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Windows 3.11 to Sing its Last (MIDI) Song On November 8th, 2008

In a short and slightly poignant posting on his MSDN blog, a Microsoft systems engineer has announced that Windows 3.11 will be officially discontinued four months after XP’s unceremonious removal from the consumer market. The secret to 3.11’s 15-year lifespan was the embedded space, where it has dutifully provided a platform for countless low-horsepower cash…

Tech News John Herrman

A Sexbot on the Run in a Posthuman Solar System

One of the charmingly weird things about Charles Stross’ new novel Saturn’s Children is that he manages to include every single cliche of sexual perversion you’ve seen on the net — and make them somehow fit plausibly into the plot. The author of the critically-acclaimed Halting State has written a fast-paced thriller about Freya, a…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Cornucopia (1993)

According to the company Empruve, this futuristic multimedia device from 1993, “will become as much an integral part of our lives as the telephone, the television, the typewriter and the book.” The photo and its caption (below) were found in the book Understanding Hypermedia. According to Caruso.com the developer costs for Empruve’s Cornucopia were between…

Tech News Matt Novak

iPhone App Review Marathon Liveblog Is Still Going On

Our marathon review of iPhone apps is still going on, and we’ve added tens of reviews since this morning. Head on over to drop a request on what apps you want reviewed. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-app-review-marathon-liveblog-5023924

Tech News Jason Chen

Help! I’m Being Carjacked By The Cloverfield Monster!

A weird long-limbed creature attacks this guy’s minivan, from the British time-warp show Primeval, coming to American TV. The show’s producers insist it’s nothing like Doctor Who: it’s a work of total realism, except for the one central plot device of a time/space rift opening and letting prehistoric creatures attack. Primeval, from the creators of…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Cool Tip: iPhone 2.0 Software Has Built-In Screen Capture

You’ve probably seen the cool screen shots we’ve got all over Gizmodo today and wondered to yourself what tool we’re using to make them. We’re not using one, because the iPhone 2.0 software has a built-in screen capture shortcut. Hold the “home” button, then hit the “power/sleep” button, and presto, a capture of your screen…

Tech News Matt Hickey

Apps We Like: Box Office is the Best iPhone Movie Theatre App

This is why people get excited about iPhone apps. With Box Office, if you want to see a movie and don’t know what’s playing, you just open it up. It’ll detect where you are, find theatres around you, and list movies playing by their RottenTomatoes score. Want to get tickets? Click on the time you…

Tech News Adam Frucci

How Long Before The Censors Ruin Holodeck Sex Comedy?

Click to viewGet ready for space baby dick jokes, holo-deck masturbation, and half man-half fish characters in the new Fox series Boldly Going Nowhere, appearing as a midseason replacement on Fox. One of the new scifi comedy’s writers, Charlie Day, is an original creator of the already established as comedy perfection It’s Always Sunny In…

Television Meredith Woerner

Late Arrivals Might Get Stuck With White iPhones

It looks like, at least in Australia, nobody wants the white iPhone. People in line in Sydney who are pretty far back are being told that they may have to go with a white 16GB model, as they’re quickly running out of black. Ruh roh, it looks like nobody wants to get stuck with a…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Disappeared Reappears In Your Ears For Free

If you’re looking for something new to listen to this weekend, head over to Audible Frontiers, Amazon’s SF audiobook imprint. From now until July 24th, they’re giving away the complete audio version of Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s novel The Disappeared, the first of her Retrieval Artist series. Yes, that’s “giving away” as in “for free” –…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Belkin BreakFree: MacBook MagSafe Cable for Your Guitar

The BreakFree is Belkin’s fix for crazy rockers who can’t get through a set without ripping up their amp or guitar’s cord jack by flailing around too much. One part of the $20 two-piece kit fits in the axe’s cord jack, while the other goes to the cord itself, and you can rock safe knowing…

Tech News Benny Goldman

Super Monkey Ball for iPhone Lightning Review: Addictive, Hard as Hell

The App: Super Monkey Ball, probably the biggest game in the App Store today, mates the longstanding franchise’s primate-in-a-bubble rolling to the iPhone’s accelerometer interface. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-app-review-marathon-liveblog-5023924 The Price: $9.99 Verdict: Simple, addictive fun, but a bit frustrating. If you’re used to Monkey Ball’s motion-sickness-inducing control setup (and you don’t mind looking like a jackass on…

