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ARRI Alexa Camera Shoots Beautiful Video with Little Light

The new ARRI Alexa, a $60,000 professional 2K camera, shows off its chops in this gorgeous footage of a violin maker at work. The amazing part? You’re seeing the camera working with the light of two, 100W desk lamps. The video itself was shot at 800 ISO, which has been described by DP Tom Faehrmann…

Commerce Mark Wilson

The Alternate Reality Wizard of Oz Is Perverse Fun

This concept art of a stranger, grittier Wizard of Oz depicts the Cowardly Lion as goth, the Emerald City as the setting for Left 4 Dead, and Dorothy as a smack addict. Poppies are a helluva drug. These quirky re-imaginings are from ConceptArt.org’s Character of the Week contest. You can see the rest of the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Is Spanking Responsible For Global War?

A new study shows that children who are spanked are more likely to be violent later in life. With that in mind, check out this map of the World Anti-Spanking League. Is there a correlation between slapping heinies and warfare? What this map shows is a world where you can see only countries who are…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

In Safety Study, Sheep on Meth Are Shocked With Tasers

Getting shocked with a Taser while riding high on methamphetamines probably beats any white-knuckled cocaine experience hands down. And that’s exactly what happened to some lucky sheep in a new study that tested the effects of Tasers on meth-addled targets. Funded in part by Taser International, the study aimed to test whether Taser devices have…

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34 Ways the Giz Staff Has Been Humiliated by You, Our Readers

Here’s a Photoshop Contest I shouldn’t have done: using staff photos as source material. You really dug deep for some of these, you bastards. First Place—Bobo the Teddy Second Place—Carlos Rodas Third Place—Ron Cassel

Tech News Adam Frucci

Apple Finally Gets Its Patent for That “iPhone” Thing

A design patent, to be exact, meaning: You can’t make a brazen copy of the iPhone and iPod Touch’s “ornamental design,” or else you’ll get sued to death. Of course, this isn’t just about crude knockoffs. The hardware design patent, which includes illustrations and descriptions of what are clearly first-gen iPhone and iPod Touch devices…

Tech News John Herrman

Educational Video Teaches Us That Harry Potter Is Actually Hitler Or The Devil — You Pick

A new video explains that Harry Potter is trying to teach our kids “legitimate” curses, scary “Latin words,” and how to suck blood from dead animals. But he’s also Hitler, because of the lightning-bolt-head thing. Seriously, just watch. [Topless Robot]

Movies Meredith Woerner

MacBook Pro 15-inch Core i7 Benchmarked: It’s So Fast

The new 17 and 15-inch MacBook Pros with Core i5/i7 processors are fast. Fast. Overall I’d say they’re about 50% faster than the last gen Core 2 Duos, which is about the same bump the iMacs got with Core i7. https://gizmodo.com/new-macbook-pros-feature-core-i5-and-i7-processors-5515928 Here are benchmarks to show exactly how much faster. About 50% faster in the…

Tech News Jason Chen

Anything Can Happen In Your Science Fiction Novel — But It Probably Shouldn’t

When you’re writing a SF novel, you have none of the budgetary and practical constraints that hinder SF TV shows and movies. You can have a giant space squid eating the Moon if you want. There are literally no constraints — except for the need to make sense, says Monster author A. Lee Martinez: Just…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

What iPhone OS 4 Doesn’t Give the iPhone 3G

Obsolescence, meet iPhone. It’s true, iPhone OS 4 won’t touch the original iPhone at all. But even the iPhone 3G is getting shafted quite a bit with iPhone OS 4. https://gizmodo.com/how-fast-will-iphone-and-ipad-hardware-become-obsolete-5515066 There’s three two major things we noticed missing from iPhone 4.0 on the iPhone 3G, after running this checklist of new hotness. https://gizmodo.com/the-hidden-secrets-of-iphone-os-4-5513121/?skyline=true&s=i No…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Two Haikus For A Blind Ninja Lawyer

That’s not Ben Affleck / Just some nice Daredevil art / On the stands Wednesday. What else awaits you? / Barry Allen and HulkPool / It’s Comics We Crave. What big event comics debut this week? We’ve got Brightest Day 0 (the miniseries in which everyone old and dead is new and alive again!), Flash…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Gattaca’s Creator Heads Into Post-Apocalyptic World Of Immortals

