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Jeffrey Dean Morgan Eager To Return To Supernatural!

Will the original (and best) Pa Winchester ever return to Supernatural for one last round of closure with Sam and Dean? Jeffrey Dean Morgan tells us he’s eager to do it. The Supernatural producers just haven’t called. WTF? Spoilers ahead… Of course, Morgan could be messing with us. We keep seeing the producers saying in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Apr 8 '10

New 3D Burritos Will Revolutionize the Burrito Industry

You know, 3D makes sense for some burritos when eaten in a restaurant, but if the industry thinks I’m going to pay for glasses to eat them at home, they’ve got another thing coming. [Landline TV]

Tech News Adam Frucci Apr 8 '10

The Coolest Thing You’ll See Today: New York City, Infected By Old-School Videogames

What if Manhattan was assaulted by space invaders, Tetris blocks, and Donkey Kong? This stellar short imagines the possibilities Click to view Directed by Patrick Jean with an assured hand-held panache, Pixels: Retro Gamers is sure to get him some Hollywood attention. Let’s just hope, for his sake, that it’s not to direct Alvin and…

Movies Marc Bernardin Apr 8 '10

Smurf Wars: This Is The Smurfing Smurf Movie We Really Want

Smurf War is hell, judging from this graphic-novel pitch for a brutally violent Smurf epic. Read why Brainy is an evil sonofabitch, and Smurfette is doomed. Meanwhile, the actor portraying the live-action movie’s Gargamel speaks: Was Azrael cut? While searching for a better brand of Smurf movies than the live-action version currently being filming in…

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 8 '10

BioLite Camping Stove Charges Gadgets And Cooks Beans

I’m almost too scared to tell you that the BioLite camping stove can burn anything. I don’t want to know what you’d shove in there. Still, the leftover heat can be used to power your gadgets—that’s good, right? Shame it’s not on sale yet, and if it does it’ll be for developing countries only. It’s…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Apr 8 '10

World’s Largest DVR Records 50 Shows At Once, Saves 13 Years of TV

You would need 326 TiVo Premiere boxes to match what the Snapstream DVR can do with just one coax plug. This Snapstream DVR is basically just a tech demo—but it’s one hell of a tech demo. Loaded with 50 analog tuners, it can pull and record 50 channels, simultaneously, from your cable feed onto 136TB…

Television Mark Wilson Apr 8 '10

First Image Of Solar Eclipse In Another Star System

Every 27 years, the star Epsilon Aurigae is swallowed up, and scientists had no idea why. Now, using a special technique that produces images 140 times clearer than the Hubble Space Telescope, we’ve finally gotten images of it happening. Researchers at the University of St. Andrews were able to combine light from four different telescopes,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Apr 8 '10

The iPad Factory Suicides: A Fact Check

To be suspicious of Apple manufacturer Foxconn, especially when it comes to treatment of workers, is reasonable: They have issues. But today’s Telegraph report about a spate of suicide attempts at Foxconn’s Longhua plant can be explained away by statistics. The story, cynically titled “Four suicide attempts in a month at Foxconn, the makers of…

Tech News John Herrman Apr 8 '10

A Drug That Manipulates Retroviruses To Fight Cancer

A potential therapy for cancer already lurks in our own genes. Chunks of ancient viruses lie embedded in the human genome. Administer just one protein to cancer cells and these built-in viruses go hyperactive, eventually killing the cell. The human genome is dotted with “endogenous retroviruses,” the remains of viruses that infected humans tens of…

io9 Annalee Newitz Apr 8 '10

See Android Market Grow: 9,330 Apps Added Last Month

The Android Market still has a lot of catching up to do, but they’re certainly picking up the pace: in March, over 9,000 applications were added. But more apps could mean more problems. One of the advantages of the Android Market so far is that though smaller, it’s been relatively free of junk and redundancy.…

Tech News Brian Barrett Apr 8 '10

Come With Me if You Want to Cry: The Biggest Tearjerkers In The Scifi Pantheon

You might not think to pop in a science fiction movie or TV episode when you’re looking for a good bawl. And you’d be wrong. Here are 15 surefire ways to get the tear ducts leaking. Tearjerkers are like the filmed-entertainment equivalent of the Blues: You put them on to see someone else who’s life…

Movies Marc Bernardin Apr 8 '10

A Woodie MacBook Skin Really Classes Up the Joint

Computer skins are nothing new, but there’s something different about these offerings from Karvt—namely, they’re made of real wood. Bamboo, cherry, maple, pine and walnut—available stained or unstained—pick whichever you’d like. They’re all backed with 3M adhesive for easy stick-on; they all sell for $35 a pop (which really isn’t bad if you’ve seen what…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 8 '10

