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Huge Millennium Falcon Play Fort for a Kid and His Wookiee

I wish I had this Millennium Falcon—with a solar-powered illuminated interior and exteior—as the top of my backyard fort when I was a kid. But then again, I never had a fort or a backyard back then. The Falcon was built by Geekologie reader Brandon—of Little Mountain Productions—for 9-year old Christian, who asked for it…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 24 '10

“Bright Pill” for Male Birth Control Shows Promise in Early Tests

The quest for a male birth control method has taken some weird turns. The latest contender for the elusive male pill is an Israeli scientist who says he has developed a compound that temporarily inhibits the reproductive capacity of sperm. Haim Breitbart of Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv developed the drug, which he calls the…

Tech News Mara Hvistendahl - PopSci Jun 24 '10

30 post-apocalyptic visions of the 21st Century

The Quiet Earth blog has been covering the post-apocalyptic genre for years, and now one of its feature writers, Agent Orange, weighs in with his list of 30 visions of a 21st Century apocalypse. A lot has transpired in the realms of post-apocalyptic cinema and television in the last ten or so years. The first…

Movies Agent Orange - Quiet Earth Jun 24 '10

These Cancer Cells Were Spotted With a DSLR

This is an image of a tissue sample that doctors could use to detect cancerous cells. It’s crisp, it’s clear, it could save a life. And it was taken with a $400 Olympus E-330. Using a consumer-grade camera for diagnostic imaging is a pretty amazing feat, announced just today by biomedical engineers from Rice University.…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jun 24 '10

Apple Acknowledges iPhone 4 Reception Issues, Says Don’t Hold It Like That

Here’s Apple’s response to the now officially-acknowledged iPhone 4 antenna reception problems. http://gizmodo.com/5571171/iphone-4-loses-reception-when-you-hold-it-by-the-antenna-band They told Engadget, and our own reader Jason: Gripping any mobile phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 24 '10

Russia Searches For Its Own Silicon Valley

When Russian president Dmitry Medvedev visited Silicon Valley last week, it wasn’t a social call. It was a scouting expedition, in preparation for building his country’s own “Innovation City” from the ground up. But can tech supremacy be manufactured? That’s the question asked by Esther Dyson in today’s Moscow Times. And the answer is, surprisingly:…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jun 24 '10

Switch Applications and Play Games With Scythe’s USB Foot Switch

Unlike Thanko’s USB footswitch, Scythe’s actually looks the business. If the business is a guitar foot pedal. Or a sewing machine foot pedal. Whatever you decide it looks like, it can be configured to perform all sorts of commands. https://gizmodo.com/thanko-usb-boss-switch-underfoot-159116 It’d be particularly useful in gaming, with the footswitch available in one, two or three-button…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 24 '10

The real Ghost Rider is an Irish punk from the projects

A stark and intense series of photographs taken by Ross McDonnell in the Ballymun flats at the edge of Dublin, Ireland, offer a glimpse of a real-life Ghost Rider. And it ain’t pretty. McDonnell grew up in Ireland and works as a professional photographer and filmographer, mostly dealing with documentary subjects. In these photos from…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 24 '10

I Am T-Pain Autotuner App Adds Video For iOS4

Maybe the best use of the front-facing camera I’ve seen yet comes from Smule’s auto-tunetastic I Am T-Pain app. Because now, you can star in your own autotuned music video. It’s pretty genius. https://gizmodo.com/i-am-t-pain-iphone-app-is-auto-tuning-genius-5352299 You can make your own track, upload it to your social network of choice, record over your iTunes library and, most…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jun 24 '10

Test Notes: iPhone 4 Call Quality

The iPhone 4 is supposed to have better reception than prior generations. Its additional noise-cancellation microphone should result in better call quality and less distortion during chats. Our somewhat unscientific tests confirmed it—iPhone 4 is go for talk. https://gizmodo.com/roundup-the-iphone-4-re-revealed-5557549 We made a series of calls to a regular landline from an iPhone 3G, an iPhone…

Reviews Rosa Golijan and Jason Chen Jun 24 '10

Syfy brings us Tiffany vs. Debbie Gibson. How much 80s-nostalgia camp can you handle?

