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R.I.P. Robert McCall, The Artist Who Created The Space Age

No artist inspired more love of space exploration and more excitement about our future than Robert McCall, who died Friday. He also painted gorgeous posters for 2001: A Space Odyssey and was art director on Star Trek: The Motion Picture. McCall started out doing paintings of space and space travel for Life Magazine in the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Panasonic’s New Silicon Battery Technology Could Yield 30% Capacity Improvement

Panasonic is going to be rolling out production of Li-ion batteries that use a silicon alloy anode soon, according to Nikkei. The result? A whopping 30% increase in capacity. Panasonic’s not the only company working on the technology, but they’re the first to yield any kind of spec detail. The Si-alloy batteries are expected to…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Rumor: Foxconn Production Problems Mean Long Lines at iPad Launch

An analyst is reporting that “an unspecified production problem at the iPad’s manufacturer, Hon Hai Precision, will likely limit the launch region to the US and the number of units available to roughly 300K.” Analysts make poofy, speculative claims that we ignore all the time, but Canccord Adams’ Peter Misek here is reporting that there…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Sony Warning: Don’t Turn On Your (Fat) PS3 If You Have Error 8001050F!

There is great clusterfuckassery going on right now on the PlayStation Network, affecting fat PS3s. Sony is working on it and they hope to “resolve the problem within the next 24 hours.” Updated https://gizmodo.com/error-8001050f-takes-down-playstation-network-5482365 We hope to resolve this problem within the next 24 hours. In the meantime, if you have a model other than…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

RoboThespian, the Acting Robot, Can Give Robert Pattinson A Run For His Money

He may have plastic boobs saggier than Dame Judi Dench, but as Wired points out, this RoboThespian “shows more acting range than some Hollywood stars.” The British robot has been programmed to show off a variety of acting abilities. His creators, Engineered Arts, have made him completely self-supporting, with his torso capable of bending and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Scientists Have Discovered Booze That Won’t Give You A Hangover

Booze, for all its magical wonder, still has big drawbacks: You can’t sober up quickly, and you often get a hangover. Now Korean researchers have found a way of tweaking booze to limit the fallout — without cutting its strength. Doctors Kwang-il Kwon and Hye Gwang Jeong of Chungnam National University studied the properties of…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Assassin’s Creed II: Multiplayer Available Now, Free For 48 Hours

Assassin’s Creed II is one of the best console games of 2009. And now, Ubisoft has released a top-down multiplayer version of it for the iPhone/iPod touch, free for two days. The game, which is to the console version of ACII what the original Grand Theft Auto is to GTAIV, features a top-down viewpoint. The…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Freescale’s i.MX508 Chip Will Make E-Ink Readers Way Cheaper and Turn Pages 4X Faster

The silicon inside 90 percent of ereaders out there is made by Freescale, and their new chip, the i.MX508—based on a ARM Cortex A8 (sorta like the iPad!)—will make them cheaper, and page turns 4x faster. https://gizmodo.com/whats-inside-the-ipads-a4-5482584 The chip’s a custom SoC that integrates the functions from multiple chips into one—specifically, the E-Ink hardware display…

Commerce Matt Buchanan

NordicTrack x7i Could Allow You to Jog on the Moon

Your Technotronic playlist aside, running on a treadmill is inherently boring because you are stuck in a room running on the same platform. But what if you could switch things up and simulate actual, real world topography? The NordicTrack x7i Interactive Incline Trainer, $2,000, is loaded with Wi-Fi to interface with iFit Live, a fitness…

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson

Mike Vogel “Very Excited” By His Captain America Test

Last week, a long list of actors testing for Marvel’s Captain America movie was leaked. Among mostly square-jawed handsome stars was Cloverfield’s Mike Vogel. We caught up with Vogel this weekend and got his take on the Cap casting. While doing roundtables for She’s Out Of My League, the shy Vogel was pretty mum about…

Movies Meredith Woerner

This Is How You Shoot Some 3D Photos

Sports Illustrated photographer David Klutho is wielding two Nikon D700s bolted together like a double-neck guitar at the Olympics, except his rig is designed to take 3D photos, not bust out sweet guitar solos. [Russ Beinder/Flickr]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

ER Stars Join NBC’s Citizen-Superhero Show “The Cape” And The CW’S “La Femme Nikita” Revamp

Former stars of NBC’s ER are moving over to genre shows. David Lyons will play the lead in The Cape, a cop who becomes a masked hero to clear his name. And other ER stars are joining two other shows. Meanwhile, ER’s Shane West will play the male lead in The CW’s Nikita, a revamp…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

