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Can’t stop screaming, real life Bert and Ernie cosplay is too terrifying

We missed this horrifying duo in our recap of all the excellent cosplay from Dragon*Con — but we will never forget these faces. These horrible faces of real life Bert and Ernie walking around, like people. https://gizmodo.com/ultimate-proof-that-dragon-con-has-the-best-cosplay-on-5940438 Discovered by Redditor ProbableCause. [via Geekologie]

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 5

How Could You Screw This Up So Badly, Nokia?

You know, Nokia, I was all excited about your new PureView camera after watching your fake demo video. So excited that I wrote a piece on how this camera will make me dump the iPhone and get a Lumia 920. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-faked-its-pureview-demo-and-then-claimed-they-nev-5940784 Now I just want to slap you. Sure, I know that our own hands-on…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 5

The Most Overhyped Science Fiction Novel of the Year?

Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles got huge buzz over the summer, with mainstream magazines like Entertainment Weekly giving it rave reviews. I lost count of how many times I saw it referred to as one of the year’s most important books. My local indie bookstore has it in a coveted corner spot on…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Sep 5

uTorrent: Download Directly to Your Phone

Can’t wait to download a new album or TV show? Don’t want to wait until you’re on your home computer? From the people who created the BitTorrent protocol more than a decade ago, comes an app that lets torrent on your phone. What does it do? Lets you find and download torrents on your Android…

Tech News Leslie Horn Sep 5

Pentagon Robot Is Faster Than Usain Bolt—and Freaks the Hell Out of Me

This is freaking scary. This is even scarier than Big Dog. It’s the latest version of the Pentagons’s newest Cheetah robot and it now runs faster than Usain Bolt. 0.5 miles per hour faster than the fastest man on Earth. https://gizmodo.com/new-video-of-bigdog-quadruped-robot-is-so-stunning-its-368651 And if can catch Usain, it can catch you too. And then kill you.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 5

Sony’s Monster 4k TV Costs More than a Car

Do you want the gargantuan, gorgeous 84-inch 4k TV Sony recently tempted us with? So do we. But are you willing to sell an organ for it? Official pricing is out now! https://gizmodo.com/sonys-84-inch-4k-tv-is-mammoth-and-beautiful-and-we-wan-5938854 Sony’s mega-high-res beast will set you back a whopping-but-sadly-expected $25,000 when it hits stores in November—and you can pre-order starting tomorrow. Or…

Television Sam Biddle Sep 5

Nokia Faked Its PureView Demo and Then Claimed They Never Said It Was Real

When we watched the latest ad from Nokia showing off its PureView technology in the Lumia and ridiculously fluid optical image stabilization, we were stunned. Excited. Happy. If the camera on the Lumia was that good, we wanted it. Badly. Immediately. But sadly, it was faked. Nokia isn’t showing off what the Lumia 920 can…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 5

Did Sweden Offer Cambodia $59 Million for the Pirate Bay Founder’s Head?

Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm was recently scooped up by Cambodian authorities in Phenom Penh at the request of the Swedish government. Just yesterday Cambodia agreed to send him back to Sweden to serve his year-long jail sentence for creating the Pirate Bay. Turns out the Swedes might have paid HUGE for Cambodia’s cooperation. TorrentFreak…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Sep 5

Photoshop Touch Is Now Retina-Friendly on the iPad

Good news retina iPad-owning creatives—Adobe just released an update to Photoshop Touch, making it compatible with the tablets superior resolution. Version 1.3 supports images up to 12-megapixels each and is available in the App Store for $9.99.

Tech News Leslie Horn Sep 5

You’re not stupid for being pissed off when someone messes with your favorite superhero

Wonder Woman trades her skirt for slacks. Superman can now travel the globe through 56K modems. The Punisher becomes an avenging angel under God’s employ. Tony Stark’s armor secretly harbors a pastry compartment. Wolverine evolves adamantium saliva. https://gizmodo.com/the-10-most-asinine-1990s-comic-book-characters-who-nev-5912683 https://gizmodo.com/the-5-nuttiest-punisher-alternate-universe-tales-5546749 60% of these were real plot points, and an additional 20% were a Hostess Twinkie ad.…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Sep 5

Futurist fixes for fighting skyscraper fires

“The tallest building in the world is on fire. You are there with 294 other guests. There’s no way down. There’s no way out.” So read the poster for the 1974 disaster movie Towering Inferno, which depicts an epic tale of survival in the badly wired 138 story Glass Tower in San Francisco and the…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 5

Add a Brain Cell Boost To the Long List of Ways Green Tea Is Good for You

Great news for those of you who opt for tea in the morning instead of coffee. In a study published in the Molecular Nutrition & Food Research journal, researchers have found that a key antioxidant chemical in green tea, epigallocatechin-3 gallate (or EGCG for short), boosts the production of neural progenitor cells which develop into…

