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Wacom Intuos4 Wireless Review: The Joy of Freedom

Here’s the story: I’m in love with the Wacom Intuos4 Wireless tablet. Free from cables, it’s the best graphics tablet experience I’ve ever had. Smoother Than the Smoothest Thing The Wacom Intuos4 was quite a leap from the Intuos3. It doubled the pressure sensitive levels, and it added multifunction Touch Ring trackpad, on-screen radial menus,…

Reviews Jesus Diaz Mar 9

Energizer Battery Charger Comes with a Software Backdoor

If you’ve bought the Energizer DUO USB battery charger, you might want to uninstall the software immediately. Why? Because it comes pre-loaded with a backdoor that can let someone remotely access your computer. The United States Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has warned that the software included in the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 9

Apocalypse Cakes Taste Like The End Of The World

Looking for the right bundt for The Rapture? The perfect pie for global pandemics? You just might find your recipe at Apocalypse Cakes, quite possibly the internet’s only doomsday-themed pastry blog. The final word for end time epicures, Apocalypse Cakes seeks to tickle your tastebuds as humanity goes extinct. Its founder(s) have a simple philosophy…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 9

Gadget Deals of the Day

The savings really pile up today. Dell serving up a special buy two offer on the ultimate hackintosh, Final Fantasy XIII launches today and there’s the special bundled Xbox too, and don’t forget to pick up the free SXSW tunes. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-10v-into-the-ultimate-sn-5389166 Top Deals: • 2 Dell Mini 10v Netbooks with WinXP for $398 (normally $550).…

Tech News Kevin Lee Mar 9

Liev Schreiber Wants To Be In Wolverine 2

At a Repo Men press conference today, Liev Schreiber confirmed that Hugh Jackman has read the Wolverine 2 screenplay. Even though he’s unsure whether Sabretooth will appear, he’s gung-ho to make a comeback during Logan’s Samurai saga. At a press conference for Repo Men in New York, Schreiber had the following to say about Wolverine’s…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Mar 9

Heat-Channeling Carbon Nanotubes Produce 100 Times More Energy than Li-ion Batteries

Johnny Cash can’t have known about carbon nanotubes when he sang about rings of fire, but MIT scientists have shown how they can create electrical current—about 100 times as much energy per unit of weight as lithium-ion batteries. The new experiments involved nanotubes, or submicroscopic structures just a few billionths of a meter in diameter,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Mar 9

Chuck Vs. The Well-Earned Reveal

Last night’s Chuck finally gave us something we’d been wanting since day one – and made it seem worth the wait. Also, the Ring showed that maybe they’re not completely inept before reassuring us that, yeah, they actually are. Spoilers! First off: Thank God Morgan finally knows. After his suspicions were raised earlier this season…

Television Graeme McMillan Mar 9

iTunes LP is a Bust. Time to Go Free?

Nobody cares about iTunes LP, reports Paul Bonanos. Six months into the format—one that Apple believed enough in to have a separate event—and nobody is buying. But what if it were free? https://gizmodo.com/apple-its-only-rock-and-roll-ipod-event-september-9-5349460 We’ve been discussing it in our top-secret internet chat place. Mark is certain that the LP format can be redeemed—or at least…

Tech News Joel Johnson Mar 9

Seriously, Does Anybody Need Battlestar Galactica Online?

Even if Battlestar Galactica hadn’t suffered an epic-letdown ending, we’d be dubious about the potential of a browser-based multiplayer game, set among the bedraggled last few survivors of a nearly-extinct humanity. But now? Does anybody want BSG Online? [L.A. Times]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 9

17 Modern-Day Gadgets Dragged Back to the USSR

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to turn today’s user-friendly gadgets into cold, utilitarian Soviet-era relics. It’s probably for the best that these don’t actually exist. First Place—Bobo the Teddy Second Place—Paul Vasco Third Place—Goodie to You Dot Com

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 9

The Warped Little Red Riding Hood Art We Hope Amanda Seyfried’s Film Channels

American McGee’s Alice PC game is best known for it’s warped take on the fairy tale, by making Alice suicidal orphan. His next fairy tale victim is Little Red Riding Hood, and here’s a glimpse at the gory concept art. We seriously hope Catherine Harwicke pulls inspiration from this art for her Red Riding Hood…

Movies Meredith Woerner Mar 9

So Why Can’t Skyscrapers Be Made Underwater?

