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Alex Trebek Explains Jeopardy!’s Tech: “I Look Better in High-Def”

Trebek, he of the condescending interviews and phantom mustache, recently talked to Wired about the surprisingly myriad changes his program has made over the years to adapt to new technology. Spoiler: the internet is important. Jeopardy! is far and away the best game show of all time, but I can’t imagine why anyone would’ve gone…

Television Dan Nosowitz Feb 7

Futurama Wanders Yonder With Classic DVD Finale

Last night, we had a sweet tryst with the Planet Express gang. NYCC screened the fourth direct-to-DVD movie Into The Wild Green Yonder for hundreds of Futurama fanatics. Watching “Into the Wild Green Yonder,” the fourth and final installment in Futurama’s mostly excellent series of direct-to-DVD releases, I was reminded of a Simpsons commentary (or…

Movies Harry Shuldman Feb 7

Nationalistic Canadians Sculpt Giant BlackBerry Out of Ice

Who says Canada sucks for gadgets? Oh, wait. Well, Ottawa’s Winterlude festival includes this huge icy BlackBerry (Curve 8900?), showing hometown hero RIM’s contribution to the gadget world. Way to represent, eh? [thanks, Ryan!] https://gizmodo.com/why-canada-sucks-for-gadget-lovers-5020940

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Feb 7

Emissary’s Web Series Shows Us The Best Within Ourselves

Will Emissary be one of the great sci-fi series of next year, or one of the greatest failures? After attending the NYCC panel, we’re still unsure, but hopeful. Smallville’s Phil Morris compared his new web series Emissary to the upcoming movie Black Dynamite (in which he costars), which Michael Jai White sold to studios on…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Feb 7

How On-Field Football Turns Into Seamless Television

The quick composition of today’s football games, with footage coming from multiple cameras focused all around the stadium, has to be compiled and edited with incredible speed and confidence. That’s where Bob Fishman comes in. The Atlantic has a great article about Fishman, known as Fish, who directs live football games on the fly. This…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Feb 7

We’ve Seen Rorschach’s Face! Plus, Gibbons Talks Watchmen 2

Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons popped by with new exclusive footage. And even though Gibbons joked with the eager crowd that the new footage was “not a squid,” it was possibly just as exciting. Spoilers. First, we were shown the first 18 minutes, which io9 has luckily seen before and wrote about in great detail earlier……

Movies Meredith Woerner Feb 7

Good Design Can Save The World… Says Designer

Is the only way to save the future to do the wrong thing? Graphic designer John Bielenberg won’t go that far… but he does think that the key may be thinking the wrong thing. Bielenberg is somewhat of an optimist when it comes to the future, and how designers can help shape it: We’re at…

io9 Graeme McMillan Feb 7

How To: Hack Android For Multitouch Web Browsing on the T-Mobile G1

Android’s new 1.1 update doesn’t include multitouch because Google is scared of Apple. We are not, however, and nor should you be-follow our guide to get iPhone-like multitouch browsing on your G1 right now. As teased yesterday, this update will also give you all the new Android 1.1 firmware features, so if you haven’t received…

Tech News John Mahoney Feb 7

Absurd Big Man Japan Delights In Weirding You Out

More a ramshackle collection of setpieces and ideas than a fully formed movie, Big Man Japan is alternatively funny, touching, and baffling. Though not an unqualified success, it’s hard to hate something so gleefully bizarre. Made in 2007, Big Man Japan screened yesterday at Comic Con. Ostensibly a TV documentary, the film follows a few…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Feb 7

Panettierre: I’m Not Leaving Heroes

The rumors have been circulating about one of Heroes’ female leads trying to leave the series before her contract is up, but Hayden Panettierre is claiming that, if the rumors are true, it ain’t her. The rumor that either Panettierre or Ali Larter was looking to leave NBC’s superhero series broke last month, but Panettierre…

Television Graeme McMillan Feb 7

Swimming Pool Isolation Helmet Telephone Concept Is the Worst Idea Since Unsliced Bread

Here’s another for the “solutions to problems that don’t exist” file: how to make phone calls in a swimming pool while looking like a cross between an alien and an idiot. So apparently you strap on this big goofy metal helmet and those other metal baubles keep you floating. The designers call it a “meeting…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Feb 7

Twilight Lite Gets Smallville Treatment At The CW

With Smallville’s fate still undecided after this season, is the CW’s future more undead than superheroic? The network has picked up book series The Vampire Diaries to turn into a weekly dose of Twilight. We want to be cynical about the network’s move to turn LJ Smith’s series of vampire romance novels into a possible…

