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$3 Remote Shutter Trigger for Canon Digital Rebels

This is a cheap, quick way to make a small remote shutter trigger for Canon Digital Rebels. Basically, you just need a $3 hands-free phone headset with a 2.5mm plug (NOT 3.5mm). Pop open the case and cut the wire leading to the ear piece, tie it off, then close it back up. Plug into…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Rowdy Roddy Piper is the Sperm Slave to Post-Apocalyptic Lady Gang (Mildly NSFW)

There’s a good reason why Hell Comes to Frogtown is a classic among cult movie dorks. There are frog-faced mutants, wrassler-action guy Rowdy Roddy Piper is the hero, and it’s all about people having sex while in bondage. Everybody on Earth has gone mutant or infertile, so a gang of reproduction-crazed lady toughs kidnaps Roddy…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Alter-G Anti-Gravity Treadmill Approved by the FDA

The Alter-G treadmill has been given the greenlight by the FDA for classification as a medical device. The powers that be were no doubt swept away by the treadmills ability to reduce the weight of the user by as much as 80% (In 1% increments) using a NASA designed air pressure regulation system. The best…

Health Sean Fallon

ASUS Nova P22 Mac Mini Clone Now on Sale

ASUS’s P22 Nova is a small (9x7x2 in, under 4 lbs.), attractive PC designed for the living room. Like we’ve mentioned before, It has a 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 160 GB HDD, Slot Loading DVD Burner, Bluetooth, 1 GB RAM and 802.11n WLAN. The cool thing is it has built in Hi-Fi Speakers,…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Will Mozilla Messaging Breathe New Life Into Thunderbird?

In an attempt to revitalize Thunderbird in version 3.0, Mozilla has announced “Mozilla Messaging” which promises significant improvements to the email client—like calendar integration, better search, and a chat app. While the core focus will still be on email, Mozilla seems committed to developing a product that will offer a broader range of communications tools.…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Futuristic Lighthouse Replaces the Beatles as Coolest Thing About Liverpool

Liverpool was okay with just being the birthplace of the Beatles for a long time. But this is no longer the case. Bored with their antiquated reputation that is dwindling in significance as Beatles fans age and die off, the city is commissioning a new lighthouse observatory that will give Liverpool an image boost. This…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Do Women Predict the Future Differently Than Men Do?

Men and women have such different perspectives that many pop psychologists say they must think about the future differently too. But if that’s what you believe, new evidence from brain scans done on men and women will shake your faith. Last year, Harvard cognitive scientists Donna Addis and Daniel Schacter asked men and women to…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Unlimited Calling Plan Cheat Sheet

Okay, so every major provider now has unlimited access plans. But what do you really get with each provider, and for how much? Here’s everything broken down into a single chart. Note: These are for your phone only, and don’t include tethering. https://gizmodo.com/at-t-now-99-for-unlimited-voice-and-35-for-unlimited-358178 It looks like AT&T has the best deal, at $135 for unlimited…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Torture Yourself By Building a Water Gun Alarm Clock

Have trouble waking up in the morning? You could use a really loud alarm, or an alarm that forces you to engage what little hand-eye coordination you have in the morning—but for real torture, you will have to step up to the squirt gun alarm clock. The only problem is that you have to build…

Tech News Sean Fallon

8G Eee PC Shipping In 3-6 Weeks

According to a new Amazon product page, the 8G Asus Eee PC is once again up for sale. The 8G was recently delayed after “minor hardware issues”, which explains the three to six weeks ship estimate. Amazon appears to be the only site giving a ship date, so if you’ve been waiting for a 8…

Commerce Christopher Mascari

Microsoft’s Ergonomic Laser Keyboard 7000 Leaked Via FCC

Microsoft likes doing things in pairs, which is why they’re on the verge of releasing this Wireless Laser Keyboard 7000 to go along with the Wireless Laser Mouse 7000 they announced a few weeks ago. It’s pretty similar to other Microsoft ergonomic keyboards, except there’s a neat glass frame around the edge of the entire…

Tech News Jason Chen

A Is For Alien Spores In Your Attic

Artist Scott Teplin has made a career out of drawing strangely-altered, Sims-esque rooms and houses like this one. The “A” above is from his Alphabet series, and you can see the whole sprawling set of interconnected letters here, done in ink. This part of the house features a cozy bedroom, a room with a swirling…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Deli Touch Ordering System: One Swipe of a Pen Will Bring You Meat

