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99 iPad Apps, Reviewed

We spent hundreds of dollars and countless man-hours reviewing the first batch of iPad apps just to save you the trouble. Here is our complete compendium of reviews, sorted by category, ranked by preference. In other words, follow each of these links for a simple list of applications broken down by iTunes umbrella topics. The…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 13

Step Into My Office On The Ocean Floor

You might think your office has lousy air-flow, but what about this working stiff? Artist Jason de Caires Taylor is filling the ocean-floor with freaky sculptures. But these aren’t the weirdest things we’ve submerged in hopes of saving the reefs. We featured a bit of de Caires Taylor’s art in 2008, but here’s a bunch…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Apr 13

Chris Evans Will Also Play The 98-Pound Version Of Steve Rogers

Before Steve Rogers takes the super serum and becomes Captain America, he’s a scrawny weakling. So who’s going to play this toothpick of a man? Chris Evans, who’s also playing Cap. Will Evans go on Christian Bale’s The Machinist diet? Earth’s Mightiest has an exclusive interview with Captain America’s director Joe Johnston where he revealed…

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 13

Mildly Stalking My Fusion Sites Is Fun

Check out what your commenter pals are reading besides Gizmodo (gasp!) by peeking at their My Fusion Sites—you’d be surprised how many of the tech-obsessed are also Defamer fans (gasp redux!). Click here, look around, and bust your friends. Then, create your very own Gawkmodo or Jalopspin or Kotako9 so they can properly reciprocate. It’s…

Tech News Gawkercreative Apr 13

The Best of Last Night’s Dune Commentary Twack

We launched our io9 Movie Mondays with a live-tweeting of David Lynch’s Dune. If you weren’t able to take part in the joy, fun, or seasons in the sun, here are the highlights of last night. We all cued up the theatrical cut of David Lynch’s Dune on Netflix Instant (or on your own DVD)…

Movies Marc Bernardin Apr 13

de Caires Taylor’s Art

Alluvia The Dream Collector The Dream Collector The Dream Collector Fall From Grace Fall From Grace Fall From Grace The Lost Correspondent The Lost Correspondent The Lost Correspondent Man On Fire Man On Fire Vicissitudes Vicissitudes

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Apr 13

ARRI Alexa Camera Shoots Beautiful Video with Little Light

The new ARRI Alexa, a $60,000 professional 2K camera, shows off its chops in this gorgeous footage of a violin maker at work. The amazing part? You’re seeing the camera working with the light of two, 100W desk lamps. The video itself was shot at 800 ISO, which has been described by DP Tom Faehrmann…

Commerce Mark Wilson Apr 13

The Alternate Reality Wizard of Oz Is Perverse Fun

This concept art of a stranger, grittier Wizard of Oz depicts the Cowardly Lion as goth, the Emerald City as the setting for Left 4 Dead, and Dorothy as a smack addict. Poppies are a helluva drug. These quirky re-imaginings are from ConceptArt.org’s Character of the Week contest. You can see the rest of the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Apr 13

Is Spanking Responsible For Global War?

A new study shows that children who are spanked are more likely to be violent later in life. With that in mind, check out this map of the World Anti-Spanking League. Is there a correlation between slapping heinies and warfare? What this map shows is a world where you can see only countries who are…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Apr 13

In Safety Study, Sheep on Meth Are Shocked With Tasers

Getting shocked with a Taser while riding high on methamphetamines probably beats any white-knuckled cocaine experience hands down. And that’s exactly what happened to some lucky sheep in a new study that tested the effects of Tasers on meth-addled targets. Funded in part by Taser International, the study aimed to test whether Taser devices have…

io9 Jeremy Hsu - Popular Science Apr 13

34 Ways the Giz Staff Has Been Humiliated by You, Our Readers

Here’s a Photoshop Contest I shouldn’t have done: using staff photos as source material. You really dug deep for some of these, you bastards. First Place—Bobo the Teddy Second Place—Carlos Rodas Third Place—Ron Cassel

Tech News Adam Frucci Apr 13

Apple Finally Gets Its Patent for That “iPhone” Thing

A design patent, to be exact, meaning: You can’t make a brazen copy of the iPhone and iPod Touch’s “ornamental design,” or else you’ll get sued to death. Of course, this isn’t just about crude knockoffs. The hardware design patent, which includes illustrations and descriptions of what are clearly first-gen iPhone and iPod Touch devices…

Tech News John Herrman Apr 13

Educational Video Teaches Us That Harry Potter Is Actually Hitler Or The Devil — You Pick

