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Democratic Convention Protestors Will Be Blasted With Ray Guns and Sticky Goo

If you’re unhappy that Hillary Clinton lost the nomination to Barack Obama, you better think twice before showing your displeasure at next month’s Democratic National Convention. According to CNN, the city of Denver is purchasing tons of high-tech weapons to use on unruly DNC protesters, which may include goo-guns that shoot an impossible-to-escape sticky film,…

Tech News Benny Goldman

Watch a Movie Inside a Giant Gundam

Japanese architect Kazushi Takahashi used to build ships, then jumped into building design. Now he’s made another conceptual leap. He’s created a movie theater in Tokyo that looks like the carapace of a Gundam robot. [via PingMag]

io9 Annalee Newitz

Panasonic Makes Electric Bike With Regenerative Braking

What better alternative to driving to work than riding an electric bicycle? Panasonic’s Vivi RX 10-S, which is due in Japan on August 20, works the same way many hybrid vehicle systems do: taking the energy from braking and harness it into recharging the battery. The total assisted travel range combining pedal power, electric power…

Tech News Jason Chen

Are Mercury’s Days as a Planet Numbered?

Click to viewEver since the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto to a dwarf planet (does it even deserve a capital “P”???) in 2006, astronomers around the world have been at odds to describe just what they mean when they say the word “planet.” For the moment, the solar system is holding steady with eight of…

io9 Michael Reilly

Wizard Rapid Descender Backpack Beats Taking the Stairs

If everyone living or working in precariously elevated positions could shoot Spidey-silk from their wrists in case of an unexpected fall, there would be no need for the Wizard rapid-descender concept from UK design shop HJC. But a sleek Dyson-esque backpack housing up to 250 meters of woven liquid polyester that can hold you and…

Tech News John Mahoney

World’s Largest Fire Extinguisher Stands in for Fireworks, Does a July 4th Flyby

No, this is not a Photoshop. It was taken on the 4th of July by Spencer Weiner of the LA Times, showing a firefighting airtanker dropping state-of-the-art fire retardant on wildfires in southern California. The retardant it’s dropping consists of ammonium sulfate or ammonium polyphosphate with attapulgite clay thickener or diammonium phosphate with a guar…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

It’s Crunch Time On Stargate Atlantis

The big news on TV this week is the return of Stargate Atlantis. (Plus, a new season of Burn Notice, which sadly may not be scifi enough for us to mention. Except we just did.) Other big news: new eps of The Middleman, Charlie Jade, Doctor Who, Ben 10: Alien Force and Venture Bros. Don’t…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

What You Missed Last Weekend

Happy belated 4th of July everyone. While you were off blowing things up and jamming down hot dogs, we, the Gizmodo weekend editors, were hammering out gadget posts of exceptional value. They are: • Don’t hit those snakes with a rake! They’re the power-generating kind! • A slightly more successful balloon man made a safe…

Tech News Jack Loftus

LG Chocolate 3 Arriving July 14th

The new LG Chocolate has finally gotten a firm release date-it will go on sale July 14th to Verizon Wireless customers. Remember, this Chocolate is a lot different from LG’s candybars of old. It’s actually a clamshell with a small, 1.76″ touchscreen on the outside and larger 2.22″ normal screen on the inside. It features…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Nicholas Cage Faces Apocalypse By Numbers

A time capsule turns out to have eerily accurate predictions of future catastophes, in Knowing, which opens next March. It’s up to grade school teacher Ted Myles (Nicolas Cage) to convince the nation of our next huge tragedy. Judging from this teaser trailer, the scariest thing in Knowing is a bunch of circling numbers. Let’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Ear Force X4 Headphones: Surround Sound Cussing on Xbox 360

While we enjoyed gaming with the wireless surround sound headphones we tested in our Battlemodo, the major inherent flaw with the systems were their lack of voice-chat capabilities. Now Turtle Beach has announced the Ear Force X4 wireless headphones that combine Dolby 5.1 decoding and voice chat in a package that’s compatible with the Xbox…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Would You Watch Alien 5?

