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Fringe Teases Explanations And Multiple Bishops In Season Finale

What is Olivia’s power? What about Peter’s secret? The Fringe season finale reveals some secrets and unveils many more, if the stars and producers’ hints at their Paley Festival appearance is anything to go by. Amongst the spoilers revealed during Thursday night’s Fringe appearance at Paleyfest were promises that we’ll find out the connection between…

Television Graeme McMillan Apr 26

A Geeky Tribute to the Late Bea Arthur

Call it a stretch all you want, but today I was wracking my brain trying to figure out ways to pay tribute to Bea Arthur on a gadget blog. I think I’ve figured it out. With a little help from an earlier tribute by Neatorama, I learned about, and will bring to you, two geektastic…

Tech News Jack Loftus Apr 26

The Star Trek Tie-In JJ Abrams Didn’t Want To See

Spock in a bathtub with another man? Somehow, we don’t think that an image that JJ Abrams wanted people to have in mind with the new Trek so close. Click through for Abrams’ PR nightmare. The video below is actually an ad for the new album from Star Trek-tribute band Warp 11, "I Don’t Want…

io9 Graeme McMillan Apr 26

Chalk Drawing Depicts Epic Browser War (With A Touch of Conan)

What is best in life? To crush other browsers, see their worm-ridden code driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their fanboys. And if the whole thing is depicted in a chalk drawing, so be it. And it was, so here’s the details. The chalk drawing was delivered to us fresh from the…

Tech News Jack Loftus Apr 26

World’s Crappiest Projector (As Reviewed By Gizmodo) On Sale Now At Woot

If you want in on a projector that Gizmodo once dubbed the “world’s crappiest projector,” head over to Woot right now. It’s been marked down considerably, and is still the worst ever. [Woot Thanks, Akif] https://gizmodo.com/worlds-crappiest-projector-reviewed-327587

Tech News Jack Loftus Apr 26

World of Warcraft Runs on iPhone… Mostly

We found a video showing an iPhone running World of Warcraft. It looks surprisingly full-featured, but this isn’t a standalone app— more of an evolution of what we’ve seen before. https://gizmodo.com/world-of-warcraft-on-the-iphone-kinda-276399 We don’t think it’s fake; if it is, it’s an unbelievably elaborate one and we’d prefer to think nobody is willing to put in…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Apr 25

KGB Notebooks Online Reveal the Thoughts of Science Spies

If you like retro-futuristic spy tales, you will be intrigued by this collection of KGB spy notebooks, translated online, created during the height of the Cold War. They’re all about stealing science secrets. Posted by the Cold War International History Project, there are several notebooks that have been translated in their entirety, and it gives…

io9 Annalee Newitz Apr 25

Portable NES Gets Light Gun, Remains Smaller Than the Cartridges It Plays

The oddly-proportioned portable NES called the FC Mobile is great because it plays actual NES cartridges. Now, with the addition of a light gun, TV-out, and external controllers, the FC Mobile II is even better. The new version is sleeker and way better looking than the original, but the new features turn it into a…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Apr 25

Buck Rogers #0 Makes Fighting Giant Amoebas Look Pretty Fun

Dynamite’s Buck Rogers comic series starts with a whole lot of Buck kicking ass (if giant amoebas had them, which I kind of doubt) and taking names (which, actually, the amoebas also don’t have). The issue starts right in with an unconscious Buck Rogers being held captive by the aforementioned giant alien amoebas, the Ganymedians…

Books & Comics Alyssa Johnson Apr 25

Kite Aerial Photography: The Camera Places Its Life In Your Hands

Instructables user Mikeasaurus used household items— including thumbtacks and a Bic pen— to make a remotely-triggered rig for his kite, compatible with any camera. Well, any camera he felt comfortable dangling off a kite. As much as we love complicated, Arduino-based wonders of homemade coding, sometimes it’s nice to see a simple, MacGuyvered mechanical creation.…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Apr 25

Iron Man’s Cartoon Tarnishes His Name, Armor

New animated series Iron Man: Armored Adventures premiered in the US last night, finally answering the question “What if they made a cartoon about Iron Man that completely lost everything that made the movie good?” It has to be said, Armored Adventures is so different from the Iron Man movie – or the original Iron…

Television Graeme McMillan Apr 25

Screen Recording to Come Baked In to Snow Leopard’s Quicktime Player

The new Quicktime X Player, which will come with this summer’s Snow Leopard upgrade, has a cool new feature: Like Snapz, it’ll record motion on the screen. Screen recording has been an option in the Snow Leopard betas, but hasn’t actually done anything until the release of build 10A335 this Thursday. It’s a nice little…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Apr 25