South Park Shows Us How Facebook Can Ruin Everything — Even Tron

Last night on South Park, Stan got sucked into the day-glo virtual world of Facebook, which looked just like the digitized Tron world. Except instead of light cycle races, guys in unitards want to show you pictures of their dog. Don’t get us wrong — we’re addicted to Facebook as much as the next program,…

io9 Meredith Woerner Apr 8 '10

Crazy-ass Pulp Scifi We Can’t Wait to Read

Outbound — a science-fiction anthology that’s dropping its second issue at MoCCA this weekend — looks like a bloody, brain-pluggy riot. I’ll say it right now: I have no idea what’s in this anthology, from the Boston Comics Roundtable collective, or if it’s any good. But with such an insanely awesome cover, I’m guaranteed to…

Books & Comics Marc Bernardin Apr 8 '10

Minimum Wage Machine Pays You $7.15 An Hour For Cranking A Handle

If you’ve always wanted to work for minimum wage, but in typical overachieving fashion haven’t quite got there yet, the Minimum Wage Machine will pay you $7.15 for an hour of turning the crank-handle. Workers will receive one penny for every 5.04 seconds’ worth of work, which at $7.15 an hour is the minimum pay…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Apr 8 '10

Wii Microphone Muffles Singing For Embarrassed Karaoke Players

Love karaoke, but hate the sound of your singing? Do friends point and laugh when you attempt a warble? Why not buy the Noiseless USB Karaoke Mic for the Wii? They’ll even throw in a set of free steak knives!* It works by plugging into the Wii, or a laptop running Vista or XP, via…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Apr 8 '10

Taylor Kitsch To Sink Peter Berg’s Battleship

Taylor Kitsch is slowly becoming science fiction’s next movie hero. Not only is he starring in John Carter of Mars, but he just landed the lead role in Peter Berg’s epic Hasbro board game-inspired Battleship movie. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Kitsch: is playing a Naval commander named Alex Hopper, described as “wildly…

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 8 '10

Mini iPad To Launch Next Year…Says Digitimes

This is pretty preposterous, particularly if you’re already of the thinking that the iPad is just a large iPod Touch. Digitimes, the Taiwanese rag that relies on Chinese whispers, has quoted itself as saying the 5-7-inch iPad will launch 2011. Digitimes quoted senior analyst Mingchi Kuo, who also works at Digitimes, as “citing talks with…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Apr 8 '10

Newly-Discovered Hominid Species Might Be Homo‘s Closest Ancestor

Two fossil skeletons found in South Africa reveal a new species of hominid. They may provide an evolutionary link between the early hominid Australopithecus and our own Homo genus. The two fossils were dubbed Australopithecus sediba. An adult female and adolescent male, the pair are thought to have fallen into a deep cave in Malapa,…

io9 Tim Barribeau Apr 8 '10

Google Earth Now Educates On Oceans

Many of us travel the world, but stick to just the green parts. Google’s urging people to discover the blue parts, helped largely because Google Earth now includes layers of information and annotations for all oceans. Last year all the oceans were 3D mapped, and had video and photos added for good measure—but it’s taken…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Apr 8 '10

Jeffrey Dean Morgan Eager To Return To Supernatural!

New 3D Burritos Will Revolutionize the Burrito Industry

The Coolest Thing You’ll See Today: New York City, Infected By Old-School Videogames

Smurf Wars: This Is The Smurfing Smurf Movie We Really Want

BioLite Camping Stove Charges Gadgets And Cooks Beans

World’s Largest DVR Records 50 Shows At Once, Saves 13 Years of TV

First Image Of Solar Eclipse In Another Star System

The iPad Factory Suicides: A Fact Check

A Drug That Manipulates Retroviruses To Fight Cancer

See Android Market Grow: 9,330 Apps Added Last Month

Come With Me if You Want to Cry: The Biggest Tearjerkers In The Scifi Pantheon

A Woodie MacBook Skin Really Classes Up the Joint

South Park Shows Us How Facebook Can Ruin Everything — Even Tron

Crazy-ass Pulp Scifi We Can’t Wait to Read

Minimum Wage Machine Pays You $7.15 An Hour For Cranking A Handle

Wii Microphone Muffles Singing For Embarrassed Karaoke Players

Taylor Kitsch To Sink Peter Berg’s Battleship

Mini iPad To Launch Next Year…Says Digitimes

Newly-Discovered Hominid Species Might Be Homo‘s Closest Ancestor

Google Earth Now Educates On Oceans

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