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It’s Your Friday Night Battlestar Commenter Liveblog

That was a helluva cliffhanger last week – the entire Fleet hangs in the balance as Zarek and Gaeta lead a mutiny on the Galactica. Tell us what you’re thinking as tonight’s episode unfolds! Hang out with your fellow io9 commenters on our giant cyber-couch and vent as the show unfolds. I’ll post a review…

Television Annalee Newitz

Hands-On With JaJah’s iPod touch VoIP App

Jajah isn’t the first VoIP app for the iPhone/iPod touch, but it’s the first that let’s you send/receive SMS messages over wi-fi. I got a brief look at it, and so far, so good. https://gizmodo.com/jajah-app-now-turns-your-ipod-touch-into-a-voip-phone-5147282 Previously, the JaJah app for the iPhone was used as a middleman to connect people on VoIP to your cellphone,…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Three Writers Who Will Rule Science Fiction’s Future

The Guardian took a stab at naming all the science fiction novels you must read to avoid being labeled an uneducated brute. And now Guardian blogger Damien G. Walker has named three younger writers who should have been on that list. Three up-and-coming writers worth paying attention to are this year’s Campbell Award winner, Mary…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The Minimalistic Concrete Block Humidifier Makes You Look Less Feeble

Having humidifiers in your home can sometimes change its aesthetic atmosphere, sometimes even making you look sickly. But with this Concrete Block Humidifier’s simple, yet ultra-sleek design, you can now avoid drying up—in style. Although a slab of concrete may seem like a strange choice of material for a humidifier, this concrete has a “unique…

Tech News Andi Wang

Kindle 2 Official Images and Price Leak: $359 on February 24

Mobileread just got a bunch of official-looking Kindle 2 photos, which show it in various states being held and read, plus info that it’s being released for $359 on February 24. From the photos, it looks definitely a LOT thinner than the first, and maybe even a bit smaller too. Unless that man has gigantic…

Commerce Jason Chen

Pioneer Exits TV Business, No More Sweet Plasmas

Our favorite plasma maker and TV tech innovator is exiting the TV business for good, says HD Guru. We’ve known Pioneer’s been having a hard time of things lately, especially when they confirmed they were leaving the plasma manufacturing business. They hitched their wagon to Panasonic, the leading plasma manufacturer, but apparently Panny just delayed…

Television Wilson Rothman

Intel Shipping Atom N280 Processors, Bringing HD Quality to Netbooks

Intel is now shipping their new 1.66GHz Atom N280 processors to PC makers—a chip should give netbooks a performance boost with HD video. The 1.66GHz N280 is only a 0.06GHz jump over its N270 processor, but the 667MHz front-side bus and the pairing of the GN40 chipset with its hardware-based 720p HD video decoder is…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Time Warner Cable Bringing Bandwidth Overage Fees To More Cities

Time Warner Cable‘s trial of charging people extra for exceeding a set download limit has been a success—they are taking it to four more cities soon, with a new tier that’s higher than 40GB. https://gizmodo.com/time-warner-cable-to-expand-its-bandwidth-caps-to-addit-5146985 The key was in metering and charging correctly for overage, apparently, something that trials in Beaumont, Texas helped to iron…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

The Chief Explains Why Cally Would Have Been A Terrible Final Cylon

The Chief himself, Aaron Douglas from Battlestar Galactica, took time at NYCC to talk about his new project Emissary and fill us in on his opinions about Gaeta’s latest dickiness, along with final-Cylon impressions. Spoilers! Aaron explains everything, but we dare you to stop staring at his t-shirt for long enough to start listening. Aaron…

Television Meredith Woerner

Watch MTV’s College Humor Show This Sunday Night

Frucci’s friends over at College Humor just got a TV show on MTV! Why does this matter to you? Because Frucci’s gonna be in it! I’m not sure which episode Frucci’s going to be in, but the show premieres this Sunday, so you should watch for yourself to see if it’s this one. It’s not…

Tech News Jason Chen

Finally, E-Paper That Challenges a Real Paper

Next Monday, we’ll probably see a new Kindle. But you know what? It won’t feature a 24-inch screen that’s ready to out-paper a newspaper. https://gizmodo.com/amazon-preparing-to-drop-kindle-2-on-february-9-5140106 Spotted at a Taiwanese book show, these two Delta Electronics displays, though formally spec-less, are clearly astounding in quality. Coming in monochrome and color configurations, apparently the black and white…

Commerce Mark Wilson

Microsoft My Phone: Free MobileMe-Style Syncing for Windows Mobile

Today somebody over at Microsoft powered up the My Phone website a wee bit early. Apparently, they’ve re-branded SkyBox and are bringing lots of cloud syncing fun to WinMo phones. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-skybox-2-0-will-let-you-change-your-phones-ri-5145796 We’ve already assumed that much of the next step for Windows Mobile will be to sync personal data—not just contacts, calendar entries and tasks,…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Neon Atari Lights Invade Your Space

