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Apple TV Still A Dud After Price Cut

Lower pricing hasn’t made the Apple TV set-top box a smash hit. Last month, Apple gave its digital living room gadget more bang for the buck, knocking $100 off its 160 GB Apple TV, to $229, and killing off its smaller version. That has not made it a must-have gadget. At Amazon, it’s ranked the…

Tech News Don Nguyen Oct 1 '09

BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac Review: Oh Thank God

BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac is landing tomorrow. Good news? It works and it’s fast. And since it syncs your info and media in the same app, I think it’s actually better than dealing with BlackBerry on Windows. Crazy. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-desktop-manager-for-mac-lands-october-2nd-5371152 It doesn’t look or feel particularly Mac-like, but it is easy to figure out and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 1 '09

Kindle Couple’s Marriage Will Last Forever, Even After the Battery Dies

Because that’s how E-Ink works, get it!? Well, it was either that or a joke about Amazon remote–deleting these folks’ legitimately conceived future children. https://gizmodo.com/big-brother-amazon-remotely-deletes-purchased-copies-of-5317180 This is a found photo from a Facebook album, without context, which leaves some nagging questions: Is it a Kindle, or a Kindle 2? (The coloration up top screams Kindle…

Commerce John Herrman Oct 1 '09

This Digital Camera Prints Photos Using Holes

This is the Punch Camera by designer Matty Martin, which was featured at the Intel University Design Expo. And I want it. Instead of using ink, it actually punches images on blank paper. And that’s just the beginning of it. After converting the image into a half-tone, the puncturing mechanism moves dot by dot. When…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 1 '09

A Drug That Can Extend Life as Effectively As Dieting

Many studies have shown that rigorous caloric restriction, or strict dieting, can increase longevity dramatically in lifeforms from yeast to humans. But a study released today shows one way to mimic the life-extending effects of food deprivation – using drugs. A team of researchers in the UK explored the role of a protein known as…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 1 '09

One China, Three Stories

China has celebrated its 60 years since its unification under the communist fist of the dictator Mao. The country has advanced dramatically and it’s now becoming one of the biggest techonomical superpowers in the planet. Some things, however, never change. Above you can see a humble man trying to get a clear signal in an…

Television Jesus Diaz Oct 1 '09

The University of Florida is Prepared for Zombie Attacks — Just in Case

It’s great to know that your school is ready for everything, and students at the University of Florida can rest easy knowing their college is prepared to handle a zombie outbreak. An employee in the school’s academic technology office wrote up a disaster preparedness simulation exercise, outlining what steps the university should take to identify…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 1 '09

This Is Probably the Closest You Will Ever Get to the Moon

NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Camera keeps sending amazing high definition photos of the moon. This new spectacular photo could be zoomed in until you smash your face against the rocks. https://gizmodo.com/nasa-lunar-reconnaissance-orbiter-sends-most-detailed-m-5309165 The whole image—composed of two weighs 268 megabytes, but Zoomify makes it hot butterish smooth to pan and zoom. I’m glad the LRO can…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Oct 1 '09

Philip K. Dick Movie Is… A Love Story?

Philip K. Dick‘s 1954 story “The Adjustment Team” is a classic paranoid work in which the world turns out to be a fabrication, which melts away. So of course the movie, starring Matt Damon, is a “modern love story.” Buh? Like many of Dick’s short stories, “The Adjustment Team” is a tightly wound little nugget…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Oct 1 '09

Mobile Web Finally Easy Enough For Old People, Female People and Teen People

Nielsen’s mobile web statics show that, from July 2008 to July 2009, the demographic groups of 65+, female and 13-17 showed the most usage growth. The least? 18-24 year olds, who are all up in this mobile web already. Also equally interesting: we have a higher percentage of male readers than the NFL, the NBA…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 1 '09

Ming-Na On Being The First Lesbian To Step Out Of The Stargate

Ming-Na’s Stargate Universe character isn’t just stepping through a portal into another galaxy, she’s coming out of the closet. She tells us about playing Stargate’s first openly gay character, and how this show is about to get a lot sexier. Ming-Na: When I first signed on as Camille, that wasn’t part of the revelation of…

Television Meredith Woerner Oct 1 '09

Microsoft’s Anechoic Chamber: The Place Where Sound Goes To Die

Yesterday, while touring a new building on Microsoft’s campus, I came across an anechoic chamber: A room designed to eliminate all noise from outside—and in. I spent about 5 minutes locked inside, and man is it freaky. The chamber is actually its own “box-in-box” building, like the Time Warner Center’s Rose Theater. It rests on…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Oct 1 '09

