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The Best of Samsung’s Young Design Award 2009

Like many of the design competitions in recent memory, the theme of Samsung’s Young Design Award for 2009 centered around energy conservation and sustainability in the home. These gadgets were voted best of the bunch.

Tech News Sean Fallon

Star Wars Trench Run for the iPhone

Star Wars: Trench Run for the iPhone gets you into Luke’s multitouch underpants, so you can blow up the Death Star while Darth Vader and a thousand TIE Fighters chase you. And, apparently, you can play on the Empire’s side: https://gizmodo.com/1950s-stereo-3d-projector-is-lukes-grandpa-5406307 Looks nice in the screenshots, but remember that the $5 Star Wars Trench Run…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You’ll Love

Movies may thrill us with their huge ideas and set pieces, but you always know that anything a movie did, a novel did it first… and better. If you liked these dozen recent movies, here are some books you’ll love. If you liked Star Trek… And who didn’t like J.J. Abrams’ breezy reinvention of the…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Bacon Sunrise

Over the apple-smoked mountains, the great yolk rose again. And day began anew. [jenntotten via Geekologie]

Tech News Mark Wilson

On Heroes, There Is Always Time For Half-Naked Female Bonding

Last night’s episode of Heroes explained a lot of important things, like how half-naked superpowered girls bond. Also, how to get back together with your wife after a mutant steals your body! Plus carnie fashion and dirt powers! Spoilers ahead. What I like about Heroes is that the writers are never afraid to give us…

Television Annalee Newitz

Lovely Bones Audiences Demand More Pain and Suffering

Peter Jackson ended up reshooting footage for The Lovely Bones after a scene fell flat with test audiences. Their main complaint? That the story of a murdered girl in Heaven contained a scene that simply wasn’t violent enough. Spoilers inside. Jackson referenced a particular scene, in which a man falls off a cliff to his…

Movies Lauren Davis

Tasers Are Safer Than Fists and Batons, Less Safe Than Not Beating People Up

A new study by the University of Pennsylvania has found that it’s safer for cops to use tasers to subdue perps than their fists and batons. But safest of all? Using words and patience. The team examined over 24,000 cases where police had used force, including almost 5500 incidents involving a Taser. After controlling for…

Tech News Adam Frucci

J.J. Abrams’ Version Of Star Trek’s Salt Vampire And Gorn Revealed

Even though they didn’t make the final cut, the salt vampire and Gorn were still in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek. Take a look at these revamped versions of classic aliens. Trek Movie has an exclusive featurette titled Masks vs. Prosthetics where you can finally see the new looks for both Gorn and the Salt Vampire.…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Detecting False Coins With a Computer Mouse

A team of Spanish researchers at the University of Lleida have developed a way to detect false coins using mouse sensors, detecting particular patterns in two Euro coins, which at the ongoing exchange are about $150,302 each. The system rotates the coin, sampling its surface using a 30 x 30 pixel resolution optical sensor (although…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

McAdams Denies Black Cat Rumors, So Internet Moves On To Jula Stiles

This is hilarious. Rachel McAdams made a statement that she was not in Spider-Man 4, and the Internet’s collective response was akin to “Lalalalala I can’t hear you.” Then the news sites promptly started cranking out Julia Stiles Spider-Man rumors. Entertainment Weekly caught McAdams briefly to chat about the rumor that she will be the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Enter to Win a Copy of Evangelion 1.01 You Are (Not) Alone

Evangelion 1.01 You Are (Not) Alone is the rebuild of the ground-breaking anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. Send us your real-life casting ideas for Shinji and Rei (Pitt/Jolie?) to [email protected] (subject: “Evangelion”) to enter. [Rules. Contest ends Friday, Nov. 20.] Imagine having Dr. Frankenstein as your father. Your classmate and fellow pilot is a partial clone…

io9 Chrissie Lamond

Samsung Behold II Non-Review: Oh God, the Ugly

Samsung’s Behold II is the most impressively ugly Android phone in existence. The custom interface is so bad, so gaudy and so confusing it turned my brains into ooze. TouchWiz is the first custom Android interface that’s worse than the standard one, and shows what kind of horrible things emerge when Samsung’s interface designers are…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Google Chrome OS Will Be Unveiled in Two Days

