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The lost Indiana Jones-Star Wars crossover was really depressing

Here’s some weird trivia to bandy about. In 2004, Dark Horse Comics published “Into The Great Unknown,” a 10-page story that marked the first Lucas-approved (if non-canonical) meeting of Han Solo and Indiana Jones. It was also a massive bummer! This not-so-cheery tale, which was written by Star Wars comic scribe W. Haden Blackman and…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar May 25

The Best Deal of the Day

I spend a lot of my free time wondering what I would do if Antiques Road Show came to my town. It’s a tricky one, because on the one hand I love being on TV and watching material goods being assigned arbitrary monetary values, but on the other hand I don’t own anything interesting. Except…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals May 25

The Tragic, Unforeseen Death of a Prediction Technology Mogul

John Delaney was reportedly just 150 feet from the peak of Mount Everest when he died Saturday, having collapsed from an unknown medical condition. The Intrade founder passed away without knowing he had a new daughter. He was 42. Delaney, the first Irishman to perish on Everest, had tried the summit once before five years…

Tech News Ryan Tate May 25

Monkeys experience regret over a game of rock-paper-scissors

It’s sometimes said that you should live life without regrets, but doing that means ignoring lots of information about how you could do things better. Even monkeys see the value in regret…at least after they throw rock instead of scissors. Regret tends to get a bad wrap, but as with most things, it’s all about…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins May 25

A Candle That Doubles As an Ashtray Makes Smoking Less Stinky

Smoking is terrible, we all know that. But it’s terribly addictive and…disgustingly stinky. Your fingers reek, your clothes are tainted and the air, oh the air. This candle ashtray tries to make it a wee less smelly. The wick of the candle is shifted off to the side of the depressed center, so as the…

Tech News Casey Chan May 25

Oren Peli’s The River: Best TV Pilot We’ve Seen in Years

A good TV pilot tells you a complete story, and seduces you into wanting to see more. It provides a crash course in a TV show’s world, and introduces a cast of characters. There’s a lot of heavy lifting. The pilot for Oren Peli’s new show, The River, makes it all look easy. The director…

Television Charlie Jane Anders May 25

Shooting Challenge: 1 Second

Last week, you captured life at 1/1000 of a second. This week, your photographs will last 1000x as long. You will photograph one entire second of time. https://gizmodo.com/111-scenes-that-lasted-1-1000-of-a-second-5805026 The Challenge Capture a photo with the shutter speed of 1 second. No faster or slower. The Technique 1-second exposures are interesting because it opens up options…

Tech News Mark Wilson May 25

Is it possible we’ve found the first white hole?

White holes are the opposite of black holes, objects into which nothing can enter but are constantly spewing out matter. They were thought to be completely hypothetical, more a mathematical oddity than a real thing…but we may have seen one. We’ve talked about white holes before in some detail here and here, but the basic…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins May 25

Facebook Taps Spotify for Streaming Music Powers (but It’s Still Not Ready for the U.S.)

After the Google-Spotify rumors turned out to be just that, Forbes is now reporting that Facebook will use Spotify’s streaming service to power their in-site music player. Details are still being worked out, but rumors indicated the site could be branded as Facebook Music, and could launch in two weeks. The integrated service is currently…

Social Media Adrian Covert May 25

The 10 worst bigfoots and yetis in the history of recorded film

Not every cinematic Bigfoot’s as dashing as Andre the Giant in a fur suit. No, some celluloid yetis and sasquatches are downright mediocre. Here are 10 of the cheapest, most inept, or grossest lost hominids ever to grace Hollywood. 10.) To Catch A Yeti In this totally abysmal 1995 TV movie, a yeti disgusting mewling…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 25

Why Kennedy’s Moon Speech Was Crazy—and How the US Could Have Landed on the Moon With the Soviets

There are few moments in history as defining for a nation and the world as May 25, 1961. That’s when President John F. Kennedy announced a plan to put a man on the Moon before the decade was over. There was only a small problem: There was no plan. Kennedy was talking in front of…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz May 25

The World’s First 64GB MicroSD

MicroSDs are cute and so incredibly useful. Kingmax, a Taiwanese company, is making them even more useful by bumping the size up to 64GB. It’s the world’s first 64GB microSD card. The 64GB MicroSD comes with a Class 6 rating meaning transfer speeds of 6MB/s. Kingmax didn’t announce any pricing or release date yet, so…

