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The Ultimate Black Friday Survival Guide

Black Friday is always big, but this year promises to be bigger and messier than ever because of the economic crisis. October saw a record decline in sales for retailers. Several big companies barely survived, while others went under altogether. Couple that with the fact that more consumers are both conscious of their own budgets…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 25 '08

HandBrake DVD Ripper Now Converts Any Video File

HandBrake has always been the go-to app for ripping your DVDs into MPEG video files for playing back on an iPod or archiving on your network, and now in the 0.9.3 release, the multiplatform app will take any video file as an input source, not just DVDs. That means if you have a tricky video…

Tech News John Mahoney Nov 25 '08

Good News: Astronauts Can Drink Their Own Urine

Recently, the International Space Station got a hot new piece of equipment installed: a waste recycler. This fancy machine turns pee into delicious, delicious water. Unfortunately, they couldn’t get it working right off the bat. Well, they finally did it. They are a go for pee drinking up there on the ISS. Well, not quite.…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci Nov 25 '08

Could Twilight’s Success Pave the Way for a New Buffy Movie?

Twilight’s high-grossing opening weekend and legions of screaming fans prove it: people are shelling out big bucks to watch vampires. Summit Entertainment was certainly seeing dollar signs when it greenlit the movie’s sequel, New Moon, and HBO pledged a second season of True Blood after just two episodes. Even Guillermo Del Toro is getting in…

Movies Lauren Davis Nov 25 '08

Bachelor Pads of the International Space Station

You’re stuck for months inside a cramped tin can with a bunch of total strangers, with no gravity, fresh food or World of Warcraft. And yeah, you’re forced to drink the recycled sweat of your fellow astronauts (or your own urine). But that doesn’t mean you can’t have your own stylin’ bachelor (or bachelorette) pad…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Nov 25 '08

Dell Mini 9 Offers 3G Option for $120 (and Hefty Subscription)

As we’ve been waiting for, the Dell Mini 9 is now available with an HSDPA/EDGE 3G upgrade option. Priced at $125 ($120 of which is refundable with a 2-year AT&T agreement starting at $60/month), XP versions of new Mini 9s (not Mini 12s) can include the Dell Wireless 5530 HSDPA Internal Mini-card by Ericsson. We’ll…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 25 '08

Artist’s Uranium-Glass Kits Let You Play God, Create New Universes

The “many worlds interpretation”, parallel universes, the Trousers of Time: call it what you will, but quantum theory has some surprising ideas about what happens after a quantum event, which artist Jonathan Keats is exploring in this new “toy”. It’s a ball of uranium-doped glass (no, really—it’s uranium!) next to a scintillation detector crystal inside…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 25 '08

At Gizmodo Gallery: Free DIY Laser Etching

I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of laser etching all my tech gear, and it looks like I would finally be able to do it at the Gizmodo Gallery. Thanks to Make’s Phil Torrone and his laser machine, anyone walking in the Gizmodo Gallery would be able to tattoo their metal gadgets with Phil’s…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 25 '08

Nacho Vigalondo on Timecrimes, and How To Land A Car On A UFO

Cult genre savior and Sundance darling Nacho Vigalondo took time out to talk to us about his brilliant time travel movie, Timecrimes. There’s a lot of buzz around this film and its time-looping main character Hector. We’ve got a deeper look at the movie, coming out next year in select theaters, with an exclusive clip…

Movies Meredith Woerner Nov 25 '08

New Criterion Website Offers Streaming Movies, Online Film Festivals

The wonderful Criterion Collection launched its new website today, and it does in fact feature streaming movies as rumored. There are a small number of movies available as high-quality streams at the moment, with more to come. To view them, you need to pay $5, which is pretty steep for a stream, but that $5…

Movies Adam Frucci Nov 25 '08

Sega’s Disco Karaoke Machine Twirls Its Disco Ball, Connects to Cellphones

Two things set this Sega Hitokara karaoke machine apart from the rest: it’s connected to a cloud-based database of 43,000 songs via cellphone and it’s got a whirling, light-up mirrored disco ball. Ohboyyes. Granted you’d have to be a fan of both karaoke (you strange person) and cheezy disco lighting, but what the heck—it’s a…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 25 '08

The Cloverfield Monster – In Space!

