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Jane Espenson is Blogging Again and All Is Right With the World

The writer-producer who cut her teeth on Buffy and Firefly, and most recently steered the Caprica ship, is dropping science after an almost two-year absence. You should go read. For a good long while, Jane Espenson was dispensing Hollywood-writery wisdom — nuggets of truth gleaned from years working for people like Joss Whedon and Ronald…

io9 Marc Bernardin

Griffin A-Frame iPad Dock Won’t Block Your Music

Masters of Apple accessories, Griffin’s A-Frame iPad stand holds your new precious in both upright and landscape formats while charging, and doesn’t let the dock block the speakers, thanks to cleverly-placed grooves. Made from brushed aluminum, it won’t look too shabby propping up an iPad, which can be held comfortably even if it’s wearing a…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Humble Brick Phone Gets Updated With 22ct Gold and Diamonds

Only ten of these Privé phones have been created—but if they sell more than one I’ll definitely be eating my felt brim at lunch. Each phone’s coated in 22ct gold, and has 76 diamonds studded around the LCD. Yes, that’s an LCD—creator Stuart Hughes claims it’s “bristling with the latest technology WAP, Text SMS, [and]…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Tron Legacy’s Writers Already Coming Back For The Sequel

First, Disney announces a Tron, television series, and now they’re already starting to work on the sequel, more than half a year before the premiere date of the first film. Disney certainly seems confident everything’s following its Master Control Program. Heat Vision announced that Tron Legacy screenwriters Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, formerly of Lost,…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Sidewinder Firefighters’ Mask Has Every Bell and Whistle A Lifesaver Could Hope For

Let’s get a rather important fact out of the way first: it’s just a concept. Little boys reading this should cross it off their list to Father Christmas now, before their hopes rise even higher. The Sidewinder, designed by Jordan Swartzentruber, is a Self Contained Breathing Apparatus, created in that magical, faraway Concept Land where…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Was Galaxy Rangers the Proto-Firefly? Survey Says…Probably

The ’80s cartoon classic featured a band of sci-fi-flavored lawmen working the Western-style space frontier — sounds a bit like that Joss Whedon show we’ve all loved and lost Far be it for me to try and plumb the deepest recesses of Joss Whedon’s brain — as much as I’d like to — but looking…

io9 Marc Bernardin

A Sequel to the Unreleased Tron: Legacy Film Is Being Planned

It makes sense for Disney to be planning a sequel to Tron: Legacy (which is itself a sequel) based on web popularity alone—but it’s reassuring they’re placing enough trust in the film’s success that they’ve already hired screenwriters. Lost episode writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz have been hired to pen the screenplay, and as…

Movies Kat Hannaford

Aerosmith iPhone App “Hit Hard” Trains You Up To Be A (Hairy) Drummer

Grizzled rocker? There’s an app for that. Specifically Joey Kramer‘s Hit Hard iPhone app, who may be better known as the drummer from Aerosmith—or, he who isn’t Steven Tyler. It’s kind of like Tub Thumper or even Tap Tap Revenge, though you could argue most rhythm games are too similar to distinguish between. Hit Hard…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Real Steel’s Dystopian Future Won’t Stop Hugh Jackman From Taking His Shirt Off

Real Steel’s future world is tired of human boxers, so they turn to fighting robots. But even though it’s a gritty, post-industrial dystopia, director Shawn Levy promises it’ll have a lot of heart, and a shirtless Hugh Jackman. Spoilers ahead. While working the red carpet for his movie Date Night, we grabbed director Shawn Levy…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Is Your Book Publishable? Consult This Insanely Detailed Poster

Congrats, you’re done writing your novel! But wait! Does your book have snappy title? A debonair jacket photo? The prerequisite dinosaur protagonist? Before you try to publish, take a gander at this cheeky poster. You’ll be glad you did. This poster by Anna Hurley, entitled “Are You Absolutely, Positively, and Wholeheartedly Ready to Publish Your…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

UFO Hunters Identify 50-Mile “Sheep Mutilation Corridor” In The UK

Members of the “Animal Pathology Field Unit” in the UK have identified a UFO hotspot in the UK, where locals say the skies are lit up by flashing lights and dozens of sheep have been mutilated by mysterious forces. Why are the aliens always mutilating cows and sheep? No word on that yet, but at…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Wii Emulator Shows Off Some Super-Widescreen Viewpoints

This is what Super Smash Bros. Brawl looks like at a super-widescreen resolution, when using Dolphin, a Wii emulator on a PC. It’s so wide, you can barely make it out when shrunk down to fit Gizmodo’s image constraints. The emulator allows for some astonishing viewpoint trickery, with the screenshots posted to the Dolphin forums…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Casting News: Yelchin On Fright Night, Wheaton On Eureka, And Juno’s Olivia Thirlby On Darkest Hour!

