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Meet The People Who Give Eliza Dushku Her Brain Modules

Just because Eliza Dushku will be an amnesiac with occasional false personalities in Joss Whedon’s new TV show Dollhouse, doesn’t mean she won’t have friends. A new casting sheet for Dollhouse includes a whole raft of morally gray characters, including friends, mentors, bosses and a love interest. Click through for a list of the show’s…

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If This Movie Makes A Fortune, Humans Are Doomed

The Weinstein Company released the final movie poster for Superhero Movie today, and it features Pamela Anderson’s boobs, Leslie Nielsen wearing a “With Great Power Comes Hot Bitches” sweater, and not one but two penis jokes (check out Storm’s lightning and Dragonfly’s popcorn). We’re all for parodying superheroes and science fiction, but when it devolves…

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Time Capsule Review: Smooth Sailing, No Surprises

Click to viewWe’ve been fiddling with Time Capsule since it arrived this AM, and so far it works as billed, clean and easy. The star of the show is really the new AirPort Utility software, which now comes with some neat tricks for the network-phobic. Most of all, we’re learning the ins and outs of…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

iPhone SDK Detail Rumors: No Accessory Support, iTunes-Centric

iLounge says they’ve gotten an inside look at the iPhone SDK and came up with a few interesting details, one of which is the limitation imposed on developers that they won’t be able to use the dock connector to interface with accessories. That means no third-party GPS connector (or other similar devices). What supposedly will…

Tech News Jason Chen

On the Trail of Grotesque Gods from Space

It’s another installment of Entropist, a scifi culture column by futurist design maven Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDG BLOG. In his 1936 short story “The Shadow Out of Time,” classic weird fiction author H.P. Lovecraft describes a man who takes “long visits to remote and desolate places.” These places include the “vast limestone cavern systems…

Books & Comics Geoff Manaugh

Astro Boy Is Actually Sixteen Year Old Candy Factory Owner

Freddie Highmore of Willy Wonka fame will be lending his voice to the upcoming animated version of Astro Boy set to arrive in theaters next year, and we wonder why they chose a 16-year-old with an English accent to play the titular hero. In the manga, Astro is only nine years old… will audiences buy…

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Scientists Build Optical Databus Capable of Tbps Transfers

IBM’s new prototype 48-way optical databus takes up just 3 mm of width on a PCB, and is capable of a truly ridiculous data rate of around 8 Tbps. That’s roughly 5,000 high-definition video streams per second, even if better has been done on fiber. Even better, this “green optical link” is a hundred times…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Brazilian Booping Robots Will Have You Doing the Twitchy Dance

This little wind-up bot from Brazilian toymaker and environmental activist Chico Bicalho does a spastic jitter when you let it go. In fact, all Bicalho’s creations are goofy, jumpy critters that are pretty much the opposite of what you’d expect from a robot. They shoot sparks, wobble lopsidedly on their wheels, and hurl themselves upsidown…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Mobius Climbers Are Totally Awesome, Dangerous Playground Equipment

These Mobius Climbers are super-sweet playground equipment inspired by Mobius strips, bending and curving all over the place with grips and bars for climbing. It’s the type of thing I would have killed to play on as a kid but would be forbidden to by my reasonable parents, who would see these things for what…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Casio Data Bank Watch, Geek Chic

After losing our Paul Frank calculator watch to our arch nemesis the washing machine, we’ve been searching the Earth (a few internet sites a handful of times a month) for a suitable replacement. Our latest contender is this metal link Casio Data Bank watch, a sort of upper middle class citizen of the retro calculator…

Tech News Mark Wilson

WiMax Cellphones Phones From Sprint Later This Year

During the earnings call where Sprint got to chat about bleeding $29.5 billion this past quarter (thanks to the Nextel merger), CEO Dan Hesse confirmed that they’ll be releasing dual CDMA/WiMax handsets sometime this year—the first solid word they’d be packing WiMax in phones. Question: Do you care? [mocoNews]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Gene Roddenberry’s Lost Star Trek Series Finally Sees Daylight