Tiffany and Debbie Gibson were rival pop stars in the 1980s, but they never took it as far as unleashing giant monsters on each other. Until now. Syfy is bringing them together in Mega Python Vs. Gatoroid. No, seriously. Let’s hope it brings a sequence as bizarre as the above clip, where Gibson has a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 24 '10

David Slade on bringing the violence back to Twilight

Twilight-haters, stand aside. We’ve been excited about 30 Days of Night director David Slade’s vision for Eclipse from the beginning. In our exclusive interview, the director explains balancing the werewolf-on-vampire carnage with romance, and exploring the physiology of Twilight’s vampires. We’re all super excited for your take on Eclipse. We think it might be pretty…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 24 '10

Wireless Test Notes: 3g iPhone 4 Uploads Files 5-10x Faster

We sent the intrepid Ryan Salerno across 20 NY blocks armed with an iPhone 3GS and an iPhone 4. He ran speed tests along the way, ferreting out any oddities. Downloads? Exactly the same. Uploads? An order of magnitude faster. Let’s take a quick step back. In terms of downloads, the iPhone 3GS and iPhone…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 24 '10

Naughty personal genomics company makes good

The sometimes-controversial company 23AndMe – which will run a battery of tests on your genome for $500 – has finally offered proof that their methods can help scientists figure out the genetic basis for everything from freckles to disease. A lot of people use the company’s services to find out what their ancestry might be,…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 24 '10

Hoodie With Earbuds Instead of Strings Is Greatest iPod Accessory of All

Hoodies have strings around the neck, right? Have you EVER used those strings? Why you’d want to tighten a noose around your neck, I’ll never know. The HoodieBuddie cleverly replaces the strings with earbuds; the pocket contains a 3.5mm jack. All you need to do is whack your iPod into that 3.5mm jack, hiding in…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 24 '10

Vlad the Impaler vs. Sun Tzu? Thanks, Deadliest Warrior!

If you’re not watching Spike TV’s military pseudo-science show — which pits combatants from different eras against each other using recreations, weapons experts, and computers — then next Tuesday’s the time to tune in: it’s vamp-daddy against strategy-daddy! The show shouldn’t be as much fun as it is: Basically, it takes two "classes" of combatants…

Television Marc Bernardin Jun 24 '10

Rick Moody’s tribute to Kurt Vonnegut: confounding and surprisingly moving

Rick Moody’s The Four Fingers Of Death might be the most metafictional science fiction book of all time: a science fiction novel about a science fiction novel, wrapped in a shroud of weirdness. It’s loopy and weird… and surprisingly tender. There are spoilers in this review. Be warned! Four Fingers Of Death starts with a…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jun 24 '10

Something Seems Out of Place at the Soho Apple Store

These poor AT&T techs, with their Dells and Blackberrys, set up hidden away next to the glass staircase on a folding table, looked so bored and uncomfortable. There’s a metaphor for Apple and AT&T’s relationship in here somewhere, I think.

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 24 '10

Trouble in Neo-Tokyo? The Akira Movie Could Be PG-13

The live-action movie adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s apocalyptic classic Akira could be a toned-down PG-13. But what we’re really worried about is the alleged new script details. Spoilers ahead. In an interview with The Kevin McCarthy and Josh Hylton Movie Show director Albert Hughes complained that Warner Brother’s PG-13 restriction was a bit constraining. This…

Anime Meredith Woerner Jun 24 '10

Buy the Terminator’s scorched cyber-arm from the original movie!

In one of those “life imitates cyber-awesomeness” moments, an art director on the original Terminator movie rescued this cyborg arm from a special-effects explosion – just the way Cyberdyne did in T2. And now it’s for sale! This is the arm from the original T-800 Terminator model that was blown up at the end of…

Movies Annalee Newitz Jun 24 '10

Huge Millennium Falcon Play Fort for a Kid and His Wookiee

“Bright Pill” for Male Birth Control Shows Promise in Early Tests

30 post-apocalyptic visions of the 21st Century

These Cancer Cells Were Spotted With a DSLR

Apple Acknowledges iPhone 4 Reception Issues, Says Don’t Hold It Like That

Russia Searches For Its Own Silicon Valley

Switch Applications and Play Games With Scythe’s USB Foot Switch

The real Ghost Rider is an Irish punk from the projects

I Am T-Pain Autotuner App Adds Video For iOS4

Test Notes: iPhone 4 Call Quality

Syfy brings us Tiffany vs. Debbie Gibson. How much 80s-nostalgia camp can you handle?

David Slade on bringing the violence back to Twilight

Wireless Test Notes: 3g iPhone 4 Uploads Files 5-10x Faster

Naughty personal genomics company makes good

Hoodie With Earbuds Instead of Strings Is Greatest iPod Accessory of All

Vlad the Impaler vs. Sun Tzu? Thanks, Deadliest Warrior!

Rick Moody’s tribute to Kurt Vonnegut: confounding and surprisingly moving

Something Seems Out of Place at the Soho Apple Store

Trouble in Neo-Tokyo? The Akira Movie Could Be PG-13

Buy the Terminator’s scorched cyber-arm from the original movie!

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