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Nic Cage Explains The Magical Rules To Being A Sorcerer’s Apprentice

The new trailer for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is blasting your face full of Nic Cage’s plasma bolts. Watch and learn Cage’s magic-school rules. (Sadly, Conditioner is not one of them.) Plus see the first Fantastia walking-broom-disaster shout-out. Rings on every finger, fingerless gloves, pointy leather wizard cap, a leather duster and a hatred for showering…

Movies Meredith Woerner Mar 26 '10

Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt Spotted Together Again: Photos

Jobs and Schmidt, whose companies have just ended their love affair, were spotted minutes ago talking business at Calafia in the Town and Country shopping center in Palo Alto. Update: That’s not an iPad. And body language analysis, here. https://gizmodo.com/how-apple-and-googles-romance-turned-to-hate-5483662 Our tipster saw em and snapped these shots, and noted that the cafe is owned…

Tech News Brian Lam Mar 26 '10

Oops, Walter Bishop Broke The Multiverse! John Noble Explains Why

Fringe returns April 1 with an episode that explains the whole shiny-Peter mystery. (Don’t worry, Peter isn’t Edward Cullen.) We got a chance to talk with John Noble about Walter’s dark side, multiverse-crossings, and what’s to come. Major spoilers below. We were on a conference call with Noble just now, and he dropped some pretty…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 26 '10

Nanomagical Material Can Make Nuclear Reactors Safer

Fighting cancer or making nuclear reactors that constantly self-repair themselves, helping to avoid the possibility of another Chernobyl. Clearly, nanotechnology will either save Earth or convert us into Borgs. Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are betting on the first option. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-future-of-the-fight-against-cancer-5501103 Their new research work—published in Science—could make nuclear reactor much safer by using nanocrystalline…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 26 '10

Gadget Deals of the Day

Kickoff the weekend with these great deals. There’s the RPG focused Xbox bundle on sale, the Zune HD’s price gets slash for the day, and play tower defense with the things that go bump in the night for free. Top Deals: • 32GB Zune HD Media Player for $199 with free shipping (normally $289). •…

Tech News Kevin Lee Mar 26 '10

Texas Hold ‘Em on the Poker Surface

Lay your cards on the table, or hold them on your cellphone. Double-tap your chips to change denominations. Don’t spill anything. This student-designed Poker Surface poker game is, well, it’s almost as promising as Surface D&D. [Project Abstract via recombu] https://gizmodo.com/way-more-d-d-on-the-microsoft-surface-5428620

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 26 '10

Nic Cage Gallery

Apparently blowing fire kisses is big among wizards. Then there’s this guy who may or may not turn into a dragon. Awesome dragon. Plus it looks like they do recreate the original Sorcerer’s Apprentice from Fantasia with Mickey and the walking brooms and the spilling and screaming and yelling.

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 26 '10

New, Ancient Way Of Making Oxygen Discovered

Dutch bacteria have a previously unknown method to produce oxygen. The process uses methane and nitric oxide, it might predate the development of photosynthesis by hundreds of millions of years, and it could allow life to survive on other planets. Three natural methods of oxygen production were known before this study. The best known and…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Mar 26 '10

What Would Best Buy Do With Radio Shack?

The reports are swirling today that Radio Shack is “exploring strategic alternatives” for the company, the most intriguing of which is a possible merger with Best Buy. But what would that mean, exactly? Beyond all of the financial implications for both companies—it seems to make sense on paper—there’s the question of how Best Buy would…

Tech News Brian Barrett Mar 26 '10

Has Your Struggle To Save Dollhouse, Sarah Connor Chronicles And Firefly Been Turned Into A Sitcom?

Is NBC turning our torment into entertainment? Rumored sitcom Our Show pokes fun at our cancelled-show grieving process. Here’s the premise: “a group of sci-fi fanboys in a small town shoot their own version of a canceled TV show.” [SpoilerTV]

Television Meredith Woerner Mar 26 '10

K-9 Series Premiere Goes Up Against Doctor Who’s Return

The not-at-all ill-advised K-9 series has announced the date of its UK and Australia premiere. The show debuts Saturday, April 3 – which just happens to be when an obscure little science fiction show called Doctor Who makes its return. https://gizmodo.com/whenever-theres-a-bad-smell-blame-the-dog-indeed-5195913 http://io9.com/5373959/k+9-series-looks-set-to-ruin-whos-winning-streak The new K-9 children’s show – which I’m sure the BBC would appreciate…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Mar 26 '10

