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Did Somebody Hack Your Virtual Breasts?

I can’t stop thinking about a story that broke earlier this week about a bug that reduced the breast sizes of tons of large-boobed avatars in the MMO “Age of Conan” (you can see before and after pictures here). No word on whether the boobs have been re-inflated, nor any real explanation of how it…

io9 Annalee Newitz

iPhone 2 Rumor Round-up. Verdict: Don’t Believe Everything You Read

So yesterday you saw our iPhone 2.0 wishlist, packed with things we’d love to see. But the new iPhone has really had the intertubes throbbing with rumors, as people desperate to get their hands on the new tech dig up info. Or at least, desperately look for info in the strangest places, and invent wishful…

Tech News Kit Eaton

Gun Phone: A Haiku

Don’t be too surprised At airport security When you miss your flight [Custom Phones via SlipperyBrick]

Tech News Adam Frucci

Is Earth’s Magnetic Field Failing Us?

Forget the ozone layer, global warming, and all of the other things environmentalists whine about: the one thing holding life together here on Earth is its powerful magnetic field. And for the past 150 years that humans have been measuring it, our only line of defense against deadly cosmic and solar radiation has been mysteriously…

io9 Michael Reilly

UroClub Lets Golfers Go Pee-Pee in Public

Ever been on the golf course, knocking back a few beers, when nature calls? It may be against club rules to duck into the rough for a leak—that’s why the UroClub, developed by awesome urologist Floyd Seskin, is an answer to your prayers. Just place an inconspicuous towel over your junk, unscrew the cap of…

Tech News Benny Goldman

Five Reasons Why Aliens Will Make Contact with the Japanese First

Click to viewWelcome back to MangoBot, a biweekly column about Asian futurism by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama. I’ve been thinking about extraterrestrials a lot this week. Do they exist? How will we know? Who will they call if they decide to make contact with us, and through what medium? First off, nobody knows if extraterrestrials…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Slot Machine Drink Dispenser Wins Memory Loss

Man has long been attempting to combine the destructive vices of gambling and alcohol. Now, with the $60 Slot Machine Drink Dispenser, our fuzzy dreams can become a reality. We can just pull the lever and watch as our favorite cocktail drops into a glass. Storing up to 1.5L of liquid at a time, it’s…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Fiery Blasts Don’t Compensate For Death Race’s Wimpiness

Boom goes the dynamite, as Jason Statham unflinchingly walks away from a splodey fireball, as his new film Death Race desperately tries to resurrect some of the bad-ass cred that it lost by reducing the gore content from the original Death Race 2000. Sorry buddy — Walk away from as many explosions as you like,…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Air New Zealand to Power a 747 with Weed

OK, OK, so the weed in question is actually the jatropha plant, a weed indigenous to India and Africa. But still! Air New Zealand is planning to fill one of the four engines of a 747 with the weed and the remaining three engines with normal jet fuel to test the potential of using jatropha…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Who Wants A Soul Sword, When You Can Have A Light Saber?

Yoda and Darth Vader step into the ring in the battle to wield the soul swords, in the latest version of killer video game Soul Calibur IV which means more Yoda flip fighting. SC IV, Namco’s latest addition of their 3-D weapons-based fighting series, will feature either Yoda or Vader depending on your console. The…

io9 Meredith Woerner

These Skurgian Space Slugs Need Exterminating – Any Volunteers?

A few million Skurgians were unleashed onto the Xbox 360 this week, and all you have to defeat them is an unlimited supply of cluster bombs, torpedoes and chain gun ammo. Plus the ability to slow down time. Oh, and the occasional space warp. But other than that, you’re on your own out there, man.…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

How To Launch an Apple Product in 5 Easy Steps

Ladies and gentlemen, after hours of studious dissection of Apple keynotes (requiring countless YouTube clips, a non-linear editing program and a pile of empty Hot Pockets boxes that reaches our ceiling), we’ve figured out just how Apple “does it” and presented “it” to you here. Launching a new iPod or iPhone isn’t about the new-fangled…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Marvel Comics Are Anti-Everything

