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Yesterday’s House Of The Future Went Cheap

You missed your chance to own a piece of retro-futurist awesomeness. The Futuro House, a Finnish flying-saucer-shaped masterpiece built (wait for it) in 1968, sold at auction for only $50,000. Also auctioned: a Zen chair, and Buckminster Fuller blueprints. According to the Futuro House’s fansite: Finnish architect Matti Suuronen designed and built a series of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Would You Classify Yourself As An Audiophile?

Dr. Dre’s attempt to reconstruct the “entire digital music ecosystem” has me thinking about the discerning group of consumers that drink sound in like a connoisseur with a fine wine. In other words, audiophiles. https://gizmodo.com/hp-and-dr-dre-attempting-to-fix-digital-music-with-lin-5339137 Of course, like a fine wine, what constitutes quality for an audiophile is largely a matter of personal opinion. Dr.…

Tech News Sean Fallon

This Is How Office Assistants In Tiny Shorts Fight Freezing Summertime AC

I came today to Gawker’s office—under 95º heat and 95% humidity—to find Julia, our brilliant office assistant, typing inside a Slanket, hiding her shorter-than-short shorts. My first reaction: “What the hell are you doing?” Her explanation was good. https://gizmodo.com/ultimate-battle-the-snuggie-vs-slanket-vs-freedom-bl-5190557 “Listen,” she said, “I have to come to the office in the subway, with this horrible…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Uh Oh: iPhone OS 3.0 Doesn’t Fully Delete Your Emails (UPDATED)

The iPhone is no stranger to gaping security flaws, but this one’s a doozy: You know how when you delete emails, you expect them to be, well, deleted? On iPhone 3.0, that’s just not how things work. This is bad. https://gizmodo.com/huge-iphone-security-flaw-puts-all-private-information-5042332 You can watch the whole insincere deletion process play out above, but here’s a…

Tech News John Herrman

Can You Match Blows With This Giant Robot’s Shadow Crane Strike?

Concept art for Jeffrey Lau’s “martial arts Transformers” film Kung-Fu Cyborg has come out, and the giant fist-of-death-wielding robots look just as magnificent as you’d hope. And there are robot throwing stars. Yes, really! A gallery of Kung-Fu Cyborg concept art went up at Sina.com (more at the link) including some battle scenes and some…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Smallville’s Wonder Twins Include Our Favorite Hacker. Plus First Look At Brian Austin Green’s Metallo!

Smallville is scraping the bottom of the superhero barrel, and coming up with a heaping of Wonder Twins for its next season. Even the first glimpse at Brian Austin Green‘s naked robotic chest doesn’t make the pain any duller. According to KryptonsiteDavid Gallagher (7th Heaven) and Allison Scagliotti (Warehouse 13’s awesome Claudia) have been cast…

io9 Meredith Woerner

10 Extreme Cameras for Taking Impossible Shots

Modern consumer cameras can manage almost anything you throw at them, but sometimes even the swankest DSLR just won’t do. In photography, when the conditions get crazy, the cameras get crazier. Here are ten cameras designed to capture the kinds of images that humans by all means shouldn’t be able to see, and that you…

Tech News John Herrman

Superconductors Make Life (and Science Fiction) Awesome

If you’ve ever had an MRI scan or accelerated a sub-atomic particle to near light speed, then you’ve experienced the wonders of superconductors. Here’s how they work, what they do, and how they can be used in science fiction. The basic idea of a superconductor is simple: it’s a material that conducts electric current with…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

We Want to Own this Mystery, Apple-Like Android MID

We know almost nothing about this device of any substance. It could be a prototype. It could be on an assembly line now. But it’s a tiny, touchscreen MID that runs Android. And it’s pretty much distilled hotness. Estimated to be about 4.5-inches long and 3-inches wide (while still managing a very slim profile), Pocketables…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Margaret Atwood’s All-Singing, All-Drama Post-Apocalyptic Roadshow

With Margaret Atwood‘s long-awaited novel The Year Of The Flood coming out in a month or so, she’s ramping up a promotional blitz, including a spiffy website and T-shirts. She also plans a roadshow with actors and choirs… and plushies? The Year Of The Flood is not quite a sequel to Atwood’s acclaimed novel Oryx…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Jetpod Flying Taxi Creator Falls to His Death Testing Prototype

We’ve been all about the air lately, but sometimes we just forget what some do to give us our future areo technology. The inventor of the Jetpod flying taxi, Michael Robert Dacre, died yesterday while testing his latest twin-engine aircraft. https://gizmodo.com/the-boeing-dreamliner-787-could-be-the-next-spruce-goos-5338674 Crashing in Taiping, Dacre died on his fourth run. According to a witness, the…

Tech News Joanna Stern

What Do District 9 And Moon Have In Common?

