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Columbia Finds Its Foundation

Isaac Asimov’s classic trilogy Foundation is headed to the big screen… courtesy of the man behind Independence Day, Godzilla and 2012. Is this cause for celebration or mourning? I’m not quite sure yet. An auction on Thursday evening ended with Columbia Studios owning the rights to Asimov’s Foundation trilogy (Foundation, Foundation And Empire and Second…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Belkin Rep Pays For Positive Reviews of Belkin Products on Amazon

A Belkin representative has been caught offering money to anybody who posts a 100% positive review of certain Belkin products on Amazon.com and other e-retailers. The bozo even used his own name. The Daily Background found an ad on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service, which pays small fees for menial internet tasks like rewriting and converting…

Reviews Dan Nosowitz

Battlestar Galactica Is Back – And We’re Liveblogging It

Tonight’s Battlestar Galactica episode, called “Sometimes a Great Notion,” has already started for people on EST. I’ll be liveblogging on PST, so watch this space for livebloggage – and feel free to start commenting! Liveblog will begin at 10:00 PM PST! I will be watching with a gang of dangerous attorneys, journalists, and an extremely…

io9 Annalee Newitz

A Map of Future Food Riot Conditions

Kenya is a land rich in corn and wheat farms. But last week, Kenya’s government warned that poor crop yields meant millions would starve. This map shows what went wrong with growing season. It wasn’t weather that destroyed this year’s crop – it was political unrest. Farmers abandoned their fields to flee for safety, and…

io9 Annalee Newitz

How to Interpret Samsung’s Reorganization of its Business Into Two Divisions

Samsung is placing TVs, phones, printers, computers and home appliances under one division and semiconductors, components and LCD manufacturing into another. [Yahoo via Boy Genius]

Gadgets Jason Chen

Sushi-Ushi Sushi Tray Is More Delicious Than Actual Sushi

Vikki Smyth is a designer that makes food presentation and table-top sets for high end hotels (W, Wynn’s places). Her signature piece, the Sushi-Ushi sushi tray, is gorgeous, and upstages anything that’s placed on it. You can get a 36-inch version for $330, a 25-inch version for $230 and a 20-inch version for $180 if…

Tech News Jason Chen

Ear Mirror: Bear Witness to The Waxy, Hairy Horror

To be honest, I wouldn’t want an ear mirror for the same reason I wouldn’t want an ass mirror—some territory on the body should remain unexplored. The device works like a two headed dentist’s mirror. Place one end over your ear and adjust the other mirror until you can see whether or not you need…

Tech News Sean Fallon

How Can A Space Battle Be So Great, And So Cheesy, At The Same Time?

Five years before Wrath Of Khan came out, the Japanese film Battle In Outer Space featured this amazingly submarine-esque spaceship battle in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Stunning (if cheesy) model work and crazy-ass weapons. Rock on!

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Apple Tells Dual-Link DVI Display Adapter Customers That Their Monitors Are Incompatible

Users of Apple’s Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter are still experiencing the distortion issues, but now Apple Engineering is supposedly telling people this is only compatible with the Apple Cinema Display. https://gizmodo.com/apples-mini-displayport-to-dual-link-dvi-adapter-has-pe-5119858 Reader Yoel reports that AppleCare has contacted him to say Engineering retroactively decided the adapters are ONLY compatible with the 30-inch Apple…

Tech News Jason Chen

Dean Kamen Struggles With the Idea of Giving Up on the Segway

A recent CNN interview has revealed that Segway inventor Dean Kamen often loses sleep about giving up on a project that he knows deep down will never pan out. “You end up lying there saying, ‘I’m not stopping. It would be an act of shallow cowardice. Or you decide to quit and you say, ‘This…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Win 7 Tip: Sleep/Hibernate Mode Is Buggy, May Incapacitate Your Machine

When I came home last night, I thought my previously healthy Windows 7 machine was dead. It was making a horrendous squeal and refused to reboot multiple times. Turns out it was asleep. I’m not sure what kind of sleep it was in (I was only gone for 6 hours and I’ve left it alone…

Tech News Jason Chen

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Caught up reenacting your Superman bondage fetish? Don’t worry, we got the best of the week right here. Highlights include evil twins, a NSFW interview with Forbidden Science’s creator, and Terminator details. Man Of Steel, Woman Of Bondage? [NSFW] It’s not looking good for the Man of Steel. Just days after we revealed his racist…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Obama’s Calls Will Always Go Through Thanks to Wireless Priority Service

