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India’s $10 Laptop Is Actually $20, Will Be Unveiled Tomorrow

India’s long-gestating $10 dollar laptop (that’ll actually be $20) with 2GB of RAM will supposedly be revealed tomorrow. We hear it’ll be made of paper, ground fairies and unicorn blood. [Times of India via FastCompany] https://gizmodo.com/researchers-in-india-say-they-can-build-a-laptop-for-1-259658

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Google Japan’s Chrome Design Animation

Google Japan celebrates Chrome with this animation, showing its icon destroying clutter "Break Out" style until there’s nothing left but clean UI. If only all software UI creation was so easy. [Thanks Andrew]

Tech News Brian Lam

$36 Million Virtual Reality Game to Train US Soldiers

The Pentagon has just given the U.S. Office of Naval Research $36 million for what it calls a “futuristic” experiment in training soldiers to deal with terrorists by using immersive virtual reality scenarios. The experiment, dubbed the Future Immersive Training Environment (FITE) Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD), will be, according to the ONR: A critical,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Should I Have Drunk This? A Health Potion Live Review

I drank it. Should I have? Follow along, dear readers, as I document my descent into Health Potion hell. https://gizmodo.com/should-i-drink-this-5143175 0 minutes in: It tastes like cough syrup. Cold cough syrup, since I refrigerated it, but still, cough syrup. 1 minute in: I have a slight headache. 3 minutes in: Is it me or is…

Reviews Jason Chen

Mr. Darcy’s Brains Taste Foul In My Undead Mouth

New book by Seth Grahame-Smith, titled Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, hopefully reads like this: “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine, so I ate his brains.” I’m not sure what to think of this. While I applaud the use of zombies in classic literature, I wonder what Ms. Austen…

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner

Google Earth Head Responds to Allegations of Aiding Terrorists

Sure, Google Earth‘s satellite view of the world is expected to keep secretive governments nervous, but when both Hamas militants in Gaza and Pakistan-based terrorists have reportedly endorsed Google Earth, director John Hanke must respond. https://gizmodo.com/u-s-government-might-want-to-censor-google-earth-260265 Hanke is the guy directly in charge of both Google Earth and Google Maps, and he’s not at a…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Jane Espenson Talks BSG, Caprica, Buffy and Dollhouse!

Jane Espenson co-wrote the Battlestar webisodes that explained Gaeta’s recent behavior. She’s also worked on Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, and now she’s the showrunner on BSG’s prequel Caprica. So we were bursting with questions for her. Also, here’s a new clip from Friday’s episode, “Blood On The Scales.” It looks like Roslin makes it to the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Robotic Crib Takes Care of Your Baby so You Can Go Out Drinking

Taking care of a baby is such a pain, what with all of the personal attention it demands. Luckily, this robotic crib does the heavy lifting for you. The Suima crib, developed at Kyuushuu University in Japan, is designed to rock your baby to sleep if it wakes up crying. It does this by sensing…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Coraline’s Henry Selick Talks About His Army Of Zombies

Director Henry Selick is a huge reason why Neil Gaiman‘s Coraline is so gorgeously spooky. While promoting Coraline, he gave us some details about his next project, a zombie stop motion feature called Paranorman. Selick, who’s famous for his fantastic eye for all things stop-motion and has a brilliant pop-cult sensibility, is ready to dive…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Man With Microsoft Tattoo Laid Off, Still Lives By Company Mantra

Dan Woodman bled for Microsoft—literally. He got a tattoo with their Blue Monster mascot and slogan “Change the World or Go Home.” But his loyalty could not save him from being laid off. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-laying-off-5-000-rumored-mostly-from-xbox-an-5137045 If it were me, I would be in an alley somewhere using my last $20 to have the tattoo carved off…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Gadget Deals of the Day

Valentine’s Day is still more than a week away, but when you factor in shipping, that’s really not a lot of time for the lazy shopper/lover. Today’s deals, some pertaining to Valentine’s: Cellphones • Apple iPhone 3G 8GB Phone (Refurbished) for $149 with 2-year AT&T agreement (normally $200 with 2-year AT&T agreement). • Apple iPhone…

Tech News Mark Wilson

63 Reasons To Give Heroes One More Chance

We’ve all felt a little burned by superpowered soap-comedy Heroes, but we think tonight’s midseason premiere deserves one more chance. And to overcome your skepticism, we’ve compiled not 10, but 63 reasons why. Spoilers! Here are our reasons to give Heroes a reprieve, in escalating levels of tongue-in-cheekness: 1. Come on! It’s a whole new…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

