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Samsung TL500 Impressions: Flagship Point-and-Shoot Scores Early Praise

Is Samsung’s flagship point-and shoot, the new TL500, truly worthy of the Bestmodo moniker we slapped on its butt yesterday afternoon? Well, let’s put it this way: Maybe the Canon S90 does have something to worry about after all. https://gizmodo.com/canon-s90-review-itll-never-leave-my-pocket-except-wh-5393112 You see, the first hands-on impressions are starting to trickle in on this camera, and…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Andrew Koenig Missing

Filmmaker and actor Andrew Koenig, whose work includes Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, voicework on GI Joe and Batman fanfilm Dead End, has officially been reported as a missing person, having not been seen for the last week. Koenig was last seen last Sunday in Vancouver, but didn’t make his scheduled flight back to the…

io9 Graeme McMillan

MIT Flyfire Robot Swarm Concept Could Create 3D LED Displays in the Sky

A gaggle of MIT inventors are presently working to create a swarm of micro LED-equipped heli-robots that would hover autonomously in the sky and create massive works of floating 3D artwork. The coming apocalypse, it just got prettier! The program, called Flyfire, would sync up hundreds (and thousands?) of tiny helicopter robots to create, say,…

Artificial Intelligence Jack Loftus

Enter the SCP Foundation’s Bottomless Catalog of the Weird

Do you like short works of fiction? Do you like things that are effin’ strange? This may be the website for you. Every now and then, you find a site that starts out as an entertaining diversion and quickly comes to vacuum up more and more of your free time. I’ve found the SCP Foundation…

io9 Alex Eichler

Casio Exilim EX-S7, EX-Z35 Point-and-Shoots Descend On Entry-Level Market

Meet the Casio Exilim EX-S7 and EX-Z35, a pair of low-price point-and-shoots debuting at PMA 2010 this weekend. They aren’t going to blow the doors off anything, but that’s the point. These are entry-level shooters with a pleasantly entry-level price. The pair feature 12.1MP sensors, coupled with some web uploading software and a 3x zoom.…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Waterproof G5WP Tops Refreshed GE Point-and-Shoot Lineup

There’s a camera show going down in Anaheim right now, and with it has come a whole mess of budget cameras. GE put a few more on the growing pile today, including additions to its entry-level Power Series point-and-shoots. The blue example above is the waterproof G5WP, set to ship later this year for $180.…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Adobe Flash Developer Says iPad’s Flash Allergy Due to Hovering, Clicking Cursors

Flash on the iPad/iPhone will never happen, right, and the reasons have run the gamut from “Apple vendetta” to “Flash is an energy and resource hog.” Is the real, mind-numbingly simple explanation all about touch, mouse cursors and hovering? Possibly! Updated. That’s what a real, live Adobe Flash developer is saying this weekend, and I…

Tech News Jack Loftus

80s Thai Horror Movie Posters Will Melt Your Face

In the 1980s, painted movie ads were the norm in Thailand. These exquisitely creepy collages didn’t just divulge important plot points to audiences… they were scarier than the movies themselves. Like Ghana, Thailand is one of those nations where the painted movie poster was an art form unto itself. Here are some of the best…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Girl Comics Editor: The Title Could’ve Been Worse

The announcement of Marvel Comics’ three-issue Girl Comics anthology was roundly criticized for sexism in everything from intent to title, but as editor Janine Schaefer showed in a recent interview, she knew what she was getting into. Talking to Comic Book Resources, Schaefer said, When the other editors on the project and I decided we…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Myth Bustin’ Box

If you’re MythBusters’ (and Giz Explains’) Adam Savage, you don’t store your tools in just any toolbox. No, sir. You store them in a Savage Toolbox. Duh. [Braincraft] https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-how-electrocution-really-kills-you-5262971

Tech News Jack Loftus

Sony’s Gorgeous Alpha Micro Four Thirds Fighter Sadly Just a Concept (For Now)

Today Sony made a play at the micro four thirds format, promising giant DSLR quality in a little camera. The camera in question arrives as part of a slew of just announced concept cameras in the Alpha line: – Concept model of an ultra-compact interchangeable lens digital camera system that packs the quality of a…

Tech News Jack Loftus

APIDIS Automated Film Crew Could Produce the Perfect Sports Coverage

At the end of many sport games, the commentators inevitably give shouts outs to the camera crew, who wave back with toothy smiles. It’s a touching, simple “thank you” for covering the game. Sadly, these poor saps are all doomed. Now, I don’t know when the end will come for these unfortunate souls, but I…

Artificial Intelligence Jack Loftus

The 10 Funniest Comedy Sketches About Aliens

Aliens are inherently funny, even when they’re drinking the marrow out of your funny bone. These are ten of the best alien-themed sketches this side of the Crab Nebula (and no, Coneheads is not #1). 10.) “Spacelords” from Human Giant (2007) An extra-dimensional despot and his crew disintegrate a bunch of food service workers, take…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

Can Dolphins Help Scientists Cure Diabetes?

