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Apple Quarterly Earnings: 6.9 Million iPhones Sold, “More Phones Than RIM”

Though Apple’s live broadcast of its fourth quarter earnings doesn’t start for another few minutes, they’ve already dumped the numbers on us. Here are the important ones: 6.9 million iPhones, 2.6 million Macs, and 11 million iPods. Wryly noting that “we sold more phones than RIM,” Steve Jobs says they’re still not sure how the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 21

Rock Band USB Adapter Causes Fire, No One Seems Too Worried

Before the wireless instruments came bundled in Rock Band 2, users needed to utilize a 4-port USB hub to connect all of the instruments. It was inconvenient, but no big deal. That was, until one user had his adapter catch fire randomly after being plugged in for just ten minutes. Had he left the system…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 21

Life On Mars 1973 Radio Station: “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy”

ABC’s time-traveling cop drama Life On Mars is hosting a radio station from 1973 on their site, and it’s full of funk and rock for you to jive to. So relax and listen to the world of Chicago, George Harrison, Blood Sweat & Tears, Melanie and I dare you not to turn up “For The…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 21

Danny Boyle Tells io9 About Renouncing Space Opera

Click to viewDanny Boyle may be the most gifted director working in science fiction today. Like Ridley Scott, he’s made a number of non-SF films, but his contributions to the genre have stood out among its best works. We had a chance to sit down with Boyle and talk about how his new film, the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 21

Circuit City Layoffs May Have Contributed to Their Demise

Eve Tahmincioglu, a career columnist for MSNBC is questioning whether or not Circuit City’s decision to fire 3,400 of their highest-paid clerks and replace them with lower-paid substitutes last year had a major impact on their recent decline. Let’s face it, customer service in Circuit City is far from stellar, and ditching highly qualified personnel…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 21

T-Mobile G1 Users Having Data Activation Problems?

At least a few people who got their T-Mobile G1 in the mail today—one day before the official launch—are having issues activating the data plan with their SIM card. One person was told by customer service that they simply couldn’t use it until tomorrow, although T-Mobile PR has assured us that’s not the case, and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 21

Sprint Finally Pro-Rating Early Termination Fees

The specifics have not been announced, but Sprint will finally join Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T in pro-rating their early termination fees starting as early as December. That means the fee drops each month you spend with the service instead of paying a flat $200. [Physorg]

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 21

Wisdom Button is a Candidate for the Worst Gadget Ever

Is your life completely devoid of meaning? Are you so unable to motivate yourself that you require some quotation from a famous person that was taken out of context to sound more general and vague, therefore more relatable to weak-brained schlubs such as yourself? You make me sick. Oh, and here’s a gadget for you:…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Oct 21

Who Doesn’t Want A Battlestar Computer?

Bored of your everyday PC and wish that there was some way to make it a little more… colonial? You’re not alone – master mod artist Brian Carter decided that he needed to make his computer look a little less like something produced by Dell and a little more like the Battlestar Galactica, and the…

io9 Graeme McMillan Oct 21

E-Ink Cellphone Concept, Beautiful but Flawed

I was immediately drawn to this E-Ink cellphone concept by Anthony Reed—probably because it’s so shiny. And for a moment, I was completely sold. That was, until I realized that the buttons were stagnant, not necessarily designed for constantly altered layouts but instead resembling any old run of the mill handset. Still, the concept really…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 21

Indiana Jones Giant RC Ant Can Chomp George Lucas’ Ballsack

As he gets ready to rape Indiana Jones again with the fifth part of the series, George Lucas keeps milking the merchandise tits of the most famous archeologist by releasing all kinds of products. Fortunately, this Giant RC Ant is worth it, and probably one of the few good things to come out of that…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 21

New Phaser-Shaped Office Tower for California

The economy may be in tatters, but that hasn’t stopped a California business dreamer named Walter Horsting from pushing a plan to build a giant, 40-story office tower in the shape of a massive golden phaser. Oh, actually it’s in the shape of a railway spike, and Horsting is hoping to erect it in California…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 21

Get Published Alongside Your Favorite Authors!

