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Google Trademarks Mystery New Hardware: Speedbook

Speedbook. Add that one to your spell-checkers, everyone, as it looks like that’ll be the name of a future Google-branded product. But what is it? An e-reader? A speedy notebook? A new page-turning technology for lazy fans of traditional paper media? We have no idea, and neither does Bnet’s Erik Sherman who unearthed the application…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

Can’t Decide Between an iPhone and Palm Pre? Get Both—In One Phone!

Ok, so you’ll have to import it from dodgy Chinese site M8Cool, but surely a gamble with your credit card security is worth the slight chance of getting a working Palm Pre, running iPhone OS? It walks and talks just like a Palm Pre, only has an iPhone home button instead of the little silver…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Use This Snazzy Multitouch Interface to Control Your Robot Army

Mark Micire of UMass Lowell is a forward thinking dude. Right now, most of us don’t even have one robot, let alone a swarm. But someday, we’ll be tripping over ’em! Micire’s multitouch interface will help keep them in line. Micire’s interface is built atop Microsoft Surface, and marks one of the neatest (and perhaps…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Hulu vs. Hulu Plus By the Numbers

Hulu Plus! It’s finally here! But what is it really? According to this sampling by research firm One Touch, it’s 62 more episodes of Ugly Betty, 16 more episodes of House, 142 more episodes of Family Guy and more! https://gizmodo.com/hulu-plus-is-real-10-month-for-iphone-ipad-and-tv-vi-5575555 More episodes of more shows, that is. Of course, this isn’t everything you’re getting with…

Television Kyle VanHemert

An exclusive look inside Dr. Horrible’s Evil League of Evil

Watch the Bad Horse start off a meeting of the Evil League of Evil with his terrible “death whinny.” We’ve got an exclusive inside peek at a meeting for the ELE, thanks to the new Dr. Horrible comic book. Inspired by Joss Whedon’s webseries and written by Zack Whedon, this Dr. Horrible comic will be…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Why Ideas Are Expensive

Intellectual Ventures founder and modern day Merlin Nathan Myhrvold explains why it costs a lot of damn money to create new ideas. Hint: Think Hollywood. [Eureka on Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/how-intellectual-ventures-wants-to-reinvent-invention-5621679 Eureka is our week-long meditation on the wonders of invention, inventors and genius. Videos by Mike Short.

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Is This HTC Merge a 10MP Android Phone or Tablet?

If it weren’t for the rumor that this HTC Merge has a 10MP camera, you could almost be mistaken that it’s a tablet with that name. Of course, maybe the 10MP rumor is a disguise… A few weeks ago Phandroid turned up mention of the Merge in Verizon’s inventory, not suggesting much other than the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Doctor Who hits the road with Winston Churchill and… Neil from The Young Ones?

Doctor Who’s huge new stage production goes on tour October 8. It’ll star Nigel Planer, better known as the hippie Neil from The Young Ones, as the Greatest Showman in the Galaxy. Will his character turn up on the show? In Doctor Who Live, the Greatest Showman in the Galaxy, Vorgensen, travels around talking about…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

This is an Exercise Bike

From proof of concept to the retail unit, the Ciclotte exercise bike is now on sale for $10,700. Made from carbon fiber, steel and glass, it uses a dual satellite epicycloid system for toning those glutes. [Wired via GizMag]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

How to harvest helium

Helium is a noble gas, so it doesn’t react chemically with anything. It doesn’t solidify at Earth’s atmospheric pressure. As soon as it is released, it streams away from earth. How is it packaged up and used to fill balloons? Most people know very well the pain of letting go of the string of their…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

All of Google’s Acquisitions In One Epic Graphic

Having a hard time keeping track of all of those little (and sometimes not so little) companies Google’s been snatching up? Here’s every last one, as well as when they were bought and what Big G’s using them for. But I especially appreciate how the people at Scores sorted the acquisitions into two columns: revenue-building…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Digital Mapping Tech Reveals UK Monopoly’s “Go” Square is By London Eye

Before Nintendo-branded Monopoly sets came out, everyone used to play the same set that’s been around for 75 years now, featuring famous London (or Atlantic City!) locations. If you’ve ever wondered where the UK “Go” is “located,” here’s the answer: https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-monopoly-224563 Using the Ordnance Survey’s digital mapping technology, Hasbro discovered that the location for the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Rotating BlackBerry Phone Patent Makes My Eyes Bleed