Andrew Niccol — the writer behind Gattaca and The Truman Show — will journey into tomorrow with I’m.mortal, a Logan’s Run-esque “social sci-fi” adventure. Niccol is preparing to direct I’m.mortal, which, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog: is set in the not-too-distant future where the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid…

Movies Marc Bernardin

Pilotless Navy Helicopter Busts Cocaine Deal During Trial Run

The US Navy’s unmanned “Fire Scout” helicopter was out minding its own business on a trial run, when its home base warship detected a suspicious speedboat on radar. That’s when Robocopter kicked into high pursuit—filming the whole way. The subsequent three-hour chase finally ended when the speedboat rendezvoused with a fishing boat, at which time…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Rumor: Adobe Prepping Lawsuit Against Apple

This whole Apple/Adobe spat is about to get a lot uglier, according to IT World. Their sources say Adobe is prepping for a major lawsuit against Apple in the coming weeks. The updated SDK that was released with the iPhone 4.0 dev kit seems to be the last straw, with its new rules banning apps…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Reuters Cameraman Dies, Leaving Seven Minutes of Violent Footage Behind

Reuters cameraman Hiro Muramoto died in a hospital after being shot in a Bangkok protest Saturday. His legacy, beyond his two children, will most likely be the seven minutes of footage found in his camera, turned in by protesters. Reuters hasn’t released the full, uncut footage of the event, but they have shared a few…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Matt Smith, Karen Gillan And Steven Moffat Take Us Inside Doctor Who Season Five

Why does nobody ever die in Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who episodes? Does new companion Amy Pond fall in love with the Doctor? And how will the new Doctor surprise us? We asked Moffat and the show’s stars our deepest questions. Check out the video for the full interviews, which contain a few very minor spoilers.…

Television Meredith Woerner

Phantom Flex Camcorder Shoots 1080p Video at 2,800fps

Mmm, perforation. 1,000fps may’ve impressed with the previous model, but a whopping 2,800fps at 1080p? Wow. If you crank the resolution all the way down to VGA, you can even shoot in 6,300fps. https://gizmodo.com/phantom-camera-1000-frames-per-second-scary-people-d-5485793 Flex is the latest model from Vision Research, whose professional Phantom line of camcorders tends to the more expensive side of…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Gears of War 3: The Trailer That’ll Depress the Crap Out of You

The third installment of Epic Games’ hulking-dudes-fight-aliens shooter is coming — but not until April 2011 — so whet your appetite with this downer of a tease. The bloody adventures of Marcus Fenix will conclude on April 5, 2011 and, according to creator Cliff Beszinski, “This is definitely the biggest and most dramatic chapter yet…

io9 Marc Bernardin

David Duchovny Still Thinks He Can Save The X-Files

We still love Fox Mulder, even though we hated the last X-Files movie. So when David Duchovny insists the series has one more installment left in it, we’re intrigued — especially if it means Chris Carter delivers some aliens. In an interview with MTV, Duchovny said he was still game to play Fox — in…

Movies Meredith Woerner

de Caires Taylor’s Art

ARRI Alexa Camera Shoots Beautiful Video with Little Light

The Alternate Reality Wizard of Oz Is Perverse Fun

Is Spanking Responsible For Global War?

In Safety Study, Sheep on Meth Are Shocked With Tasers

34 Ways the Giz Staff Has Been Humiliated by You, Our Readers

Apple Finally Gets Its Patent for That “iPhone” Thing

Educational Video Teaches Us That Harry Potter Is Actually Hitler Or The Devil — You Pick

MacBook Pro 15-inch Core i7 Benchmarked: It’s So Fast

Anything Can Happen In Your Science Fiction Novel — But It Probably Shouldn’t

What iPhone OS 4 Doesn’t Give the iPhone 3G

Two Haikus For A Blind Ninja Lawyer

Gattaca’s Creator Heads Into Post-Apocalyptic World Of Immortals

Pilotless Navy Helicopter Busts Cocaine Deal During Trial Run

Rumor: Adobe Prepping Lawsuit Against Apple

Reuters Cameraman Dies, Leaving Seven Minutes of Violent Footage Behind

Matt Smith, Karen Gillan And Steven Moffat Take Us Inside Doctor Who Season Five

Phantom Flex Camcorder Shoots 1080p Video at 2,800fps

Gears of War 3: The Trailer That’ll Depress the Crap Out of You

David Duchovny Still Thinks He Can Save The X-Files

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