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A “Brightest Day” After The Green Lantern’s “Blackest Night”

DC Comics‘ Blackest Night crossover has been a demented monster mash of superheroics and ravenous zombies. Sadly, it looks like DC’s do-gooders will prevail over the undead when DC releases its newest mega-event – Brightest Day – this April. Brightest Day will be a standalone series whose plot tendrils will rope in ancillary DC titles.…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Apple, It’s Time to Delete Safari From the iPhone

It took only a few hours: Apple has banned ForChan from iTunes, a perfectly innocent, web-based, dedicated image browser for the iPhone. Its only sin: It could display porn. Well done, Apple. Let’s delete Safari now. https://gizmodo.com/apple-approves-porn-app-in-under-12-hours-5445065 ForChan could connect to any image board web page and show pictures. Photos of dogs, cats, birds, food,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Biotech Water-Purification Boat To Make The Rivers Of Europe Drinkable

A passenger vessel the size of a whale and packed with gardens, the concept ship Physalia is also designed to purify every river it floats in. Keep the Physalia in your river for long enough, and it will create drinkable water. Created by Vincent Callebaut Architects, the ship is intended to float upon some of…

io9 Annalee Newitz

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

This week, it’s all about CES. Nanotechnology changing our LED displays, solar-powered cars, human-powered chargers that work, e-readers galore, electronic bikes and a whole lot more green stuff from this crazy ass gadget trade show. Nielson Fact Sheet Reveals Surprising Statistics About American Gadget Use In preparation for CES, tech bloggers were sent a fact…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch

Control Your PC With the Puyocon Motion-Sensing Ball

Using a mouse is old-hat, if the recent wave of ball-shaped motion-sensing PC remotes is anything to go by. Straight out of Japan, the Puyocon can be squeezed, thrown around or rolled, controlling actions on the computer. The Entertainment Computing Laboratory, at Tsukuba University in Japan, should hook up with Cambridge Consultants, whose Suma controller…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Google May Insert Real-Time Ads Onto Old Billboards in Street View

All those outdated billboards in Google Street View aren’t just an eyesore; they’re a waste of a money-making opportunity for the big G, apparently. But not for long. Google’s filed a patent entitled “Claiming Real Estate in Panoramic or 3D Mapping Environments for Advertising,” and it should allow them to automagically cut out billboards shown…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Amtrak Finally Getting Free Wi-Fi, But Only on Acela

Take heart, business travelers of America! Soon you’ll be able to add “slow and spotty internet connection” to your list of gripes with Amtrak’s high(er) speed Acela line. While I’m sure Hulu will help numb the pain of rail commuting, be warned that it may only be free for a limited time. Also, be annoyed…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Could Legion Be Worse Than The Happening?

The latest clip from Legion has our “it’s so bad it’s good” meters spinning. Will Legion make its mark as the best-worst genre film of 2010, Time Cop style, or is it joyless The Happening bad? Watch and decide. This clip, via ShockTillYouDrop, has all the makings of a “bad good” movie. Evil children, heroes…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Wet Computers Headed to Fill Your Body With Drugs and Love

Wet computers—devices made of lipid-covered cells that handle chemical reactions similarly to neurons—are the key to machines with the processing power of the human brain. But for now, they may deliver drugs in a better way: The type of wet information technology we are working towards will not find its near-term application in running business…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

OpenGL 3.0 Support Leaks in OS X 10.6.3 Beta

Apple’s not always the quickest on adopting new standards (or even old standards). Luckily, their OS X 10.6.3 beta has revealed at least partial support for OpenGL 3.0. [Hardmac via AppleInsider]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Fan Reboot “Space 2099” Is The Best Way To Watch “Space 1999”

Want to re-watch 1970s classic Space 1999, but afraid to slog through those gooey plots full of woo-woo and aliens with eyeliner on their foreheads? Now you can see the show’s best bits, with updated effects, in Space 2099. A Space 1999 fan named Eric Bernard has boiled down most episodes of the first three…

Television Annalee Newitz

Might Walmart Devour Vudu?

