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The Hulk Stands Up For Gray Pride

Wolverine battles the Hulk, in three exclusive stills from the Wolverine And The X-Men DVD — and it’s the awesome gray version. Mr. Fixit is going to get his hands dirty. Just like Hulk #340! And there’s an exclusive clip. Wolverine and The X-Men, the cartoon about Logan getting the team back together in the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

10 Gadgets For Instant Game Rooms

Have you always wanted a game room but lacked the space? These gadgets will give you all of the fun without using up all of the real estate. This compact games table is actually 20 games in one. [Argos Sports] Pool tables can take up an entire room—a problem that can be remedied by installing…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Sony Ericsson’s More-Camera-Than-Phone C905 AT&T’s First 8MP Cameraphone

A whole year after it was announced, it looks like Sony Ericsson’s C905 is coming stateside by way of AT&T July 19, making it AT&T’s first 8-megapixel cameraphone. I’m sure Jesus would hate it. [BGR] https://gizmodo.com/sony-ericsson-c905-8-1-megapixel-cybershot-phone-gets-o-5017168

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Great News: An Andrew Niccol Script Replaces I Am Legend Prequel

We’ve been dreading the mooted I Am Legend prequel reteaming Will Smith and director Francis Lawrence. So we’re delighted to hear the duo are instead working on a fantastical movie with a script by Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, Truman Show). According to The Hollywood Reporter, The City That Sailed follows a New York City street magician…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Windows 7 Touch Pack: Surface Interface Without the Big-Ass Table

I scored one of the only copies of Windows 7 Touch Pack out in the wild, and it really blew my mind, bringing the full power of Microsoft Surface to touch-enabled Win 7 PCs. Have a look: In my first go-around with Win 7 touch, I didn’t feel so much ooh-aah as I felt relief,…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Best Buy CMO Barry Judge Responds with ‘The One Type of Gizmodo Blogger’

Yesterday, I did a fun post describing the Seven Types of Employees You Meet at Best Buy, complete with illustrations by Dan Meth. And now, Best Buy has responded. And they’ve been spying on me. https://gizmodo.com/the-seven-types-of-employees-you-meet-at-best-buy-5311140/ You’ll find this guy on his couch, sporting an ironic t-shirt with a delivery-food stain of some kind. He…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Gadget Deals Of The Day

For those in the market for an ultra-portable, be sure to check out the awesome deal on the Lenovo x301. To make sure everyone has an awesome weekend— there’s free chocolate, condoms, body lotion, depends, and slurpees. Have fun! https://gizmodo.com/lenovo-unveils-thinkpad-x301-with-centrino-2-and-128-gb-5037763 Computing and Peripherals: • 15.6″ Lenovo G550 CoreDuo 2GHz Notebook with WXGA LED TFT for…

Tech News Don Nguyen

Female Fans Prepare To Trample Men At Comic-Con

Just a few weeks ago, we endured condescending articles about how girls don’t like Comic-Con. This week, we hear that the worst part of Comic-Con is going to be all the female fans of Twilight. Wait, what? A few weeks ago, the Los Angeles Times printed a terrifyingly awful article trying to get women to…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!

Nikola Tesla, the granddaddy of electricity, was born on this day way back in 1856. If only he were alive to see what kind of goofy crap we were doing with his namesake coils! People love cheating death by standing right under some Tesla Coils going crazy, protecting themselves in Faraday Cages. https://gizmodo.com/strangely-the-man-in-this-electrifying-photo-is-not-de-5218553 They also…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Walmart Rolls Back Blu-ray Player To $98

It appears that Walmart brick and mortar stores have rolled back the price of their Magnavox NB530MGX from $128 around Father’s Day to a new low of $98. https://gizmodo.com/walmart-drops-blu-ray-player-price-to-new-low-of-128-5286046 It’s certainly not top of the line, but it does have 1080p support—and the price is hard to resist if you simply want to get into…

Tech News Sean Fallon

How To Survive The Next Depression, With Cory Doctorow

If you’re jonesing for some whimsical outlaw techie culture in your life – and who isn’t? – then you need to start reading Cory Doctorow‘s new novel Makers, which is being serialized pre-publication on Tor.com. I was lucky enough to score an early copy of Makers from Cory a few months ago, and it’s a…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Grab Your Titanium Umbrella: Eureka Is Back!

