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Twitterati To Follow At Comic Con

Didn’t get passes to Comic Con? Looking for even more obsessive coverage than what you’ll find here on io9? Fear not. Twitter’s got you covered snugger than a lightsaber-slashed Tauntaun. Here’s the Twitter accounts you’ll want to follow this week. For starters, you’ll want to be following Team io9: •@io9 (top stories from io9), @Annaleen…

io9 Ray Wert Jul 23

“Tetsuo: The Iron Man” Gets A Crazy English Sequel

Fans of the Japanese cult series Tetsuo got a welcome surprise this afternoon at Comic-Con: Director Shinya Tsukamoto announced that he’s made an English-language sequel, coming out in 2010, called Tetsuo: The Bullet Man. We saw a ten-minute clip. Hailed as one of the greatest Japanese cyberpunk movies of all time, Tetsuo: The Iron Man…

Movies Annalee Newitz Jul 23

From The Floor: Bronze Monsters, Snarky Fans, And Clone Troopers

Comic Con-goers have pulled out all the stops, and we wanted to show you exactly what you may be missing on the big stretch of convention floor. Here’s our gallery of lego-made crotch shots, green girls and glorious displays.

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 23

Half of Next-Gen Console Owners Are Playing on Standard-Def TVs

It’s easy for those of us with HDTVs to forget that not everyone has them yet. And Epic’s Mark Rein’s stat that slightly over half of Gears of War 2 players played it on an SDTV really brings that home. If you’re wondering why Microsoft and Sony are going to drag this current generation of…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jul 23

Bared Chests And Blood Dominate New Moon Clips

The moment Twilight fans have been waiting for has arrived: the New Moon panel and the premiere of two clips starring Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson‘s abs. Here’s what we were able to decipher, over the screaming fans. After waiting hours in line and sitting through trailers for gorey slasher films, Twilight fans were rewarded…

io9 Lauren Davis Jul 23

DIY Fixes for the Palm Pre’s Unfortunate “Oreo” Effect

The Pre Oreo effect—as in, twisting an Oreo—is definitely an unwanted and unpleasant flaw some have experienced in the Pre’s hardware. Pre Central has a few DIY, probable-warranty-voiding methods to fix the problem. Though Palm or Sprint will likely replace a Pre with obvious wiggle, sometimes you just want to get your hands dirty and…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jul 23

Palm Pre Fixes iTunes Sync!

Some healthy escalation in the Palm vs. Apple iTunes scuffle: Though Apple tried to block the Pre from syncing with iTunes, Palm has struck back with WebOS update 1.1, which un-breaks Pre-iTunes coupling and adds some great new features. https://gizmodo.com/confirmed-itunes-8-2-1-breaks-pre-syncing-5315386 There are a ton of minor fixes to the Pre, which you can read about…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jul 23

A Photo of a Burn From a Flaming iPod

By now have probably heard a story or two about flaming iPods. After a lengthy investigation, a Seattle TV station managed to score documents from the Consumer Product Safety Commission that shed light on how common this problem really is. https://gizmodo.com/ipod-touch-fires-up-kids-pants-suing-mom-says-5169344 It took more than 7-months for KIRO 7 Consumer Investigator Amy Clancy to get…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 23

Killing Bunnies With Dead Monitors

That’s what this careless person is doing by leaving this old Apple monitor on the street, since it’s probably going to a dump, where all the toxins inside like lead will leak out. Which kills bunnies.

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 23

NGC 1097 Is Watching You With Its Black Hole Eye

NASA’s Spitzer telescope captured this stunning image of the giant black hole at the center of the galaxy NGC 1097. It also reveals rings of stars and turbulent star formation, creating a creepy eye effect at its center. This galaxy is similar to ours in some ways. Both the Milky Way and NGC 1097 are…

io9 StephenGoldmeier Jul 23

Would You Pay More To Have Your Gadgets Made In The US?