Marvel Comics’ big summer Spider-Man storyline, “New Ways To Die”, promises to introduce a new villain into the webslinger’s life: a mysterious character connected to his enemy Venom, called Anti-Venom. The most recent issue of Marvel’s Fantastic Four series featured Mr. Fantastic stopping an invincible foe by wearing his new “Anti-Galactus suit”. Sensing a trend…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

HTC Touch Diamond Release Delayed in Europe Until June 23

Anyone hoping to get their hands on the Touch Diamond this month in Europe will have to hold their horses. HTC looks to be delaying the launch of its touchy-touchy titchy phone until the end of the month. https://gizmodo.com/htc-touch-diamond-the-blurb-specs-and-official-pics-387497 HTC Touch Diamond™ – Delay In Stock Delivery Due to circumstances beyond our control the estimated…

Tech News AddyDugdale

A Museum Whose Shape Defies Geometry

This weekend marks the opening of San Francisco’s new Contemporary Jewish Museum, but locals have been gawking at the building’s mesmerizing shape for months. Todd Lappin of awesome blog Telstar Logistics snapped some images of this shiny, weird cube that is actually a room in the museum, even though it looks like precisely the wrong…

io9 Annalee Newitz

B-2 Bomber Crash Film Finally Released Publicly

Click to viewDo you remember the $1.2 B-2 Stealth Bomber that crashed during take-off? Well now a video has been released of the event. But let me warn you—it’s really, really hard watching so much taxpayer cash wastefully go up in flames, especially when the travesty unfolds so slowly. Apparently the plane’s sensors were fooled…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Sponsors Thanks

Have you heard that there’s an event going on next week! We’re going to be super busy! Good thing we’ve got the help of our sponsors. Thanks AT&T, Arkadium, AutoTrader, Canon, Chevy Fuel Solutions, Cingular, Coors Light, Dash Express, Glyde, Jet Blue, Kicker, Lenovo, LG Monitors, Linksys, MS Office Small Business, Netgear, Nikon Coolpix, Nokia,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Seven Deadly Glasses Will Tease, Tempt You With Sinful Wine

In vino peccatus… perhaps the saying should go like this, given the kind of hangover a bottle of wine can result in. And designer Kacper Hamilton might well agree. His Seven Deadly Glasses wine glasses are meant to physically represent each sin. So there’s the phallic Pride glass, contrasting with the curly Greed glass—that hangs…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Best Way To Avoid Apple News Overload

Yes, we get it, some of you don’t care about Apple news. While that may seem like sacrilege to other Gizmodo readers, we don’t want you to suffer. And as WWDC approaches, you will suffer. So bookmark this link, and technically you won’t see anything tagged “Apple.” If you do see an errant Apple post…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Weapons Inspectors on the Jovian Moons

United Nations weapon inspectors have found way more than they bargained for during a routine inspection. That may sound like the beginning of a “torn from headlines” plot from your average episode of Law & Order: International Politics Unit. But when you add in that the weapon inspections are happening on one of Jupiter’s moons…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Did Somebody Hack Your Virtual Breasts?

iPhone 2 Rumor Round-up. Verdict: Don’t Believe Everything You Read

Gun Phone: A Haiku

Is Earth’s Magnetic Field Failing Us?

UroClub Lets Golfers Go Pee-Pee in Public

Five Reasons Why Aliens Will Make Contact with the Japanese First

Slot Machine Drink Dispenser Wins Memory Loss

Fiery Blasts Don’t Compensate For Death Race’s Wimpiness

Air New Zealand to Power a 747 with Weed

Who Wants A Soul Sword, When You Can Have A Light Saber?

These Skurgian Space Slugs Need Exterminating – Any Volunteers?

How To Launch an Apple Product in 5 Easy Steps

Marvel Comics Are Anti-Everything

HTC Touch Diamond Release Delayed in Europe Until June 23

A Museum Whose Shape Defies Geometry

B-2 Bomber Crash Film Finally Released Publicly

Sponsors Thanks

Seven Deadly Glasses Will Tease, Tempt You With Sinful Wine

Best Way To Avoid Apple News Overload

Weapons Inspectors on the Jovian Moons

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