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My Brains, Let Me Show You Them

With magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans becoming as common as family photos at Sears (maybe even more common), it’s no surprise that Flickr is packed with people eager to share pictures of their comely cortical wrinkles. Sometimes these images are goofy (“check out my eyeballs, dude!”), and sometimes quite poignant (“this is my brain…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Screw “Scanners” Reboot — Remake “The Brood”

Poor David Cronenberg, the artsy B-movie director who brought you Videodrome, Scanners, and A History of Violence. The guy just wants to keep making subversive indie actioners like his recent Eastern Promises, but the world loves him for his early horror work and just wants to keep remaking it into the ground. He told MTV…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Retro-Futurist Cell Phone Made From Rotary Dialer

Industrial designer Jin Le predicts that in five years, people will be sick of ultra-tiny mobile phones and will want to return to the rotary-dial designs of yesteryear. So she cooked up this design, of a cell phone that is nothing but a rotary dial. Yes, you really have to dial numbers — but you…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Quizmodo 2007: the Giz’s Tech Knowledge Mega-Quiz

Fancy yourself as the King or Queen of All-Things-Tech? Were you a Gadget Addict in 2007? Think you know everything that happened on our gorgeous little site over the past year? Well, now’s your chance to prove to all of us just how switched-on you were in 2007. Click on, and play on, play on,…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Gizmodo’s Most Popular Hits of 2007

Click to viewHere are Gizmodo’s Greatest Hits 2007, the most popular stories, the best of the best in a single bubblelicious list full of gadgets, juicy industry happenings, in-deep reviews, shocking tech news, weird war planes, Star Wars, boobs and sex. With dogs. Sometimes, all combined into one. What are the most popular Giz stories…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Qualcomm Can Use Rival’s Chip Patents until ’09

“A federal judge in California ruled on Monday that wireless chip maker Qualcomm can keep selling chips whose designs infringe patents held by rival Broadcom Corp through January 2009.” [Reuters]

Tech News Brian Lam

Gizmodo Reader of the Year: David Bacio

Our official Gizmodo Reader of the Year for 2007 is David Bacio, also known as Deputy Sheriff David Bacio. He was one of the runners-up in the Inappropriate Gizmodo Browsing contest, submitting a picture of himself in front of a computer reading Gizmodo while at the station. So why is he the reader of the…

Tech News Jason Chen

Gizmodo’s 20 Most Commented Articles and Top 5 Commenters of 2007

Gizmodo would be a sad lonely place without you, the readers. Sure, we would keep drinking cocktails and having wild beach parties in the South Pacific, but it just wouldn’t be the same. No, really. So here they are, without further ado, the Top 20 Most Commented Articles and the Top 5 Commenters of 2007.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

100 Years of Tech in the Times Square New Year’s Ball

Most of us know the Times Square Ball as the symbol of the new year, fresh starts and the last moment of celebration before you puke up cheap champagne. But it’s also an interesting gadget, so to speak, changing with the times alongside consumer trends. So for its 100th birthday, we’ve made a mega timeline…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Axiotron’s Modbook Now Shipping

We previously brought you news of Axiotron’s brilliant Modbook, which is essentially the first real Macbook tablet. Although it’s Apple authorized, it is not an official Apple product, obviously. Nevertheless, the guys at Axiotron have gone to work on an item all fanboys are lusting after, and the end result is looking rather tasty. https://gizmodo.com/axiotron-modbook-manhandled-by-macworld-231985…

Tech News Haroon Malik

We Must Leave Earth

Hilary Clinton is currently the only presidential candidate with a space plan, which can’t be pleasing to the scientists and scifi writers who warn that the human race must escape from Earth if it’s to have any future. It’s probably not surprising that 1970s astronomer icon Carl “billions of stars” Sagan was an offworld booster;…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Dancing in Zero Gravity to New Age Music Will Help Us Evolve

Today a 727 “Vomit Comet” lifted off from Las Vegas in order to film a scene of a woman dancing in zero gravity for an upcoming science fiction film called Stardance. Filmmaker Jeanne Robinson (choreographer and wife of scifi writer Spider Robinson) won the trip after showing this astonishingly bad preview video at the Heinlein…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Drink Beer to Cure Breast Cancer

