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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

Giz Explains: Why Using Your Phone In Another Country Costs So Much

The worst part of any vacation is coming home. Not just because your fleeting glimpse of freedom is finished, but because you’ve got to pay the absurd phone bill you racked up while you were gone. Ugh. Why? If you travel a lot, you know the drill: For every call you make, text you send,…

Tech News John Herrman

Leonard Nimoy Explains How Science Fiction Has Improved Since The 1950s

Star Trek and Fringe star Leonard Nimoy got his start in the 1952 serial Zombies Of The Stratosphere. We talked to him on a conference call the other day, and he raved about how science fiction has improved since then. During the conference call with reporters, someone asked Nimoy how he felt science fiction had…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Gadget Deals of the Day

Dealzmodo welcomes you to another fun filled week. Or at least we hope it’s a fun filled week. If not, you can channel surf with everyone’s favorite universal remote control til your eyes get tired. That’s always fun. Top Deals: • 14″ Toshiba Satellite L515-S4010 Intel Dual-Core T4400 2.2GHz Laptop for $429.99 plus free shipping…

Tech News Casey Chan

It’s True: Mousetrap Never Works

Set to the tune of OK Go’s This Too Shall Pass, this fantastic song/video parodies OK Go’s famed Rube Goldberg video—it’s called Mousetrap Never Works. And it’ll have you fist-pumping in vindication of your misspent childhood. https://gizmodo.com/how-ok-go-built-the-craziest-rube-goldberg-machine-yet-5484736 If you enjoyed the clip, you may also enjoy this highly watchable, 2-minute behind the scenes footage. I’m…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Google Doesn’t Like Mature Women Looking for Toy Boys

I don’t know if Google’s motives are pure or not, but this is wrong: They are refusing to advertise CougarLife, a dating site for mature women looking for younger men. However, they accept sites for mature men seeking young women. http://gawker.com/5539717/steve-jobs-offers-world-freedom-from-porn According to the New York Times, CougarLife.com was paying Google $100,000 a month since…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Super 8 Viral Site Hides Clues In Newspaper Articles And Popsicle Ads

Super 8 wouldn’t be a proper J.J. Abrams film without perplexing viral marketing. This weekend, the clues began filling the internet in earnest, as two newspaper clippings – complete with hidden messages – surfaced on the website ScariestThingIEverSaw.com. ScariestThingIEverSaw.com – a website whose name was gleaned from a camera reel in the Super 8 preview…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

116 Incredible Wallpapers By You

For this week’s Shooting Challenge, I asked you to shoot whatever you wanted. As the 116 photos that follow prove, this was a great decision. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-free-for-all-5537305 Lead Shot A friend gave me a nifty new Nikon 55mm macro f 3.5 with a Nikon bellows focusing attachment a couple of days ago. I slapped a Canon…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Shooting Challenge: Free for All Gallery Part 2

Free for All Gallery Part Two This picture is an HDR photo made up of 9 photos combined and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro. It is a shot from the park at Auckland Zoo in New Zealand and had to go off the beaten trail a bit to get this one, sorry native trees. I…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Shooting Challenge: Free for All Gallery Part 1

Taken with my 1.3MP Cell Phone Camera , Samsung SGH-D500. i don’t have a big sized version because the camera is not the good. -Daniel Belous This was my first time ever using a DLSR. Taken with a Canon Rebel XTi with stock lens and a 430EX flash. Settings were 1/160th, F/5.0, and ISO 400.…

Tech News Mark Wilson

The Mercedes F800 Will Run on Gas, Electricity or Hydrogen

We jumped inside a Mercedes F800 last week—the car that will offer three flavors of fuel as soon as 2012. Mercedes says that the future is a three-lane highway, with cars running on gas, electricity, and hydrogen. The F800 hybrid will combine a traditional gasoline engine using direct-injection technology with a hybrid module, which can…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

