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Build Your Own Linksys WRT54GL Wi-Fi Monster Truck

If you love R/C toys, this Wi-Fi router monster truck is definitely a project worth tackling. In a nutshell, a guy named Jonathan Bennet managed to rig a very hackable Linksys WRT54GL router to a $5 R/C monster truck so that it could be driven via the internet from up to 500 meters (1640 feet)…

Tech News Sean Fallon Sep 19

Thanks to this Week’s Sponsors

Thanks to generous support from this week’s sponsors — Chevy Fuel Solutions, Gilda’s Club Worldwide, Mike’s Election Guide, Orcs, Tales of Vesperia, T-Mobile, Unscrew America — we could afford to make this special sausage that turned us into giant teenagers and we cranked up the Jonas Brothers on our mega-amps until all the grownups in…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 19

Google Chrome to Get Plug-ins, User Scripts Support

The one thing Google Chrome was missing that kept a lot of the Firefox faithful from making the switch was the browser’s lack of add-on support. Well, that’s set to change, according to Google engineer Ojan Vafai. Both add-ons and user scripts (á la Greasemonkey) will be supported in the near future. Currently, they’re working…

Tech News Adam Frucci Sep 19

Hip Hop vs. Scifi in Detroit Mayoral Smackdown

Detroit’s new mayor, Ken Cockrel Jr., wants his city to know that it’s in good hands because he’s a scifi geek who loves Star Trek and Terminator. In his inaugural address this morning, the new mayor said that his geekitude makes him different from his “hip-hopper” predecessor, Kwame Kilpatrick, who is being sent to jail…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 19

Art. Suono iPod Sound System Could Probably Catch Dinner

DWV, the same guys responsible for designing products under the Ferrari brand, are attempting to reinvent the tired old iPod dock with their new Art. Suono Wireless Music Transmission System. Billed as a luxury item (get ready for sticker shock), the Art. Suono allows users to transmit audio from just about any source to a…

Tech News Sean Fallon Sep 19

Staples Website Requires Internet Explorer 4.0, Thank You Very Much

Trying to buy something from the Staples website? I hope you’re using the latest and greatest internet technologies to do so, because it is cutting edge. In fact, you need Internet Explorer 4.0 to handle its incredible shopping-related features. Namely, their super-futuristic custom envelope creator, which gives you the above error message if you try…

Tech News Adam Frucci Sep 19

Smallville’s Season Premiere Brings the Crazy and… The Enjoyable?

If there’s one thing that the season premiere of Smallville showed, it’s that they don’t lack for ambition. Acting talent, believable dialogue or any shred of plot that doesn’t make you think that the writers went to the Roger Corman School of Writing, sure, but ambition? They’ve got that in spades. That’s how we ended…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 19

Netflix-Style Magazine Subscriptions with Maghound

Sometimes you sign up for a magazine subscription but then you realize that, no, you’re never going to need 40 new ab exercises a month because that beer can that balances on your stomach strengthens your core just fine. Maghound offers Netflix-style subscriptions that allow you to dynamically change your magazines on the fly. Say…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 19

Corpus Clock: “The Strangest Clock in the World” Unveiled By Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking has made his way back to Cambridge after participating in the launch of the LHC to unveil an unbelievable new clock at Corpus Christi College. Designer John Taylor intended the clock to be “terrifying,” saying that he views time as “as not on your side.” In his words, time will “eat up every…

Tech News Sean Fallon Sep 19

ABC Has A Vision For Flash-Forward Series

With the success of Lost and (they hope) new series Life On Mars, it looks like ABC is ready to ride the scifi wave that is soaking television. Supposedly ABC is close to picking up David S. Goyer and Star Trekker Brannon Braga’s pilot Flash Forward. And no, this is not a Ben Foster, Jewel…

Television Meredith Woerner Sep 19

Show Microsoft Who Else Is a PC

So you’ve seen Microsoft’s “phase 2” ads featuring all sorts of people saying that they are PCs, not this damned dirty John Hodgman stereotype that Apple is tossing around. It’s all well and good, but I’d like to see what kinds of people who claim to be PCs we have reading Gizmodo. Sounds like a…

Tech News Adam Frucci Sep 19

Skybar Mechanical Wine Dispenser is a Shade Classier Than a Box of Franzia

For serious connoisseurs, the preservation of wine is far more important that the stigma surrounding bottle caps or, in this case, dispensing your wine like a condiment at a restaurant. The Skybar features a precise temperature control and vacuum system to keep your wine tasting its best for up to 10 days. The pouring spout…

