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TV This Week: Sarah Connor’s Last Stand!

The biggest thing on TV this week is tonight’s two-hour season finale for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles — which may also be a series finale unless the show manages to bring a few million more viewers back in time. But there are also new episodes of Lost, Kyle XY, Stargate: Atlantis and Torchwood… plus…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

What You Missed Last Weekend

So, you missed the weekend action—here’s your chance to catch up: • Time Capsule was stripped to the bone. • WiiMax gave us a Wii sniper gun, finally. •AT&T was rumored to be offering cheap, refurb iPhones. • Optimus Prime danced the robot. • Apple Store proved to be the best place to get laid.…

Tech News Haroon Malik

MacBook Air Selling Like Extremely Expensive Hotcakes?

Apparently, the MacBook Air is selling well enough to be unavailable in many stores and require a 5-7 day wait for online orders. Despite the high price, the super-thin laptop is often selling out the day a shipment arrives at an Apple Store, according to research done by Ars Technica. Of course, without knowing just…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Bookseat: the Book Storage Chair for Small Libraries

Useful if you have a really really small apartment, or you just appreciate bookshelf-cum-furniture design, the plywood Bookseat stores your TV Guide copy of War and Peace handily within reach. Alternatively, if you think books are old hat, you could store your DVDs and computer mags in it. Some might think Bookseat is design convergence…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Moebius Strip Soccer Stadium Takes Shape in Shenyang

There’s a moebius strip look to the roof of this soccer stadium being built for the Olympics in Shenyang. Built in a series of interlocking curves, the Olympic Sports Center Stadium is one of four soccer arenas for the Olympics outside Beijing. It just gets stranger when you see it up close, and from inside.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Iogear Mobile Digital Scribe Writes Anywhere

The updated Iogear Mobile Scribe captures 50 pages of your handwriting and doodles on any surface, using normal ink, and without the need to be connected to a computer like the previous Digital Scribe GPEN100C. This storage capability is more than enough for a full day of classes and meetings, but short of the 250…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

How Zeb Wells’ Fan Films Got Him a Job Writing Amazing Spider-Man

What is the best way to get a job writing Marvel Comics? Apparently, the answer may be “Make a fan film where a drunken Supergirl complains about an anorexic Thor, who is responsible for bathing the Hulk, before they all learn to become a pop band.” That was the route taken by Zeb Wells, former…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Sony Increases Hard Drive Storage Fivefold

Sony has announced that they’ve increased hard drive storage capacity by five times through developing a new method of writing information that’s viable even for notebooks. Instead of writing via magnetics, the new system resembles current optical technologies, using a hybrid magnet/laser to write information to a disk at densities of 125GB/square inch. As we…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Genetically-Engineered Babies With HIV-Resistant Genes

With a little genetic tweaking, homo sapiens could become naturally resistant to HIV. A gene that can disassemble the HIV virus inside its cell before it spreads to another cell lurks dormant in the body of every person infected with HIV. The problem is getting that gene to turn on and start stopping HIV in…

io9 Annalee Newitz

New Secrets Of Doctor Who Season 4 Leak To Newspaper, BBC Outraged

Despite “intense security” surrounding the production of Doctor Who’s fourth season, Steven “Jekyll and Hyde” Moffat’s complete scripts for the ninth and tenth episodes were leaked to British newspaper The Sun last week. This led to a good, old-fashioned spoiler dump and tabloid-style overreaction from the BBC, both of which can be found under the…

io9 Graeme McMillan

When the Sea Withdraws, the Spawn of Cthulhu Find Shelter Here

No, we haven’t obtained early concept art from the sequel to Cloverfield. This structure is the home of an actually-existing seaside dweller on Earth. What kind of creature builds such a facehugger-esque structure? Flickr macrophotographer P/UL took this on a Texas beach, where tiny sand crabs tunneling under the sand kick up these dwellings as…

io9 Annalee Newitz

TomTom Go 930 and Go 730 IQ Route Knows Best Way to Go On Monday or Saturday

The TomTom Go 730 and Go 930 are refreshes of their 720 and 920, with two new headlining features: IQ route and advanced lane guidance. Using data collected over the last year from other TomTom devices, IQ route actually tells you the best way to go depending on the day—like, the freeway on Saturday afternoon,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

New Asus Eee PC 900 Revealed?