Tech News Casey Chan May 25

Heaps of Spoilers Hidden in 20 Minutes of X-Men: First Class Footage

A new X-Men: First Class clip shows baby Charles Xavier’s friendship with an ultra-creepy young Mystique, who pretends to be Charles’ mum. Plus 20 minutes of behind-the-scenes footage that’s so full of spoilers, it practically gives away the whole movie. Update: Now with HD versions of the behind-the-scenes footage. B-Roll Part 2 B-Roll Part 3…

Movies Meredith Woerner May 25

Hide Your MacBook Air Inside a Leather Bound Book

The BookBook for the MacBook Air—like the MacBook version before it—is a beautiful leather-bound, hand-distressed hardcover case for your laptop. You’ll feel like you’re carrying a book again. https://gizmodo.com/bookbook-case-puts-your-hardware-in-hardcover-5453980 The MacBook Air BookBook has a ’rounded spine’, which really means that damn computer is so thin they had to make a super small version just…

Tech News Casey Chan May 25

Two Days of Video Hit YouTube Every Single Minute

YouTube is kinda popular. How popular? We put 48 hours of video onto it every minute. Yikes. That’s a lot of cats playing with alligators, Middle East protests, and people covering Kanye on the ukelele. The staggering statistic marks a 100% increase over this time last year, and a 13 hour increase from just November…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 25

The story behind the world’s oldest museum, built by a Babylonian princess 2,500 years ago

In 1925, archaeologist Leonard Woolley discovered a curious collection of artifacts while excavating a Babylonian palace. They were from many different times and places, and yet they were neatly organized and even labeled. Woolley had discovered the world’s first museum. It’s easy to forget that ancient peoples also studied history – Babylonians who lived 2,500…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins May 25

Back by Popular DEWmand: Luddite Tech Made New

It’s fun getting caught up in the hype of cutting-edge gadgets and the excitement of new releases, but don’t you sometimes feel like demanding that the good old days of analog and Lo-fi come back around? Sure, there is always some killjoy reminding you of what a hassle LPs and rotary phones actually were, but…

Tech News Sponsored post May 25

8 Tools for Throwing a Pool-Less Pool Party

You had a few too many while out one night, and you told all your friends they should totally come over for a Memorial Day pool party. Only problem is, you don’t have a pool. DON’T PANIC! This week’s Toolkit will give you everything you need to throw a pool-less pool party. Daiquiri Whacker :…

Tech News Adrian Covert May 25

Someone Will Pay You $100,000 to Drop Out of School and Start a Tech Company

There are several problems, of course. One: you’d be mentored by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, who’s only one of the most impressive (and likely scariest) web 2.0 people in all the land. Two: of 400 applicants, only 24 were picked. The 24 ex-students, all under 20 years of age, presented their tech company ideas to…

Tech News Kat Hannaford May 25

Why Paint Awesome Portraits When You Can Do the Same Destroying Walls?

Alexandre Farto—aka Vhils—is a master of subtractive art. He makes really beautiful realistic portraits and landscapes destroying walls, ripping apart billboards, metal sheets and wood planks. A refreshing change from all the boring, overworked digital monkeyness going on these days.

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 25

The lost Indiana Jones-Star Wars crossover was really depressing

The Best Deal of the Day

The Tragic, Unforeseen Death of a Prediction Technology Mogul

Monkeys experience regret over a game of rock-paper-scissors

A Candle That Doubles As an Ashtray Makes Smoking Less Stinky

Oren Peli’s The River: Best TV Pilot We’ve Seen in Years

Shooting Challenge: 1 Second

Is it possible we’ve found the first white hole?

Facebook Taps Spotify for Streaming Music Powers (but It’s Still Not Ready for the U.S.)

The 10 worst bigfoots and yetis in the history of recorded film

Why Kennedy’s Moon Speech Was Crazy—and How the US Could Have Landed on the Moon With the Soviets

The World’s First 64GB MicroSD

Heaps of Spoilers Hidden in 20 Minutes of X-Men: First Class Footage

Hide Your MacBook Air Inside a Leather Bound Book

Two Days of Video Hit YouTube Every Single Minute

The story behind the world’s oldest museum, built by a Babylonian princess 2,500 years ago

Back by Popular DEWmand: Luddite Tech Made New

8 Tools for Throwing a Pool-Less Pool Party

Someone Will Pay You $100,000 to Drop Out of School and Start a Tech Company

Why Paint Awesome Portraits When You Can Do the Same Destroying Walls?

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