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Samsung Galaxy Tab Listed for $1,030 on German Amazon

A Samsung product exec told the WSJ that the Galaxy Tab would retail for between $200 – $300 in the US, but over on Amazon Germany, a 799 Euro price-tag has been affixed to the tablet. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-galaxy-tab-runs-froyo-has-flash-and-measures-5627498 That’s a hefty figure, I’m sure you’ll agree, but I’m sure one popular method of purchasing the Galaxy…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford Sep 6 '10

T-Mobile and Orange Will Allow UK Customers to Access Both Networks

When the merger between T-Mobile and Orange was confirmed as Everything Everywhere, it wasn’t too clear whether customers of each network would be able to access the other’s infrastructure. Today’s news from the mega-network camp will be the best news any poor T-Mobile customer will have heard all month. Greater 3G coverage, at no extra…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Sep 6 '10

iPod Touch Contains Motor for Vibrating FaceTime Alerts

Missed in the FCC teardown, it appears the latest iPod Touch has a puzzling new addition to its family of components: a vibrating motor? Apple claims it’s for alerting a user to a FaceTime request. [iPodTouchFans via 9to5Mac via MacRumors] https://gizmodo.com/apples-new-ipod-touch-torn-apart-by-the-fcc-5628597

Tech News Kat Hannaford Sep 6 '10

I Can’t Wait To Tap My Fingers On the HTC Vision/Vanguard’s Chiclet Keypad

Splayed in a vice with only a ruler for comfort, HTC’s upcoming Vision/Vanguard has received its 15 minutes of FCC fame, in unusually high-res photo quality. https://gizmodo.com/september-29th-penciled-in-for-htc-vision-vanguard-rele-5623444 We’ve seen so many leaked spec and photos for this handset, and with so many potential model names circulating it’s tough to call it just one, but this…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Sep 6 '10

It’s an end of the world fire sale!

The world is ending, and you’re stuck in a book store. At least that’s the perspective from the film Alexandria. Take a look at an overlooked trailer for a fantastic short. UPDATE: Apologies! We already covered Repeaters, the trailer is here, in case you missed it. https://gizmodo.com/groundhog-day-inspired-thriller-offers-young-addicts-a-5627118 The Sorcerers Here is an image from an…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 5 '10

Earth’s magnetic field could reverse itself in just four years…and maybe it once did

The North and South magnetic poles swap places every 300,000 years, in a process that takes as much as 5,000 years. But evidence from an ancient lava flow suggests the poles were once moving 53 degrees per year. We’re currently overdue for a pole reversal, and a particularly rapid shift could cause chaos for birds’…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 5 '10

Scenes From a Massive Undersea Cable Ship

When Alcatel-Lucent lays cable at the bottom of the sea, it does so using a variety of massive tools, ships and repeaters. They look a little something like this: Different sizes for different depths. The thicker cables are actually for shallow depths, where ship anchors and fishermen’s nets can cause damage. The cable-laying beauty herself,…

Tech News Jack Loftus Sep 5 '10

Nic Cage is the most versatile actor on the planet. This website is proof.

At the blog “Nic Cage As Everyone,” the former Nicholas Coppola plays every single role in the history of moving picture. He’s so talented that he even plays real-life people! Here’s the Cagemaster as some of your favorite scifi characters. [Nic Cage As Everyone via Pat Cadigan’s Twitter]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 5 '10

Black Hole Coffee Table Devours Personal Wealth

Don’t worry, your coasters and coffee table books will be perfectly safe on this table. About the only thing designer Jon Gilmore’s Nova Black Hole Illuminated Coffee Table can destroy is your wallet. The LED-illuminated table sells for a slightly-less-than-cosmic $1,070. A glass top prevents your valuables form falling into the multiverse, while the aluminum…

Tech News Jack Loftus Sep 5 '10

Carnegie Mellon’s robotic snake is the harbinger of a slithering, metal future

It may be just circuits and metal, but this robotic snake from Carnegie Mellon University’s Biorobotics Lab will give you flashbacks to the hydrobots from Terminator Salvation. Behold the robot that could someday be used for surgeries and search-and-rescue. Carnegie Mellon hopes that these serpentine robots will someday be adapted for crisis relief and have…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 5 '10

The clearest photo of a sunspot we’ve seen thus far

This is the clearest, most detailed image of a sunspot ever taken in visible light. These ultra-magnetic structures are thought to be crucial to potentially Earth-threatening space weather, and it’s photos like these that will help us better understand the risk. Sunspots are solar regions that appear much darker than the surrounding area because of…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 5 '10

