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Best Buy’s Holiday Carolers Make Me Want to Murder

It’s not even Thanksgiving yet, but already Best Buy seems to have won the "most annoying holiday ad of the season" award. Seriously, try to sit through one of these without squirming around uncomfortably and wanting to punch the screen.

Tech News Adam Frucci

Forbidden Planet Reboot Could Become a Franchise

J. Michael Straczynski is revealing more details about his remake of Forbidden Planet. Not only does the script call for more action than the original scifi classic, there may be plans in the works for more Forbidden Planet movies. Babylon 5 creator Straczynski is still at work on the screenplay for Forbidden Planet. He elaborated…

io9 Lauren Davis

Electric Rolls Royce Phantom Coming in 2010, Priced Just Around Half A Million Dollars

While we don’t have the official price, we’re reading that the electric Rolls Royce Phantom will run just a bit higher than the current $380,000 gas-powered model. Let’s round that to about half a mil and daydream together. If you’re having trouble getting over the price tag long enough to daydream, just think of how…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Rat Brain Simulator Calls IBM’s Cat Brain Simulation Bogus

The cat brain simulation IBM supposedly pulled off has just been called out as a “PR stunt” by the leader of the Blue Brain project, who says that it’s all a “mass deception of the public.” https://gizmodo.com/it-takes-147-456-powerpc-processors-to-out-think-a-sing-5407562 Henry Markram, the Blue Brain guy, says in an email to IBM’s CTO, that the project is not…

Artificial Intelligence Jason Chen

10 Things We Learned From James Cameron’s 60 Minutes Appearance

James Cameron sat down with 60 Minutes last night to drop some Avatar knowledge on us all, and now we know why the Na’vi have tails, whether they have nipples, what the score sounds like and what “popcorn chic” means. [Via CBS]

io9 Meredith Woerner

This Is How Multitasking Should Work On the iPhone

In 2009, iPhone multitasking is a bit like apps were in the early jailbreak days. That is to say painfully, clearly possible, but simply not allowed. These jailbreak apps show how it could—and should—be done. What you’re seeing here is really the combination of two apps, standby jailbreak justifier and essential iPhone app Backgrounder, which…

Tech News John Herrman

Star Wars USB Drives Hands On Gallery

Tyme Machines‘ Star Wars sculpted USB drives might not have your favorite characters available yet, in its first series, but they do have Vader, Boba Fett, Yoda and a Storm Trooper, and they’re quite good. The drives are available in 4, 8 and 16GB capacities for $30, $40 and $60, respectively. The head comes off…

Tech News Jason Chen

Microsoft Sued By Datel For Killing Off Third Party Xbox 360 Memory Units

Datel, a company selling memory units for Xbox 360 consoles, filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft for blocking unauthorized third party memory units. Microsoft claims innocence, as the block is meant to reduce cheating on Xbox Live, not reduce competition. Datel maintains that Microsoft is “disabling or erecting technological barriers to Datel accessories” and thereby…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

74 Mesmerizing Slow Shutter Shots

Honesty: I never, in my wildest dreams, expected your slow shutter photography to be this crazy-awesome. But 74 of you turned in some humbling shots for this week’s Shooting Challenge. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-slow-shutter-photography-5407851 First Place “Smoke Signal was taken with an Olympus sp350 set to night scene. This was taken with a color changing led rave light…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Undeterred by Time-Traveling Saboteurs, the LHC Begins Colliding

Take that, bread-dropping bird. Despite numerous delays and the suggestion that the Large Hadron Collider is being sabotaged from the future, the LHC is up and running. And, for the very first time, it has collided two proton beams. https://gizmodo.com/bird-related-accident-suggests-the-large-hadron-collide-5398043 https://gizmodo.com/is-the-large-hadron-collider-being-sabotaged-from-the-f-5380647 Three days after the restart, CERN announced that it has circulated two beams simultaneously,…

io9 Lauren Davis

iPhone and Android Are Taking Over the (Mobile) Internet

So, what does it take to snatch a combined 75% of US mobile internet traffic? Two operating systems, a handful of phones, and one great browser core. https://gizmodo.com/every-mobile-browser-should-give-up-and-just-go-webkit-5271098 That the iPhone is a massive source of online traffic isn’t a surprise—that’s been apparent since the week it launched. What’s interesting here is Android’s rise, which…

Tech News John Herrman

LHC First Particle Beams Collision Doesn’t Obliterate World, Universe

Hey, we are alive! In the end we didn’t need any escape pods: The Large Hadron Collider has smashed two particle beams together for the first time. However, the unknown is still ahead of us, as they ramp things up: https://gizmodo.com/final-countdown-for-large-hadron-collider-activation-p-5015451 Next on the schedule is an intense commissioning phase aimed at increasing the beam…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Avatar Gallery

Filming Avatar Looked Insanely Difficult Rarely do I feel pity for the actors in a giant Hollywood picture, rarely. Then I saw these images of Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana, wow. First off the camera rig that they’re wearing seems beyond comprehension. I can’t imagine wrapping my head around fake hair, a fake face, and…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Get Exposure (In Your Trunk) And Profit (For The Publisher) The Vanity Press Way!

