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Cartoonist, The Internet Vs. The Sad Realities Of Print Publishing

What happens when not enough people know about your book for it to see print? If you’re cartoonist Andy Ristaino, you take to the internet to spread the word. Introducing Escape From Dullsville, the kind of thing that comics need. We’ve loved Ristaino since his last book, The Babysitter (which we recommended as one of…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Here We Go Again: Camera Equipped iPod Touch This Spring?

Just when you thought you could forget about the elusive bugger, rumors about an iPod Touch with a built-in camera start up again. The latest report points to a Spring 2010 refresh that will finally include a video camera. The latest rumor reads like it’s August all over again, but it does have one particularly…

Tech News Chris Jacob

Gangsters Have Teeth In New British Horror Movie

What happens when English mobsters come face-to-face with vampires? We got a sneak peek at the answer when we visited the set of new Brit gangster horror film, Dead Cert, currently shooting in Dagenham, on the Northeastern outskirts of London. Taking over a disused warehouse, Dead Cert boasts a number of faces familiar to British…

Movies Joel Meadows

Put Good Looking Game Controllers On Your Tree

If you really want to put video game controllers on your tree, please hang these up. They’re a much better option than dangling your filthy old Saturn controller by its cord. [Ponoko via Technabob]

Tech News Chris Jacob

Why James Rhodes Is Comics’ Ideal Black Hero

When it comes to superhero fiction, there are certain iconic archetypes; Superman is the iconic whitebread hero, Batman the iconic OCD loner. But did you realize that Iron Man’s James Rhodes is the accidental iconic black superhero? We’ll explain. By accident more than design, Rhodes has ended up possessing multiple characteristics that sum up the…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Apple Denying Support to Smokers?

The Consumerist is reporting that two Mac users were denied AppleCare coverage because the owners were smokers. Not because the computers were damaged by second hand smoke, but because of OSHA regulations. According to separate reports, Apple denied coverage for two users in 2008 based on the fact that OSHA lists cigarette smoke as a…

Tech News Chris Jacob

Batman’s Cannonball Run To Awesome

Oh, Batman: The Brave and The Bold, clearly you know the way to my heart: A guest-star filled episode featuring heroes and villains having to race each other in special vehicles for the fate of the planet? Yes please. Last night’s “Death Race To Oblivion” was exactly the kind of thing Brave and the Bold…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Magic Mouse Drivers for Windows Now Available

Magic Mouse owners lusting for multi-finger gestures on a PC can stop wishing. Some good ol’ fashioned hackery pulled Windows drivers from the latest Bootcamp update. You can grab them here, report back with results. [Uneasy Silence, thanks Dan!]

Tech News Chris Jacob

Latest Space Shuttle Mission Lifts Off, Stuffed With Worms

Space Shuttle Atlantis took to the skies this week, carrying thousands of microscopic worms to be used in muscle-degeneration research. We already know these worms can handle spaceflight, because in 2003, another group of them survived a fall from orbit. The worms aboard the current Atlantis mission, which launched on Monday, hail from Britain’s University…

io9 Alex Eichler

The World’s Largest Earthquake-Safe Building

The new terminal at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport is the world’s largest earthquake-safe building. You’re looking at the over two million square feet of scaffolding that support it, all resting on top of giant geological roller skates. Instead of being built on top of the soil, the whole structure rests on over 300 isolators. These…

Tech News Chris Jacob

Doctor Who Meets 2001

What if Doctor Who had starred in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey? A new fan video shows a potential crossover between the two, and dodgy CGI-David Tennant aside, we like what we see. The video, 2001: A Who Odyssey, creates a CGI mashup between the 1968 movie and "The Wheel In Space," a 1968…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Gifts for Retro-holics Who Yearn for the Old Days

Are you trying to find a gift for one of those crazies who’s always going on about the superiority of vinyl, or who dresses like a character on Mad Men? Here are some ideas for the retrophile in your life. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as much as the Grinch hated Christmas, click…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

3D Scanning, a Webcam’s Latest Trick

We’ve seen cameras do all kinds of crazy things. DIY 3D photography, augmented reality, and now this demo by Qi Pan shows how an ordinary webcam can model objects in 3D. https://gizmodo.com/shoot-3d-photos-using-two-hacked-canon-cameras-5408283 I’m in no position to discuss the amount of technical wizardry in play here, but I do think the interface is really great.…

Tech News Chris Jacob

Will Hayabusa Make It Back To Earth?

