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The Apple Patents Cockpunching All Smart Phones: An Illustrated Guide

Here’s an illustrated guide to the 20 iPhone patents that Apple’s suing HTC over. They’re kind of a doozy. https://gizmodo.com/apple-sues-htc-for-infringing-on-20-iphone-patents-the-5483632 Click to viewTo look at the specific claims, check out the full Delaware District Court and International Trade Commission filings. If you want to view the entire cockpunch on one page, click here. https://gizmodo.com/the-apple-patents-cockpunching-all-smart-phones-an-ill-5483689 U.S.…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Looking At Stars Wars Candid Shots Is Like Looking At Your Old Prom Photos

There’s an endearingly goofy nostalgia about these vintage Star Wars pics. It’s like seeing photos of old friends and laughing about their atrocious haircuts. Check out C-3PO smoking cigs, a boneless Chewie, and a Hoth family portrait after the jump. Seeing the cast of the original trilogy goofing off on set is surreal, and the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

54 Awesome Action Sequences

What happens when Gizmodo readers capture action at 3-5fps? Why, the results of this week’s Shooting Challenge: Action Sequence Photography. Read on for the winners. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-action-sequence-photography-5479455 Second Runner Up “Shot in my New England backyard during the lull in a snowstorm on February 26, 2010.” Camera: Canon EOS 7D Lens: Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8L IS…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Police Call Off Search For Nuclear Scientist Who Vanished Mysteriously

Lachlan Cranswick, an Australian nuclear scientist who worked at a research facility near his small hometown of Deep River, vanished under extremely mysterious circumstances a month ago. Now authorities have given up on the strange, tragic search for him. The last time neighbors saw Cranswick, he was taking out his garbage bins. A few days…

io9 Annalee Newitz

A Map of the Human Body

Sam Lomen’s Underskin charts a transit map to the human body. And no matter what the locals tell you, don’t take the pink line to the yellow line. That’s nowhere you want to go. [Behance via StreetAnatomy via TheDailyWhat]

Tech News Mark Wilson

No-One You Frag Ever Has To Know You’re Wearing Sony’s Stylish DR-350USB Gaming Headset

If Sony hadn’t slapped a big logo on the side of this headset, I would’ve thought they had come from Bang & Olufsen instead. Designed for gamers, Skypers and music-listeners, the DR-350USB (pictured), DR-320DPV and DR-31DPV headsets drop in March. The sexiest of the bunch are the USB PC ones above, which have 30mm driver…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

New Tron Legacy Still Shows The Fall of Kevin Flynn

How far has the mighty Kevin Flynn fallen? The latest picture from Tron Legacy paints a dire picture for the Flynn franchise, but at least it looks like the Space Paranoids game took off, at some point. This new still from BadTasteit, the image was shown at last year’s San Diego Comic Con, where the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Win Achievement Points For Every ‘To Do List” Task Completed On the Dunnit! iPhone App

The humble To Do list has been updated, with the Dunnit! iPhone app using gaming-style achievement points for every task completed. Sure beats scribbling on the back of an envelope I guess, though it’d be better if they translated into redeemable points. Having some sort of incentive to tick off every task on the list…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Killing Joke’s Torture Porn Gets Turned Into Torture Titillation

Alan Moore may have distanced himself from the majority of movie versions of his work. But how would he feel about the Joker/Batgirl torture scene from The Killing Joke that appears in Epic Win’s Holy Sh*t…Batman! Burlesque show? Comics Alliance posted shots from Magdalena Fox’s performance of the scene yesterday, and while we give her…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

“Clash Of The Titans” – Old Vs. New Monster Smackdown

The new Clash of the Titans flick is promising some seriously good monster. I mean, have you see that kraken’s mouth? Holy crap. But how do its monsters stack up against the original 1981 Clash with Ray Harryhausen effects? Let us contemplate the differences, shall we? Click each image to learn more, and to find…

io9 Annalee Newitz

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

This week on TreeHugger, jackets that turn into sleeping bags with air mattresses, bad-ass photos done with iPhones, save energy with glow-in-the-dark toilet paper, underwater fly larvae might be the solution for surgeries, and more! Google Develops a Cheaper Mirror for Solar Thermal, Could Cut Cost in Half Google’s energy division has been working on…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch

Netflix Would Very Much Like to Know If You Would Like an iPhone App (Hint: YES)

Here’s a real interesting question from a recent Netflix survey: “How likely would you or someone in your household be to instantly watch movies & TV episodes on your iPhone via a Wi-Fi network?” If you recall, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings promised that Netflix streaming would come to the iPhone “eventually” just a few months…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Feel Banshee Spit Hit Your Face, In Avatar 4-D!

