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The Shadow Hawk is like a Hummer reimagined by Inspector Gadget. Except it gets better gas mileage. Weighing 4,800 pounds and armed with 1,100 horsepower capable of 1,805 foot pounds of torque, the Shadow Hawk can go 0 to 60mph in 3.5 seconds hitting a top speed of 208mph—yet it still manages an incredible 22mpg.…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Star Wars: Legacy is selling tons, and the creators still have stories to tell. So why cancel it?

Comics Should Be Good’s Brian Cronin agrees with us: cancelling the ultra-popular Star Wars: Legacy is a dumb idea. And John Ostrander and Jan Duursema say they still have tons of stories to tell.

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Google Gooooooooooooooooooal! Easter Egg

Right now, the South Africa World Cup is only 3 days 6 hours and 30 minutes away. I can’t wait for the kick off, neither can Google: If you search for World Cup, you will get this Easter Egg. [Google]Click to view

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Luke, I’m Your Mother

I personally find this disturbing. I can imagine my wife doing the whole Imperial Storm Trooper corset bit—available for $500. But the Darth Vader one—available for $600—could lead to some weird sexual fantasies. The corsets are made of vinyl, and come with the accessories you see int the photos. They are not officially licensed, but…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Creature feature of the week? Predator vs. Dracula vs. Mark Millar

Need a monster fix? This week’s comics have you covered with a Predators prelude, classic Dracula art from the late Dick Giordano, and the second issue of Mark Millar and Steve McNiven’s Evil Batman series, Nemesis. Who’s the most monstrous? Comics aren’t all caped do-gooders and divot-chinned boy scouts — no, sometimes they’re filled with…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Sony Vaio J All-In-One PC Gets a Touchscreen and a Touch Cheaper

Sony’s joined the all-in-one touchscreen party, with a shiny Vaio J entrant that you can trick out pretty impressively: 21.5-inch 1920×1080 display, up to a Core i7 CPU and 8GB of RAM. But is it as affordable as they say? Well, compared to the $1,300 L Series AIO, sure! But the Vaio J’s starting price…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Japanese humanoid robots, then and now

On the left, according to Retrolicious, “Yasutaro Mitsui poses with his own steel humanoid, Tokyo, Japan, in 1932.” And on the right, Hiroshi Ishiguru poses with his “Gemenoid” in 2006. It’s robot evolution in action.

io9 Annalee Newitz

Alienware M11x Adds Core i7 Power

Dell’s Alienware M11x already offered up some potent graphics, especially for a laptop of its size. Now—just a few months after release—the M11x is getting a Core i7 CPU upgrade that makes it a powerhouse in every sense. While we’d heard before about the Core-i bump, the M11x will also get Nvidia Optimus, a system…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Ecomodo: The Best of Treehugger

This week on TreeHugger, incredible inventions for fixing the human body, a solar power plant on the moon, e-bikes are making us lazy, and a fridge that tells you want to cook. 8 Incredible Health Innovations That Transform Lives From bionic arms to regrowing ear hairs, check out some crazy cool inventions for fixing up…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch

20 minute sneak peek at Harry Potter’s real-world theme park

Haven’t made it down Florida to see The Wizarding World of Harry Potter for yourself? Then check out this very detailed video peek at the new park, stuffed with concept art, pictures and cast interviews.

Movies Meredith Woerner

Sputnik Watch Goes From Concept To Reality, For $40

We feature many concepts here at Gizmodo, it’s great to actually see something put into production. This Sputnik watch has an inverted LCD screen, and displays the time and date, plus has an alarm and stopwatch. Not bad for $40. Vadim Kibardin is behind the Sputnik design, and is taking pre-orders on his email address,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Check out the coral reef paradise undisturbed by humanity

Millennium Atoll, the easternmost island of the Pacific nation Kiribati, is a rare pristine example of the coral reef ecosystem. Isolated from human disruption for centuries, the atoll is full of life as it would be without humans. A team of ten researchers from a variety of American institutions conducted the first scientific survey of…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Latest Leaked Pic of HTC Aria Comes With Rumored “Liberty” Name-Change

A clearer shot of the HTC Aria we saw last week has surfaced, however it sounds like the phone has been renamed as the HTC Liberty. Unless it’s a different Android phone altogether…UPDATE Either way, so far there’s not a lot to go on for this mysterious phone. Reports have suggested it has a resolution…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Amazing casting call for Titanic 2: Mermaid Saviors!