RITI Printer Uses Old Coffee Grounds as Ink

Fortunately, I don’t use my printer nearly as much as I used to—but that doesn’t mean I enjoy paying ridiculous prices for ink. Imagine if you could replace that pricey ink with old coffee grounds? If the RITI coffee printer existed as a real-world product, you could do just that. The design calls for spent…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Europe Working on SpaceShipTwo Competitor and Hypersonic Passenger Plane

It looks like the Europervs got a bad case of penis envy: They are now working on a suborbital plane—in the image—similar to the SpaceShipTwo and a hypersonic passenger plane called SpaceLiner. The project—called Future High-Altitude High-Speed Transport 20XX (the XX standing for who-the-heck-knows-when-this-is-going-to-happen) has an initial investment $9.68 million to work on the concepts.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Coraline – The first stop-motion movie shot in 3D

A fairy-tale nightmare steeped in classic storytelling, craftsmanship, and the old-fashioned art of moviemaking magic. From the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas. In theatres February 6th!

io9 Chrissie Lamond

Sony’s Mofiria Authentication Technology Scans Your Scary Finger Veins

Sony has announced “mofiria,” a biometric technology that relies on the unique vein pattern in fingers to authenticate users. Apparently, this method is more accurate than traditional fingerprint techniques. “mofiria” uses a unique method where a CMOS sensor diagonally captures scattered light inside the finger veins, making a plane layout possible. As a result, a…

Privacy & Security Sean Fallon

Xbox 360’s HDMI Audio Fix Coming February 3 at 2AM

The Xbox 360 HDMI audio issue is finally being fixed! There will be an Xbox LIVE update at 2AM, February 3, which will hopefully resolve any silence-over-HDMI issues people have been having since November. https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360-hdmi-sound-issue-remains-unexplained-unaddres-5143923

Tech News Jason Chen

Crackulous Allows for App Store Piracy

Crackulous, a program for pirating apps from the iPhone App Store, was just released. Great for cheapskates, terrible for independent developers trying to make a living. Updated: 4:35pm You’ll need to jailbreak your phone to get in on the fun, obviously, but the entire process seems relatively simple if you’re looking to get on board.…

Tech News Adam Frucci

A Glass Pool Table

Beautiful. But I bet every time I’d rack and break, I’d furrow my brow intensely wondering if they whole thing would come undone. Under the film surface, meant to emulate the felt top of a regular pool table, is safety glass. It’s 3/4 of an inch thick, and the bumpers are standard, so I suppose…

Tech News Brian Lam

Alec Baldwin Finally Admits His Alien Plan For World Domination

We knew it: Alec Baldwin is an evil alien. All of a sudden, his preternatural comic timing makes total sense. Check out the best ad of the Superbowl. After sitting through the many trailers and Superbowl commercials, we’re going to have to give the io9 gold star of excellence to Baldwin’s Hulu ad. Sure astronauts…

io9 Meredith Woerner

India’s $10 Laptop Is Actually $20, Will Be Unveiled Tomorrow

Google Japan’s Chrome Design Animation

$36 Million Virtual Reality Game to Train US Soldiers

Should I Have Drunk This? A Health Potion Live Review

Mr. Darcy’s Brains Taste Foul In My Undead Mouth

Google Earth Head Responds to Allegations of Aiding Terrorists

Jane Espenson Talks BSG, Caprica, Buffy and Dollhouse!

Robotic Crib Takes Care of Your Baby so You Can Go Out Drinking

Coraline’s Henry Selick Talks About His Army Of Zombies

Man With Microsoft Tattoo Laid Off, Still Lives By Company Mantra

Gadget Deals of the Day

63 Reasons To Give Heroes One More Chance

RITI Printer Uses Old Coffee Grounds as Ink

Europe Working on SpaceShipTwo Competitor and Hypersonic Passenger Plane

Coraline – The first stop-motion movie shot in 3D

Sony’s Mofiria Authentication Technology Scans Your Scary Finger Veins

Xbox 360’s HDMI Audio Fix Coming February 3 at 2AM

Crackulous Allows for App Store Piracy

A Glass Pool Table

Alec Baldwin Finally Admits His Alien Plan For World Domination

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