The pellet gun failed to fire, three of its four engines have failed, and mission control has lost control of it once already. Already months late, what are the odds that Japanese probe Hayabusa will make it home at all? New Scientist reports that the Japanese Hayabusa asteroid probe is once more on its way…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Robot Polar Bears: Less Dangerous Than Real Bears, For Now

Instead of replacing the St. Louis Zoo’s deceased polar bears with live ones, zoo officials put robots up in their place. This slightly-better-than-average yard display will surely be remembered as the humble beginning of the robot bear uprising. The robot polar bears are part of the zoo’s holiday exhibit, and it’s unclear if they’ll be…

Biology Chris Jacob

Pitt Vs. Aliens: It Could Happen!

After turning time back in The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Brad Pitt is considering jumping into the middle of a parallel universe war with aliens. Think he can convince Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney to come along? Pitt’s production company, Plan B, is teaming with Indian company Reliance BIG to adapt the upcoming videogame…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Wired for the Apple Tablet

We still don’t know what the fabled Apple Tablet actually looks like, or if it even exists, really, but this concept magazine reader from Condé Nast gives us a glimpse at what to expect from tablet apps. Turn down your volume before hitting play, loud techno music awaits. Down? OK, good. Now let’s look at…

Tech News Chris Jacob

How Do You Hide From the Internet?

Wired writer Evan Ratliff spent 27 days in constant fear of getting caught as a small army of amateur and professional investigators hunted him. He had a bounty on his head and the Internet nipping at his heels. Vanish, a combination of a manhunt and an experiment, began at 5:38 pm on August 14, 2009…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Windows 7 Sales Are Great (Just Like Vista Sales in 2007)

March, 2007: Windows Vista’s initial sales are great, “more than doubling” those of its predecessor, Windows XP. Flash forward to November, 2009: Windows 7 initial sales are 234% higher than Vista’s. Those numbers sound awfully similar… https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-sells-2520-milllion-vistas-ooh-thanks-to-n-247337 What does this all mean? To be honest, not all that much—mostly, it means that there are just…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Remainders – Stuff We Didn’t Post (and Why)

Apple Patent Describes iPod UI “Pushed” to Other Devices…Philips Announces Very Pretty Pro LCD Line…NYTimes Columnist Proposes Boycott of “Pro-Communist China” Bing…Ooma Adds New Handsets and International Plan… Apple Patent Describes iPod UI “Pushed” to Other Devices An Apple patent filed in May 2008 describes a way of pushing whatever UI Apple wants to non-Apple…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Cartoonist, The Internet Vs. The Sad Realities Of Print Publishing

Here We Go Again: Camera Equipped iPod Touch This Spring?

Gangsters Have Teeth In New British Horror Movie

Put Good Looking Game Controllers On Your Tree

Why James Rhodes Is Comics’ Ideal Black Hero

Apple Denying Support to Smokers?

Batman’s Cannonball Run To Awesome

Magic Mouse Drivers for Windows Now Available

Latest Space Shuttle Mission Lifts Off, Stuffed With Worms

The World’s Largest Earthquake-Safe Building

Doctor Who Meets 2001

Gifts for Retro-holics Who Yearn for the Old Days

3D Scanning, a Webcam’s Latest Trick

Will Hayabusa Make It Back To Earth?

Robot Polar Bears: Less Dangerous Than Real Bears, For Now

Pitt Vs. Aliens: It Could Happen!

Wired for the Apple Tablet

How Do You Hide From the Internet?

Windows 7 Sales Are Great (Just Like Vista Sales in 2007)

Remainders – Stuff We Didn’t Post (and Why)

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