Not content with trying to warn us about the impending destruction of the planet Earth, it now appears that dolphins may also hold the key to curing a strain of diabetes. Is there nothing these cute mammals can’t do? According the scientists, the key lies in dolphins’ ability to voluntarily control insulin resistance that can…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Inevitably Pricey Sigma DP2s Focuses Faster, Plays Well with Macs

I doubt Sigma’s DP2s (stress “s”) update will clean up Wilson’s DP2 review in any real way, but the improved autofocus algorithm could help reduce the camera’s complexity a tad. Thing’s still going to be expensive though. https://gizmodo.com/sigma-dp2-camera-review-its-complicated-5275208 Now that’s only an educated guesstimate, using Sigma’s existing pricing practices as a guide, because official pricing…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Dark Knight Pirater Sentenced

Now we know the true cost of Batman’s justice: A Missouri man has been sentenced to two years in prison for illegally recording The Dark Knight in a movie theater and going on to sell it as bootleg DVDs. In addition to the 24 month sentence, Robert Henderson – who pleaded guilty to criminal copyright…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Tantalizing iPhone Code Clues Hint at Future Video Chat Capability

Morning! And welcome to another edition of “Hey, it looks like the iPhone might soon have video chat and a front-facing camera.” Today’s round includes the iPhone SDK, and the fact that it mentions a number of video chat commands: That there image is from the SDK, and all but hits you in the face…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Lego Crawler Town Makes Having a Tiny Yellow Head Totally Worth It

I’ve played with my fair share of LEGOs, but I never actually envied the little guys until I saw Dave DeGobbi’s Crawler Town, a work as impressively conceived as it is constructed. I’d forfeit bendable elbows to live in it. It sort of reminds me of those old books on a single building—Castles or Pyramids…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

HTC Desire ROM Puts Flash On Your Nexus One

If you’re a Nexus One owner and you have a sense of adventure—or are black-out drunk—you can now flash an alpha version of the leaked HTC Desire ROM on your phone. Speaking of Flash, this ROM has it. Have you secretly harbored Desire-envy ever since its unveiling at MWC? This is your chance to close…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Self-Assembling Polymers, And Other Best Science Images Of The Year

The National Science Foundation has announced the winners of its 2009 “Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge,” and there are some seriously gorgeous, weird pictures in the mix. Check out some of our favorites. All text comes from NSF. See more about the NSF contest, more winners, and how you can enter next year, here. First…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Samsung TL500 Impressions: Flagship Point-and-Shoot Scores Early Praise

Andrew Koenig Missing

MIT Flyfire Robot Swarm Concept Could Create 3D LED Displays in the Sky

Enter the SCP Foundation’s Bottomless Catalog of the Weird

Casio Exilim EX-S7, EX-Z35 Point-and-Shoots Descend On Entry-Level Market

Waterproof G5WP Tops Refreshed GE Point-and-Shoot Lineup

Adobe Flash Developer Says iPad’s Flash Allergy Due to Hovering, Clicking Cursors

80s Thai Horror Movie Posters Will Melt Your Face

Girl Comics Editor: The Title Could’ve Been Worse

Myth Bustin’ Box

Sony’s Gorgeous Alpha Micro Four Thirds Fighter Sadly Just a Concept (For Now)

APIDIS Automated Film Crew Could Produce the Perfect Sports Coverage

The 10 Funniest Comedy Sketches About Aliens

Can Dolphins Help Scientists Cure Diabetes?

Inevitably Pricey Sigma DP2s Focuses Faster, Plays Well with Macs

Dark Knight Pirater Sentenced

Tantalizing iPhone Code Clues Hint at Future Video Chat Capability

Lego Crawler Town Makes Having a Tiny Yellow Head Totally Worth It

HTC Desire ROM Puts Flash On Your Nexus One

Self-Assembling Polymers, And Other Best Science Images Of The Year

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