Unless I’m in a fancy restaurant, I generally don’t need to interact a whole lot with the wait staff. When I’m dining at Chili’s, its all about getting my fajita as quick as possible. The folks in Japan realize that a middleman is not always necessary, which is why they are developing products like the…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Too Many Skeevy Uncles And Stepdads On Sarah Connor

Did you have a skeevy uncle when you were a kid? One who hung around the house way too much, drank all your parents’ beer and shouted random obscenities at your boyfriends or girlfriends? Did you ever wish you could watch a whole TV show about that uncle, plus maybe a skanky stepdad for good…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Lightning Review: ezSpace UFO Surge Protector

The Gadget: The ezGear UFO, a relatively compact surge protector/power strip that holds six distinct AC adapters so they don’t bump into each other. https://gizmodo.com/flying-saucer-surge-protector-keeps-all-plugs-separate-335964 The Price: $29 The Verdict: Definitely worth it if you have a bunch of large and unwieldy AC adapters to plug into one port—say, if you were building yourself a…

Reviews Jason Chen

Time Travel + Porn = Nacho Vigalondo

Timecrimes might be the second best film involving time travel to come out of Sundance (top honors go to Primer, and Timecrimes writer/director Nacho Vigalondo is a fan of it). In a recent interview, Vigalondo being a comic book nerd (he’s pictured here with a copy of fave book The Ultimates), and why porn and…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Couple-It Handset Takes a More Practical View on Convergence

When it comes to convergence, the trend these days is to cram all sorts of functionality into a single device—even if those functions seem to be massively impractical given the limitations of current technology. However, a UK based design firm named Alloy has taken a more practical approach with their Couple-IT concept. The unit consists…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Rocket Ship (1956)

This cross section of a rocket ship appeared in the 1956 book The Complete Book of Space Travel. The space suit we looked at back in December can be seen hanging up at the rear of the ship. See also: The Complete Book of Space Travel (1956) Wernher von Braun’s Space Shuttle (1950s) Space Suit…

Tech News Matt Novak

Eight-Core Intel Skulltrail Motherboard Gets Official, Is the Biggest, Baddest, Gaming Motherboard Around

Speaking of crazy motherboards, Intel’s absolutely insane Skulltrail motherboard officially launched at the Game Developers Conference today, renamed the Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform (blah). The Dual Extreme supports dual quad-core processors, and both ATI (Crossfire) and NVIDIA (SLI) graphics cards. In addition, the motherboard has a 400 MHz front-side bus and a hefty…

Tech News Adrian Covert

io9 Talks to Iain M. Banks About His New Novel and Why He Likes to Blow Things Up

Scottish scifi author Iain M. Banks has managed to carve out his own realpolitik-laced subgenre in the world of space opera. Although he writes literary novels under the “pseudonym” Iain Banks, his science fiction is literary in its own right, full of artful surprises and sentient starships with motives far more complex than anything Ian…

io9 Annalee Newitz

$3 Remote Shutter Trigger for Canon Digital Rebels

Rowdy Roddy Piper is the Sperm Slave to Post-Apocalyptic Lady Gang (Mildly NSFW)

Alter-G Anti-Gravity Treadmill Approved by the FDA

ASUS Nova P22 Mac Mini Clone Now on Sale

Will Mozilla Messaging Breathe New Life Into Thunderbird?

Futuristic Lighthouse Replaces the Beatles as Coolest Thing About Liverpool

Do Women Predict the Future Differently Than Men Do?

Unlimited Calling Plan Cheat Sheet

Torture Yourself By Building a Water Gun Alarm Clock

8G Eee PC Shipping In 3-6 Weeks

Microsoft’s Ergonomic Laser Keyboard 7000 Leaked Via FCC

A Is For Alien Spores In Your Attic

Deli Touch Ordering System: One Swipe of a Pen Will Bring You Meat

Too Many Skeevy Uncles And Stepdads On Sarah Connor

Lightning Review: ezSpace UFO Surge Protector

Time Travel + Porn = Nacho Vigalondo

Couple-It Handset Takes a More Practical View on Convergence

Rocket Ship (1956)

Eight-Core Intel Skulltrail Motherboard Gets Official, Is the Biggest, Baddest, Gaming Motherboard Around

io9 Talks to Iain M. Banks About His New Novel and Why He Likes to Blow Things Up

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