Click to view You may have noticed that the trailer for the new Star Trek movie has a monster in it that looks suspiciously like the space cousin of Clovie from Cloverfield. No surprise there, since JJ Abrams produced Cloverfield and is director of Star Trek. But are they separated at birth or just vaguely…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 25 '08

18,600-Cell Spreadsheet Mosaic Captured On Time-Lapse Video

Tis the season to be artsy: Four Google people worked simultaneously on a Google spreadsheet to create a large 100 row x 186 column mosaic. Each of the 18,600 cells was filled with color out of a 18 hue palette. It may not be as avant-garde as David Byrne’s PowerPoint art, but the time-lapse video…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 25 '08

Has “Sense Of Wonder” Gotten Senseless?

“Maybe the world has gotten too grubby and jaded for “awe.” Or I have. At any rate, a “sense of wonder” is no longer what I look for in fiction, including SF. I don’t want to be dazzled by things I never thought of before, even though often that seems to be what SF values.…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Nov 25 '08

Yobo FC3 Plus Plays NES, SNES and Genesis Cartridges

We may take the system for granted now, but your inner 10-year-old is simply amazed by the Yobo FC3 Plus. A console that’s fully compatible with NES, SNES and Sega Genesis titles, you can finally put those old cartridges to use without filling your home theater setup with unsustainable levels of boxes and wires. Including…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 25 '08

Stop Making Terrible Vampire Movies

I thought we had all moved on from talking about crappy vampires. I was ready to leave our Twilight past in the past, and focus on better bloodsuckers. But you just won’t let me will you Hollywood? Stills from the brand-new Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans have emerged and oh my god are they a…

Movies Meredith Woerner Nov 25 '08

Bruce Lee Plays With Fire In Nokia Viral Ad

Can’t get enough of Bruce Lee secret training videos, even if they happen to just be viral ads for Nokia’s Lee-themed N95? Me neither! Following last week’s awesome ping pong battle, here’s a new clip where a dude playing the Master of Jeet Kune Do lights freakin’ matches with his nunchucks! [Youtube]

Tech News Elaine Chow Nov 25 '08

OLED Room Lights Nearer as BASF, Osram Break Brightness Record

OLED technology keeps getting cooler: first there was the “true blue” invention, and now there’s news that BASF and Osram have broken the brightness record. For the first time a white OLED has achieved an efficiency of over 60 lumens per Watt, plus the device’s light output falls within the international Energy Star SSL Standard…

Tech News Kit Eaton Nov 25 '08

PlayStation Visa: This Is Living With Debt (and a $250 PS3)

We’d probably opt for a generic blue or silver credit card and rack up the sky miles or cash back rewards. But in case you wanted to show your PlayStation allegiance to every waitress, store clerk, and webcam companion that you secretly suspect to prefer Microsoft or Nintendo brands, this PlayStation Visa is ready to…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 25 '08

Is There A BSG Curse?

The announcement that Battlestar Galactica’s Michael Trucco’s first post-BSG television appearance will be as a guest-star on CBS’ The Big Bang Theory came just a little too soon after the news that Tricia “Six” Helfer will be making a guest-shot on NBC’s Chuck. We’re wondering: Why aren’t these people appearing on good shows?Perhaps it’s just…

Television Graeme McMillan Nov 25 '08

The Ultimate Black Friday Survival Guide

HandBrake DVD Ripper Now Converts Any Video File

Good News: Astronauts Can Drink Their Own Urine

Could Twilight’s Success Pave the Way for a New Buffy Movie?

Bachelor Pads of the International Space Station

Dell Mini 9 Offers 3G Option for $120 (and Hefty Subscription)

Artist’s Uranium-Glass Kits Let You Play God, Create New Universes

At Gizmodo Gallery: Free DIY Laser Etching

Nacho Vigalondo on Timecrimes, and How To Land A Car On A UFO

New Criterion Website Offers Streaming Movies, Online Film Festivals

Sega’s Disco Karaoke Machine Twirls Its Disco Ball, Connects to Cellphones

The Cloverfield Monster – In Space!

18,600-Cell Spreadsheet Mosaic Captured On Time-Lapse Video

Has “Sense Of Wonder” Gotten Senseless?

Yobo FC3 Plus Plays NES, SNES and Genesis Cartridges

Stop Making Terrible Vampire Movies

Bruce Lee Plays With Fire In Nokia Viral Ad

OLED Room Lights Nearer as BASF, Osram Break Brightness Record

PlayStation Visa: This Is Living With Debt (and a $250 PS3)

Is There A BSG Curse?

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