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See Your Favorite Books Through Alien Eyes

If you’ve ever doubted the beauty and variety of science fiction book covers, just check out the new Book Cover Archive. A few of our faves are below. The thing I love about the Book Cover Archive so far is that it’s celebrating books with, not just lovely cover images, but also amazing design. Several…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Roundup: The Best of CES/Macworld 2009, All In One Place

The biggest news week of the year in gadgets is now over. Here’s a full guide to our coverage of both Macworld and CES 2009 with everything you need to know. If we learned one thing this last week, it’s that neither one had enough news to live up to its previous reputations as king…

Tech News John Mahoney

The Pink Furry Phone May Cause Conjunctivitis

Spotted on the floor of CES, if only Anna Nicole Smith were alive to have witnessed this moment, her legacy carried on by Chinese OEM. [Engadget]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Child Endangerment Leads To Murder Attempts – Finally Proven By Comics

It’s not easy being the kid of a supervillain. If it’s not missing important parental morality lessons, it’s getting your throat sliced during a botched kidnapping attempt, as this exclusive preview from DC’s Titans shows. The issue, part of DC’s Faces of Evil promotion throughout January – apparently trying to earn the title of “cruellest…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Mario Recreation from Japan Takes a Turn for the Crazy

This Mario recreation seems cool and straightforward enough at first. Then the blackface Obama shows up, and you know it’s from Japan. Oh, Japan. This is still pretty awesome, despite the insanity. [Daily What]

Tech News Adam Frucci

Gear and Bromance: Gizmodo’s CES Experience in a Meta-Nutshell

Buffet Portions Consumed: Six The Computers: 9 Macbooks of varying vintage and a Dell (belonging to Adam Frucci) Gambling Results: Down $30. Number Who Went to the Spa after Their Flights to NYC were Canceled: Three The Cameras: Nikon D700 and D300, Canon 5D Mark II and 40D and some XT Rebels, Olympus e510, various…

Tech News Brian Lam

David Lee Roth + Microsoft SongSmith = Pure Horror

An absolute genius decided to feed David Lee Roth’s vocals from Runnin’ with the Devil to Microsoft’s Songsmith software, which adds super-cheezy music to any sung lyrics. The results are, well, incredible. [Metafilter via Kottke] https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-songsmiths-corny-musical-infomercial-5128182

Tech News Adam Frucci

Dr. Horrible Gets Back To His Roots

This week, Neil Patrick Harris saluted his Doogie Howser M.D. roots on SNL, and it was an outpouring of beautiful emotions and music. I laughed, I cried, my old Vinnie crush kicked back in. Besides the astounding fact that NPH made Saturday Night Live actually funny this week, it’s great to pay tribute to the…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Halo 3 Shooter Daniel Petric Convicted of Murder

Daniel Petric, a 17-year-old who was on trial for killing his mom and shooting his dad after being banned from playing Halo 3, has been convicted of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder and other charges.Since writing the original article documenting how Petric broke into his father’s safe to retrieve his copy of Halo 3 while…

Tech News Mark Wilson

At Last, Science Has Invented an Artificially Intelligent Robot Vagina

A programmable robotic vagina that looks sort of like a cake mixer promises to be the most exciting sex toy ever invented for men. Basically, it’s the rabbit pearl vibrator of boy toys. As our sister site Fleshbot reports, live from a floor show at the Adult Entertainment Expo, AEBN’s Real Touch is a variable…

io9 Annalee Newitz

New Dollhouse Leaks Make You Question What’s Real [NSFW]

We expected mind-games from Dollhouse, Joss Whedon’s new show about a puppet whose memories have been erased. But now a trippy leaked script and (possibly NSFW) promo pics raise new questions. Update: script is fanfic. I’m not sure if these new promo pics are NSFW, but you might get some funny looks from your coworkers…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Japanese Bloggers Don’t Buy that the Sony Vaio P is Pocket-Sized

This Sony Vaio P ad is trying to show how small the new subnotebook is while also showing off an ass. It’s a method I won’t argue with. But some Japanese bloggers aren’t buying it. I’m not quite sure what they’re trying to say with these photos of them trying to stick much larger computers…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Android Runs Multitouch on the G1, Really

Without altering the kernel at all, good Samaritan Luke Hutch has gotten multitouch working in his own custom Android applications on the G1. This video is more than a little programmer oriented, but it does clearly portray the possible functionality of both Android multitouch and the G1’s touchscreen (see a Google Maps simulation around 4…