Tech News John Mahoney

Clone Wars’ Baby Jedi Is Marked For Death

Isn’t Ahsoka Tano adorable? Look at those big blue eyes and stripey horns, what a doll. She’s the only new major character to be introduced in the Star Wars: Clone Wars TV show, premiering as a movie next month. Clone Wars takes place between Episodes II and III, and of course Ahsoka isn’t in Episode…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Seagate’s 1.5-Terabyte Barracuda Desktop Hard Drive

Today Seagate unveiled the Barracuda 7200.11-the first 1.5-terabyte desktop hard drive to hit the market. That represents a whopping half-terabyte jump over the previous 1TB max-a move they attribute to their perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology. They also debuted two 2.5-inch half-terabyte 5400- and 7200-rpm drives dubbed the Momentus 5400.6 and Momentus 7200. The Barracuda…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Battlestar Galactica Toaster Brands Your Bread With a Cylon

I love Battlestar Galactica and I also love the tasty, whole grain wheatyness of toast. But alas, I cannot live out my dream of combining my two loves into a single product. Wait one second…now I can, thanks to this limited edition $65 toaster from the Sci-Fi Channel! Each Battlestar Galactica branded toaster burns those…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Clarification: Exchange Sync Won’t Eat All Your Data

People got scared when, in his iPhone 3G review, Walt Mossberg said that a Microsoft Exchange sync can wipe out your personal calendar and contacts (though not your personal e-mail). This is true, but it is only half the truth. What we have learned is that MobileMe—mind you, a paid subscription service—can serve up your…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

What Exactly Is Beer Head? Find Out On New Science Show “The Works”

If you’re looking for a cool new science show to check out tonight, try The Works. It’s debuting on the History Channel at 10 PM, and as you can see from this segment, you’ll get to learn about very important scientific issues. Like why there is a head on beer. The best part is that…

Television Annalee Newitz

Question of the Day: Are You More Excited About iPhone Apps or 3G?

The App Store is up and firmware 2.0 has been leaked, so I’m feeling pretty content right now. Sure, 3G is awesome, but to be honest I was more excited about the App Store than anything else. So, my question is: Do you feel the same way? Are you more excited about the App Store…

Tech News Sean Fallon

New Radiohead Video is Shot with Lasers, Not Cameras

Radiohead, never ones to shy away from trying new things, has shot its new video for “House of Cards” without using cameras at all. Whaa? Yes, they’ve used two fancy new technologies called Geometric Informatics and Velodyne Lidar. To shoot it using lasers and stuff. Let’s break it down here. https://gizmodo.com/radiohead-offers-new-album-for-whatever-you-want-to-pay-305566 The Geometric Informatics scanning…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

TeleNav Confirms iPhone In-Car Navigation App

Though it’s not among the 522 awesome apps launching today, TeleNav will soon fill a pretty big hole by providing a turn-by-turn in-car GPS navigator app for the iPhone 3G, as we speculated. TeleNav confirmed to us today that its app will include full-color 3D moving maps and the turn-by-turn voice guidance and traffic-aware routing…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Windows 3.11 to Sing its Last (MIDI) Song On November 8th, 2008

A Sexbot on the Run in a Posthuman Solar System

Cornucopia (1993)

iPhone App Review Marathon Liveblog Is Still Going On

Help! I’m Being Carjacked By The Cloverfield Monster!

Cool Tip: iPhone 2.0 Software Has Built-In Screen Capture

Apps We Like: Box Office is the Best iPhone Movie Theatre App

How Long Before The Censors Ruin Holodeck Sex Comedy?

Late Arrivals Might Get Stuck With White iPhones

Disappeared Reappears In Your Ears For Free

Belkin BreakFree: MacBook MagSafe Cable for Your Guitar

Super Monkey Ball for iPhone Lightning Review: Addictive, Hard as Hell

Clone Wars’ Baby Jedi Is Marked For Death

Seagate’s 1.5-Terabyte Barracuda Desktop Hard Drive

Battlestar Galactica Toaster Brands Your Bread With a Cylon

Clarification: Exchange Sync Won’t Eat All Your Data

What Exactly Is Beer Head? Find Out On New Science Show “The Works”

Question of the Day: Are You More Excited About iPhone Apps or 3G?

New Radiohead Video is Shot with Lasers, Not Cameras

TeleNav Confirms iPhone In-Car Navigation App

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