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Let Us Contemplate a Monster and Antagonist Relative Classification Scheme

Over on MetaFilter, people have been a little concerned about the structure and purpose of our current monster smackdown, featuring cage matches between popular monsters. Commenter robocop is bleeding proposes an alternative to our (admittedly shallow) monster measurement contest. He writes: The io9 poll is flawed. It’s a popularity contest, pure and simple, an attempt…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Next Best Thing After Riding a Real Vespa

I’ve been considering buying one of those aerovertebraedynamic Herman-Miller chairs. But then I saw this: The Vespa Chair. Awesome retro design recycled with leather to fit my sweet bubblebuttocks or scientifically-researched ergonomics that can avoid fatal back problems and RSIs? https://gizmodo.com/the-herman-miller-embody-chair-or-aeron-part-ii-5059651 I always wanted to have a Vespa. *Buys* [Born Rich]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

NYC Subways Get LCD Screens Showing Every Train in Real Time

As a New Yorker, this gets me very excited: the Bedford Ave L station just got an LCD screen that shows exactly where all the cars on the line are, so you know how long you’ll have to wait. It’s part of a test program on the L line, where they installed boards telling people…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Twilight Returns For A Day

Worried that DVD won’t be enough to bring you up to speed on Edward and Bella’s vampire romance before The Twilight Saga: New Moon opens next month? You’re in luck: Summit are re-releasing Twilight in theaters… for one day only. Twilight will hit 2000 theaters again on November 19th, the day before New Moon opens…

io9 Graeme McMillan

S90 Photos

F4, 1/60, ISO400 F2, 1/25, ISO400 F2, 1/25, ISO800 F2, 1/60, ISO3200 F2, 1/15, ISO200 F2.8, 1/30, ISO800 F2, 1/25, ISO2500 F2.8, 1/30, ISO3200 F2, 1/30, ISO 1600 F8, 1/60, ISO 100 F8, 1/40, ISO 100 F8, 1/50, ISO 100 F4.9, 1/250, ISO 125 (Foliage Scene Setting) F3.5, 1/500, ISO 125 (Nostalgia Scene Setting) F2,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Sinister Sabre Warrior Drone Will Kill Us All One Day

This is Lockheed Martin’s Sabre Warrior, a next-generation plane that looks like something Batman and Darth Vader would fight over for. Instead, some good-turned-evil computer will get a fleet, as part of a plan to destroy us all. It’s impressive. The Sabre Warrior drone is 46 feet long, with a 36-foot wingspan, capable of taking…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

A Nightmare of Genetically-Modified Animals

In her biotech apocalypse novel Oryx and Crake, author Margaret Atwood depicts a future where genetic engineering has warped the animal kingdom into “pigoons” (pictured), “snats,” glowing bunnies, and worse. Now an artist has captured her dystopia in images. The sequel to Orxy and Crake, called The Year of the Flood, came out this month.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

You Can Learn From One Of Science Fiction’s Greatest Biologists Online

Joan Slonczewski is one of the few science-fiction authors who’s also a biology professor. She’s teaching a Biology In Science Fiction course at Kenyon College, using Tribbles, Dune and Jurassic Park to teach biological principles, and you can join in. The class’ syllabus, quizzes and related links are online, and so are the study guide,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

DARPA Network Challenge: Win $40,000 by Finding 10 Red Weather Balloons

To celebrate the Web’s 40th anniversary, DARPA wants to explore social networking’s role in time-critical communication. It’s offering $40,000 in hard cash to the first entrant who finds ten 8-foot weather balloons located at fixed locations around the U.S. https://gizmodo.com/happy-birthday-internet-lets-celebrate-your-history-5393181 Registration begins on December 1, and the balloons will appear on December 5. The first…

Tech News Danny Allen

Anthony Hopkins to Play Odin? Charlize Theron Confirmed for Mad Max. And the Tenth Doctor Tries to Stay Dry

Thor gets a famous father, and Charlize Theron is really headed to Mad Max. Also, many new Avatar images, a clip from Doctor Who, and a key character joins True Blood. Plus, Powers, Lost, Fringe, V, SGU, and New Moon. Thor Bad news for Brian Blessed fans: Anthony Hopkins is in negotiations to play Odin,…

io9 Lauren Davis

Video: Android 2.0 Running on T-Mobile G1 aka HTC Dream

Android 2.0 only came out last week, but the open-source community has already ported it the T-Mobile G1 / HTC Dream, the first Android phone. Check it out: https://gizmodo.com/a-visual-guide-to-android-2-0-so-much-nicer-5392059 Props go to coder, Akira Harada, for the port, but it’s just a sluggish preview at this point. If you’re super keen, you can download the…

Tech News Danny Allen

14.6-Megapixel Sony Alpha a750 DSLR Leaked Early?

