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Cellphone Poll: Europe

This poll has a mix of brands and mobile operating systems. If your phone happens to fall into two categories (such as being both an Android phone and a Motorola phone), then go with the operating system which will indicate to us that you’re using a smartphone. If you happen to use more than one…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Dec 15

Harry Potter Gets a Feel Good, Inner City Sequel

After Hermione Granger graduates from the esteemed Hogwarts School, what does she do with her educational success? In Dangerous Wands, she joins the faculty of an inner city wizarding school, rescuing her underprivileged students from a life of Dark Arts. [via Topless Robot]

io9 Lauren Davis Dec 15

M.I.T. Ushers in Biking 2.0 With Copenhagen Wheel

Today at the COP 15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, M.I.T. students introduced the technologically advanced Copenhagen Wheel. In addition to including various sensors and Bluetooth capability, the tire stores kinetic energy from braking for a later burst of speed. The makers of the Copenhagen Wheel from M.I.T.’s SENSEable City Laboratory claim that the new…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Dec 15

Simple But Confounding Advice: Don’t Write Stuff You Don’t Enjoy Reading

Writer S.C. Butler has some advice that writers everywhere should pay attention to: Write the kinds of books you actually enjoy reading, not the books you think will sell, or the ones you have a killer idea for. Writing in SFNovelists, Butler explains: I tried to write a thriller. It was the last book I…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dec 15

Google Applied for “Nexus One” Trademark

In between all the exciting rumors of when Google’s Nexus One will be released and how much it will cost, there’s at least something that’s confirmed: Google submitted a trademark application for “Nexus One.” https://gizmodo.com/googles-nexus-one-may-be-coming-on-january-5th-5426554 Android.in writes that the application was filed on December 10th, a bit before all the excitement about Nexus One began,…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Dec 15

Accidental Supervillain on Trial for Causing Earthquakes

Markus Haering probably didn’t intend to emulate Lex Luthor when his company’s drilling triggered a series of minor earthquakes. But the geothermal energy mogul is up on criminal charges for his earth-shaking exploits. In 2006, Haering’s company was drilling in Basel, Switzerland, as part of a project to convert heat in the underground rocks into…

io9 Lauren Davis Dec 15

Apple Gestapo: How Apple Hunts Down Leaks

They call themselves the Worldwide Loyalty Team. Among some employees, they are known as the Apple Gestapo, a group of moles always spying in headquarters and stores, reporting directly to Jobs and Oppenheimer. Here’s how they hunt people down. “You may want to know about their Worldwide Loyalty Team,” Tom told me recently in an…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 15

Boeing Dreamliner First Flight Video: IT FLIES!

They made it! It flies! IT FLIES! After countless tests, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is finally flying. As in, taking off, going around a few times, and then landing without any problem. Here’s the first video. And another one here: https://gizmodo.com/dreamliner-first-power-on-all-systems-nominal-5018368 It has been long way since we saw it complete for the first time…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 15

The LaCie Rikiki Is the Tiniest 2.5-inch Portable Hard Drive On the Market

With LaCie, you always expect the product to look good—and the Rikiki portable HDD is no exception. They also claim that it is the smallest 2.5-inch drive on the market. I’m not sure if that is accurate or not, but with measurements at 4.3 x 2.9 x .5 inches it is even smaller than the…

Tech News Sean Fallon Dec 15

Thor And TSCC Writers Bring Damn Nation To The Big Screen

Make room for more post-apocalyptic visions and rampaging vampires, because the live adaptation of Dark Horse’s Damn Nation will have both. Plus in this dreary future, we’re all moving to London. The comic, penned by Andrew Cosby with art by Jason Shawn Alexander, takes place after the United States’ residents have had to be evacuated…

Movies Meredith Woerner Dec 15

How To Use Hashtags To Send Us A Tip Or Talk About Anything

Did you know you can post a tip straight to Gizmodo? Or, start a new conversation all on your own? Thanks to our hashtag pages you can do all sorts of comment related goodness. Here’s how: #Tips: Once you’re at Gizmodo.com, just go to the comment box where it says “Got a tip for us?”,…

Tech News Christopher Mascari Dec 15

Video Game Calculator Is Pure Torture

What makes being stuck in math class even worse? Doing math on a calculator that reminds you of something much more fun: video games. Unless you love math more than video games, in which case, congrats. [DealsDirect via NerdApproved]