Television Graeme McMillan Feb 7

CT Scans of iPhone: Safer Than Exploratory Surgery

A NYC med student decided to use a research CT scanner to take a peek at the innards of stuff he had lying around, including an iPhone, iBook, and electric razor. Objects scanned include the electronics we’re interested in as well as various toys and food items. There’s been no word as yet about what…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Feb 7

The Movie That Gives Mad Science A Bad Name

Check out this freaktastic bestiality/surgery scene from The Animal, starring Rob Schneider. Yes, the movie’s just as awful as you could imagine, but with an extra layer of trippy dog-in-surgical-mask dance remix insanity. So if you’re still able to comprehend actual language, and your brain hasn’t been fused into a lump of putty after that…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 7

Family Life to be Altered Greatly by 21st Century (1968)

The January 2, 1968 Lima News (Lima, OH) ran the third in a series of articles based on research by the Commission on the Year 2000 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The third in the series dealt with life, work and family issues humanity would face in the year 2000. As I’ve…

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 6

It’s Your Friday Night Battlestar Commenter Liveblog

That was a helluva cliffhanger last week – the entire Fleet hangs in the balance as Zarek and Gaeta lead a mutiny on the Galactica. Tell us what you’re thinking as tonight’s episode unfolds! Hang out with your fellow io9 commenters on our giant cyber-couch and vent as the show unfolds. I’ll post a review…

Television Annalee Newitz Feb 6

Hands-On With JaJah’s iPod touch VoIP App

Jajah isn’t the first VoIP app for the iPhone/iPod touch, but it’s the first that let’s you send/receive SMS messages over wi-fi. I got a brief look at it, and so far, so good. https://gizmodo.com/jajah-app-now-turns-your-ipod-touch-into-a-voip-phone-5147282 Previously, the JaJah app for the iPhone was used as a middleman to connect people on VoIP to your cellphone,…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 6

Three Writers Who Will Rule Science Fiction’s Future

The Guardian took a stab at naming all the science fiction novels you must read to avoid being labeled an uneducated brute. And now Guardian blogger Damien G. Walker has named three younger writers who should have been on that list. Three up-and-coming writers worth paying attention to are this year’s Campbell Award winner, Mary…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Feb 6

The Minimalistic Concrete Block Humidifier Makes You Look Less Feeble

Having humidifiers in your home can sometimes change its aesthetic atmosphere, sometimes even making you look sickly. But with this Concrete Block Humidifier’s simple, yet ultra-sleek design, you can now avoid drying up—in style. Although a slab of concrete may seem like a strange choice of material for a humidifier, this concrete has a “unique…

Tech News Andi Wang Feb 6

Kindle 2 Official Images and Price Leak: $359 on February 24

Mobileread just got a bunch of official-looking Kindle 2 photos, which show it in various states being held and read, plus info that it’s being released for $359 on February 24. From the photos, it looks definitely a LOT thinner than the first, and maybe even a bit smaller too. Unless that man has gigantic…

Commerce Jason Chen Feb 6

Alex Trebek Explains Jeopardy!’s Tech: “I Look Better in High-Def”

Futurama Wanders Yonder With Classic DVD Finale

Nationalistic Canadians Sculpt Giant BlackBerry Out of Ice

Emissary’s Web Series Shows Us The Best Within Ourselves

How On-Field Football Turns Into Seamless Television

We’ve Seen Rorschach’s Face! Plus, Gibbons Talks Watchmen 2

Good Design Can Save The World… Says Designer

How To: Hack Android For Multitouch Web Browsing on the T-Mobile G1

Absurd Big Man Japan Delights In Weirding You Out

Panettierre: I’m Not Leaving Heroes

Swimming Pool Isolation Helmet Telephone Concept Is the Worst Idea Since Unsliced Bread

Twilight Lite Gets Smallville Treatment At The CW

CT Scans of iPhone: Safer Than Exploratory Surgery

The Movie That Gives Mad Science A Bad Name

Family Life to be Altered Greatly by 21st Century (1968)

It’s Your Friday Night Battlestar Commenter Liveblog

Hands-On With JaJah’s iPod touch VoIP App

Three Writers Who Will Rule Science Fiction’s Future

The Minimalistic Concrete Block Humidifier Makes You Look Less Feeble

Kindle 2 Official Images and Price Leak: $359 on February 24

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