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Crank High Voltage Trailer Gives Jason Statham One Hour To Live

The brand new Crank High Voltage spot shows the not-dead-yet Chev Chelios sporting a robotic heart with the battery power of one hour. When the power’s out, it’s time to taste a power cable. Jason Statham has one hour to live in this exclusive spot that can only be found at io9 right now…and it…

Movies Meredith Woerner Mar 13

The Robot Who Helps Astronomers Identify Stars

Every day thousands of amateur astronomers post high-quality images of stars online. Now those images are being sorted and labeled by a bot who can recognize stars just by looking at images of them. Recently the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, UK, held an astronomical photography contest, and museum researcher Fiona Romeo needed a way to…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 13

Everything Is “Going Smoothly” As Sony’s Tablet Series Continues

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Tech News Gawkercreative Mar 6

“The First Impression” Sets Sony’s Tablet Adventure In Motion

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Tech News Gawkercreative Mar 6

Check Out the Mysterious Prologue to Sony’s “Two Will” Series

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Tech News Gawkercreative Mar 6

Get a Quick Peak At the New Sony Tablets

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Tech News Gawkercreative Mar 6

Watch Sony’s Dazzling Display of Color and Movement

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Tech News Gawkercreative Mar 6

Everything You Need To Know About Watchmen

Feeling Watchmen information overload? Let us help! Here are io9’s greatest essays, interviews and features about the classic graphic novel adaptation, opening tonight. (With some possible spoilers, especially for graphic-novel virgins.) What’s On Watchmen’s Cutting Room Floor? Translating Watchmen into a single movie is next to impossible, without giving some plot lines and characters the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 6

What’s On Watchmen’s Cutting Room Floor?

Translating Watchmen into a single movie is next to impossible, without giving some plot lines and characters the axe. But what can you live without? Find out what was cut from Watchmen, including spoilers. Sweet Chariots And Segways: Two things from the above Watchmen comic panel are completely missing in the movie. Yep, gone are…

Movies Meredith Woerner Mar 4

When Gizmodo Commenters Overtake Gizmodo Writers

When CNN sums up Gizmodo, you might think about Jason Chen’s pantsings or Mark Wilson’s hilarious turn of a phrase (no to that second one? fair enough). Instead, it’s all about OMG! Ponies!. CNN’s article starts out nicely enough, tipping the hat to our beloved super commenter: “If I’m going to buy something, I want…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 2

9 Questions You May Have About Watchmen

You’ve seen the posters, the many trailers and featurettes and followed the lawsuit. But with Watchmen hitting screens on Friday, you may still be wondering what it’s all about. Let us try to help. We don’t want to spoil the movie for those of you who haven’t read the book, but there may be somethings…

io9 Graeme McMillan Mar 1

Let Your Inner Child Drive With the 2012 Ford Focus

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Tech News Sponsored post Feb 17

UClick for iPhone Will Make Comic Books Obsolete

It’s a bit of a stretch to say UClick wants to kill paper comic books, but after taking an in-depth look at their iPhone app, they might actually accomplish that. Since the dawn of the internet era, various vendors have tried to find a way to make comic books easily accessible on a digital platform.…

Books & Comics Ray Wert Feb 8

The Ten Most Expensive Comic Books at New York Comic Con

If our list of the ten most expensive comic books at the New York Comic Con is any indication, the high-end comic book market hasn’t yet experienced any fallout from the Financiapocalypse. We spent the morning mired in “Vendor Alley” here at the 2009 New York Comic Con, wading through the boxes of mylar-clad and…

io9 Ray Wert Feb 6

Can Azerbaijan Really Turn Its Polluted Bay into a Futuristic Resort?

