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How Regular Movies Are Converted To 3D

Now that Avatar is officially the highest grossing movie of all time, it’s inevitable that studios will continue to push 3D as the new frontier of cinema. But actually filming in 3D is prohibitively expensive. Here’s how they fake it. https://gizmodo.com/avatar-is-now-the-highest-grossing-film-of-all-time-me-5457366 Not many directors share James Cameron’s obsession with three dimensional authenticity, and not many…

Movies Kyle VanHemert

The Slate Walloped the State in Social Media

Two events dominated discussion last week: the unveiling of Apple’s iPad and President Obama’s State of the Union address. Leading up to last Wednesday, many wondered if Apple’s event would overshadow Obama’s. On social media, that was certainly the case. Monitoring Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, blogs and the rest, social media analysts at Viralheat found over…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Apple-Amazon Ebook War Begins: Amazon Deletes Macmillan Books

Books published by Macmillan mysteriously poofed from Amazon yesterday. The reason, according to the NYT, is that Amazon is punishing the publisher for arguing that the price of Kindle books should go up to $15. This won’t end well. It feels like a repeat of the same shit Universal Music, and later, NBC Universal pulled…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

History of Hip: Yesterday’s Tomorrows (Feb 2, 2010)

UPDATE: You can watch the video podcast of our presentation at the Minnesota History Lectures page on iTunes. I’ll be speaking about retro-futurism this coming Tuesday (February 2nd) at the Turf Club in St. Paul, MN. This Minnesota Historical Society event, The History of Hip: Yesterday’s Tomorrows, starts at 7:30pm. I’ll be sharing the stage…

Tech News Matt Novak

Hand-Mounted Mouse or Goa’uld Weapon?

Maybe I’ve been watching too many Stargate reruns or maybe the AirMouse hand-mounted input device was really inspired by Goa’uld technology. Either way, I’m skeptical about its ability to prevent repetitive stress injuries. The wireless device is made of a “lightweight durable fabric that seamlessly aligns itself with the ligaments of your hand and wrist”…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

These Koosh Ball Bullets Make Getting Shot Look Friendly

Look at these bullets. They’re rubbery, less lethal,”almost incapable of penetrating the body,” and happen to resemble Koosh balls—a popular toy. Getting shot with these must be fun. I’m kidding. I don’t really think getting shot by anything would be fun, but it’s really difficult to believe that “[t]his may be the most intelligent way…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Best Buy’s “Optimization” Update: Technically Optional, Still Dickish

An email sent to Consumerist by a Best Buy employee lays out the changes Best Buy has made in pushing their optimization service. Basically, you can’t be forced to pay for optimization—but the salesman won’t tell you that. https://gizmodo.com/best-buys-optimization-is-officially-a-huge-evil-scam-5439590 What starts out promising soon turns shitty. Before, Best Buy would often advertise computers at a…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

This Lamp May or May Not Double As a Wormhole

The Getty Lamp, designed by Marcus Tremento and made from electroluminescent wire and perspex, is clearly the lighting fixture of choice for the Twilight Zone. Limited edition of 10, at least in this dimension. [Generate Design via Nerd Approved]

Tech News Brian Barrett

iPhone OS 3.2 Supports Video Calls, File Downloads, and Pseudo-Multitasking?

Based on an SDK which doesn’t differentiate between the iPhone and iPad, folks at Engadget say they’ve confirmed that the iPhone OS 3.2 has “rudimentary” support for video calling and file downloading. Too soon for any excitement at all? File downloading and local storage in the browser could be great. Just imagine finally being able…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Careful, Old People in Japan May Pee on Your iPad

As if there weren’t enough iPad jokes already, it turns out that there’s a Japanese product—a high-tech adult diaper—called the Aipad. You can guess the pronunciation by the fact that I’m even writing about this. https://gizmodo.com/lets-get-the-ipad-jokes-out-of-our-systems-cause-steve-5458497 The Aipad has apparently been around for a while and has “2 lines of aluminium [which] can be connected…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

One Reveal Too Many On Fringe

I love Fringe to pieces, but last night’s episode “The Bishop Revival” was surprisingly meh. Immortal Nazi scientists are always fun, but not when it turns into yet another reveal about the Bishop family of mad scientists. Again, don’t get me wrong. I like all the weird family revelations about the Bishops, with transdimensional kidnapping/adoption…

Television Annalee Newitz

This Is Exactly Why I Don’t Check My Voicemail Anymore

There are times when I let my voicemail fill up to the point of callers getting the “Sorry. Mailbox is full. Please try again.” message. This is why. Click on the image for a closer look. Look, I’ll return missed calls even if you don’t command me to do so, I promise. Unless you’re annoying.…

