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I Want to Dip These Wireless Lamps In Milk

Not only the nowire lamps look like delicious giant Oreos, but they can attach to any surface using a built-in suction cup and charge wirelessly using any Powermat surface. Created by Spanish designers Eduardo Tapiador, Lucia Mateo and Leticia Rodríguez, the lamps have no price yet. [Designboom]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 1

This Week’s Best Apps

In this week’s awesome blossom round up: Apple’s Remote, finally updated; The New Yorker, digitized on your iPad; Kenny Powers, striking out; Wine, discovered; weather, beautified; Vikings, glorified; Beejive, Android bound and more! iPhone To view these on one page, click here Android To view these on one page, click here iPad To view these…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert and Casey Chan Oct 1

Not Even Amazon Will Spare You a Rickrolling

I need a humidifier. I’ll head to Amazon. They have deals. I’ll scroll through their front page—oh, here are some good deals. Oh look, at the bottom there’s a list of sites Amazon owns. Oh, the—OH GOD NO. Looks like Amazon never expects anyone to actually scroll down that far. I wish I hadn’t.

Commerce Sam Biddle Oct 1

Oracle CEO Ridicules HP’s Newly Appointed CEO

Oracle CEO Lawrence Ellison has blasted HP for ousting former CEO Mark Hurd already and now he’s mocking the company a bit more. He thinks its entire board is insane for appointing Leo Apotheker as its new CEO: I’m speechless…HP had several good internal candidates…but instead they pick a guy who was recently fired because…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Oct 1

Help Rick Sanchez Come Up with a New Twitter Handle

Well, this is awkward. Rick Sanchez just got fired from CNN for anti-Semitic ranting, so that twitter handle of his, @ricksanchezcnn, yeah, that’s gonna have to change. http://gawker.com/5653552/rick-sanchez-fired-from-cnn-after Rick, I pinged some of my friends and colleagues and came up with a few names that you could use—free of charge. Consider it an olive branch…

Tech News Joe Brown Oct 1

Zippo Lighter Saves Man In Burglary Shooting

Brad Cooper’s Zippo stopped a bullet that could have killed him. Brad Cooper is a very lucky guy. Also, Brad Cooper is crazy. It happened when he found a burglar in his backyard. The guy pointed the gun at Cooper, telling him to stop. But Cooper didn’t care: He says that he kept walking towards…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 1

Colorbind, the iPhone Game of Ribbons and Dots

Theoretically, with enough ribbon and buttons and graph paper, you could make a physical version of this iPhone game. But why would you want to, when the game’s only $2 and so much fun? [iTunes and Lite Version]

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 1

Were These Antique Devices Too Goofy to Catch On?

Strange, radical, and just plain ugly gadgets are commonplace today—and the same was the case a century ago. The Daily Mail shares a gallery of oddball devices that, for whatever reason, didn’t survive the test of time. This envelope sealer, for example, perhaps failed to grab the public because it aimed to replace a human…

Tech News Sam Biddle Oct 1

Terraforming Earth, Pt. 3: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

We’ve seen how things can go awry when we tinker with our planet, but geology is fairly resistant to short-term change. When we screw with ecosystems, however, the chain of effects can be long and extremely unpredictable. Ecosystems are tenuous webs of interconnected species. From the algae at the bottom of the food chain to…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Oct 1

Android Apps October 1st

beejiveIM: Beejive, the best instant messaging app on those other smartphone platforms, has finally made its way to Android and though it costs 10 bucks, it’s as nice and feature packed as IM clients go (it has a conversation drawer!). Beejive supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk and other clients while allowing file transfers between…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 1

Review Matrix: The Apple TV Dissected

Tech journalists are starting to receive their little black rental pucks, which means it’s review time! Most critics seem generally pleased, but rather than wade through their judgments, check our handy comparison chart below and consume in dainty bites. (Updated!) We’ve pulled the tastiest chunks from these reviews, so you don’t have to. (Just make…