The a750 isn’t official yet, but Sony itself has apparently leaked specs early via a registration page. The Alpha a750 would fill the big price gap between the a550 and a850 with a 14.6-megapixel full-frame sensor, and high-speed image processing. Not much else is known at this point, but it wouldn’t be a stretch to…

Tech News Danny Allen

Android-Based Asus Smartbook Arrives Early Next Year

That on-again, off-again Asus Eee PC with Android OS, and 1GHz Snapdragon processor is, well, back on again. Asus now calls it their “secret weapon” and says it should arrive early next year for about $180 bucks. https://gizmodo.com/asus-demos-snapdragon-based-eee-pc-with-android-5273723 Maybe all the interest in Android 2.0 got them interested again. https://gizmodo.com/a-visual-guide-to-android-2-0-so-much-nicer-5392059 As a reminder, Smartbooks are…

Tech News Danny Allen

LG Says 40-inch OLED HDTVs Are Coming in 2012

LG has outlined its OLED roadmap, and there’s good stuff coming up. Its 15-inch panel takes on Sony in November, followed by 20- and 30-inchers in 2010 and 2011. LG also believes OLED will cost less than LCD by 2016. https://gizmodo.com/lgs-15-inch-oled-has-dazzling-screen-beauteous-case-5349520 Those 40-inch panels will still be “fairly expensive”, but LG says new manufacturing processes…

Tech News Danny Allen

Video: First Good Look at the Larger Nintendo DSi XL

The DSi LL (or XL, as it will be known in the US early next year) made its first TV appearance in Japan overnight, and yep, that 4.2-inch screen is lookin’ pretty big. https://kotaku.com/dsi-xl-coming-to-america-in-early-2010-5392865 It arrives in Japan for ¥20,000 (US$220) on November 21. Hit up Kotaku for all the details. [Kotaku]

Tech News Danny Allen

Who Knew Oral Sex Could Be So Awful

Reanimator: The evil scientist Dr. Hill has been decapitated… and then his head and body have both been brought back to life. And now he’s got the Dean’s daughter, also a scientist, just where he wants her. So he decides to, umm… give her some head. As Annalee said when she first posted this clip,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Misc Scary Sex

Teeth: Tobey tries to rape Dawn. And thanks to her vagina dentata, he gets exactly what he deserves. And maybe a little bit more. Another excellent severed penis prop is just barely glimpsed. Shivers: This early David Cronenberg movie features a nasty parasite that can only be spread by sexual contact, and in the end,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Insemination That’s Horribly Artificial

Rosemary’s Baby: Rosemary eats some drugged chocolate mousse (or mouse, as everyone keeps insisting on calling it) and soon afterwards, she’s passed out a ton of Satanists are tying her up and making nasty satanic love to her, including inscribing weird symbols on her body. In spite of all the campy, silly elements, this scene…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Sex With Monsters

The Howling: Bill gets bitten by a werewolf and sex-starved Marsha offers herself to him. They have mad, sweaty, howly sex, and she even licks his werewolf bite, which seems like a really bad idea. Soon afterwards, he starts drooling. Lots and lots of drool. During sex. And then he turns into a wolf, and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Photos of Next Gen iPhone 3G C(ake) Leaked!

I thought I was ahead of things with my Chocolate Edition Apple Tablet, but Jerry Brito and his iPhone 3G C(ake) beat everything. It looks like the real thing, except for one teensyweensy mistake. https://gizmodo.com/sweet-confession-i-ate-a-chocolate-apple-tablet-5347285/ It’s got four bars on AT&T. I’ll forgive that artistic liberty this time though, because this isn’t just the best…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Let Us Contemplate a Monster and Antagonist Relative Classification Scheme

The Next Best Thing After Riding a Real Vespa

NYC Subways Get LCD Screens Showing Every Train in Real Time

Twilight Returns For A Day

S90 Photos

Sinister Sabre Warrior Drone Will Kill Us All One Day

A Nightmare of Genetically-Modified Animals

You Can Learn From One Of Science Fiction’s Greatest Biologists Online

DARPA Network Challenge: Win $40,000 by Finding 10 Red Weather Balloons

Anthony Hopkins to Play Odin? Charlize Theron Confirmed for Mad Max. And the Tenth Doctor Tries to Stay Dry

Video: Android 2.0 Running on T-Mobile G1 aka HTC Dream

14.6-Megapixel Sony Alpha a750 DSLR Leaked Early?

Android-Based Asus Smartbook Arrives Early Next Year

LG Says 40-inch OLED HDTVs Are Coming in 2012

Video: First Good Look at the Larger Nintendo DSi XL

Who Knew Oral Sex Could Be So Awful

Misc Scary Sex

Insemination That’s Horribly Artificial

Sex With Monsters

Photos of Next Gen iPhone 3G C(ake) Leaked!

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