Read the synopsis for what is possibly the most brilliant idea ever pitched in the history of mermaid movies. What happened after the Titanic sunk? The passengers were saved by mermaids – and Jack Dawson was elected mermaid King, naturally. This little casting call popped up on NY’s Craigslist. Yes, there is no doubt that…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Welcome to Hooker Mountain: San Francisco’s crime rate as topographical map

Doug McCune has charted San Francisco’s crime rate topographically. Crimes like prostitution and narcotics peak in certain areas (Shotwell Street and the Tenderloin, respectively). San Franciscans, do you live in Strumpet Heights or Teetotaler Valley? Says McCune: Many of the maps have peaks in the Tenderloin, which is that high area sort of in the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Don’t Step a Toe On This Chinese Farmer’s Land

Most farmers will just grab a shotgun, or phone the police when confronted with trespassers. Not Chinese farmer Yang Youde though, who fires petrol bombs from his homemade cannon—one time, he even held off 100 people. Youde had leased his farm until 2019, but after learning last year that it was to be repossessed, he…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Was there a miniature art museum on the Moon?

A new PBS documentary concludes that Andy Warhol and five other artists contributed sketches that were miniaturized and put on a postage-stamp-sized chip smuggled aboard Apollo 12. According to USA Today: “For us, at the time, the moon landing was the most exciting thing that ever happened. The artists just wanted to be part of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Captain America casts its super scientist. Plus a new Predators poster brings heat signatures!

Captain America is adding another Oscar-nominated actor. Transformers 3 shooting reveals the recasting is real – meanwhile, things get too real for Washington, DC. Episode descriptions and tidbits galore for True Blood. The new Predators poster sees infrared. Spoiler overload! Captain America: The cast continues to take shape, as Stanley Tucci has come on board…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Whirlpool Bath Tub With OLED TV Folds Into Basin

Rub-a-dub-dub, it’s Whirlpool’s Sub-Tub concept. Perfect for small flats in imaginary-land, the OLED TV lid folds down for access to the basin and mirror. Check it out: Like most good concepts, it’ll never get made, but we can certainly live in hope. It’s nice to see a bathroom fitting which doesn’t combine a bathtub/shower, or…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Bag of Rice and Duct Tape Modify Xbox 360 Controller For Disabled Use

As you know, duct tape can be used for pretty much anything, and rice fills a large hole when needed. Coupled with some Xbox 360 controller parts though, they can make a disabled chap get his game on. With a little help from Ben Heck, Evil Controllers modified an Xbox 360 controller so muscular dystrophy-sufferer…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Go Go Gadget Hummer

Star Wars: Legacy is selling tons, and the creators still have stories to tell. So why cancel it?

Google Gooooooooooooooooooal! Easter Egg

Luke, I’m Your Mother

Creature feature of the week? Predator vs. Dracula vs. Mark Millar

Sony Vaio J All-In-One PC Gets a Touchscreen and a Touch Cheaper

Japanese humanoid robots, then and now

Alienware M11x Adds Core i7 Power

Ecomodo: The Best of Treehugger

20 minute sneak peek at Harry Potter’s real-world theme park

Sputnik Watch Goes From Concept To Reality, For $40

Check out the coral reef paradise undisturbed by humanity

Latest Leaked Pic of HTC Aria Comes With Rumored “Liberty” Name-Change

Amazing casting call for Titanic 2: Mermaid Saviors!

Welcome to Hooker Mountain: San Francisco’s crime rate as topographical map

Don’t Step a Toe On This Chinese Farmer’s Land

Was there a miniature art museum on the Moon?

Captain America casts its super scientist. Plus a new Predators poster brings heat signatures!

Whirlpool Bath Tub With OLED TV Folds Into Basin

Bag of Rice and Duct Tape Modify Xbox 360 Controller For Disabled Use

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