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Note to Apple: 27 Million Americans Are Buying a Tablet Next Year, and it Might Not Be Yours

A new survey out of Forrester reports 14% of Americans plan on purchasing a tablet device next year—that’s 27 million people. Perhaps more interestingly, many of these millions are looking beyond Apple’s belle of the ball. The study should provide comfort for Apple’s rivals, hoping to throw their own devices into the ring against the…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Rest of the Numbered Pencil Family

We all know and love the No. 2 Pencil, but what about Messrs. No. 1 – No. 12? Artist Nathan W. Pyle has dutifully cataloged those lesser-known writing implements, which you can buy as a t-shirt on Woot. [Laughing Squid]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Why you get laid more often when you drink beer

A team of intrepid researchers ventured out into the bars of London with laptops and breathalizers to figure out why people who are drunk have sex with people they don’t find attractive when sober. Yes, it turns out that the whole thing is about those symmetrical faces that evolutionary psychologists are always nattering about. Apparently…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Watch Giz’s Matt Buchanan LIVE on Fox’s Strategy Room Right Now

Our very own Matt Buchanan is live on Fox’s Strategy Room RIGHT NOW. Watch! He’s the red head. [Fox]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Doctor Who finally gives us what we’ve been clamoring for: the chance to explore the TARDIS!

Ever since Doctor Who redesigned the interior of the Doctor’s time machine, the TARDIS, we’ve all been dying to see more of the inside. And next week, a new game will let us explore every inch, including a never-before-mentioned drawing-room! The third Doctor Who adventure game comes out next week, on August 27, and it’s…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Gadget Deals of the Day

TGIF, and TGF #Dealzmodo. Start off your weekeend with some amazing deals on a just-replaced favorite, the Canon PowerShot S90, a 1TB WD External HDD, and a free Wireless G Cardbus Adapter. Top Deals: • Canon PowerShot S90 10MP 3.8X Digital Camera (F/2.0 Lens) for $299.99 before tax, plus free shipping (normally $350). • 1TB…

Tech News Adam Harris

Summermodo: Best Gear For Bike Geeks

Studies show biking aficionados of a certain age do well in the romance department. If your bike was tricked out with this LiveRider kit that turns your iPhone into a wireless cycling computer, you’d have to use an app to juggle all of your dates. LiveRider is only one of the cool cycling-related items featured…

Tech News Gawkercreative

Send Your Own Song to Awake Astronauts of the Last Shuttle Mission

NASA has been waking up astronauts with music since the beginning of the manned space program. Now, they not only want you to pick the music, but also submit your own for STS-134, the last space shuttle mission. You have to ways to participate in this. The first is to listen to the top 40…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

What’s the explanation for this spectral hand clutching at the stars?

This nebula looks like a hand reaching out to grab the stars above it… and that fanciful explanation is as good as any astronomers have come up with to explain that baffling ghostly shape in the center of the image. Nebula IRAS 05437 2502 (click the image up top for a closer look) is located…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

For Sale: Atomic Bomb Detonator Cable, Only $5, Never Used

This cable is “used to detonate the charges in atomic bombs. It’s perfectly legal to own these. They’re relics from the atomic bomb development at Los Alamos National Laboratory.” Only $5 at the Black Hole shop, in Los Alamos, NM. That’s the kind of material you can get at the Black Hole, a military surplus…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Embassy of Drowned Nations

As sea levels rise, an extraordinary population shift will place immense stress on cities around the world. Where will global warming refugees go? One design team envisions an “Embassy of the Drowned Nations” to provide asylum, and a fresh start. The concept plan imagines a “a sort of Ellis Island,” a mix “between Atlantis and…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Science fiction is getting seriously strange

Lately you may have noticed that hard SF is starting to break the rules. Writer Jason Sanford identifies this as the emerging “SciFi Strange” subgenre, and he’s curated a list of free stories online that make SF a lot stranger. Sanford says SciFi Strange reflects a multicultural world where tradition co-exists with multiple, minority perspectives…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Write a winning blog comment and get published in a book with China Mieville and Naomi Novik!

