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End Of The World Fashion

The motorcycle gear company Icon also makes fabulous high-heeled boots for your chic cycling needs. You’ll need a tattered skirt with lots of pockets, d-skirts and straps. I found this French-run company based in Hong Kong and Bali, Shaman Electro, by looking at the tag on the back of Editor-in-Chief Theresa Ikard’s fabulous tattered skirt.…

io9 Suzanne Forbes - Carnal Nation

Doctor Who’s New Era Isn’t Quite New Enough

The new season of Doctor Who sports new stars, a revamped time machine, and a whole new writing staff. But based on the first batch of episodes, it’s still trying too hard to give us what we’ve come to expect. Oh, and there will be spoilers for “The Beast Below,” which just aired on BBC…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Saturday Short Film: The Anachronism

Katie and Sebastian are just two children who love to explore. They’re fascinated by creatures, plants, and their respective taxonomies. They’re charming and relatable! And then there’s the giant mechanical squid. I won’t ruin the short for you; The Anachronism is more than worth the 15 minutes you need to set aside to watch it.…

Tech News John Herrman

Why Does Joss Whedon Get The Avengers? “Because They’re F—ed Up.”

Why is Joss Whedon a good fit for The Avengers? It’s not because he pens snarky, modern dialogue. No, it’s because he understands how screwed up superheroes are. The following editorial elaborates on Whedon’s affinity for superheroic screwballness. [WSJ] [Art by Adam Hughes.]

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Microsoft Office on Windows Phone 7 Looks Fantastic

You can doubt Microsoft’s phone strategy. You can grouse about features they’ve left out of Windows Phone 7. But don’t for one second question their ability to put together an Office suite, ok? What we’ve got here is a pair of videos showing off Windows Phone 7’s Office integration into the OS’s email and calendar…

Tech News John Herrman

Electrocuting Fishes Is The Wave Of The Future

This article from a 1931 issue of Modern Mechanics and Inventions introduces an electrifying new way to catch fish…cooking them before they’re caught! Luckily for clumsy sportsmen (and finned beings) everywhere, this trend failed to catch on. [Modern Mechanix via MAKE]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Ed Brubaker Talks Secret Avengers, Receiving Death Threats For Writing Captain America

io9 recently chatted with the incomparable Ed Brubaker about his upcoming run on Secret Avengers, the status of the Sleeper movie, and yes, the yahoos who got way too riled up about a Captain America comic. For Secret Avengers, you have a pretty diverse crew lined up (Nova, Beast, War Machine, Steve Rogers, Valkyrie, etc.).…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Steve Wozniak On Apple Security, Employee Termination, and Gray Powell

During last week’s iPhone leak saga, Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, reached out to us with a story: The morning of the iPad launch, an engineer showed Woz an iPad for two minutes. For this he was fired. It’s a story that paints Apple as many people already see the company: ruthlessly secretive, and even…

Tech News John Herrman

Batman: Year One Artist David Mazzucchelli Wins L.A. Times Graphic Novel Prize

Yesterday, the L.A. Times Book Awards honored comics for the first time, and David Mazzucchelli’s geometric love story Asterios Polyp won the prize. We spoke to Geoff Boucher of Hero Complex about bringing comics into the critical fold. Mazzucchelli, who worked with Frank Miller on Daredevil and Batman: Year One, took home the Los Angeles…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

In “Above It All,” Reaching For the Stars Won’t Help Anybody

Robert J. Sawyer’s “Above it All” is a horror story that takes place on the Mir spaceship. What makes Sawyer’s choice of venue odd is the year the story was written, 1996. What’s so significant about this year? That’s the year the U.S started to have a continuous presence on the station- in other words,…

Books & Comics David Grossman

Palm’s Execs Are Jumping Ship as Fast as Its Potential Buyers

Today’s casualty is Caitlin Spaan, veep for Palm’s carrier marketing. It’s a comparatively small loss compared to when their Senior VP of software bailed two weeks ago, but it amplifies an increasingly obvious message: Palm is in a death spiral. Aside from these public destaffings, the last few weeks saw Palm going through the motions…

Tech News John Herrman

How To Treat Your Hard Drive Right

This week, Giz saw no less than two (two!) hard drive casualties befall our staff. So, in honor of Matt and Wilson’s data, hit up Lifehacker’s definitive guide for fixing, protecting, backing up and preserving that spinning data destroyer that lives inside your computer. Heed. https://lifehacker.com/top-10-hard-drive-upgrades-and-fixes-5520822

