Latest

New to Sext? Here’s a Sexting User’s Guide

Don’t know how to give good sext? Fleshbot’s Lux Alptraum told me she’ll give a private lesson to everyone who leaves their name and phone number in the comments of her new howto. [Fleshbot] (NSFW, naturally.)

Tech News Joel Johnson

Microsoft to Introduce Windows Phone 7 Monday at MWC

The WSJ has confirmed that Mic will introduce their newest mobile phone OS on Monday at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. WinMo 6.5 is dead; long live Windows Phone 7. The announcement will almost certainly come during Steve Ballmer’s Windows Phone press conference, scheduled for 3pm local time. According to the WSJ, Windows Phone…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Dune Movie Finds New Writer

Pierre Morel’s much-discussed (by him, at least) Dune reboot has found its writer: Relative unknown Chase Palmer. Palmer has been brought on to rework the existing script to bring it closer to Morel’s big ideas. [Hollywood Reporter]

Movies Graeme McMillan

huBox Adds Another Practical Element to USB Hubs

A USB hub/SD card reader is a handy thing to have on your desk. But the huBox takes both of these components and sticks them into a small, Mac-Mini-friendly box. Clever. (On sale soon for unknown price.) [huBox via AkihabaraNews]

Tech News Mark Wilson

SIMFi Transforms Any (SIM) Phone Into a Wi-Fi Hotspot

First, the Eye-Fi added Wi-Fi to any camera with an SD card. Now, the Sagem Orga SIMFi does something similar. It’s a SIM card that adds Wi-Fi capabilities to cellphones…Wi-Fi hotspot capabilities, that is. Just like the Eye-Fi, the SIMFi runs its own integrated software, meaning there shouldn’t be any special setup on your phone.…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Computer Engineer Barbie Has a PhD In FUN (And Breaking Down Stereotypes)

This is actually wonderful. Barbie’s had 124 careers since 1959, ranging from Stewardess to Paratrooper. Today she gets her 125th: computer engineer. You can tell she’s smart ’cause she’s got glasses, and reads nothing but binary. Barbie’s latest career move is also significant for being the first decided entirely by online vote. Though maybe it’s…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Blazing Poles Of Blue Saturn

Saturn put on an incredible once-in-a-blue-moon show for the Hubble Space Telescope — Hubble was able to view the planet when its rings were edge-on, so that the planet’s twin aurorae, its northern and southern lights, were visible. According to Hubble press site: At first glance the light show of Saturn’s aurorae appears symmetric at…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

A Rebuttal To MacPadd Accusations

Gizmodo’s Comments on MacPadd UnTrue, Erroneous, Unfounded and in Contravention of its Own Terms of Service A long awaited telephone conversation in early in December 2009 with Nick Denton CEO of Gawker Media assured us that our response to the November Gizmodo article would get complete and equal “play-time”. All we wanted was for the…

Tech News David Free

Transcend Ski Goggles Feature Cyborg HUD

Not even Bono can pull off wearing huge glasses to use a HUD through life. But ski goggles? They’re practically designed to look ludicrous. These Zeal Recon Transcend Ski Goggles display GPS, speed, altitude and more in real time. Available this fall for between $350 and $450, Transcend goggles are a partnership between two companies:…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Superheroes’ New Optimism Didn’t Last Long

Before either Marvel’s The Heroic Age and DC’s Brightest Day have even launched, both companies are publicly announcing that their future isn’t that bright after all. Whatever happened to the new age of optimism? Back at the start of the year, we noted that both Marvel and DC Comics were planning linewide relaunches this year…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

New iPhone vs Android App Development, Over Time

A mobile analytics firm named Flurry assembled this chart, plotting the percentage of newly registered iPhone and Android app projects over time. The rise and fall of each platform feels like a blow by blow of major product announcements/launches. The January Apple app development boost, for instance, is attributed to the iPad (despite it being…

Tech News Mark Wilson

LCDs or eReaders, Which Are Worse for Your Eyes?

The NYT published an interesting piece on display technologies, allowing doctors and professors to attack the age old question, are LCDs worse for your eyes than eReaders. The answer? It depends. As Michael Bove, director of the Consumer Electronics Laboratory at the MIT Media Lab, puts it: “It depends on the viewing circumstances, including the…

Tech News Mark Wilson

More Proof That Dinosaurs Evolved From Birds, Not The Other Way Around

A new study of ancient fossils suggests that birds are ancient enough that dinosaurs may have evolved from them. In fact, ancient raptors, usually classified as dinosaurs, may actually have been flightless birds. The study, published in PNAS this week, looks at the fossil of a creature called the microraptor, which had four feathery legs…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Fatal Flaw With Google Buzz’s Edit Button

Fixing a typo is handy, sure, but something tells me that the less morally scrupulous among us will have a field day with Google Buzz’s edit button—namely, this comic. [DogHouseDiaries via reddit]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Ask Giz: When Is It Too Early To Change Your Facebook Relationship Status?

