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Dealzmodo: iPad, iPhone 5 Alarm Dock, iTunes Money, Apple TV, 4TB USB3

Apple currently sells refurb. 4th generation iPads for $420, but you can get the latest model new for $430 with a free case to boot. This is the lowest price ever on the latest version of Apple’s tablet, before taking into account the value of the case. [eBay] You are cordially invited to join us…

Tech News Shane Roberts

Vin Diesel’s next film is about saving Mexican gold from orcs?

Vin Diesel is diving back into science fiction movies with a vengeance — with a strange new feature called Soldiers of the Sun. Which is apparently about Orcs that live in Earth, in the future. Ooook. THR is reporting that Vin Diesel and writer Arash Amel have teamed up to make the movie Soldiers of…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Why Your Internet Connection Just Had a Freakout (And How to Fix It)

There’s a chance your internet connection just fritzed out for 20 minutes or so and didn’t let you load any webpages. If you were paying attention, though, you’d have seen that other services, like your chatrooms or a Twitter client, kept working just fine—you just couldn’t send any data out. That’s because there was a…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

What Was Your First Comment on Gizmodo?

In case you haven’t noticed, things look a little different around these parts. Comments, however, remain the same! And as we often do, the staff wandered down that lonely ole road known as nostalgia to find our very first comments. Find yours and upload a screengrab if you dare. Come on. It’ll be fun. Happy…

Tech News Peter ha

Sony Has Locked Up Viacom For Its Online TV Service

Everyone and their dog is trying to create some kind of streaming future for TV, but deals with content providers have proven incredibly difficult to nail down. But the Wall Street Journal reports that Sony has apparently cleared that hurdle, striking an agreement with TV giant Viacom. The deal would let Sony’s rumored internet TV…

Television Leslie Horn

Fear and Loathing in the Mobile Entertainment Industry

The economy may be mired in an existential crisis, but there’s one place where the money is flowing: into those fun apps on your phone. As I discovered at a “casual mobile entertainment sector” conference last month, Portland isn’t the only place where the dream of the 90s lives on. At Casual Connect, held in…

io9 Jason Shankel

Scientists teleport information in an electronic circuit

We’re still a far way’s off from being able to beam people through space, but in a science first, physicists have successfully transported information across a solid state system similar to a computer chip. The breakthrough could lead to more powerful processors and highly sophisticated encryption schemes. https://gizmodo.com/human-teleportation-is-far-more-impractical-than-we-tho-988408753 Top image: An ant placed atop the…

io9 George Dvorsky

An Elaborate Mechanical Sundial That Doesn’t Need a Drop of Sunlight

At first glance it looks like a giant, industrial, animated chandelier hanging over your head. But instead of just illuminating a room with its imposing glow, artist Conrad Shawcross’ Timepiece doubles as a modern take on the sundial. Because unlike the ancient clocks that kept our ancestors on time, this one doesn’t need the sun…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How a “cloaking device” led to an amazingly powerful new microscope

As we move into a future where we want to build materials from the atoms up, we need better microscopes to see what we’re doing. Right now, we can’t even watch DNA building proteins in real time. We only get muddy snapshots. But that may be about to change. Photo courtesy of Henri Lezec Over…

io9 Annalee Newitz

This Space Age Bathroom Had Everything (Except Toilets)

The Sunday comic strip “Closer Than We Think” was launched in 1958 at the dawn of the Space Race. But the strip’s mission wasn’t just to show Americans what would soon be happening on the moon and beyond. No, the space age would touch every part of American life — from the fuel that would…

Tech News Matt Novak

First official look at the robot of Japan’s live-action Patlabor movie

Getting the first official look at the “Patrol Labor” — the giant, robotic suit the Japanese police force use to combat giant robot crime — is pretty cool by itself. But what’s really cool? Discovering that Ghost in the Shell’s Mamoru Oshii will be directing the live-action movie based on the classic anime! Mamoru Oshii…

Movies Rob Bricken

Why Apples Don’t Taste as Delicious Anymore

Fuji apples were, once upon a time, objectively and irrefutably the most delicious apples you could sink your teeth into—anyone who said otherwise was either a liar or a witch. These days, though, Fuji apples just aren’t quite hitting the spot like they used to, and we might never see them reach their former glory…

