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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 Jul 10 '08

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 Jul 10 '08

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 Jul 10 '08

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 Jul 10 '08

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 Jul 10 '08

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 Jul 10 '08

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 Jul 10 '08

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 Jul 10 '08

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 Jul 10 '08

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 Jul 10 '08

Finally, A Science Fiction Novel That’s Really Just For Nerds

If you’re looking for some thrilling science fiction reading this summer, you could do worse (maybe) than Lean 9001: The Battle For The Arctic Rose, a novel that’s designed to teach you to implement the ISO 9001 and “lean” quality improvement standards. It takes place in the year 7278, and follows cut-throat competitors Mark Alexander…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jul 10 '08

Rock-Afire Explosion Band For Sale

For those who’d like to relive the excitement of a Showbiz Pizza party in their own living room and now at age 25+, the Rock-Afire Explosion Band is for sale on eBay. The animatronic band is “mostly restored” and prepared to play three shows at your will. But the bidding starts at a hefty, ball-pit-dropping…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 10 '08

Journey to the REAL Center of the Earth

This Friday sees the release of Journey to the Center of the Earth, the second major film adaptation of Jules Verne’s groundbreaking 1864 novel. While director Eric Brevig’s sweet 3D imagery depicts the Earth’s core as a biosphere in a bubble of lava, the real center of the Earth might be even more fascinating. We’ve…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel Jul 10 '08

The Great Metropolis of 1960 and What Criswell Found There

General Motor’s Futurama was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1939 World’s Fair. Over 10,000,000 people rode through a miniaturized version of the not-so-far future of 1960. Among them perhaps, was a small boy named Jeron Criswell King. Or maybe he just saw the filmed version, because he liked one of the lines…

io9 Lynn Peril Jul 10 '08

iPhone OS 2.0 Unlocked

The new iPhone OS 2.0 software has been unlocked and jailbroken. It was released just hours ago and it has already been cracked by the iPhone Dev Team. The first one took a couple of months, but this one was actually unlocked before Apple released it to the public. And you have had the proof…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 10 '08

The iPhone 3G Battery Is Quasi-Replaceable

I’m not sure how many of you were awake for our play-by-play of ifixit’s iPhone 3G teardown this morning—there are some really fantastic pictures if you missed it—but the big news that came out of the dissection was that the iPhone’s battery is no longer soldered in. So in other words, the battery will be…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 10 '08

Riding a Giant Geyser in a T-Rex Skull Is Always Awesome

When I saw an early chunk of footage from Journey to the Center of the Earth at Wonder-Con, star Brendan Frasier was there to tell us what the movie is about. “They fall into a giant hole, and then they have to get back out. That’s it,” he said with a grin. His goofy, no-nonsense…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 10 '08

New X-Files Comic Wants To Be Television Show So Badly

Entertainment Weekly has a preview of what you can expect from DC Comics’ upcoming X-Files comic written by Frank Spotnitz, the show’s executive producer (and co-writer on the new movie, X-Files: I Want To Believe). It’s good news for people who miss the TV show. In fact, if you have a CD of Mark Snow’s…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jul 10 '08

Use Photoshop to Give Iran Even More Fake Technological Advancements

So I told you this morning about how Iran made its missile test photos look more impressive by adding another missile using the magic of Photoshop. Whatever, we can do better than that. You want to impress us, Iran? Let’s see some serious tech power. We’ll help. Your challege, Gizmodians, is to use Photoshop to…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jul 10 '08

Inquirer: Every Nvidia Graphics Card With G84 or G86 Chipset Is Ready to Die

Those overheating Nvidia laptop graphics cards that are dying en masse? The Inquirer is reporting that “all the G84 and G86 parts are bad. Period. No exceptions,” on mobile and desktop. Those chipsets are in pretty much every GeForce 8-series graphics card below the 8800s (here’s a complete list of cards and chipsets). Notably, that…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 10 '08

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

Finally, A Science Fiction Novel That’s Really Just For Nerds

Rock-Afire Explosion Band For Sale

Journey to the REAL Center of the Earth

The Great Metropolis of 1960 and What Criswell Found There

iPhone OS 2.0 Unlocked

The iPhone 3G Battery Is Quasi-Replaceable

Riding a Giant Geyser in a T-Rex Skull Is Always Awesome

New X-Files Comic Wants To Be Television Show So Badly

Use Photoshop to Give Iran Even More Fake Technological Advancements

Inquirer: Every Nvidia Graphics Card With G84 or G86 Chipset Is Ready to Die

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