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E-Book Readers Attack Science Fiction Author Over “Wal-Mart” Comments

Will bestselling science-fiction authors still be able to make a living in ten years? It may depend on the battle over e-book pricing. When author Douglas Preston weighed in on this issue, he received hate mail and negative Amazon reviews. The New York Times did a story the other day about Amazon’s move to dynamic…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Feb 17

Create Your Homegrown 3D Avatar Movie for $250

Ron and Amy Jo Proctor at Weber State Universe 3D have created a “low cost apparatus for capturing stereoscopic video”. I was sold at apparatus and the total cost: Only $250. Here’s the shopping list. • 2x Kodak Zx1 Digital Camcorders • L-Shaped Extruded Aluminum • 2x 1/4″ Nylon Washers • 3x 1/4-20 Wingnuts •…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 17

Last Chance To Win a New Camera With Which to Document Your Drunk Ass

Take this survey, email the last question to [email protected], and you could win a Canon PowerShot SD 1200 IS to snap embarrassing photos of you and your posse partying this weekend. Then let the TwitPics fly. [Rules.]

Tech News Gawkercreative Feb 17

Tarot-Inspired Flashforward Ads Offer Glimpses Of A Shiny Future

If FlashForward’s plotting was half as sleek as these Tarot-themed Brazilian ads, maybe fate wouldn’t have dealt the show the “Apathetic Audience” card. All kidding aside, we’ve got to commend Publicis, the advertising firm behind these cards, for taking what could have been a fairly pedestrian series of spots and instead transforming the show’s premise…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Feb 17

Shooting Challenge: Blow Out

Most of the time, we want a level of exposure in our photos that preserves color and detail. But who says that photography needs to be about color and detail? Which brings us to this week’s Shooting Challenge… The Challenge Allow too much light through your lens for too long to take artistic advantage of…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 17

Atheists Will Take Care Of Your Pet After The Divine Rapture, For A Price

For those of you counting down until the end of days, have you considered what’ll happen to your pets once you’re spirited away to heaven? Eternal Earth-Bound Pets has, and promises to care for your pet after the apocalypse. For $110, Earth-Bound Pets’ “network of animal activists are committed to step in when you step…

io9 Meredith Woerner Feb 17

Wave UFO Controlled By Gestures, Not Convenient, Well-Vetted Remotes

The Wave UFO appears to be the first gesture-controlled…err…R/C vehicle. DVICE explains how you steer its flight: Wave UFO Controlled By Gestures, Not Convenient, Well-Vetted Remotes …start the motor and hold your hand underneath as it begins to hover. As you move your hand laterally to the ground, the UFO moves with you. Make an…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 17

Notepod+ Is the Only Pad iNeed

Developers’ block: It’s a serious thing! It’s not easy to churn out app after app, somehow tricking the masses into giving you money for your decreasingly interesting widgets. Maybe—maybe—the Notepod+ can help. Never mind that the iPad SDK includes a full-featured emulator, which would let you test your apps live and in motion, the Notepad+,…

Tech News John Herrman Feb 17

Abandoned Coal Plant: Well, That’s Depressing

Here’s a tacit reminder from an abandoned coal plant in Hagerstown, MD, that today’s priced tech is just tomorrow’s decay…and in other news, raise your hand if you want a shiny new phone! [Photo from Zero1o1’s Flickr via boingboing]

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 17

How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

Ann and Jeff VanderMeer are almost done reading the submissions for their second steampunk anthology, which will focus much more on stories from the past decade as opposed to classic tales. And they’re noticing some big changes in the make-up of steampunk lit. Writes Jeff VanderMeer: The biggest change is that a subgenre in which…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Feb 17

SpyNet Video Watch Lets Your Kid Record You Picking Your Nose

The flagship toy in Jakks Pacific’s new SpyNet line is the Secret Mission Video Watch, a piece of wearable tech that lets spies-in-training covertly record video and audio and upload those sensitive materials to a secure website for further analysis. For my generation, Macaulay Culkin’s use of the Talkboy in Home Alone 2 was the…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 17

Britons Set World Record For Most People Dressed In Star Trek Regalia?