We can only hope that as this patent application was filed early last year, RIM abandoned the idea for the Torch‘s form factor instead. Not just flipping back-to-front to reveal a QWERTY-to-numeric keypad, it would rotate for landscape/portrait use too. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-torch-review-5604747 Looking like it’s powered by G1-style hinges, you can just imagine the headache involved…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

3 new Resident Evil: Afterlife clips make good use of their new 3D powers

Resident Evil’s latest T-virus-soaked film is has released three new clips, that demonstrate what happens when a director like Paul W.S. Anderson is given a 3D camera. Watch 1,000 different ways to throw exploding shit at the screen. Don’t get us wrong, we love a good Umbrella Corp. conspiracy as much as the next card-carrying…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Joss Whedon explains why even The Avengers’s outtakes matter, plus Nicolas Cage’s skull will explode… IN 3D!!!

Joss Whedon writes scenes that he knows will never make the finished Avengers — but they’re still important. James Marsters will lead Syfy’s team of unimpressive superheroes. Plus Ghost Rider 2, V, Smallville, Never Let Me Go and The Hobbit. The Avengers: The Sydney Morning Herald has an excellent overview of the trials and tribulations…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Navy Lost Control of Drone Over D.C. Due To “Software Issue”

Oh, here’s something. You know those “drones” that are supposed to be the “future of warfare.” A software malfunction caused the Navy to lose control of one for half an hour earlier this month, letting it joyride over Washington D.C. The charmingly named, 31-foot-long MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff and Landing unmanned aerial vehicle was…

Privacy & Security Kyle VanHemert

This Is How You Physically Construct a Mirage

A mirage—you know, like an imagined oasis when you’re crawling through a never-ending desert. Or like the phantasmal barge, wrought from 32 tons of welded wire mesh, that’s floating in the lagoons of Venice right now. That second mirage is actually Croatia’s pavilion for the Venice Biennale, a contemporary art event that happens every odd…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Goatee-Bearded Evil “You” Could Be Detected By Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is a new attachment that’ll soon be bolted onto the International Space Station. It’s mission—to detect dark matter and possibly uncover the “anti universe” as made famous by decades of bad sci-fi. The main mission of the AMS, which has been in development for some 20 years, is to track down…

Space & Spaceflight Gary Cutlack

Living Batteries Will Perform Better After Three Snickers Bars and a Coke

Researchers have shown off a prototype of a new biological battery cell, which produces energy in the same way we do—by breaking down sugars and fats into something a little more useful. The prototype biofuel batteries are powered by mitochondria, the tiny biological components that digest our food and power the cells of our bodies.…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

Play iPhone and iPad Games on Your TV With Griffin’s PartyDock

The non-stop product leak service kindly provided by the FCC has delivered another gem today, with Griffin’s iPhone and iPad “PartyDock” popping up for certification. If you can’t get enough of plastic gaming accessories, your luck’s in. The PartyDock comes with four wireless controllers, which allow up to four gamers to play (Griffin-brand only) games…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

Google Trademarks Mystery New Hardware: Speedbook

Can’t Decide Between an iPhone and Palm Pre? Get Both—In One Phone!

Use This Snazzy Multitouch Interface to Control Your Robot Army

Hulu vs. Hulu Plus By the Numbers

An exclusive look inside Dr. Horrible’s Evil League of Evil

Why Ideas Are Expensive

Is This HTC Merge a 10MP Android Phone or Tablet?

Doctor Who hits the road with Winston Churchill and… Neil from The Young Ones?

This is an Exercise Bike

How to harvest helium

All of Google’s Acquisitions In One Epic Graphic

Digital Mapping Tech Reveals UK Monopoly’s “Go” Square is By London Eye

Rotating BlackBerry Phone Patent Makes My Eyes Bleed

3 new Resident Evil: Afterlife clips make good use of their new 3D powers

Joss Whedon explains why even The Avengers’s outtakes matter, plus Nicolas Cage’s skull will explode… IN 3D!!!

Navy Lost Control of Drone Over D.C. Due To “Software Issue”

This Is How You Physically Construct a Mirage

Goatee-Bearded Evil “You” Could Be Detected By Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

Living Batteries Will Perform Better After Three Snickers Bars and a Coke

Play iPhone and iPad Games on Your TV With Griffin’s PartyDock

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