The iPhone suicide story raises several questions about ethics and the bottom line. One of the most interesting, perhaps, involves the issue of outsourcing in general. https://gizmodo.com/perspective-on-the-iphone-suicide-guy-died-over-a-f-5321276 Let’s be honest here, a company like Apple doesn’t get where it is by spending top dollar for manufacturing and labor. And that’s how things like this happen—as…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 23

Jeff Bezos Issues A Personal Apology for Kindle Debacle

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has released his own response to the Kindle book debacle. While his response comes a bit late, it seems genuine. Hopefully he really has taken all the criticism to heart and we never see a similar incident again. https://gizmodo.com/big-brother-amazon-remotely-deletes-purchased-copies-of-5317180 This is an apology for the way we previously handled illegally sold…

Commerce Don Nguyen Jul 23

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

Car-mounted grills, fresh shellfish, and ocean-proof suits – beat the summer heat with a few minutes of man time on the computer browsing the week’s best from Uncrate. This week at Uncrate: We get ready for serious sailing in the Helly Hansen Ocean Racing Suit, jam out to Ill Communication Remastered by Beastie Boys, and…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 23

The Teen Wolf You Never Saw, Sadly

A surprise announcement from Jeph Loeb at this afternoon’s Mondo Marvel panel: There may be a Teen Wolf 3 – but there’s one particular actor who won’t be involved. Surprise spoilers ahead. When prompted by a fan question (and then even more prompting from Marvel’s Jim McCann), Teen Wolf creator Loeb talked about the third…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jul 23

Idea of the Day: Use Your Hand Puppet As a Cellphone Case

Kermit: “See? It fits.” True. And here’s the proof. Like I said in Twitter, this is the funniest and wrongest image you will see this month. Probably this year. Next: An iPhone up Walt Mosspuppet’s buttocks. [Thanks David, for letting an internet meme destroy the last of my childhood memories] https://gizmodo.com/walt-mosspuppet-gizmodo-makes-me-want-to-vomit-in-my-5320704

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 23

Meet the Arc Gun, the Latest Discovery in Non-Human Technology

The Arc Gun—the most recent non-human weaponry discovery by the Multi-National United—is one bad-ass piece. It fires a huge charge of electricity to its target, kind of like a bolt of lightening, heating the target enough to cause extreme burns and rapid molecular expansion of gas and fluid. In a soft biological or animal target,…

io9 Chrissie Lamond Jul 23

Tim Burton Confirms Dark Shadows. Vampire Johnny Depp?

Tim Burton has confirmed that his next project will be remaking ABC’s vampire soap Dark Shadows, whose rights are rumored to belong to Johnny Depp. This could mean we’ll finally see our Johnny Depp vampire dreams come true. At the Alice In Wonderland press conference, people cornered Burton about his next rumored movie project Dark…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 23

Marvel Plans To Take Pity On Your Pocketbook

Fans feeling as if you have to buy every book that Marvel publishes in order to follow their favorite characters can take one piece of good news from the Mondo Marvel panel this afternoon: No more crossovers. Well, for awhile. Asked whether or not Marvel’s current Dark Reign branding and cross-continuity will lead into another…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jul 23

Bill Gates: My 1979 Memories

Our Gizmodo ’79 celebration may have ended last week, but there’s room for a final post, written by famed retiree and mosquito wrangler Bill Gates. It’s no joke: Gates read the series then sent this in: https://gizmodo.com/bill-gates-just-unleashed-a-swarm-of-live-mosquitoes-on-5146564 I read those 1979 stories all last week, and it put me in a nostalgic mood, so wanted…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Jul 23

What Does It Take to See Avatar at Comic Con?

With scenes from Avatar and New Moon screening today, it’s no surprise that the line to get into SDCC’s screening room was littered with tents and sleeping bags. We learned the secrets of extreme line-waiting from the folks in front. Twilighters, Tim Burton fans, and people looking to get a glimpse of James Cameron’s latest…

io9 Lauren Davis Jul 23

Twitterati To Follow At Comic Con

“Tetsuo: The Iron Man” Gets A Crazy English Sequel

From The Floor: Bronze Monsters, Snarky Fans, And Clone Troopers

Half of Next-Gen Console Owners Are Playing on Standard-Def TVs

Bared Chests And Blood Dominate New Moon Clips

DIY Fixes for the Palm Pre’s Unfortunate “Oreo” Effect

Palm Pre Fixes iTunes Sync!

A Photo of a Burn From a Flaming iPod

Killing Bunnies With Dead Monitors

NGC 1097 Is Watching You With Its Black Hole Eye

Would You Pay More To Have Your Gadgets Made In The US?

Jeff Bezos Issues A Personal Apology for Kindle Debacle

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

The Teen Wolf You Never Saw, Sadly

Idea of the Day: Use Your Hand Puppet As a Cellphone Case

Meet the Arc Gun, the Latest Discovery in Non-Human Technology

Tim Burton Confirms Dark Shadows. Vampire Johnny Depp?

Marvel Plans To Take Pity On Your Pocketbook

Bill Gates: My 1979 Memories

What Does It Take to See Avatar at Comic Con?

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