Everyone from A.C. Crispin to the Science Fiction Writers Of America has rushed to condemn Harlequin for starting a self-publishing scam. But Small Beer Press has the best response: A hilarious parody showing how you, too, can waste your money. Small Beer’s parody imprints, Easymark Books and Upchuck Press, do a better job of pointing…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Why It’s Gotten Straight Stupid to Buy a Mac Pro

Never before has it been so apparent that a power tower—pretty much the laziest design in the computer industry—is being sold by a design-centric company with neither design nor power. And I’m not sure that the solution is just a refresh away. The Mac Pro was once the only viable option for a OS X…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Scariest Giant Heads From Science Fiction Book Covers

Nothing is more terrifying, more mentally scarring, than the giant-head book cover. They loom off the cardstock, their huge eyes bugging out. Nothing inside the pages could be this horrifying. Here are our favorite massive-headed book covers of all time. Once again, we got Cyriaque Lamar to track down the most awful covers with the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Big Daddy And Little Sister Frolic Beneath The Waves

Volpin props, who basically won Dragon*Con cosplay contest with their amazing Bioshock Big Daddy and Little Sister recreation, took their act to the aquarium. Bringing the underwater video game world into beautiful, and chilling reality. https://gizmodo.com/bioshock-fan-brings-big-daddy-to-fearsome-life-5364495 [via Geekologie]

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Pop-Up Cardboard Office

We like cool pop-up books here. Awesome scale pop-up cardboard office? Yesplease. Designers Liddy Scheffknecht and Armin B. Wagner, I want your babies. Your cardboard babies. Sadly, the pop-up cardboard office doesn’t include a pretty sofa for siestas. [Likecool]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Creative’s Third Gen Vado HD Pocket Camcorder Has Improved Features, But Lower Storage Capacity

The third generation of Creative’s Vado HD pocket camcorder improves on the last generation’s features with better low light video recording, manual exposure adjustment, and motion detection modes, but for some odd reason only a 4GB model will be available. https://gizmodo.com/creative-vado-hd-pocketcam-v2-features-direct-transfer-5350524 Creative also claims that there has been some improvement to the audio recording quality,…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

As Silicon Valley Crumbles, the Makers Will Inherit the Earth

In Little Brother, Cory Doctorow showed how a grassroots, technology based movement could ensure our civil liberties. With his latest novel, Makers, he asks whether a similar movement could save American capitalism from itself. Makers is written by Cory Doctorow, that cape and goggles-wearing editor of Boing Boing, and author of such novels as Down…

io9 Lauren Davis

Best Buy’s Holiday Carolers Make Me Want to Murder

Forbidden Planet Reboot Could Become a Franchise

Electric Rolls Royce Phantom Coming in 2010, Priced Just Around Half A Million Dollars

Rat Brain Simulator Calls IBM’s Cat Brain Simulation Bogus

10 Things We Learned From James Cameron’s 60 Minutes Appearance

This Is How Multitasking Should Work On the iPhone

Star Wars USB Drives Hands On Gallery

Microsoft Sued By Datel For Killing Off Third Party Xbox 360 Memory Units

74 Mesmerizing Slow Shutter Shots

Undeterred by Time-Traveling Saboteurs, the LHC Begins Colliding

iPhone and Android Are Taking Over the (Mobile) Internet

LHC First Particle Beams Collision Doesn’t Obliterate World, Universe

Avatar Gallery

Get Exposure (In Your Trunk) And Profit (For The Publisher) The Vanity Press Way!

Why It’s Gotten Straight Stupid to Buy a Mac Pro

Scariest Giant Heads From Science Fiction Book Covers

Big Daddy And Little Sister Frolic Beneath The Waves

The Pop-Up Cardboard Office

Creative’s Third Gen Vado HD Pocket Camcorder Has Improved Features, But Lower Storage Capacity

As Silicon Valley Crumbles, the Makers Will Inherit the Earth

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