Gene Roddenberry planned to bring Star Trek back to television in the mid-1970s, under the name Star Trek: Phase II. The Spock-less series would have introduced some new characters alongside Kirk and friends, and detailed the crew’s second five-year mission. But the show never happened, and parts of the concept ended up in the first…

io9 Graeme McMillan

280-Megawatt Solar Boiler Uses Magnifying-Glass Bug-Killer Technique

The solar power plant Abengoa Solar will build in Gila Bend, Arizona, won’t rely on fancy photovoltaic panels. No, it uses pretty much the same trick your evil ass used on bugs and leaves way back when: focusing sunlight to create high heat. In this case, mirrors focus the sun’s rays into tanks of heat-transfer…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Aliens May Look More Like Us Than We Thought

Scientists have known for a while that the building blocks of Earth life, amino acids, are also found in space. Traces of amino acids have been studied in countless meteorites. But now Arizona State researcher Sandra Pizzarello says Earth amino acids also share the same basic structure with those from distant space. This discovery, announced…

io9 Annalee Newitz

USB Pottery Wheel Is Hypnotic, Pointless

Remember that romantic scene from Ghost with the wet pottery and the steamy groping? This USB pottery wheel mod will never, under any circumstances, re-create such an intense moment by the side of your computer. But it is pretty entertaining to watch a hard drive coupled with sweaty fingers create asymmetrically clay shot glasses. [via…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Closer Than We Think! Weather Control (1958)

This Closer Than We Think strip about weather control appeared in the June 22, 1958 Chicago Tribune. In years to come, there will be satellite equipment for forecasting – as well as controlling – the weather. The effects of air and humidity masses can be calculated more precisely from above. Sunspots, solar rays and other…

Tech News Matt Novak

12-Inch DS-Holding Mario Says “Mama Mia, You’ll-a Never Get a Girlfriend!”

This foot-tall Mario statue is actually a DS holder, with his grip specially designed to hold your portable gaming device. It’s the perfect way to make your bedroom look like a 1993 Toys R Us while also making sure your DS doesn’t have to sully itself resting on any flat surfaces. How can you say…

Tech News Adam Frucci

You Too Can Be A Venture Bros. Artist

Everyone who’s seen it agrees – Adult Swim’s teen-adventure show The Venture Bros is the greatest animated series to ever hit the airwaves. And now, thanks to the kindness of the show’s Storyboard and Design Supervisor Stephen DeStefano, you too can learn how to draw our teen heroes Hank and Dean, their super-scientist father Doc…

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Time Capsule Arrives

Here’s a first look at the Time Capsule in its packaging. It just arrived at our door, but we’ll do our best to get you our impressions ASAP, so stay tuned. [Time Capsule on Giz]

Tech News Wilson Rothman

The Man Who Lost His Wings in the City of New Crobuzon

Yesterday I mentioned that China Mieville’s novel Perdido Street Station could change your life. Here’s how artist Gordillo imagined the city of New Crobuzon, where the novel takes place. This is very much how I imagined it too, with the huge central train station of the novel’s title hulking over everything. https://gizmodo.com/the-twenty-science-fiction-novels-that-will-change-your-361597

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Meet The People Who Give Eliza Dushku Her Brain Modules

If This Movie Makes A Fortune, Humans Are Doomed

Time Capsule Review: Smooth Sailing, No Surprises

iPhone SDK Detail Rumors: No Accessory Support, iTunes-Centric

On the Trail of Grotesque Gods from Space

Astro Boy Is Actually Sixteen Year Old Candy Factory Owner

Scientists Build Optical Databus Capable of Tbps Transfers

Brazilian Booping Robots Will Have You Doing the Twitchy Dance

Mobius Climbers Are Totally Awesome, Dangerous Playground Equipment

Casio Data Bank Watch, Geek Chic

WiMax Cellphones Phones From Sprint Later This Year

Gene Roddenberry’s Lost Star Trek Series Finally Sees Daylight

280-Megawatt Solar Boiler Uses Magnifying-Glass Bug-Killer Technique

Aliens May Look More Like Us Than We Thought

USB Pottery Wheel Is Hypnotic, Pointless

Closer Than We Think! Weather Control (1958)

12-Inch DS-Holding Mario Says “Mama Mia, You’ll-a Never Get a Girlfriend!”

You Too Can Be A Venture Bros. Artist

Time Capsule Arrives

The Man Who Lost His Wings in the City of New Crobuzon

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