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Hillcrest Labs Pairs Kylo “TV Browser” with Motion-Sensing Loop Pointer

Remember the Loop? It was an accelerometer-equipped remote for media centers that arrived last June. It worked pretty well. Now the company behind it, Hillcrest Labs, is going to try its hand at a web browser called Kylo—for television! https://gizmodo.com/the-loop-controls-your-tv-like-the-wii-for-100-5290975 The main reason for Kylo’s existence is to work with—and presumably sell—its $100 motion-sensing Loop…

Television Jack Loftus

The Brazilian SciFi Short “Analog” Is Minimalist Cyberweirdness

This creepy-cool trailer for EBBËTO’s 25-minute-long film Analog is an agoraphobe’s worst nightmare -a machine keeps a man alive during a deep space journey. Unfortunately, the machine begins to reassess its programming, and a lot of symbolic oddness precipitates. Here are the details on the flick, which is currently making the festival rounds: ANALOG is…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Sport in the Year 2000 (1986)

The March, 1986 issue of Omni magazine featured a quiz readers could take to test their knowledge of what sports would be like in the year 2000 and beyond. The thing I find funny about this was that the “correct” answers were determined by one man, Peter Ueberroth, the commissioner of Major League Baseball. While…

Tech News Matt Novak

Spider-Man Battles Samurai In 1970s TV Stills

In the Seventies, The Amazing Spider-Man aired on CBS, Nicholas Hammond was Peter Parker, and the show’s theme song was pornoriffic. Take a trip down memory lane with these photographs from an era when Spidey fought crime in his PJs. [Waffyjon’s Flickr via Coming Attractions Of The Past] And here’s the intro to The Amazing…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

The Day @ Became a Celebrated Work of Art

Next time you send an email, take a moment to ponder the simple beauty of the address field. No, not the name. Who cares who you’re sending emails to. I certainly don’t. No, the @ symbol. It’s artwork now! And famous artwork at that, thanks to its admission into the prestigious architecture and design collection…

Tech News Jack Loftus

McDonald’s Japan To Begin Training Employees with Nintendo DS, Software

“Get your greasy fingers off that DS Li—oh, you work here. Sorry about that. Please, continue with your McDonald’s training.” No, really, this could totally happen! And soon, as McDonald’s Japan is currently developing a $2.2 million DS “game” called eSmart that is designed to “cut training time by half.” How? Unclear. Perhaps there’s a…

Tech News Jack Loftus

What If Superheroes Were Elements?

It’s Marvel’s Avengers as you’ve never seen them before… Namely, as abstract personifications of elements from the periodic table. Artist Das Chupa is the genius behind this version, and he’s given Superman the same treatment here. [Zero Lives]

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Sky, ESPN, acTVila 3D Programming All Inbound This Summer

It’s no surprise given the current hype level, but there are no less than three 3D programming announcements making the rounds today. Two of the three deal with—surprise!—sporting events. ESPN 3D, which we’ve heard about before, will produce and air a 3D MLB Home Run Derby on July 12 during the All-Star break. This is…

Television Jack Loftus

Quantum Mechanics Object Observed by the Human Eye

Remember when, just the other day, we were talking about the future of storage, and how quantum mechanics is on the pipe dream, it’s totally magic list for now? Yeah. Me too. Thing is, shit just got real: Updated. https://gizmodo.com/the-future-of-storage-5497512 Real, and more importantly observable. Observable is important because until this week when one talked…

Tech News Jack Loftus

When Happy Endings Seem Important, After All

Here’s my terrible, heretical admission about the last season of Lost: I enjoy the flash-sideways. No, wait, that’s not it. What I meant to say was: I don’t care if they answer all of the questions about mythology or not. I can feel your stares of disdain from here, but they won’t change my mind.…

Television Graeme McMillan

FoxTrot Discovers One Comic That Just Won’t Work On the iPad

FoxTrot uses the geekiest of comic book humor to rake the iPad and its lack of flash over the coals. Funny because it’s true! Pretty brilliant Sunday strip, Mr. Amend, just be wary of visitors from Cupertino. [Foxtrot]

Tech News Jack Loftus

Wal-Mart Already Selling HTC HD2, Early Buyer Unboxes Post-Haste

Hey look, Wal-Mart is selling the HTC HD2 early, and the inevitable unboxing YouTube video has already hit the web. [YouTube via BGR] https://gizmodo.com/htc-hd2-coming-to-t-mobile-on-march-24-for-200-5495146

Tech News Jack Loftus

Will Google Leave China Because Of Hacking And Censorship?