Forget 3-D, the Koreans are taking the Avatar viewing experience all the way to 4-D. Which means you’ll actually get to feel the spittle from a wild banshee hit your cheek, mid-scream. According to the Post Chronicle Korea’s Seoul Theater has lined up 25 different special effects to give audiences the full 4-D experience: The…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Accordion Table Scoffs at Drawers

I can’t say it’s any more practical than existing kitchen countertops, but the Accordion Table concept would certainly make an impressive centerpiece to your cooking space. Instead of being bolted to the floor, the Accordion Table is fit with wheels (or something that can scrape against your flooring), allowing you to pull and rotate the…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Apple Sues HTC For Infringing On 20 iPhone Patents: The Complete Documents

Whoa, Apple just sued HTC for infringing on 20 patents “related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and hardware.” UPDATE: The patents Apple’s claiming are incredible. We’ve got both full filings below. And HTC’s comment. They’re surprised too! Update 4: A Google spokesperson gives this statement in regards to what’s going on: We are…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Panasonic’s Multitouch Toughbook C1 Tablet Has No Time for This “iPad”

There was a time when the word “tablet” invoked an entirely different vision, of keyboards and hinges and people working on stuff and, well, not this. The Toughbook C1, Panasonic’s 2000s-style 12.1-inch rugged convertible tablet, remembers those days well. That’s not to say that the C1 is overly bulky, or necessarily outdated—its spec sheet suggests…

Tech News John Herrman

The Snake That Ate Dinosaurs

Before sediment buried it, this Sanajeh indicus was about to devour a baby titanosaur. 67 million years later, paleontologists unearthed this fossilized scene of an 11-foot-long snake hunting what would grow up to to be a 75-foot sauropod. Gulp. It looks as if the Sanajeh of the late Cretaceous had a taste for sauropod veal…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The Sleepiest Apple Design Timeline (But Wait! In 3D!)

It’s too early for trance for this mellow (mmm, bed…sleeeeeep) but the 3D models of iconic Apple products from the Newton to the OG iBook to iPad are genuinely delicioso enough to keep your eyes open for. Then sleep. [Recombu]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Steelseries 6Gv2: A Clacky, Stripped Down Tank of a Gaming Keyboard

Steelseries’ 6Gv2 is no frills version of the clacky, all-mechanical, all-tank 7G gaming keyboard, with complete anti-ghosting (you can press many as keys as there on the keyboard simultaneously). https://gizmodo.com/steelseries-7g-pro-gaming-keyboard-built-like-a-tank-c-387145 What you lose versus the 7G to cut the price to $100 is the wrist rest (eh), along with my two favorite features, honestly—two built-in…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

James Cameron Gives Avatar 2’s Title. Transformers 3 Might Show Cybertron. Max Headroom Joins Supernatural!

What do Avatar 2 and Transformers 3 have in common? Mythos, apparently. Bill Murray talks Ghostbusters 3. There’s a Captain America synopsis. Matt Frewer is going viral on Supernatural. Plus Tron, Scott Pilgrim, Doctor Who, Caprica, Chuck and Lost spoilers! Transformers 3: Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner hints the sequel might show a bit of the…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Apple Patents Cockpunching All Smart Phones: An Illustrated Guide

Looking At Stars Wars Candid Shots Is Like Looking At Your Old Prom Photos

54 Awesome Action Sequences

Police Call Off Search For Nuclear Scientist Who Vanished Mysteriously

A Map of the Human Body

No-One You Frag Ever Has To Know You’re Wearing Sony’s Stylish DR-350USB Gaming Headset

New Tron Legacy Still Shows The Fall of Kevin Flynn

Win Achievement Points For Every ‘To Do List” Task Completed On the Dunnit! iPhone App

Killing Joke’s Torture Porn Gets Turned Into Torture Titillation

“Clash Of The Titans” – Old Vs. New Monster Smackdown

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

Netflix Would Very Much Like to Know If You Would Like an iPhone App (Hint: YES)

Feel Banshee Spit Hit Your Face, In Avatar 4-D!

Accordion Table Scoffs at Drawers

Apple Sues HTC For Infringing On 20 iPhone Patents: The Complete Documents

Panasonic’s Multitouch Toughbook C1 Tablet Has No Time for This “iPad”

The Snake That Ate Dinosaurs

The Sleepiest Apple Design Timeline (But Wait! In 3D!)

Steelseries 6Gv2: A Clacky, Stripped Down Tank of a Gaming Keyboard

James Cameron Gives Avatar 2’s Title. Transformers 3 Might Show Cybertron. Max Headroom Joins Supernatural!

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