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Sony Purchases Woody Harrelson’s Duct-Tape Superhero Epic Defendor

Good news for home-made heroes: Woody Harrelson‘s demented DIY superhero flick Defendor, in which he does a mean Christian-Bale-Batman voice, has been picked up in a seven-figure deal by Sony. Which means it might be screening near you soon. [Variety] https://gizmodo.com/fighting-crime-with-lime-juice-and-marbles-5351326

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 17 '09

What Is This?

Is this a cosmic dove in the skies of California? Maybe the aliens are telling us to chill out. Or perhaps the Holy Ghost went to grab some In-n-Out. Actually, it’s the trail of death and war. That’s the trail of an intercontinental ballistic missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The strange glow is…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 17 '09

Plan On Getting The BSG TV Movie On DVD — Or Wait A Few Months Longer

The Battlestar Galactica TV movie, “The Plan,” won’t appear this fall as originally planned. Instead, it’ll air sometime in 2010. But it’ll still come out on DVD Oct. 27, with a much longer cut than the televised version. [Chicago Tribune]

Television Charlie Jane Anders Sep 17 '09

College Students Get Windows 7 For $30

The deal page isn’t live yet, but this one’s Twitter official: Windows 7 will be just $30 for US college students. Full details are expected any minute, but for now, there’s just a placeholder. UPDATED: It’s up. The conditions of the deal, which just went live, are as simple as can be: If you’re an…

Tech News John Herrman Sep 17 '09

Computer Screen Glitches Can Be a Beautiful Thing

Appreciating the look of garbled images isn’t usually the top priority if your monitor or TV freaks-out (unless it’s scrambled porn). But the new book, Glitch: Designing Imperfection, celebrates artists who manipulate these short-lived disturbances. Take a look: Glitch took four years to come together, and the 200 or so artists it profiles were pulled…

Tech News Danny Allen Sep 17 '09

Needed at Giz Gallery ’09: Electrician!

Hey guys, to get some of the awesome stuff up and running at Giz Gallery ’09, we’re gonna need an electrician to come in and hook a few things up. Basically, we need someone to come in and install two 220v circuits, and run a few extension cords around the gallery. And we need it…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 17 '09

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

Drop-top supercars, death-defying hot sauce, and custom two-wheeled rides – jumpstart your weekend with a look at the week’s best from Uncrate. This week at Uncrate: We beef up with the PowerBell, keep B.O. at bay with Nickel Cold Sweat Deodorant, and park the gullwinged 2010 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG in the Uncrate garage. We also…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 17 '09

Gene Therapy Has Color-Blind Monkeys Seeing Red (and Green)

Genetic color-blindness may soon be a thing of the past. A team of scientists has used gene therapy to enable adult squirrel monkeys to see color for the first time, and they believe their technique could someday work on humans. Researchers at the University of Washington have been working with adult squirrel monkeys born without…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 17 '09

Motorized Stargate Pyramid Case Mod Makes My Sci-Fi Senses Giddy

This amazing case was built from scratch, and would surely make MacGyver—I mean Colonel Jack O’Neill—proud. Modeled after Stargate’s Goa’uld Ha’tak starship, the HTPC has a 5-inch PSOne screen, and its lights and motorized door are remote-controlled. It’s one of the best case jobs I’ve seen in a long time. The system is built on…

Movies Danny Allen Sep 17 '09

Visit the Planet Coruscant, Home to the Ultimate City

This is Star Wars concept designer Ralph McQuarrie’s vision of city planet Coruscant’s entertainment district – where some of the new live-action Star Wars TV series will take place. Check out Coruscant’s gorgeous and seamy sides in our gallery. We’ve gathered together the best of screen grabs and fan art to bring you the many…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 17 '09

Music Industry Wants Royalties From iTunes 30 Second Samples

Dear music industry: go fuck yourself. Music royalty groups ASCAP and BMI are harassing online music stores such as iTunes to pay performance fees not only for the songs that they sell, but for the short clips that they use as previews. You know, the things that entice people to pay for music. They want…

Tech News Adam Frucci Sep 17 '09

Viliv S7 Review: Looks So Good, Tastes So Bad

As a kid, I never ordered a deep sea submarine off the back of a cereal box only to discover it was a lousy little model. But I did fall for the promise of the Viliv S7 convertible netbook. The Price Starts at $630 (with 1.3GHz Atom, 1GB RAM, 32GB SSD, Win XP) The Verdict…

