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If You Just Got a Video Game Console, Get These Games

Kotaku’s put their game of the year awards up, and it’s a pretty good start to building your gaming collection if you’ve just gotten an Xbox 360, PS3 or Wii over the holidays. https://kotaku.com/kotakus-2008-games-of-the-year-awards-5122222 Although their categories, like best art, best sound and best innovation may not be a great template for finding a game…

Tech News Jason Chen

The Rise (and Fall) of the Apocalypsemobile at the Enduro Smashup Race

On New Year’s Day, while you were complaining about the Gregorian calendar or nursing a wicked hangover, I was hurtling around a snow-covered racetrack, en route to destroying a perfectly good Saturn station wagon. After all the months of preparation, we finally hit the track with the io9 Apocalypsemobile, running in the 4-cylinder class of…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Build Your Own Mr. Fusion and Gasify Your Car With Garbage

Ever since Doc Brown added a Mr. Fusion to the Delorean, many of us have longed to fuel our car with banana peels and beer. Now you can, thanks to the magic of gasification. Gasification is the use of heat to transform solid biomass, or other carbonaceous solids, into a synthetic “natural gas like” flammable…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Which Summer Movies Did The Writers’ Strike Hit Hardest?

Click to viewLast year, Hollywood’s writers went on strike for 14 weeks, and genre television took tremendous damage as a result. But movies didn’t emerge unscathed, either – we just won’t see the fallout until this year. When the studios decided to wait out the striking writers, they put a lot of big genre TV…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Comcast’s Internet Slowdown System Fully Armed and Operational (and Avoidable)

Comcast’s bandwidth throttling system that slows you down for using too much bandwidth is now fully armed and operational in all markets. Here’s how it works, and how to not get stuck on the short bus. https://gizmodo.com/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks-373162 The golden rule—which we covered a bit here—to keep in mind is this: If you use more than…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Be Seeing The Prisoner… Kind Of

Seeking to tease the upcoming premiere of the new version of The Prisoner, the show’s production blog is offering a look behind the scenes… and a taste of what’s to come. The photos come from Kerrin Kokot, AMC’s multimedia producer, who also offers commentary about each image that suggests that we’re not about to be…

Television Graeme McMillan

iPhone’s Beejive 2.0 IM App Now Does Voice Messaging, File Sending/Viewing

Beejive’s already quite usable Beejive IM iPhone app just got an update to 2.0, adding file transfer and voice messages to its multitude of IM connectivity. Currently, you can connect to “AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN/Live, Myspace IM, and Yahoo messenger” with Beejive. With 2.0, you can send in-line photos, audio and video files,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Cleavagefield Destroys Cities, Exposes Undies

Porny satire Cleavagefield bursts onto pay-per-view in February, and we’ve got some new stills from this tale of a sexy party interrupted by giant parasites who can remove anyone’s clothes. Oh my! Yes, it was inevitable that giant monsters would meet the world of porn at some point. The truly shocking part is that these…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Japanese Miso-Balancing Bike Contraption Keeps Soup Steady

This precariously elevated bike balancing contraption that Tokyotimes found seems to be the best way of keeping your soup upright when you’re swerving through the streets of Japan. [Tokyo Times via Wired]

Tech News Jason Chen

Get Ready For the New Wave Of Ambivalent Space War Novels

“One of the most obvious ways that science fiction novels tend to reflect the mores of their age is in their depiction of war. Novels written in the aftermath of the Second World War tend to show war as a straightforward conflict between the forces of good and evil, monumental armies clashing upon resonant battlefields.…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

iPhone 3G Tethering Plan Coming This Week

The long-awaited (previously confirmed) iPhone 3G tethering plan for AT&T is coming this week for Macworld, says TUAW. Standard AT&T tether plan pricing: $30/month with a 5GB cap. Who’s excited??? [TUAW] https://gizmodo.com/confirmed-3g-tethering-coming-to-iphone-5078562

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Vuzix Wrap 920AV Video Sunglasses Feature “See-Thru” Quantum Optics

A few weeks back, Vuzix teased us with an image of their upcoming Wrap 920AV virtual reality sunglasses, and today they followed up with the details. https://gizmodo.com/vuzix-wrap-920av-video-sunglasses-feature-see-thru-qu-5123737/?op=postpreview&refId=5123737 So what is “see-thru” quantum optics anyway? The stylish Wrap 920AV functions with any media playing device with a video output and projects a virtual 60-inch screen, as…

