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This Is Why They Make Travel Adapters

Future Darwin Award nominee or desperate genius? Maybe both. But shoving things into what looks like a UK 220V outlet is probably not going to end well. Just ask the guy in this retro UK electrical hazards PSA: [There I Fixed It]

Tech News Danny Allen

15 Of The World’s Most Mind-Blowing, Ear Drum-Bursting Speakers

Our good friend Dave Kay at AudioJunkies has put together an all new edition of the world’s sexiest speakers for 2009—and it basically defines gadget porn for the audiophile. The image above pretty much tells the whole story. It’s an Olympus Sound System—tweeters, midranges, mid-woofers, and subwoofers are arranged in individual columns and each channel…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Is This Beat-Up iPod Really the Next Touch? (Updated With Video)

Points in favor of realness: the photos aren’t blurry; we’ve got multiple shots of the camera hardware; the photos match previous rumors about camera placement. Points against realness: they came from a radio show; and the iPod is totally destroyed. https://gizmodo.com/china-and-portugal-agree-next-gen-ipods-will-have-came-5337493 Click above image for super-huge version Of all the places you could send a…

Tech News John Herrman

Gadget Deals of the Day

We’ve got great deals for things that are sure to keep you entertained, be sure to check out the Battlestar Galactica: Season One download. As always, have an awesome and safe weekend. Computing and Peripherals: • Dell Studio XPS Desktop with 2.66 GHz Core i7 and 20″ LCD for $790 plus free shipping (normally $1150).…

Tech News Don Nguyen

A Portable Hard Drive Shredder for Every Office!

Doesn’t this plate of sliced hard drive look delicious? It was created in less than a minute by a refrigerator-sized machine that can slice hard drives up like bread, using 19.8 tons of pressure. Want to see it in action? I’m reporting to you from the Dutch hacker conference Hacking At Random, where I got…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Energy Star Guidelines Lag Behind World in Clarity and Purpose

In the US, we’re supposed to be the worldwide masters of consumerism. But as pointed out by Pop Mech, our Energy Star guidelines are not just inaccurate, they fail to compare one product to any other product. There’s no context. Meanwhile, take a trip pretty much anywhere else in the world and things change: Looking…

Reviews Mark Wilson

Can The Next Godzilla Make You Forget Matthew Broderick’s Raptor Disaster?

The monster rumor mill is churning out theories of another, possibly darker, Godzilla movie. Which is a great idea, merely to mind-wipe Roland Emmerich’s disaster of a Godzilla movie from our brains forever. Bloody Disgusting had news that another Godzilla movie is on the horizon — and the good news is Legendary Pictures is the…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Tobias Buckell On Eco-Thrillers and Writing Fight Scenes

Fresh off his top-selling novel Halo: The Cole Protocol, Tobias Buckell is turning back to original stories with an eco-thriller called Arctic Rising. He talked to us about that, and why the best fight scenes are short. I sat down with Buckell at WorldCon last week. First we talked about Arctic Rising, and where he…

io9 Annalee Newitz

H2O’s iDive300 Case Review: An iPhone Deep Beneath the Briny Sea

Our old friend Joel Johnson took an iPhone on a trip the other day…down to 50 feet underwater on a dive on California’s Channel Islands, using H2O Audio’s iDive300 Case and speakers. Scuba diving is about minimizing distraction, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at a scuba diver. Ignore the standard equipment, the buoyancy…

Reviews joel johnson

Robots Have More Fun

Turn you and your friends into Svedka Party_Bots. Svedka, voted the #1 vodka of 2033.

Tech News Chrissie Lamond

Microsoft Exec Claims Firefox’s Billion Downloads Is Probably Bull

This is Amy Barzdukas, a general manager in charge of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. And she may be smiling in the photo, but nowadays she’s bitching a lot. The reason? Firefox’s one billion downloads claim: As with any marketing statement, I’d encourage people to be somewhat sceptical about large number claims. It’s an interesting number and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