Maybe you’re disgusted by the fact that every accoutrement in your living room resembles a piece of 80s video game history. Or, maybe you are still an awesome person. These “USB Retro Neon Lights“—promising no direct affiliation to any intellectual property you may or may not have heard of—coincidentally resemble a Space Invader and an…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Marvel Promises Star-Spanning Battle, And Superpowered Daddy Issues, In Your Summer Comics

Marvel is bringing star-smashing space-opera back with the War Of Kings event, hitting comics and the Internet, the company announced at New York Comic Con. Also coming: Norman Osborne’s Dark Reign and an X-Men reboot. In support of Marvel’s latest space opera War of Kings, writers Christos Gage and Jay Faerber are working on an…

io9 Lauren Davis

Image Of The Day: What Glorious Machine Are These Frenchmen Driving?

Children’s carnival ride in a blizzard? Final Fantasy III airship? It’s not what you think… Why, it’s La Princesse, the giant spider mecha that took over Liverpool last year. I love that this insane giant mechanized spider bot is controlled via multiple consoles of old-timey forklift levers. https://gizmodo.com/la-princesse-the-50-foot-spider-driven-into-the-abyss-5046705 Both of these are by Peter Carr,…

Tech News John Mahoney

The Week in iPhone Apps: A Good Week For Cheapskate Gamers

The App Store follows trends more closely than your 13-year-old sister at Hot Topic, and often, that’s a bad thing. But this week has revealed a trend I think you’re going to like. Rolando Lite: While charging full price for what should arguably be a free upgrade is one App Store trend we’d like to…

Tech News John Mahoney

The Ten Most Expensive Comic Books at New York Comic Con

If our list of the ten most expensive comic books at the New York Comic Con is any indication, the high-end comic book market hasn’t yet experienced any fallout from the Financiapocalypse. We spent the morning mired in “Vendor Alley” here at the 2009 New York Comic Con, wading through the boxes of mylar-clad and…

io9 Ray Wert

Black Holes Could Be Brewing Under Switzerland by Late 2009

Sounds like repairs are going swimmingly on the world’s most gigantic physics experiment, the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Last year, a pipe broke in the newly-built facility, spilling tons of liquid helium everywhere and setting back the experiment by over a year. But now it looks as if we’ll be seeing data starting to…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Boogie Woogie Salt and Pepper Shakers Make Passing Super Easy

Passing around the salt and pepper isn’t any kind of strain on our bodies, but what if you could roll it on the table instead of lifting it? Isn’t that what the first cave man envisioned when he “invented” the wheel? Yes, I believe it is. Hit stores in March ’09. [Menu.as via Trendsnow via…

Tech News Jason Chen

New DTV Transition Date May Result Converter Box Shortage

Not surprisingly, shifting the DTV transition date to June 12th could mean that converter boxes will run out. https://gizmodo.com/digital-tv-change-over-date-moved-to-june-12-5146593 Many manufactures stopped making the devices in January, expecting the demand to peak around the original Feb. 17th shutoff date. Therefore, the extension kind of leaves them with their pants down—so to speak. The trade association…

Tech News Sean Fallon

It’s Your Friday Night Battlestar Commenter Liveblog

Hands-On With JaJah’s iPod touch VoIP App

Three Writers Who Will Rule Science Fiction’s Future

The Minimalistic Concrete Block Humidifier Makes You Look Less Feeble

Kindle 2 Official Images and Price Leak: $359 on February 24

Pioneer Exits TV Business, No More Sweet Plasmas

Intel Shipping Atom N280 Processors, Bringing HD Quality to Netbooks

Time Warner Cable Bringing Bandwidth Overage Fees To More Cities

The Chief Explains Why Cally Would Have Been A Terrible Final Cylon

Watch MTV’s College Humor Show This Sunday Night

Finally, E-Paper That Challenges a Real Paper

Microsoft My Phone: Free MobileMe-Style Syncing for Windows Mobile

Neon Atari Lights Invade Your Space

Marvel Promises Star-Spanning Battle, And Superpowered Daddy Issues, In Your Summer Comics

Image Of The Day: What Glorious Machine Are These Frenchmen Driving?

The Week in iPhone Apps: A Good Week For Cheapskate Gamers

The Ten Most Expensive Comic Books at New York Comic Con

Black Holes Could Be Brewing Under Switzerland by Late 2009

Boogie Woogie Salt and Pepper Shakers Make Passing Super Easy

New DTV Transition Date May Result Converter Box Shortage

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