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First Full-Length Terminator Salvation Trailer Leaks Out of Japan

Click to viewOh boy! Here’s the first full length trailer for Terminator: Salvation, apparently leaked from Japan. It’s loaded up with all sorts of scary new robots built for the destruction of humanity. There’s lots of new footage in here, including footage of the gigantic mech, the bikebots and the harvesters that we’ve seen concept…

Movies Adam Frucci

SimCity May Be the First Must-Have iPhone Game

While there are plenty of apps to help you kill time on your iPhone/iPod touch, there hasn’t been a killer app to launch the system as a powerful gaming platform. SimCity may change that. So far, developer EA has, no pun intended, phoned it in a bit with their iPhone apps. Neither Spore nor Tetris…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Climate Change Map Helps You Predict the Next Eco-Disaster

We know that as global temperatures rise, increased storms, heat waves, and flooding will batter the Earth. A new interactive map from the Center for American Progress demonstrates the toll climate change will take on human beings by displaying regions that are at particular risk for different types of ecological disaster, and explaining precisely how…

io9 Lauren Davis

SoundOn Media-210 Wireless 2.1 Mac/PC Speakers Lightning Review

The Gadget: A set of 2.1 speakers (two satellites + a sub) that can connect wirelessly to your Mac or PC via a USB dongle to provide audio playback across a room. It uses the crowded 2.4GHz band, which receives interference from other equipment in your house like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, microwaves and cordless phones, but…

Reviews Jason Chen

Skype 2.5 Beta For Windows Mobile Now Available

Skype claims to have overhauled their VoIP client for Windows Mobile with their 2.5 beta release. Improvements include: better sound quality, better stability and friendlier interface. Hit the link to give it a whirl. [Skype]

Tech News Sean Fallon

What is the Jejune Institute and Why Are They Recording Your Thoughts?

I’ve been seeing a lot of fliers around San Francisco advertising something called the “Aquatic Thought Foundation,” which promises to give you dolphin therapy by hooking your brain up to a dolphin. Really, the fliers weren’t all that much kookier than the usual Marin County yoga levitation psionics stuff you see. But finally I decided…

io9 Annalee Newitz

God Hates Nano?

A new study shows that people with strong Judeo-Christian religious beliefs are far more disturbed at the prospect of nanotechnology than people without those beliefs. Apparently, this may account for why so many Americans are dismayed at the prospect of nanotech, though it doesn’t explain why the so-called Bible Belt in the U.S. is packed…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Arkham Asylum’s Joker And Killer Croc Are Creepy As Hell

The most terrifying place in all of Gotham is getting some new exposure. We’ve got a quickie trailer for the Batman: Arkham Asylum video game, showcasing the hole where they stick the crazies, from the Joker to Killer Croc. This video game looks amazing. I cannot wait to get my hands on it, let alone…

io9 Meredith Woerner

34 Ways to Bring Santa Into the 21st Century

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to upgrade Santa Claus using technology. We have some absolutely amazing entries here, albeit maybe a few too many Iron Man Santas. There’s really great stuff all around here, including quite a few entries that would probably scar any toddlers who saw them for life, which I…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Netflix Streaming Battlemodo: TiVo vs. Xbox 360

Now that Netflix’s Watch Instantly is on both TiVo and Microsoft’s Xbox 360, the natural question for you, Señor and Señorita tech enthusiast, is which one of these two should YOU use to watch Netflix on. The answer, surprisingly, is whichever one you want. Updated 2:33 PM EST https://gizmodo.com/netflix-available-on-tivo-now-5103308 Here’s how they both compared in…

Reviews Jason Chen

Who Cracked Lena Headey’s Head?

