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Handheld Gamecube Mod Gets B- For Effort, F For Quality

If you’re going to turn a Nintendo Gamecube into a handheld portable device, you should really spend a little more effort than this man here. Geekologie doesn’t have any details on it, but as you can see, whoever did this just broke a regular GC controller in half, soldered some holes into a piece of…

New Reality TV Workout Show with Astronauts

Cashing in on the world’s New Year’s Resolutioning, NASA has decided to start broadcasting the exercise routines of their astronauts in an attempt to help America get in better shape. Watching the workouts on their television network, NASA TV, will give Earthbound viewers the motivation and example to try and get more in shape, the…

Rabies Virus Delivers Drugs to Your Brain

As we all learned from watching I Am Legend, scientists are now using virus shells (the hard and pointy outside of a virus that you see here) to deliver gene-tinkering drugs to your body as swiftly as possible. Virus shells are the perfect delivery system because the little bugs are designed to latch onto your…

MisuraEmme Wall Combines Home Entertainment With Booze

When we’ve got enough money to get what looks like a 1500-sq-ft living room/home theater area, we’re going to load one wall up with a MisuraEmme wall system. Not because it classes up the place in a way that cardboard boxes just do not, but because it combines a sliding flat-screen TV with a self-contained…

New Proof That Every Scifi Epic Is Based On Joseph Campbell

Why do so many adventure movies seem to have the same story? A lot of the blame goes to the Hero’s Journey, a cookie-cutter spiritual-ish adventure recipe concocted by Joseph Campbell in 1949. Star Wars and many fantasy sagas famously follow this treasure map step by step, but how do other science fiction stories measure…

Amazon-Pepsi Promotion Gets Official and Awesome: Free MP3s, Unbox Downloads, DVDs, CDs and Gadgets

Good news on the Pepsi-Amazon MP3 contest front: It’s official, it’s not a contest and they’ve giving away more than MP3s. It’s a point-based promo that launches on Feb. 1, with 4 billion Pepsi products carrying points that you can bank on PepsiStuff.com for MP3s from Amazon store, which now has tracks from all four…

How Should io9 Deal with Spoilers in Posts?

Spoilers are a weirdly divisive issue among science fiction fans. Some of us love to know the endings to movies, books, and TV shows before we dive into them; others want to know absolutely nothing before plunging into a story. We’ve had a few grumpy emails from io9 readers who aren’t happy with how we’ve…

LG Prada Phone Coming in Silver

This isn’t spectacular news unless you’re the Silver Surfer or the silver-haired fox our intern was chatting up last week, but the LG Prada phone is coming in silver all across Europe some time later this year. So if colour was the reason why you’ve been holding out on getting one of these fashion phones,…

Watch Concept Gives Hearing-Impaired People a Fire Alert

This new watch concept from Nikita Golovlev is designed to give a visible warning to hearing-impaired users if something dangerous is going on nearby. Dubbed AlarMe, the watch has a bunch of omnidirectional microphones and does some intelligent listening to sense if anything audibly important such as a fire alarm is happening. It then gives…

Polar Cities for Day After Tomorrow Survivors Will Save Us All From Horrible Deaths

Global warming is bearing down on us with the fire of a thousand suns, and soon, the arctic chill of like a billion perfect storms. Whatever is Jake Gyllenhaal to do? Hole up in a Polar City, of course. Envisioned by “visionary futurist” Dan Bloom—how would he know he’s a visionary unless he, in fact,…

Refugees from the Halo Wars

The massive juggernaut of gaming that is the Halo trilogy has a strategy game prequel coming out this year, and while there hasn’t been much news about it since last summer’s E3, the developers have quietly been putting up new concept art over the past few months. This newest piece shows what seems to be…

Magic Fireballs are Awesome, Not as Dangerous as You’d Think

Click to view Get ready to be the coolest uncle ever: here’s a video tutorial on how to make “Magic Fireballs,” which are what they sound like. Yes, small balls that you can light on fire and play with without getting burned (well, as long as you know what you’re doing). They’re sure to make…

Kyle XY’s Hot Clone and Sarah Connor’s Creepy Ex

Did Jessi XX, the female version of Kyle XY, survive her cliff-dive last summer? You can find out tonight. The combo of a new Kyle XY and a new Sarah Connor Chronicles almost lets you pretend this is a real TV season. But the rest of the week has a few treats as well. Listings,…

What You Missed Last Weekend

We were recovering from our crazy week in Vegas, but did we let it stop us blogging you through the weekend? No, Sir. Read on for a roundup of the lazy day goodness. • The Asus Eee PC went technicolor. • Benny and Frucci beat Matt and I during an ultimate F1 test. They cheated—Frucci…

Gunplay At The Radio Tower In New Lost Video

Jack tells Hurley some good news in this new promo video clip for Lost season four. But he’s not telling Hurley everything that’s going on. It looks as though some bad stuff has already gone down at this point in episode one, and there’s a psychopath on the loose. Watch the video to find out…

Ikea Paper Towel Holder Laptop Stand for MacBook Pros, Other Classy Notebooks

Honestly, I’m not too big on laptop stands—I don’t use an external keyboard—but if I did, I’d totally go the cheapskate route and hack together my own from scraps of junk metal and plastic dolls. Err, a sleek paper towel holder from Ikea. It matches the MacBook Pro’s aesthetics for way less than the $40…

Giz Banned For Life and Loving It: On Pranks and Civil Disobedience at CES

Click to viewA Gizmodo writer has been banned from CES for a prank. But when I see some fellow press damning us for the joke, I feel sorry for them: When did journalists become the protectors of corporations? When did this industry, defined by pranksters like Woz, get so serious and in-the-pocket of big business?…

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Why Did They Wimpify Sarah Connor?

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has all the ingredients for an awesome ride: Lena Headey’s angry commando mom, widescreen action sequences — and naked Summer Glau kicking ass, in this clip. We won’t know for a while if the show can sustain this level of excitement every week. For now, though, we’re psyched — and…

Bill Viola’s Slow Man Burning Is Still Mind-Bending

Bill Viola pioneered the video art form nearly 30 years ago, when hardly anybody was experimenting with it. He likes to combine Buddhism and Zen concepts with his trippy videography. This image is taken from his 1996 video “The Crossing,” a super-slow-moving video of a man walking. He’s just walking, on a life-sized projector, through…