TV This Week: The Avatar Awards Edition

What’s in store this week? New episodes of Lost, Caprica, Chuck, and the 82nd Academy Awards! Will the Academy crown James Cameron the King of the Cat-Men or blow him a big blue raspberry? Watch and see! NOTE: In honor of this week’s Oscars, I’ll be inventing a number of awards to bestow upon this…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

The Myth of iPhone App Piracy

People rarely talk about iPhone app piracy, but when they do, it sounds devastating: 90% piracy rates, $450 million in lost sales, etc. Here’s the truth: App Store piracy isn’t a big deal—and it never will be. With these shockingly high reports comes the general air that developers are being marauded and pillaged by Viking…

Tech News John Herrman

Pelikon MorphPad Combines a Morphing QWERTY with a Touchpad

In the current smartphone market, you need to choose between LCD touchscreens (incredible UI versatility) and real QWERTY buttons (tactile feedback). But the MorphPad offers a third choice that’s somewhere in between. Little more than a proof of concept at the moment, this demo shows us a QWERTY Bluetooth remote filled with dynamic, reconfigurable buttons.…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Is Superman Headed To The Courtroom?

DC Comics have fired their attorney on the ongoing Superman copyright case, replacing him with a man who defended Enron CEO Jeff Skilling. Does this mean that DC are planning to finish this once and for all? Newsarama.com’s Jeff Trexler broke the news yesterday that DC have hired “super lawyer” Daniel Petrocelli to take over…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

40-Display Home Office or Secret Missile Launching Facility

While this is still my favorite computer rig and Gizmodo’s readers setups are still very impressive, I have to admit that Lifehacker’s reader Steve Price is only second to this other computer rig on space. The specs make me dizzy. https://gizmodo.com/kickass-computer-rig-looks-like-death-star-combat-stati-303759 The whole setup is composed by 40 24″ panoramic monitors, driven by six computers…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

How Much It Actually Costs to Publish an Ebook vs. a Real Book

Ebooks negate the most obvious costs of hardcover books: No dead trees, ink, warehouse or shelf storage, so of course they’re cheaper. In fact, isn’t $12.99 for an ebook just a little bit pricey? Wellll, the NYT breaks it down. Here’s a chart using the data Motoko Rich has dug up, reflecting the average cost…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

At Last The Protons Are Getting Ready To Smash In The Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest physics experiment, is finally ramping up to do some serious proton smashing. Over the weekend, scientists began cycling protons through the miles-long accelerator. Over at Symmetry Breaking, Daisy Yuhas reports: The beams had an energy of 450 billion electron volts (GeV), which is the energy at which they…

io9 Annalee Newitz

“Clueless For Vampires” Will Save Us From Twilight’s Fey Vampires

In the midst of a vampire-movie flood, there’s one film we’re very excited about: Amy Heckerling’s Vamps. Besides bringing back Heckerling’s partnership with Alicia Silverstone, it sounds pretty clever clever according to what the lead, Krysten Ritter, told us. Spoilers… We caught up with the hilarious Krysten Ritter at the roundtables for her up-and-coming film…

Movies Meredith Woerner

R.I.P. Robert McCall, The Artist Who Created The Space Age

Panasonic’s New Silicon Battery Technology Could Yield 30% Capacity Improvement

Rumor: Foxconn Production Problems Mean Long Lines at iPad Launch

Sony Warning: Don’t Turn On Your (Fat) PS3 If You Have Error 8001050F!

RoboThespian, the Acting Robot, Can Give Robert Pattinson A Run For His Money

Scientists Have Discovered Booze That Won’t Give You A Hangover

Assassin’s Creed II: Multiplayer Available Now, Free For 48 Hours

Freescale’s i.MX508 Chip Will Make E-Ink Readers Way Cheaper and Turn Pages 4X Faster

NordicTrack x7i Could Allow You to Jog on the Moon

Mike Vogel “Very Excited” By His Captain America Test

This Is How You Shoot Some 3D Photos

ER Stars Join NBC’s Citizen-Superhero Show “The Cape” And The CW’S “La Femme Nikita” Revamp

TV This Week: The Avatar Awards Edition

The Myth of iPhone App Piracy

Pelikon MorphPad Combines a Morphing QWERTY with a Touchpad

Is Superman Headed To The Courtroom?

40-Display Home Office or Secret Missile Launching Facility

How Much It Actually Costs to Publish an Ebook vs. a Real Book

At Last The Protons Are Getting Ready To Smash In The Large Hadron Collider

“Clueless For Vampires” Will Save Us From Twilight’s Fey Vampires

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