OMG, Iron Man pics! Anton Yelchin joins the Fright Night remake, a Juno star joins Bekmambetov’s alien-invasion film, and Wil Wheaton joins Eureka. Major hints for Joss Whedon’s horror film! And Lost, Doctor Who, Elm Street, Caesar and Resident Evil. Iron Man 2: Here are some more promo pics, some of which are definitely new.…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Toshiba’s 1080P Camileo S20, H30 and X100 Camcorders Hit US This Month

It’s taken several months, but finally the US has caught up with the rest of the world and can now pick up Toshiba’s Camileo S20, H30 and X100 pocket camcorders with prices starting at $180. All models shoot full 1080p video and have 3-inch LCD screens, YouTube keys for easy upload, and take SD/SDHC cards.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Half Of Morocco Will Be Solar-Powered By 2020

Apparently Morocco gets 3,000 hours of reliable sun power a year, so it’s not surprising the government is building five solar power plants in the next decade, which will generate 40 per cent of the country’s electricity. Just 2 Gigawatts of solar power will be enough for almost half of the 32 million people living…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Use Vaseline To Make Scratched CDs Work Again

Rubbing Vaseline on scratched CDs to make them readable again is a new one to me, but Instructables has a DIY project up claiming it works perfectly. Mind you, they also say peanut butter works a charm too. Using a piece of cloth, the Vaseline can be slicked onto the scratched CD, and then rubbed…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Tweeting Kettle Alerts Out Of Earshot Tea-Drinkers When The Cuppa’s On

Because of my dependence on tea, I make sure I’m always within earshot of the kettle whistling—but if you’re not, this smartly-designed kettle which tweets via Wi-Fi will alert you when it’s boiling. Designed by Ben Perman and Murat Multu, it also records details on how many times it boils each week, and just how…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

LG Mini GD880 Phone Has New HTML5-Supporting Phantom Browser

On sale later this month after first tantalizing us at MWC in February, LG has confirmed the Mini GD880 will support HTML5 in its “Phantom Browser,” the first time it’s been reeled out by the South Koreans. They reckon it’s much faster and has a more stable internet experience, built using the most recent Webkit…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

15 Things We Learned In Last Night’s Lost

So are you a bit more convinced now that Lost’s final season is going someplace amazing? The Desmond-centric “Happily Ever After” recharged our faith in the “flash-sideways.” Here are 15 cool things we learned last night. Spoilers ahead, brotha… Desmond’s “catastrophic electro-magnetic event” back in season three is still significant. Remember when Desmond activated the…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Chinese Hackers Broke Into The Dalai Lama’s Email Account

Turns out even His Holiness, with Buddha on his side, can’t protect himself against Chinese hackers, with 11 months of his personal emails being monitored according to new security reports. GhostNet, a huge spam network which we heard had targeted the Dalai Lama among others last year, apparently hacked into his account and were reading…

Privacy & Security Kat Hannaford

Jane Espenson is Blogging Again and All Is Right With the World

Griffin A-Frame iPad Dock Won’t Block Your Music

The Humble Brick Phone Gets Updated With 22ct Gold and Diamonds

Tron Legacy’s Writers Already Coming Back For The Sequel

Sidewinder Firefighters’ Mask Has Every Bell and Whistle A Lifesaver Could Hope For

Was Galaxy Rangers the Proto-Firefly? Survey Says…Probably

A Sequel to the Unreleased Tron: Legacy Film Is Being Planned

Aerosmith iPhone App “Hit Hard” Trains You Up To Be A (Hairy) Drummer

Real Steel’s Dystopian Future Won’t Stop Hugh Jackman From Taking His Shirt Off

Is Your Book Publishable? Consult This Insanely Detailed Poster

UFO Hunters Identify 50-Mile “Sheep Mutilation Corridor” In The UK

Wii Emulator Shows Off Some Super-Widescreen Viewpoints

Casting News: Yelchin On Fright Night, Wheaton On Eureka, And Juno’s Olivia Thirlby On Darkest Hour!

Toshiba’s 1080P Camileo S20, H30 and X100 Camcorders Hit US This Month

Half Of Morocco Will Be Solar-Powered By 2020

Use Vaseline To Make Scratched CDs Work Again

Tweeting Kettle Alerts Out Of Earshot Tea-Drinkers When The Cuppa’s On

LG Mini GD880 Phone Has New HTML5-Supporting Phantom Browser

15 Things We Learned In Last Night’s Lost

Chinese Hackers Broke Into The Dalai Lama’s Email Account

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