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$799 Batman’s Black iMac Is Damn Cool Until You Turn It Around

If you think that aluminum is the new beige, gliding capes are the smartest complement for a cocktail party, and batarangs are the best way to fight crime, then the Averatec 22-inch D1005 all-in-one should probably be your new PC. Until you turn it around, that is. But for $799, you will get: • 2.5GHz…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 17 '09

Add To Our List Of 8 Comically Enormous Retro Gadgets

We pointed out why gadgets were more expensive 30 years ago, but it is also important to note that many of these gadgets were hilariously huge. I’ve collected eight examples, I’ll leave it up to you to add the rest. https://gizmodo.com/why-you-cant-complain-about-the-price-of-todays-gadgets-5313690 In other words, feel free to use our new comments system to add photos…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 17 '09

Who Came Up With The Spider-Man Musical’s Goofy-Ass Name? It Was Bono.

Have you been wondering why the Spider-Man musical is called Turn Off The Dark? Apparently Bono, the musical’s songwriter, came up with the name. Says director Julie Taymor: “It was a story that he heard about a child who would say to his daddy, he was sleeping, and instead of saying ‘turn on the light,’…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 17 '09

Big Brother Amazon Remotely Deletes Purchased Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm From Thousands of Kindles

Amazon basically guaranteed that I’ll never buy a Kindle last night by bending to the wishes of a publisher and deleting every single legitimately-purchased copy of 1984 and Animal Farm from all Kindles remotely. Ridiculous. Apparently, the publisher changed its mind about having electronic versions of Orwell’s books. So Amazon removed them from the store…

Commerce Adam Frucci Jul 17 '09

Is Torchwood Homophobic? Fans Debate

The question you never thought we’d ask: did the famously queer-friendly show Torchwood turn homophobic in its most recent storyline? Fans are debating the issue furiously, in blog posts and a new podcast. Join the controversy below! With massive spoilers. At first blush, you’d think it’s a bit far-fetched: After all, Torchwood was created by…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 17 '09

Gadget Deals of the Day

It’s Friday and about that time again! Dealzmodo has deals on a variety of laptops and a hoard of games for all you bargain hunters! Hobomodos, we’ve got loads of great stuff from Nicorette gum to chocolate! Johnnymodo signing off! Computers and Peripherals: • 18.4″ HP Pavilion HDX18T Core 2 Duo 2.53GHz 4GB RAM 320…

Tech News Johnny Tzeng Jul 17 '09

Dark Knight Motorcycle Suit Gets You Accepted Into The Nerd’s Angels

Somehow I can’t picture a rugged, tattooed and bearded biker squeezing into this officially licensed Dark Knight armor replica. More like Comic Book Guy riding on a moped. Nonetheless, this Bat-replica for bikers is serious business. It features a heavy-duty Cordura base with four-way stretch inserts, leather and Kevlar plates, internal CE body armor and…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 17 '09

Satellite Photos of the Lunar Landing Site, 40 Years Later

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken a series of images of the original Moon landing site, complete with astronaut footprints that are still visible in the regolith. I hope we’ll get some higher-resolution images in days to come. Here’s one image of the site, and you can check out more on Gizmodo. via Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/first-new-images-of-the-apollo-landing-sites-in-40-year-5317057/

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 17 '09

Frog Design’s Hartmut Esslinger On Design in 1979

Hartmut Esslinger’s Frog Design made WEGA/Sony’s electronics fetish items, and then designed the “Snow White” language the Mac used. He’s a design legend and an author. Here he tells us about the challenges of designing, then and now. How did you shift from entertainment products to personal computers? Did you seek them out or were…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Jul 17 '09

Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta Adds New Windows 7 Functionality

We all know Windows 7 has a bunch of fancy new tricks. Now, the new Power Pack 3 beta software upgrade for Windows Home Server has been bolstered to support some of those features. The update includes support for full Windows 7 image backups, shared folders, Windows Search 4, and interactivity between WHS and Windows…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jul 17 '09

The Suits That Carried Our Heroes To The Moon

Check out this row of experimental astronaut suits — they look like something out of Tintin. With the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing coming up, the National Air and Space Museum is displaying precious Apollo mission artifacts. Gallery below. These suits and the exterior tiny space capsule drive home just how uncomfortable and claustrophobic…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 17 '09

What In the Hell Is Palm Doing with These Pre Ads?