She may have battled Terminators and helped to lead the Spartans, but it turns out that Lena Headey was a lot more fragile than any of us realized. This new poster for The Broken, a new horror thriller from the director of Cashback, is already annoying people. But the film itself sounds like it could…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

NES Controller Security System Only Admits Nerds

This homemade security system doesn’t waste time with keys. Instead, it allows admittance only to those who know the proper code as entered on an NES controller. Yes, knowing the Konami code just got useful again. The Arduino-based homebrew security system ejects a CD tray when you enter the proper sequence, which either unlocks or…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

800,000 Wii Units Sold In Black Friday Week While Iwata Giggled Maniacally

This is what Microsoft didn’t tell you about last Black Friday sales: Nintendo sold 800,000 Wii units that week, besting the Xbox 360 and the PS3. According to Nintendo Presidential Vampire Satoru Iwata: https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360-outsells-ps3-3-1-on-black-friday-5100774 Fortunately for us a lot of shoppers put our products at the top of their list. He was also referring to…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The $8000 Nikon D3x Costs Too Much

Comparing Nikon’s $8000 24.5MP D3x to Sony’s $3000 24.6MP a900 is bit of an apples and oranges comparison, even though both mega image sensors are in fact made by Sony. For one, the D3x is intended as a studio camera (though it really is a just a D3 with a different sensor), not so much…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Time Travel Means You Can Change Your Own Diapers

Last night’s episode of Heroes, “Our Father,” brought on the superhero sentimentalism you’d expect from an episode about supervillain parents and their ambiguously ethical offspring. Once you got past the tearful reunion scenes, this episode turned out to be a great example of how Hiro’s power to control time can actually change the past –…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Nolan Scribbles Out The Next Dark Knight Sequel

Sounds like Christopher Nolan is getting his mind set for the next Dark Knight. The Batman director admitted that he had been jotting down ideas that haven’t quite worked out yet and he’s wary of the curse of the third film. “I don’t know why they’re hard to do,” Nolan says. “Maybe there’s so much…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Why You Should Stop Buying Your Computers Fully Loaded

Hard economic times require that we think more closely about how our money is spent. When it comes to computers, Prof. Dealzmodo has a philosophy: build it and values will come. In other words, it makes more financial sense to buy the most basic model at a bargain-basement price and turn it into the top-notch…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Creative Vado HD Pocket Camcorder Now Available

The latest entrant into the compact, cheap camcorder running crew currently spearheaded by the Flip and all of its variants is now available—the Creative Vado shoots 720p, has HDMI-out and costs $200. https://gizmodo.com/the-ultimate-cheap-camcorder-battlemodo-5013420 HDMI out is the biggest differentiation from the Flip MinoHD; the Vado also doubles the onboard memory to 8GB over the MinoHD’s…

Tech News John Mahoney

TiVo Sticks Ads Into Timeshifting

Today, TiVo has begun implementation of a new feature allowing advertisers to insert text ads into paused programming. That’s right, skipping those commercials is finally becoming impossible. These ads can work on live TV or prerecorded content, with Fox and Mercedes-Benz lined up among the system’s first customers. Luckily, the feature seems to be quarantined…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Space Opera Rules This Week’s Comics. And Batman’s Still Gone.

Just in time for your gift-buying frenzy, comics publishers are putting out some brainwarping space opera tales — mostly in a classy hardcover format. This week, Marvel is reprinting two storylines that follow up the Annihilation saga, of invasion from beyond our universe. Another new hardcover collects two years of classic Buck Rogers strips. And…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

First Full-Length Terminator Salvation Trailer Leaks Out of Japan

SimCity May Be the First Must-Have iPhone Game

Climate Change Map Helps You Predict the Next Eco-Disaster

SoundOn Media-210 Wireless 2.1 Mac/PC Speakers Lightning Review

Skype 2.5 Beta For Windows Mobile Now Available

What is the Jejune Institute and Why Are They Recording Your Thoughts?

God Hates Nano?

Arkham Asylum’s Joker And Killer Croc Are Creepy As Hell

34 Ways to Bring Santa Into the 21st Century

Netflix Streaming Battlemodo: TiVo vs. Xbox 360

Who Cracked Lena Headey’s Head?

NES Controller Security System Only Admits Nerds

800,000 Wii Units Sold In Black Friday Week While Iwata Giggled Maniacally

The $8000 Nikon D3x Costs Too Much

Time Travel Means You Can Change Your Own Diapers

Nolan Scribbles Out The Next Dark Knight Sequel

Why You Should Stop Buying Your Computers Fully Loaded

Creative Vado HD Pocket Camcorder Now Available

TiVo Sticks Ads Into Timeshifting

Space Opera Rules This Week’s Comics. And Batman’s Still Gone.

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