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Samsung’s Android InstinctQ For Sprint Spotted In Leaked Pics

What is the InstinctQ? Well, these leaked pics from phandroid reveal a QWERTY slider for Sprint that is clearly running on Android. It’s definitely sweet looking—and it appears to be a logical alternative to the HTC Hero for Sprint customers that prefer QWERTY over a touchcreen. Of course, the details on a release date and…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Future Ford Hybrids Will Tell Energy Grid When To Power Up

Ford has come up with a smart new system that enables drivers to tell their hybrid car precisely when and how long to charge from the grid—potentially helping you to save money on electricity. This new technology – which builds on Ford’s advancements such as SYNC®, SmartGauge™ with EcoGuide and Ford Work Solutions™ – allows…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Nyko Charger Grips Wiimotes with Magnets, Refills Through Jackets

Nyko’s latest Charge Station IC is a pretty unique idea in the otherwise ubiquitous design world of Wiimote charging stations. Holding two Wiimotes through the power of magnetism, the Charge Station can top off controllers via induction, whether they are wearing silicon sleeves or loaded with Wii Motion Plus add-ons (or whatever other crazy extensions…

Tech News Mark Wilson

The Shakespearean Heroes Science Fiction Should Steal From

William Shakespeare was the J.J. Abrams of his day, reinvigorating Elizabethan England’s worn-out action-adventure franchises. And Shakespeare’s writing still has clues for today’s story-smiths. Characters who switch from nice to nasty? Secret passions? Strange disguises? The Bard got there first. There’s a reason actors are so juiced up to do Shakespeare, besides the fancy speeches…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

JBL/Roxy Headphones Won’t Make You a Better Surfer, But Look Cool and Sound Good

Taking a note from Vivienne Tam and HP’s love affair, Roxy partnered with JBL to put out a line of audio gear designed “for women, by women.” The neon headphones look sweet and pack solid sound. https://gizmodo.com/hp-vivienne-tam-special-edition-laptop-gets-fashionable-5047737 On the turboprop plane down to Kite Boarding camp in North Carolina the hot blue and green $70…

Tech News Joanna Stern

See The Maps Hitler Liked To Dream Of

Wondering what the world would have looked like if Germany had won the Second World War? These maps of a world that could have been offer two glimpses of the united fascist Europe we fought to avoid. [Via Dark Roasted Blend]

io9 Graeme McMillan

Hey Microsoft, We Still Want Zune for the Mac

We’ve been asking for Zune on the Mac since 2006, the original release of the original Zune. In fact, it’s almost a yearly thing that we keep reminding that we want Zune Plus and the other Zune features on Macs. https://gizmodo.com/zune-on-the-mac-not-quite-yet-217618 GDGT picks up the thread by bugging Microsoft yet again, laying out why Zune…

Tech News Jason Chen

Doug Jones On Legion’s Biblical Violence: “All Heaven Breaks Loose”

You may remember Doug Jones‘ freaktastic galloping entrance in the Legion trailer. We asked the melty ice-cream man of death himself, Doug Jones, about his role and whether this boil-popping thriller is going to get even more disgusting. https://gizmodo.com/legions-red-band-angel-war-trailer-descends-upon-humani-5336080 We were ecstatic to interview Doug Jones at the Wrath of Con party over Comic Con…

io9 Meredith Woerner

College Tech Gadgets: Then and Now

From 35mm SLRs in the 50s to electronic-typewriters of the 80s, PC World has a timeline of gadgets that most changed campus life. For me, it was a giant CRT (which doubled as my room heater). What about you? As school goes back, it’s a fun reminder that the laptop wasn’t always the essential piece…

Tech News Danny Allen

Your Trash Attains Sentience in Alien Sculptures

In Brandon Jan Blommaert‘s “Eco Station” sculptures, discarded objects are recycled into alien bodies and set loose against Earthly landscapes. Blommaert creates whimsical scenes of trash-inspired aliens and monsters: a giant bird made of plastic trophies, a pair of critters who retrieve their companion’s head (which is made up of back issues of Nature), and…

io9 Lauren Davis

Gadget Deals of the Day

The PS3 price cut Sony announced yesterday applies to the Slim and older models alike. If you prefer a glossy finish, or just can’t wait until the Slim comes out, Dealzmodo has a great bargain on an awesome PS3 bundle. https://gizmodo.com/sonys-playstation-3-slim-is-300-in-september-5340035 Computing and Peripherals: • 15.6″ Acer Aspire AMD Athlon Laptop for $279.99 (normally $345).…

Tech News Chris Jacob

Rumor: Full Flash, Silverlight Coming to BlackBerry Browser

It’s pretty much a given that every major smartphone OS has Flash support in its sights, but BlackBerry and Adobe have been alarmingly mum on the subject. Today, Boy Genius, a certifiable BlackBerry nut, has news: It’s coming. https://gizmodo.com/flash-for-android-webos-landing-in-october-5300800 Unfortunately he can’t get us a usefully specific release window beyond by “next summe,r” by which…