A Mathematical Model for Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse

We may think we know how best to eradicate the zombie threat, but movies and books give us, at best, an anecdotal account of how to deal with the undead. A new paper, however, offers mathematical models for human survival. In a paper published in Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress, a team of mathematicians from…

io9 Lauren Davis

DIY Guardian Robot Gives You a High Five For Happy Tweets

As annoying as it is, life sometimes gets in the way of your 24-hour Twitter vigil. That is why you can employ the Guardian Robot to stand watch for you. He will notify you of good tweets and bad 24/7. Live video by Ustream Meet the Guardian Robot: This friendly little fellow stands on your…

Tech News Sean Fallon

DC Loses More Superman Rights

A new court ruling has awarded the heirs of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel the rights to more stories than the previous original Action Comics #1 appearance. Does this increase the possibility of DC Comics losing control of the character? The ruling comes as the result of comics historian Denis Kitchen providing evidence (first mentioned as…

io9 Graeme McMillan

What Is This?

Interesting but ultimately unhelpful clue: It was created by a man who went by the name Brother Henry O. Studley. In case the antique aesthetic and outdated honorific didn’t give it away, this is a very old piece of hardware. Or rather, a very old collection of hardware: Filled edge to edge with handcrafted woodworking…

Tech News John Herrman

Poltergeist Reboot Released Just In Time To Ruin The Holidays

MGM hasn’t detoured from rebooting the classic ’80s horror flick Poltergeist. In fact they’ve set a date, it will be released Nov. 24, 2010, just in time to kill that happy turkey buzz. [Bloody Disgusting]

io9 Meredith Woerner

Zune HD TV Interface Makes It a Media Center For Your Pocket

You’ve already seen the player hands-on; the final reveal for the Zune HD was how well it handled when docked on a high-def TV. As you can see in this video, it blows away anything else in its class. https://gizmodo.com/zune-hd-hands-on-photos-and-video-tour-5272228 I was trying to figure out what it was about the Zune HD’s TV interface…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Is HBO the Next Destination for Science Fiction?

With some networks offering mixed signals about their futures with science fiction, we may increasingly rely on cable for compelling television about the future. Fortunately, HBO is stepping up, developing two new science fiction series with X-Files alum Frank Spotnitz. https://gizmodo.com/has-nbc-given-up-on-sci-fi-5330871 https://gizmodo.com/flashforwards-producers-wanted-science-fiction-that-was-5332716 According to Variety, HBO executives approached Spotnitz some time about the possibility of…

io9 Lauren Davis

The Tech of Mad Men—Just In Time for Season 3

Drink. Smoke. Fuck. Don’t let the perfect writing, production, and acting fool you. That’s really what Mad Men—one of the best TV series ever—is all about. And wondrous retro tech too, like you can see in these videos. Ah, Don Draper, how much I wanted to be like you. A creative mind at a top…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

First Look Inside Surrogates’ Creepy Robot Factory

Bruce Willis‘ new film Surrogates will march into the uncanny valley between “comfortably robotic” and “recognizeably human” — and start digging, judging from some new freaktastic photos showing half-human, half-robot faces, and glassy-eyed mannequins. A gallery of spoilery pics below. In The Surrogates, based on the acclaimed Robert Venditti graphic novels, it’s the future and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

This Is Why They Make Travel Adapters

15 Of The World’s Most Mind-Blowing, Ear Drum-Bursting Speakers

Is This Beat-Up iPod Really the Next Touch? (Updated With Video)

Gadget Deals of the Day

A Portable Hard Drive Shredder for Every Office!

Energy Star Guidelines Lag Behind World in Clarity and Purpose

Can The Next Godzilla Make You Forget Matthew Broderick’s Raptor Disaster?

Tobias Buckell On Eco-Thrillers and Writing Fight Scenes

H2O’s iDive300 Case Review: An iPhone Deep Beneath the Briny Sea

Robots Have More Fun

Microsoft Exec Claims Firefox’s Billion Downloads Is Probably Bull

A Mathematical Model for Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse

DIY Guardian Robot Gives You a High Five For Happy Tweets

DC Loses More Superman Rights

What Is This?

Poltergeist Reboot Released Just In Time To Ruin The Holidays

Zune HD TV Interface Makes It a Media Center For Your Pocket

Is HBO the Next Destination for Science Fiction?

The Tech of Mad Men—Just In Time for Season 3

First Look Inside Surrogates’ Creepy Robot Factory

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