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Intimidate Neighbors And Cook Their Food With Uber Manly Imperial Grill XL

It’s a balmy 58 degrees in Boston today, and spring is just around the corner. Time to talk grills. What better place to start than the Imperial Grill, which is held together by pure testosterone? Housed within this stainless steel propane-devouring beast are two separate ovens and two cooking surfaces that erupt with up to…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Dinotrux Offers High-Concept Kiddie Carnage For All

It’s a victory for high-concept children’s books over science once and for all, as Chris Gall’s “what if dinosaurs were also trucks” book Dinotrux has been optioned by Dreamworks Animation. Dinotrux – which isn’t even released until this June – is described by its publishers a little something like this: Millions of years ago, DINOTRUX…

Movies Graeme McMillan

XCM Cross Fire Adapter Brings Dual Shock, Identity Crises to Xbox 360

On the opposite end of the fanboy self-loathing scale created by the PS3 XCM Cross Battle adapter is the Cross Fire. It brings Dual Shock controllers to the Xbox 360 (with turbo!). https://gizmodo.com/cross-battle-adapter-brings-xbox-360-controller-to-ps3-5156500 Like its Cross Battle cousin, this adapter delivers the Dual Shock experience some gamers crave but cannot have on their Xbox 360…

Tech News Jack Loftus

British Boy Embarks On “Electric Shock Free-For-All” With Bulgarian Stun Gun

If that headline didn’t grab your attention, I don’t know what will. A British 13-year-old smuggled a stun gun he bought on vacation into school, and proceeded to go a little zap-crazy. The kid bought the gun for $15 while on vacation in Bulgaria, which makes Bulgaria sound like kind of a badass place to…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Amazon Threatens Legal Action Against Those Increasing the Kindle’s Usefulness

Amazon recently threatened the smackdown on a site offering instructions on how to trick the Kindle into reading other types of files. This isn’t a question of copyright infringement, it’s a question of control. Amazon invoked the decade-old Digital Millenium Copyright Act, or DMCA, as proof of the wrongdoing of a Russian hacker who discovered…

Commerce Dan Nosowitz

Wars Are Almost Over, If You Want It

The invasion of the planet Ryloth is over… and the first season of George Lucas’ Star Wars: The Clone Wars can almost say the same. But which caused more suffering, overall? Maybe I’m just getting soft in my old age, but I’ve really enjoyed the construction of the last three episodes, each presenting a different…

Television Graeme McMillan

More Pictures of the BlackBerry Niagara 96xx: No More Blurrycam!

The BlackBerry “Niagara,” or 9600 series, popped up on eBay for about a minute before it was pulled, but you can’t hide pictures like these. Check out the gallery after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-and-sprint-users-this-is-the-blackberry-youve-5164796 The 9600 series is sort of a combination of the Bold and Curve/Javelin series for CDMA, though we don’t know a whole…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

How Battlestar Galactica May Have Changed Science Fiction

As Battlestar Galactica hurtles towards next week’s two-hour finale, it’s time for showrunner Ronald D. Moore to look back at the legacy of the show, and how it’s changed science fiction… well, kind of. Talking to the Hollywood Reporter, Moore was asked what Galactica’s legacy to the genre will be. His response: One of the…

Television Graeme McMillan

Live Images From Mars in Google Earth Now Available

Mars in Google Earth is officially showing live updates from the surface of the angry planet. Google issued this mysterious statement today: “We are entering uncharted territory.” Users can access the images from the Themis camera onboard the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, as well as older images from up to a century ago. You can explore…

Space & Spaceflight Dan Nosowitz

EV-o RR Electric Motorcycle Can Kick Your Gas Guzzler’s Butt

In preparation for the zero-emissions grand prix, Evo Design Solutions has this fearsome electric superbike, fast enough and tough enough to challenge the old-school gas models. Evo Design Solutions used a couple design tricks to allow room for the bike’s large battery, including a monocoque that encloses the drivetrain, which negates the need for a…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Help Dollhouse Stop Inappropriate Erections!

