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GPS-Like System Being Developed For Moon Astronauts

When astronauts finally get back to the moon sometime between now and 2020, they will have an advantage that their predecessors did not-GPS. Well, it’s not technically GPS given the fact that there are no satellites orbiting the moon, but the astronauts may not know the difference. The new system being developed by Ohio State…

Space & Spaceflight Sean Fallon

Apple Earnings: Record Quarter, Steve Promises “Wonderful New Products” This Year

Last quarter was the best June quarter in Apple’s history in both earnings and profits, but the real news is that Steve actually promised new products later this year: “We set a new record for Mac sales, we think we have a real winner with our new iPhone 3G, and we’re busy finishing several more…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Kevlar Body Armor Could Soon Repel Germs

If researchers are successful, Kevlar-based armor will soon be able to protect the wearer from more dangers than bullets and fire. Yuyu Sun and Jie Luo of the University of South Dakota have discovered a way to coat Kevlar with a substance called acyclic N-Halamine. After testing it against “E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Candida tropicalis…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Polly Pocket Meets Gotham

Here are miniature versions of Gotham City’s inhabitants, made with love for you by Detective Comic’s Dustin Nguyen. I want to play with these little guys so bad, especially baby Bane. [Welcome To Gotham City]

io9 Meredith Woerner

How to Tether Your iPhone 3G to Your Laptop

While Apple doesn’t allow tethering with the iPhone 3G, if it’s jailbroken, they can’t tell you what to do, can they? After it’s jailbroken, getting your tether on is surprisingly easy. All you need is a pair of programs, 3proxy and MobileTerminal. Create an ad-hoc Wi-Fi network with your notebook, join it with your iPhone,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

SunNight Solar Giving Away 500 Solar Flashlights

Mark Bent, owner of SunNight Solar, is giving away 500 of his company’s solar flashlights (no Polish jokes, please). This isn’t a simple first-come first-served deal, however; you need to justify why you deserve one. People who work in emergency services or the media (ahem) get first dibs (as do Al Gore and Angelina Jolie…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Even on EDGE, Mobile Safari 2.0 Is Much Faster

The iPhone 2.0 software might be shakier than a true believer’s legs in the presence of Steve himself, but there’s at least one benefit (besides the app goodness): Mobile Safari 2.0 is much zoomier. John Gruber ran the benchmarks, comparing them against historical ones, and found that it runs at least 1.7 times faster than…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Now You Can Major in Cult Movie Studies

Want to live your life in the Ivory Tower, but uncertain about whether you can devote your scholarly energies to zombies, giant monsters, and low-budget horror movies? Well, fret no more. A film scholar named David Church has set up a new social network, Cult Media Studies, for academics who study cult movies. Contributing to…

io9 Annalee Newitz

X-Files Movie Proves Some Things Are Better Left Buried, Say Critics

The first early reviews of the new X-Files movie have shown up online… and they’re not encouraging. Phrases like “Where’s the action?” and “nothing more than an extended episode of the TV series” are being bandied about. But the truly horrifying part is the explanation of Billy Connolly’s weird character — the one with the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Nokia Responds to Batphone Allegations

Remember the fancy cellphone in The Dark Knight? It was that touchscreen Nokia that Morgan Freeman was carrying around all like, “Look at me, I’m so cool, I’m Batman’s boss as well as the narrator behind many popular films.” Some people (OK, CrunchGear) think that it might be the Nokia Tube (we were too busy…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Vaka Squeezable Lightbulbs Can Be Charged And Taken Anywhere

Vaka’s concept for lightbulbs revolves around silicon orbs that you squeeze to turn the light on/off, or twist to make the light dimmer or brighter. But the bulbs are also chargeable, meaning you can remove them from the fixture and take them wherever light is needed…like those village raids against the local vampire. [Yanko]

Tech News Adrian Covert

Which Technological Invention Changed the World?

