. is back on the air for the first time since the annual…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

Real Wireless Charging Will Arrive by 2012, Fujitsu Claims

We’ve seen wireless chargers over the years, but like PowerMat’s Portable 2x model, batteries for the dock and swappable-batteries for the actual gadgets are still required. Fujitsu’s looking beyond all that, with their “magnetic resonance” technology. No wires! No batteries! https://gizmodo.com/first-hands-on-powermat-portable-2x-induction-charger-5493566 Magnetic resonance is a term Fujitsu’s been bandying about since 2006, when they first…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Genndy Tartakovsky is back, and he’s turning teenagers into giant robots!

Television is trying harder this week — including the return of Genndy Tartakovsky with Sym-Bionic Titan and more Star Wars: Clone Wars. Plus an extra-awesome Warehouse 13, Tourettes Syndrome, original V, fire-dragons, Venture Bros., Nazi Super-Bombs, Jared Diamond… and Wall-E! Today: It’s another evening of weird cartoons on the Cartoon Network, with a new Johnny…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Watch the New Kindle Ad’s Creeptastic iPad Takedown

This is Amazon’s new Kindle ad, which showed up just today on Good Morning America. Argue all you will over its direct attack on the iPad’s glare-plagued LCD display. I’m more worried about the maniacal cackling at the end. UPDATED: There are a few possible explanations: maybe it’s dubbed in! Maybe it’s supposed to be…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Future Los Angeles: A Fake City Made of Metal and Smoke, Literally

This is future Los Angeles, as created in 1982 by Douglas Trumbull’s team for Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. Back then, they didn’t have computers to create synthetic 3D landscapes, so they used some truly amazing visual tricks. This is how the city looked from the side, with no lighting. Just line after line of silhouettes,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Pre-Order the Boxee Box Today, Now With Intel Atom Guts

The Boxee Box is really, finally on its way, and you’ll be able to pre-order it today for $200. One quick switch-up before they’re out the door: the boxes will house Intel Atom processors instead of NVIDIA Tegra 2 chipsets. https://gizmodo.com/boxee-news-beta-now-available-for-public-download-box-5443180 The last minute switch to Intel’s CE4100 processor—the same one found inside Logitech’s Google…

Television Kyle VanHemert

First teaser for the American Being Human series

Syfy has released an early teaser trailer for the re-imagined version of the BBC series series Being Human. And this time, the werewolf, ghost and vampire are all roommates… in Detroit. The series is basically a rebooted version of the popular BBC drama about a werewolf, a vampire and a ghost who all live together…

io9 Meredith Woerner

This Image Is Not a Photoshop Trick

This is not a Photoshop. It’s not an optical trick. And it’s not an illustration. It’s just a simply great photo taken near the Linevo village, in the Volgograd region of Russia. A wild firestorm went through the village and its surroundings, destroying 80 houses. Nobody knows what was the origin, but at least the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Meteorite carries remnant of the supernova that created our solar system

The Orgueil meteorite crashed into France 150 years ago. It’s over 4.5 billion years old…and it might carry a piece of an ancient supernova that was instrumental to the solar system’s birth. Since the 1970s, astronomers have hypothesized that a supernova explosion might have released some of the crucial materials needed to form our Sun…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Contour Adds Integrated Maps Into Its Helmet Cam Videos

As if the videos weren’t enough to highlight your gnarliness, Contour’s newest camera, the ContourGPS adds a second round to the helmet-cam pissing match: Integrated (wait for it) GPS with a map embedded in the video. On the hardware side, the change is pretty straightforward: engineers raised the sliding switch on the camera’s top by…

Tech News Joe Brown

First trailer for Clint Eastwood’s new movie puts Matt Damon in direct contact with the dead

Clint Eastwood’s latest supernatural thriller forces a forlorn ex-psychic, Matt Damon, back into the light, when two strangers call upon his powers to connect with the dead. Watch the first ever trailer below. Official Synopsis: “Hereafter” tells the story of three people who are touched by death in different ways. George (Matt Damon) is a…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Who Cares About Traffic When You’re Riding in the Movie Theater Bus

