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David S. Goyer, Why Is There A Glory Hole In the Ladies Room?

Cloverfield’s Odette Yustman gets attacked by a tentacle monster and a rain of bugs, in this amazing scene from David S. Goyer‘s The Unborn, and all we keep wondering is: Why exactly does the ladies room have a glory hole? The Unborn comes out on DVD July 7, giving all of us another chance to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Robotics Scientists And BSG Cast Members Agree, We’re All Doomed

This past weekend, robotics experts joined Battlestar Galactica‘s President Roslin and Colonel Tigh, for the World Science Festival panel, "Cyborgs on the Horizon." They explained all about the inevitable robot uprising, and screened new Plan clips. When Colonel Tigh [Michael Hogan] joined President Roslin [Mary McDonnell] on stage, the crowd went wild, naturally. It had…

Television Meredith Woerner

Warning: Xbox Live and Zune Services Down Midnight PST, Tonight

At 12:01AM PST tonight (in a few hours) Xbox Live and Zune services will be down for scheduled maintenance. The outage could last up to “24 hours”. [Ars and AVForum]

Tech News Brian Lam

Beautiful Women and Headphones: Oil Paintings by Jonathan Viner (NSFW)

This Saturday (June 20th) Sloan Fine Art in New York will be featuring these oil paintings of beautiful women wearing headphones and only headphones. Jonathan Viner, the artist, calls the collection harem, and the pieces are oils on 12″x12″ panels. [Sloan Fine Art , Prints available through store.vinerstudio.com] JONATHAN VINER: “HAREM” Exhibition: June 20 through…

Tech News Brian Lam

AT&T to Prepaid iPhone Owners: F*&k You Very Much Pay-As-You-Go Plans Were Never Approved for iPhone

If you are an iPhone owner on a pay-as-you-go data plan, the end is near: AT&T has announced that the iPhone OS 3.0 upgrade will terminate your data service. The reason: A “technical change.” Update from AT&T. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3g-fully-works-with-pay-as-you-go-sim-cards-5049939 This the message that that some prepaid users got: AT&T Free MSG: A new software upgrade for…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Penn Swallows Fire in Super-Slow-Mo on Discovery Channel’s Time Warp

Here’s a peek at this week’s episode of Time Warp, where hosts Jeff and Matt join up with magicians Penn and Teller in Las Vegas and get a behind the scenes tour of Cirque de Soleil’s O. Also in this episode, you’ll get a look at the technology being used on the show, including an…

Tech News Andi Wang

Hot Spock-On-Spock Action In Star Trek: The Sexperience!

New spoof Star Trek – The Sexperience melds people who probably shouldn’t be dancing around in spandex, red shirt deaths, Pon Farr sex jokes, together with circus freaks, sex jokes and burlesque. And you thought Watchwomen was the outer limit.

Movies Meredith Woerner

Could Overpopulation Save The Earth From Global Warming?

A team of scientists at Cal-Tech think they might have found a way to save the planet from global warming: breed faster. The more of us there are, the more nitrogen we take out of the atmosphere, cooling the planet. One big reason why the Earth isn’t much warmer already is the fact that the…

io9 Megan Carpentier

How Do You Hide The Cords From Your Wall-Mounted TV?

Last year I posed the question “Do You Wall Mount Your TV?,” and discovered that about 30% of you have freed yourself from the stand. But I’m curious to know—what about those unsightly cables? https://gizmodo.com/question-of-the-day-is-your-flat-panel-tv-wall-mounted-5039537 To be honest, I have this thing about cables running from a wall-mounted TV. It…it just bothers me. So, do…

Tech News Sean Fallon

So When Does The Writers Strike Stop Ruining Movies?

Hollywood writers went on strike in 2007-2008, but we’re only seeing the results now, in a crop of summer movies with half-baked scripts and abnormally dunderheaded writing. So when do we start seeing some movies that the strike didn’t wreck? The writers’ strike has caused incalculable damage to genre television, including helping to kill great…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Real Surround Sound Beats Fake Surround Sound 10 to 1

According to our poll “Do You Have a Surround Sound Setup?,” 76% of the total respondents had either a HTIB or a system they compiled from separate components. That beats virtual surround respondents nearly 11 to 1. https://gizmodo.com/do-you-have-a-surround-sound-setup-5286069 So the bottom line is this—you guys are into the real deal. In fact you are so…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Superman Returns To Major Metropolitan Newspapers