Are you ready for fame and fortune? Well… fame, anyway? If you’re an unpublished writer, this could be your big break. Bantam Spectra is having a speculative fiction writing contest, and the winner gets published in Spectra Pulse, the publisher’s free promotional magazine. (I saw a copy the other day, and it looks quite nice.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 21

The Father of Parallel Worlds, Commemorated by Indie Rock

Hugh Everett is the father of the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics, the first physicist to propose that we exist in a potentially infinite series of parallel dimensions. He’s also the father of Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett, who was just 18 when his father died. Tonight, PBS airs “Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives,” Mark…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 21

26 Photoshops for Jeffrey Toobin to Look at Instead of Working

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, we focused on new Friend of Giz Jeffrey Toobin, brilliant CNN legal analyst and fellow work-avoider. After busting him not once, but twice surfing the internet on his laptop while on-air during a presidential debate, we decided to give him some more fun stuff to read on the internet when…

Tech News Adam Frucci Oct 21

Adam Parker Smith Plays God With His Controllable Sunset

Who is Adam Parker Smith? Well, he happens to be the artist behind “Sunset Now,” an interactive installation made from colored plexi-glass, fiberfill, and lights that allow the user control the rising and setting of a simulated sun using a simple dimmer switch. Outside of that, there isn’t much information on the device—but I do…

Gadgets Sean Fallon Oct 21

NYC Buses Testing Digital Ads That Change Depending on Location

Creative marketing minds have developed a plan to use GPS to deliver neighborhood-specific digital advertising on the side of buses in NYC. Apparently, the ads run like TV commercials and they have begun airing on a single Manhattan route with expansion to 200 buses planned for Q1 of next year. Obviously, targeted advertising is the…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 21

Your Exclusive First Look At Pages From Marvel’s Ender’s Shadow

A couple of weeks ago, we gave you the first ten pages of Marvel’s adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game: Battle School – and now we’re following that up with an exclusive advance look at December’s first issue of the companion series, Ender’s Shadow: Battle School.Marvel describes the series – written by X-Men and…

io9 Graeme McMillan Oct 21

Darq Knight, The Yaley Rock Opera Where Xenu Meets Morgan Freeman

Wanna see everyone’s favorite bat-butler Alfred self-flagellate himself to the tunes of U2 while Batman deals with Katie Holmes’ alien hubby? Now you can. Darq Knight is a power ballad musical which pulls from all the best parts of Dark Knight with a dash of what could have been. Batman is played by a black…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 21

iDive iPod Case and Speakers Are Waterproof Up to 300 Feet

If you simply can’t go anywhere without listening to your iPod, H2O Audio’s new iDive 300 system will ensure that the tunes keep coming even as your lifeless body sinks into Davy Jones’ locker. Features include a polycarbonate casing that uses a locking cam knob to ensure a watertight seal up to a 300 foot…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 21

Apple Quarterly Earnings: 6.9 Million iPhones Sold, “More Phones Than RIM”

Rock Band USB Adapter Causes Fire, No One Seems Too Worried

Life On Mars 1973 Radio Station: “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy”

Danny Boyle Tells io9 About Renouncing Space Opera

Circuit City Layoffs May Have Contributed to Their Demise

T-Mobile G1 Users Having Data Activation Problems?

Sprint Finally Pro-Rating Early Termination Fees

Wisdom Button is a Candidate for the Worst Gadget Ever

Who Doesn’t Want A Battlestar Computer?

E-Ink Cellphone Concept, Beautiful but Flawed

Indiana Jones Giant RC Ant Can Chomp George Lucas’ Ballsack

New Phaser-Shaped Office Tower for California

Get Published Alongside Your Favorite Authors!

The Father of Parallel Worlds, Commemorated by Indie Rock

26 Photoshops for Jeffrey Toobin to Look at Instead of Working

Adam Parker Smith Plays God With His Controllable Sunset

NYC Buses Testing Digital Ads That Change Depending on Location

Your Exclusive First Look At Pages From Marvel’s Ender’s Shadow

Darq Knight, The Yaley Rock Opera Where Xenu Meets Morgan Freeman

iDive iPod Case and Speakers Are Waterproof Up to 300 Feet

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