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io9 Book Club Meeting: Paolo Bacigalupi’s “Windup Girl”

The io9 Book Club is officially in session. This week, we’ll be discussing Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel The Windup Girl, which was just nominated for a Nebula Award. Let’s start talking in comments. One of the reasons we picked this book for the reading group is that Bacigalupi has written a very ambitious novel whose contents…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

37 ChatRoulette Interactions I Really Wish Actually Happened

ChatRoulette, for the unaware, is the insane new site that randomly connects two videochatters together. It’s mostly used by gross dudes masturbating and stoned college kids. But here are some examples of how it could be so much more. First Place—Neal Rosenblat Second Place—Thrillcox Third Place—Balazs Denes Kovacs

Tech News Adam Frucci

A More Awesome (But Maybe Creepier!) Way to Facebook Friend That Girl You’re Talking To With Augmented Reality

The Astonishing Tribe’s latest demo is Recognizr, an app that blends Polar Rose’s face recognition tech with augmented reality and social networking—point your phone’s camera at somebody’s face, and their contact info and social networks will magically appear. You have to join the Recognizr service and upload a photo to the database in order to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Danny Glover Isn’t Too Old To Play The Captain Ahab Of Dragon-Hunters

It’s Moby Dick with dragons. Need we say more? Okay, what if we told you Danny Glover was playing Captain Ahab, who is clearly not too old for this dragon shit? Check out the first video from Dragon Fire. After viewing this film, it’s all we can do not to run around screaming, “Get out…

Movies Meredith Woerner

FarmVille Is a Perfect Demonstration Why Flash Is Stupid in Mobiles

Adobe spends considerable money trying to make us believe that Flash is an indispensable part of the Web. But like a friend said on Twitter, this Nexus demo video shows why Flash is not worth it in any mobile device. He is right. It’s not only the battery consumption, but the incessant zooming and scrolling,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

iTunes Will Sell 10 Billionth Song Today

10 billion. We can count up to 10 billion. But we won’t. Because it’s boring. But Apple’s doing it, in their 10 billion song countdown. I remember when everybody laughed at the iPod and iTunes. Nobody is laughing now. [Apple] https://gizmodo.com/itunes-store-nearing-10-billion-song-downloads-apple-g-5470102

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Force Will Be With Your Subway Tokens… Always

Finally, a use for all your old subway tickets: Follow the example of artist Hubert de Lartigue and make them into your own galactic rebellion. [Via TechEBlog]

io9 Graeme McMillan

Grass Lamp Reminds You the Grass Is Always Greener In the Country

Small flat-dwellers are accustomed to having one object perform two functions (my coffee table also stores bed linen, for example), but I’ve never seen a lamp become a garden. While you can’t grow a crop of tomatoes in Marko Vuckovi‘s Grass Lamp, the grass will flourish under the lamp’s light and remind you the grass…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Three Kinds of Windows Phone 7 Phones

During the Frankly Speaking podcast, the hosts, who are Microsoft Australia Developer Evangelists spilled some details on how limited the hardware for Windows Phone 7…phones are going to be. There are precisely three chassis variants. https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-7-and-the-end-of-hardware-choice-5475916 Chassis 1 is the phone we all saw on launch day—a huge touchscreen with a minimum 1GHz processor (read:…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

MSI Air Keyboard Mouse Is Like a QWERTY Keypad Crossed With a Wiimote

The upcoming MSI Air Keyboard is an HTPC keyboard/mouse combo that fits right in your hands much like a game controller. Because aside from the typical QWERTY layout, the back is ergonomic for dual-handed use, and it even includes LB and RB shoulder triggers. And much like the Wiimote, the Air doubles as a mouse…

Tech News Mark Wilson

This Week’s Comics Bring Pulpy Goodness And Gonzo Superheroes

What’re you looking for this week? Zombies? Superpowered kung-fu action? Werewolves fighting vampires on the moon? Electric pirates? Old-school pulp men of the future? All of those and more are filling the pages of this week’s new comics. Get excited. Something else to be excited about: Diamond’s website is back, which means we’re working from…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

China to Everybody: Hacks! Hacks? What Hacks?