Reviews Sam Biddle Oct 1

Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

io9 is home to the popular podcast, The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy. The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is an interview/talk show hosted by John Joseph Adams, the editor of Lightspeed Magazine and numerous anthologies such as Wastelands and The Living Dead, along with author David Barr Kirtley, who has published short stories in…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 1

Amazing Jell-O Shots: This Art Gets You Wasted

There are Jell-O shots. And then there are the shots from My Jello Americans: Cory Kete, Moe Sheehan, and Megan Booth have elevated the Jell-O shot into an art form. An art form that gets you wasted. I sat down with these titans of gelatin in our internet office. Okay. What possibly possessed you to…

Tech News Joel Johnson Oct 1

Join Us On Facebook To Win A Portrait By Gizmodo Artist Sam Spratt

Gizmodo’s contributing illustrator Sam Spratt has created plenty of crazy photoshops and illustrations for our posts, but now he’s going to do something different: He’s going to draw one of you! Here’s how to be the lucky guy or girl: https://gizmodo.com/meet-our-contributing-illustrator-sam-spratt-5620127 All you have to do is head over and join our official Facebook page…

Social Media Rosa Golijan Oct 1

iPad Apps October 1st

Coca Cola Heritage Timeline: I’m a Coke guy through and through. Every other soda can disappear for all I care. I also love to learn about the things I love and Coke has put out a snazzy iPad app that tells Coke drinkers the history of their bubbly cocoa syrup. It covers the 124-history of…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 1

iPhone Apps October 1st

Kenny Powers’ Home Run Fiesta: Deep Inside Mexico: I’m Kenny Powers and you’re fucking out. Yeah, fine. I’m not Kenny Powers but I think Eastbound & Down is awesome. So how’s Kenny Powers’ official iPhone game? Fucking awesome. It’s a 16-bit inspired, home run derby game that’s FREE on your iPhone. Owen, from Kotaku, says:…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 1

“Let Me In” is quietly disturbing and horrific

Let Me In, the unusual story of a child vampire and the human boy she comes to love, is moody and quiet. It’s a movie whose horror slowly creeps up on you, leaving a profound feeling of disturbance behind. Set in the early 1980s in Los Alamos, New Mexico, the movie is visually swaddled in…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 1

A Wonder Woman TV series from the creator of Ally McBeal?

Warner Bros. wouldn’t go for Joss Whedon’s take on Wonder Woman, and the amazon princess’ movie has been stuck in development hell for a decade. But now Warners is developing Wonder Woman for television instead, with David E. Kelley. Yeah, the Ally McBeal guy. Kelley, of course, was also the creator of Chicago Hope, Picket…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Oct 1

A Marble Game With a Point

Dark Nebula Episode 1 is a marble game, true, but it’s a marble game with objectives other than get the ball into the hole. The video explains what’s going on. To summarize, you pilot your marble ship around and through obstacles, trying not to die. A good deal at 99 cents. [iTunes]

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 1

10 great science fiction novels that have been banned

In honor of Banned Books Week, Geekosystem’s Susana Polo looks at 10 great science fiction novels that have been banned, or at least threatened with removal from libraries and schools. Including some major classics of the genre! These titles are among the most popular and beloved science fiction works of the last century. They’ve told…

io9 Susana Polo -- Geekosystem Oct 1

I Want to Dip These Wireless Lamps In Milk

This Week’s Best Apps

Not Even Amazon Will Spare You a Rickrolling

Oracle CEO Ridicules HP’s Newly Appointed CEO

Help Rick Sanchez Come Up with a New Twitter Handle

Zippo Lighter Saves Man In Burglary Shooting

Colorbind, the iPhone Game of Ribbons and Dots

Were These Antique Devices Too Goofy to Catch On?

Terraforming Earth, Pt. 3: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

Android Apps October 1st

Review Matrix: The Apple TV Dissected

Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Amazing Jell-O Shots: This Art Gets You Wasted

Join Us On Facebook To Win A Portrait By Gizmodo Artist Sam Spratt

iPad Apps October 1st

iPhone Apps October 1st

“Let Me In” is quietly disturbing and horrific

A Wonder Woman TV series from the creator of Ally McBeal?

A Marble Game With a Point

10 great science fiction novels that have been banned

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