What it looks like when Shoggoths invade your home

Shoggoths are giant, polymorphous beasts who were once slaves to aliens. But with their former masters long dead, the creatures sometimes erupt from basements to feed. This is just one of the fantastical photo-manipulations we’ve got from Jim Kazanjian. An artist in Portland, Oregon, Kazanjian says: I am interested in a kind of “entropic” image,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Fascinating Origin of the Word “Fanboy”

As a badge of pride or a piercing insult, “fanboy” is wielded too lightly. We must understand its history, its context, and its gravity! We must know its provenance! We must respect the (word) fanboy. Harry McCracken has done some impressive forensics on every tech comment section’s fallback insult. Evidently, it all started 37 years…

Tech News John Herrman

Kaboom’s Teen Sex Revolution Of The Future Starts Now

You’ve seen the strange bondage stills from Gregg Araki’s Kaboom. Now check out the first three (NSFW) clips from the film that star Thomas Dekker calls an “apocalyptic-rock-n-roll-sex-art movie.” This first clip is NSFW: [via Quiet Earth]

io9 Meredith Woerner

Huge WHO Cellphones and Cancer Study Ends Up Inconclusive

The World Health Organization studied almost 13,000 cellphone users over the course of 10 years to determine whether or not there’s a link between cellphones and cancer. Their results? Inconclusive! Even after all that time and such a large study, they claim that further research is needed to determine if heavy cell users are in…

Tech News Adam Frucci

The Guy Who Flew Thousands of Passengers As a Fake Pilot

This is Thomas Salme, a maintenance engineer who became a Boeing 737 pilot by flying a few nights in a flight simulator and printing a fake airliner pilot license. Amazingly enough, he flew passengers for thirteen years without any incidents. Thirteen years of back and forth from Sweden to everywhere else in Europe. Nobody noticed…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

How Did Science Fiction Defeat Horror In The War For The Zeitgeist?

Once upon a time, science fiction and horror were both pulpy genres, in both books and movies. But now, science fiction has its own bookstore section, and SF films are huge blockbusters. How did SF beat horror, Cinematical asks.

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Steam for Mac Benchmarks: Windows Is Much Faster

For Mac users, it’s been pretty hard not to get excited about Steam and what it means for the future of gaming on Macs. So how well does it actually work? As always, Tom’s Hardware comes through with the benchmarks. https://gizmodo.com/real-gaming-for-macs-is-finally-here-with-steam-5537409 There are few things in the gaming world as exciting as a new platform…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Easy Way to Run iPhone Apps On Your iPad—Without Pixel Doubling

A few weeks ago, some jailbreakers devised an effective, if slightly daunting, way to force iPhone apps to fill the iPad’s screen. Now, there’s a jailbreak app that does the same, and the results are incredible. https://gizmodo.com/run-iphone-apps-on-ipad-without-pixel-doubling-5529939 The app—technically an OS extension—is called FullForce, and it’s available in the Cydia store for free. (If you’re…

Tech News John Herrman

Futurama Gallery

Fan-made Short Film Inspired by The Nobody

Giz Explains: Why Using Your Phone In Another Country Costs So Much

Leonard Nimoy Explains How Science Fiction Has Improved Since The 1950s

Gadget Deals of the Day

It’s True: Mousetrap Never Works

Google Doesn’t Like Mature Women Looking for Toy Boys

Super 8 Viral Site Hides Clues In Newspaper Articles And Popsicle Ads

116 Incredible Wallpapers By You

Shooting Challenge: Free for All Gallery Part 2

Shooting Challenge: Free for All Gallery Part 1

The Mercedes F800 Will Run on Gas, Electricity or Hydrogen

What it looks like when Shoggoths invade your home

The Fascinating Origin of the Word “Fanboy”

Kaboom’s Teen Sex Revolution Of The Future Starts Now

Huge WHO Cellphones and Cancer Study Ends Up Inconclusive

The Guy Who Flew Thousands of Passengers As a Fake Pilot

How Did Science Fiction Defeat Horror In The War For The Zeitgeist?

Steam for Mac Benchmarks: Windows Is Much Faster

The Easy Way to Run iPhone Apps On Your iPad—Without Pixel Doubling

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