This Season’s Must-Buy LEGO Sets

LEGO has been on top of licensing its brand into videogames, something that could have ended in disastrous shovelware but instead has led to some pretty great titles. (And fingers remain crossed for LEGO Universe, the upcoming MMO.) Now LEGO is trying their hand at board games. And while I haven’t played any of the…

Tech News Joel Johnson Mar 26 '10

The Nexus One’s Subpar Screen Saga: It’s the Subpixels

The Nexus One’s display continues to be less than meets the eye. Ars’ breakdown reveals that the PenTile subpixel arrangement means that, depending on how you count the pixels, it could have an effective resolution that’s smaller than 800×480. https://gizmodo.com/the-nexus-ones-dirty-display-secret-updated-5477320 Nouvoyance’s own diagram of the PenTile subpixel arrangement explains it pretty well: it uses a…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 26 '10

Xbox 360 to Accept Any and All USB Storage Starting April 6th

Last week, news leaked that the Xbox 360 would be adding support of mass storage devices for items like profiles and saved games. Today, Microsoft confirmed the update will arrive on April 6th. The 360 will support USB sticks (1GB and over) and large USB drives alike, but 360-usable partitions will be limited to 16GB.…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 26 '10

Poet Encodes His Masterwork In Bacterial DNA

The Roman poet Horace once said of his works that “I have created a monument more lasting than bronze.” Well, Canadian poet Christian Bök has pretty much blown Horace away with his plan to encode a poem into bacterial DNA. The plan is simple enough, if completely insane. Bök hopes to inject a series of…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Mar 26 '10

Land Peel Floor Mat Folds Up Tables and Seats For Daily Use

In countries where sleeping and eating is done on floor mats, this Land Peel concept would fly off the shelves. Folding from a single tile into a big mat, panels can be lifted for tables and seats. In fact, you could do most of your daily activities on it. Spread it out to sleep on,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 26 '10

Hot Tub Time Machine: Our Movie Review FAQ Answers All Your Messy Questions

We know: This Hot Tub Time Machine thing is confusing. Is it a Hangover-style raunch-comedy? A time-travel epic? A 2001: A Space Odyssey-style journey into the vortex of our deepest souls? We answer your hot, wet questions below. Spoilers ahead… What’s Hot Tub Time Machine About? Actually, the title’s pretty self-explanatory. So it’s about a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 26 '10

From Tin Cans to Touchscreens: The 40 Most Important Phones in History

With due respect to Alexander Graham Bell, he couldn’t possibly have known that his patent for “the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically” would give birth to today’s smartphone. Here’s how we got there. We now live in a connected world, and today’s smartphones define what it means to be…

Tech News MaximumPC Mar 26 '10

The Incredibles’ Brad Bird Could Save Mission Impossible 4

Rumor has it Brad Bird is being courted to take over Mission Impossible 4, possibly elevating the series to something greater than explosions and excuses for Tom Cruise to don funny wigs. JJ Abrams and Tom Cruise have been looking for some new blood to direct the next Mission Impossible movie, and while they’ve been…

Movies Meredith Woerner Mar 26 '10

iConcertCal App Now Available For Gig-Going Android Users

Not every Android user will have a use for iConcertCal (those who insist on carrying an iPod around, for example), but if you store music on your phone the personalized concert recommendations would prove very handy. The Android app is available to download as of today, joining the iPhone app and iTunes plug-in which does…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 26 '10

Nic Cage Explains The Magical Rules To Being A Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt Spotted Together Again: Photos

Oops, Walter Bishop Broke The Multiverse! John Noble Explains Why

Nanomagical Material Can Make Nuclear Reactors Safer

Gadget Deals of the Day

Texas Hold ‘Em on the Poker Surface

Nic Cage Gallery

New, Ancient Way Of Making Oxygen Discovered

What Would Best Buy Do With Radio Shack?

Has Your Struggle To Save Dollhouse, Sarah Connor Chronicles And Firefly Been Turned Into A Sitcom?

K-9 Series Premiere Goes Up Against Doctor Who’s Return

This Season’s Must-Buy LEGO Sets

The Nexus One’s Subpar Screen Saga: It’s the Subpixels

Xbox 360 to Accept Any and All USB Storage Starting April 6th

Poet Encodes His Masterwork In Bacterial DNA

Land Peel Floor Mat Folds Up Tables and Seats For Daily Use

Hot Tub Time Machine: Our Movie Review FAQ Answers All Your Messy Questions

From Tin Cans to Touchscreens: The 40 Most Important Phones in History

The Incredibles’ Brad Bird Could Save Mission Impossible 4

iConcertCal App Now Available For Gig-Going Android Users

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