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Idea of the Day: Use Your Hand Puppet As a Cellphone Case

Kermit: “See? It fits.” True. And here’s the proof. Like I said in Twitter, this is the funniest and wrongest image you will see this month. Probably this year. Next: An iPhone up Walt Mosspuppet’s buttocks. [Thanks David, for letting an internet meme destroy the last of my childhood memories] https://gizmodo.com/walt-mosspuppet-gizmodo-makes-me-want-to-vomit-in-my-5320704

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Meet the Arc Gun, the Latest Discovery in Non-Human Technology

The Arc Gun—the most recent non-human weaponry discovery by the Multi-National United—is one bad-ass piece. It fires a huge charge of electricity to its target, kind of like a bolt of lightening, heating the target enough to cause extreme burns and rapid molecular expansion of gas and fluid. In a soft biological or animal target,…

io9 Chrissie Lamond

Tim Burton Confirms Dark Shadows. Vampire Johnny Depp?

Tim Burton has confirmed that his next project will be remaking ABC’s vampire soap Dark Shadows, whose rights are rumored to belong to Johnny Depp. This could mean we’ll finally see our Johnny Depp vampire dreams come true. At the Alice In Wonderland press conference, people cornered Burton about his next rumored movie project Dark…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Marvel Plans To Take Pity On Your Pocketbook

Fans feeling as if you have to buy every book that Marvel publishes in order to follow their favorite characters can take one piece of good news from the Mondo Marvel panel this afternoon: No more crossovers. Well, for awhile. Asked whether or not Marvel’s current Dark Reign branding and cross-continuity will lead into another…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Bill Gates: My 1979 Memories

Our Gizmodo ’79 celebration may have ended last week, but there’s room for a final post, written by famed retiree and mosquito wrangler Bill Gates. It’s no joke: Gates read the series then sent this in: https://gizmodo.com/bill-gates-just-unleashed-a-swarm-of-live-mosquitoes-on-5146564 I read those 1979 stories all last week, and it put me in a nostalgic mood, so wanted…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

What Does It Take to See Avatar at Comic Con?

With scenes from Avatar and New Moon screening today, it’s no surprise that the line to get into SDCC’s screening room was littered with tents and sleeping bags. We learned the secrets of extreme line-waiting from the folks in front. Twilighters, Tim Burton fans, and people looking to get a glimpse of James Cameron’s latest…

io9 Lauren Davis

You Don’t See an Airplane Lifting a 3-Tonne Cannon Every Day

At least, you don’t see it unless you are in the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Logistics Battalion 46, where they use MV-22 Ospreys—dual-rotor aircrafts that can switch between airplane and helicopter mode on the fly—to lift artillery pieces. In this case, that is an M777 howitzer, a 7000-pound 35-foot beast that requires five people to…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Microsoft’s Last Financial Quarter Could’ve Used a Service Pack

Results for last quarter are in, and with revenues reported well below already cautious estimates, it was a nasty few months for Microsoft. It’s almost as if they’re sitting on new generations of products in every single space they inhabit. But analysts were well aware of Microsoft’s cage of not-quite-released hardware and software, and their…

Tech News John Herrman

Classic Scifi Makes A Comeback In DC’s Superman Next Year

Wondering why the Superman comics seem to be very superhero-ish, for an alien rocketed to Earth from a dying planet? DC’s creators apparently agree with you, and they’re promising some more sci-fi for the character’s world in the next year. The next year of DC’s Superman family of comics will call back to some classic…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Death By iPhone: Apple and China’s Cultural Time Bomb

Last week, a 25-year-old communications worker died in an “apparent suicide” after losing track of a prototype iPhone built by Foxconn, his employer, for one of the most secretive companies in technology. It was only a matter of time. https://gizmodo.com/report-iphone-leak-interrogations-drive-foxconn-employ-5319275 First, a recap: Sun Danyong’s death came after a case of prototype iPhones he was…

Tech News John Herrman

Japan’s 2-D Lovers: Falling In Love with a Body Pillow

Lisa Katayama of TokyoMango has a story in this week’s NYT Magazine about otaku in Japan who are in love with anime pillowcases. Yes, they are “dating” body pillows with cartoon prepubescent girls on them. What’s going on in Japan? It’s both a sad and a disturbing trend, this “2-D love” thing. It seems like…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Tron Footage Took Us To The Next Level

