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Step Into a World Made Entirely of Books

In an open room in the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna, amidst plain white walls, a vertiginous tower stretches to the ceiling. From a distance, it appears to be made of thin multicolor bricks. They’re actually thousands of books: The book tunnel is an installation called Scanner, by Slovakian artist Matej Krén, intended to…

Books & Comics Kyle VanHemert Aug 5 '10

FCC Chief: Killing of Net Neutrality Would Be ‘Unacceptable’

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski was as clear as he always is on net neutrality today in response to a potential Google/Verizon deal. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have the power to enforce this, which is what instigated the deal originally. [Reuters] https://gizmodo.com/nyt-google-just-killed-net-neutrality-updating-googl-5605310

Tech News Adam Frucci Aug 5 '10

Real Wood Paneling Turns iPhone 4 Into Lusty 70s Electronics

While I’m still waiting for an inexpensive wood case replacement for the iPhone 4, there’s a solution for a mere $25: Karvt’s iPhone 4 skins crafted in real wood. I can’t decide between chocolate walnut or natural cherry. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-safest-and-most-beautiful-iphone-4-money-ca-5575302 The pine, cherry, and bamboo versions look beautiful. You can get them in maple and walnut…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 5 '10

Antennae Galaxies are slowly colliding in beautiful chaos of black holes

The Antennae Galaxies started falling into each other some hundreds of millions of years ago. These days, the party is still very much underway, and here you can see what happens when two galaxies slowly, violently become one. The two galaxies actually get their names from a feature of the collision – the tidal forces…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 5 '10

Say Hello to the Robotic Dog, Circa 1960

You might think the late Sony Aibo was the first robotic dog, but it was late to the party according to this model from way back in 1960. Yes, this model, detailed in a book entitled Practical Robot Circuits could move, see and hear. In a series of photos (some in X-ray format) and accompanying…

Tech News Adam Frucci Aug 5 '10

New iPhone and iPad Rumor Barrage

iLounge claims that a “highly reliable source” has told them quite a few details about some new gadgets coming from Apple, including a new iPhone that will finally fix the antenna problem, which allegedly will be released in early 2011. https://gizmodo.com/why-apples-iphone-4-update-wont-fix-your-reception-prob-5577812 I was hoping for October, after Steve Jobs’ insinuations at the latest press conference,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 5 '10

Scott Pilgrim’s interactive trailer is better than most DVD bonus features

The latest interactive Scott Pilgrim trailer is about as comprehensive as your typical DVD featurette. It’s flat-out remarkable, including all the little details Edgar Wright goes into about the characters, filming locations and Scott Pilgrim creator, Bryan Lee O’Malley’s “changes.” Click to view We’re especially in love with the little detail about the light switch…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 5 '10

The Universe Will Never Cease to Amaze Me

This photo shows the Antenna galaxies, which started colliding 100 million years ago, creating millions of stars in the process which later exploded as supernovas. I really find it hard and sad to know that I’ll never see this live. But at least we have the telescopes to see it from here. The image of…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Aug 5 '10

How You Can Still Buy a Nexus One From Google

It was a sad day last month when Google announced that they would no longer sell the Googlephone, the Nexus One, through their website. But wait! The company’s now offering the Nexus One as a developer phone, unlocked, for $529. https://gizmodo.com/google-receives-last-nexus-one-shipment-5589205 In a post on the Android Developers blog, Tim Bray delivered the good news…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Aug 5 '10

Discover China’s novel of false utopia and mass amnesia for yourself

Chan Koon-chung’s novel in which everybody in China forgets a month, The Fat Years: China 2013, will come out in the US and UK next year, Chan’s agent tells io9. The truth will be revealed! https://gizmodo.com/the-dystopian-novel-thats-turning-china-upside-down-5600012 A bunch of people have written to us lately, asking when an English-language edition of Shengshi Zhonguo 2013 would…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Aug 5 '10

The Mutewatch Begs to be Touched

We’ve seen high-concept watches that are interesting, but the inevitable realization dawns that it takes ten minutes and vector calculus just to figure out what time it is. Mutewatch is different, its touch-based design actually makes it more…useful. Gone are the days of trying to remember which buttons to press; the Mutewatch uses a simple…

Tech News Don Nguyen Aug 5 '10

Those Indians and Their Crazy Bollywood Robot Movie

Remember the movie I, Robot? It just got a lot worse. Actually, with all those craptabolous crazy singing-and-dancing Bollywood robots, maybe it just got a lot better. Note: While everyone outside India identify Bollywood with this particular style of singing-and-dancing movies, the movie itself is made in Kollywood, as reader Harin Patel explains: Cracked up…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 5 '10

