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iPad Social Networking Apps

TweetDeck Like we said when we first saw the screenshots, TweetDeck makes good use of that wider screen to put more information in front of your face—the entire point of TweetDeck in the first place. It’s fast and you can rearrange columns easily by double tapping, then dragging. So far it’s a pretty damn solid…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Element “Ununseptium” To Fill Periodic Table Gap

Welcome, ununseptium. With 117 protons, it is the latest super-heavy element, a discovery that fills a gap in the current periodic table of elements, and bolsters the idea that we may yet find an “island of stability” among heavyweight atoms Uranium, which contains 92 protons, is the heaviest element that is stable in nature. But…

Tech News Kevin Lee

Why Can’t Grant Morrison Stay In Continuity?

I love Grant Morrison. You love Grant Morrison. Your significant other is probably thinking lewd thoughts about Grant Morrison right now. But there’s one place where G.M. gets no love: mainstream superhero comic continuity. What’s up with that? [DISCLAIMER: I do not know the editorial politicking that goes on in the Marvel and DC offices,…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

iPad Books Apps

Comic Reader Mobi Yes! The Comic Reader Mobi app lets you put your own comics (zip, cbr, rar, cvz, pdf support) and read them on the iPad. You can either use the app’s built-in FTP server support and FTP over files, or you can use iTunes’ new file transfer, which is a lot easier. In…

Tech News Mark Wilson

iPad Music Apps

StreamToMe MP4, AVI, MOV, FLV, MPG, MKV, MP3, AAC, WMA and WMV-do these formats sound familiar? StreamToMe can beam them all from your Mac to the iPad without much difficultly at all. You load the StreamToMe software onto your Mac (a background app that’s probably familiar to those of you who’ve used software like Connect360)…

Tech News Mark Wilson

iPad News Apps

NPR Every Giz writer is loving the NPR app, and it’s obvious why: You can’t question the app’s sheer robustness. You can scroll through tons of content on the mainpage, look up any NPR station to livestream and even play some of the most premium content like This American Life on demand. Plus, the iPad’s…

Tech News Mark Wilson

iPad Entertainment Apps

Netflix Netflix on the iPad is freaking fantastic. Essentially the Netflix webpage ported into an app, you can scroll and arrow button tap (flicking doesn’t work so great) through new releases, or you can view a list of your existing queue. One button press brings you to a full-screen stream of your video, which you…

Tech News Mark Wilson

iPad Game Apps

Dungeon Hunter HD Until Blizzard brings Diablo to the iPad, Dungeon Hunter HD is the closest experience you’ll find to the classic, top-down action RPG. You’ll notice a few shortcuts (like grainy icons) that were taken in porting Dungeon Hunter from the iPhone version, but you’ll quickly look beyond these minor blemishes as you hurl…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Cyborg Animals, Mega Piranhas, Eco Skyscrapers, and More!

Every week, we round up the best tips that you post in io9’s tips forum. This week, we’ve got cyborg animals, mega-piranhas, eco-skyscrapers, awesome treehouses, and much more! If you want to post a tip, just click on the #tips link on our navigation bar, or include the word #tips in any comment, on any…

io9 Hena

Mystery Glasses-Less 3DTV With Integrated Blu-ray Player Appears On Amazon

A mystery 3DTV has turned up on Amazon, sans picture but with a retail price of $6,000. Who’d have the nerve to charge that much, Sony? Samsung? No—it’s StreamTV. Whoever they are. StreamTV is a new one to us, and while I’ve got half a mind to scrub it off as an April Fool’s joke…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

This week on TreeHugger, bike sharing goes geeky, we question standing in line for an iPad, Google creates “Translate for Animals” app, awesome ways to hack your moleskine, and more! Massive Lines for iPad Begs Question: Do You ReallyWant One At All? Everyone is talking about how the device is the next big thing in…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch

Deadly Sound Bullets Spring From Newton’s Cradle

Everyone’s favorite clacking desktop amusement has been weaponized. Well, almost: researchers at CalTech have used Newton’s Cradle as a jumping off point for an acoustic weapon capable of ripping through a submarine with its sonic bullets. The concept is similar: 21 parallel rows of ball bearings, each with weights attached to the end. The drop…