The Original Frozen Margarita Machine

Inspired by a 7-11 Slurpee machine, Mariano Martinez invented the frozen margarita maker using parts from an ice cream machine in 1971. Salute this fine piece of engineering with a frozen concoction of your choice this Labor Day. Sadly, the margarita-makin’ days are over for this particular specimen—the machine is living out the remainder of…

Tech News Jack Loftus Sep 5 '10

Tom Carvel, outsider video artist

Most folks remember Tom Carvel (1906-1990) as the frozen dessert magnate behind Carvel Ice Cream empire, but what a lot of people forget is that Tom Carvel created some of the most phantasmagorically confusing commercials ever to air on television. There was a disconcerting, almost Lynchian quality to Carvel’s ice cream commericals. Behind the innocent…

io9 AD Jameson - Big Other Sep 5 '10

What Is This?

Green. Definitely alive, at one point. Is it an alien landscape, captured by some NASA probe and enhanced in post production? Hulk’s blood? Not quite, but close. The answer is a bit more earthy than that: It’s tree blood! Chlorophyll, to be precise. It’s been sandwiched on a microscope slide, photographed and delivered to your…

Tech News Jack Loftus Sep 5 '10

The otherworldly fortresses that are Bulgaria’s Socialist monuments

These stark socialist sculptures in Bulgaria have an almost Zardoz-like aesthetic about them. You half expect a coterie of post-apocalyptic stormtroopers to come piling out, armed with laser-axes designed to crush the edifice of bourgeois oppression. In all seriousness though, these photographs by Linda Ferrari are absolutely stunning — some of these monuments are in…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 5 '10

Source: Oracle Offered Ousted HP Ex-CEO Mark Hurd a Job

After Oracle CEO Larry Ellison blasted HP for ousting disgraced CEO Mark Hurd, he reportedly did what comes naturally to men of his stature and disposition: He offered the man a job. https://gizmodo.com/oracle-ceo-blasts-hp-board-for-ousting-mark-hurd-5608620 This is what Reuters is reporting today, although details are spotty and the source is unnamed. Allegedly, a final decision on the…

Tech News Jack Loftus Sep 5 '10

The shiniest stories on io9 last week

Wotta week that was. You talked with Peter Wingfield of Highlander, those damn dirty apes invaded San Francisco, and physics had to explain an impossible soccer kick. Also, here’s a massive trailer for almost every film of the modern age! This trailer is from Youtube user Khameleon808, who chopped up 15 minutes of trailer footage…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 5 '10

ApriPoco Controls Your Home with Voice Commands, IR

All the adorable ApriPoco robot needs to control your home are a series of verbal commands and a little IR connectivity. Utter robot home domination—it’s a feature, not a bug. And ApriPoco does it all with a diminutive 8.4-inch tall frame! The robot uprising has never been so cute. Truth be told, however, this domineering…

Tech News Jack Loftus Sep 5 '10

Did we discover signs of life on Mars…in 1976?

NASA’s Viking probes were colossally disappointing for those looking for life on Mars – not only were there no signs of life, we didn’t even find its essential building blocks. Or maybe we just didn’t know what to look for. NASA’s current Martian explorer, the Phoenix Mars Lander, made a surprise discovery in 2008 that…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 5 '10

Scenes from a 3-D, augmented reality metropolis

Keiichi Matsuda creates incredible short films that depict an augmented reality city where synthetic information clouds are grafted onto brick’n’mortar material spaces. Here are two of his futureshock videos. Matsuda created this first 3D video, “Augmented (hyper)Reality: Augmented City,” for his final year at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. Here’s how Matsuda describes…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 5 '10

Samsung Galaxy Tab Listed for $1,030 on German Amazon

T-Mobile and Orange Will Allow UK Customers to Access Both Networks

iPod Touch Contains Motor for Vibrating FaceTime Alerts

I Can’t Wait To Tap My Fingers On the HTC Vision/Vanguard’s Chiclet Keypad

It’s an end of the world fire sale!

Earth’s magnetic field could reverse itself in just four years…and maybe it once did

Scenes From a Massive Undersea Cable Ship

Nic Cage is the most versatile actor on the planet. This website is proof.

Black Hole Coffee Table Devours Personal Wealth

Carnegie Mellon’s robotic snake is the harbinger of a slithering, metal future

The clearest photo of a sunspot we’ve seen thus far

The Original Frozen Margarita Machine

Tom Carvel, outsider video artist

What Is This?

The otherworldly fortresses that are Bulgaria’s Socialist monuments

Source: Oracle Offered Ousted HP Ex-CEO Mark Hurd a Job

The shiniest stories on io9 last week

ApriPoco Controls Your Home with Voice Commands, IR

Did we discover signs of life on Mars…in 1976?

Scenes from a 3-D, augmented reality metropolis

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