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Which Is Worse: Microsoft Office 2007’s Ribbon or Adobe CS4’s Tabs?

Which do you hate most, the dumbstastic Adobe Creative Suite 4 tabbed interface or the flabbymoronic Microsoft Office 2007’s ribbon? Ready. Set. Fight! https://gizmodo.com/adobe-cs4-photoshop-and-illustrator-review-verdict-ki-5113036

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Dark Knight Takes Another Crown

Not content with a historic box office take in theaters, The Dark Knight is now just showing off by outselling all but one of this year’s other DVDs – within a week of release. The one movie that hasn’t been outsold by Chris Nolan’s behemoth this year is Marvel’s Iron Man – and that may…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Sony Is Shipping All This Stuff to CES

I can only imagine the resulting tower of unpacked boxes. [Sony Blog]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Crazy IBM ThinkPad W700ds Has Integrated Secondary Display

The new IBM ThinkPad W700 has an integrated secondary display. Foldable, 10.6 inches of it, with 768 x 1,280 pixels and LED backlight. Color us impressed. The amazing feature list doesn’t stop there. Not only you won’t have to wait to get that tri-screen MacBook Pro-ok, you will have to wait for that, because this…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Massive 900HP Shredder Consumes Gadgets in It’s 7-Foot Jaws

Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), the largest electronics recycler in the US, has unveiled a 900HP, 120,000 lb shredding system that can consume 20,000 lbs of gadget waste per hour in its 7’x6′ foot jaws. That kind of power and size make it the largest and most efficient shredder in North America. If there was such…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Long-Suppressed Gay Star Trek Episode Comes Out

David Gerrold, famous for writing the “Trouble with Tribbles” Star Trek episode, also wrote an episode that included gay characters – but it was shot down by Paramount. Now you can watch it online. To make the episode, Gerrold teamed up with the fan crew behind Star Trek: Phase II, a web series that’s intended…

Television Annalee Newitz

Last Minute Gift Deals

Wait, you don’t have enough with Mr. T and Jesus H. Christ rubber duckies and psychokiller knitted plush toys? For shame! Thankfully, we got you covered with last minute-and inexpensive-gadget deals for these holidays. https://gizmodo.com/mr-t-rubber-ducky-pities-the-bathing-fool-5113121 Today is Free Shipping Day! It’s a day when participating merchants give free shipping to online shoppers with guaranteed delivery…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The First Lady Of Star Trek Passes Away

Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the most ubiquitous actor in Star Trek, died today at age 76. The wife of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, she also provided the computer voices on every version of Trek. And she played three pivotal characters: Number One in the pilot, Nurse Chapel in the original series, and Lwaxana Troi in TNG…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Singing Supervillains Perform Their Diabolical Numbers

Dr. Horrible may have won the Internet’s heart, but he’s hardly the only supervillain with a penchant for bursting into song. We list some of the other villainous vocalists conquering the world with music. Dr. Horrible (Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog): Aspiring supervillain Dr. Horrible sings of his hatred of Captain Hammer, his unrequited love for…

io9 Lauren Davis

iLuv iSP200: A Pretty Soundbar with Clever USB Hub

While soundbars are becoming ever more popular in home theater use, the iLuv iSP200 speaker is a fairly novel design for the PC industry. While only offering 2.1 channel sound, the system does feature 32W of SRS-XT virtual surround, and each of the two speakers can be detached from the bar base and angled/positioned as…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Accelerometer Headphones Control Music Via Headbanging

One of the projects that caught our eye at NYU’s ITP winter show last night (the program that brought you Big Screens) were the Head(banger)phones, accelerometer-equipped to change the music as you bob your head. https://gizmodo.com/120-feet-of-video-art-final-exams-at-nyus-big-screens-5110633 Lee-Sean Huang attached the accelerometer to the top of the headband, and fed its data readings into the visual…

Tech News John Mahoney

Heroes Webisode Mind-Sexes Recruits, And Steals 4 Minutes Of My Life

Even as Heroes goes on hiatus for the winter, the show’s webisodes are cranking up. The Postman will be a hard act to follow, but I think we may have a winner with The Recruit. Chapter 1: Private Mills A seecrat government corporation gets a bunch o’ young marine types to volunteer for the secret…

