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The Most Horrifying Playstation 3 Ad Ever Makes Me Loyal to the Xbox 360 for Life (NSFW)

This is the most horrifying ad ever. It’s for the Playstation 3, done by the geniuses at TBWAWien in Vienna, Austria. I don’t know if it ever ran anywhere, but it’s definitely a legit Sony advertisement. You don’t want to see it, trust me. Look, I won’t even tease it, I’ll tell you what it…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Something For Everyone Who Likes Awesome In This Week’s Comics

Stop now, what’s that sound? It may just be the stampede of new books hitting comic stores tomorrow – As we get closer to San Diego Comic-Con, publishers are stepping up their game, and tomorrow’s haul includes first issues, final issues, deaths and resurrections and all manner of exciting things to make your hump day…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Totally Bizarre Video Heralds Koreannovation Gadget Show In NYC Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the debut of Koreannovation, the Korea Trade Show in NYC which runs through Thursday. Registration is free (but I think you need to do it in advance). Want to know what kinds of wacky stuff will be there? Watch the insane mashup vid above, mixed by Eclectic Method, veteran masters who have worked…

Gadgets Wilson Rothman

R2-D2 Ice Bucket with Han Solo Ice Molds Makes Any Drink Nerdier

Your cocktail parties will surely be the talk of the town once you acquire one of these R2-D2 ice buckets. Not only will it keep your ice nice and cold, but it’ll do so using Han Solo ice cube molds, providing ice that’s shaped like Solo trapped in carbonite. What ladies will be able to…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Solar Lily Pads Leave Robot Paw Prints on Glasgow River

How can you use solar energy to power one of Scotland’s greatest cities and make an old river look futuristic? Scottish architecture firm ZM Architecture designed giant lily pads for the River Clyde that collect solar energy and energize the city’s grid. Want to see a cool aerial view? From a distance, they look like…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

The Trouble With Hancock

Last-minute problems may be plaguing the drunken superhero comedy Hancock. This Saturday Will Smith was seen in full Hancock gear filming last-minute reshoots in Times Square. How is this possible for a movie set to release on July 2? Sadly, it’s not a good sign for our leather-clad hero. More details on the reshoot, set…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Space Lawyers Are Go!

The University of Mississippi is graduating the first ever space lawyer. While graduate Michael Dodge won’t deal with judges sporting particularly wrinkled foreheads, he did draw his degree from the National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law. With as long as the world has had satellites in the sky, it’s surprising that space…

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson

Scary New Look At The Spirit’s Octopus

Samuel L. Jackson graces the cover of Comic-Con Magazine as The Spirit’s Octopus. Good to see he’s sporting the signature gloves, we’ll have to let director Frank Miller do the explaining for the fur coat. Jackson, a self proclaimed comic fan, actually brought books for Frank Miller to sign while filming The Spirit according to…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Touchscreen BlackBerry Thunder Coming Exclusively to Verizon?

While yes, the BlackBerry Bold is a pretty slick looking update to the hallowed BlackBerry line, it still sports a physical keyboard — clearly a quaint remnant of smartphones from a bygone era. What the people want these days are touchscreens, beautiful, difficult to use touchscreens. And that’s just what RIM is going to deliver…

Tech News Adam Frucci

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

This week at TreeHugger: Sunrgi Xtreme Concentrated Photovoltaics: Concentrating solar up to 2,000 times to make it cost-competitive with fossil fuels. Ok, this is silly, but this guy put a lot of effort into re-inventing the horse carriage, and his “one horsepower” Naturemobil is kind of cool. The world’s largest LED display is going solar.…

Tech News Jason Chen

Kodak Photo Frames Come Pre-Loaded With Pics (Yours, Dummy)

While we recognize that digital photo frames are at the least tech’s spammiest product, and at the most a sure sign of the Apocalypse, Kodak has come up with a very good idea for its frames: 100 pre-loaded photos. And not just generic mountainscapes and shots of strangers posing on beaches, either. When you order…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Lost Destroys Spacetime, Celebrates Science

Is Lost about to destroy the very nature of time, space and reality itself when it explains how Ben managed to get off the island recently? That’s the theory from Popular Mechanics magazine after they looked into the real life science behind what they call “the first mainstream TV show since Mr. Wizard to make…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Crutch Vader Avoids Jail, Dark Side Wins Again

