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Quench your gadget thirst with these great deals on a Lenovo ULV Laptop, a waterproof Fujifilm FinePix Digital Camera, or even a free bottle of Budweiser. Always remember to drink and #dealz responsibly. Top Deals: • 11.6″ Lenovo IdeaPad U160 Core i5 ULV Laptop for $729 with free shipping (normally $899 – use coupon code…

Tech News Adam Harris Sep 29

Take a Peek at How Detroit Lives

Once the fourth-largest metropolis in America, some have called Detroit the Death of the American Dream. Today, young people are creating the new Detroit on their own terms, against real adversity. Johnny Knoxville recently went to the Motor City to check it out for himself. http://viddler.com/v/ Click here to watch the full video and to…

Tech News Gawkercreative Sep 29

New 1.4 Gigapixel Asteroid Hunter Finds Object Headed For Earth

The Pan-STARRS, a new 1.4 gigapixel telescope built to spot asteroids, has found a potentially dangerous asteroid headed for Earth. Luckily, we don’t have to worry just yet. It won’t hit us ’til 2098. In October, the asteroid 2010 ST will come within four million miles of us but that’s just the teaser. The real…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan Sep 29

Michael Caine explains the end of Inception

What’s better than having the ending of Inception cleared up? Having it cleared up in the silky voice of Michael Caine. In an interview on The Chris Moyles Show, Caine talked about show business, his book, and Christopher Nolan. It’s still a little tangled, but at least you’re hearing it from a legend. You need…

Movies Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 29

A Look Inside the Unicorn Sausage Factory

Ever wonder what it’s like to sit in a business meeting at Thinkgeek? According to Wired’s Mat Honan, it involves just as much discussion of quantum physics and bacon as you’d expect. [Wired]

Tech News Joel Johnson Sep 29

How Spiders Took Over the Sky

Despite a modern spider’s impressive offensive arsenal of venoms and trapping silks, defensive predator-evading “dragline” silk is perhaps its most valuable asset. In this week’s excerpt, authors Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig discuss the incredible silk’s evolution and ingenious implementation. A spider sits motionless at the edge of a bookshelf. It senses a sudden shift…

Tech News Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig Sep 29

First teaser trailer for high-school alien film I Am Number Four

The first teaser trailer for D.J. Caruso’s teen alien flick I Am Number Four is out. If you like sexy humanoid aliens, ducatis, samurai swords and light-up finger blasts, then this is the alien action movie for you. Based on the novel by James Frey and Jobie Hughes, I Am Number Four stars Timothy Olyphant,…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 29

Email Beats Snail Mail 81 to 1 and Most of It Is Junk

14.4 trillion emails vs 177 billion postal letters and packages. That’s the 2009 email vs snail mail score in the United States. A staggering 81 to 1 proportion. The bad: 81% of email is spam vs 47% of snail mail. That’s 11.6 trillion spam emails per year. Why doesn’t the Pentagon declare war against the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 29

Unzip for hot geek action

Everybody’s freaking out over this Vulcan traditional greeting hoodie, which looks like an open palm when zipped – but turns into Spock’s favorite hand gesture when unzipped. What else does designer Paulo Bruno have up his sleeve? He’s done a ton of design dork shirts, but these two tees the Brazilian artist submitted to Threadless…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 29

Shooting Challenge: Silhouettes

The silhouette manages to squeeze emotion and character into a figure devoid of light. It’s a paradox in a way, to extract nuance to that without detail. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you must capture a silhouette. The Challenge Take a photo that includes a silhouette of a person, animal or object. We just…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 29

World’s Largest Cinema Screen Played Movie From Nokia N8 Phone

Nokia’s rolling out the punches for their delayed N8 phone. After filming the world’s smallest stop-motion video with it, they played a movie to 1,500 Swedes on the world’s largest cinema screen—through its miniHDMI port. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-n8-official-with-12mp-camera-and-720p-video-reco-5525259 In Rosengård, Sweden, a screen measuring 51m x 28m in size was hitched up against a tower block so…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Sep 29

