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Your Grandmother Would Love This Crystal iPhone Stand

Sure, with prices ranging from $199 to $349, these are pretty expensive iPhone stands. But what else would go so well with her elephant figurine collection? [CalypsoCrystal via CrunchGear]

Tech News Adam Frucci

Foursquare Mayors of Starbucks Can Now Get Discounts

Starting today, Foursquare Mayors of Starbucks can cash in their hard-earned virtual reputation in the form of a $1 coupon. Frappuccinos may taste awful but slightly cheaper Frappuccinos should be drunk proudly. A dollar off a frapp ain’t much but given the vast empire that is Starbucks, this precedent will likely develop into more partnerships…

Tech News Casey Chan

Lost Has Already Given Us More Answers Than Battlestar

Tomorrow’s the last episode of Lost before the big-blow-out finale, and some people feel like the island-castaway show hasn’t explained enough. Is Lost another answers-averse show like Battlestar Galactica? No. In fact, Lost has already provided more answers than BSG. I’ve seen lots of people fretting about a lack of answers on Lost, and comparing…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Scientists Concerned About Safety of New Airport X-Ray Scanners

By the end of 2011, two thirds of U.S. airline passengers will be asked to step through one of 1,000 new Rapiscan X-ray machines. But some scientists are concerned about the unprecedented radiation exposure coming along with them. Specifically, they’re worried about the half of the machines that are classified as back-scatter scanners, which use…

Privacy & Security Kyle VanHemert

Hopefully A Victoria’s Secret Model Will Help GQ Sell More Than 365 iPad Apps

GQ’s app looks good, but it’s not exactly flying off the iTunes App Store shelves: The December 2009 issue only sold 365 iPad copies. Solution? Slap Victoria’s Secret model Miranda Kerr on the next cover and hope for the best. https://gizmodo.com/gq-looks-great-on-the-ipad-even-if-you-just-read-it-fo-5508599 Of course while we lament about the iPad app’s poor sales, the iPhone version…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

In Soviet Russia, Pint-Sized Cyborgs Dance On Your Piano

In this 1946 Soviet animation sequence, a miniature robot sailor prances on a piano with a human piano player. Everything’s cute and wholesome…until the lil’ mechanical Gene Kelly’s skin begins to fall off. Then the weirdness begins. I don’t know where this clip is from (as my Cyrillic skills are nil), but it’s plenty bizarre.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

In2Pay iPhone Case: Anywhere Visa payWave Is Accepted

As if making money magically disappear from your bank account wasn’t easy enough, DeviceFidelity’s new In2Pay case, which will let iPhone users make contactless transactions on Visa’s payWave system, will turn you into the Dumbledore of mobile payment. The case is being developed by DeviceFidelity and will let your iPhone play nice with the company’s…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Two F-35s Thundering Together for the First Time

These are the first photos of two F-35 Lighting II jet fighters flying in formation, just cleared for distribution by the Pentagon. They are so crispy and detailed you can even see the demon helmets inside the cockpit. https://gizmodo.com/f-35-helmet-display-system-to-scare-the-bejeezus-out-of-260482 Click to viewThis is the first time the F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters have flown together…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

io9 Book Club Pick for June: Cherie Priest’s “Boneshaker”

For the next io9 book club meeting, on 6/21, we will be discussing Cherie Priest’s Boneshaker, nominated for both Hugo and Nebula Awards this year. Warren Ellis called this zombie airship adventure his “favourite ‘steampunky’ novel.” Here’s how the io9 book club works: Every month, the io9 book club meets to discuss a book we’ve…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Next PSP Could Have Touchscreen, Dual Cameras and a “F**king Powerful” Processor

Nuts. That’s the most concise way to describe the alleged specs of the next-gen PSP, according to VG247. Nuts! But sadly, these nuts may not show up in time for E3—or even 2010. VG247’s report comes from “multiple sources” which appear to be in game publishing, where a whole bunch of firms have apparently signed…

Tech News John Herrman

Science Fiction Author Offers Readers $3,000 In Prizes To Read His Book

The search for a new publishing model that takes advantage of the internet continues. Author Peter Riley is giving out $3,000 in prizes to people who’ll read his book, Universes, and answer some questions about it. Riley, a former editor with the London Free Press in Ontario, has posted his novel online for free, and…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Meanwhile, In a Chinese Supervillain’s Lair