According to the French site BlogEEE.net, Asus has a reworked Eee PC on the way. While the casing will have the same dimensions as the original Eee, the 900 will feature a larger 8.9″ screen (up from 7″), an unspecified faster processor, 1GB memory standard (up from 512MB) and SSD storage options as high as…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Asimov’s Law Weighing Machines: Scales That Lie

No one likes learning their weight from a set of scales, so Alice Wang’s new concept devices take inspiration from Asimov’s First Law of Robotics to protect you from the cruel truth. Her three scales are designed to not “harm a human being ” (i.e. you) by either requiring another person to read them or…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Rotating Home Theater Makes Our Couch Look Like Garbage

While we enjoyed the Batman home theater and the Star Trek home theater, neither system was really practical for—we’ll just say it—normal people. But this rotating home theater with a rotating floor is both amazing and the sort of setup that our wives could get behind…pending we had the necessary endless piles of money. https://gizmodo.com/batcave-home-theater-is-an-ideal-location-to-make-out-w-346853…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Motion Computing F5 Tablet is Highly Evolved Speak N’ Spell

The latest semi-rugged tablet to hit the market, Motion Computing’s F5, keeps a good idea alive: a built-in handle lets the butterfingeriest extraterrestrials field workers keep hold of their precious electronics. The F5’s magnesium frame, outdoor friendly display, resistance to dust and moisture and an easy-to-clean surface add to the semi-ruggedness of this Tablet PC.…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Starbuck Freaks Out, And So Do We All

The more footage we see from Battlestar Galactica season four, the more excited we get. This new promo spot gives away some more developments from the new season, including a startling ultimatum from Starbuck and a problem with Anders. If you want to stay spoiler free for the new BSG, you may have to avoid…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Learn Why James Cameron’s New Movie Is Called “Avatar”

Welcome back to morning spoilers. We’ve got some juicy rumors about James Cameron’s new movie Avatar, which come with a new photo of an alien life form. And we’ve got the inside scoop on a shocking plot twist in the Wolverine solo movie, with a few new set photos to back it up. And there’s…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

How To: Power Your Computer With Car Batteries

Taking a lesson from the Tim Allen school of modding, one man rebuilt his UPS with a bit more kick. Because the UPS was only able to run his RAID-wielding desktop for three minutes before shutting down, he decided to add two 24V car batteries to the equation (the maximum that his UPS could tolerate).…

Tech News Mark Wilson

ZeroPointZero Watch Handcuffs Get Us All OneHundredPointZero Under the Collar

Designer Luis Beruman’s new ZeroPointZero concept is a set of digital watch handcuffs. Yes, that’s handcuffs, guys: snap them onto your own wrist for that cool jailhouse look, or share some happy time with a friend. We know very little about them apart from the photos in the gallery. Nevertheless, this fetishistic concept has got…

Tech News Kit Eaton

TV This Week: Sarah Connor’s Last Stand!

What You Missed Last Weekend

MacBook Air Selling Like Extremely Expensive Hotcakes?

Bookseat: the Book Storage Chair for Small Libraries

Moebius Strip Soccer Stadium Takes Shape in Shenyang

Iogear Mobile Digital Scribe Writes Anywhere

How Zeb Wells’ Fan Films Got Him a Job Writing Amazing Spider-Man

Sony Increases Hard Drive Storage Fivefold

Genetically-Engineered Babies With HIV-Resistant Genes

New Secrets Of Doctor Who Season 4 Leak To Newspaper, BBC Outraged

When the Sea Withdraws, the Spawn of Cthulhu Find Shelter Here

TomTom Go 930 and Go 730 IQ Route Knows Best Way to Go On Monday or Saturday

New Asus Eee PC 900 Revealed?

Asimov’s Law Weighing Machines: Scales That Lie

Rotating Home Theater Makes Our Couch Look Like Garbage

Motion Computing F5 Tablet is Highly Evolved Speak N’ Spell

Starbuck Freaks Out, And So Do We All

Learn Why James Cameron’s New Movie Is Called “Avatar”

How To: Power Your Computer With Car Batteries

ZeroPointZero Watch Handcuffs Get Us All OneHundredPointZero Under the Collar

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