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Shooting Challenge: 100 2

I was doing a photo shoot for a family out on the lake. We scheduled the session for sunset to capture the color of the trees, which were at their peak of oranges, reds and yellows. We were losing the light and finishing up, when I noticed this woman fishing and the gorgeous golden color…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Oct 18

First trailer for “The Con Of Wrath” a documentary about the most infamous Star Trek convention

The most notorious science fiction convention of all times might well be Houston’s “Ultimate Fantasy” convention, now nicknamed “The Con of Wrath.” When audience attendance plummeted, the convention’s guests reached inside their own pockets to give the fans a show. Check out the first trailer for the documentary behind it directed by Star Trek aficionado…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Oct 18

Why the Turn Towards Gritty Realism In Epic Fantasy? Authors Sound Off!

With the runaway success of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice, even epic fantasy has toned down the sword-and-sorcery, and ramped up the gritty realism. At NYCC’s “Winter is Here” panel, Brandan Sanderson, Peter V. Brett, and other authors offered their theories. Top image: French cover of Peter V. Brett’s The Warded…

Books & Comics Kelly Faircloth Oct 18

10 Great Stand-Alone Episodes That Totally Represent Their Respective Shows

Stand-alone episodes. Pretty much every TV show does them, even in this age of more serialized television. And oftentimes, they’re kind of disposable. They’re the cheap episodes, or the ones which don’t shake up the show’s status quo. Most of all, they’re often stories that could come from any television show — like last week’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders and Gordon Jackson Oct 18

Dropbox Was Almost in iCloud

iCloud’s here—useful, without a revolution. But Forbes tells us it could have been something more, had Steve Jobs gotten his way with an $800 million buyout of Dropbox. Hell froze over and he didn’t. But what if? https://gizmodo.com/icloud-review-not-quite-magical-yet-5848884 According to Forbes’ Victoria Barret, Jobs was rebuffed by the scrappy startup’s founder, even with that boatload…

Tech News Sam Biddle Oct 18

Batman may actually occupy Wall Street

Last week, we pondered what Batman’s reaction to the Occupy Wall Street protests might amount to. Now, the L.A. Times reports that the Caped Crusader himself could be stopping by OWS. If the protest is still chugging along for the two weeks The Dark Knight Rises films in New York, that is: https://gizmodo.com/how-would-batman-respond-to-occupy-wall-street-5849977 [A]ccording to…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Oct 18

Zombieland writers turn their undead sequel into a TV show, write a Micronauts movie for J.J. Abrams

We’ve got a double dose of news about everyone’s favorite horror comedy writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese. Looks like Zombieland 2 might become a TV show, and there may be a potentially hilarious Micronauts film in our future! First up, Vulture is reporting that Fox and Sony Pictures Television are quietly developing a half-hour…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 18

Only the Perviest Pervs Need a Motion-Activated Camera iPhone Dock

There are a lot of reasons to want a motion-activated camera in something as inconspicuous as an iPhone dock. It’s just that every last one of them ends in a restraining order. The iCharger does, in fact, charge your iPad, Pod or Phone. But it’s also a motion-activated camera that can store weeks of Mpeg-4…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Oct 18

Motorola Droid RAZR: Thinnest of All. Kevlar. Splashproof. Yes.

After crashing and burning in a blaze of mediocrity, the once-legendary RAZR lineage has a new successor. The Droid RAZR is a 4G LTE, 1.2 GHz dual-core-CPU-powered, kevlar-constructed wafer of a phone. https://gizmodo.com/oh-god-the-motorola-razr-is-back-with-android-on-board-5850594 The Droid RAZR is only 7.1mm thick (although it has significantly thicker bump at the bottom), making it the thinnest of its…

Tech News Adrian Covert and Brent Rose Oct 18

BlackBerry’s New QNX Platform Is Called BBX

RIM’s BlackBerry Dev Con is going on right now, but the big news so far is the unveiling of BlackBerry’s ballyhooed new QNX platform for smartphones and tablets, called BBX. BBX supports a bunch of developing platforms, but most notably gets behind HTML5 and will see the arrival of BlackBerry’s Android emulator Runtime, which will…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Oct 18

In Wednesday’s comics, the Marvel Universe collects hammers to bash heads, not nails

Marvel Comics starts a new miniseries about heroes hammering down. Alan Moore collects his H.P. Lovecraft tales. Captain Kirk meets Brainiac 5, plus new issues of Batman and Wonder Woman. It’s Comics We Crave, flossing your brainpan on a Tuesday morning. First Issues Marvel releases twice-monthly miniseries The Fearless this week, which features the superheroes…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Oct 18

MotoACTV: Motorola’s Fitness-Focused Nano Twin (Update: Hands On)

Motorola has just unveiled their new MotoACTV, a compact fitness monitoring MP3 player that tracks your performance, heartrate and even provides motivation through song selection and an audible fitness coach. At first glance it’s hard to distinguish the MotoACTV from Apple’s touchscreen-equipped iPod Nano. But despite the similar form factor, Motorola’s compact media player packs…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski and Brent Rose Oct 18

Dubai Is Star Wars

Dubai shrouded in fog. The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal puts it perfectly: “I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a city look more like ‘the future’ than this one at this moment.” All that’s missing is Lando Calrissian. Urban consultant Noah Raford tweeted this pic while on a trip to Dubai, high above the haze. All…

Tech News Sam Biddle Oct 18

We’re Live at Motorola, Ready to Peep This New RAZR. And More???

