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Join io9 Tonight For Our Inaugural Live Commentary Twack: Dune

Tonight, at 9:00 pm EST, we’re picking a gem from the Netflix Watch Instantly library and tweeting the shit out of it. Our maiden voyage will take us to David Lynch’s Dune. We’re gonna try this once a week, kids: Every Monday night at 9pm Eastern, we’re gonna pick a scifi film that’s available on…

Movies Marc Bernardin

Google Preparing iPad Rival

Confirming the rumors, and after dismissing the iPad as nothing more than a large phone, Google is getting ready its own tablet computer. At least, that was what Google CEO—and Steve Jobs’ own personal Judas—Eric Schmidt is saying. According to the New York Times, Schmidt told friends about the new tablet at a recent party…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Sony’s Nunchuk Is Called the Navigation Controller

We’ve heard that the upcoming PlayStation Wiimote will be called the PlayStation Move. Now we finally know what to call their nunchuk: The Navigation Controller. And following months of worry, we’ll all get a good night’s sleep. [Kotaku via Engadget]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Watch Michael Keaton Slip On Ken Doll’s Short-Shorts For Toy Story 3

Watch the first ever Toy Story 3 clip, featuring Michael Keaton as the resident Ken Doll, complete with stylish ascot and shorts. Plus, we’ve rounded up all 14 of the film’s new toys into one gallery and picked our favorite. First off, getting Keaton to do this voice was sheer brilliance, it’s hilarious and makes…

Movies Meredith Woerner

An Alternate Universe Where IKEA Helps You Build Prisons

Want to set up a police state, complete with instant detainment facilities and torture cells? Now IKEA can help! Just consult these handy instructions for cells and guard towers, with a handy CD of music to torture by. These images are from “IKEA Playlist Kit for Primates,” the third in artist Bill Burns’ series about…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Panasonic Takes Micro Four Thirds Design To AG-AF100 Pro Camcorder

At $6,000 this pro camcorder isn’t likely to end up in too many of our homes, but it’s the first time Panasonic’s used its popular micro four thirds design on a camcorder. The format is here to stay. It’s not exactly hand-sized, but is more compact than other professional models cameramen lug about, and not…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Green Lantern’s Skin-Tight Suit Will Be Completely Computer Generated

Wondering why we haven’t seen any set pics of Ryan Reynolds wearing Green Lantern’s iconic suit? Because the entire costume will be computer-generated. Until the first promo pics are released, we’ll have to make do with this new concept art. SlashFilm is reporting that the Green Lantern’s suit will be completely CG, and as of…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Where’s My Goddamn…Starship Troopers TV Show?

We’ve had one divisive big-time feature film, a handful of shitty sequels, a better-than-you’d-think animated series — but nothing has lived up to the jingoistic brilliance of Heinlein’s military-sci-fi classic. It’s influence can be felt through modern science fiction, from the exoskeletal Armored Mobility Platforms in Avatar to the star-stranded grunts of Joe Haldeman’s Forever…

Movies Marc Bernardin

Predators Scribes To Write A New He-Man Movie

The screenwriters who penned Robert Rodriguez’s upcoming Predators have been hired to write a new Masters of the Universe script. I’m sorry, Hollywood. You can remake MotU, but you’ll never replace Dolph Lundgren. My He-Man killed Apollo Creed. Mike Finch and Alex Litvak of Predators are writing Columbia Pictures’ adaptation of Masters of the Universe.…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Australian Astronaut Reality TV Show One Big Scam

While the whole world is swept up in Virgin Galactic fever, an Aussie scam-artist who fooled the world with plans for an astronaut reality TV show (even hiring Professor Stephen Hawking as a judge, supposedly) has unsurprisingly vanished. After supposedly buying two seats on the Russian Soyuz rockets, Jonathan Nolan from Australia (whose only TV…

Space & Spaceflight Kat Hannaford

New Pics From Inception, Airbender And Iron Man 2. Plus A Possible Avengers Easter Egg And A Warehouse 13 Trailer!

