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Buy the Crappiest, Rustiest MacBook Pro Ever for Only $1300

Macs tend to have a high resale value that outpaces PCs with similar specs and age. But this MacBook Pro on eBay looks like it was literally beaten with an ugly stick before being left to rot in a vat of orc piss, and the dude’s still asking $1295 (more than a brand new MacBook).…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

AT&T: The Internet Will Explode in 2010

South Park already showed us how to fix the internet, but what really struck me was Randy’s speech at the end—he totally sounded like an AT&T or Comcast executive when he said, “It’s easy for us to think we can just use up all the internet we want but…it could one day be gone forever.”…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Cylon Civil War and Rough Sex with Starbuck

Things are getting awesomely ugly on Battlestar Galactica, with the humans squabbling over sex and the justice system while their arch-enemies the Cylons march towards all-out bot-on-bot civil war. One of the more stylized, surreal episodes of BSG, last night’s “The Ties that Bind” was full of weird camera angles and blurred-out backgrounds that perfectly…

Television Annalee Newitz

1930s Steam Cooker Uses Car Exhaust To Cook For, Poison Your Family

Before the advent of the drive-through, families on road trips were stumped by the dilemma of how to have a hot meal ready at any time during their travels. But never fear, 1930s road warrior — hook up this automatic food cooking contraption to your exhaust pipe and your car will prepare your dinners for…

Tech News Elaine Chow

New Motorola Actually Making Cellphone Software and Hardware People Work Together

One (sorta) promising tidbit about Motorola’s handset division being cut loose to fend for itself: It’s being restructured so that the software and hardware people actually work together. What a radical idea! New phones will come out faster, if not necessarily better. [Unwired View] https://gizmodo.com/motorola-chops-off-handset-division-372282

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

MSI Wind Notebook To Come In 8.9 and 10-Inch Flavors

MSI has dropped some new info on its contender to the Eee-PC throne, the Wind Notebook, which we first peeked at in March. The roughly 2.2 lb UMPC will come with either an 8.9 inch or 10 inch LCD display sporting a 1024 x 600 resolution. MSI says the Wind will feature a 2.5-inch HDD…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Asus Eee PC 900 Hits U.S. May 12 for $549

We’d heard that Asus’s bigger, badder Eee PC would be getting an early launch next month in Asia but it looks like the US won’t have to wait very long either. Crave’s Asus sources are telling them it’ll launch stateside on May 12 for $549. That’s definitely a bit more than the long-rumored $500 pricepoint.…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Onkyo HT-S5100 Home Theater in a Box: 7.1 Surround and Acoustic Room Calibration For $579

Onkyo’s best new entry level HTiB setup has a 7.1 surround is notable for having room correction tech. I’m pretty sure its rare to find a low end system that can adjust gain and delay on all channels to calibrate itself to a room’s acoustics. The receiver included is the DTS/Dolby capable HT-R560, with 3…

Tech News Jason Chen

Japanese Multi-Level Bicycle Parking

The Multi-level bicycle park at Tokyo’s Kasai Station might sound like a crazy overblown way to tidy up the streets, but the woeful lack of available parking spaces at most Japanese train stations is a real problem. In some places legal parks are impossible to find and private security guards are known for performing periodic…

Gadgets Chris Magor

Car Engine Meets NES Controller

I’m confused, but happy to see this Civic’s Corolla’s engine block get a cover that looks like a NES controller. When this baby redlines, it sounds like me mashing buttons in bionic commando. Hello! Just build the turbo function INTO THE GAME. Prediction: The urge to punch down on running temperature A,B, and cross pad…

Tech News Jason Chen

AMD’s “Shanghai” Chips Revealed

The rat race continues: Shanghai will be 45nm, have up to 12 cores, include the long awaited Hypertransport 3.0 for socket-to-socket and southbridge communication, and can emulate quad channel memory. For more: [DailyTech]

Tech News Jason Chen

Six Cloned Labradors Enter the Korean Customs Service

Six cloned male golden Labradors named Toppy look set to be sniffing suitcases for the Korean Customs Service. The cloning method was developed by a team at Seoul National University led by Lee Byeong-chun, former lieutenant of disgraced scientist Woo-Suk Hwang, who was found to have fabricated research. Their father was chosen due to his…