Bioshock’s Cost Too High For Studio

Hope you weren’t holding your breath for Gore Verbinski‘s movie version of Bioshock. Universal have put the movie on hold over concerns about the high budget, and may push filming overseas to keep costs down. Variety report that Verbinski’s adaptation of the video game was preparing to shoot in Los Angeles when Universal executives got…

Movies Graeme McMillan Apr 25

Tesla-Smart Collaboration Produces Underwhelming Electric Car

The Smart fortwo seems like a perfect candidate for the electric makeover, and with Tesla lending its expertise to the project, we all expected an impressive showing. But to be honest, we’re not thrilled. https://jalopnik.com/tesla-to-supply-battery-packs-for-the-smart-ev-5130390 The fortwo is a tiny, tiny car, and we’re sort of surprised it took so long to be fitted with…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Apr 25

We May All Die From Swine Flu

Forget avian flu; a “swine flu” that’s already killed eighteen people in Mexico seems to have come to the US, and the World Health Organization are discussing whether or not to declare it a pandemic. The virus may be called a “swine flu,” but it mixes genes from pig, bird and human flus in a…

io9 Graeme McMillan Apr 25

Shots of the 36-Foot Saturn V Model Launch: That’s a Big Rocket

Readers Ben Kennedy and Mike Liszka sent shots of today’s launch of the monstrous Saturn V model rocket. “Model rocket” doesn’t really convey the enormity of this thing, check out the gallery and video below. https://gizmodo.com/largest-scale-model-rocket-in-history-blasts-off-on-apr-5219723 [Thanks, Ben and Mike!]

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Apr 25

Why You Should Give Heroes A Second Chance

We can all agree that NBC’s Heroes has floundered pretty badly for awhile. But as the third season ends this week, here’re some reasons why you should tune in again when it returns this fall. The Writing Has Improved No, really. It’s very tempting to give most of the credit for this to the return…

Television Graeme McMillan Apr 25

Introducing Glowing Puppy Cam

Okay, they’re not on a 24-7 webcam yet, but this cloned beagle is part of a litter of the world’s first translucent dogs. Yes, you read that right. Under certain lights, this puppy’s proteins glow. The pup in question – Ruby Puppy – is one of four cloned by a team of scientists in South…

io9 Graeme McMillan Apr 25

Windows 7 Tablet Capabilities Make Tablet PCs, and You, Smarter

Tablet PCs usually seem like a great idea until you actually use them, but the Windows 7 team has been working hard to make the platform more usable than ever— especially for students. New features for Windows 7 include recognition of mathematical formulas and East Asian languages, as well as the addition of a soft…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Apr 25

The Ever-Deepening Mystery Surrounding Wolverine’s Leak

When the workprint of X-Men Origins: Wolverine leaked onto the internet, Fox reacted quickly by stating that the workprint was significantly different to the finished movie, including missing key scenes. A new report disagrees. According to someone who’s seen the finished movie, the workprint pretty much was the finished movie: Well, having seen the finished…

Movies Graeme McMillan Apr 25

Fringe Teases Explanations And Multiple Bishops In Season Finale

A Geeky Tribute to the Late Bea Arthur

The Star Trek Tie-In JJ Abrams Didn’t Want To See

Chalk Drawing Depicts Epic Browser War (With A Touch of Conan)

World’s Crappiest Projector (As Reviewed By Gizmodo) On Sale Now At Woot

World of Warcraft Runs on iPhone… Mostly

KGB Notebooks Online Reveal the Thoughts of Science Spies

Portable NES Gets Light Gun, Remains Smaller Than the Cartridges It Plays

Buck Rogers #0 Makes Fighting Giant Amoebas Look Pretty Fun

Kite Aerial Photography: The Camera Places Its Life In Your Hands

Iron Man’s Cartoon Tarnishes His Name, Armor

Screen Recording to Come Baked In to Snow Leopard’s Quicktime Player

Bioshock’s Cost Too High For Studio

Tesla-Smart Collaboration Produces Underwhelming Electric Car

We May All Die From Swine Flu

Shots of the 36-Foot Saturn V Model Launch: That’s a Big Rocket

Why You Should Give Heroes A Second Chance

Introducing Glowing Puppy Cam

Windows 7 Tablet Capabilities Make Tablet PCs, and You, Smarter

The Ever-Deepening Mystery Surrounding Wolverine’s Leak

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