Monday is for spoilers! Delve into photos from Inception, Iron Man 2, Last Airbender and Doctor Who. Investigate an Avengers logo. Learn how Transformers 3 will be different. Watch hair-raising Warehouse 13, Fringe and Supernatural videos. Plus heavy-duty Lost spoilers! Inception: Here are a few new pics from Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited non-Bat movie. The long,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The iPhone’s Popup Problem

Popups were an understandable workaround for the shortcomings of the iPhone operating system. But with OS 4, Apple missed their chance to build a good alert system. Now, popups are about to get way out of hand. So What’s The Problem? You deal with plenty of popup notifications on your iPhones right now. A Facebook…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

MI5 Firing Non-Techie Spies Who Don’t Know How To Tweet

Not every MI5 agent can be as tech-savvy as James Bond’s Q was, but the security service is demanding that they can at least switch on a PC, making redundancies based on computer literacy. With terrorists now using the internet to warn of attacks—and upload videos showing their weaponry/beheading/goats—it’s become vital that MI5 agents can…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Sharp to Make A 3DTV

Sharp looked kind of foolish at CES when all their rivals announced 3DTV sets…and they had only discovered the color yellow. Playing catch-up, they’ve unsurprisingly announced they’re working on 3DTVs for a Japanese launch this summer. Other countries will follow after the Japanese retail launch, providing their RGBY sets go down well over there. Basically,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Now Available

As expected, Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 has officially become available. Including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash Catalyst and 11 more products, it’s pricey—but reaming with the goods needed for any designer serious about their work. New features in the flagship title Photoshop are Truer Edge which has better edge detecting technology, and of course Content-Aware Fill,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Hidden Secrets of iPhone OS 4

Though iPhone OS 4’s real potency will come when developers seize the new tools and build multitasking apps that do crazy, crazy things, many of the OS’s inherent secrets are coming to light. Updated: More secrets. You might have spotted some of these screens in our thorough hands-on videos, but most of nuggets below are…

Tech News Rosa Golijan and Wilson Rothman

Sony Denies Logan Lerman Is In The Running To Play Spider-Man — Again

Sorry, Percy Jackson fans. We thought Logan Lerman was getting a second chance at starring in Marc Webb’s Spider-Man, but Sony says it’s not true, once again. Lerman is definitely out, according to Deadline. But Hitfix stands by their story.

Movies Meredith Woerner

HTC May Buy Palm to Fight Apple

Moribund Palm is up for sale, says Bloomberg. Who is in the short list of potential bidders? It’s not Google, but close enough: HTC. And it makes total sense, because buying Palm could save HTC’s ass in the Apple lawsuit. Bloomberg says that Lenovo may want to buy it too. However, the most interesting bidder…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Where’s That F*cking Lego Piece?

This gets me back. It happened to me most days, when I was a kid. Sometimes I even pretended I didn’t really need the piece, thinking that it would magically appear if the Lego Gods thought I wasn’t interested anymore. It never worked. Later, I tried to do the same with girls with identical results.

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Needs More Dazzler: The Boys, S.H.I.E.L.D., Buffy Gets Laid

What happened in comics this week? Hughie met some super-losers, S.H.I.E.L.D. went old-school, and Buffy shacked up with an old friend. It’s Need More Dazzler! This one goes out to you, Ms. Summers. The Boys 41 (Dynamite) Writer: Garth Ennis Art: Darick Robertson In Part Two of “The Innocents,” a morbidly obese superhero named Bobby…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Join io9 Tonight For Our Inaugural Live Commentary Twack: Dune

Google Preparing iPad Rival

Sony’s Nunchuk Is Called the Navigation Controller

Watch Michael Keaton Slip On Ken Doll’s Short-Shorts For Toy Story 3

An Alternate Universe Where IKEA Helps You Build Prisons

Panasonic Takes Micro Four Thirds Design To AG-AF100 Pro Camcorder

Green Lantern’s Skin-Tight Suit Will Be Completely Computer Generated

Where’s My Goddamn…Starship Troopers TV Show?

Predators Scribes To Write A New He-Man Movie

Australian Astronaut Reality TV Show One Big Scam

New Pics From Inception, Airbender And Iron Man 2. Plus A Possible Avengers Easter Egg And A Warehouse 13 Trailer!

The iPhone’s Popup Problem

MI5 Firing Non-Techie Spies Who Don’t Know How To Tweet

Sharp to Make A 3DTV

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Now Available

The Hidden Secrets of iPhone OS 4

Sony Denies Logan Lerman Is In The Running To Play Spider-Man — Again

HTC May Buy Palm to Fight Apple

Where’s That F*cking Lego Piece?

Needs More Dazzler: The Boys, S.H.I.E.L.D., Buffy Gets Laid

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