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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…

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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

A NES Console Gets Stuffed Into a Light Gun

Modders these days seem to be fascinated with putting the old school NES where it doesn’t belong-like controllers and cartridges. At least those mods made sense in some way-I mean this version isn’t even the official NES light gun. It’s a Super Joy knockoff. Still, kudos to the modder for stuffing your big NES into…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Terraforming A Barren Planet — With Your Bare Hands

Once again, the best thing in the current Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction is a very political novella about spying during wartime. Like Robert Reed’s “Five Thrillers,” which we praised a few months ago, “The Political Prisoner” by Charles Coleman Finlay features spies, political turmoil and genetically altered human colonists at odds with the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Dell Offering XBox 360 Elite Bundle With XPS M1730 Laptop Build

If you are one of the very few people on this planet who are simultaneously shopping for a $3000 gaming laptop and an Xbox 360-today is your lucky day. Dell is throwing an Elite bundle into their top-of-the-line XPS M1730 system until July 24th. While it is not completely free, it is definitely going to…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Zero-Gee Computing Recliner Proves Our Fat Future is Now

Everyone saw Wall-E, right? And how the luxury cruisers of the future glide around in floating touch-screen-equipped easy chairs? Then the Zero-Gee gaming/blogging “workstation” should look mighty familiar. Its ergonomic, reclining frame is designed to ensure your ass is free from the forces of gravity as you type, type, type yourself into oblivion. There’s even…

Tech News John Mahoney

Real Dinosaur on the Loose in a Museum Makes Learning Fun, Extremely Dangerous

This is a video of a dinosaur on the loose in the LA Museum of Natural History. No computer effects used here, folks: it’s all real. Well, I mean, it’s not a real dinosaur of course or those kids would be totally devoured, but you know what I mean. If you look closely at the…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Get Your Daily Dose of Scifi Authors at Tor.com

Tor Books, one of the biggest and most venerable publishers of excellent science fiction writing, has just launched a new blog that promises to bring the crunchy goodness of a Tor book to your RSS reader every day. With contributors like scifi authors Charles Stross and John Scalzi, as well as scifi art maven Irene…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Make Your Old iPhone Dock Accommodate Your iPhone 3G’s Bulbous Ass

There’s no dock in the iPhone 3G’s box. And the iPhone 3G doesn’t fit in the original iPhone’s dock. You could pay $29 for a new one. Or you could just make the damn thing fit in the dock you already have. All you need is steady hands, a Dremel and a buffing cloth. Carve,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

See the Sketches That Captured The Crazy

The Dark Knight concept art from legendary comics artist Bill Sienkiewicz shows Heath Ledger’s Joker looking more crazed than ever. Sienkiewicz was the go-to guy for TDK, and it’s no wonder. He pretty much captures exactly why the Joker is the scariest of all in Gotham. His concept drawings are pretty much a spot-on rendition…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Intel Wants FCC to Make Set-Top Box Ethernet Ports Mandatory

This would be great: Intel reps paid a visit to the FCC to lobby for making ethernet ports a requirement in new set-top boxes, meaning every set-top box would be IP capable. So connectivity like the cable industry’s tru2way dealio and home networking would go from bustable industry pact to government mandate. Odds of this…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Once You Know How BSG Ends, You’ll Revisit Its Past. And Middle.

The final episode of Battlestar Galactica could be spread out over as much as four hours, allowing for a full explanation of the robot-apocalypse show’s complex mythology at last. And the BSG TV movie that’s in the pipeline wouldn’t air until after the final BSG episode — which could allow it to revisit some events…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

BlackJack III Coming this October?

It’s all still rumor for the time being, but word has it that the Samsung BlackJack III (formerly the Samsung i788) will be arriving this October. While slightly thicker than the BlackJack II, it will also run Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro and feature a 320×320 touchscreen, 528MHz processor, 3MP camera, A-GPS, Wi-Fi and HSDPA (AT&T’s…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

How To Get Refunded on Prepackaged Vista

Buying a PC can come along with some unwanted preinstalls. And now with Microsoft mandating that third party hardware manufacturers bundle Vista (not XP), that unwanted preinstall can include an entire OS. Given that a portion of any commercial PC’s purchase price includes funds allotted to software, XP users may find themselves forced into buying…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Clash Between Fictional and Real-Life Supervillains

Although Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible may have come and gone, his effects are still being felt across the internet… especially by another blogging supervillain who feels that his thunder has been stolen by Neil Patrick Harris’ deadly alter ago. Real-life supervillain Dr. Steel – who claims that he’s been doing this kind of thing since…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Unmanned Japanese Cargo Spacecraft Could Be NASA’s Next Space Shuttle

With the dinosaur Space Shuttle set to retire in 2010, and Orion due to be finished (optimistically) by 2015, NASA may purchase the $131 million unmanned HTV cargo vehicle from JAXA, Japan’s space agency, to guarantee fresh shipments of space-Doritos flowing up to the brave souls on the International Space Sation. While they had initially…

Space & Spaceflight John Mahoney

Playing Around with Plutonium and Neptunium

Superconductivity, a state where metals lose their electrical resistance, has been for a long time a dream of physicists. It could change the way we use energy and allow us to do things like levitate trains. But currently, superconductivity can be achieved in supercooled metals for brief periods, which severely limits its applications. Now, however,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Armpit Televisions Promote Stinky Ads

As part of a unique promotional campaign, Right Guard has deployed “Pitvertisers”—a crew of people on the street armed with LCD televisions sewn into the deepest pits of their shirts. So the next you’re on the train and wonder who is emanating that awful advertisement, you’ll see that, oh, it’s that douchebag playing commercials with…

Tech News Mark Wilson

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

A NES Console Gets Stuffed Into a Light Gun

Terraforming A Barren Planet — With Your Bare Hands

Dell Offering XBox 360 Elite Bundle With XPS M1730 Laptop Build

Zero-Gee Computing Recliner Proves Our Fat Future is Now

Real Dinosaur on the Loose in a Museum Makes Learning Fun, Extremely Dangerous

Get Your Daily Dose of Scifi Authors at Tor.com

Make Your Old iPhone Dock Accommodate Your iPhone 3G’s Bulbous Ass

See the Sketches That Captured The Crazy

Intel Wants FCC to Make Set-Top Box Ethernet Ports Mandatory

Once You Know How BSG Ends, You’ll Revisit Its Past. And Middle.

BlackJack III Coming this October?

How To Get Refunded on Prepackaged Vista

Clash Between Fictional and Real-Life Supervillains

Unmanned Japanese Cargo Spacecraft Could Be NASA’s Next Space Shuttle

Playing Around with Plutonium and Neptunium

Armpit Televisions Promote Stinky Ads

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