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Mike Vogel “Very Excited” By His Captain America Test

Last week, a long list of actors testing for Marvel’s Captain America movie was leaked. Among mostly square-jawed handsome stars was Cloverfield’s Mike Vogel. We caught up with Vogel this weekend and got his take on the Cap casting. While doing roundtables for She’s Out Of My League, the shy Vogel was pretty mum about…

Movies Meredith Woerner Mar 1 '10

This Is How You Shoot Some 3D Photos

Sports Illustrated photographer David Klutho is wielding two Nikon D700s bolted together like a double-neck guitar at the Olympics, except his rig is designed to take 3D photos, not bust out sweet guitar solos. [Russ Beinder/Flickr]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 1 '10

ER Stars Join NBC’s Citizen-Superhero Show “The Cape” And The CW’S “La Femme Nikita” Revamp

Former stars of NBC’s ER are moving over to genre shows. David Lyons will play the lead in The Cape, a cop who becomes a masked hero to clear his name. And other ER stars are joining two other shows. Meanwhile, ER’s Shane West will play the male lead in The CW’s Nikita, a revamp…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Mar 1 '10

TV This Week: The Avatar Awards Edition

What’s in store this week? New episodes of Lost, Caprica, Chuck, and the 82nd Academy Awards! Will the Academy crown James Cameron the King of the Cat-Men or blow him a big blue raspberry? Watch and see! NOTE: In honor of this week’s Oscars, I’ll be inventing a number of awards to bestow upon this…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Mar 1 '10

The Myth of iPhone App Piracy

People rarely talk about iPhone app piracy, but when they do, it sounds devastating: 90% piracy rates, $450 million in lost sales, etc. Here’s the truth: App Store piracy isn’t a big deal—and it never will be. With these shockingly high reports comes the general air that developers are being marauded and pillaged by Viking…

Tech News John Herrman Mar 1 '10

Pelikon MorphPad Combines a Morphing QWERTY with a Touchpad

In the current smartphone market, you need to choose between LCD touchscreens (incredible UI versatility) and real QWERTY buttons (tactile feedback). But the MorphPad offers a third choice that’s somewhere in between. Little more than a proof of concept at the moment, this demo shows us a QWERTY Bluetooth remote filled with dynamic, reconfigurable buttons.…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 1 '10

Is Superman Headed To The Courtroom?

DC Comics have fired their attorney on the ongoing Superman copyright case, replacing him with a man who defended Enron CEO Jeff Skilling. Does this mean that DC are planning to finish this once and for all? Newsarama.com’s Jeff Trexler broke the news yesterday that DC have hired “super lawyer” Daniel Petrocelli to take over…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan Mar 1 '10

40-Display Home Office or Secret Missile Launching Facility

While this is still my favorite computer rig and Gizmodo’s readers setups are still very impressive, I have to admit that Lifehacker’s reader Steve Price is only second to this other computer rig on space. The specs make me dizzy. https://gizmodo.com/kickass-computer-rig-looks-like-death-star-combat-stati-303759 The whole setup is composed by 40 24″ panoramic monitors, driven by six computers…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 1 '10

How Much It Actually Costs to Publish an Ebook vs. a Real Book

Ebooks negate the most obvious costs of hardcover books: No dead trees, ink, warehouse or shelf storage, so of course they’re cheaper. In fact, isn’t $12.99 for an ebook just a little bit pricey? Wellll, the NYT breaks it down. Here’s a chart using the data Motoko Rich has dug up, reflecting the average cost…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 1 '10

At Last The Protons Are Getting Ready To Smash In The Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest physics experiment, is finally ramping up to do some serious proton smashing. Over the weekend, scientists began cycling protons through the miles-long accelerator. Over at Symmetry Breaking, Daisy Yuhas reports: The beams had an energy of 450 billion electron volts (GeV), which is the energy at which they…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 1 '10

“Clueless For Vampires” Will Save Us From Twilight’s Fey Vampires

In the midst of a vampire-movie flood, there’s one film we’re very excited about: Amy Heckerling’s Vamps. Besides bringing back Heckerling’s partnership with Alicia Silverstone, it sounds pretty clever clever according to what the lead, Krysten Ritter, told us. Spoilers… We caught up with the hilarious Krysten Ritter at the roundtables for her up-and-coming film…

Movies Meredith Woerner Mar 1 '10

The Wrath of God This Weekend

This weekend’s Chilean earthquake was 8.8 magnitude, among the most powerful in recorded history. This is how its 66.6 exajoules of energy spread across the Pacific, as shown by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The earthquake—which so far has resulted in more than 700 dead people— was the equivalent of the explosion of 15.8…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 1 '10