Oh man oh man oh man, we’re live in Midtown Manhattan, waiting with bated breath, hoping to check out the new Motorola RAZR. Wait, why are we liveblogging this? A few reasons. https://gizmodo.com/oh-god-the-motorola-razr-is-back-with-android-on-board-5850594 1) If you’ll recall, the RAZR was one of the most successful cellphones of all time, selling more than 130 million handsets.…

Tech News Joe Brown Oct 18

The cast of the original Thing is duly unimpressed with the 2011 prequel

John Carpenter’s The Thing has inspired musical tributes, deep video exegesis, and even that prequel which came out last weekend. But what do MacReady, Childs, and the gang make of this new film? No sir, they don’t like it. https://gizmodo.com/john-carpenters-the-thing-as-told-by-the-golden-pipes-5848208 https://gizmodo.com/watch-this-hyper-detailed-video-analysis-of-the-ending-5833047 https://gizmodo.com/the-thing-prequel-is-a-fun-horror-film-with-one-fatal-f-5850037 [Via Dangerous Minds]

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Oct 18

Watch an iPhone 4S Get Murderized by a .50 Caliber Incendiary Round

My new favorite thing that anyone ever asked Siri? Are you bulletproof. Even better is the answer, in the form of an armor-piercing incendiary round from the mouth of a Barrett M82 sniper rifle. iPhone 4s go boom, anyone? Okay, so the tech assassin gets the details about the processor wrong. I’m willing to forgive…

Tech News Brian Barrett Oct 18

Scientists sort out the secrets of bubble-rafting snails

For years, scientists have marveled at the seafaring abilities of snails like Janthina janthina (pictured above), which produce a biological bubble-wrap that enables them to float just below the water’s surface in oceans around the world. How some snails evolved to produce these sticky life rafts has long been a mystery. But now, a team…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Oct 18

Is Your iPhone 4S Display Yellow?

Cnet has found postings on Apple’s support forums with users complaining of an excessively yellowed display on the new iPhone 4S when compared to the iPhone 4. Is this a case of early manufacturing woes or just a subtle tweak? Cnet says that complaints revolve around the screen being less contrasty/more washed out, with poor…

Tech News Adrian Covert Oct 18

Cerebro Now Used For Slot Car Racing

Slot car racing is the ultimate way to determine superiority between friends. And now this mind-controlled version ups the ante, since it means the winner also possesses superior mental capabilities. Using an off the shelf Scalextric slot car set, a Neurosky MindWave EEG headset, an Arduino, some in-between circuitry, and a few custom scripts running…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 18

Who Posted the First iPhone 4S Photos to the Web?

Being first on the Internet is serious business. (Or so a hundred million comments would have me believe.) So who posted the first iPhone 4S shots to the Web? The question turned out to be harder to answer than I expected. While it was easy enough on some sites (Flickr, for example) it was damn…

Tech News Mat Honan Oct 18

Shooting Challenge: 100 2

First trailer for “The Con Of Wrath” a documentary about the most infamous Star Trek convention

Why the Turn Towards Gritty Realism In Epic Fantasy? Authors Sound Off!

10 Great Stand-Alone Episodes That Totally Represent Their Respective Shows

Dropbox Was Almost in iCloud

Batman may actually occupy Wall Street

Zombieland writers turn their undead sequel into a TV show, write a Micronauts movie for J.J. Abrams

Only the Perviest Pervs Need a Motion-Activated Camera iPhone Dock

Motorola Droid RAZR: Thinnest of All. Kevlar. Splashproof. Yes.

BlackBerry’s New QNX Platform Is Called BBX

In Wednesday’s comics, the Marvel Universe collects hammers to bash heads, not nails

MotoACTV: Motorola’s Fitness-Focused Nano Twin (Update: Hands On)

Dubai Is Star Wars

We’re Live at Motorola, Ready to Peep This New RAZR. And More???

The cast of the original Thing is duly unimpressed with the 2011 prequel

Watch an iPhone 4S Get Murderized by a .50 Caliber Incendiary Round

Scientists sort out the secrets of bubble-rafting snails

Is Your iPhone 4S Display Yellow?

Cerebro Now Used For Slot Car Racing

Who Posted the First iPhone 4S Photos to the Web?

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