The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities will catalog many rare and peculiar objects — but it seems like it’ll be such an artifact in its own right. The book boasts a veritable bestiary of great authors… possibly including you! A “loose sequel” to the already published Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric &…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

In Praise of the 3D B-Movie

3D movies! They’ve been around, in one form or another, almost as long as cinema itself. But for every prestige film like Avatar that pushes the medium to new heights, there are a dozen Piranha 3Ds. Thank god. Take a look back at the first wave of films in 3D and see which names resonate:…

Movies Brian Barrett

Go Get Your Xbox 360 S 250GB Hard Drive

So you went with the new 4GB Xbox 360 S, because who needs more than 4GB? Wait, what’s that? You do? Man. Good thing there’s now a $130 250GB Xbox 360 S hard drive add on at GameStop. It beats any other temporary solution, but it’s a real kick in the wallet given that you’d…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Renee Zellweger’s Satanic child makes Bradley Cooper barf bees

Oscar-winner Renee Zellweger goes slumming in Case 39, the story of a social worker who adopts an abused girl. Unfortunately, the girl comes with a side of Satan. Bradley Cooper co-stars as the damsel in distress. Coming to a theater near you in January 2011. I think . . . I can wait.

Trailers Annalee Newitz

Apple May Use Heartbeat, Voice, Face, and Behavior Analysis to Detect Unauthorized iPhone Users

Apple new patent application describes methods that may enable the iPhone and iPad to “sense” the user, detecting voice prints, faces, activity patterns and even heartbeats. If unauthorized use is detected, many security measures could be activated. https://gizmodo.com/apple-wants-your-heartbeat-to-unlock-your-iphone-5532586 If the iOS device detects that the user is not authorized, it can start taking photos and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Toothbrush Uses Solar Power Instead of Toothpaste

Why you’d want to forgo a teeth-brushing session with some delightful Indian curry, caramel or darjeeling tea-flavored toothpaste I’d never know. Still, at least this solar-powered toothbrush would save you money over extended use. https://gizmodo.com/so-many-flavors-so-little-time-155117 120 teenagers will be putting the Soladey-J3X toothbrush through its paces, testing whether the embedded solar panel’s chemical reaction is…

Health Kat Hannaford

It was the headless body of a spacecraft, or maybe an enormous bug

The thing crouched in crumbling majesty at the edge of town. Nobody was sure if it was a massive skeleton, the remnant of an old ecosystem; or an old starship, the remnant of old colonizers. David Demaret is a senior art designer for video games in France. These images are his personal creations. See more…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Beyond Survival: Around the World Eight Times With Les Stroud

When Les “Survivorman” Stroud—the hardest-working cameraman in the business—says shooting his new show “Beyond Survival” was his most challenging shoot yet… What kind of gear do you use when you’re shooting yourself? Les Stroud: What I try to do is to stay on top of the cutting-edge game. Fortunately, because I’m not a big, huge,…

Television Joel Johnson

Note to Apple: 27 Million Americans Are Buying a Tablet Next Year, and it Might Not Be Yours

The Rest of the Numbered Pencil Family

Why you get laid more often when you drink beer

Watch Giz’s Matt Buchanan LIVE on Fox’s Strategy Room Right Now

Doctor Who finally gives us what we’ve been clamoring for: the chance to explore the TARDIS!

Gadget Deals of the Day

Summermodo: Best Gear For Bike Geeks

Send Your Own Song to Awake Astronauts of the Last Shuttle Mission

What’s the explanation for this spectral hand clutching at the stars?

For Sale: Atomic Bomb Detonator Cable, Only $5, Never Used

The Embassy of Drowned Nations

Science fiction is getting seriously strange

Write a winning blog comment and get published in a book with China Mieville and Naomi Novik!

In Praise of the 3D B-Movie

Go Get Your Xbox 360 S 250GB Hard Drive

Renee Zellweger’s Satanic child makes Bradley Cooper barf bees

Apple May Use Heartbeat, Voice, Face, and Behavior Analysis to Detect Unauthorized iPhone Users

Toothbrush Uses Solar Power Instead of Toothpaste

It was the headless body of a spacecraft, or maybe an enormous bug

Beyond Survival: Around the World Eight Times With Les Stroud

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