Tech News Brian Barrett

What To Do If You’re The First Human To Ever Make Contact With Aliens

Check out this exhaustive guide, covering how to behave if you’re the first human to come in contact with an alien. Handy tips include: “First things first, hold the @!&#;$ still.” This incredibly handy guide is quite similar to the Time Traveler Essentials T-shirt by Dinosaur Comics, but appear to be made by a different…

io9 Meredith Woerner

UPDATED: Harrison Ford IS Saddling Up for Cowboys and Aliens

As those old Indiana Jones posters used to say, “The Man With the Hat is Back,” and he’s taking on aliens. Well, Jon Favreau’s next scifi flick has got to be better than that Crystal Skull business Unbelievably, it’s been more than 30 years since Harrison Ford has played an actual cowboy — seriously, Hollywood,…

Movies Marc Bernardin

iPad Etiquette: The Official FAQ

Etiquette on the iPad is white space on the map. It’s not a smartphone. It’s not a laptop. It’s something new. As early adopters, the opportunity to define proper etiquette is ours. If we let them, the old guard will try to take the reins on when and how we should use this goddamned thing.…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Wii Game Ando Kensaku Puts Your Google Search Results Knowledge To Work

Many an argument has been settled by comparing the number of Google search results, and while the initial victory is satisfying I never would’ve thought we’d see a Wii game inspired by it. Developed in cooperation with Google (who has a rather cutesy image in Japan, as seen in their Street View video), Ando Kensaku…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

What If Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog Were A Nintendo Game?

This absurdly fun fan video reimagines Joss Whedon’s supervillain musical as an 8-bit RPG in the vein of the original Final Fantasy. Sadly, you can’t play the game, but you can download the sweet chiptune remix of the soundtrack. Doctor Octoroc has transformed the Neil Patrick Harris lovelorn supervillain saga into a bird’s-eye view, pixelated…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The iPad Costs Something Like $260 to Build

The traditional iSuppli component breakdowns that attempt to put a neat little number on what a product actually costs to build appeal to a primal part of us, the part of us that wants to know, “Did I get screwed?” “How much is a company making off of me? Was I a sucker?” It’s a…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Dean Kamen Appears on Colbert Report, Literally Armed with Bionic Limb

Dean Kamen is both notoriously shy and uninterested when it comes to media appearances, but Stephen Colbert was able to lure him in with his earnest, unrelenting, right-wing agenda. And Kamen even brought his DARPA-funded bionic Luke Arm. Full video: Click to view Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform If you haven’t…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Mysterious Celestial Body Might Be Supergiant Planet Or A Cool Little Star

This bizarre object, found about 450 light years away in the constellation Taurus, is slightly too awesome to be a planet but slightly too cool to be a star. What is it? There is actually quite a bit of debate about that. The object appears to have a ring of debris around it, and to…

io9 Annalee Newitz

iPad Social Networking Apps

Element “Ununseptium” To Fill Periodic Table Gap

Why Can’t Grant Morrison Stay In Continuity?

iPad Books Apps

iPad Music Apps

iPad News Apps

iPad Entertainment Apps

iPad Game Apps

Cyborg Animals, Mega Piranhas, Eco Skyscrapers, and More!

Mystery Glasses-Less 3DTV With Integrated Blu-ray Player Appears On Amazon

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

Deadly Sound Bullets Spring From Newton’s Cradle

What To Do If You’re The First Human To Ever Make Contact With Aliens

UPDATED: Harrison Ford IS Saddling Up for Cowboys and Aliens

iPad Etiquette: The Official FAQ

Wii Game Ando Kensaku Puts Your Google Search Results Knowledge To Work

What If Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog Were A Nintendo Game?

The iPad Costs Something Like $260 to Build

Dean Kamen Appears on Colbert Report, Literally Armed with Bionic Limb

Mysterious Celestial Body Might Be Supergiant Planet Or A Cool Little Star

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