Sources have told AllThingsD that Vudu is in “meaningful” acquisition discussions, with Walmart being the most likely analog moneybags candidate. Given that Vudu is making its way to most new TVs, acquisition sounds like a good plan for Walmart. [AllThingsD]

Movies Mark Wilson

Get All Matchy-Matchy With JVC’s iPod Nano SP-A130 Portable Speaker

Are black, silver, pink and blue the most popular iPod Nano colors? According to JVC, yes, yes they are. The SP-A130 speaker not only matches those Nanos in size, but also shade. Whilst I have a blue Nano knocking around somewhere, I do wish they’d used the same metallic paint that Apple uses. To blast…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Android Smartphone Identifies Small Town Dumbrobber

Hey, criminals: what’s the first thing you do after breaking and entering? Take a picture of yourself with the victim’s phone, right? Well, not when that phone has Lookout, an app that automatically backs up all photos to a server. A 15-year old male in Wilsonville, OR was arrested last week and charged with first…

Tech News Brian Barrett

A Nation-By-Nation Breakdown Of Avatar’s Moolah

We know that James Cameron‘s Avatar has raked in a record-breaking $1.34 billion internationally. But where exactly did Cameron make the most greenbacks off his epic of 10-foot-tall cerulean cat people who make love with their hairdos? SCI FI Wire recently compiled a handy chart delineating the blockbuster’s take by country. As you can see…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Zune HD Firmware Update Bringing XviD and Streaming Playlists In Spring

A firmware update will bring two great features to the Zune HD this spring. The first is native XviD support, which is self-explanatory. The second requires just a tad more explanation. The Smart DJ feature, now on the Zune’s PC software, will make its way to the HD, offering on the fly track suggestions. That’s…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Terminator 2: The Musical

In this T2 remix, Skynet Symphonic, John Connor saves the world to a hypnotic dance beat largely composed from cinematic sounds. And on an a slightly related note, Linda Hamilton could kick Arnold’s butt any day. [reddit]

Movies Mark Wilson

Avatar 2 May Go Further Than You Expect, While Spider-Man 1.5 Will Be “Grittier”

James Cameron hints at brand new worlds for Avatar 2, John Cho talks Khan in Star Trek 2, and there are hints about Spider-Man 1.5. Two beloved Lost characters film a scene together. Plus Jonah Hex, Hobbit and Supernatural spoilers. Avatar 2: James Cameron’s already mentioned this movie’s sequels could explore the other moons, but…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Light Bulb USB Stick Certain to Entertain the Dim-Witted

Your mom may have told you not to stare directly into light bulbs or solar eclipses for hours on end, but you know what? You’re a big boy now, so enjoy blinding yourself with 2GB of data. [GeekStuff4U via AkihabaraNews]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Canceling a Nexus One Contract Costs More Than a Nexus One

If you buy a subsidized Nexus One with T-Mobile and you cancel your contract after the 14-day trial, it’ll cost you between $50 and $200. Sounds pretty standard, but Google will charge you an additional “equipment recovery fee.” Google has the right to charge you up to $350 if you cancel before the 4 month…

Tech News Mark Wilson

A “Brightest Day” After The Green Lantern’s “Blackest Night”

Apple, It’s Time to Delete Safari From the iPhone

Biotech Water-Purification Boat To Make The Rivers Of Europe Drinkable

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

Control Your PC With the Puyocon Motion-Sensing Ball

Google May Insert Real-Time Ads Onto Old Billboards in Street View

Amtrak Finally Getting Free Wi-Fi, But Only on Acela

Could Legion Be Worse Than The Happening?

Wet Computers Headed to Fill Your Body With Drugs and Love

OpenGL 3.0 Support Leaks in OS X 10.6.3 Beta

Fan Reboot “Space 2099” Is The Best Way To Watch “Space 1999”

Might Walmart Devour Vudu?

Get All Matchy-Matchy With JVC’s iPod Nano SP-A130 Portable Speaker

Android Smartphone Identifies Small Town Dumbrobber

A Nation-By-Nation Breakdown Of Avatar’s Moolah

Zune HD Firmware Update Bringing XviD and Streaming Playlists In Spring

Terminator 2: The Musical

Avatar 2 May Go Further Than You Expect, While Spider-Man 1.5 Will Be “Grittier”

Light Bulb USB Stick Certain to Entertain the Dim-Witted

Canceling a Nexus One Contract Costs More Than a Nexus One

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