We finally saw some new footage from Tron Legacy, the new Tron movie. And it was totally worth waiting a year for: Kinetic, delirious and full of light-cycle brilliance. Spoilery descriptions below. It’s been a full year since Disney surprised us and blew our minds with a surprise glimpse of the Tron sequel we didn’t…

io9 Lauren Davis

Gadget Deals Of The Day

There are great deals on laptops today—check out the Dell Mini 9, or the 13″ MacBook Pro with a free iPod Touch. A big thank you to Chris who put together the entire deals list today. Computing and Peripherals: • 14″ HP Compaq 2.0GHz Core2Duo Laptop for $480 (normally $1,197). • 13″ MacBook Pro 2.26GHz…

Tech News Don Nguyen

See The Best Fight Scene from Dollhouse, According to Joss Whedon

The Dollhouse season 1 DVDs hit stores soon, complete with the show’s brilliant unaired pilot and season finale. We’ve got an exclusive clip – with special io9 intro from Joss Whedon – of a terrific fight scene. One of the things you’ll learn when you get the DVDs is that this scene would have played…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Split Stick Double-Headed USB Drives Separate Your Work and Personal Lives

Whether you want to separate work from your personal life, his from hers, or your stuff from that other personality you call “Bad Charlie”, the Split Stick gives you two separate flash drives in one USB device. The drive is divided in half—2GB on each side. So separating files is as simple as choosing which…

Tech News Sean Fallon

The Middleman Returned, And Our Heads Exploded!

The Middleman, one of the greatest and craziest shows ever to bludgeon television with awesomeness, finally got the finale it deserves. The cast read the unaired finale script, and it was like the greatest rock concert ever. Oh man, it is so great to see the Middleman cast all together talking glibly and to hear…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

If You Buy a Computer That Costs Over $1000, It’s Probably a Mac

That’s because according to NPD, in June, 91 percent of the market for computers that cost over $1000 belonged to Apple. Sure, it helps that Apple only sells two computers under $1000—the white MacBook and Mac mini—so if you get a Mac, it’s probably going to cost over a grand. In fact, the average selling…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Sony Finally Popping 400-Disc Blu-ray MegaChanger (So Don’t Toss Your DVDs Yet)

As predicted, Sony is announcing BDP-CX960, a 400-disc Blu-ray MegaChanger for the relatively sane price of $800. Trouble is, nobody has 400 Blu-ray discs yet. https://gizmodo.com/sony-400-disc-blu-ray-changer-is-perfect-for-compulsive-5264208 OK, I’m sure somebody (Howard Stringer?) has 400 Blu-ray discs, but fortunately for you, the thing plays DVDs and even “CDs,” which I’m told are how they stored music…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Japanese Scifi Smackdown! Power-Armor Warriors Vs. Alien Dirt-Eaters

The last 25 years has seen a huge swell of interest by English-speaking audiences in manga, partly thanks to Viz Media. Now Viz is publishing translations of two prose novels, about alien invasion, time travel and power-armor smackdowns. “Haikasoru” translates as “High Castle” and is meant as a riff on Philip K. Dick’s classic allohistory…

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Meet the Arc Gun, the Latest Discovery in Non-Human Technology

The Arc Gun—the most recent non-human weaponry discovery by the Multi-National United—is one bad-ass piece. It fires a huge charge of electricity to its target, kind of like a bolt of lightning, heating the target enough to cause extreme burns and rapid molecular expansion of gas and fluid. In a soft biological or animal target,…

Tech News Chrissie Lamond

Idea of the Day: Use Your Hand Puppet As a Cellphone Case

Meet the Arc Gun, the Latest Discovery in Non-Human Technology

Tim Burton Confirms Dark Shadows. Vampire Johnny Depp?

Marvel Plans To Take Pity On Your Pocketbook

Bill Gates: My 1979 Memories

What Does It Take to See Avatar at Comic Con?

You Don’t See an Airplane Lifting a 3-Tonne Cannon Every Day

Microsoft’s Last Financial Quarter Could’ve Used a Service Pack

Classic Scifi Makes A Comeback In DC’s Superman Next Year

Death By iPhone: Apple and China’s Cultural Time Bomb

Japan’s 2-D Lovers: Falling In Love with a Body Pillow

Tron Footage Took Us To The Next Level

Gadget Deals Of The Day

See The Best Fight Scene from Dollhouse, According to Joss Whedon

Split Stick Double-Headed USB Drives Separate Your Work and Personal Lives

The Middleman Returned, And Our Heads Exploded!

If You Buy a Computer That Costs Over $1000, It’s Probably a Mac

Sony Finally Popping 400-Disc Blu-ray MegaChanger (So Don’t Toss Your DVDs Yet)

Japanese Scifi Smackdown! Power-Armor Warriors Vs. Alien Dirt-Eaters

Meet the Arc Gun, the Latest Discovery in Non-Human Technology

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