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Panasonic’s New Plasmas Are Built for the 99 Percent

Sure, you can spend $6,000 (or more) for a top-of-the-line HDTV with more bells and whistles than you can shake a remote at. But if you’re on a budget, Panasonic’s newest line of plasma HDTV’s offer top-flight features for bargain-bin prices. Panasonic’s ST, VT, and GT-series plasma displays each offer the Infinite Black Pro panel.…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jan 9 '12

I’m Getting Drunk While Watching the BCS Championship Game in 3D Because It’s the Future of Sports

The college football championship game is going on right now and since the whole tech world is at CES, ESPN decided to show off their ESPN 3D channel to a bevy of tech savvy sports fans (or is it sports savvy tech fans?). My job tonight? To get drunk while wearing 3D glasses and watching…

Tech News Casey Chan Jan 9 '12

We’re Live From Microsoft’s Ballmerrific, Final CES Keynote

Oh hello! We’re here at Microsoft’s keynote, where the soundtrack is late-90s B-listers and the dress code is “stained and shabby.” In just a half an hour, CEO Steve Ballmer will take the stage to let us in on Microsoft’s plans for the year. Windows Phone! Windows 8! Windows tablets! Won’t you join us as…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 9 '12

Sony’s New Xperia Phones Hands On: They Go Right For the Eyes

For a long time now Sony has made some of the best cameras out there. Love the iPhone 4S camera? Yeah, because it’s got a Sony Exmor sensor in it. Sony’s two new Xperias are also pushing the visuals mighty hard. The the Xperia S (pictured right) is essentially the international version of the Xperia…

Tech News Brent Rose Jan 9 '12

Lenovo’s A720 Might Be the Multitouch All-In-One PC We’ve All Dreamed Of

27-inch screen. 10-finger capacitive multitouch. Aluminum body. Fully articulating screen that folds to your liking. If there was ever a touchscreen all-in-one that had all the elements to succeed, Lenovo’s A720 might be it. The A720’s is powered by a Intel core processor and screen that goes from 90 degrees (standing upright) to -5 degrees…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 9 '12

Who Needs Pixels When You Have Six Million LEDs to Light Your Display?

LED televisions until now have generally just used an LED power source to light the LCD display. This differs from the Jumbo-trons you see at sports arenas, where each pixel is an individual LED. Now, Sony’s brought the big-screen technology to your living room with its Crystal LED Display. Instead of an LED source powering…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jan 9 '12

Picture of the Day: January 9, 2012: A Lazy Dalek and House Stark’s New Business

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io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 9 '12

HP’s Ultrabook Is Made Out of Glass (Update: Hands On with Video)

How do you turn heads when everyone on the block has an ultrabook—and most of them look like bootleg MacBook Airs? Make yours fast as hell and built from a bunch of damn glass. The HP Spectre 14 isn’t made entirely out of glass, but it sure does dominate the thing: wristpad, screen, lid, all…

Tech News Sam biddle & kyle wagner Jan 9 '12

Once Upon a Time lets Robert Carlyle chew two realms worth of scenery

The chesty fairy must have been on break, because this week’s Once Upon A Time was all about Rumpelstiltskin’s back story. So where did our favorite scenery-munching imp originate from? A knife. No really! Ah well at least we got close to an hour of Robert Carlyle plunging into the deep end of ACTING! Spoilers…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jan 9 '12

PlayMemories: Sony’s Photo and Video Sharing Cloud Service Is Like PhotoStream with Videos

PlayMemories is Sony’s way to stop your mom from shooting 500 pictures at Christmas and then never looking at any of them because they’re stranded on an SD card she doesn’t really know how to work. The service connects to a bunch of different Sony gear, from the new Bloggie video cams that are basically…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jan 9 '12

Sony’s New HDTVs Want to Change Your Mind About 3D

3DTV has earned a bad rap, and for good reason. Fast-moving sequences get blurry, the contrast gets soggy depending on the room’s brightness—and God help you if you try to watch low-resolution video. But Sony’s new Bravia HX 850 series aims to eliminate all these issues in one fell swoop. Sony’s Bravia HX 850-series televisions’…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jan 9 '12

Sony’s Super-Sized Network Speaker Adds More Boom to Your Living Room

Sony’s SA-N410 has upgraded its leading Pandora- and iPhone-friendly Network Speaker into a more powerful “Large” version, so that the music you stream from all over your house will have even more oomph. The aptly named Large Home Network Speaker is more powerful than its predecessor, and has low-end boom owing to a built-in subwoofer.…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jan 9 '12

You have an excellent supply of stem cells right behind your eye

As we age, vision problems are unavoidable. Age-related macular degeneration breaks down a thin layer of cells in the back of your eye — the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) — on the way to causing vision loss. Recently published research from the Neural Stem Cell Institute in Rensselaer, New York, shows the RPE to have…

io9 Keith Veronese Jan 9 '12

Sony Now Makes a Portable Blu-ray Player. Why?

