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Want to Make Supercross Boring? Swap Out Dirt Bikes for Segways

What happens when you take a Segway to a supercross track? You make motocross far less exciting. In this video, AMA Supercross champion James Stewart rides a Segway around the supercross track at his house. It seems super easy, at least until you see a non-supercross champ try it and fail miserably. But still, this…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Marvel Aims For 4 Movies A Year, Leading To World Domination

During an interview yesterday on the set of Iron Man 2, Marvel Studios executive Kevin Feige explained what lies ahead for the rapidly expanding universes of Marvel movies, providing information on everything from Captain America to Ant-Man to The Avengers. Perhaps the biggest revelation was that, despite the lackluster performance of last year’s The Incredible…

Movies Alasdair Wilkins

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Spend all week lost in your own virtual world? Don’t worry, we’ve got the best of the best right here. This week features secret superhero behavior, the worst holodeck episodes on TV, Firefly hopes and dreams, and remembering Ghostbusters. Never Before Seen Ghostbusters Behind The Scenes Shots A glorious collection of Ghostbusters stills and set…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Project Natal Won E3, and Maybe the Motion Control Wars

Wii MotionPlus will make the Wii better. Sony’s very impressive motion control demo will be better than Wii MotionPlus. But Microsoft stole E3 and may have already won the motion control wars with the announcement of Project Natal. https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360-project-natal-full-body-motion-control-one-up-5274319 Keep in mind, the name “Natal”—referring to a city in Brazil—doesn’t really do the platform’s infancy…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Nintendo Wii MotionPlus Hands On: One Year, Three Games Later

One year after its unveiling, WiiMotion Plus is days away from locking onto Wiimotes everywhere. Let’s get the bad news out of the way: Go ahead and earmark another $80 for Nintendo’s coffers. https://gizmodo.com/wii-motionplus-coming-june-8-for-20-5211305 Last year, Mark said the thrill of 1:1 motion it delivered was “greater than maybe any experience I’ve had on the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

New Tiny Robots Can Crawl Through Your Veins

Imagine tiny robots crawling inside of you, diagnosing problems and imaging your body. Israel’s Technion has developed just the tool: the ViRob, a robot with a diameter of 1mm. It’s controlled by external magnetic fields, and it crawls through veins. The minuscule robot is powered and directed by external magnetic fields. That means no wires…

io9 StephenGoldmeier

Driving the $1.4 Million Protoscar Lampo Solar-Powered Electric Roadster

Our gearhead brothers over at Jalopnik recently got a chance to take the insanely expensive Protoscar Lampo, a solar-powered roadster, for a test spin. https://jalopnik.com/protoscar-lampo-first-drive-1-4-million-solar-power-5280230 The Lampo will never actually be for sale because Protoscar isn’t an automobile manufacturer. Instead, the prototype was designed to show just what was possible with today’s technology. Because of…

Tech News Adam Frucci

The Truth About The Most Violent Star Cluster In The Galaxy

New images of the Arches Cluster, one of the most chaotic and densely packed parts of the galaxy, have revealed that the distribution of stars there look surprisingly similar to that of our own relatively quiet part of the Milky Way. Astronomers were able to use Europe’s Very Large Telescope to get unprecedentedly sharp pictures…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Fall Out Boy’s New Robot Love Affair

Have you ever thought that Metropolis needed a 21st Century makeover based on the music of emo band Fall Out Boy? If so, then it appears that Image Comics agrees with you. Welcome to Fall Out Toy Works. The new five issue series, created by Fall Out Boy lead singer Pete Wentz and designer Darren…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Guess What? Many Of You Wasted Money on Your 1080p TV (But There’s Hope)

The other day I posed a simple question: How far do you sit from your TV? The results show that many of you are not getting all the definition out of your HDTV. https://gizmodo.com/how-far-do-you-sit-from-your-hdtv-5277417 As mentioned, the Lechner Distance chart illustrates that there are specific distances at which the human eye has the best chance…

Television Sean Fallon

6 Characters Who Escaped Virtual Prisons… Or Did They?

It’s the ultimate test for any hero: finding yourself trapped in a prison of the mind, where you can no longer tell the difference between reality and falsehood. Here are six science-fiction heroes who escaped from virtual reality…probably. Spoilers ahead! 1. Douglas Quaid, Total Recall The Setup: After visiting Rekall in the hopes of going…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Palm Pre or The New iPhone 3G?