In-car DVD players are useful for placating a kid or two in the backseat, but how do you keep a bus full of adults preoccupied? Try this fully restored vintage movie theater on wheels. The Vintage Mobile Cinema is one of seven such vans that were commissioned by the UK’s Ministry of Technology in the…

Movies Kyle VanHemert

She’d packed quickly, bringing only her bird-shaped head, which kept falling off

Traveling is hard enough without having to worry about bringing an extra head. But that’s exactly what she had to do, especially after realizing the bird head really didn’t fit her neck plug very well. These weird and beautiful illustrations of women with animal heads are the work of Ernie and Cassandra Velasco. Together they…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Early Never Let Me Go reviews: It’s powerful, but maybe a bit dull

Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go is one of the most acclaimed novels of the past decade. But how does the new movie hold up? Early reviews are divided, some praising the film’s subtlety, others calling it soulless and boring. Oh, and here’s a spoiler warning. There are some relatively minor spoilers below, and the…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Secret Guts of DSLR Cameras and Turntables

This is how the Canon 5D Mark II looks inside after eating your cereal with chocolate milk and LSD. At least that’s what I think Mads Peitersen does to create his stupendously freaky gadget anatomy illustrations. He sent us another: Those are the guts of the classic Technics 1210 turntable. [Mads Peitersen—Thanks Mads!]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Microsoft’s 1080p LifeCam Studio Webcam

The $100 Microsoft LifeCam Studio webcam has a 1080p sensor that’s 2.2 times larger than a 720p webcam. It also has TrueColor, a tech that optimizes the image so your video stream look better to the other person. It’s pretty good! Some quick factoids: • It’s a widescreen 1080p image, so you can get more…

Tech News Jason Chen

Bilbo may get to kick some ass in The Hobbit, while Kick-Ass 2 will bring on the hardcore supervillainy

The end of The Hobbit might be changed to give Bilbo a chance to show off his newfound bravery. Kick-Ass 2 will feature rival gangs of superheroes and supervillains. Plus a bonanza of Syfy spoilers, Doctor Who, Fringe, and more! The Hobbit: A casting document for Bilbo Baggins mentions his great bravery in the story’s…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Wi-Fi iPad Hits China This Friday

The iPad’s international expansion continues, and this time they’re going after big game: at 10am this Friday, Sept. 17th, the Wi-Fi iPad will be available in China. They’ll retail at CNY3988 for 16GB, CNY4788 for 32GB and CNY5588 for 64GB. That’s about $590, $708, and $826 respectively. At those prices, and with the kind of…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The FCC Is About to Start a Powerful WiFi Giveaway

When the US made the switch from analog TV last year, the thinner digital channels left spare space in the spectrum. The NY Times says the FCC will let that space be used for a powerful new generation of WiFi. The NYT claims the decision will be made at a September 23rd meeting of federal…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Five YouTube Live Shows Worth Watching

The Venture Brothers take a fantastic voyage into their dad’s prostate

Real Wireless Charging Will Arrive by 2012, Fujitsu Claims

Genndy Tartakovsky is back, and he’s turning teenagers into giant robots!

Watch the New Kindle Ad’s Creeptastic iPad Takedown

Future Los Angeles: A Fake City Made of Metal and Smoke, Literally

Pre-Order the Boxee Box Today, Now With Intel Atom Guts

First teaser for the American Being Human series

This Image Is Not a Photoshop Trick

Meteorite carries remnant of the supernova that created our solar system

Contour Adds Integrated Maps Into Its Helmet Cam Videos

First trailer for Clint Eastwood’s new movie puts Matt Damon in direct contact with the dead

Who Cares About Traffic When You’re Riding in the Movie Theater Bus

She’d packed quickly, bringing only her bird-shaped head, which kept falling off

Early Never Let Me Go reviews: It’s powerful, but maybe a bit dull

The Secret Guts of DSLR Cameras and Turntables

Microsoft’s 1080p LifeCam Studio Webcam

Bilbo may get to kick some ass in The Hobbit, while Kick-Ass 2 will bring on the hardcore supervillainy

Wi-Fi iPad Hits China This Friday

The FCC Is About to Start a Powerful WiFi Giveaway

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