Google will likely be pulling the plug on Google.cn by the end of the month. According to the web search giant, China’s stringent censorship and the hacking of Gmail accounts have driven Google to relinquish 35.6% of China’s search market. Even though the Chinese search engine Baidu’s 58.6% share of Chinese searches eclipses Google’s 35.6%…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Apple Begins Offering Discounted iPad 10-Packs for Educators

If you’re head over heels for an iPad, it will pay to be a teacher or some other figure in an educational institution. This is because, like it has done in the past with its laptops and other hardware, Apple is offering discounted iPad 10-packs for educators. The packs are available in these configurations: BF822LL/A:…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Firegard Robot Concept Slinks In and Saves in Fiery Situations

I could have sworn I killed this thing while playing Mass Effect 2 the other day, but the designer says this is actually a benevolent, firefighting automaton called Firegard that’s meant to aid firemen in the field, not kill them. Much like the bomb-sniffing and disarming robots deployed in Iraq today, Firegard goes where humans…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Old-Timey Predator Will Joyride Into Your Heart

I say old bean, is that a Yautja on a penny-farthing velocipede? By gum, I haven’t beheld such a spectacle since eleventy-twelve! And lo! Our pedal-pushing intergalactic sportsmen totes one of those newfangled heliumized air bladders! What delicious farce! [Gavwoodhouse’s Deviant Art page via Superpunch]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Neofonie WePad Named Using MS Word Find-and-Replace Tool

I realize comparisons to another “Pads” are unfair, especially given the Tablet Wars I just invented by saying Tablet Wars haven’t even officially started, but surely the WePad’s name is some kind of backhanded compliment/joke from its creators at Neofonie? I hope it is, because WePad makes it sound as if Neofonie took a “find…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Is Corot-9b Cool Enough To Be Earth-2?

Scientists have discovered what may be the first exoplanet to mirror Earth’s climate, which may be a major breakthrough in the study of planets in other solar systems. The planet, given the catchy name of Corot-9b, is only one of more than 400 found that orbit other stars, but the first whose temperature can be…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Line 6 iPhone Peripheral is for MIDI Masters On-the-Go

Does the iPhone need a mobile MIDI app? Irrelevant question, self, because it has one now, regardless of need or want. Called the Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer, it’s a low power, portable option for MIDI mixers on the move. The free app portion is available now, but you’ll have to wait until the hardware goes…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Ben Folds Takes Chatroulette on Stage with “Ode to Merton”

I’ve probably seen Ben Folds live a dozen times. And except for the time where he actually got so pissed at people yelling “Freebird!” that he actually played the whole thing, I’ve never once been bored. Watch this performance’s precursor. https://gizmodo.com/the-chatroulette-pianist-will-make-you-laugh-today-5494014

Tech News Joel Johnson

Hillcrest Labs Pairs Kylo “TV Browser” with Motion-Sensing Loop Pointer

The Brazilian SciFi Short “Analog” Is Minimalist Cyberweirdness

Sport in the Year 2000 (1986)

Spider-Man Battles Samurai In 1970s TV Stills

The Day @ Became a Celebrated Work of Art

McDonald’s Japan To Begin Training Employees with Nintendo DS, Software

What If Superheroes Were Elements?

Sky, ESPN, acTVila 3D Programming All Inbound This Summer

Quantum Mechanics Object Observed by the Human Eye

When Happy Endings Seem Important, After All

FoxTrot Discovers One Comic That Just Won’t Work On the iPad

Wal-Mart Already Selling HTC HD2, Early Buyer Unboxes Post-Haste

Will Google Leave China Because Of Hacking And Censorship?

Apple Begins Offering Discounted iPad 10-Packs for Educators

Firegard Robot Concept Slinks In and Saves in Fiery Situations

Old-Timey Predator Will Joyride Into Your Heart

Neofonie WePad Named Using MS Word Find-and-Replace Tool

Is Corot-9b Cool Enough To Be Earth-2?

Line 6 iPhone Peripheral is for MIDI Masters On-the-Go

Ben Folds Takes Chatroulette on Stage with “Ode to Merton”

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