Books & Comics Rosa Golijan

Welcome To The Soft Apocalypse

By now, the apocalypse story – which goes back at least as far as the ancient Hebrews – has fractured into numerous sub-genres. Our favorite, these days, is the soft apocalypse, where the end has come but life goes on. Sometimes, things are rough. Not everybody plays fair. Nobody drives Beemers any more. The style…

Movies Scott Timberg

Adobe Busts Out Porn in iPad Flash Crusade (UPDATED)

Adobe is not going to take Flash’s exclusion from the iPad lying down. Their latest salvo: enlisting their friends at Bang Brothers to show just how badly you’re going to miss Flash video on Apple’s new device. https://gizmodo.com/adobe-responds-to-the-ipads-lack-of-flash-5458645 Lee Brimelow over at TheFlashBlog provides ten examples of pages that will be incapacitated on the iPad…

Tech News Brian Barrett

7 New Wolfman Clips Reveal Benicio’s Painful Puppy Transformation

Watch Benicio del Toro’s fingers bend, eyes change color and face skew up horrifically in these brand new Wolfman clips. It’s dark and brooding and Emily Blunt seems amazing, but is Benicio your wolf of choice? Transformation Kill The Beast! Wolf Kiss Werewolf In London! You’ve Done Terrible Things This Gypsy Is No Help Wolf…

Movies Meredith Woerner

This Week’s Best iPhone Apps

In this week’s pixel-doubled app roundup: AT&T’s entire business model, potentially vaporized! Gears and pipes, diligently organized! Google Voice, web-ized! Restaurant menus, analyzed! Ski slopes, virtualized! “Ist” sites, app(et)ized! Ebook apps, plagiarized! And more… https://gizmodo.com/your-old-iphone-apps-will-have-a-home-on-the-ipad-but-5458306 If you’d like to view this gallery as a single page, click here. https://gizmodo.com/this-weeks-best-iphone-apps-5459997 Fring: It’s the oldest VoIP app…

Tech News John Herrman

Body-Switching And Satanic Nerds On Supernatural

In last night’s Supernatural, called “Swap Meat,” Sam and Dean arrive in a small Massachusetts town to fight a poltergeist – but wind up tangling with something much more dangerous. An MIT-bound nerd who loves Latin. Like many of the best Supernatural episodes, this one started goofy, and wound up taking us to a really…

Television Annalee Newitz

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Is Not Impressed With Your iPad

Google’s CEO rarely comments publicly on the competition. When asked directly today about the iPad, though, he couldn’t resist a minor jab in Apple’s direction. Schmidt was fielding questions from reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland when he made is opinion—such as it is—of tablets known. Of course, Google also has a…

Tech News Brian Barrett

First Video of Russia’s T-50 Stealth Fighter Jet

Russia’s been testing its new Sukhoi T-50 stealth fighter jets and so far they’re a success. This video shows the first test flight and is supposedly also the very first time the public is getting to see the bird. With the T-50’s “basic specs” including “greater agility, sustained supersonic-flight capability in non-afterburning mode, low radar…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Spend all week with a flock of screaming Gary Buseys? Don’t worry we’ve got chart porn, a wholly original J.J. Abrams Board Game, plus 10 Marvel TV shows we’d like to see. https://gizmodo.com/the-epic-mural-of-the-internet-doesnt-have-nearly-enoug-5459303 Stargate Universe Writer Asks For Your Help With The New Season Stargate writer and consulting producer for SGU Joseph Mallozzi took to…

io9 Meredith Woerner

How Regular Movies Are Converted To 3D

The Slate Walloped the State in Social Media

The Apple-Amazon Ebook War Begins: Amazon Deletes Macmillan Books

History of Hip: Yesterday’s Tomorrows (Feb 2, 2010)

Hand-Mounted Mouse or Goa’uld Weapon?

These Koosh Ball Bullets Make Getting Shot Look Friendly

Best Buy’s “Optimization” Update: Technically Optional, Still Dickish

This Lamp May or May Not Double As a Wormhole

iPhone OS 3.2 Supports Video Calls, File Downloads, and Pseudo-Multitasking?

Careful, Old People in Japan May Pee on Your iPad

One Reveal Too Many On Fringe

This Is Exactly Why I Don’t Check My Voicemail Anymore

Welcome To The Soft Apocalypse

Adobe Busts Out Porn in iPad Flash Crusade (UPDATED)

7 New Wolfman Clips Reveal Benicio’s Painful Puppy Transformation

This Week’s Best iPhone Apps

Body-Switching And Satanic Nerds On Supernatural

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Is Not Impressed With Your iPad

First Video of Russia’s T-50 Stealth Fighter Jet

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

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