If being ruler of the free world weren’t enough for President Elect Barack Obama, when he’s sworn in, he’ll never wait for an open telephone line, either. Yup, access to the National Communications System is just one of the perks to being the President. Put in place by President Kennedy in 1963, the NCS’ priority…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Render Vs Reality: XCM Dominator Joystick

Product renders often look far different than their production line counterparts. Take the XCM Dominator Joystick for the PS3. To be fair, the right is a night shot. But still! [XCM] https://gizmodo.com/new-playstation-3-accessories-bring-joystick-controls-5115157

Tech News Mark Wilson

Science Fiction Writers’ Cruddiest (And Craziest) Day Jobs

You may be shackled to your desk, counting chits, while you finish your space-war saga — but you’ve got it easy. Check out some of the really crap jobs science fiction writers have held. Some of these day jobs are just your standard drudge work, some are bizarre and colorful, and a few are especially…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

iFlyz Clamps Media Player to Tray Table (No MacGyvering Necessary)

Watching a movie on a media player during a flight takes skill: You want it propped up but you don’t want to touch it. iFlyz removes the joy challenge from this delicate dance. The thing looks like a scaled-down inverted GPS mount, with suction cup there to grab the device, and a clamp to latch…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

BSG’s Top “What The Frak” Moments So Far

Tonight’s the night people – Battlestar is back! And to help you get ready, we’ve recapped out favorite “What The Frak” moments from Battlestar Galactica past. (The only spoilers are from past episodes.) Remember, these are just our favorite WTF moments, because if you listed them all out, you’d pretty much be reciting everything Baltar…

Television Meredith Woerner

Clicking Kitchen Grip Puts a Mouse in Dinner the Good Way

Much of my kitchen is filled with hand-sewn potholders in which you can see the details down to the thread. But in the digital age, we prefer to see things down to the pixel. The Clicking Kitchen Grip is perfect for those times you want to mentally point, click and drag your way to culinary…

Tech News Mark Wilson

A New Explanation For Why We’ll Never Visit Other Suns

Pessimism about our spacefaring future has become fashionable these days — people point to our limited lifespans and energy resources. But the World Of Technology blog just posted an argument I haven’t seen before. Blogger mayank points to all the usual reasons why it’ll be hard for our descendents to reach the nearest star system,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

NSFW: Wobble iPhone App Adds Boob Jiggle To Real Boobs, IS Approved

Who needs the fake boobies of iBoobs when Wobble lets you add boob jiggle to real photos? Just tap, resize, repeat, and any photo you have on your iPhone becomes an instant jigglefest. https://gizmodo.com/nsfw-boob-app-on-the-iphone-is-obviously-called-iboobs-5116493 We tested it out on our own subject, Mark Wilson. It wasn’t quite as appealing as the demo video above, but…

Tech News Jason Chen

Columbia Finds Its Foundation

Belkin Rep Pays For Positive Reviews of Belkin Products on Amazon

Battlestar Galactica Is Back – And We’re Liveblogging It

A Map of Future Food Riot Conditions

How to Interpret Samsung’s Reorganization of its Business Into Two Divisions

Sushi-Ushi Sushi Tray Is More Delicious Than Actual Sushi

Ear Mirror: Bear Witness to The Waxy, Hairy Horror

How Can A Space Battle Be So Great, And So Cheesy, At The Same Time?

Apple Tells Dual-Link DVI Display Adapter Customers That Their Monitors Are Incompatible

Dean Kamen Struggles With the Idea of Giving Up on the Segway

Win 7 Tip: Sleep/Hibernate Mode Is Buggy, May Incapacitate Your Machine

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Obama’s Calls Will Always Go Through Thanks to Wireless Priority Service

Render Vs Reality: XCM Dominator Joystick

Science Fiction Writers’ Cruddiest (And Craziest) Day Jobs

iFlyz Clamps Media Player to Tray Table (No MacGyvering Necessary)

BSG’s Top “What The Frak” Moments So Far

Clicking Kitchen Grip Puts a Mouse in Dinner the Good Way

A New Explanation For Why We’ll Never Visit Other Suns

NSFW: Wobble iPhone App Adds Boob Jiggle To Real Boobs, IS Approved

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