Star Wars babies will melt your carbonite heart

Have you ever seen anything sweeter than these two mini Star Wars cosplayers? They actually out-cute the sneezing baby panda. [Buzzfeed via 9gag.com]

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 5 '10

Androids, iPhones Prepped for Battle in Army’s First-Ever App Contest

Unleash the iPhones of war! The Army’s announced the winners of their first-ever mobile phone app development contest. And the general behind the program says some of the applications will be in the field “within a year.” A total of 141 soldiers and Army civilians participated in the contest, called Apps for the Army (A4A),…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Aug 5 '10

A fish species that evolved to cope with colder waters…in just three years

Evolution isn’t generally considered a race, but no matter – the tiny stickleback fish is a clear winner. Faced with suddenly colder water, the species managed to adapt in record time – fast enough to potentially beat climate change. Stickleback fish are very small, no more than ten centimeters long. They originated in the oceans,…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 5 '10

NYT: Google Just Killed Net Neutrality (UPDATING: Google and Verizon Deny Internet Traffic Deal)

In 2006, Google co-founder Sergey Brin traveled to DC, urging Congress to support net neutrality. The New York Times reported this morning that Google and Verizon are conspiring to create tiered internet service. (UPDATING: Google denies, WSJ affirms NYT.) If the NYT report is true (see updates below), it would be an about face that…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 5 '10

Lebanon Assessing National BlackBerry Policy

Following the lead of neighbors Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon’s government is reconsidering its own stance on BlackBerry devices amid regional privacy concerns. The Lebanese Telecoms Regulatory Authority is planning talks with RIM regarding its worries. https://gizmodo.com/saudi-arabia-to-ban-blackberry-services-this-friday-5604006 Lebanon is only the most recent country to vocalize its distrust of RIM’s encryption measures,…

Privacy & Security Sam Biddle Aug 5 '10

DIY Graphing Calculator is Touchscreen Nerd Excalibur

Who needs Texas Instruments? Not Matt Stack, creator of the Open SciCal. His homemade, 100% open source graphing calculator not only blows away the functionality of store-bought devices, but is the “ultimate status symbol among the nerdiest of the nerds.” When I was in high school, stolen TI-83s were a pervasive trade, the scourge of…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 5 '10

A man proves his innocence by rescuing the president’s daughter from space prison: A real movie!

Luc Besson, writer/producer of Taken, is putting Maggie Grace back in danger — but this time she’s in a SPACE PRISON! It’s called Lockout. We’re in, as long as Lockout has as many throat punches as Taken did. Deadline is reporting that Maggie Grace has signed on to play the role of our future president’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 5 '10

R.I.P. Wes Skiles, the photographer who captured the forbidding beauty of underwater caves

These incredibly lush images show the dangerous caverns deep under the ocean, where few people have ever gone. They’re the work of underwater photographer Wes Skiles, who died July 21. We recently featured a gallery of Skiles’ incredible pictures of “Blue Holes” in the Bahamas. But over the course of his career exploring the most…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 5 '10

Step Into a World Made Entirely of Books

FCC Chief: Killing of Net Neutrality Would Be ‘Unacceptable’

Real Wood Paneling Turns iPhone 4 Into Lusty 70s Electronics

Antennae Galaxies are slowly colliding in beautiful chaos of black holes

Say Hello to the Robotic Dog, Circa 1960

New iPhone and iPad Rumor Barrage

Scott Pilgrim’s interactive trailer is better than most DVD bonus features

The Universe Will Never Cease to Amaze Me

How You Can Still Buy a Nexus One From Google

Discover China’s novel of false utopia and mass amnesia for yourself

The Mutewatch Begs to be Touched

Those Indians and Their Crazy Bollywood Robot Movie

Star Wars babies will melt your carbonite heart

Androids, iPhones Prepped for Battle in Army’s First-Ever App Contest

A fish species that evolved to cope with colder waters…in just three years

NYT: Google Just Killed Net Neutrality (UPDATING: Google and Verizon Deny Internet Traffic Deal)

Lebanon Assessing National BlackBerry Policy

DIY Graphing Calculator is Touchscreen Nerd Excalibur

A man proves his innocence by rescuing the president’s daughter from space prison: A real movie!

R.I.P. Wes Skiles, the photographer who captured the forbidding beauty of underwater caves

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