Future oncologists may advise women to drink beer if they fear they may develop breast cancer. Xanthohumal, a chemical found in hops, could kill breast, colon, ovarian, and prostate cancers, according to early studies. [PhysOrg]

io9 Annalee Newitz

Next-Gen Asus Eee PC Packs WiMax, 8.9-Inch Screen

It looks like the next version of the Eee PC will feature WiMax goodness, per this listing for a CES event on Asus’s site: WiMAX Today. WiMAX Tomorrow: An Official ASUS/ Intel/ Sprint Joint Launch Join ASUS, Intel and Sprint to learn about the state of WiMAX technology, preview next-generation mobile solutions (including the next…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Zorine the Queen of the Nudists and Alpha the Mechanical Man

At the height of the Great Depression, the organizers of the 1930 San Diego Exposition thought that a horny robot and a vanguard of big-breasted nudist women might help cheer people up. “Zorine the Queen of the Nudists” and “Alpha the Mechanical Man” were two different exhibits appearing at the event, and history has left…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Official Nintendo Fix for Malfunctioning Wiimotes: Smack It

Everyone knows that when all else fails, smacking a malfunctioning device might just solve the problem. It works with TVs, it works with computers and it works with just about anything. Well, sometimes. But would you expect that to be an official solution to malfunctioning gadgets? Because it’s exactly what Nintendo support is telling people…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Back To What Future?

This “ouch I can’t believe they did that” clip showcases everything that’s wrong with Back To the Future 2. It’s a shot-for-shot reprise of a sequence from the first movie, where Michael J. Fox gets away from some bullies. Except this time, he uses a “hoverboard” and hitches a ride with a flying car. In…

io9 Charliejane

Alpine IVA-W505 Video Headunit Plays DivX, iPod Video

Alpine’s spring line continues to impress, now with a double-DIN head unit with a DivX playing 7-inch touchscreen. It also has the same iPod connectivity (and video playback to boot), IMPRINT sound mapping that compensates for the acoustic differences from car to car, HD/Sat radio readiness, and Tag & Sync (HD Radio tagging to iTunes…

Tech News Brian Lam

iTunes Rentals Adds Disney to Stable, Might Not Get Others

It comes as no surprise when we hear that Disney has just joined Apple’s movie rental service (following Fox, late last week) seeing as Steve Jobs says “I”m hittin’ that” to both companies, but it does surprise us when Variety reports that Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. would not participate because of “various competitive reasons.”…

Tech News Jason Chen

What You Missed Last Weekend

Last weekend was a hoot. Sure, the news wells are running a little dry before the technology orgasm that shall be CES 2008, but if you missed us on the weekend, boy, did you miss some fun. Here’s your chance to catch up: • Letterman and the WGA reached an exclusive agreement. • We proved…

Tech News Haroon Malik

My Brains, Let Me Show You Them

Screw “Scanners” Reboot — Remake “The Brood”

Retro-Futurist Cell Phone Made From Rotary Dialer

Quizmodo 2007: the Giz’s Tech Knowledge Mega-Quiz

Gizmodo’s Most Popular Hits of 2007

Qualcomm Can Use Rival’s Chip Patents until ’09

Gizmodo Reader of the Year: David Bacio

Gizmodo’s 20 Most Commented Articles and Top 5 Commenters of 2007

100 Years of Tech in the Times Square New Year’s Ball

Axiotron’s Modbook Now Shipping

We Must Leave Earth

Dancing in Zero Gravity to New Age Music Will Help Us Evolve

Drink Beer to Cure Breast Cancer

Next-Gen Asus Eee PC Packs WiMax, 8.9-Inch Screen

Zorine the Queen of the Nudists and Alpha the Mechanical Man

Official Nintendo Fix for Malfunctioning Wiimotes: Smack It

Back To What Future?

Alpine IVA-W505 Video Headunit Plays DivX, iPod Video

iTunes Rentals Adds Disney to Stable, Might Not Get Others

What You Missed Last Weekend

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