Reviews Mark Wilson Sep 17 '09

Bai Ling’s Best Role Yet: A Zombie Mermaid Who Lives In A Pool

Pet Semetary director Mary Lambert is working on a ocean horror movie starring Bai Ling as a blood-thirsty fish zombie who can materialize over any body of water. The beachy horror is called Hydrophobia. The film seems to still be in deep development stages but Nathan Philips is now being rumored to have joined up…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 17 '09

Refurbished Kindle Down to $150

Just earlier this week, I noticed a few sites excited over Amazon’s offer for a $199 refurbished first generation Kindle. But now, Amazon has dropped the price to $150. That’s half the price of a new Kindle 2 (or $70 less than a refurb Kindle 2), with all of the same core functionality (like Amazon’s…

Commerce Mark Wilson Sep 17 '09

New Brian Eno-Based iPhone App ‘Like Music For Airports Made Endless’

Bloom, Brian Eno’s first iPhone App, is still one of the best and most inventive apps in the store, so I’m pretty excited about Air, the followup. https://gizmodo.com/bloom-5085750 Developed by Sandra O’Neill and Peter Chilvers (who co-developed Bloom), Air assembles vocal and piano samples into a constantly changing and evolving composition that you control. Air…

Tech News Adam Frucci Sep 17 '09

A Major Breakthrough In Cloud Engineering

Climate change is caused in part by airborne particles that make clouds more or less reflective – thus raising or lowering temperatures on Earth. Now scientists say there are chemicals from trees that could turn cloud reflectiveness up to maximum. In a paper published in Nature this week, a group of scientists explain that boreal…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 17 '09

GoGoStand iPhone Stand Actually Fits Inside Your Wallet

When someone goes all Jerry Bruckheimery and starts his pitch with “From the creator of the Paperclip iPhone Stand,” you know you are in for something absolutely craptastic or something quite cool. The GoGoStand Gadget Stand is the latter. https://gizmodo.com/the-paperclip-iphone-ipod-touch-stand-5057005 The GoGoStand is a plastic card as small and thin as a credit card, which…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz Sep 17 '09

Ridley Scott Could Make Big Budget Vampire Films Interesting Again

Ridley Scott hopes to pair up with his Gladiator screenwriter another time, to teach this world how to make vampire movies awesome again. Together, they’ll adapt Jonathan Ainsley‘s novel The Passage. There’s just one problem: it hasn’t been released yet. John Logan will be writing an adaptation of Jonathan Ainsley’s vampire novel, The Passage, which…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 17 '09

Apple OS X Snow Leopard Outsells Tiger and Leopard Combined

At the two week mark, OS X Snow Leopard—despite having few user recognizable features—has sold more than twice the number of copies that Leopard did, and four times the number of copies that Tiger did. That makes sense given the $29 price and Apple’s higher percentage in the market these days. [NPD via Loop Insight]…

Tech News Brian Lam Sep 17 '09

Micro Sports MP3 Player Helps Up the Douche Quotient

You want to pull off John Mayer’s DoubleDouche, but you only have one Bluetooth headset. Don’t fret, because this MP3 player from Thanko fits right in your ear. https://gizmodo.com/john-mayer-pioneers-the-doubledouche-two-bluetooth-hea-388547 Less than an inch at its widest point, the .28 ounce Micro Sports MP3/WMA/WAV player comes ready to store 2GB ($55) and 4GB ($75) of tracks.…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 17 '09

Sony Purchases Woody Harrelson’s Duct-Tape Superhero Epic Defendor

What Is This?

Plan On Getting The BSG TV Movie On DVD — Or Wait A Few Months Longer

College Students Get Windows 7 For $30

Computer Screen Glitches Can Be a Beautiful Thing

Needed at Giz Gallery ’09: Electrician!

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

Gene Therapy Has Color-Blind Monkeys Seeing Red (and Green)

Motorized Stargate Pyramid Case Mod Makes My Sci-Fi Senses Giddy

Visit the Planet Coruscant, Home to the Ultimate City

Music Industry Wants Royalties From iTunes 30 Second Samples

Viliv S7 Review: Looks So Good, Tastes So Bad

Bai Ling’s Best Role Yet: A Zombie Mermaid Who Lives In A Pool

Refurbished Kindle Down to $150

New Brian Eno-Based iPhone App ‘Like Music For Airports Made Endless’

A Major Breakthrough In Cloud Engineering

GoGoStand iPhone Stand Actually Fits Inside Your Wallet

Ridley Scott Could Make Big Budget Vampire Films Interesting Again

Apple OS X Snow Leopard Outsells Tiger and Leopard Combined

Micro Sports MP3 Player Helps Up the Douche Quotient

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