Health Andrew Liszewski Sep 5

The director of Branded explains why YouTube is the most evil form of marketing

Branded, the new dystopian movie about the evil world behind advertising, was written and directed by two marketing executives (Jamie Bradshaw and Aleksandr Dulerayn). And the movie’s terrifying imagery comes straight from their extensive experience in the field. But what’s this bizarre-looking movie really about? What are these strange creatures bubbling behind out soda pop…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 5

The Overhyped, Dumbly Named, Completely Awesome Microfiber Cloth

I carry a phone roughly the size of a television, a pair of sunglasses that collects fingerprints like limited-edition coins, and have a boss who really likes to poke at my screen. My life is a series of smudges. https://gizmodo.com/htc-one-x-after-4-months-weird-batteries-and-wimpy-gor-5931430 Oh man I hate smudges. They make me feel uncomfortable, like I’ve had too much…

Reviews Joe Brown Sep 5

1960’s NASA employment ads appealed to the science-fiction-loving kid in all of us

As far as job adverts go, it doesn’t get much better than this. Originally featured in a 1967 issue of Scientific American, the full-page ad by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory resonates perfectly with something Neil deGrasse Tyson mentioned in an interview with io9 back in July: “Good science fiction inspires people to pursue science every…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Sep 5

This $6,000 Tripod Doubles As an 11-Foot Ladder

The advent of articulated LCD displays has made it a lot easier to snap over-the-head shots at crowded photo-ops. But its usefulness pales in comparison to the cleverly named Tree-pod tripod from Fishbone which lets photographers and videographers perch high over crowds for the perfect unobstructed shot. The $6,000 Tree-pod collapses to just three feet…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 5

Pressure-Sensitive Stylus Turns Your iPad Into a Wacom Tablet

Back in March, we saw a sneak preview of Ten One Design’s slick pressure-sensing touchscreen stylus—code named the Blue Tiger. But the company has finally revealed that the Bluetooth-connected stylus is now officially known as the Pogo Connect and, it will have a couple of new tricks up its sleeve when it becomes available for…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 5

Does M. John Harrison have the most amazing vocabulary of any science fiction writer?

There are lots of reasons to love Light author M. John Harrison — but one of them is his great vocabulary, according to a post over at Ashville Ink-Slinger. Writer David Mayeux makes the case that “M. John Harrison has the richest vocabulary I think I’ve ever encountered in an author. His adjectives, especially, come…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Sep 5

This Is Not the Cockpit of a Secret TIE Fighter

I was going through a whole lot of awesome cockpit photos yesterday when I stumbled upon this image, the most impressive of them all. It looked more like the interior of a secret Imperial fighter from Star Wars than a machine made on Earth. Of course, it’s not new: it’s the WhiteKnightOne, the mothership designed…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 5

How Does the Motorola Droid RAZR HD Compare to the Best Android Phones?

After weeks of anticipation we finally know what Motorola is serving up to compete with the Samsung Galaxy S III and the HTC One X. Can the Motorola Droid Razr HD measure up to its badass Android counterparts? https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-review-a-great-phone-that-tries-t-5919730 The Droid Razr HD’s billboard feature is its 2500 mAH battery, which Motorola says will keep…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Sep 5

Can’t stop screaming, real life Bert and Ernie cosplay is too terrifying

How Could You Screw This Up So Badly, Nokia?

The Most Overhyped Science Fiction Novel of the Year?

uTorrent: Download Directly to Your Phone

Pentagon Robot Is Faster Than Usain Bolt—and Freaks the Hell Out of Me

Sony’s Monster 4k TV Costs More than a Car

Nokia Faked Its PureView Demo and Then Claimed They Never Said It Was Real

Did Sweden Offer Cambodia $59 Million for the Pirate Bay Founder’s Head?

Photoshop Touch Is Now Retina-Friendly on the iPad

You’re not stupid for being pissed off when someone messes with your favorite superhero

Futurist fixes for fighting skyscraper fires

Add a Brain Cell Boost To the Long List of Ways Green Tea Is Good for You

The director of Branded explains why YouTube is the most evil form of marketing

The Overhyped, Dumbly Named, Completely Awesome Microfiber Cloth

1960’s NASA employment ads appealed to the science-fiction-loving kid in all of us

This $6,000 Tripod Doubles As an 11-Foot Ladder

Pressure-Sensitive Stylus Turns Your iPad Into a Wacom Tablet

Does M. John Harrison have the most amazing vocabulary of any science fiction writer?

This Is Not the Cockpit of a Secret TIE Fighter

How Does the Motorola Droid RAZR HD Compare to the Best Android Phones?

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