There’s something strangely awesome about a show that advertises using nekkid women, and then devotes a huge chunk of an episode to the enterprise of turning a hunky man into a eunuch. Dollhouse spoilers ahoy! Joss Whedon famously said that a movie is an answer, but a television show is a question. His first TV…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Badass Scientists Prepare Anti-Mosquito Laser

Sure, this project is the product of a great humanitarian impulse: wiping out malaria, which claims about a million lives a year. But you can tell the astrophysicists are having a blast with it, too. First, I’d like to commend the Wall Street Journal for what’s probably their best headline ever: “Rocket Scientists Shoot Down…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Please, No More Dark Superhero Movies

The Dark Knight was a massive hit, and Watchmen got great buzz (if not great reviews). But when Fox floats the idea of a “dark” reboot for the Fantastic Four, it’s gone too far. It’s weirdly fitting that The Dark Knight and Watchmen look like they’re going to end up serving the same purpose for…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Facebook Connect for iPhone Games Lets Everyone Know You’re Not Really Working

A bunch of iPhone games, among them the destructively awesome Tap Tap Revenge 2, have received updates to include Facebook Connect functionality. What does that mean for you? Networking. Delicious networking. Facebook Connect allows you to link your game, with all its scores and stats, to your Facebook account, which in turn lets you connect…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Designed Only For Zydeco

What happens when genetically-modified killing machines lose their taste for blood? They turn to music, as this picture of the unstoppable MODOK (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing) shows. Is this a happy ending? The image, by Pedro Delgado, is only one in a series of reimaginings of Marvel Comics’ giant-headed monster man from the…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

3/14: The Nerdiest Date of the Year

Okay, math dorks, enjoy your day of circles and pie-related puns. Come book week, we liberal arts nerds will celebrate for SEVEN TIMES longer. How you like them numbers? [Pi Day]

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Science Can Read Your Mind

In a development straight out of Fringe, scientists have discovered that they may, in fact, be able to use a brain scanner to read people’s minds… to a limited degree, at least. The discovery comes as the result of a study carried out at University College London that was itself the result of discovering that…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Touchscreen, Trackball-Less BlackBerry Bold Leaked

That rumored BlackBerry Bold with a touchscreen was just a whisper before, but now we’ve got a shot of the packaging to prove its existence. Let’s see what we know about this new hybrid. We’d known it as the Pluto, but now it’s been given a traditional RIM numeric identification as the 99xx series. It’s…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Digging Deep: 24 Science Fiction Archaeologists

What’s the best part about living in the distant future? There’s so much more past for you to explore! We take a look at some of science fiction’s most illustrious antiquarians. It’s pretty much impossible to discuss fictional archaeologists without talking about Indiana Jones, but until a year ago he arguably wouldn’t have belonged on…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

How To: Create Stunningly Realistic High Dynamic Range Photographs

In the right hands, high dynamic range imaging can blend multiple exposures of the same scene to more closely reproduce what your eye can see. Here’s how to do HDR the right way. So when should you use HDR? It’s simple: when you’re trying to capture a scene with a wide range between its lightest…

Tech News John Mahoney

Intimidate Neighbors And Cook Their Food With Uber Manly Imperial Grill XL

Dinotrux Offers High-Concept Kiddie Carnage For All

XCM Cross Fire Adapter Brings Dual Shock, Identity Crises to Xbox 360

British Boy Embarks On “Electric Shock Free-For-All” With Bulgarian Stun Gun

Amazon Threatens Legal Action Against Those Increasing the Kindle’s Usefulness

Wars Are Almost Over, If You Want It

More Pictures of the BlackBerry Niagara 96xx: No More Blurrycam!

How Battlestar Galactica May Have Changed Science Fiction

Live Images From Mars in Google Earth Now Available

EV-o RR Electric Motorcycle Can Kick Your Gas Guzzler’s Butt

Help Dollhouse Stop Inappropriate Erections!

Badass Scientists Prepare Anti-Mosquito Laser

Please, No More Dark Superhero Movies

Facebook Connect for iPhone Games Lets Everyone Know You’re Not Really Working

Designed Only For Zydeco

3/14: The Nerdiest Date of the Year

Science Can Read Your Mind

Touchscreen, Trackball-Less BlackBerry Bold Leaked

Digging Deep: 24 Science Fiction Archaeologists

How To: Create Stunningly Realistic High Dynamic Range Photographs

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