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The Unflappable Stephen Fry Becomes Quite Flapped Over Vista

Stephen Fry is many things to us: a brilliant comedian, a font of great wisdom and knowledge, and most importantly, a prolific gadget writer. But last night, he lost it over Vista—luckily for us, on his Twitter. The background of the story appears to be as follows: as a gadget reviewer for the Guardian, he…

Tech News John Herrman Dec 8

Meet Veronica McGregor, Mars Phoenix Lander’s Humanoid Personality Construct

Over the last few weeks here on Giz, the Mars Phoenix Lander, already a prolific Twitterer, became the first spacecraft to blog from its cold, unforgiving home tens of millions of miles away on Mars as its mission came to end—culminating in a touching goodbye this past Monday. As some of you may have guessed…

Space & Spaceflight John Mahoney Nov 16

Mars Phoenix Losing an Arm, Going On Life Support

We knew this day would come, but who knew it would be so soon? The Mars Phoenix, as planned, is shutting down major systems to offset its diminished solar power collection during the Martian winter. The little robot, which – nay, who — has been making monumental discoveries on the Red Planet for nearly six…

Space & Spaceflight John Herrman Oct 29

Now Even Thirsty Houseplants Demand Attention With DIY Twitter Kit

Back in February we showed you a slightly botched-together system that lets your houseplants Twitter, but now there’s a complete kit available. After soldering it together, you simply shove it deep into your plant’s pot, connect it up to with an ethernet cable, and when its moisture sensors detect that you’ve been a bit lax…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 29

Twitter Delivers Death to America 140 Characters at a Time

Twitter is great for grassroots organizing—Obama and McCain both use it to relay biddings to acolytes. That same, real-time insta-blast networking quality would also make it a jee-golly-awesome organizing tool for terrorists, according to a draft Army intelligence report. Mix Twitter with cellphones and you’ve got highly mobile, connected terrorists using the same tools you…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 24

Eye-Fi Software Update Adds Support for Twitter, RSS

Eye-Fi keeps kicking ass with their wireless SD cards, adding feed publishing capabilities through Twitter and RSS in a free software update. It was only a few weeks ago that another downloadable upgrade boosted download speeds and threw in MobileMe support, adding to an already massive list of support photo sharing sites. Owners should get…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 9

Twitter Me This: Our Favorite Fake Twitter Feeds

Is fake-Twittering the new fan fiction? We think so! It’s pithy, witty, and boundless in possibilities. Lately it seems like these micro-compositions are omnipresent: Pretty much every Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Batman character has a feed. But we’ve come to learn that some imitations are more potent than others. We’ve got 10…

io9 Nisha Gopalan Oct 7

C-SPAN ‘Debate Hub’ Is the Political Social Media Web 2.0 Uber Geek’s Wet Dream

Even if politics and Presidential debates bore you to the point where you need to nap like a 72-year-old, credit is still due to C-SPAN for making the whole process slightly more interesting with its ambitious Debate Hub. The social media-packed, live-blogging saturated, video clip bonanza, pulls content from a variety of sources—including YouTube, ADD…

Tech News Jack Loftus Sep 28

An Early Dark Knight DVD, Or Just A Twitter Joker?

The movie may still be breaking records in theaters, but does that mean that it’s too early to start a marketing campaign for The Dark Knight’s DVD and BluRay release in December? Apparently not, as many Twitter users discovered on Friday afternoon, when a familiar face asked to befriend them.Within 24 hours of the creation…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 13

Mars Phoenix Will Bravely and Passionately Twitter Until the Final Beat of Its Adorable Electronic Heart

The Mars Phoenix Lander has been Twittering away its mission details since landing on Mars in May. But lately, you can see a sense of impending doom starting to creep in, slowly: “It’s noon, Sol 81. I’ve spotted frost around my landing site in AM,” tweeted Phoenix a few weeks ago. “Seasons are longer here…I’ll…

Space & Spaceflight John Mahoney Sep 8

Cardboard Twitter Robot Will Read Out Loud How Big Your Poop Is and Be Sad About It

The Ganzbot is a cardboard robot built with an Arduino Decima that can read incoming Twitter feeds and show emotions as it reads them out loud—like happiness when you tweet you a got date, or soul-crushing depression when she stands you up—based on the mood you tell it to be in. You can build one…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Aug 21

DSTwitter Proves DS Users Need To Share Intimate Details Too

DSTwitter brings Twitter Shitters the ability to broadcast their current activity to the world via their DS. Is this something you couldn’t do before with your cellphones? Of course not. But if you can read Spanish and can run homebrew apps on your DS, grab DSTwitter and start broadcasting the consistency of your turds to…

