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Giz Explains: Fuel Cells and Bloom Energy’s Miracle Box

The Bloom Box is the latest energy miracle that sounds too good to be true: Debuting with a

Behind The Wiki: Meet TV Tropes Cofounder Fast Eddie

One of the richest, wittiest pop culture resources on the web is the TV Tropes wiki. A celebration of recurring themes in everything from anime to classic SF, TV Tropes today has 40 thousand contributors. Here is its origin story. Founded in 2004, TV Tropes and its army of “tropers” was conceived by a literate…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Flash Player 10.1 and the Nexus One’s Battery Life

After all the talk of Flash Player 10.1 and what it does to gadgets’ battery lives, the folks at FlashMobileBlog decided to take the old-fashioned approach to finding out how the Google Nexus is affected: Playing a lot of videos. They found that “video can be played for well over 3 hours over Wi-Fi from…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Android App Store Is 57% Free Compared to Apple’s 25%

App store analytics firm Distimo recently released a bunch of juicy info about the major mobile app stores, and the results are pretty interesting. For one, Android has a much higher proportion of free apps. Apple and BlackBerry are pretty close with their app stores, offering free apps making up 25% and 24% of their…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Iron Man 2 Costumes: The Horror

A new crop of Iron Man 2 costumes are on sale, including the Ironmanette dancer get-up, a trash bag-wearing, rocket-wielding War Machine, and Tony Stark’s glue-on facial hair. This Halloween could be terrifying. The costumes are from the makers of the sexy Cobra Commander, Costume Craze. And we applaud them on their continual effort to…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Apple Removes Explicit Option From iTunes

The joy didn’t last long. According to an iPhone developer, the new “Explicit” option available this morning on the App Store submission software is now gone. He just got off the telephone with Apple, who confirmed the removal. https://gizmodo.com/new-explicit-category-in-app-store-could-herald-retur-5479226 According to the developer, Apple said that, while they are thinking about it, “it’s not going…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Walmart Kills Vudu’s Porn Section Altogether

Just as we feared, Walmart is eliminating Vudu’s “After Dark” section after purchasing the streaming company/technology for $100 million. Walmart, who doesn’t sell adult films and only sells edited version of some music, basically just did what was in line with their image. Sad, since Vudu was the only big video streaming place where you…

Tech News Jason Chen

Toyota President “Absolutely Confident” That Electronics Aren’t Cause of Acceleration Problems

We’ve heard Steve Woz talk about the acceleration issue with his Prius and our friends at Jalopnik have been covering Toyota’s whole recall mess. The entire time software and electronics were blamed for the issues, but now Toyota President Akio Toyoda is telling the House oversight committee that “he is “absolutely confident” that the electronics…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Shooting Challenge: Action Sequence Photography

During the Winter Olympics, we’ve seen more than our share of athletic action sequences—complex motions broken into stills. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll be recreating the effect in the real world (or anywhere else you like). The Challenge Shoot an action sequence of any sort. The Method You’ll want to set your camera on…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Philips SoundSphere Stereos Keep Their Tweeters Where You Can See ‘Em

Before Twitter existed, the term “tweeter” didn’t describe a person but rather a thing—the part of the speaker that reproduced high frequencies. Philips’ new MCi900 and MCD900 hi-fi stereos let theirs hang out for the world to see. Before you get too excited, take note the pretty new systems were announced by Philips’ Spanish division…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Build Your Own Hometree With Exclusive Avatar Concept Art

If you really want to join the Na’vi, you’re going to have to understand their way of life. Luckily, artist Craig Shoji shared with us some of his Avatar concept art showing what the Na’vi eat and how they live. We interviewed Shoji as part of our third massive feature on the design of James…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Gadget Deals of the Day

Alright, you savages, here’s today’s trough of deals. We’ve got the lovely and light Lenovo S10 up for grabs, a nice double shot of BBC Earth porn, and another excellent sample of free lube to compliment your regular porn. https://gizmodo.com/ask-an-expert-how-to-watch-porn-on-your-iphone-5479192 Top Deals: • 10.1″ Lenovo S10 Widescreen Atom Netbook $250 (normally $350). • Planet Earth…

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Meet the United Earth Federation Faction of Supreme Commander 2

Three factions-Cybran, Illuminate, and United Earth Federation (UEF)-control the Supreme Commander 2 galaxy. The average UEF citizen desires stability and order, and they have a strong sense of brotherhood and community. Its leaders are aggressive and driven to ensure galactic order. After the defeat of the Seraphim, the UEF asserted control of the Coalition through…

Tech News Gawkercreative

Is Fourth Realm Author Actually Stephen King or Michael Chabon?