A new video explains that Harry Potter is trying to teach our kids “legitimate” curses, scary “Latin words,” and how to suck blood from dead animals. But he’s also Hitler, because of the lightning-bolt-head thing. Seriously, just watch. [Topless Robot]

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 13

MacBook Pro 15-inch Core i7 Benchmarked: It’s So Fast

The new 17 and 15-inch MacBook Pros with Core i5/i7 processors are fast. Fast. Overall I’d say they’re about 50% faster than the last gen Core 2 Duos, which is about the same bump the iMacs got with Core i7. https://gizmodo.com/new-macbook-pros-feature-core-i5-and-i7-processors-5515928 Here are benchmarks to show exactly how much faster. About 50% faster in the…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 13

Anything Can Happen In Your Science Fiction Novel — But It Probably Shouldn’t

When you’re writing a SF novel, you have none of the budgetary and practical constraints that hinder SF TV shows and movies. You can have a giant space squid eating the Moon if you want. There are literally no constraints — except for the need to make sense, says Monster author A. Lee Martinez: Just…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Apr 13

What iPhone OS 4 Doesn’t Give the iPhone 3G

Obsolescence, meet iPhone. It’s true, iPhone OS 4 won’t touch the original iPhone at all. But even the iPhone 3G is getting shafted quite a bit with iPhone OS 4. https://gizmodo.com/how-fast-will-iphone-and-ipad-hardware-become-obsolete-5515066 There’s three two major things we noticed missing from iPhone 4.0 on the iPhone 3G, after running this checklist of new hotness. https://gizmodo.com/the-hidden-secrets-of-iphone-os-4-5513121/?skyline=true&s=i No…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 13

Two Haikus For A Blind Ninja Lawyer

That’s not Ben Affleck / Just some nice Daredevil art / On the stands Wednesday. What else awaits you? / Barry Allen and HulkPool / It’s Comics We Crave. What big event comics debut this week? We’ve got Brightest Day 0 (the miniseries in which everyone old and dead is new and alive again!), Flash…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Apr 13

Gattaca’s Creator Heads Into Post-Apocalyptic World Of Immortals

Andrew Niccol — the writer behind Gattaca and The Truman Show — will journey into tomorrow with I’m.mortal, a Logan’s Run-esque “social sci-fi” adventure. Niccol is preparing to direct I’m.mortal, which, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog: is set in the not-too-distant future where the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid…

Movies Marc Bernardin Apr 13

Pilotless Navy Helicopter Busts Cocaine Deal During Trial Run

The US Navy’s unmanned “Fire Scout” helicopter was out minding its own business on a trial run, when its home base warship detected a suspicious speedboat on radar. That’s when Robocopter kicked into high pursuit—filming the whole way. The subsequent three-hour chase finally ended when the speedboat rendezvoused with a fishing boat, at which time…

Tech News Brian Barrett Apr 13

Rumor: Adobe Prepping Lawsuit Against Apple

This whole Apple/Adobe spat is about to get a lot uglier, according to IT World. Their sources say Adobe is prepping for a major lawsuit against Apple in the coming weeks. The updated SDK that was released with the iPhone 4.0 dev kit seems to be the last straw, with its new rules banning apps…

Tech News Adam Frucci Apr 13

99 iPad Apps, Reviewed

Step Into My Office On The Ocean Floor

Chris Evans Will Also Play The 98-Pound Version Of Steve Rogers

Mildly Stalking My Fusion Sites Is Fun

The Best of Last Night’s Dune Commentary Twack

de Caires Taylor’s Art

ARRI Alexa Camera Shoots Beautiful Video with Little Light

The Alternate Reality Wizard of Oz Is Perverse Fun

Is Spanking Responsible For Global War?

In Safety Study, Sheep on Meth Are Shocked With Tasers

34 Ways the Giz Staff Has Been Humiliated by You, Our Readers

Apple Finally Gets Its Patent for That “iPhone” Thing

Educational Video Teaches Us That Harry Potter Is Actually Hitler Or The Devil — You Pick

MacBook Pro 15-inch Core i7 Benchmarked: It’s So Fast

Anything Can Happen In Your Science Fiction Novel — But It Probably Shouldn’t

What iPhone OS 4 Doesn’t Give the iPhone 3G

Two Haikus For A Blind Ninja Lawyer

Gattaca’s Creator Heads Into Post-Apocalyptic World Of Immortals

Pilotless Navy Helicopter Busts Cocaine Deal During Trial Run

Rumor: Adobe Prepping Lawsuit Against Apple

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