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What Happens When You FaceTime…Yourself?

FaceTime for Macs arrived today, and with it a question of utmost importance: What happens when you FaceTime yourself? I set out to find the answer. At first you feel a little ridiculous. Then things get freaky. https://gizmodo.com/facetime-for-mac-is-here-and-you-can-try-it-today-5668870 Real freaky.

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Oct 20 '10

The MacBook Air Is Thinner Than an Axe Blade*

Just how skinny are the new MacBook Airs? Thanks to this photographic evidence from Best Made Co., we can definitively say they’re thinner than an axe blade. Even the sharp end; see for yourself: https://gizmodo.com/new-macbook-airs-faster-lighter-instant-on-30-day-s-5668810 The MacBook Airs are both .68 inches at their fattest and .11 inches at the front, which is decidedly less…

Tech News Brian Barrett Oct 20 '10

SGU breaks open the space drama we’ve been waiting for

I think I can safely say, if you didn’t like last night’s SGU, you won’t be a fan of this series in general. We finally cracked open all the drama each character has been carrying around for weeks. About time! Spoilers ahead… Eli’s mom has come down with a bad case of the television malady…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 20 '10

Windows Phone 7 Review: Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have Ourselves a Race

Let’s just get it out of the way: Windows Phone 7 is the most exciting thing to happen to phones in a long time. There are a million reasons why Windows Phone 7 matters. It’s the most important PC company in the world, battered, bruised and badly lagging, coming back to the next generation of…

Reviews Matt Buchanan Oct 20 '10

Samsung Focus Review: The First Windows Phone That Matters

Put bluntly, the Samsung Focus is the first Windows Phone that matters. But how good is it? https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-7-review-ladies-and-gentlemen-we-have-o-5668738 Specs Samsung Focus i917 specs Price: $199 w/ a 2-year contract on AT&T Screen: 4-inch Super AMOLED, 800×480 resolution Processor and RAM: 1GHZ Snapdragon QSD8250 Storage: 8GB internal (expandable, sort of) Camera: 5 megapixel stills, 720p video…

Reviews Matt Buchanan Oct 20 '10

New technology allows us to draw, erase, and redraw wires on circuitboards

Proving that our childhood years spent with crayola firmly in hand haven’t gone to waste, new research from University of Wisconsin-Madison uses a scanning probe microscope to draw and erase conducting nanowires. The researchers put three-atom-thick layers of lanthanum-aluminum-oxide on top of strontium-titanium-oxide, which then forms an “electron gas” between the layers. The tip of…

io9 Tim Barribeau Oct 20 '10

What Won’t Apple Allow in the New Mac App Store?

In news that will surprise absolutely no one at all, Apple has posted a lengthy list of qualities that will keep your software out their new app store. Check below for the most interesting (and the strangest) prohibitions. Some of the banned qualities are obvious (and welcome), such as “apps that crash,” and “apps that…

Tech News Sam Biddle Oct 20 '10

How To Turn Off FaceTime For Mac

We had fun trying out FaceTime for Mac, but we noticed something interesting: Even if you quit the app, you’ll still receive incoming calls. How can you make this stop? Simple: https://gizmodo.com/what-its-like-using-facetime-for-mac-5669022 Head up to the FaceTime menu and open up the Preferences. There you’ll find a magical toggle which will prevent random FaceTime calls…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Oct 20 '10

Leonardo DiCaprio producing a new Twilight Zone series, and Will Smith starring in an evil computer movie?

America is getting ready to take one more trip back into the Twilight Zone. Warner Bros. is developing a Twilight Zone TV series from writer Joseph Rothenberg and producer Leonardo DiCaprio. And Rothenberg, meanwhile, is also writing the script for The Forbin Project, a new remake of 1970’s Colossus: The Forbin Project. That movie is…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Oct 20 '10

2001: A Space Odyssey Monolith Action Figure Will Leave Your Other Toys in Cosmic Awe

Your desk. A lone ray of sun shines upon it. Tension squeezes the air. Your pencils tremble. Your pulse quickens. Mysterious forces of the universe are at work. And there it is: a black plastic monolith. Dare you touch it? ThinkGeek’s incredibly cool and, of course, incredibly minimalist new toy isn’t quite an “action” figure,…

Tech News Sam Biddle Oct 20 '10

Visit our beautiful historical reenactment planet and relive the twenty-first century!