Climate Change Ashley Feinberg

Those classic Star Wars comics really did fill the gaps between movies

People sometimes look down on Marvel Comics’ line of Star Wars comics from the late 1970s and early 1980s, because of the random green rabbit character and other stuff. But LucasFilm’s Jennifer Heddle has a great article on the official Star Wars blog, explaining why they were essential. In fact, not only were they the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

These Mesmerizing Photos Capture Dynamic Ballet Dancers in Midair

Ballet dancers have an uncanny ability to give gravity the finger while effortlessly doing things with their limbs that normal folks will literally *never* be able to manage. Oftentimes their maneuvers are too quick to catch with the naked eye, but Jesus Chapa-Malacara has managed a sweet way to show every step from start to…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

12 More Real Animals We Can’t Believe Aren’t Pokémon

Earlier this year we told you about a dozen true-to-life animals that seem better suited to the pages of a certain anime than the jungle. Thankfully, nature is generous when it comes to producing completely whacked-out organisms. Here are 12 more animals that we can’t believe really exist. https://gizmodo.com/12-real-animals-we-cant-believe-arent-pokemon-5982206 1. Brazilian Tree Hopper The Facts:…

io9 Rob Bricken and George Dvorsky

Why Doesn’t Google Encrypt All of Your Data?

Google’s coasting on the wave of cyber anxiety following the NSA leaks with some new encryption features. From now on everything you put on Cloud Storage will be automatically encrypted on Google servers. Which raises the question: Why isn’t everything encrypted on Google servers? The benefits of encryption are undeniable, from the user’s point of…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

This High-Speed Digital Camera Can Freeze Objects Moving 7,500 MPH

When it comes to high-speed photography—and we’re talking about freezing explosions and other occurrences that are over in just thousandths of a second—something known as film-based streak photography has always been the go-to technology. But as film continues its slow death, a company called MetroLaser has come up with a digital alternative that can freeze…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Important Campaign: HBO should show more dongs on TV

I for one, am tired of the ceaseless parade of breasticles on HBO. It’s time for some dong. Who’s with me? Also, snaps to these ladies for all the amazing GoT and True Blood shlong-related wordplay. [Via MarySue]

io9 Meredith Woerner

Hyperloop Could Totally Work. But Will It Ever Happen?

As enamored as you are with the idea, your gut says that Elon Musk’s Hyperloop is never going to happen. The good news is that the tech, according to experts we’ve talked to, is actually feasible. That bad news? That might not matter. Musk’s plan is futuristic, beautiful, and sound. It just might be more…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Artist Pranks Best Buy Shoppers With a Fake Useless Plastic Black Box

Shopping for electronics at Best Buy already feels like some kind of hidden camera prank, with staff who never want to help and rarely know a thing about the gear they’re selling. But an artist who refers to himself as Plastic Jesus—which apparently is not a gag—took things one step further by secretly stocking Best…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Dealzmodo: iPad, iPhone 5 Alarm Dock, iTunes Money, Apple TV, 4TB USB3

Vin Diesel’s next film is about saving Mexican gold from orcs?

Why Your Internet Connection Just Had a Freakout (And How to Fix It)

What Was Your First Comment on Gizmodo?

Sony Has Locked Up Viacom For Its Online TV Service

Fear and Loathing in the Mobile Entertainment Industry

Scientists teleport information in an electronic circuit

An Elaborate Mechanical Sundial That Doesn’t Need a Drop of Sunlight

How a “cloaking device” led to an amazingly powerful new microscope

This Space Age Bathroom Had Everything (Except Toilets)

First official look at the robot of Japan’s live-action Patlabor movie

Why Apples Don’t Taste as Delicious Anymore

Those classic Star Wars comics really did fill the gaps between movies

These Mesmerizing Photos Capture Dynamic Ballet Dancers in Midair

12 More Real Animals We Can’t Believe Aren’t Pokémon

Why Doesn’t Google Encrypt All of Your Data?

This High-Speed Digital Camera Can Freeze Objects Moving 7,500 MPH

Important Campaign: HBO should show more dongs on TV

Hyperloop Could Totally Work. But Will It Ever Happen?

Artist Pranks Best Buy Shoppers With a Fake Useless Plastic Black Box

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