Just days after a lightsaber-wielding flash mob invaded Bristol, a slew of Starfleet Officers descended upon London on to celebrate the release of Star Trek Online. https://gizmodo.com/jedi-flash-mob-liberates-mall-from-the-british-empire-5471898 Organizers claimed it was the largest gathering of begarbed Trekkies ever, but how many showed? This Valentine’s Day, 99 Trek fans showed up to the London Star Trek…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 17

Meebo Is the New King of iPhone Messaging Apps

There are some very good paid instant messaging apps for the App Store, and plenty of free options too. Meebo is the first that manages to be both, with almost no compromise. Meebo was one of the first companies out of the gates with an instant message web app for the iPhone, so it’s weird…

Tech News John Herrman Feb 17

Dance In The Time Vortex With Doctor Who!

Are you ready for Doctor Who to be splashy and fun again with the Eleventh Doctor? BBC America just sent us this awesome image of the Doctor and Amy dodging Daleks and Weeping Angels in the Time Vortex. Geronimo! As always, you can right-click the image and select “save link as” to get a high-res…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Feb 17

South Korean Shipping Containers Repurposed For Optimum Sunset Observatory

Shipping containers in my mind are forever associated with grim situations seen in TV shows like Dexter or The Wire, but in South Korea they can also be observatories for viewing sunsets. Erected on the harbor of Songdo New City in Incheon, five shipping containers were recycled and placed together aiming sky-wards for the best…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Feb 17

Apple Now Has a Patent on Their Capacitive Multitouch Displays

This can’t be good for anyone but Apple—a patent app filed in 2004 has been granted for their capacitive multitouch display. UPDATE The patent is not necessarily all-encompassing, but it appears to be quite encompassing. The abstract explains the patent generally addresses: “A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 17

Joke Of The Week: Microsoft Plans To Charge For Its Mobile Operating System

What’s the biggest difference between Microsoft’s newest mobile operating system and the Google version that it will be competing against (eventually)? Microsoft will charge carriers for its OS, while Google is giving Android away for free. (The other big competitors, Apple and RIM, don’t license their operating systems to third parties.) That’s just silly. Microsoft…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Feb 17

TSA To Start Swabbing Travelers’ Hands Looking for Explosives

And you thought taking your shoes off was annoying! In the TSA’s never-ending quest to make traveling possibly safer and definitely more annoying, they’re going to start randomly swabbing passengers’ hands at airport checkpoints. Really, this makes a hell of a lot more sense than the shoe-checking and liquid-limiting that makes traveling such a pain…

Privacy & Security Adam Frucci Feb 17

Lost’s Greatest Moments Immortalized As Cartoons

Cartoonist Graham Annable recently commemorated the last season of Lost with “Foggy Memories of Lost,” a series of cartoons depicting some of the show’s most memorable scenes. Never before has Sayid beating the crap out of Ben looked so adorable. [Super Punch via Graham Annable’s Flickr]

Television Cyriaque Lamar Feb 17

NASA’s Laser Pulse ChemCam Is Destined For CSI: Mars

The best way to figure out what something’s made of? Vaporize it. With a laser. That’s NASA’s philosophy, anyway, in the form of a high-energy laser system that’s going to be mounted on the next Mars rover. PEWPEW. The laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy system (LIBS), called ChemCam, will launch next year on the Mars Curiosity. It…

Space & Spaceflight Brian Barrett Feb 17

E-Book Readers Attack Science Fiction Author Over “Wal-Mart” Comments

Create Your Homegrown 3D Avatar Movie for $250

Last Chance To Win a New Camera With Which to Document Your Drunk Ass

Tarot-Inspired Flashforward Ads Offer Glimpses Of A Shiny Future

Shooting Challenge: Blow Out

Atheists Will Take Care Of Your Pet After The Divine Rapture, For A Price

Wave UFO Controlled By Gestures, Not Convenient, Well-Vetted Remotes

Notepod+ Is the Only Pad iNeed

Abandoned Coal Plant: Well, That’s Depressing

How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

SpyNet Video Watch Lets Your Kid Record You Picking Your Nose

Britons Set World Record For Most People Dressed In Star Trek Regalia?

Meebo Is the New King of iPhone Messaging Apps

Dance In The Time Vortex With Doctor Who!

South Korean Shipping Containers Repurposed For Optimum Sunset Observatory

Apple Now Has a Patent on Their Capacitive Multitouch Displays

Joke Of The Week: Microsoft Plans To Charge For Its Mobile Operating System

TSA To Start Swabbing Travelers’ Hands Looking for Explosives

Lost’s Greatest Moments Immortalized As Cartoons

NASA’s Laser Pulse ChemCam Is Destined For CSI: Mars

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