We’re lucky to have two thought-provoking, well-written science fiction movies in as many months: Moon and District 9 feel like twin beacons in a void full of action movies. But what’s really surprising is how much they have in common. Oh, and there are spoilers for both movies here. On the surface, the two films…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Gadget Deals Of The Day

Dealzmodo kicks off the week with great bargains on storage. There’s an amazing deal on a trio of Sandisk SD cards, and check out one of the best prices we’ve ever seen on a 1TB external hard drive. Computing and Peripherals: • 15.6″ Dell Inspiron Dual Core Laptop for $449 plus free shipping (normally $559).…

Tech News Chris Jacob

The Cheapest Way to Make Web Videos? Shoot at the Apple Store

Young Nicholi makes web videos. Not so unique! But he shoots and uploads all of them in the 5th Ave Apple Store in NYC. OK, that’s a bit more original. Nicholi has made boatloads of lip sync videos at the store, and it’s funny to see people milling around behind him and wondering just what…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Palm’s Eos “Pixie” WebOS Phone Might Be Delayed Until 2010

According to Digital Daily, Palm’s next WebOS phone, the Eos (aka “Pixie”), will probably drop sometime in 2010—refuting earlier rumors that it would launch before the holidays. However, it does support grumblings flying around this past June regarding Palm putting the Eos on ice because of Pre sales concerns. Unless the hardware isn’t there, it…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell And Jonah Hill Join Supervillain Reversal Film Oobermind

DreamWorks Animation is stuffing its new CG supervillain epic with lots of big names. Just recently Will Ferrell stepped up to fill in for Robert Downey Jr. And now Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and Tina Fey have joined the team. The animated film picks up after supervillain Oobermind (Ferrell) has finally bested the city’s handsome…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Secrets Inside Steve Jobs’ House (According to Me)

Steve Jobs is a private man, so only those very close to him ever get a look inside his home. Privacy shmivacy! Here’s our exclusive look inside, revealing some downright surprising aspects of the bearded one’s personal life. Words by Adam Frucci, illustrations by the illustrious Dan Meth, the artist behind The Seven Types of…

Tech News Adam Frucci

It Came From Beneath the Ice To Destroy the World!

Monsters and supervillains come from a lot of places, but a perennial favorite is the frozen depths. Defrosted Big Bads have been rampaging through books and movies for almost a century, and here are fifteen of the freezingest. The Thing There are two movie versions of The Thing, which is itself based on a short…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Extreme Cameras Gallery

Lot of pressure on this blocky guy: NASA excitedly sent modified Hasselblad 500ELs to the moon along with the Apollo 11 astronauts, only to find out, through those bulky custom Carl Zeiss lenses, that nobody was home. BOOOORRIIINNNGG. So surely, all these years later, NASA’s got some slick little super-cams that make their 1960’s relics…

Tech News John Herrman

Sharp Mirumo 934SH Features Two-Face LCD

Just a taste of Japan’s still-fantastical cellphone market can be seen in the Sharp Mirumo 934SH. It’s a waterproof clamshell that’s pretty ordinary, until you realize its display is dual-sided. Flip it open, and you have an ordinary, full color clamshell. But closed, its “memory” LCD takes advantage of a low-power backside that’s black and…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Yesterday’s House Of The Future Went Cheap

Would You Classify Yourself As An Audiophile?

This Is How Office Assistants In Tiny Shorts Fight Freezing Summertime AC

Uh Oh: iPhone OS 3.0 Doesn’t Fully Delete Your Emails (UPDATED)

Can You Match Blows With This Giant Robot’s Shadow Crane Strike?

Smallville’s Wonder Twins Include Our Favorite Hacker. Plus First Look At Brian Austin Green’s Metallo!

10 Extreme Cameras for Taking Impossible Shots

Superconductors Make Life (and Science Fiction) Awesome

We Want to Own this Mystery, Apple-Like Android MID

Margaret Atwood’s All-Singing, All-Drama Post-Apocalyptic Roadshow

Jetpod Flying Taxi Creator Falls to His Death Testing Prototype

What Do District 9 And Moon Have In Common?

Gadget Deals Of The Day

The Cheapest Way to Make Web Videos? Shoot at the Apple Store

Palm’s Eos “Pixie” WebOS Phone Might Be Delayed Until 2010

Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell And Jonah Hill Join Supervillain Reversal Film Oobermind

The Secrets Inside Steve Jobs’ House (According to Me)

It Came From Beneath the Ice To Destroy the World!

Extreme Cameras Gallery

Sharp Mirumo 934SH Features Two-Face LCD

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