Scientists like Jared Diamond argue that human history is essentially the story of technology. Our technological advancements are what propelled us from caves to cities, from gaslight to nuclear reactors, and from horseback to orbit. But with each advance comes a potential dark side: deadlier warfare, toxic pollution, or social alienation. Taking into account the…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Tooth Lasers Could Make Drilling a Thing of the Past

For some people, just the sound of a dental drill is enough to cause panic-but the good news is that this barbaric procedure may be a thing of the past. UK researchers have developed a technology that is based on Raman spectroscopy (a method that is currently used to identify chemicals) to spot tooth decay…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Toshiba and Matsushita to Start Cranking Out OLEDs in Massive Numbers

Toshiba and Matsushita’s joint display group is about to become the first Japanese firm to jump into the OLED production game, and in a big way-their announced factory will begin producing as many as one million 2.5-inch OLED panels per month when it comes online in the fall of next year. What could they be…

Tech News John Mahoney

Drag And Drop Kirk’s Scary Bedroom Eyes

Want Captain Kirk leering lasciviously from your computer desktop while you work? Then you’re in luck. The official Star Trek movie site has put up high-res images of the four Trek posters that’ll be handed out at Comic-Con. The site also has a discussion forum, where the hot topic at present is “Why is Captain…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Great Moments in Martian-Earthling Relations: Tim O’Hara Meets Uncle Martin

Let’s get it out at the start: My Favorite Martian was no Lost in Space. The latter had Robot, after all, and Dr. Smith, not to mention cool mod spacesuits. Despite its title, MFM had little-to-no outer-space trappings (at least as I remember it) and the lamest laugh track this side of Gilligan’s Island. If,…

io9 Lynn Peril

This Giant Slip ‘N Slide Looks Way More Fun Than Work

We love our jobs here at Gizmodo. But every once in a while even we find something more interesting than the latest breakthroughs in USB-powered humping animals. Impossible, you say? Not when it comes to a gigantic homemade Slip ‘N Slide. It’s tough to scale the slides’ exact size, but it looks to drop a…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Hack Your Point-and-Shoot into a Time Lapse Camera

CamTim is a hack that’ll let you use any digital camera with a remote control for time-lapse photography. It’s not super-easy, but it won’t make you cry (probably). It’s basically a board you program to buzz the camera’s remote button at whatever interval you want. Using a ZigBee module, you can also set it up…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Transformers 2 No Empire Strikes Back, Says Bay

To anyone who thinks that the upcoming Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen is going to be another in a long line of sequels that plan on making things darker in order to set up the triumphant final part of a trilogy, then director Michael Bay has some bad news for you: As far as he’s…

io9 Graeme McMillan

The 10,000-Year-Old Clock that Inspired Neal Stephenson’s Anathem

The Long Now, a futurist think tank, is the organization behind the millennium clock — a time-counting device that is designed to last 10,000 years. A device like it shows up in Neal Stephenson’s forthcoming novel Anathem, and today the Long Now explains how the scifi author was involved in the conceptualization of the clock…

io9 Annalee Newitz

GPS-Like System Being Developed For Moon Astronauts

Apple Earnings: Record Quarter, Steve Promises “Wonderful New Products” This Year

Kevlar Body Armor Could Soon Repel Germs

Polly Pocket Meets Gotham

How to Tether Your iPhone 3G to Your Laptop

SunNight Solar Giving Away 500 Solar Flashlights

Even on EDGE, Mobile Safari 2.0 Is Much Faster

Now You Can Major in Cult Movie Studies

X-Files Movie Proves Some Things Are Better Left Buried, Say Critics

Nokia Responds to Batphone Allegations

Vaka Squeezable Lightbulbs Can Be Charged And Taken Anywhere

Which Technological Invention Changed the World?

Tooth Lasers Could Make Drilling a Thing of the Past

Toshiba and Matsushita to Start Cranking Out OLEDs in Massive Numbers

Drag And Drop Kirk’s Scary Bedroom Eyes

Great Moments in Martian-Earthling Relations: Tim O’Hara Meets Uncle Martin

This Giant Slip ‘N Slide Looks Way More Fun Than Work

Hack Your Point-and-Shoot into a Time Lapse Camera

Transformers 2 No Empire Strikes Back, Says Bay

The 10,000-Year-Old Clock that Inspired Neal Stephenson’s Anathem

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