Hey look, it’s another Palm Pre ad starring Tamara Hope! And I…don’t get it. I mean, sure. Palm could show off the features of the Pre in an obvious way. But I guess they think that pulling a Sony and making something pseudo-artsy is the way to go with this. Personally, I’d like to see…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jul 17 '09

Will The Hobbit Stop The Rumored Who Movie?

If a big-screen Doctor Who movie is announced at next week’s San Diego Comic-Con as expected, will it be made without David Tennant? Rumors are circulating that he may be too busy working on Gullermo del Toro’s The Hobbit movies. The Daily Telegraph is reporting the rumor based, apparently, on speculation from the LA Times’…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jul 17 '09

Use Photoshop to Make Gadgets Less Practical

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want you to take perfectly usable gadgets and make them decidedly less so. Let’s undo all that hard work that designers put into making these things easy for us to use. Send your best entries to me at [email protected] with Impractical Gadgets in the subject line. Save your files…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jul 17 '09

Olympus Stylus Tough 6010 Ruggedcam Just Adds More Megapixels

Olympus’s Stylus Tough 6010 is an incremental upgrade over the Tough 6000 boosting megapixels to the standard 12 from 10. Everything else, like toughness, looks about the same—as indicated by the fact it’s only 10 more power. [DPReview] https://gizmodo.com/olympus-stylus-tough-6000-waterproof-camera-snowmodo-r-5155279

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 17 '09

The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power

The Pirate Bay may not actually be dead, but major changes are on their way. Details on the new management’s legit business model have surfaced, and it will involve subsidizing your monthly fees in exchange for computing power. https://gizmodo.com/is-the-pirate-bay-actually-dead-5304538 Gaming Factory’s Chief Executive Officer Hans Pandeya describes the changes thusly: Rosso describes the new Pirate…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 17 '09

Bose SoundLink Streams Music From Your PC via USB

Following the trend of pretty much every other audio company, Bose’s SoundLink is their first wireless streaming speaker. But oddly enough, instead of using Bluetooth or wi-fi, Bose opted to go with an RF USB dongle for data transfer. The $550 speaker can transmit through rooms and walls (obviously), comes with a 3.5mm auxiliary jack…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jul 17 '09

Blu-ray Sales Up 91 Awesome Percent

Blu-ray disc sales are up 91 percent so far this year, with player sales up 25 percent, so that there’s around 11 million Blu-ray players in the US, including PS3s. What up haters??? Right? Right? Well, at least half of those 11 million Blu-ray players are PS3s, which had a US install base of 5.7…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 17 '09

First New Images of the Apollo Landing Sites in 40 Years

At last! NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has sent photos of the Apollo lunar landing sites, the first images ever since the Apollo missions. I will say it once again, one last time: Moon landing conspiracy theorists, SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP. This is the first time that images of the lunar landing sites have been taken…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 17 '09

World War Z Recruits A New Screen Writer

Not a good sign for the epic zombie war movie of our dreams. The film adaptation of Max Brooks‘ novel World War Z is getting another writer. J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5) is out, swapped for Matthew Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom). This picture just has to be hemorrhaging money by now. Folks, please save some…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 17 '09

$799 Batman’s Black iMac Is Damn Cool Until You Turn It Around

Add To Our List Of 8 Comically Enormous Retro Gadgets

Who Came Up With The Spider-Man Musical’s Goofy-Ass Name? It Was Bono.

Big Brother Amazon Remotely Deletes Purchased Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm From Thousands of Kindles

Is Torchwood Homophobic? Fans Debate

Gadget Deals of the Day

Dark Knight Motorcycle Suit Gets You Accepted Into The Nerd’s Angels

Satellite Photos of the Lunar Landing Site, 40 Years Later

Frog Design’s Hartmut Esslinger On Design in 1979

Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta Adds New Windows 7 Functionality

The Suits That Carried Our Heroes To The Moon

What In the Hell Is Palm Doing with These Pre Ads?

Will The Hobbit Stop The Rumored Who Movie?

Use Photoshop to Make Gadgets Less Practical

Olympus Stylus Tough 6010 Ruggedcam Just Adds More Megapixels

The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power

Bose SoundLink Streams Music From Your PC via USB

Blu-ray Sales Up 91 Awesome Percent

First New Images of the Apollo Landing Sites in 40 Years

World War Z Recruits A New Screen Writer

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