What will humans do in 2,000 years, when we’ve gained complete control over our environment via geoengineering? My guess is that they’ll create historical reenactment planets, terraforming alien worlds to reenact great moments in Earth history. I talked about this idea last week on the futurist web series Fourcast, where four people get together to…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 20 '10

Ninja Biker Flips to His Feet After Being Slammed By Truck

This accident could have either been the most gruesome thing we’ve ever seen, or the most spectacularly awesome. Luckily for both us and one incredibly agile biker, it was the latter. Getting hit by a car never looked so good. This gent is either some sort of unbelievable acrobat, or just dumb lucky. Either way,…

Tech News Sam Biddle Oct 20 '10

Jailbreak the New Apple TV With Pwnage Tool 4.1

You can’t do much besides noodle around with the command line (yet), but Pwnage Tool 4.1 lets you jailbreak the new Apple TV, as well as your other iOS devices. Knowing how quickly the jailbreak community works, you’ll probably be able to customize the UI by the end of the week and watch season 2…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Oct 20 '10

China Won’t Send US the Materials Required for Phones, Missiles, and Other Necessities

The NY Times reports a Chinese embargo on rare earth minerals—crucial ingredients for countless, very important things—has been applied to the US. Oh, and China possesses 95% of the production capability for this stuff on the entire planet. The embargo—still denied by Chinese authorities—is only the latest in a growing economic pissing match between the…

Tech News Sam Biddle Oct 20 '10

Peter S. Beagle takes you to myth-making school

I have a huge unfair advantage over other struggling fantasy authors, because I’ve read Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle. Beagle gives a storytelling masterclass, and plants images in your head that you’ll carry around for ages. This book came out last spring from Subterranean Press but I’m just getting around to reviewing…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Oct 20 '10

On Caprica, there are too many Zoes and not enough Adamas

In last night’s Caprica episode, “Things We Lock Away,” Zoe’s tangled virtual identity got a lot more tangled than ever. And the Graystones are eclipsing the Adamas in a disappointing way. Spoilers ahead! I fear we may have a Head Zoe on our hands. Though this episode had a lot of greatness, let’s start with…

Television Annalee Newitz Oct 20 '10

Scientists invent chemical sensor that can detect shoe bombs

Triacetone triperoxide (TATP) is an explosive that’s been used in past shoe-bombing attempts. TATP is a difficult chemical to detect, but researchers have developed a colorimetric sensor array that can expose minute amounts of TATP vapor in the air. The array, which was developed by Kenneth Suslick and Hengwei Lin of the University of Illinois,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 20 '10

Live Out Those Weird Conducting Fantasies With Mozart on the TikTakt iPhone App

Classical music may isn’t to everyone’s taste, but who hasn’t waved their hands about like a conductor before? iPhone app TikTakt lets you do that, but by shaking the iPod to control music from the likes of Mozart and Beethoven. The conductor looks like a Mii, but behind him there’s a “small orchestra that performs…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 20 '10

Why Does the MacBook Air Still Exist?

The iPad is clearly Apple’s vision for the future of ultra-portable computing. You don’t have to look any further than Apple’s new OS to see that. So why is Apple releasing new MacBook Airs? https://gizmodo.com/ipad-is-the-future-5506692 The iPad, it’s been said, is Apple’s netbook. It easily handles most of what people want out of a netbook:…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 20 '10

App Deals of the Day

The days go by, and the deals keep rolling in. Come on in and grab yourself a few great apps before they roll away! Giz Specials: • TapDo – Task Organizer (iPhone) for $2.99 Free Codes: YEHHN46RMPJ9 – YWXA9RXFA3NN – MJ76M7AJEJKE – FW9TJ7L4WT3P – AJEJ7WHJE7R4 – 6AN9EFJJ6MXY – AMEHWF793WNW – RF74LN9NLKXN – NEAMWXYXYRH4 – JWXJNFLTE4X7…

Tech News Adam Harris Oct 20 '10

What Happens When You FaceTime…Yourself?

The MacBook Air Is Thinner Than an Axe Blade*

SGU breaks open the space drama we’ve been waiting for

Windows Phone 7 Review: Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have Ourselves a Race

Samsung Focus Review: The First Windows Phone That Matters

New technology allows us to draw, erase, and redraw wires on circuitboards

What Won’t Apple Allow in the New Mac App Store?

How To Turn Off FaceTime For Mac

Leonardo DiCaprio producing a new Twilight Zone series, and Will Smith starring in an evil computer movie?

2001: A Space Odyssey Monolith Action Figure Will Leave Your Other Toys in Cosmic Awe

Visit our beautiful historical reenactment planet and relive the twenty-first century!

Ninja Biker Flips to His Feet After Being Slammed By Truck

Jailbreak the New Apple TV With Pwnage Tool 4.1

China Won’t Send US the Materials Required for Phones, Missiles, and Other Necessities

Peter S. Beagle takes you to myth-making school

On Caprica, there are too many Zoes and not enough Adamas

Scientists invent chemical sensor that can detect shoe bombs

Live Out Those Weird Conducting Fantasies With Mozart on the TikTakt iPhone App

Why Does the MacBook Air Still Exist?

App Deals of the Day

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