Tech News Adam Frucci Dec 15

6 Minutes Of Proof That Cloudy Is This Year’s Most Underrated Film

It’s no secret we loved Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. Now the movie’s entire intro is online and we can finally show you all just how this exceedingly clever and heartfelt picture won us over. https://gizmodo.com/cloudy-is-the-cherry-on-top-of-this-summer-5363018

Movies Meredith Woerner Dec 15

50 Million Window Blinds Recalled After a Decade of Strangling Children

Your TV is trying to kill your children. Your DVD player is trying to kill your children. Your robot lawnmower is trying to kill your children. And now, your blinds—your soft roman blinds!—are trying to kill your children. https://gizmodo.com/how-a-tv-opened-my-scalp-like-a-banana-peel-5427119 The recall, which covers virtually every roman shade and roller blind in the country, was prompted…

Tech News John Herrman Dec 15

Scott Pilgrim’s Hip Kids are Ready for Video Game Action

For months, director Edgar Wright has teased us with glimpses of his live-action Scott Pilgrim adaptation. Now we finally get a look at the core cast as flesh-and-blood characters, in color and ready to take on Ramona’s evil exes. Wright has been posting regular tidbits from the production, and yesterday gifted Scott Pilgrim watchers with…

Movies Lauren Davis Dec 15

Marimba, Meet MIDI. MIDI, Marimba. Now Go Play Nice.

Long and agonizing has been my wait for the pairing of a three-octave marimba’s upbeat tonality and the synth kitsch of a MIDI player. Thank you, Player Marimba, for answering my prayers. By deconstructing a standard marimba, assigning a mallet to each, and hooking the whole mess up to two MD24 MIDI decoders, Larry Cotton…

Tech News Brian Barrett Dec 15

Palm’s Going To Have Something at CES, But What?

It’s pretty obvious that Palm’s going to be debuting a new device at CES, seeing as they were the highlight of last year’s event, but what is it going to be? An updated Pre is the safe bet. I don’t think they’re going to let their brand go an entire year without a new high-end…

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 15

What Caused This Galaxy’s Power Surge?

The galaxy 3C 454.3 is located 7.2 billion light years away, but it’s suddenly become the brightest source of gamma rays in the sky. Its particle jet has increased 10 times since the summer — and it’s aimed at us. According to a news release from NASA’s Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope: Astronomers identify the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Dec 15

“This Is Batman, Not Jonathan Swift”

Here’s an easy way to lose an afternoon: Someone has put the Writer’s Bible for Batman: The Animates Series online, including never-revealed backstory and 22 early ideas for episodes. [Batman: The Animated Series Writers Bible PDF] (Via)

Television Graeme McMillan Dec 15

A Century of Great Gadget Design: Phaidon’s Design Classics

Phaidon, publisher of the best-looking books on the planet, just released Pioneers, Mass Production, and New Technologies, three volumes each containing 333 of the most impressively designed objects of the last century. Here are 12 gadgets that made the cut. The books move loosely through the 20th century—though they also contain some objects that were…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Dec 15

Cellphone Poll: Europe

Harry Potter Gets a Feel Good, Inner City Sequel

M.I.T. Ushers in Biking 2.0 With Copenhagen Wheel

Simple But Confounding Advice: Don’t Write Stuff You Don’t Enjoy Reading

Google Applied for “Nexus One” Trademark

Accidental Supervillain on Trial for Causing Earthquakes

Apple Gestapo: How Apple Hunts Down Leaks

Boeing Dreamliner First Flight Video: IT FLIES!

The LaCie Rikiki Is the Tiniest 2.5-inch Portable Hard Drive On the Market

Thor And TSCC Writers Bring Damn Nation To The Big Screen

How To Use Hashtags To Send Us A Tip Or Talk About Anything

Video Game Calculator Is Pure Torture

6 Minutes Of Proof That Cloudy Is This Year’s Most Underrated Film

50 Million Window Blinds Recalled After a Decade of Strangling Children

Scott Pilgrim’s Hip Kids are Ready for Video Game Action

Marimba, Meet MIDI. MIDI, Marimba. Now Go Play Nice.

Palm’s Going To Have Something at CES, But What?

What Caused This Galaxy’s Power Surge?

“This Is Batman, Not Jonathan Swift”

A Century of Great Gadget Design: Phaidon’s Design Classics

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