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On Fringe, Confirmation Of A Dark Secret We Suspected All Along

On Thursday night’s Fringe, called “What Lies Below,” we were introduced to an ancient supervirus – and learned Walter’s darkest secret. This episode was clearly a tip of the hat to X-Files. It was about an ancient virus discovered in oil, and oil infection imagery was everywhere. (For those who missed out, one of the…

Television Annalee Newitz

Cold War Aircraft Used To Seat 120, Now Sleeps Two

If you’re thinking to yourself, “that’s sort of a small window for a luxury hotel suite,” well, you’re right. But it’s only because this room occupies the entirety of a repurposed Cold War-era East German aircraft. OK, the view isn’t anything special: the plane stays grounded outside the Teuge airport in the Netherlands. But the…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Watch a Nokia N900 Dual-Boot Maemo and Android

Though just a proof of concept for now, this clip shows the hack-friendly Nokia N900 dual-booting Maemo and Android. It’s only a taste, but as the dual-booter Brandon says, “its real and it could be spectacular.” [Brandon’s Posterous via jkOnTheRun]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Blueprint For a Hangover

The good people at Flowing Data uncovered this old graphic which they dubbed the “Engineer’s Guide to Drinks.” The name’s fitting: unless you’re an engineer these diagrams will probably leave you more frustrated than inebriated. The graphic uses an intricate system of symbols, patterns, and shadings to illustrate the precise proportions and exact ingredients for…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Which Movies Really Have The Best And Worst Science?

The debate over bad science in science-fiction movies has gotten a major new source of ammunition: Phil Plait, writing for Discover Magazine, has rounded up a fairly definitive list of the best and worst moments in movie science. Some of the inclusions for bad science won’t surprise you too much. There’s The Core, of course,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

How To: Get Multitouch On Your Droid or Nexus One

This generation of Android phones is faster, more powerful and generally awesome-er than anything before. But for whatever reason, they don’t have one thing other smartphones take for granted: multitouch. Here’s how to fix that, and so much more. Google’s Nexus one and Verizon’s Motorola Droid are, in a sense, miles ahead their competitors in…

Tech News John Herrman

Marvel Take On Dick’s Ant In April

Announced at last summer’s San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Comics‘ adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Ant has finally been scheduled for release this April, complete with covers by io9 favorite Paul Pope. Here’s a taste of what’s to come.

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Apple Patents: iPods Get Solar, Gestures Get Funky

Apple patents come a dime a dozen, but these two seem both practical and implementable. The first outlines a solar powered iPod and the second details more specific gesture-based input methods, including scoops, nudges, and tilts. The first patent, published last week, details a system in which an iPod draws power from solar cells covering…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

How To Hack Multitouch Onto Your Motorola Droid

Your Motorola Droid supports mulitouch, so why isn’t it included in your stock browser? Don’t know, don’t care: here’s how to get it, along with lots of other help tweaks, right now. WARNING: You should be fine if you follow the instructions closely, but there’s a slim chance you could brick you phone. And unless…

Tech News John Herrman

At Last, A Computer That Takes The Measure Of Hydrogen Molecules

Thanks to quantum computing, we now have a fairly precise idea how much energy a hydrogen molecule gives off. Gone are the days when we had to guess this sort of thing by tossing atoms from hand to hand. A joint research project between chemists at Harvard and physicists at the University of Queensland has…

io9 Alex Eichler

The Week in Gizmodo

Tabletmania continues! This week saw a slew of new rumors on Apple’s mystery device and some healthy speculation on the next iPhone, too. Also making noise: Pre Plus, HTML5, SSDs, Kindle apps and the punch heard ’round the Apple Store. Apple’s January 27th event was confirmed with a splatter of paint. https://gizmodo.com/apple-january-27th-come-see-our-latest-creation-event-5451005 And oh were…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

How To Hack Multitouch Onto Your Nexus One

Your Nexus One supports mulitouch, so why isn’t it included in your stock browser? Don’t know, don’t care: here’s how to get it, along with lots of other help tweaks, right now. WARNING: You should be fine if you follow the instructions closely, but there’s a slim chance you could brick you phone. And unless…