District Judge Andrew Straw has given Crutch Vader a “suspended 12 months” jail sentence plus an order to pay $500 to the “victims”—two morons members of the Jedi Church of England—and their lawyer. This means that Sir Lord Vader Von Drunk—real name Arwel Wynn Hughes—will avoid jail. Quite frankly, after seeing the video of his…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

A Gorgeous Monument to Radioactive Decay

What do you do when you have a barn-sized pile of nuclear waste materials that you have to store for 100 years while it loses its toxicity? In the Netherlands, the answer was to stick it inside a giant art project: specifically, this orange building called the Habog Facility, covered in physics formulas by Einstein…

io9 Annalee Newitz

PhoneTag “Hacked” For GrandCentral, Converts Voicemail to E-Mail

PhoneTag, the gang that turns voicemail into text, has “hacked” Google’s GrandCentral. The service that consolidates all of your phone numbers into one is useful for people on the go, but its voicemail system is clunky, especially for those needing fast access to messages. That’s what makes this hack so clever. https://gizmodo.com/simulscribe-check-voicemail-without-your-phone-216209 When you sign…

Tech News Benny Goldman

LightCap Transforms Cancer Into Neat Lantern

For those among us not afraid of mosquitoes or Bisphenol A, the LightCap 200 is a solar-powered LED light that screws onto 2″ water bottles (like those from Nalgene), transforming them into lanterns. Just 2.6 ounces heavy and weatherproof (…though “waterproof” might have been more reassuring), the $20 LightCap seems like a practical way to…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

DC Makes Decisions To Bring Superheroes Into Politics

While Green Arrow has never made much effort to hide his particular brand of liberalism – including running for (and winning) the role of Mayor of Star City – the same can’t be said of other superheroes. Is Batman really the hardline republican that we all suspect him of being? What kind of “American Way”…

io9 Graeme McMillan

A New “World’s Most Expensive” Gadget?

Watches were the original gadget. But unlike their silicon counterparts, good watches tend to appreciate over time. So barring that 5G iPhone prototype sitting in Jobs’ desk, we believe this $2,157,760 Patek Philippe watch just auctioned at Sotheby’s may be the world’s new most expensive gadget. While the watch itself is a masterpiece, its historical…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

More French Prints of the Year 2000 (1900)

Hunting and Destroying Microbes The website Television History has five more French prints which imagine the year 2000. The site claims that 50 such cards, each illustrating different wonders of a hundred years hence, were produced for the 1900 Paris Exposition. Flying Tennis Projecting Telescope Underwater Croquet Flying Buses See also: French Prints Show Year…

Tech News Matt Novak

Canon Brings Bucket-Shaped Selphy CP770 to US

It was one of those wacky things we thought might not make it to the US but sure enough it has: Canon’s CP770 Selphy printer lives, hermit-crab like, inside a bucket. Details of the thing are after the jump, but the US price is $150. Canon also announced the CP760, which as you can see…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

The Most Horrifying Playstation 3 Ad Ever Makes Me Loyal to the Xbox 360 for Life (NSFW)

Something For Everyone Who Likes Awesome In This Week’s Comics

Totally Bizarre Video Heralds Koreannovation Gadget Show In NYC Tomorrow

R2-D2 Ice Bucket with Han Solo Ice Molds Makes Any Drink Nerdier

Solar Lily Pads Leave Robot Paw Prints on Glasgow River

The Trouble With Hancock

Space Lawyers Are Go!

Scary New Look At The Spirit’s Octopus

Touchscreen BlackBerry Thunder Coming Exclusively to Verizon?

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

Kodak Photo Frames Come Pre-Loaded With Pics (Yours, Dummy)

Lost Destroys Spacetime, Celebrates Science

Crutch Vader Avoids Jail, Dark Side Wins Again

A Gorgeous Monument to Radioactive Decay

PhoneTag “Hacked” For GrandCentral, Converts Voicemail to E-Mail

LightCap Transforms Cancer Into Neat Lantern

DC Makes Decisions To Bring Superheroes Into Politics

A New “World’s Most Expensive” Gadget?

More French Prints of the Year 2000 (1900)

Canon Brings Bucket-Shaped Selphy CP770 to US

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