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This is What it Looks Like When the Video Camera in Your Hand Gets Struck by Lightning

Click to viewHere’s something you never want to have happen to you: you’re videotaping a storm, when all of the sudden lightning comes down and strikes the camera in your hand. Remarkably, she was fine. As she says: From what i understand, it went through my left hand holding the camera, crossed my back and…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Tokyopop Tries To Reinvent Itself With SF Licenses

While it may have fired 45% of its workforce and cut back the majority of its original English-language projects recently, manga publisher Tokyopop isn’t dead. It’s just moving into the world of licensing SF comics. Coming soon to accompany their Star Trek: The Manga series: Battlestar Galactica and Ghostbusters. Announced at last weekend’s Anime Expo,…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Google the Next Emerging Pandemic With HealthMap

We can’t officially call the program Google Disease(tm). But that’s essentially what HealthMap is. Developed by doctors at Harvard Medical School, it’s a mashup of a world map, news and information feeds on diseases all around the world, and $450,000 of Google.org funding. Some slick software piles updates on emerging diseases into region-by-region alerts to…

io9 Michael Reilly

Some iPhone 3G Screens Are Looking a Bit Yellow

We’re not sure precisely how widespread the issue may be, but multiple reports on the Macrumors forums are bringing to light that some iPhone 3Gs are suffering from a screen with a yellow tint. While on a standard LCD the issue would probably just warrant a settings readjustment (like from Movie mode to Sports), we…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Woz Succinctly Analyzes the iPhone 3G

Leave it to Steve Wozniak to put the hysteria in check. “A little faster downloading of webpages, and it has a GPS [Global Positioning System] chip built in. But, you know, these aren’t, like, break-the-bank items…A lot of the people I know just aren’t going to upgrade yet. Then again, the guy was planning to…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Mike Mignola, Creator of Hellboy: Low-tech and Badass

Welcome back to Jewels of Apator, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s biweekly column about the intersection of art and the fantastic. It may be hard to understand now just how fresh and different Mike Mignola’s Hellboy was when the first installment, Seeds of Destruction, came out from Dark Horse Comics in 1994. Wise-cracking anti-heroes have always…

Books & Comics Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

Non-iPhones Attend Self-Esteem Workshop

Sometimes The Joy of Tech‘s unique adolescent-political humor style nails a topic just right, and this comic is the perfect example. But seriously, I’ve heard that local park districts will begin throwing these meetings quarterly. Contact your neighborhood branch for more details. [joyoftech]

Tech News Mark Wilson

First Outlines Of Avatar’s Slender Aliens

A first glimpse of the super skinny, long haired alien life-forms from James Cameron’s 3-D epic Avatar opens the door for many questions. Could this T-shirt design really be what the inhabitants of Alpha Centauri B-4, otherwise known as the Na’vi, look like? Click through for more pictures and spoilery talk. So what have we…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Behind Abe’s Big Fish Eyes: io9 Talks To Hellboy II’s Doug Jones

Doug Jones is the man behind almost all of your favorite creepy crawlies from Guillermo del Toro’s imagination. In Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Jones plays three of the most surreal characters, including everyone’s favorite fish man Abe Sapien. We got a chance to catch up with Doug and talk about the behind-the-scenes secrets of…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Cornstarch + Water + Subwoofer = Amazing Physics Video

It’s Friday, you’ve been swimming in a sea of iPhone news… so what’s better to distract you than this amazing vid. It’s a demonstration of the joys of non-Newtonian liquids (look ’em up: amazing things), showing exactly how they can confound your expectations. In this case it’s a cornstarch fluid on a metal sheet on…

Physics & Chemistry Kit Eaton

iPhone App Review Marathon Liveblog Is Still Going On

We’re still reviewing iPhone apps in our review marathon liveblog, so pop over and see what we’ve added. Also, give us your requests if you’re dying to know about a particular app. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-app-review-marathon-liveblog-5023924

Reviews Jason Chen

Design Your Own Starship with “Beyond Protocol”