Tech News John Herrman

How To Make NBC’s Loss Your Gain

NBC’s late night slaughter/shuffle may have been a publicity black eye for the broadcaster, public douche outing for Jay Leno and humiliating public execution for Conan O’Brien, but that doesn’t mean it’s not an opportunity for you, wannabe broadcaster. The dropping of Jay Leno’s five-nights-a-week prime time chat show means that NBC suddenly had five…

Television Graeme McMillan

Hear What It Sounds Like Under Antarctica…Live

PALAOA, the Perennial Acoustic Observatory in the Antarctic Ocean, listens to the waters below Antarctica for the sounds of whales and other marine mammals amidst a soundscape of constantly shifting ice. Here’s what they’re hearing right now. PALAOA’s Livestream page has links to the audio stream in both MP3 and OGG-Vorbis. If you’re expecting to…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

After Caprica’s Official Debut, What Did You Think?

The pilot for Battlestar Galactica prequel/spinoff Caprica aired last night on Syfy, with a few extras that weren’t on the DVD. What did you think? Previously, we talked about the pilot and gave you a spoiler-free response to the first few episodes. We also talked to former showrunner Jane Espenson (here) and creator David Eick…

Television Annalee Newitz

Primeval Heads Back To The Future In New Season

Primeval may have made it back from the dead thanks to international funding, but that doesn’t mean that it’s the same show it used to be. The new season will be going in a different direction… in time. https://gizmodo.com/primeval-to-live-again-5370134 Talking to Sci-Fi Wire, series creator Adrian Hodges explained what we could expect from the show’s…

Television Graeme McMillan

This Disgruntled Artwork Perpetually Sells Itself on eBay

Caleb Larsen’s “A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter” isn’t quite as menacing as its name makes it out to be, but it’s definitely a flighty little fellow: it continually creates new eBay auctions for itself via a built-in Ethernet jack. No owner is quite good enough for this big-headed piece. Larsen’s “Tool,” a shiny, black…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Nokia Lumia 710 Knows the Meaning of Life

There’s no need to climb all those temple steps to ask a monk the meaning of life—the new Nokia Lumia 710 by T-Mobile knows what it is. To find out for yourself, watch this video and see just how much wisdom this smartphone has to impart. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed…

Tech News Gawkercreative

China Looks Like What China Can’t Look At

Wondering what you’re looking at? These are just some of the websites that internet users in China are unable to reach because of government censorship, as translated into a graphic by Information Is Beautiful. More info is available here.

io9 Graeme McMillan

The Card Speaker At Least Thinks It Sounds Good

There’s no shortage of portable, wafer-thin speakers for iPods, iPhones and other pocketable media devices. But the “oh-look-at-me-and-my-cool-case” Card Speaker, designed by IDEA International, has the trappings to make it stand out from the pack. The Card Speaker is about the same size as an iPod and shares its design principles, too: simple and clean.…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

On Fringe, Confirmation Of A Dark Secret We Suspected All Along

Cold War Aircraft Used To Seat 120, Now Sleeps Two

Watch a Nokia N900 Dual-Boot Maemo and Android

Blueprint For a Hangover

Which Movies Really Have The Best And Worst Science?

How To: Get Multitouch On Your Droid or Nexus One

Marvel Take On Dick’s Ant In April

Apple Patents: iPods Get Solar, Gestures Get Funky

How To Hack Multitouch Onto Your Motorola Droid

At Last, A Computer That Takes The Measure Of Hydrogen Molecules

The Week in Gizmodo

How To Hack Multitouch Onto Your Nexus One

How To Make NBC’s Loss Your Gain

Hear What It Sounds Like Under Antarctica…Live

After Caprica’s Official Debut, What Did You Think?

Primeval Heads Back To The Future In New Season

This Disgruntled Artwork Perpetually Sells Itself on eBay

The Nokia Lumia 710 Knows the Meaning of Life

China Looks Like What China Can’t Look At

The Card Speaker At Least Thinks It Sounds Good

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