Not many meeting rooms are as cool as Saatchi & Saatchi‘s meeting room in their Beijing office. Not only the desk is a giant heart surrounded by Eero Saarinen tulip chairs, but the huge half dome covering it rotates: Why does it rotate? Just in case someone wants to use the projector at its axis…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Doctor’s Cuddliest Companions

While this image, by artist Amy Mebberson, fails to include a few of the Doctor Who girls — like Martha Jones, Donna Noble, and Amy Pond — it’s still the cutest representation of spacetime-traveling women you’ll see today. [GeekWeek]

io9 Marc Bernardin

First-ever sighting of Jesus in a lung

In another brilliant investigative report from the Annals of Improbable Research, we find Jesus lurking in . . . a functional magnetic resonance image of a lung? Images from a thoracic spine examination by Christopher Vittore and Kevin Tribble, radiologists in Rockford, Ilinois and clinical assistant professors at University of Illinois College of Medicine. MRI…

io9 Annals Of Improbable Research

Seagate Confirms 3TB HD Coming Later This Year

Seagate’s senior product manager Barbara Craig confirmed rumors that the company will be releasing a monster 3TB drive later this year. That’s a lot of disk space! But sorry XP users, the drive will require a 64-bit OS. The 3TB jump isn’t coming without its difficulties—the current LBA (logical block addressing) standard, set in the…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross team up for “Rapture of the Nerds”

Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross have just signed with Tor Books to co-author a fix-up novel based on a series of short stories called Rapture of the Nerds. The authors and their editor told us what to expect. The novel was quickly snapped up by Tor Books’ Patrick Nielsen Hayden, who told io9: Cory and…

io9 Annalee Newitz

New Glimpses Of Futurama, True Blood And NBC’s New Line Up

You’ve seen sneak peeks of J.J. Abrams Undercovers and the show some people are calling the new Lost, The Event. But now see the full-length feature trailers, clips and interviews. Plus True Blood’s full-length season 3 promo has been released! https://gizmodo.com/first-glimpses-of-j-j-abrams-undercovers-and-nbcs-the-5540231 Futurama Futurama is back this June, and this is the first trailer promoting it’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Windows 7, The Restaurant

The story may be funny, but this is no joke. Microsoft Taiwan, catapulting off the recent success of the Windows 7 burger, has opened a Windows 7-themed restaurant called Hot Fried 77. https://gizmodo.com/i-ate-the-windows-7-burger-5394184 For the next two months, Microsoft is taking over 100 Seafood—a Taiwanese seafood restaurant—with a special, Windows 7 centric menu. Each dish…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Futurama Gallery

Futurama Gallery Adam and Eve-eque still from the new episode “In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela.” How did it get this way, we’ll explain. “In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela” is the second episode of the upcoming sixth season where Leela and Zapp get naked, and here’s how it unfolds in story boards! Finally here’s the title card from the “In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela” episode, “touting the transcredible…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Fan-made Short Film Inspired by The Nobody

Jeff Lemire’s stellar debut graphic novel, The Nobody — about an invisible man who agitates a small town — gets adapted as a short, moody little film. [Robot6]

Movies Marc Bernardin

Your Grandmother Would Love This Crystal iPhone Stand

Foursquare Mayors of Starbucks Can Now Get Discounts

Lost Has Already Given Us More Answers Than Battlestar

Scientists Concerned About Safety of New Airport X-Ray Scanners

Hopefully A Victoria’s Secret Model Will Help GQ Sell More Than 365 iPad Apps

In Soviet Russia, Pint-Sized Cyborgs Dance On Your Piano

In2Pay iPhone Case: Anywhere Visa payWave Is Accepted

Two F-35s Thundering Together for the First Time

io9 Book Club Pick for June: Cherie Priest’s “Boneshaker”

Next PSP Could Have Touchscreen, Dual Cameras and a “F**king Powerful” Processor

Science Fiction Author Offers Readers $3,000 In Prizes To Read His Book

Meanwhile, In a Chinese Supervillain’s Lair

The Doctor’s Cuddliest Companions

First-ever sighting of Jesus in a lung

Seagate Confirms 3TB HD Coming Later This Year

Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross team up for “Rapture of the Nerds”

New Glimpses Of Futurama, True Blood And NBC’s New Line Up

Windows 7, The Restaurant

Futurama Gallery

Fan-made Short Film Inspired by The Nobody

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