TV Stars Who Don’t Let Death Slow Them Down

Nathan Petrelli died on Heroes, but that hasn’t stopped Adrian Pasdar from being one of the show’s mainstays. He’s joining a long line of actors whose characters vanished, but they still stuck around. Here are our favorite zombie TV stars. Oh, and there will be some spoilers for recent TV episodes here — most notably…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Oct 1 '09

Cyclopedia Augmented Reality iPhone App Drenches Your World In Wikipedia

App concepts don’t get much simpler than this, or much cooler: Cyclopedia takes Wikipedia’s tens of thousands of geotagged entries, and overlays them onto a live, compass-oriented view of your surroundings. If this sounds an awful lot like Wikitude, the AR Android app that just can’t seem to eek its way into the App Store,…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 1 '09

What If “House” Became a Scifi Videogame?

Monday night, House tipped its hat to scifi geeks everywhere in the episode “Epic Fail,” where giant alien bird people attack the hospital. Even worse, a patient uses the internet to diagnose himself. Spoilers! After the epic fail of allegedly heartwarming two-part season opener “Broken,” it was great to see House getting back on track…

Television Annalee Newitz Oct 1 '09

Why is Panasonic the First to Invent a Two-Way Iron?

Unless my Google skills are failing me, this Panasonic 360-Degree iron is the first iron to have the pointed tip at both sides of the iron. It’s been staring us in the face for 100 years, and Panasonic’s is first? By making the back of the iron pointed instead of flat, like every single other…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 1 '09

On a Boat Comes to I am T-Pain iPhone App

The I am T-Pain iPhone app just got the song you were waiting for: On a Boat. https://gizmodo.com/i-am-t-pain-iphone-app-is-auto-tuning-genius-5352299 Not only can you sing your own version of On a Boat now, with your own lyrics describing how you are on a [plane, train, toilet, supermarket kiddie ride], Smule is having a contest that you can…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 1 '09

This Insane Photo Destroyed a Camera Lens

Photographer Ben Cooper took this photo of a Delta 4-Heavy rocket launching at Cape Canaveral using a sound-activated camera. And when your camera is that close to a launch, your lens probably won’t survive. The particular setup for this was sound activated. The lens was destroyed (worth it of course) but the camera survived this…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci Oct 1 '09

T-Mobile Pushing Android 1.6 Donut Update Right Now

Alas, not for everyone: Having sent the update to Ion developer phones just a few days ago, T-Mobile is commencing a gradual rollout that should finish up in the next few days. Here’s what you’ll get, with this Donut: • Universal-ish search with an updated “Quick Search” box • Much fast camera performance, with a…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 1 '09

Listen to the Crazy Vocal Talents Behind Clone Wars

Two of the immensely talented voice actors of Clone Wars treated us to a show of their vocal abilities. Hear how Obi-Wan Kenobi got his voice, and listen to the sweet sounds of Star Wars‘s clones and monsters. We met with James Arnold Taylor, who voices Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Dee Bradley Baker, who voices all…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 1 '09

Apple TV Still A Dud After Price Cut

BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac Review: Oh Thank God

Kindle Couple’s Marriage Will Last Forever, Even After the Battery Dies

This Digital Camera Prints Photos Using Holes

A Drug That Can Extend Life as Effectively As Dieting

One China, Three Stories

The University of Florida is Prepared for Zombie Attacks — Just in Case

This Is Probably the Closest You Will Ever Get to the Moon

Philip K. Dick Movie Is… A Love Story?

Mobile Web Finally Easy Enough For Old People, Female People and Teen People

Ming-Na On Being The First Lesbian To Step Out Of The Stargate

Microsoft’s Anechoic Chamber: The Place Where Sound Goes To Die

TV Stars Who Don’t Let Death Slow Them Down

Cyclopedia Augmented Reality iPhone App Drenches Your World In Wikipedia

What If “House” Became a Scifi Videogame?

Why is Panasonic the First to Invent a Two-Way Iron?

On a Boat Comes to I am T-Pain iPhone App

This Insane Photo Destroyed a Camera Lens

T-Mobile Pushing Android 1.6 Donut Update Right Now

Listen to the Crazy Vocal Talents Behind Clone Wars

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