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This Windows Phone 7 User Interface Skin Makes Old WinMo Phones Feel Young Again

The mobile OS running on this old Toshiba TG01 looks like Windows Phone 7 and it mostly acts like Windows Phone 7. But in reality it’s a clever user interface skin covering up Windows Mobile 6.5. Put together by a fellow named LeSScro, this interface tweak can make older WinMo phones pretend that they can…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

You Can Now Get Officially Licensed Marvel Comics TVs…Wait! What?

A virtually unknown company called RTC23 claims that—with Marvel Entertainment’s blessings—they’ve created “the ultimate comic fan’s TV,” complete with character-themed splash screens and clever little cosmetic touches. We could barely believe it, but Marvel confirmed that they approved. RTC23 is offering 22, 32, 42 and 55-inch LCD and 40 and 46-inch LED HDTV versions of…

Television Rosa Golijan

Scientists Create Hangover-Free Booze

Bad news for weeknights! Scientists in Korea have figured out that when you oxygenate booze, it sobers you up faster and helps prevent hangovers the next day. But it’s not all good news: by oxygenating booze, you’re putting, you know, oxygen in it. And I don’t know about you, but I don’t want a fizzy…

Tech News Adam Frucci

A Villain Who Can’t Kill The Hero Is The Worst Kind Of Asshat

Villains: They’re crazed, they’re flamboyant, and they’re the smoggy, sparking engine that keeps many a story chugging along. Except that a villain who can’t kill the hero for some contrived reason is worse than having your hero fight global illiteracy. Welcome back to Monday Hate, an irregular feature in which we hate things because it’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Paintings For Satellites: Rooftop Art Targets a Google Earth Audience

Artist Molly Dilworth doesn’t want to waste time showing off her work in stuffy studios. Instead, she’s taking her paintings to the rooftops, with vast pieces specifically designed to be viewed by Google Earth’s satellites. There was a similar (though a smidge more lowbrow) attempt at something similar a couple of years ago, when a…

Tech News Brian Barrett

There Is a Rainbow in My Hands

And a party in my pants. I still have to find my pink unicorns, though. Till then, I will keep flipping this book, which makes a rainbow to appear floating in the air, without the aid of any funky pills. It’s still as wonderfully useless and pretty as when it was published in Japan, in…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Why “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland” Is A Steampunk Masterpiece

With Tim Burton’s revisionist 3D flick Alice hitting theaters this Friday, it’s time to revisit the origin story: Lewis Carroll’s original novel. Why has this story endured, and been championed by artistic rebels from 1960s hippies to today’s steampunks? Though there have been many movie and cartoon versions of Carroll’s mid-19th century novel of nonsense,…

Movies Annalee Newitz

The New Dead Offers 20+ Variations On An Undead Theme

Even if you think the living dead are overexposed, Christopher Golden’s short story anthology The New Dead delivers so many iterations of the undead trope that even the most jaded zombie naysayer will be impressed. Can you say “Twitter zombies?” In the last decade, zombies have overrun Hollywood, the comic book industry, and even Jane…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The Origin of Force Quit

This comic was so unabashedly nerdy that we were *forced* to post it. [College Humor and loldwell via theNextWeb]

Tech News Mark Wilson

What Superhero Is Making His First On Screen Appearance In Iron Man 2?

Last week we showed you the first clip from Iron Man 2. And now hawk-eyed fans have spotted what might be another one of Marvel’s infamous cameos. Also, there are new and disturbing-looking Iron Man 2 toys. https://gizmodo.com/your-bilingual-first-look-at-new-iron-man-2-scene-5480561 If you go back and watch the new clip, right around 1:18 there’s an inmate getting his…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Apple Rejects App For Containing “Minimal User Functionality”

A million fart app developers must’ve just started sobbing in hysterical fear as Apple decided to reject an app because it “contains minimal user functionality and will not be appropriate for the App Store.” The app in question, DuckPhone, was developed by Nick Bonatsakis of Atlantia Software and had one simple purpose: To make your…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

The DVE Immersion Room Is Corporate Hologram Hell Back to Haunt Us From the ’80s

The DVE Immersion room might well be the most impressive holographic telepresence setup for sharing 3D Powerpoint presentations ever (better than anything you could buy), but their promo video feels like it was produced by OCP in Robocop. https://gizmodo.com/ciscos-streaming-media-boxes-and-hd-telepresence-gear-f-5120268 The idea, as you can see in the video, is that you’re not trapped in a…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Update: PlayStation Network Is Working Again, You Can Turn On Your Fat PS3 Now

After Sony’s warning, the PlayStation Network seems to be back online and fully operational, according to reader Larry Gallant. Updated https://gizmodo.com/sony-warning-dont-turn-on-your-fat-ps3-if-you-have-e-5482914 I wanted to let you guys know that the phat PS3s are now able to login to the Playstation network and the clocks are working. I was able to login at 6:28 PM eastern…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Who Are The X-Men?