Tech News John Herrman

CBS and Pepsi, Bored With Plain Old Print Ads, Cram Video Into a Magazine

That’s right, aging, future-minded denizens of the 50s, video magazines are here! Almost. Come fall, Entertainment Weekly will feature the world’s first video-screen-in-a-page advertisement, to sell you some TV shows. CBS and PepsiCo will take out a video-enabled ad, seen above in all its stamp-sized glory, which will pitch TV content to EW subscribers in…

Tech News John Herrman

Zombie Bar Opens Its Undead Doors

Dressed like Shaun of The Dead, the bartenders at Donny Dirk’s Zombie Den want to pour the shambling masses of Minnesota a drink. Photo from Tom Wallace, Star Tribune [Star Tribune]

io9 Meredith Woerner

James Cameron’s Avatar Masters CG, Struggles With HTML

James Cameron’s Avatar may be the most high-tech movie of all time, but its first outing with fans fell prey to huge technical disasters. The site for Friday’s “Avatar Day” crashed, lost people’s reservations, and displayed weird SQL error screens. So this coming Friday evening, 16 minutes of 3-D footage from Avatar will be on…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Giz Explains: Why Quantum Computing Is the Future (But a Distant One)

Over 400 million transistors are packed on dual-core chips manufactured using Intel’s 45nm process. That’ll double soon, per Moore’s Law. And it’ll still be like computing with pebbles compared to quantum computing. Quantum computing is a pretty complicated subject—uh, hello, quantum mechanics plus computers. I’m gonna keep it kinda basic, but recent breakthroughs like this…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Software Update Fixes the HTC Hero’s Only Real Problem

Well, this changes things. Right after it came out, Matt called the HTC Hero “tragically flawed.” Why? Because the otherwise fantastic Sense UI was slooooow. HTC, presumably run by competent, rational human beings, has fixed this. https://gizmodo.com/htc-hero-review-ambitious-but-tragically-flawed-5318860 From the review in July: The Hero is flawed, though, in ways that are truly depressing in light…

Tech News John Herrman

Could Greenpunk be the New Steampunk?

Steampunk’s Victorian and Edwardian aesthetics, combined with its imagined technologies has captured the imagination of designers, hobbyists, and writers. Now a literary publicist hopes to launch the same kind of movement for green technologies. Matt Staggs, a literary publicist who specializes in speculative fiction, has put forth a “GreenPunk Manifesto,” to define the concept and…

io9 Lauren Davis

Less Than a Third Of You Accurately Adjusted Your HDTV Settings

According to our recent poll, only 29% of respondents actually calibrated their HDTVs. That means as many as 70% of you might not have your settings optomized. Fortunately, that’s not too difficult to change. https://gizmodo.com/did-you-ever-adjust-your-hdtv-settings-5339896 If you think the picture quality might be off, follow this guide and learn how to calibrate an HDTV on…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Mirage Media Player Will Project An 80-inch Image…Apparently

Color me interested, but skeptical. The makers of the Mirage PMP claim that when ready, its built-in projector will throw an impressive 80-inch picture. Other specs include a 3.5-inch display, and support for 64-bit games of some description. Not much further info was given, but shot in the dark: the specs will probably be similar…

Tech News Danny Allen

Samsung’s Android InstinctQ For Sprint Spotted In Leaked Pics

Future Ford Hybrids Will Tell Energy Grid When To Power Up

Nyko Charger Grips Wiimotes with Magnets, Refills Through Jackets

The Shakespearean Heroes Science Fiction Should Steal From

JBL/Roxy Headphones Won’t Make You a Better Surfer, But Look Cool and Sound Good

See The Maps Hitler Liked To Dream Of

Hey Microsoft, We Still Want Zune for the Mac

Doug Jones On Legion’s Biblical Violence: “All Heaven Breaks Loose”

College Tech Gadgets: Then and Now

Your Trash Attains Sentience in Alien Sculptures

Gadget Deals of the Day

Rumor: Full Flash, Silverlight Coming to BlackBerry Browser

CBS and Pepsi, Bored With Plain Old Print Ads, Cram Video Into a Magazine

Zombie Bar Opens Its Undead Doors

James Cameron’s Avatar Masters CG, Struggles With HTML

Giz Explains: Why Quantum Computing Is the Future (But a Distant One)

Software Update Fixes the HTC Hero’s Only Real Problem

Could Greenpunk be the New Steampunk?

Less Than a Third Of You Accurately Adjusted Your HDTV Settings

Mirage Media Player Will Project An 80-inch Image…Apparently

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