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The Weird Relationship Between a Michael Jackson Impersonator and an Enforcer Robot

It’s hard to perform a Michael Jackson routine night after night, lipsynching to the king of pop. But it gets a lot more complicated when you’re being stalked by a psychotic robot — and it can only get worse when the robot decides that it’s a Michael Jackson fan. Jessica Barber’s “MonitorBot and the King…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jan 6

Follow Team Gizmodo for Ultimate Super CES 2012 Coverage

CES is a blizzard of stuff—and much of it sucks. So how do you cut through the crap to sip from the fountain of awesome? Follow Gizmodo on Twitter. We’ll be your personal gadget filter, straight from Vegas. If you want the latest Gizmodo stories pumped straight into your Twitter feed, @Gizmodo will be your…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jan 6

Kanye West is the Creative Director on the Jetsons movie?

Rapper Kanye West is allegedly the Creative Director on a live action Jetsons movie that is still stuck in development hell. Maybe. At least, that’s what we get from his tweets. A few days ago Kanye went on a Twitter tear, that seemingly exposed him as the possible new Creative Director for The Jetsons. We…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 6

Your Next iPad Could Have a Blazing Fast Quad-Core A6 Processor

Apple commercials usually tout what the iPad and iPhone can do rather than the innards running them. That doesn’t mean Apple isn’t actively working on making your next iOS Device super-duper, quad-core fast. The folks at 9to5 Mac found evidence of an A6 quad-core processor in the processing-core management software of the iOS 5.1 beta.…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Jan 6

Why We Troll

At the end of this post there is a comment form, where you can weigh in and tell me I am wrong. If you do that, however—even if you have a great point—you’re probably a troll. I know. You don’t think you are a troll. You are simply assured of your righteousness. You’re just demonstrating…

Tech News Mat Honan Jan 6

Is dark matter generating mysterious radio waves?

Although dark matter‘s exact nature is still unknown, what we do know is that the amount of gravity in the universe is greater than the amount of visible matter that it corresponds to. This anomaly could be explained by some unseen source of extra mass, which provides the additional gravity that helps hold galaxies together.…

io9 Sophie Bushwick Jan 6

Star Trek IV could have included more about Spock’s baby

After Spock and Lt. Saavik got to know each other much better in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, you could have been forgiven for thinking that something would come of it later on. And indeed, Robin Curtis says in a new interview that she expected a whole “Saavik is pregnant with Spock’s baby”…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jan 6

This Trailer Can Clean a Ton of Fukushima’s Radioactive Water in an Hour

Cleanup efforts around the tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant are expected to require decades—up to fifty years, in fact. However, if a new radiation decontamination technology from Toshiba and IHI pans out, that date will come much, much sooner. The SARRY-Aqua (Simplified Active water Retrieve and Recovery sYstem) is a trailer-mounted machine the size of an…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jan 6

First clip from Chronicle shows what happens when teenage boys get superpowers

Teenagers are terrible rotten things (or at least I was) and I shudder to think what I would do with telekinetic powers — which is exactly the plot of the new “found footage” film Chronicle. This surprising film’s honesty and hidden darkness may just revitalize this genre yet. Now take a look at the first…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 6

Silkworms engineered to produce spider silk could lead to better body armor

Spider silk is one of those wonderful materials whose incredibly tensile properties are the stuff of myth. That’s why it’s been the target of years of transgenic research. As far back as 2000, researchers were genetically engineering other animals to produce it — like the infamous spider-goat. However, many of their attempts have had problems,…

io9 Tim Barribeau Jan 6

Now You Can Charge Your Magic Trackpad With USB

Apple accessories purveyor Mobee thinks it has the solution for needing to swap out the batteries on your Magic Trackpad every so often. The Power Bar will do the trick—if you remember to charge it. Mobee claims that the USB-rechargeable battery pack will give you 10 days of usage for a six hour charge. Sounds…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jan 6

An absolutely gorgeous shot of the International Space Station dancing with the Moon

On January 4, NASA shot this amazing composite image of the International Space Station crossing over the face of the Moon from Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. And even if you don’t have NASA’s gee-whiz cameras, it is possible to see the International Space Station with the naked eye in certain parts of the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 6