So, let’s get right down to it. Knowing what we know about the Palm Pre and the likely release the iPhone 3G 2009, which one (if any) is worth your hard earned cash? https://gizmodo.com/palm-pre-review-5277499 Are You Getting the Palm Pre or the iPhone 3G 2009?(poll)

Tech News Sean Fallon

Scientists Seeking Money To Finish Syfy’s Roswell Investigation

Three scientists are seeking money to finish the analysis of some items from Roswell they feel certain could be connected to aliens. And it’s all linked to a Syfy Channel series that got canceled before it could find answers. Dr. Bill Doleman, along with researchers Chuck Zukowski, and Debbie Ziegelmeier were part of the Sci…

io9 Megan Carpentier

The Week In iPhone Apps: My Life Is Indistinguishable From The Sims

This week, the App Store goes on a little gaming kick. Sort of like the real world. COINCIDENCE?!? Yes. It’s not that there weren’t a few cool iPhone announcements at E3—there were!—it’s just that not much from LA actually made it to the App Store this week. Luckily, a few great ones did, along with…

Tech News John Herrman

10 Tips and Gadgets For Line Camping Pre-paration

As you know, the Palm Pre is set to make it’s debut tomorrow. If Best Buy’s stock is any indicator, supplies will be short. With that in mind, it is a good time to revisit our tips on line camping. https://gizmodo.com/palm-pre-review-5277499 The list provides tips for effective line camping as well as survival gadgets—in short,…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Star Trek’s Absolute Worst Holodeck Adventures

Star Trek used to be exploring strange new worlds, but at some point it turned into a never-ending parade of terrible holographic trifles. Here are the ten absolute worst. It was surprisingly hard to pick the worst Trek holodeck stories, with so many stinkers (and so few good ones) to choose from. It was especially…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Great Moments in Apple Analysis

Benjamin Reitzes of Barclays Capital drops this insightful load in a NYT piece on Apple strategy: If they start making products people don’t want, and start losing users, then Apple’s strategy will run into problems. I’m going to have to say that this is the best quote I’ve ever seen. [NYT – Thanks ponies!]

Tech News Jason Chen

Palm Pre Only Available at Physical Sprint Stores on June 6

Sprint’s just made a silent change to their Palm Pre press release to take out the fact that the phone would be available on Sprint.com. Because it won’t. Here’s what the release used to say: Palm Pre will be available nationwide on June 6 in Sprint stores, Best Buy, Radio Shack, select Wal-Mart stores and…

Tech News Jason Chen

Faithful Recreations Belong On ABC Family, Says Land of Lost Director

Land Of The Lost director Brad Silberling has been talking about remaking a cult favorite and, in the process, may have isolated what makes a revamp work (Hint: It’s not slavish fan service). Talking to the Wall Street Journal, Silbering was asked about whether he was concerned about backlash from Land’s more hardcore fans. Not…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Nintendo: We Could Be Stuck With the Wii for 8 More Years

The Xbox 360 is less than halfway done, and the PS3 is a “ten year” console. But what about Wii? Satoru Iwata says new hardware could come “three years from now, five years from now or eight years from now.” https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-says-xbox-360-is-less-than-halfway-done-5279383 Dear lord. Eight years with no HD and a processor that won’t allow the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Want to Make Supercross Boring? Swap Out Dirt Bikes for Segways

Marvel Aims For 4 Movies A Year, Leading To World Domination

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Project Natal Won E3, and Maybe the Motion Control Wars

Nintendo Wii MotionPlus Hands On: One Year, Three Games Later

New Tiny Robots Can Crawl Through Your Veins

Driving the $1.4 Million Protoscar Lampo Solar-Powered Electric Roadster

The Truth About The Most Violent Star Cluster In The Galaxy

Fall Out Boy’s New Robot Love Affair

Guess What? Many Of You Wasted Money on Your 1080p TV (But There’s Hope)

6 Characters Who Escaped Virtual Prisons… Or Did They?

Palm Pre or The New iPhone 3G?

Scientists Seeking Money To Finish Syfy’s Roswell Investigation

The Week In iPhone Apps: My Life Is Indistinguishable From The Sims

10 Tips and Gadgets For Line Camping Pre-paration

Star Trek’s Absolute Worst Holodeck Adventures

Great Moments in Apple Analysis

Palm Pre Only Available at Physical Sprint Stores on June 6

Faithful Recreations Belong On ABC Family, Says Land of Lost Director

Nintendo: We Could Be Stuck With the Wii for 8 More Years

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