Tech News John Herrman

Some Thoughts On The Exploding Dr. Arzt

Audiences love Lost for its labyrinthine twists, rich back-story, and Hurley’s “aw shucks” Newfoundland puppy gaze. I adore the show for a different, morbid reason. It’s perhaps the only dramatic program ever to make spontaneous combustion really damn funny. [NOTE (4/24/10): This article contains spoilers about The Wire, a non-scifi show that has been off…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

The Google Nexus One’s Hidden Secret: Wireless N

The Nexus One’s hardware supports wireless N networks. The phone’s software, well, sort of. But! Super-fast Wi-Fi may hit the Nexus one in the next Android update—and if you’re feeling adventurous, you can have it sooner. Google and Broadcom have just released a new wireless driver, which evidently makes the Nexus One much better at…

Tech News John Herrman

Woz Has a Message for Gray Powell

His message: Jokes! Woz is one of about three people on the face of the planet who can wear this shirt without looking like a terrible asshole. Update: Steve Woz responds. From Woz himself, in the comments: If it were me instead of Gray and someone did this I’d be (a) pissed if it wasn’t…

Tech News John Herrman

There Are Now Over 50,000 Android Apps

Android’s app trajectory is insane: December saw 4,000 new apps. Last month saw 8,000. This month? On track for more. In a year, the App Market will approach infinity, and our universe will collapse into a sizeless point. For reference, it’s Apple’s App Store is on a similar tear, adding nearly 85,000 apps to its…

Tech News John Herrman

The Shiniest Stories On io9 This Week

What happened on io9 recently? We talked Avatar 2 with Jon Landau, Eyjafjallajökul ruined flights (but looked darn purdy), Klingons screamed at us, Earth Day flicks disappointed us, and bunch of luchadores fought Dracula. In sum, a normal week. Crappiest “Save The Earth” Movie Messages Of All Time Happy Earth Day, you disgusting mass of…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Why Flash On Mac Is About To Get Much Less Terrible

Running Flash on Mac OS is, in a word, miserable. It’s slow, resource-sucking and crashy, compared to Windows. Which is why Apple’s new video acceleration API—which Adobe plans to use in upcoming versions of Flash—is great news. It all started with this dense little block of words, posted on Apple’s Mac OS reference library: The…

Tech News John Herrman

Yes, You Can Levitate Objects With Sound

Acoustic levitation is some day going to be used to brush the dust off machinery on Mars. Learn why sound can lift objects off the ground and see an acoustic levitation chamber in action. “Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.” This saying is repeated by schoolteachers, parents, and…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

What Are These Camera-fied iPod Touch “Prototypes” Doing On eBay?

Or, to precise, what were these apparent test devices doing on eBay, before they were unceremoniously yanked? And are they real? Speaking to the second question, the answer is a firm probably. Here’s the evidence: • The device is running the iPhone OS diagnostic/test software, similar to what’s seen here. • It appears to function,…

Tech News John Herrman

End Of The World Fashion

Doctor Who’s New Era Isn’t Quite New Enough

Saturday Short Film: The Anachronism

Why Does Joss Whedon Get The Avengers? “Because They’re F—ed Up.”

Microsoft Office on Windows Phone 7 Looks Fantastic

Electrocuting Fishes Is The Wave Of The Future

Ed Brubaker Talks Secret Avengers, Receiving Death Threats For Writing Captain America

Steve Wozniak On Apple Security, Employee Termination, and Gray Powell

Batman: Year One Artist David Mazzucchelli Wins L.A. Times Graphic Novel Prize

In “Above It All,” Reaching For the Stars Won’t Help Anybody

Palm’s Execs Are Jumping Ship as Fast as Its Potential Buyers

How To Treat Your Hard Drive Right

Some Thoughts On The Exploding Dr. Arzt

The Google Nexus One’s Hidden Secret: Wireless N

Woz Has a Message for Gray Powell

There Are Now Over 50,000 Android Apps

The Shiniest Stories On io9 This Week

Why Flash On Mac Is About To Get Much Less Terrible

Yes, You Can Levitate Objects With Sound

What Are These Camera-fied iPod Touch “Prototypes” Doing On eBay?

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