Mad science is getting quirky and lovable once again on the Syfy Channel, as Eureka returns for the long-delayed second half of its third season. We’ve seen the next two episodes of this crazy-town show. Spoilers ahead. Faithful Eureka viewers will remember that at the end of the most recent episode, Jack Carter got fired…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Cameras for Mac Makes Connecting Digital Cameras Way Easier

If you have more than one camera (and a Mac), you need Cameras, a free preference pane app. It tracks all the cameras you plug into your Mac and lets you assign a custom behavior for each one. I’ve been using it for a couple of days and love it, since one behavior does not…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Nike’s T90 Ascente Football Ball Has More Engineering Than Most Cars

I would have thought that there is a finite amount of engineering that could go into a football / soccer ball, but the Nike T90 has proven me wrong. The new ball was designed for the three big football leagues (England’s Premier League, Spain’s La Liga, and Italy’s Serie A) and it will undoubtedly lead…

Tech News Sean Fallon

“You Can Call Me Ripley”

This is Sarah May Scott. She got a grave spinal cord injury in 2005. And if everything goes well, she may start walking again: I am not a cyborg, but I am getting closer and closer to being a terminator. My back is already full of titanium, and I’ve got a radio-controlled device in my…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Rare Footage Of The Special Effects Team Behind Star Wars

David Berry worked at George Lucas’ special effects studio, Industrial Light & Magic, in the mid-1970s, when the now-legendary group brought Star Wars to life. He filmed everyday life around the ILM workshop, capturing special effects shot setups, model-making, and parking lot waterslide shenanigans. Now he’s released a 10-minute video of the days of ILM…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Create Retro Versions of Modern Gadgets

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want you to take modern day gadgets and bring them back to the swinging 70s. Create retro versions of gadgets or retro ads for gadgets that didn’t exist back then. Send your best entries to me at [email protected] with Retro Gadgets in the subject line. Save your files as…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Pegasus Open 50 Raceboat Log: Day 5/6 and the Moon

July 9, 5:30 PM PST Today we are living within the realm of Squalls. Squalls in the the Northeast sub-tropical Pacific are different. They are small, concentrated and powerful. The rain lasts ~20 minutes under them if you’re stationary. We’re not. I love squalls in Honolulu: refreshing, cleansing and replenishing for island precious water. On…

Tech News Philippe Kahn

Which Of These Men Will Be Our Lantern?

It’s official: One of these three men will play DC Comics’ Green Lantern in next year’s big budget movie version. But which one can fulfill our intergalactic ring-slinging policeman fantasies? The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that the producers of the movie have narrowed the choice of cinematic Hal Jordan down to Bradley Cooper, Ryan Reynolds…

Movies Graeme McMillan

DARPA Stops Trying Not to Be Terrifying, Funds Chainsaw-Wielding, Flesh-Eating Robot

You don’t have to be tinfoil underwear type to get uneasy about some of the bizarre projects that DARPA throws its weight behind. But the organic matter-consuming EATR robot? Oh. God. The defense research agency has announced they’ll be funding the EATR project—the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot—which aims to build a lumbering mechanical creature that…

Tech News John Herrman

The Hulk Stands Up For Gray Pride

10 Gadgets For Instant Game Rooms

Sony Ericsson’s More-Camera-Than-Phone C905 AT&T’s First 8MP Cameraphone

Great News: An Andrew Niccol Script Replaces I Am Legend Prequel

Windows 7 Touch Pack: Surface Interface Without the Big-Ass Table

Best Buy CMO Barry Judge Responds with ‘The One Type of Gizmodo Blogger’

Gadget Deals Of The Day

Female Fans Prepare To Trample Men At Comic-Con

Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!

Walmart Rolls Back Blu-ray Player To $98

How To Survive The Next Depression, With Cory Doctorow

Grab Your Titanium Umbrella: Eureka Is Back!

Cameras for Mac Makes Connecting Digital Cameras Way Easier

Nike’s T90 Ascente Football Ball Has More Engineering Than Most Cars

“You Can Call Me Ripley”

Rare Footage Of The Special Effects Team Behind Star Wars

Create Retro Versions of Modern Gadgets

Pegasus Open 50 Raceboat Log: Day 5/6 and the Moon

Which Of These Men Will Be Our Lantern?

DARPA Stops Trying Not to Be Terrifying, Funds Chainsaw-Wielding, Flesh-Eating Robot

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