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Dealzmodo: $50 Off Oprah’s Favorite Gadget, Amazon Kindle

Officially becoming Oprah’s favorite gadget will no doubt do wonders for Amazon Kindle sales. You know what else will? Knocking $50 off the price for her viewers. It’s okay, you don’t actually have to watch Oprah. Through Nov. 1, enter the discount code OPRAHWINFREY (no really) to slap $50 off the price at checkout. No…

The Old Republic’s Size Worship Reinforces Teenage Traumas

Besides giving everyone in our world a chance to join the Star Wars universe, we’re excited to see that upcoming MMO The OId Republic will finally give phallically-minded geeks confirmation of something that they’ve always suspected: That the bigger your weapon is, the better that makes you.It’s not just size that’s important, of course, but…

Ron Jeremy’s Wind Up Toy: You Would If You Could! (NSFW)

Yes indeed, Ron Jeremy lives the life that other fat, hairy men can only dream about. I don’t think I need to tell you what this wind-up toy does, but I can tell you that every man has secretly wished for this ability at one point or another. Haha…man, I wonder what the people who…

BlackBerry Web Signals: NYT, Fox News and Other Objective News Pushed to Your Phone

Announced a couple days ago at the BlackBerry Developers Conference, BlackBerry Web Signals drops customizable push content on your phone from most news sources under the sun: New York Times, Fox News, Reuters, Accuweather and more. Once you’re set up, Web Signals will push news straight to your BlackBerry—since you know, news the economy is…

Mygazines R.I.P. (2008 – 2008)

It’s a sad day when Man can no longer scan his Good Housekeeping magazine subscription to share with those too insecure to subscribe themselves. But Mygazines has folded due to the pressures of the economy, lacking the deep pockets to support day to day operations any longer. While we mourn the loss of a well-executed…

Jenny Holzer’s Textual Structures

American conceptual artist Jenny Holzer converts the futuristic military-industrial complex into strange, alien art projects. Her light installations and conceptual work are the focus of an exhibition that opens on Saturday at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. She uses excerpts from U.S. military documents in unexpected ways, turning them into body parts or…

Printer Transcends to Slide Whistle

Eventually the internet will combine all creative possibilities, housing a compendium of knowledge encoded in YouTube clips, demonstrating every gadget ever made rebuilt to mimic every other gadget’s function. Today we take a small but absolutely necessary step to that goal. So here’s a printer that plays like a slide whistle. [Ethan Ham via bbGadgets]

Everyone Hates Lee Adama

I’ve been saying this for months: Lee Adama is by far the shallowest character on Battlestar Galactica that we’ve been tricked into liking, partially because of his sexy man-brow and ability to look hot while beating up girls. But now, Entertainment Weekly has fingered Lee Adama along with Squidward Tentacles, McDreamy and Lauren Conrad in…

Get Your Flu Shot!

Epidemiologist Rene Najera from the Maryland Department of Health wrote to remind io9 readers to get their flu shots now. Don’t be a part of the next pandemic! Also, if you’re in Maryland, you can help researchers by participating in this cool flu tracker program online.

Railroad Crossing Sign: The Latest Alarm Clock For You to Toss Across a Room

The latest wacky creation from Japanese manufacturer Banpresto comes to us in a form that looks very much like a railroad crossing sign. Truth be told, it is actually an alarm clock that lights up and mimics the sound of a train approach warning when it’s time to get up. Fortunately, the giant button on…

Fan-Made Batmobile is Ready for the Gotham Streets

When Batman Begins introduced the movie-going world to the Tumbler Batmobile, many an auto aficionado lusted after Batman’s ride. One fan, though, decided lusting wasn’t enough, and has been building his very own working Batmobile, complete with a V8 engine and Batcessories, in his garage. More pictures after the jump.Posting on the SuperHeroHype forums as…

Question of the Day: Would You Buy a Refurbished Laptop?

With the economy being the way it is, many of us need to face the fact that we must cut back a bit on our gadget budgets. However, that doesn’t mean that we need to go cold turkey. If you are currently in the market for a new laptop, have you ever considered buying refurbished/recertified?…

Contest: Win 6 James Bond Blu-ray Titles and a PS3 To Play Them On

I kind of lost track of James Bond after Goldeneye, but my interest came back with a vengeance after Casino Royale. If you are like me, you are probably dying to check out the latest installment when it hits next month. November 14th may seem like a long way away for fans, but you can…

Eureka Returns In December – With Nathan Stark

For those of you jonesing for more of SciFi Channel’s Eureka, relief is at hand – but it’s not the second half of the show’s third season. Boom! Studios is putting out a comic based on the show, co-written by show co-creator Andrew Cosby. They’ve made a video to tell you all about it, which…

How much do graphic novels and science fiction overlap? Apparently, enough for publishing giant Hachette Group to fold its graphic novel imprint, Yen, into its science fiction imprint, Orbit. The resulting fusion will be known as Orbit, and will be run by Orbit founder Tim Holman. Neither label will shrink, and in fact Orbit is…

10 Gadgets That Provide Perpetual Pleasure

Have you ever wished that you could simulate a pleasurable experience whenever you felt like it? Of course you have. The good news is that there are manufacturers out there hard at work bringing you devices that do just that. And, believe it or not, not all of these devices are not sex-related. In fact,…

The Week in iPhone Apps: Body Modification Edition

Light a firecracker, listen to Steve Jobs’ Mercedes peeling out, grow a mustache, make a disguised-voice phone call with your various illegal demands. All in a week’s work in the App Store. Let’s have a look at the fruits of the last seven days. Sonic Vox: Just in time for Halloween (or your upcoming anonymous…

A Dark Future Where Everybody Works In Marketing

Award-winning novelist and playwright Sarah Schulman is turning to science fiction because it’s the only way to capture how surreal her world has gotten. Her next novel, Mere Future, takes place in a future New York where everybody works in marketing. I talked to Schulman about her novel, which comes out next year, and asked…

Windows Vista Service Pack 2 to Support “Emerging Standards”

While Windows Vista Service Pack 2 has no public launch date at this time, Microsoft will distribute the SP2 beta to a small group of Technology Adoption Program members starting next week. So while that news means most of us will be left out in the cold, Microsoft has detailed many of the new features…

Stan Lee Sees Posh and Becks in Spandex

Now that Stan Lee is working on his superhero makeover of Paris Hilton, he’s looking for other celebrities to render in superhuman form. The next duo on his wishlist is power couple David and Victoria Beckham, whose good looks and charm make them, in his mind, a natural for costumed crimefighting. So, what would a…