Water-scraper is a concept piece entered into the eVoIo Skyscraper Competition which shows a future where people live and work underwater. Harnessing wave, wind and solar power to generate electricity, it’s a future world I’d be thrilled to live in. We’d also be able to grow food using aquaculture and hydroponic ways—though if it just…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 9

Patton Oswalt + Joss Whedon’s Firefly = Comic Book Gold?

Not content with roles in both Caprica and Dollhouse, comedian Patton Oswalt is further solidifying his geek credibility with the news that he’ll be writing a special oneshot comic sequel to Joss Whedon’s Serenity. The comic, Serenity: Float Out, follows on from the – spoiler! – death of Wash in the movie, by focusing on…

Movies Graeme McMillan Mar 9

MacHeist: Get 8 Mac Apps Worth $280 For $20

MacHeist’s nanoBundle 2 offer is almost over, which means the really good apps are on the verge of being unlocked. Already available? Tales of Monkey Island, in both Mac and PC versions. By the time you read this post, RapidWeaver should already be unlocked, and it should be very, very close to unlocking Tweetie at…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 9

Does This Transformers 3 Game Concept Art Hint At The Movie’s Alien Worlds?

An artist who’s reportedly working on the Transformers 3 tie-in game has posted a ton of concept art on his blog, including a couple of strange planets where some action takes place. Does this reflect the movie’s storyline at all? Artist Frankell Baramdyka posted two giant collections of Transformers concept art on his blog recently.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 9

Palm webOS PDK Public Beta Is Available Now

Palm’s complement to their SDK, the webOS Plug-in Development Kit (PDK), is available in beta form now. Download it here. Palm webOS PDK Public Beta Now Available Palm Demonstrates New Games at Game Developers Conference SAN FRANCISCO, Game Developers Conference (GDC), March 9, 2010 – Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) today announced that a public beta…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 9

Hannibal, Stripper Choruses And Superheroes Invade This Week’s Comics

Those who worry that no-one’s around to save the world have nothing to fear with this week’s superhero-heavy new comic releases. But for the superpower-phobic, there’s still a lot to choose from… including something to make Glen Larson proud. If superheroes are your reading bread and butter, then you’re in for a sandwich feast this…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan Mar 9

MythBusters’ Adam Savage: My Lifelong Pursuit of the Perfect Blade Runner Gun

Giz friend Adam Savage, in our estimation, can make just about anything. Here he explains the path he took to turn a toy gun into an astoundingly sharp Blade Runner pistol replica. I made my first Blade Runner pistol when I was 18, while living in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC. I stared at the VHS version…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Mar 9

The FCC Wants to Turn Part of the Wireless Spectrum Into Free Internet Service

Call me a cynic, but I’m not sure this is ever going to happen: the FCC wants to dedicate a chunk of the wireless spectrum to providing free internet service. The FCC plans to make its recommendation under the National Broadband Plan set for release next week, which has the goal of making broadband more…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 9

The Real Scifi Book Covers Of Gentlemen Broncos

In the opening credits of Gentlemen Broncos, the cast and crew’s names are superimposed onto real science fiction book covers. Eagle-eyed io9 reader Lorcan McGrane has found several of these awesome vintage covers. Compare and contrast after the jump! In Gentlemen Broncos, Jemaine Clement plays Ronald Chevalier, a science fiction novelist who steals a book…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Mar 9

Wacom Intuos4 Wireless Review: The Joy of Freedom

Energizer Battery Charger Comes with a Software Backdoor

Apocalypse Cakes Taste Like The End Of The World

Gadget Deals of the Day

Liev Schreiber Wants To Be In Wolverine 2

Heat-Channeling Carbon Nanotubes Produce 100 Times More Energy than Li-ion Batteries

Chuck Vs. The Well-Earned Reveal

iTunes LP is a Bust. Time to Go Free?

Seriously, Does Anybody Need Battlestar Galactica Online?

17 Modern-Day Gadgets Dragged Back to the USSR

The Warped Little Red Riding Hood Art We Hope Amanda Seyfried’s Film Channels

So Why Can’t Skyscrapers Be Made Underwater?

Patton Oswalt + Joss Whedon’s Firefly = Comic Book Gold?

MacHeist: Get 8 Mac Apps Worth $280 For $20

Does This Transformers 3 Game Concept Art Hint At The Movie’s Alien Worlds?

Palm webOS PDK Public Beta Is Available Now

Hannibal, Stripper Choruses And Superheroes Invade This Week’s Comics

MythBusters’ Adam Savage: My Lifelong Pursuit of the Perfect Blade Runner Gun

The FCC Wants to Turn Part of the Wireless Spectrum Into Free Internet Service

The Real Scifi Book Covers Of Gentlemen Broncos

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