Tech News Chris Magor

Allen Iverson Special Edition Zunes

Following up on the Joy Division Zune that hit recently, here’s an Allen Iverson edition Zune that comes with a pair of Reeboks. Only 60 will be made, highlighting the limited edition nature of this set. UPDATE: Person who submitted this story to Digg says: “Like people who buy Zune watch sports.” [Zune Insider] https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-to-release-limited-edition-joy-division-zune-381306

Tech News Jason Chen

Karen Joy Fowler’s Wit’s End is Science Fiction in the Present

Bewildered by the death of her father, a woman named Rima finds her balance by plunging into a thicket of half-true tales and half-real avatars on the web. Online, she meets her father again — or at least, the many constructs of him he’s left behind via a website he’s devoted to his writing, and…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Where Do Scifi Fads In Mainstream Lit Come From?

Dale Peck and Tim Kring’s alternate-history novel is just the latest in a long history of mainstream authors lifting ideas from science fiction. But what sci-fi concepts have been most in vogue with literary publishers — and when did those fads peak? We decided to look at the biggest novels by literary authors that involved…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

OWC’s Triple-Interface Mercury-on-the-Go 500GB HDD

The Mercury-On-The-Go from OWC is a somewhat tempting three-way connectible 500GB portable HDD. Component-wise there are no surprises, under the hood is a 2.5″ 5400 RPM Hitachi Travelstar 5K500 with an 8MB cache. With Firewire 400/800 and USB 2.0 you get three-way connectivity and bus power. I don’t think that there is quite enough cool…

Tech News Chris Magor

Wolfgang Petersen Off Ender’s Game

You can forget your dreams of a Das Boot/Enemy Mine-style version of Orson Scott Card’s classic novel Ender’s Game. Director Wolfgang Petersen, previously attached to the project, has moved on, producers tell io9. Chartoff Productions is busy meeting with a slew of potential directors for the Ender’s movie, which they hope will start filming by…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Build Your Own Keyport for 20 Bucks, Save $280

You could pay $300, send Keyport all of your keys and wait for months for your sweet keyfob and get nothing back, except for maybe your money. But then you’re still out a Keyport. Or, you could build your own for about $20 and an hour of time your time, using a Leatherman Micra modded…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Button Remote: A Neat Controller On Your Shirt

I like this concept of a stylish remote control that clasps over the button on a piece of clothing. The idea doesn’t account for the rise of this little invention called the zipper. But it appeals to me for the subtlety of integration with clothing, and well, because I like to fiddle with buttons. Always…

Tech News Jason Chen

What’s Coming After Marvel’s Skrull Massacre?

Spider-Man’s Aunt May not only hooked up with a shapeshifting alien Skrull pretending to be the Avengers’ butler Jarvis — she’s also pregnant with a half-Skrull baby! Or maybe not. Luckily, fake spoilers weren’t all the Marvel editors and creators let slip during today’s New York Comic-Con panels. They also teased some upcoming projects, both…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel

Buy the Crappiest, Rustiest MacBook Pro Ever for Only $1300

AT&T: The Internet Will Explode in 2010

Cylon Civil War and Rough Sex with Starbuck

1930s Steam Cooker Uses Car Exhaust To Cook For, Poison Your Family

New Motorola Actually Making Cellphone Software and Hardware People Work Together

MSI Wind Notebook To Come In 8.9 and 10-Inch Flavors

Asus Eee PC 900 Hits U.S. May 12 for $549

Onkyo HT-S5100 Home Theater in a Box: 7.1 Surround and Acoustic Room Calibration For $579

Japanese Multi-Level Bicycle Parking

Car Engine Meets NES Controller

AMD’s “Shanghai” Chips Revealed

Six Cloned Labradors Enter the Korean Customs Service

Allen Iverson Special Edition Zunes

Karen Joy Fowler’s Wit’s End is Science Fiction in the Present

Where Do Scifi Fads In Mainstream Lit Come From?

OWC’s Triple-Interface Mercury-on-the-Go 500GB HDD

Wolfgang Petersen Off Ender’s Game

Build Your Own Keyport for 20 Bucks, Save $280

Button Remote: A Neat Controller On Your Shirt

What’s Coming After Marvel’s Skrull Massacre?

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