I’m sure there are 3.5 people out there who will put Sony’s portable Blu-ray player to great use. It has a 9-inch screen, 4.5 hours of battery life, and 1080p output via HDMI. But for the rest of us, The Sony SX910 is an extremely niche-y, borderline unnecessary piece of tech. 99.9999999999999% of us would…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 9 '12

Sony’s Google TV Streamer Picks Up Where the Logitech Revue Left Off

Logitech may have balked on their relationship with the Google TV platform, but Sony’s new Google TV streamer is hard evidence that the company is fully committed to the Android-based IPTV ecosystem. The GS7 comes complete with the same touch pad-equipped, motion sensitive remote the Blu-ray player has, and provides access to all the same…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 9 '12

This 7-Inch Asus Tablet Has Tegra 3 Power for Nearly Kindle Fire Prices

There aren’t a lot of secrets left about Nvidia’s Tegra 3 quad-core mobile guts; after all, it’s already been on shelves in the Transformer Prime for weeks. In fact, the only question left has been what other devices we’ll see it in. https://gizmodo.com/asus-transformer-prime-review-the-android-tablet-youve-5873393 Welp, here’s your answer: a 7-inch, $250 quad core tablet from Asus.…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 9 '12

An Easy $300,000 for Sense of Wonder in a Box

The Templeton Foundation is paying $300,000 to University of Central Florida to build a rocketship-simulator, so they can study whether “the spiritual experiences described by astronauts are primarily caused by the various views of the earth and the vastness of space.” Over at Pharyngula, P.Z. Myers subjects this research project to some well-deserved and hilarious…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 9 '12

Transformer Prime Graduates to Ice Cream Sandwich Today (UPDATED)

That super-powered quad core dream machine known as Transformer Prime? It’s available with Ice Cream Sandwich starting today. https://gizmodo.com/asus-transformer-prime-review-the-android-tablet-youve-5873393 This appears to be different than that slightly-better-spec’d-Transformer Prime we saw this morning, since last word was that that device wouldn’t see an ICS boost until the second quarter of this year. But Nvidia’s being cagey…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 9 '12

An Epic Fantasy That Doesn’t Hold Back on the “Epic”

These days, fantasy novels seem to be all about realism. Or at least, semi-realism. Magic is pushed to the fringes, and only happens in rare cases. The focus is on gritty, relatable characters in a vaguely noir-ish world. Whether in epic fantasy or urban fantasy, there’s been a bit more restraint lately in terms of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 9 '12

Lenovo Yoga: This Windows 8 Ultrabook Moonlights as a Tablet

So it looks like those rumors about touchscreen ultrabooks were true. Lenovo’s Yoga is the first such device of its kind (that being a Windows , equipped with a multitouch panel capable of tracking 10 fingers. And though I’ve been dismissive of such devices, it wasn’t nearly the awful experience I thought it would be.…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 9 '12

Panasonic’s New Plasmas Are Built for the 99 Percent

I’m Getting Drunk While Watching the BCS Championship Game in 3D Because It’s the Future of Sports

We’re Live From Microsoft’s Ballmerrific, Final CES Keynote

Sony’s New Xperia Phones Hands On: They Go Right For the Eyes

Lenovo’s A720 Might Be the Multitouch All-In-One PC We’ve All Dreamed Of

Who Needs Pixels When You Have Six Million LEDs to Light Your Display?

Picture of the Day: January 9, 2012: A Lazy Dalek and House Stark’s New Business

HP’s Ultrabook Is Made Out of Glass (Update: Hands On with Video)

Once Upon a Time lets Robert Carlyle chew two realms worth of scenery

PlayMemories: Sony’s Photo and Video Sharing Cloud Service Is Like PhotoStream with Videos

Sony’s New HDTVs Want to Change Your Mind About 3D

Sony’s Super-Sized Network Speaker Adds More Boom to Your Living Room

You have an excellent supply of stem cells right behind your eye

Sony Now Makes a Portable Blu-ray Player. Why?

Sony’s Google TV Streamer Picks Up Where the Logitech Revue Left Off

This 7-Inch Asus Tablet Has Tegra 3 Power for Nearly Kindle Fire Prices

An Easy $300,000 for Sense of Wonder in a Box

Transformer Prime Graduates to Ice Cream Sandwich Today (UPDATED)

An Epic Fantasy That Doesn’t Hold Back on the “Epic”

Lenovo Yoga: This Windows 8 Ultrabook Moonlights as a Tablet

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