Now that John Twelve Hawks’ Fourth Realm trilogy is getting a screen treatment from Watchmen’s Alex Tse, folks are becoming curious about the identity of the books’ author, the elusive John Twelve Hawks. https://gizmodo.com/fox-puts-watchmen-scribe-on-the-next-matrix-movie-5477888 Twelve Hawks lives, by his own approximation, “off the grid.” Twelve Hawks (which is a psuedonym) has never been seen live,…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Craig Shoji’s Na’vi Artifacts

The Teylu grub, the Na’vi’s main source of protein So once you’ve caught some Teylu grubs, how do you eat them? Here are detailed instructions for wrapping them in a special leaf and cooking them in the firepits. Yum! A Banshee catcher, for your very own adulthood rituals! A Loom comb, for the great loom…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Cellphones’ Location Patterns Show That We Are Predictable Ramblers

A study on cellphone location data—made over users calling every two hours on average—says that human moves are predictable 93% of the time. And here I was, thinking that I was better than a bacteria. The study—published last week in Science magazine—found out that no matter how far humans travel, they almost always do it…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Hurley And Jack’s Somewhat Excellent Adventure

I kind of hope Jacob winds up being the big villain of Lost. He’s just so smug and manipulative, as evidenced by last night’s totally awesome episode. Spoilers ahead. Maybe it’s the fact that Jacob is portrayed by Lucifer from Supernatural, but I don’t trust the guy at all. He’s like a caricature of a…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Ask an Expert: How To Watch Porn on Your iPhone

Apple’s moral App Store crusade has been devastatingly and alarmingly effective, laying waste to over 5000 apps the company arbitrarily deemed objectionable. So, we asked Lux Alptraum, Editor of Fleshbot (NSFW), what’s left? She calmed our nerves. (With porn.) https://gizmodo.com/5000-casualties-of-the-app-store-boob-war-5477566 What Apple’s been doing was widely characterized as a porn purge, but despite names like…

Tech News John Herrman

Happy Birthday, Steve

Here’s to the crazy one. The mercurial. The rebel. The market maker. The lucky guy with the new liver. The one who sees things differently. He’s not fond of rules and bad typography. And he has no respect for mediocrity. https://gizmodo.com/the-life-of-steve-jobs-5301470/ You can praise him, disagree with him, quote him, disbelieve him, glorify or vilify…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Disneyland Reopens Captain EO To Throngs Of Jackson Faithful

The unjustly shuttered Captain EO 3D ride reopened in California yesterday, and people absolutely lost their shit. Fans waited overnight to catch a first glimpse of the George Lucas-produced extravaganza. 200 or so fans waited outside Disneyland Tuesday morning to check out the Michael Jackson attraction, which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, produced by…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Giz Explains: Fuel Cells and Bloom Energy’s Miracle Box

Behind The Wiki: Meet TV Tropes Cofounder Fast Eddie

Flash Player 10.1 and the Nexus One’s Battery Life

Android App Store Is 57% Free Compared to Apple’s 25%

Iron Man 2 Costumes: The Horror

Apple Removes Explicit Option From iTunes

Walmart Kills Vudu’s Porn Section Altogether

Toyota President “Absolutely Confident” That Electronics Aren’t Cause of Acceleration Problems

Shooting Challenge: Action Sequence Photography

Philips SoundSphere Stereos Keep Their Tweeters Where You Can See ‘Em

Build Your Own Hometree With Exclusive Avatar Concept Art

Gadget Deals of the Day

Meet the United Earth Federation Faction of Supreme Commander 2

Is Fourth Realm Author Actually Stephen King or Michael Chabon?

Craig Shoji’s Na’vi Artifacts

Cellphones’ Location Patterns Show That We Are Predictable Ramblers

Hurley And Jack’s Somewhat Excellent Adventure

Ask an Expert: How To Watch Porn on Your iPhone

Happy Birthday, Steve

Disneyland Reopens Captain EO To Throngs Of Jackson Faithful

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