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… Superman’s highest profile gig in a long time? Starting next month, the Man of Steel will take up residence at USA Today, appearing in a beautiful new weekly strip. USA Today announced this morning that the Superman strip from the much-anticipated Wednesday Comics anthology will also be appearing…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

David Sedaris on the Kindle: ‘This Bespells Doom’

What happens when you ask brilliant humor essayist David Sedaris to sign your Kindle? You get a hilarious quote doomed for finger smudging on your expensive gadget. [NY Times]

Commerce Adam Frucci

Ancient Cylon Warrior Almost Looked Like Darth Vader

Battlestar Galactica’s effects genius Gary Hutzel and model-maker Pierre Drolet had to create some ancient Cylon remains for the Galactica crew to dig up. So they reached into Japanese Samurai designs… and his first efforts looked quite like Darth Vader. Vader’s fellow Sith Lord, Darth Mojo, has been posting about the process of developing these…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

First Hybrid Solar Power Plant is a Jack Of All Trades

A new solar power plant is set to open its doors on June 24th in Kibbutz Samar, Israel—but this is a one of a kind complex thanks to a hybrid-microturbine. The plant can generate 100 kW of on-demand power and 170 kW of thermal power and consists of 30 mirrors that concentrate the sun’s rays…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Romulan Planet Drill Now In Testing Stages, For Real

If everything goes well, soon we will be able to reach the center of the Earth using 7200ºF flame jets that can go into any kind of material at 100 feet an hour. Wait, “if everything goes well”? Yes, apparently this is a great idea because it can be the key to obtain cheap geothermal…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

New Nanotechnology Breakthrough Is A Working Nano-Gear, 1.2nm Across

Nano-scale robotics is getting closer and closer. Scientists at A*STAR in Singapore have created a nano-gear that’s 1.2 nanometers across, or a few atoms wide. That’s ten thousand times smaller than the ones pictured here, next to a dust mite. The gear is made of carbon compounds and can freely rotate around a central axis.…

io9 StephenGoldmeier

2,000 People All Silently Take Instructions From the Same MP3

The wonderful Improv Everywhere just posted the report from its 6th MP3 Experiment, where 2,000 people all got together and listened to the same instructional MP3. It looked like a crazy amount of fun. You may be familiar with some of Improv Everywhere’s other pranks, such as Frozen Grand Central and the No Pants Subway…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Tranformers Gives You A Faceful Of Abrams-Esque Lens Flares, In New Clips

A ton of new Transformer TV spots burst with robot closeups, where you’ll hear Skidz and Mudflap speak their robotic “wassup” slang. Plus a new clip shows Demolishor… in English. But we’re scared: has Bay bought into the lens-flare fad? If you squint and look very closely, you can see Arcee and Sideswipe sliding about…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Lego…Uh, Tyco Brick Phone Circa 1983

Lego may be all into consumer gadgets these days with their fancy cellphones and camcorders, but Tyco beat them to the punch in the 80’s when they created this charmingly hideous landline phone. https://gizmodo.com/lego-cellphone-5151503 The device had traditional features like ring and pulse tone switches, but it also allowed users to build on the phone…

Tech News Sean Fallon

David S. Goyer, Why Is There A Glory Hole In the Ladies Room?

Robotics Scientists And BSG Cast Members Agree, We’re All Doomed

Warning: Xbox Live and Zune Services Down Midnight PST, Tonight

Beautiful Women and Headphones: Oil Paintings by Jonathan Viner (NSFW)

AT&T to Prepaid iPhone Owners: F*&k You Very Much Pay-As-You-Go Plans Were Never Approved for iPhone

Penn Swallows Fire in Super-Slow-Mo on Discovery Channel’s Time Warp

Hot Spock-On-Spock Action In Star Trek: The Sexperience!

Could Overpopulation Save The Earth From Global Warming?

How Do You Hide The Cords From Your Wall-Mounted TV?

So When Does The Writers Strike Stop Ruining Movies?

Real Surround Sound Beats Fake Surround Sound 10 to 1

Superman Returns To Major Metropolitan Newspapers

David Sedaris on the Kindle: ‘This Bespells Doom’

Ancient Cylon Warrior Almost Looked Like Darth Vader

First Hybrid Solar Power Plant is a Jack Of All Trades

Romulan Planet Drill Now In Testing Stages, For Real

New Nanotechnology Breakthrough Is A Working Nano-Gear, 1.2nm Across

2,000 People All Silently Take Instructions From the Same MP3

Tranformers Gives You A Faceful Of Abrams-Esque Lens Flares, In New Clips

Lego…Uh, Tyco Brick Phone Circa 1983

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