You go out, you like each other, then you blow it by attempting to change your relationship status too soon. Our resident love doctor explains how soon is too soon, and what other freaky behavior might ruin your good thing. One week is way too soon to add the “in a relationship with” phrase that…

Social Media Wilson Rothman

Why Percy Jackson’s Dyslexia Convinced Chris Columbus To Direct

The 12-year-old Percy Jackson isn’t just the Medusa-fighting son of Poseidon. He also struggles with dyslexia and ADHD. These character struggles were the main reason Potter director, Chris Columbus wanted to bring Percy to the big screen, he tells io9. Why was it important to for you to direct Percy Jackson? If I’m going to…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Welcome To Your New Start Page

This is even cooler than it looks: Fav4.org starts your browsing off with your four favorite website’s icons already queued up. You can customize from among the 34 current offerings, and it looks as though they’ll be adding more soon. That’s right: finally all you AOL/ffffound/MySpace/Linked In junkies will have a one-stop start page of…

Tech News Brian Barrett

May God Have Mercy on the Superplexus Puzzle

I can’t imagine the $30,000 Superplexus puzzle as a real product. All I see is a boy who’s trapped some sort of ligneous, sapient life form in a sphere. And he’s spinning it, slowly. [HammacherSchlemmer via TheGreenHead via OhGizmo!]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Here Comes Sharktopus!

Syfy Channel has just greenlighted the long-awaited Sharktopus movie, to be directed by cult monster auteur Roger Corman. Will the sharktopus look like this concept design by Matt Leach? Sources inside Syfy say it will be way weirder. Syfy’s Karen O’Hara, who is the channel’s director of original movies, tweeted Wednesday: Just got off the…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Live-Action Neon Genesis Evangelion Not Dead Yet

We may be able to see the long-awaited Mecha Angel battle some day. Halo Legends’ producer announced that Evangelion is still in the pipeline for a live-action adaptation. And some Weta Workshop concept art hints at the potential awesomeness. Evangelion is a massive series about a group of teenagers who pilot a kick ass band…

Movies Meredith Woerner

New to Sext? Here’s a Sexting User’s Guide

Microsoft to Introduce Windows Phone 7 Monday at MWC

Dune Movie Finds New Writer

huBox Adds Another Practical Element to USB Hubs

SIMFi Transforms Any (SIM) Phone Into a Wi-Fi Hotspot

Computer Engineer Barbie Has a PhD In FUN (And Breaking Down Stereotypes)

The Blazing Poles Of Blue Saturn

A Rebuttal To MacPadd Accusations

Transcend Ski Goggles Feature Cyborg HUD

Superheroes’ New Optimism Didn’t Last Long

New iPhone vs Android App Development, Over Time

LCDs or eReaders, Which Are Worse for Your Eyes?

More Proof That Dinosaurs Evolved From Birds, Not The Other Way Around

The Fatal Flaw With Google Buzz’s Edit Button

Ask Giz: When Is It Too Early To Change Your Facebook Relationship Status?

Why Percy Jackson’s Dyslexia Convinced Chris Columbus To Direct

Welcome To Your New Start Page

May God Have Mercy on the Superplexus Puzzle

Here Comes Sharktopus!

Live-Action Neon Genesis Evangelion Not Dead Yet

Latest news

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Latest Reviews

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Let us help find what you are looking for...

Latest

New to Sext? Here’s a Sexting User’s Guide

Microsoft to Introduce Windows Phone 7 Monday at MWC

Dune Movie Finds New Writer

huBox Adds Another Practical Element to USB Hubs

SIMFi Transforms Any (SIM) Phone Into a Wi-Fi Hotspot

Computer Engineer Barbie Has a PhD In FUN (And Breaking Down Stereotypes)

The Blazing Poles Of Blue Saturn

A Rebuttal To MacPadd Accusations

Transcend Ski Goggles Feature Cyborg HUD

Superheroes’ New Optimism Didn’t Last Long

New iPhone vs Android App Development, Over Time

LCDs or eReaders, Which Are Worse for Your Eyes?

More Proof That Dinosaurs Evolved From Birds, Not The Other Way Around

The Fatal Flaw With Google Buzz’s Edit Button

Ask Giz: When Is It Too Early To Change Your Facebook Relationship Status?

Why Percy Jackson’s Dyslexia Convinced Chris Columbus To Direct

Welcome To Your New Start Page

May God Have Mercy on the Superplexus Puzzle

Here Comes Sharktopus!

Live-Action Neon Genesis Evangelion Not Dead Yet

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor *And* an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Let us help find what you are looking for...

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!