Television Meredith Woerner

Rock Band M.I.C. Combines Microphone, Xbox Controller in One

Kotaku gave the new Mad Catz M.I.C. Rock Band mic a spin, and they really liked the added functionality it brings to the game. The price, on the other hand, got them less excited. https://kotaku.com/rock-band-m-i-c-review-the-cost-of-convenience-5112108 Essentially, the M.I.C. is a nice microphone for Rock Band/Guitar Hero, but it also has all the necessary Xbox 360…

Reviews Adam Frucci

Dell ‘Adamo’ Could Be Lighter, Thinner Than MacBook Air

According to this teaser site and this fashion site, Dell has a laptop coming that may be both lighter and thinner than the MacBook Air. The NYT visually quotes Tatelman, Dell’s VP of consumer sales of marketing, with a reaction of his “mouth [gaping] open and his eyes [darting] away.” Tatelman followed with: I think…

Tech News Jason Chen

The Lit-SF Debate Has Become A Trope In Its Own Right

Yet another literary boffin has said science fiction novels can’t be literary, and it’s (not surprisingly) sparked some controversy. Benjamin Kunkel in Dissent Magazine wrote a long exegesis on the difference between SF and literature — in a nutshell, literature has more complex characters and trickier dilemmas about the place of the individual in society.…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

BFG Tech’s Case-Mounted Touchscreen Offers Control Over Your Components

Although details are scarce, a spy shot has revealed the BFG Tech is preparing to unveil a high-end PC system with a glorious LCD touchscreen interface. We have heard the rig described as “a high-performance gaming/home theater system” with “maintenance-free liquid cooling,” but we probably won’t know the full story on the specs and touchscreen…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Water Vapor Discovered Near Black Hole 11.1 Billion Light Years Away

The discovery of water vapor in a distant quasar system has overturned established ideas about the existence of water in the early universe. This is the farthest, and thus the oldest, water ever seen in the Universe. (Because the light from this quasar took 11.1 billion years to reach Earth, it is 11.1 billion years…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Eco-Paradise That Never Was

Back in the 1970s, eco-idealists dared to dream big. Just check out this fantastic concept art from the never-produced movie version of Ernest Callenbach’s classic novel Ecotopia. Gallery below. Architect Craig Hodgetts designed this awesome art for a movie of Ecotopia, but he actually put tons of thought into how everything would work. (Look at…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Breppies: Socks for Your Earbuds

While there are some people who just cant get earbuds to fit, those with really large ear canals might benefit from Breppies—or what are essentially earbud socks. Oh, I know what you’re thinking, but Breppies are a real product, standing for Bud Replacement Ear Protection Provisioning System. (We realize that spells “Brepps,” but we didn’t…

Tech News Mark Wilson

The Secret History Of Godzilla’s Wartime Gallantry

James Morrow’s bizarrely funny new book Shambling Towards Hiroshima turns the usual Godzilla paradigm on its head: Instead of being inspired by the horrors of nuclear war, Godzilla is its herald. OMG spoilers! The latest book by famed satirist Morrow, Shambling Towards Hiroshima might be the silliest book I’ve read in ages, which is saying…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Which Is Worse: Microsoft Office 2007’s Ribbon or Adobe CS4’s Tabs?

The Dark Knight Takes Another Crown

Sony Is Shipping All This Stuff to CES

Crazy IBM ThinkPad W700ds Has Integrated Secondary Display

Massive 900HP Shredder Consumes Gadgets in It’s 7-Foot Jaws

Long-Suppressed Gay Star Trek Episode Comes Out

Last Minute Gift Deals

The First Lady Of Star Trek Passes Away

Singing Supervillains Perform Their Diabolical Numbers

iLuv iSP200: A Pretty Soundbar with Clever USB Hub

Accelerometer Headphones Control Music Via Headbanging

Heroes Webisode Mind-Sexes Recruits, And Steals 4 Minutes Of My Life

Rock Band M.I.C. Combines Microphone, Xbox Controller in One

Dell ‘Adamo’ Could Be Lighter, Thinner Than MacBook Air

The Lit-SF Debate Has Become A Trope In Its Own Right

BFG Tech’s Case-Mounted Touchscreen Offers Control Over Your Components

Water Vapor Discovered Near Black Hole 11.1 Billion Light Years Away

The Eco-Paradise That Never Was

Breppies: Socks for Your Earbuds

The Secret History Of Godzilla’s Wartime Gallantry

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