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 19

Alien Marketing Invades Twitter

Our favorite creepy use of social networking these days has to be EmbraceChange’s Twitter feed. The anonymous supporter of Marvel Comics’ Skrull Secret Invasion has been offering calm, 140-character messages urging everyone to sit back, relax and accept our new alien rulers, like “Your days of poverty, hardship, disease and greed are over” and “We…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 18

California Earthquake: Don’t Make Phone Calls, Use Text or IM Instead

You might’ve noticed that the ground got a little rumbly California. You also might’ve noticed that the phone lines are basically blowing up. AT&T is officially recommending to only “make emergency or urgent calls” and use text messaging instead, to keep lines open for emergency personnel. Facebook and Twitter are other options (if you’re one…

Social Media Matt Buchanan Jul 29

iPhone Apps We Like: Twinkle, the New Best Twitter App

So, we were a little premature when we declared Twitterific the best iPhone Twitter app-Twinkle, the hugely popular Twitter app with location goodness for Installer.app, just came to the App store. Its killer location features are totally intact: Tweets are lojacked with your current location (Twitterific just updates your profile’s current location), and you can…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 18

iPhone Apps We Like: Twitteriffic is Best Twitter App

Over at the still-going Apps review marathon, we’ve touched on three Twitter apps that bring the service to iPhone 2.0, with varying degrees of success. Twitterific’s version for the iPhone is as good as their OS X desktop client with a beautiful interface, and it’s free if you don’t mind the ads ($10 to make…

Tech News John Mahoney Jul 16

Dash Express GPS Twitter App Tells Whole World Exactly Where You Are, With Google Map Goodness

The Dash Express GPS‘s API opened up about six weeks ago, and so far Dash says there’ve been dozens of apps developed since then, most of them in the truly useful category, like weather or speed traps. And then there’s a Twitter client. Yes, the Dash will now tweet your exact location to everyone following…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 17

Talking Twittering Teddy Bear is Nearly A Freaky Mod Too Far

Having a cyborg teddy reading out your Twitter alerts… *shiver* the idea gives me the creeps a little. But not the guys who came up with the idea over at HyHome2.0. They’ve even got an instructional video so you can build your own artificial-voice bear, which uses Bluetooth to get data from your PC so…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 17

Using Twitter for Home Automation

Even though most Twitter users use it to inform the world of their bowel movements, Justin Wickett came up with a slightly more clever use for the app. He uses an INSTEON switch and a computer in order to monitor a Twitter account for the on or off switch command send from his cellphone. When…

Tech News Jason Chen May 21

Rifflet, Like Twitter For Music

I like to believe that all of us have rock star alter egos. For most of us, these inner rock beasts sleep latently, awaiting the proper heartbreak or drug cocktail to wake from slumber and cut a hit record. Rifflet.com is a place that shares my theory—a social networking site in which users can share…

Tech News Mark Wilson May 17

The Unflappable Stephen Fry Becomes Quite Flapped Over Vista

Meet Veronica McGregor, Mars Phoenix Lander’s Humanoid Personality Construct

Mars Phoenix Losing an Arm, Going On Life Support

Now Even Thirsty Houseplants Demand Attention With DIY Twitter Kit

Twitter Delivers Death to America 140 Characters at a Time

Eye-Fi Software Update Adds Support for Twitter, RSS

Twitter Me This: Our Favorite Fake Twitter Feeds

C-SPAN ‘Debate Hub’ Is the Political Social Media Web 2.0 Uber Geek’s Wet Dream

An Early Dark Knight DVD, Or Just A Twitter Joker?

Mars Phoenix Will Bravely and Passionately Twitter Until the Final Beat of Its Adorable Electronic Heart

Cardboard Twitter Robot Will Read Out Loud How Big Your Poop Is and Be Sad About It

DSTwitter Proves DS Users Need To Share Intimate Details Too

Alien Marketing Invades Twitter

California Earthquake: Don’t Make Phone Calls, Use Text or IM Instead

iPhone Apps We Like: Twinkle, the New Best Twitter App

iPhone Apps We Like: Twitteriffic is Best Twitter App

Dash Express GPS Twitter App Tells Whole World Exactly Where You Are, With Google Map Goodness

Talking Twittering Teddy Bear is Nearly A Freaky Mod Too Far

Using Twitter for Home Automation

Rifflet, Like Twitter For Music

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