Surprise! Friday’s report that the Chrome OS “launch” for this week was almost true: Google’s OS will be shown in “complete overview” on Thursday. But what does that mean, exactly? https://gizmodo.com/is-google-chrome-os-launching-next-week-5404030 According to Techcrunch this isn’t really a launch, but rathe a chance to give us a first look at the OS, and for Google…

Tech News John Herrman

A History of 16 Science Fiction Classics, Told In Book Covers

A single book can inspire a wide range of covers, and sometimes those covers can be works of art themselves. We look at some classic science fiction novels and the various covers they’ve worn throughout the years. We’ve collected various book covers from a number of classic science fiction novels to see how different artists…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

US Military Wants Armed Spy Bots in Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

The problem: The US Army—purveyors of all things camouflage green— thinks that spy planes are too slow to recognize remote battlegrounds. The solution: Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles loaded with weaponized spy bots. The side-effect: World War III. See, the US Army is right. ICBMs are the fastest way to deploy ISR-Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance-spy bots. They…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Finally, a Twitter App for Mac OS Classic

The fact that Grackle68k exists is wonderful for two reasons: First, and most obvious, is because it makes for a bizarre juxtaposition between the ancient OS 9 (or OS 8, or Systems 6 and 7) and Twitter, and self-consciously modern online service that would’ve seemed ridiculous in the age of the Bondi Blue iMac. And…

Tech News John Herrman

Gifts for Bookworms Who Live for Lazy Weekend Reads

Bookworms are creatures of comfort who crave for little more than a peaceful corner and a good read. Here are some gifts ideas for them. Feel free to contribute your own suggestions (or argue with mine). BTW, if you hate the gallery format as much as the Grinch hated Christmas, click here. https://gizmodo.com/gifts-for-bookworms-who-live-for-lazy-weekend-reads-5404804 Floating Bookshelves:…

Books & Comics Rosa Golijan

Abandoned Ruins of the Soviet Empire

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, many Soviet bases and monuments were left to crumble, never repurposed or reused. These memorials to the USSR stretch across Eastern Europe and Asia, a more global view of a modern nation’s ruins. Eric Lusito took these images and more for his book After the Wall – Traces…

io9 Lauren Davis

How Do You Trim the Top of a Hedge With a Ride-On Lawnmower?

The answer: with a crane people…with a crane. It makes perfect sense now. I mean, the manual for the ride-on lawnmower did not specifically state that you couldn’t raise it up with a crane to trim the top of a very large hedge, so that’s just what two lunatics from Cambridge New Zealand did. “The…

Tech News Sean Fallon

What Do You Do When Your Novel Goes Off Course?

Novel-writing is like an interstellar voyage: disorienting and lengthy. Go off course, and it can be nigh-impossible to backtrack. What do you do when your novel’s taken a wrong turn? Scott Westerfeld, Brad Meltzer, Cherie Priest and Rudy Rucker explain. Especially if you’re writing a book for National Novel Writing Month, every day of forward…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The Best of Samsung’s Young Design Award 2009

Star Wars Trench Run for the iPhone

If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You’ll Love

Bacon Sunrise

On Heroes, There Is Always Time For Half-Naked Female Bonding

Lovely Bones Audiences Demand More Pain and Suffering

Tasers Are Safer Than Fists and Batons, Less Safe Than Not Beating People Up

J.J. Abrams’ Version Of Star Trek’s Salt Vampire And Gorn Revealed

Detecting False Coins With a Computer Mouse

McAdams Denies Black Cat Rumors, So Internet Moves On To Jula Stiles

Enter to Win a Copy of Evangelion 1.01 You Are (Not) Alone

Samsung Behold II Non-Review: Oh God, the Ugly

Google Chrome OS Will Be Unveiled in Two Days

A History of 16 Science Fiction Classics, Told In Book Covers

US Military Wants Armed Spy Bots in Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

Finally, a Twitter App for Mac OS Classic

Gifts for Bookworms Who Live for Lazy Weekend Reads

Abandoned Ruins of the Soviet Empire

How Do You Trim the Top of a Hedge With a Ride-On Lawnmower?

What Do You Do When Your Novel Goes Off Course?

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