I Want My Keyboard To Merge With My Hands

If only it were an implant. This soft, foldable key interface molds to your hand and represents the future of RSI-proof typing. If I can’t have my EEG-controlled keyboard, I want one of these. Oobject has a whole gallery of the best keyboards.

Twelve New Cloverfield Images Test the Limits of Teaser Campaigns

Twelve new images from the upcoming monster film Cloverfield have been released online. But just like the new trailer, they sadly don’t reveal anything new about the J.J. Abrams-produced thriller. If they keep releasing non-information to the masses, people are either going to turn out in droves to find out what it’s all about or…

Freeman Dyson Goes Wild

Forever-young physicist Freeman Dyson, now 83, has long been beloved by scifi writers for his extremely fucking cool ideas. He invented the Dyson Sphere, featured in a Star Trek: TNG episode, where the crew visits a sun wrapped entirely in an artificial sphere that captures every bit of solar energy available (you can see a…

Humans Become Beautiful Ponies for Aliens in The Mount

Charley is a very good mount. He always keeps his hair shiny, and exercises his legs as much as possible so his Hoot will be proud of how fast Charley can run. He’s seen what happens to bad mounts — they have to wear sharp metal bits in their mouths, and sometimes they are whipped…

Pitch Black Coming Back?

Vin Diesel may be hoping to pull the emergency ripcord on his speedy free-fall out of the limelight. Director David Twohy mentioned on his blog that there might be yet another Pitch Black sequel emerging from the darkness, but that it would be smaller in scale and independently financed.

Body Organs Get Yanked In Clash Of Repo Movies

In the future, you’ll be able to pay for new organs on credit, just like decorating your home. But what happens when you can’t payoff the new body parts you’ve been enjoying? That’s the premise of not one but two new films coming out next year. And one of them is a musical. Only in…

Everything You Need To Know About The Flashback Episodes

Battlestar Galactica’s two-hour telepic Razor will hit the airwaves on November 24th. Have you been doing your homework? Here’s a handy Razor guide so you can feel fully briefed and prepared as it unspools on your viewing device of choice. Razor Flashbacks: The Sci Fi Channel has been airing original “flashbacks” in a desperate bid…

An Icelandic genetics lab has announced that for a just under $1,000, it will combine overnight shipping and genetic profiling into a single, irresistible package, called DeCodeMe. Hello, genome envy!

Wolverine Film Has Child Molester, But Not Much Else

Wolverine may have a healing factor, but bad movies don’t. His solo vehicle, starring Hugh Jackman, is set to begin filming next month. The film has suffered multiple setbacks, including scheduling problems, changes in filming location, casting issues, and a script that was rushed light-speed into completion in order to beat the writer’s strike. The…

Battlestar Galactica Rocks Our Saturday Night

Battlestar Galactica finally returns to TV for just one night. This Saturday, the Sci-Fi Channel airs the long-awaited Battlestar Galactica: Razor airs at 9:00 PM. We’ll have our own reviews, plus detailed coverage, later in the week. For now, suffice to say that it feels like what it is: the show time-traveling back to its…

A Post-Apocalyptic Magic Kingdom

Jeff Gillette, “Disneyland Destroyed,” acrylic on canvas

Mars rover Opportunity is soldiering bravely onward, despite a crippling injury. Reports of a broken rock grinder and troubles with the infrared spectrometer make it sound like the machine is blinded and helpless while scientists try and work out a fix.

Raytheon Heals the World, Immunosurveillance Cures Cancer

Here are your science headlines for this lovely Monday morning. Let’s start with a little global healing from your pals at Raytheon, the company best know for making the Phalanx (pictured at left), surveillance devices, and reconnaissance gadgets. Apparently the Green Building Council has awarded Raytheon’s new Wartime Protection Center in Alabama a “silver” badge…

Doctor Who Hits The Nostalgia Crack Pipe

The new Doctor Who BBC series has a lot of fans who never watched the original. So why do the producers insist on hauling out more and more Thatcher-era crap? It’s like they’re trying to drain the freshness out of the show. The latest instance is the return of 1980s doctor Peter Davison in a…

Great Meteor Storms in History

This past weekend many of us saw the Leonid Meteor Shower. This is what they saw nearly 175 years ago. Leonid Meteor Storm of 1833 [Educational Observatory]

Willis To Become Surrogate

In a victory for agents ability to play to their clients’ egos, Bruce Willis has signed on to a futuristic drama where humans interact with each other only through better looking robotic versions of themselves. In a surprising move, Willis will be playing one of the less attractive humans. Based on the 2005 murder mystery…

Reality Goes Further Than Imagination, Claims SciFi Author

Sounding either like an old man or a writer desperately trying to generate controversy to promote his new novel, scifi author Brian Aldiss has announced that reality has not only caught up with, but potentially outpaced, science fiction as a genre. Here is today, 2007, with its diseased ideas of drugs, Darfur disputes and suicide…

Welcome to New Brainland

Image by Sam Brown [Bioephemera]

Sanyo Brings out Waterproof Portable TV, a Companion for the Xacti

The LVT-WD40 is a waterproof portable TV that Sanyo claims is the perfect bedfellow for its waterproof Xactic camcorder. Widescreen, and with 480×272 resolution, it will cost 50,000 ($450) when it comes out in Japan on Wednesday. File this one under “chocolate teapot,” I think. [Impress]

So you didn’t make it to space this season?

I know, I know – you weren’t able to catch the last pod out through the wormhole and now you’re stuck on Earth for the holiday season. So what will you do while you’re here? Mostly, you’ll engage in an orgy of consumerism mingled with true generosity. Also, you’ll party. Here you’ll see all of…