Architecture firm BIG has just announced plans to completely terraform Azerbaijan’s Zira Island, making this heavily-polluted region of the Caspian Sea (top) into an eco-resort (bottom). Can the island really be saved? Dutch architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) envisions this luxury resort as a recreation of seven famous mountains on mainland Azerbaijan, which is…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 4

Create Your Own Original Star Trek Story

The original Star Trek only managed to make 80 episodes before running out of Dilithium. Not enough! So we mixed up the show’s most frequent plot twists, to create a foolproof Trek story generator. Design by the amazing Stephanie Fox.

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jan 28

Star Trek VI’s Original Cut Finally Comes Out On Blu-ray

Star Trek VI didn’t just save the Klingon Empire — it restored the honor and dignity of the original Trek cast. So why has it taken 18 years to get the theatrical cut on video? I remember being blown away when I saw The Undiscovered Country in the theater. It was no Wrath of Khan,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jan 26

Lost Is Everywhere: A Collection Of The Best Parodies And Island Shout Outs

You can never leave the island: Lost will haunt you everywhere. So, tonight we’re celebrating the world’s collective obsession with Lost by rounding up the best parodies and references from sketches to Veronica Mars’ cookies. From comic books and video games to Catwoman’s mugshot, the world is literally littered with Lost memorabilia. And while it’s…

Television Meredith Woerner Jan 21

Terminator Ending “Might Piss Off A Lot Of People”

Last night we were treated to about 15 minutes of Terminator Salvation footage. Spoilery details of what’s going on below, plus McG’s confession that the ending might piss people off. James Cameron loyalists, rest assured: it’s going to be a fun ride. Before the screening, director McG sat us all down, and told us the…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 13

A Boy And His Giant Robot Stop A Robo Swarm In New Gigantor-Inspired Trailer

A giant robot responds to wristwatch commands, and its eyes change color depending on how much robotic ass it’s going to smash, in this awesome trailer for T-28, from the studio that’s producing Astro Boy. T-28 is presumably short for Tetsujin-28, the original Japanese name for the manga and anime series that became Gigantor in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 12

Crank High Voltage Trailer Gives Jason Statham One Hour To Live

The Robot Who Helps Astronomers Identify Stars

Everything Is “Going Smoothly” As Sony’s Tablet Series Continues

“The First Impression” Sets Sony’s Tablet Adventure In Motion

Check Out the Mysterious Prologue to Sony’s “Two Will” Series

Get a Quick Peak At the New Sony Tablets

Watch Sony’s Dazzling Display of Color and Movement

Everything You Need To Know About Watchmen

What’s On Watchmen’s Cutting Room Floor?

When Gizmodo Commenters Overtake Gizmodo Writers

9 Questions You May Have About Watchmen

Let Your Inner Child Drive With the 2012 Ford Focus

UClick for iPhone Will Make Comic Books Obsolete

The Ten Most Expensive Comic Books at New York Comic Con

Can Azerbaijan Really Turn Its Polluted Bay into a Futuristic Resort?

Create Your Own Original Star Trek Story

Star Trek VI’s Original Cut Finally Comes Out On Blu-ray

Lost Is Everywhere: A Collection Of The Best Parodies And Island Shout Outs

Terminator Ending “Might Piss Off A Lot Of People”

A Boy And His Giant Robot Stop A Robo Swarm In New Gigantor-Inspired Trailer

Southwest Is About to Limit Power Banks on Flights

Damn, the ‘Power Rangers’ Reboot Could’ve Had Four Movies

The Live-Action ‘One Piece’ Team Wants to Go the Distance

‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ Will Please Gross Horror Fans

Somehow Paramount’s ‘Avatar’ Movie Has Leaked, Too

The World Is Basically Begging for Another iPod

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

OpenAI Says Elon Musk Is ‘Injecting Chaos’ with Recent Legal Maneuver

This Loud-Ass Party Speaker Almost Got Me High AF

Asus Zenbook A16 Review: Start Considering Snapdragon on PC, for Real

Aqara Thermostat Hub W200 Review: Almost Better than My Ecobee

HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go

AirPods Max 2 vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen): Which ANC Headphones Win?

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

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