Tech News Mark Wilson

The Coolest Robots of Pre-Golden Age SF

During science fiction’s Pre-Golden Age (1904-33), writers dreamed up mechanical and quasi-organic humanoids so compelling that they continue to haunt today’s scifi, forcing us to ask what it means to be human. https://gizmodo.com/science-fictions-pre-golden-age-1904-33-an-introduct-5099771 Forget WALL-E and GORT. Forget sexy Summer Glau and Tricia Helfer in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Battlestar Galactica. OK, don’t…

Books & Comics Joshua Glenn

Guy Gets Back Stolen Car and Phone by Texting Thieves He’s Got Hot Girls and Drugs

Alan Heuss was carjacked. The thieves made off with his BMW, cash and cellphone. But they did not steal his brain. So he came up with a plan involving hot girls and drugs. After the incident, he went out with some friends, where they came up with an idea to get his stuff back. The…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Aaron Eckhart Tries To Start Even More Rumors About Dark Knight 2

It had to happen: bombarded with questions at the Golden Globes, Harvey Dent actor Aaron Eckhart couldn’t resist teasing the press with new Dark Knight sequel rumors. Faced with a media gauntlet, Eckhart did what would any good actor’s PR reps would tell him to do, spin it! Play coy, smile, and wave in your…

Movies Meredith Woerner

FlighSuit Bird Diaper Prevents Fecal Fallout

I know that these FlightSuit diapers are for bird lovers who want their precious pets to fly freely without creating a mess, but I have a broader initiative in mind. I’m tired of birds pooping on my car, so I suggest that we develop a program for widespread bird-diapering around the US. An ambitions plan…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Barack Obama’s BlackBerry Addiction = The Biggest Celebrity Endorsement In History

Today is soon-to-be-pres. Obama’s last day with his beloved VZW BlackBerry 8830. He’s still fighting to keep it, and in the process giving RIM publicity on an unprecedented scale. How much is it all worth? https://gizmodo.com/obama-still-steadfast-on-keeping-his-blackberry-they-5126576 $25 to $50 million dollars, according to marketing experts-one of the biggest endorsement deals in history, were it an…

Privacy & Security John Mahoney

Big Boys And Asses In New Star Trek Movieverse?

Fans eager for their first taste of what to expect from J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek movie get a treat this week with the release of the official prologue comic Countdown, complete with unexpected Romulan slang. Trekmovie ran a preview of the opening of the comic’s first issue over the weekend, and fans were a little…

Movies Graeme McMillan

HTC’s Full 2009 Smartphone Lineup Leaked?

HTC is among the leakier phone shops, and someone on the PPCGeeks forums claims to have their full 2009 smartphone roadmap. What’s there? More Android goodness, and a potential US-bound Touch HD-based phone. This in particular looks like an HTC Touch Pro HD bound for both Sprint and VZW-hopefully a Touch Pro mated with the…

Tech News John Mahoney

See Your Favorite Books Through Alien Eyes

Roundup: The Best of CES/Macworld 2009, All In One Place

The Pink Furry Phone May Cause Conjunctivitis

Child Endangerment Leads To Murder Attempts – Finally Proven By Comics

Mario Recreation from Japan Takes a Turn for the Crazy

Gear and Bromance: Gizmodo’s CES Experience in a Meta-Nutshell

David Lee Roth + Microsoft SongSmith = Pure Horror

Dr. Horrible Gets Back To His Roots

Halo 3 Shooter Daniel Petric Convicted of Murder

At Last, Science Has Invented an Artificially Intelligent Robot Vagina

New Dollhouse Leaks Make You Question What’s Real [NSFW]

Japanese Bloggers Don’t Buy that the Sony Vaio P is Pocket-Sized

Android Runs Multitouch on the G1, Really

The Coolest Robots of Pre-Golden Age SF

Guy Gets Back Stolen Car and Phone by Texting Thieves He’s Got Hot Girls and Drugs

Aaron Eckhart Tries To Start Even More Rumors About Dark Knight 2

FlighSuit Bird Diaper Prevents Fecal Fallout

Barack Obama’s BlackBerry Addiction = The Biggest Celebrity Endorsement In History

Big Boys And Asses In New Star Trek Movieverse?

HTC’s Full 2009 Smartphone Lineup Leaked?

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