Western Digital My Passport Studio Drives, Now With E-Paper

Don’t expect to read a book on ’em, but Western Digital’s latest My Passport Studio hard drives feature a customizable e-paper display that stays on even when the drive is unplugged. (e-paper is all the rage in external drives lately, and we’ve already seen Western Digital make the upgrade in their larger externals.) https://gizmodo.com/wd-puts-e-labels-on-my-book-elite-and-studio-includes-5374989 Aside…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 1 '10

Army Looks For Many-Armed Medical Robots

Calling all inventors and robot creators! The US military wants the fruits of your labors, and not for the purposes of killing people. No, this time, they’re looking for something a little more helpful and healing. New Scientist reports that the military are looking for inventors to provide ideas for an autonomous robot that can…

io9 Graeme McMillan Mar 1 '10

What Will Americans Of The Future Look Like?

In 1910, the New York Tribune published this photo composite of what a “future American” might look like. Time magazine repeated the experiment in 1993 with a computer-generated blend of faces. Could either be right? SF author Nalo Hopkinson called attention to the 1910 image on twitter, asking, “Who’s missing in this pic?” In retrospect,…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 1 '10

Choose One: The Archos 7 and Archos 8 Home ‘Tablets’ Each Cost $200

Archos has never made bad products, but their PMPs have definitely grown less relevant over the last few years. But now? Now two Android-wielding Archos Home Tablets will each cost only about $200. The Archos 7 Home Tablet is pretty much just a refresh to their existing Archos 5 Internet Tablet—it’s a 7-inch touchscreen Android…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 1 '10

Nic Cage Versus Gandalf: Who’d Win? We Asked The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

We cornered Nic Cage’s wizard in training, Jay Baruchel, to find out just how magical Jerry Bruckheimer’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice is going to be. Find out how the movie opens, and who would win a Gandalf Vs. Cage sorcery throw-down. We caught up with Baruchel, doing press for She’s Out Of My League and managed to…

Movies Meredith Woerner Mar 1 '10

Google Must Delete Raw, Uncensored Street View Photos Within Six Months In UK, Or EU Regulators Will Be Mighty Unhappy

After villagers chased the Street View cars away in Buckinghamshire, England, it became pretty obvious last year that a lot of Brits were unhappy having their houses and streets documented online. Now, European regulators have told Google they must delete the raw images obtained by the streetcars within six months. Google currently updates Street View…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 1 '10

Netgear’s Universal Wi-Fi Internet Adapter Connects Consoles and TVs Alike

The Netgear Universal Wi-Fi Internet Adapter can connect anything with an ethernet port to your 802.11n network, be it an Xbox 360 or a TV. But so can many other devices on the market. What’s better about this one? Much like the Xbox 360 Wireless N adapter, Netgear’s latest wireless N adapter is tiny, easily…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 1 '10

The eviGroup Paddle Tablet’s Scale UI Leaves Me Queasy

With more tablets being announced each day, there’s a lot of pressure on market entrants to stand out. A custom user interface is a great way to do that! The eviGroup Paddle‘s stop-the-ride-I-wanna-get-off Scale UI, less so. See for yourself: The Paddle actually looks like a decent little tablet: 10.1-inch multitouch screen, 1.6GHz Atom N270…

Tech News Brian Barrett Mar 1 '10

Mike Vogel “Very Excited” By His Captain America Test

This Is How You Shoot Some 3D Photos

ER Stars Join NBC’s Citizen-Superhero Show “The Cape” And The CW’S “La Femme Nikita” Revamp

TV This Week: The Avatar Awards Edition

The Myth of iPhone App Piracy

Pelikon MorphPad Combines a Morphing QWERTY with a Touchpad

Is Superman Headed To The Courtroom?

40-Display Home Office or Secret Missile Launching Facility

How Much It Actually Costs to Publish an Ebook vs. a Real Book

At Last The Protons Are Getting Ready To Smash In The Large Hadron Collider

“Clueless For Vampires” Will Save Us From Twilight’s Fey Vampires

The Wrath of God This Weekend

Western Digital My Passport Studio Drives, Now With E-Paper

Army Looks For Many-Armed Medical Robots

What Will Americans Of The Future Look Like?

Choose One: The Archos 7 and Archos 8 Home ‘Tablets’ Each Cost $200

Nic Cage Versus Gandalf: Who’d Win? We Asked The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Google Must Delete Raw, Uncensored Street View Photos Within Six Months In UK, Or EU Regulators Will Be Mighty Unhappy

Netgear’s Universal Wi-Fi Internet Adapter Connects Consoles and TVs Alike

The eviGroup Paddle Tablet’s Scale UI Leaves Me Queasy

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