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Dealzmodo: 1TB Samsung Hard Drive For $100 Shipped

If you need tons of storage on the cheap, Newegg has a super deal on a 5400 RPM Samsung HDD with a 32MB cache and a whopping 1TB of of space for only $100. Even the shipping is free. Don’t hesitate too long if you want to get in on it. Stock will go fast…

Time Names Top 50 Inventions of 2008

Time Magazine has gone through all of the inventions of 2008, from walking chairs to spaghetti forks, and declared to best 50 of the year (and of course, a winner, which was this at-home genetic testing service by 23andMe). Many of their choices are predictable, like the Large Hadron Collider. Some are easy to overlook,…

Opera for iPhone Ready To Go, If Not For Apple’s App Store Policies

Not surprising news, this, but sad nonetheless. According to Opera CEO Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, an iPhone version of its popular mobile browser is developed and ready to go, but will likely never see the light of day due to Apple’s infamous App Store policies, barring apps that compete with the phone’s default features—here, Mobile…

Contest Reminder: Last Chance to Win a WowWee Rovio

Just a reminder that today is your last chance to design the ultimate productivity gadget and win a Rovio from WowWee. Check out the contest page for full details.

Alien Buddy-Cop Movie Remake Won’t Die

Remember the spotty headed alien cop and his racist partner, in the classic Alien Nation? Well, the rumors about a remake won’t die out online, and now Producer Gale Anne Hurd (Terminator) is apparently super serious about the idea to remake this buddy alien cop movie. The super producer isn’t all talk, either — apparently…

The Only Wii Homebrew Guide You Will Ever Need

Finding a clear and concise guide for loading homebrew software on a game console is almost always impossible-the info is always changing as homebrewers battle new hack-blocking software updates (like Nintendo’s recent doozy), and it’s scattered across countless gamer forums that you don’t want to have to sift through, trust me. Thankfully, the Wii’s homebrew…

Drool Over Our Alien and Predator Centerfolds, and Win Free Books!

Regardless of your preference for the drooly one or the clicky one, the Predator and Aliens franchises have entered the pop culture hall of fame. They’ve get the creep-out factor, the scare, and SF thrills from glimpses of the Predator home world and insight into Alien queen psychology. Both universes continue to expand through comics…

The Best Halloween Anthologies to Read in the Dark

We know you’re going to need a good ghost story to get into the Halloween spirit. How about a tale of Cthulhu-worshipping trailer trash? Or a thriller where you might be a robot impostor sent to destroy the Earth? Or a genetics experiment gone awry? You’ll find these stories and more in these scifi horror…

Japan Prepares for a Rhino Attack with Two Dudes in a Rhino Suit

In the spirit of Halloween, I wanted to show you this absolutely amazing video of Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo training for an escaped rhino by dressing up two guys in a big rhino costume. Instead of candy, they’re dressing up for safety. Watch! As the “rhino” walks slowly towards the security force! Listen! To the very…

The 50 Scariest Moments In Science Fiction

Click to viewSince it’s Halloween over at the io9 offices, we couldn’t help put plug our brains into our hive-mind computer and put together a list of the 50 scariest moments in science fiction movie history. These are the moments that stuck in our minds, disturbed our dreams and made us see ordinary objects as…

London Getting Bomb-Proof, News-Delivering Trash Cans

In London, public trash cans are hard to come by, as they’re an easy receptacle for bombs. Which makes it hard to throw things away properly! Now, the city is going to bring trash cans back, but they’re going to be big, hulking masses, totally bomb-proof and equipped with LCD screens to tell you the…

At Last, Space Football Is Coming!

Stand aside Michael Jordan, because ex-Washington Redskins linebacker Ken Harvey has been pitching NASA scientists and venture capitalists alike on a high concept sport: Float Ball. Planned for venues including space shuttles, the Moon and even Mars, needless to say, it’s a crazy idea. Actually, scratch that. It’s only a half-crazy idea.Float Ball is a…

Ultrasound Can Give You Memories of Learning Things in College

Want to remember doing something, like attending 400 lectures on molecular cell biology, without ever actually having to do it? A special kind of ultrasound can trigger neurons in your gray matter, and the team of Arizona State neuroscientists who discovered this immediately played the Total Recall card. They’re already talking about implanting memories of…

Palm Treo Pro Coming to US Through Sprint?

If Sprint’s website is any indication, and it probably is, the Palm Treo Pro will be arriving to the service sometime in the near to far future. There’s no formal page for the Europe-only handset at this time, but it’s been spotted in a product drop-down menu (pictured here). If you’ve been waiting to upgrade…

Mutant bat monsters!!! So awesome.

Amazing Costume is Either a Kid Dressed as a Mech or a Mech Dressed as a Kid

Happy Halloween! Bad news! Your costume sucks compared to this kid’s, which is amazing. It’s a homemade chicken walker mech costume, and it is so badass I can’t quite put how badass it is into words. I think between this and the Lil’ Mega Man costume we can conclude that Halloween is the best time…

The Most Daring and Bold Halloween Costumes Yet!

All month, io9 readers have been posting pictures of themselves in their best scifi costumes to our Halloween Costume Show Flickr Pool. We’ve already featured some great moments in hotness and awesomeness. Today, for Halloween, we bring you the most daring costumes you dared to show us! Madolan‘s interpretation of Ragged Robin (pictured) from Grant…

Confirmed: New MacBooks Support 6GB RAM

While we’ve officially confirmed that the Nvidia chipset in the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros can theoretically support up to 8GB of RAM, Apple says the capacities for each top out at 4GB. Turns out, the actual number is right there in the middle-chip supplier Ramjet has tested and officially confirmed that the new MacBooks…

Hubble Resumes Operations, Sends Back Picture of Lost Starfox 64 Level

The Hubble Telescope, which was quite nearly lost this month to a combination of old age and a fritzy 486, has resumed “regular science operations” today, and sent back this spectacular picture of a pair of galaxies engaging in some kind of celestial slow dance. The mission to replace the Science Instrument Command and Data…

Freakishly Real Jules Robot Now Makes Faces Right Back At You

Click to viewWe’ve shown you Jules the robotic head before, but now a team of scientists have added real-time human expression mimicking—and taken him marching right across uncanny valley. A team at the University of Bristol, UK, have combined Jules with some analytical software that looks at a person’s face and tweaks Jules’ 34 servos…