You’re a galactic warlord with the latest space tech and a pile of resources burning a hole in your pocket. What kind of spaceship would you like to design? You’ll get to answer that question in a million ways if you play Beyond Protocol, an online game being developed by Dark Sky Entertainment. It will…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

The Disappointment Of David Tennant

It’s got to be tough to be David Tennant these days. Sure, everyone loved him when he first started on Doctor Who, but by the end of the fourth season, it feels as if everyone wants to see him replaced and happens to have a suggestion of just who could manage to fill his shoes……

io9 Graeme McMillan

Microfluidic Art on a Chip

J Tanner Nevil is a microfluidics expert who occasionally likes to turn his laboratory into an art studio. Here, you can see that he’s turned his microfluidic chip — often called a “lab on a chip” — into a painting made entirely by piping tiny amounts of colored fluid into canals that are about 20…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Apple and AT&T Stores Having Difficulty Activating iPhones (UPDATE: It’s the iPocalypse)

Click to viewWe’ve heard four many accounts now from varying Apple store and AT&T locations that employees are having problems while trying to activate phones through iTunes. From Atlanta, one camper reports: A “teal shirt” Apple representative came out to let us know they are having difficulty accessing accounts on the iTunes system. The line…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Who Created The Bat-Pod?

Batman’s new mode of transport, the Bat-Pod, is clearly being used as one of the selling points of The Dark Knight. It appears on two of the posters and in the trailer for the movie. But who created this souped-up motorbike? A comparison between the movie and futuristic Bat-comic Batman: Year One Hundred suggests that…

io9 Graeme McMillan

AT&T 3G Coverage Maps Updated, Now With More 3G

AT&T’s 3G footprint does not blanket the entire country-about the top 300 markets, expanding to 350 by the end of the year (and it’s faster in some places than others). But the 3G coverage map that was on AT&T’s site (neatly stitched together at Alley Insider) until this morning was from March (AT&T spokesman says…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

New X-Files 2 Spoilers May Disturb You

Everything you know about Mulder and Scully in the second X-Files movie is wrong, according to some new spoilers making the rounds online. And some new Heroes info reveals some surprising twists. There’s also a new behind-the-scenes video for The Dark Knight that gives away a few cool moments. Oh, and there are totally insane…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

iPhone 2.0 Software Review: Forget 3G, It’s Code That Counts

Click to viewThe iPhone 3G may be here, but what we’re really excited about is the iPhone 2.0 software update. Only some people really need faster browsing and slightly better location services, but everyone can use the new features in the OS. Now that we’ve gotten chance to go through all that updated functionality-as well…

Reviews Jason Chen

iPod Touch 2.0 Firmware: It’s Official

The iPod touch 2.0 firmware is now available from Apple for $9.95, officially. In reality, Apple’s having a busy day, so they’re not quite firing on all cylinders yet. It should be up any minute, we expect. [Apple]

Tech News Kit Eaton

This is What it Looks Like When the Video Camera in Your Hand Gets Struck by Lightning

Tokyopop Tries To Reinvent Itself With SF Licenses

Google the Next Emerging Pandemic With HealthMap

Some iPhone 3G Screens Are Looking a Bit Yellow

Woz Succinctly Analyzes the iPhone 3G

Mike Mignola, Creator of Hellboy: Low-tech and Badass

Non-iPhones Attend Self-Esteem Workshop

First Outlines Of Avatar’s Slender Aliens

Behind Abe’s Big Fish Eyes: io9 Talks To Hellboy II’s Doug Jones

Cornstarch + Water + Subwoofer = Amazing Physics Video

iPhone App Review Marathon Liveblog Is Still Going On

Design Your Own Starship with “Beyond Protocol”

The Disappointment Of David Tennant

Microfluidic Art on a Chip

Apple and AT&T Stores Having Difficulty Activating iPhones (UPDATE: It’s the iPocalypse)

Who Created The Bat-Pod?

AT&T 3G Coverage Maps Updated, Now With More 3G

New X-Files 2 Spoilers May Disturb You

iPhone 2.0 Software Review: Forget 3G, It’s Code That Counts

iPod Touch 2.0 Firmware: It’s Official

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