Tech News Sean Fallon

RIP Pat Hingle

Actor Pat Hingle died this weekend, aged 84. As many news reports have pointed out, his career included a four-movie run as Commissioner Gordon, from 1989’s Batman to 1997’s Batman And Robin, but he also starred in many other SF projects, including episodes of Amazing Stories, Six Million Dollar Man, The Twilight Zone and, my…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Spoiler-Free Review Of Lost Season 5’s First 2 Episodes

Many shows mess with the space-time continuum to varying degrees, but few do it with as much head-scratching/mind-blowing aplomb as Lost. So when ABC let us peek at two new episodes, we expected greatness. There’s no shortage of time-hopping on TV these days — Life on Mars, Doctor Who and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles…

io9 Nisha Gopalan

Double-Ended Male Adapters Are Illegal, Dangerous and “Possible Immoral”

You know, I’m not one to pass judgments, but I’m not Ace Hardware. [Consumerist]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

BSG’s Writers Talk Explosions, Resolutions In DVD Extra Clip

Here’s an exclusive clip from the Battlestar Galactica 4.0 DVD special features. David Eick explains the show’s thrills-and-suspense approach, while Mark Verheiden says the show’s ending takes a left turn. More clips below. Helo speaks: The bittersweet final season: Katee Sackhoff loves Starbuck: The political thing:

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Pilot Script Packed with Holo-Jackoff Jokes

We got to know Charlie Day’s crew of holo-deck abusing, baby dick robots, via a leaked Boldly Going Nowhere script. It’s spot-on manic humor set in space, that would make Futurama’s writers blush. Spoilers ahead. A fan posted the script to BGN’s first episode, and we think it’s genuine. It definitely has the same dickish,…

Television Meredith Woerner

Swivel Sockets: 90 Degree Rotating Outlets Help Conserve Space

Traditional power strips are not the most ideal way to conserve space and keep things orderly. This Swivel Socket design tries to overcome that problem with six outlets that can rotate 90 degrees. Obviously, that angle would be enough to get the cords out of the way so that you can move furniture and other…

Tech News Sean Fallon

World’s First Internet Car Radio Would Go Perfectly in KITT’s Dashboard

Satellite radio is dead. The world’s first internet car radio, from Blaupunkt and miRoamer delivers thousands of internet stations integrated with a standard AM/FM/CD dash console worthy of KITT. All of your preferences, providers and searches are customized on miRoamer’s site, and you can instantly flip back and forth between internet or terrestrial radio stations…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Notebook Makers Want Intel to Delay Superfast Nehalem Mobile Chips

Here’s another severe warping of the spacetime continuum caused by the financiapocalypse: Notebook makers want Intel to delay its crazyfast Nehalem-based mobile CPUs and chipsets. In other words, they want notebooks to be slower, longer. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-why-intels-core-i7-processor-is-a-beautif-5099060 The Calpella platform is scheduled for launch in July or August, just like Montevina (aka Centrino 2) did earlier…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

If You Just Got a Video Game Console, Get These Games

The Rise (and Fall) of the Apocalypsemobile at the Enduro Smashup Race

Build Your Own Mr. Fusion and Gasify Your Car With Garbage

Which Summer Movies Did The Writers’ Strike Hit Hardest?

Comcast’s Internet Slowdown System Fully Armed and Operational (and Avoidable)

Be Seeing The Prisoner… Kind Of

iPhone’s Beejive 2.0 IM App Now Does Voice Messaging, File Sending/Viewing

Cleavagefield Destroys Cities, Exposes Undies

Japanese Miso-Balancing Bike Contraption Keeps Soup Steady

Get Ready For the New Wave Of Ambivalent Space War Novels

iPhone 3G Tethering Plan Coming This Week

Vuzix Wrap 920AV Video Sunglasses Feature “See-Thru” Quantum Optics

RIP Pat Hingle

Spoiler-Free Review Of Lost Season 5’s First 2 Episodes

Double-Ended Male Adapters Are Illegal, Dangerous and “Possible Immoral”

BSG’s Writers Talk Explosions, Resolutions In DVD Extra Clip

Pilot Script Packed with Holo-Jackoff Jokes

Swivel Sockets: 90 Degree Rotating Outlets Help Conserve Space

World’s First Internet Car Radio Would Go Perfectly in KITT’s Dashboard

Notebook Makers Want Intel to Delay Superfast Nehalem Mobile Chips

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