Tech News Sean Fallon Sep 19

LTE Downloads Cute Animal Pictures at 170Mbps While Driving 40MPH

The next thing in fast mobile internet is the 4G standard LTE. While we’ve seen an LTE demo before, it wasn’t quite as ridiculous as the LTE demo T-Mobile and Nortel just wrapped up: While driving 67kph on a highway in Bonn, Germany, they were able to hit download speeds 170Mbps and upload at 50Mbps.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Sep 19

The Reality of Our Worst Airport Security Nightmare

Click to viewA year ago, MIT student Star Simpson arrived at an airport wearing an LED sweatshirt. And while this sweatshirt was not much different than LED apparel we’ve featured on Gizmodo before, Simpson was tackled by security before going through months of media attacks and court processes to clear her name. In an absolutely…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 19

We Don’t Need To See Captain Kirk’s Childhood Trauma!

Next summer, we’re going to get a glimpse into the terrible childhood trauma of one of our greatest science fiction heroes. According to some spoilery leaks from one of next summer’s biggest movies, we’ll get a detailed flashback to that hero’s childhood. We’ll peel back the emotional scars that are the real reason that person…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 19

LA Train Victim Makes 35 Phone Calls From Beyond the Grave

If you haven’t been creeped out yet today, this crazy morbid story from the scene of the recent Metrolink train disaster should do the trick. Apparently, family members of passenger Chuck Peck received 35 calls from his cellphone throughout the night of the crash. There was nothing but static on the other end of the…

Tech News Sean Fallon Sep 19

First Shots of HTC Dream Fondled in the Wild

Our first shots of HTC’s Dream (or G1, whatever the hell it’s called) being fondled out in the real world are perhaps not coincidentally the first ones that make the phone look like it’s something you can carry in the open. They look fairly real to us, and match up with what we’ve seen before,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Sep 19

HBO Orders Another Few Gallons Of True Blood

After only airing two episodes of the dramatic vampire series True Blood, HBO has deemed Alan Ball’s new bloody sex show a hit by giving Ball the go-ahead for another season. This makes me happy, because it means more creepy-crawlies will be introduced (Ball hinted at possible werewolf involvement in the future at Comic-Con). Production…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 19

Sponsor Thanks

Capitalism is an evil, wretched establishment…except when it supports these glorious companies: 1800 Tequila, Becks, Blackberry Curve, Casio, Chevy Fuel Solutions, Dell, Gilda’s Club Worldwide, Gyration, Hotflops, HP TouchSmart, IE8, Lenovo, LiveScribe, Mike’s Election Guide, Panasonic, Rovio, Sharp Aquos, Sprint, Starwood Aloft Hotels, Symantec, T-Mobile, TiVo, Toshiba Gaming, Unscrew America, Verizon. Please waste away more…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 19

Perfect Lego Mac Pro Is Two Computers in One

At first sight, this looked like a perfect working reproduction of a Mac Pro made of Lego, so I was ready to call it the best Lego computer in the history of best Lego computers. Then, when I learnt that it houses one full PC running Mac OS X and a Mac Mini, I felt…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 19

Build Your Own Linksys WRT54GL Wi-Fi Monster Truck

Thanks to this Week’s Sponsors

Google Chrome to Get Plug-ins, User Scripts Support

Hip Hop vs. Scifi in Detroit Mayoral Smackdown

Art. Suono iPod Sound System Could Probably Catch Dinner

Staples Website Requires Internet Explorer 4.0, Thank You Very Much

Smallville’s Season Premiere Brings the Crazy and… The Enjoyable?

Netflix-Style Magazine Subscriptions with Maghound

Corpus Clock: “The Strangest Clock in the World” Unveiled By Stephen Hawking

ABC Has A Vision For Flash-Forward Series

Show Microsoft Who Else Is a PC

Skybar Mechanical Wine Dispenser is a Shade Classier Than a Box of Franzia

LTE Downloads Cute Animal Pictures at 170Mbps While Driving 40MPH

The Reality of Our Worst Airport Security Nightmare

We Don’t Need To See Captain Kirk’s Childhood Trauma!

LA Train Victim Makes 35 Phone Calls From Beyond the Grave

First Shots of HTC Dream Fondled in the Wild

HBO Orders Another Few Gallons Of True Blood

Sponsor Thanks

Perfect Lego Mac Pro Is Two Computers in One

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