Batman’s comic book roots get rebooted

We’re loving Courtney Crumrin writer/artist Ted Naifeh’s fresh new take on Batman. Especially his redesigns of some of the greatest Batman comic covers from Detective Comics. Plus his redesigns of Batgirl, the Joker, and other iconic characters. In an interview with Newsarama Naifeh elaborated on his Batman covers and other art: When I did my…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 29

Laptop and Desktop Sales Up a Surprising 25% and 30% Each

Despite the incessant hype surrounding netbooks and (especially) tablets, NPD reports Canadian sales of laptops are up 20%, and—a real shocker—traditional desktop PCs are up 30%. The study also indicated that netbook sales are actually declining, by 25%. [NPD]

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 29

Apple TV Software Running Inside the iPod Touch

Apple TV runs on iOS, the operating system that powers the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. This means two things: It can run apps and those devices can theoretically run the Apple TV core app, called Lowtide. Exactly like this. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-lowtide-5650309 This video shows Lowtide.app running inside an iPod touch 4. Developer Dustin Howett got…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 29

An important question about what kind of monster you could bring home to meet the family

Over on the io9 Facebook page, we’re talking about some pretty key issues of the day, like what you think about the fall TV season, and whether it would be easier for you to bring home a special friend of the vampire or cyborg persuasion. Which would it be easier for your family to accept?…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 29

The Best Weather Apps

I don’t watch TV weather forecasts for the same reason that I don’t own a wristwatch: I have a smartphone, a tablet, and a computer. Here are the best apps for knowing what it’s like outside, without actually going outside. iOS GOLD MEDAL: Weatherbug My earliest memories of Weatherbug are cleaning it from relatives’ spyware-riddled…

Tech News John Herrman Sep 29

The New Xbox Software Is Here and It’s Better

The Fall 2010 Xbox 360 dashboard update brings some sports, some Zune integration and a fairly sizable UI change. Here’s how it works. The video above gives you a good tour of what the updates bring. There’s the changed UI to match the flatness of Windows Phone 7 and Zune HD, the ESPN and Zune…

Tech News Jason Chen Sep 29

Tad Williams explains why fantasy writers shouldn’t overdose on magic

If you’re dealing with a world where magic is real, you can just go nuts, right? Wrong, argues Shadowrise author Tad Williams. In fact, you should use magic sparingly, and keep your world as grounded as possible. The fine line between magic and just the incomprehensibility of the universe is big with me… I never…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 29

iLife ’09 Discounted by 44% on Amazon Suggests iLife ’11 is Near

Hey, what would you do if I told you that Amazon was flogging iLife ’09 for just $44 (that’s a discount of 44 per cent), but that iLife ’11 must be just ’round the corner? Would you wait, in hopes of these goodies, or snap up a bargain while you had the chance? [Amazon via…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Sep 29

Wear This T-Shirt To Know What It Feels Like To Get Shot

Using augmented reality, the WWF has designed a special shirt that mimics getting shot at. Hint: It doesn’t feel good. How does the shirt work? Simple, the t-shirt triggers a shooting animation (complete with blood) when worn in front of a special mirror. The shirt is supposed to let us silly humans know the pain,…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 29

Gadget Deals of the Day

Take a Peek at How Detroit Lives

New 1.4 Gigapixel Asteroid Hunter Finds Object Headed For Earth

Michael Caine explains the end of Inception

A Look Inside the Unicorn Sausage Factory

How Spiders Took Over the Sky

First teaser trailer for high-school alien film I Am Number Four

Email Beats Snail Mail 81 to 1 and Most of It Is Junk

Unzip for hot geek action

Shooting Challenge: Silhouettes

World’s Largest Cinema Screen Played Movie From Nokia N8 Phone

Batman’s comic book roots get rebooted

Laptop and Desktop Sales Up a Surprising 25% and 30% Each

Apple TV Software Running Inside the iPod Touch

An important question about what kind of monster you could bring home to meet the family

The Best Weather Apps

The New Xbox Software Is Here and It’s Better

Tad Williams explains why fantasy writers shouldn’t overdose on magic

iLife ’09 Discounted by 44% on Amazon Suggests iLife ’11 is Near

Wear This T-Shirt To Know What It Feels Like To Get Shot

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