Even as US authorities are getting pretty damn sure who’s behind the high-level hacking attempts from the other month, and that they were launched from the Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School, China’s all “Nuh uh, eff you guys.” https://gizmodo.com/chinese-hacker-responsible-for-google-attack-code-ident-5477367 I mean, that really is the essence of their rebuttal. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Brilliant and Blinding Blow Outs: The Wallpapers

The entrants to this week’s Shooting Challenge: Blow Out are now available in wallpaper form. They’re spectacular, but you might want to set your icon text to black before proceeding. [Giz Flickr] https://gizmodo.com/122-brilliant-and-blinding-blow-outs-5477376

Tech News Mark Wilson

An Industrial Factory That Floats Partly In Air

Only the AIs with their metal balloon bodies could build the ray-capture cells that provided energy for the whole planet. They worked tirelessly in factories steaming with byproducts, surrounded by the gleaming rectangles created to capture gamma rays. These images by Seattle concept artist Thomas Scholes capture otherworldly landscapes, from the AI factory to the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Belkin’ SuperSpeed USB 3.0 PCIe Card and ExpressCard Grant Older PCs USB 3.0 Powers

Hey, you know about USB 3.0 by now, right? It’s here! It’s fast! And while Belkin’s SuperSpeed USB 3.0 PCIe Card and ExpressCard may not be superspeedier than any other USB 3.0 product, they are early to the market. Belkin’s SuperSpeed USB 3.0 PCIe add-in card gives your computer two USB 3.0 ports, which means…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Axe Cop Will Chop Your Head Off

If you haven’t experienced the webcomic phenomenon that is Axe Cop, cancel all your plans for the next 15 minutes. It’s about a cop with an axe, as written by a mad genius five-year-old. This Christmas, Eisner-nominated comic artist Ethan Nicolle began setting the stories spun by his five-year-old brother Malachi to paper. The final…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Sigma SD15 DSLR Gets Full Specs

Maybe the Sigma SD15—which we saw last year at PMA2009—will be released one of these days, after being announced in 2006. This time, at least, they have complete technical details, like its 21 image RAW burst 3fps mode: https://gizmodo.com/sigmas-flagship-sd15-dslr-feels-like-a-rock-in-a-good-5164524 They also claim a lifetime of 100,000 shutter clicks, which is comparable to high-end Nikons and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

This week on TreeHugger, energy efficient Star Wars-like robots for the military, India getting 500% more of our e-crap over next 10 years, six sidewalks that work while you walk, Bloom replacing the electricity grid (?), and more! Selling Like Hotcakes: Battery Suppliers for Mitsubishi’s i-MiEV to Boost Production by 50% It looks like Mitsubishi…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch

Fox Puts Watchmen Scribe On “The Next Matrix” Movie

It’s about time someone got around to translating the immensely popular and action-packed Fourth Realm trilogy. But Fox has hired Watchmen’s Alex Tse to do so, which makes us a little nervous. The series, penned by John Twelve Hawks, starts with The Traveler and is followed by The Dark River and later the The Golden…

Movies Meredith Woerner

New Art Reveals Iron Man’s Back-Up Dancers, The Ironettes

You might have noticed Tony Stark going all James Brown in the Iron Man 2 trailer, with a set of cheerleader-esque backup dancers. They’re called the Ironettes, and an artist has posted some cool-looking sketches. Minor spoilers below. One of the Ironettes is played by cheerleader Renee Herlocker, who tells an interviewer that the dance…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

io9 Book Club Meeting: Paolo Bacigalupi’s “Windup Girl”

37 ChatRoulette Interactions I Really Wish Actually Happened

A More Awesome (But Maybe Creepier!) Way to Facebook Friend That Girl You’re Talking To With Augmented Reality

Danny Glover Isn’t Too Old To Play The Captain Ahab Of Dragon-Hunters

FarmVille Is a Perfect Demonstration Why Flash Is Stupid in Mobiles

iTunes Will Sell 10 Billionth Song Today

The Force Will Be With Your Subway Tokens… Always

Grass Lamp Reminds You the Grass Is Always Greener In the Country

The Three Kinds of Windows Phone 7 Phones

MSI Air Keyboard Mouse Is Like a QWERTY Keypad Crossed With a Wiimote

This Week’s Comics Bring Pulpy Goodness And Gonzo Superheroes

China to Everybody: Hacks! Hacks? What Hacks?

Brilliant and Blinding Blow Outs: The Wallpapers

An Industrial Factory That Floats Partly In Air

Belkin’ SuperSpeed USB 3.0 PCIe Card and ExpressCard Grant Older PCs USB 3.0 Powers

Axe Cop Will Chop Your Head Off

Sigma SD15 DSLR Gets Full Specs

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

Fox Puts Watchmen Scribe On “The Next Matrix” Movie

New Art Reveals Iron Man’s Back-Up Dancers, The Ironettes

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