These Beautiful Chinese Ink Drawings Are Really Amazing Photographs

I love the late Don Hong-Oai’s photography. His style, the perfect composition, the texture… everything in his work fools the mind into thinking you are looking at a delicate ink illustration. Photo or drawing, they make me want to travel there. Hong-Oai, who was born in Canton, China, 1929. He lived most of his life…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 6

Watch an iPad Survive a Freefall From Space

G-Form has put iPads through some serious torture in the name of, err, angular yellow iPad cases? Whatever. This is an iPad (and a Go-Pro!) falling from over 100,000 feet—high enough to see the curvature of the Earth and the black of space. In addition to shooting expensive gadgets into the stratosphere, G-Form’s also got…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jan 6

Can Mountain Dew really dissolve a mouse carcass?

An attempt to win a small court battle this week has put Mountain Dew in peril of losing a much larger war. PepsiCo, the soft drink’s parent company, defended itself against a man who claimed he found a dead mouse in a can of the citrus soda. Experts called in by PepsiCo’s lawyers offered a…

io9 Natalie Wolchover - Life's Little Mysteries Jan 6

How to Get Your Free Cool Facebook Timeline Personal Cards Now

Good news for Facebook fans: now you can get a free set of cool color personal cards based on your timeline. They’re giving 200,000 sets of 50 cards for free, so you’ve to hurry up. Here’s how to get yours: 1. Go to your Facebook Timeline. 2. Click on About (it’s just below your profile…

Social Media Jesus Diaz Jan 6

Single-Atom Wires Could Help Moore’s Law Live On

When you shrink wires down to nanometers in diameter, their resistivity normally grows exponentially—a trade-off which many have predicted will be Moore’s Law’s undoing soon. But a new, single-atom thick wire could change that. Over time the copper tracks on microchips have been shrinking, and the resulting massive increases in resistance are what have been…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 6

Will Polk’s Noise-Canceling Headphones Sound as Sweet as Polk Speakers?

Polk Audio’s speakers are hands down some of our favorites, so we’re pretty curious what the company’s new UltraFocus 8000 noise-canceling headphones will sound like. If they can cram some of that goodness into a portable package? Aural heaven. The UltraFocus 8000s will compete with the Beats by Dres and Boses of the world in…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jan 6

A Chinese Chef Died After Serving the World’s Deadliest Mushroom by Accident

We’ve all been tempted to pick wild mushrooms, if only because they’re free. Sadly, when a Chinese chef did just that he made a mistake, and accidentally served himself and a colleague the world’s deadliest mushroom. Liu Jun, 38, a chef from China, found himself visiting Australia over the New Year with his female kitchen…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 6

USAF Military Shuttle Is Chasing China’s Space Station In Orbit

According to observations published in Spaceflight Magazine, the United States Air Force may be spying on Tiangong-1—China’s first space station—from orbit. Seems reasonable: China is steadily advancing towards their goal and the US may want to know what they’re doing. According to the magazine, the mini-space shuttle X-37B may be near the Chinese station, following…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Jan 6

The Weird Relationship Between a Michael Jackson Impersonator and an Enforcer Robot

Follow Team Gizmodo for Ultimate Super CES 2012 Coverage

Kanye West is the Creative Director on the Jetsons movie?

Your Next iPad Could Have a Blazing Fast Quad-Core A6 Processor

Why We Troll

Is dark matter generating mysterious radio waves?

Star Trek IV could have included more about Spock’s baby

This Trailer Can Clean a Ton of Fukushima’s Radioactive Water in an Hour

First clip from Chronicle shows what happens when teenage boys get superpowers

Silkworms engineered to produce spider silk could lead to better body armor

Now You Can Charge Your Magic Trackpad With USB

An absolutely gorgeous shot of the International Space Station dancing with the Moon

These Beautiful Chinese Ink Drawings Are Really Amazing Photographs

Watch an iPad Survive a Freefall From Space

Can Mountain Dew really dissolve a mouse carcass?

How to Get Your Free Cool Facebook Timeline Personal Cards Now

Single-Atom Wires Could Help Moore’s Law Live On

Will Polk’s Noise-Canceling Headphones Sound as Sweet as Polk Speakers?

A Chinese Chef Died After Serving the World’s Deadliest Mushroom by Accident

USAF Military Shuttle Is Chasing China’s Space Station In Orbit

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