Are Marvel’s X-Men next for an Avengers-style reboot? Ahead of the beginning of the mutant franchise’s next big event, Second Coming, a new teaser image has prompted rumors of a major shake-up to come. The image, released without comment from Marvel today, simply announces “We Are The X-Men,” with accompanying blood on the logo suggesting…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Inside the Excruciatingly Slow Death of Internet Explorer 6

It’s the bane of Web designers everywhere, and it makes most modern Websites look broken and horrible. So why are 20% of web surfers still using it? Today was supposed to be a great day for the Web. As of March 1, 2010, Google will no longer support Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 browser-a decade-old dinosaur…

Tech News Popular Science

Days Get Shorter Because of Chilean Earthquake

Apart from a colossal tsunami, here’s another effect of the 66.6 exajoules liberated by this weekend’s earthquake in Chile: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says that days will now be shorter because the quake shifted Earth’s axis by three inches. https://gizmodo.com/the-wrath-of-god-this-weekend-5482664 The change—which can only be measured thanks to computer models—will result in days that are…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Many Advantages of a $400,000 Cellphone-Equipped Gold Coffin

At first blush, you might look at this $381,000 gold coffin that comes with a cellphone and think: what a hopelessly tacky waste of money. You’d be so wrong. Here’s just a few benefits: • Get back at ne’er-do-well next of kin by blowing $381,000 of their inheritance money on a coffin. • Make outgoing…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Even Maturity And Spy Missions Can’t Tear Chuck From His Best Friend

This season, Chuck has seen best buds Chuck and Morgan torn apart by suspicion and secrets, but as actors Zachary Levi and Joshua Gomez explain, sometimes that’s just part of growing up. Only with added spy subtext. Levi and Gomez spent a recent call with reporters explaining about their similarity to the characters they play,…

Television Graeme McMillan

Project Gustav: Microsoft Research Updates MS Paint In a Huge Way

MS Paint may be beloved but it’s also the butt of plenty of jokes about art skill. Project Gustav is Microsoft Research’s answer: An artist-friendly GPU-intense multitouch-and-Wacom-tablet-based natural painting program. UPDATE: My quick, colorful hands-on video https://gizmodo.com/90-visions-of-future-in-ms-paint-are-terrifying-insane-5033299 Sure, there are geniuses—including possibly one or two on our staff—who can make masterpieces with Illustrator and Photoshop.…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Do Your Part For The Galaxy — Join The Empire Today!

Superstar comics artist Cliff Chiang posted some amazing Star Wars recruiting posters, which he created for the Star Wars Galaxies trading-cards game. We’ve seen a lot of clever Star Wars art lately, but Chiang’s wartime propaganda might be our favorite. Click the first link to see another Chiang masterpiece, an inspirational poster featuring Darth Vader…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

This Windows Phone 7 User Interface Skin Makes Old WinMo Phones Feel Young Again

You Can Now Get Officially Licensed Marvel Comics TVs…Wait! What?

Scientists Create Hangover-Free Booze

A Villain Who Can’t Kill The Hero Is The Worst Kind Of Asshat

Paintings For Satellites: Rooftop Art Targets a Google Earth Audience

There Is a Rainbow in My Hands

Why “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland” Is A Steampunk Masterpiece

The New Dead Offers 20+ Variations On An Undead Theme

The Origin of Force Quit

What Superhero Is Making His First On Screen Appearance In Iron Man 2?

Apple Rejects App For Containing “Minimal User Functionality”

The DVE Immersion Room Is Corporate Hologram Hell Back to Haunt Us From the ’80s

Update: PlayStation Network Is Working Again, You Can Turn On Your Fat PS3 Now

Who Are The X-Men?

Inside the Excruciatingly Slow Death of Internet Explorer 6

Days Get Shorter Because of Chilean Earthquake

The Many Advantages of a $400,000 Cellphone-Equipped Gold Coffin

Even Maturity And Spy Missions Can’t Tear Chuck From His Best Friend

Project Gustav: Microsoft Research Updates MS Paint In a Huge Way

Do Your Part For The Galaxy — Join The Empire Today!

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