Sigourney Weaver says she’s still considering suiting up for another Alien movie. She even hints that original director Ridley Scott might come back: “I would definitely do another if I had a director like Ridley Scott and we had a good idea…Ridley is enthusiastic about it.” I’m all for more gooey alien action, as long…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Busted iPod Modded Into a Mouse; Could Be So Much More

If your old iPod is suddenly about to become useless when you acquire an iPhone 3G, why not repurpose it as something else? One enterprising modder took an iPod that had been accidentally run over by a car (yeah, I hate it when that happens) and turned it into a fully-functioning mouse, with the buttons…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Neal Stephenson Explains Who Should Play Spock

In a tone of deep seriousness that sounds practically professorial, scifi author Neal Stephenson shared some grave thoughts a couple of months ago about science fiction actors. In this clip, the author of The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon tells a London audience how SF actors’ careers are “bifurcated” — they’re famous among scifi fans, but…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Behold, the iPhone 3G Display

Those visiting Apple stores later today won’t be able to buy the iPhone 3G, but at least they’ll be able to check it out in Jumbotron form. Here’s the iPhone 3G in its official capacity as an unusable giant Apple store display, which according to our sources will be on show floors today. And if…

Tech News Mark Wilson

iPhone 3G Pre-Orders Sold Out in the UK in One Morning

If anyone doubted that this is going to be a weekend of worldwide mass hysteria, here’s a clue: after a few hours there are no more iPhones 3G available for pre-order in the UK. O2’s pre-ordering site was activated this morning and-after being down for a few hours under the massive demand-it now says that…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Previously Unseen Invisibles Available To View

Writing the ultimate supernatural SF comic The Invisibles may have almost killed Grant Morrison, but that didn’t dissuade him from attempting to adapt it into a television show for the BBC. While the show itself never made it to air for multiple reasons, that doesn’t mean that you can’t read the completed scripts and dream…

io9 Graeme McMillan

The GMC Van Makes a Comeback on eBay, Baby

Some of my best childhood memories are napping-away in the back bed-seat of our old van. But this four-axle GMC is going to make me need some therapy. Because aside from stylish oak kitchen cabinets and a comfortable La-Z-Boy recliner, the van makes room for a sauna (and they don’t just mean that the A/C…

Tech News Mark Wilson

T-Mobile 3G Nationwide Launch Oct. 1st?

TmoNews has an anony-tip that they’ll be firing up their 3G network in those 20+ top markets on Oct. 1. The rumor’s fairly squishy, but it’s not totally whack—T-mo promised to roll out 3G in major markets throughout the year, plus we’d heard those top markets would be balling along by the end of it.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

All the Ways We Can Mess Up Your Brain

Yesterday we told you all about a recent study where a group of researchers identified the genes responsible for brain development in the womb. We pointed out, in our usual excitable way, that this discovery is the first step on the road to tinkering with those genes to produce mega-geniuses and mindless drones. The researchers…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Democratic Convention Protestors Will Be Blasted With Ray Guns and Sticky Goo

Watch a Movie Inside a Giant Gundam

Panasonic Makes Electric Bike With Regenerative Braking

Are Mercury’s Days as a Planet Numbered?

Wizard Rapid Descender Backpack Beats Taking the Stairs

World’s Largest Fire Extinguisher Stands in for Fireworks, Does a July 4th Flyby

It’s Crunch Time On Stargate Atlantis

What You Missed Last Weekend

LG Chocolate 3 Arriving July 14th

Nicholas Cage Faces Apocalypse By Numbers

Ear Force X4 Headphones: Surround Sound Cussing on Xbox 360

Would You Watch Alien 5?

Busted iPod Modded Into a Mouse; Could Be So Much More

Neal Stephenson Explains Who Should Play Spock

Behold, the iPhone 3G Display

iPhone 3G Pre-Orders Sold Out in the UK in One Morning

Previously Unseen Invisibles Available To View

The GMC Van Makes a Comeback on eBay, Baby

T-Mobile 3G Nationwide Launch Oct. 1st?

All the Ways We Can Mess Up Your Brain

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