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The iPhone’s First Streaming Live Concert Starts Now

Apple’s first-ever streaming live concert airs tonight for the iPhone, featuring British electronica group Underworld. Apple’s keeping it a bit quiet, presumably to not destroy AT&T’s feeble servers, but we’ve never been good at keeping secrets. The free show starts now, at 9PM PST (midnight EST), and can be found either here or here. It’ll…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Aug 8 '09

Best Buy to Sell LG Chocolate Touch, Samsung Omnia 2 and More Come August 23rd

One of Boy Genius Report’s “most trusted Best Buy moles” snapped a shot of Best Buy’s plans for August 23rd. Looks like it’ll be a big day in the cellphone world, with a number of anticipated featurephones hitting the shelves. Mostly new Verizon and AT&T featurephone offerings, Best Buy will also have a new shipment…

Gadgets Dan Nosowitz Aug 8 '09

Portable Tap Dispenser: The Partier’s Camelback

This is the Portable Tap Dispenser, a backpack with a dispensing tap for your brew of choice. The Portable Tap Dispenser also has a cupholder so you can more fully cement your reputation as the Beer God of the Party. We’re not sure exactly what the bag’s capacity is, but it looks plenty big enough…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Aug 8 '09

A Peek Inside the Life of a Science Fiction Editor

Ever wonder what’s really happening in the cluttered offices of science fiction magazines like Asimov’s or a publishing house like Pyr? Four editors take you inside the strange world of SF editing. Yesterday at science fiction convention WorldCon, a panel of editors discussed how they find and curate the stories that pack the shelves at…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 8 '09

Computer May Rule Household in 1999 A.D. (1967)

This image was lost some time after publication. Remember the film 1999 A.D. we looked at a of couple years ago? (I really can’t believe I’ve been doing the Paleo-Future blog that long. That’s like 14 in blog-years.) Well, the October 16, 1967 Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA) ran a piece by Desa C. Belyea about…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 8 '09

Can You Still Write Science Fiction Set In The Future?

The future is over! It’s no longer possible to write about the future, because the Singularity will definitely happen in twenty years. We’ll have artificial intelligence, and the meaning of humanity will be transformed. Is this idea hindering science fiction? We went to a Worldcon panel called “The Singularity: Are We Getting Any Closer?” featuring…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 8 '09

We Have a New Winner of the “Worst Shipping Practices” Award

It’s a competitive category, trust me. We’ve seen some pretty ridiculous abuses of packaging and shipping in our day. But this one’s great, especially since the box is upside-down and sort of crushed-looking. Congratulations to the winner loser. [Geekologie] https://gizmodo.com/motorola-sends-teeny-ear-clips-in-huge-cardboard-box-5177651

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Aug 8 '09

GI Joe Rises At Box Office

Despite expectations of disaster and controversy over a lack of mainstream reviews, GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra looks like it’s going to be a hit after all, opening with a surprising $22.3 million box office take on Friday. The new movie is expected to make above $50 million between Friday and Sunday, according to…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 8 '09

HTC’s Android-Based Fiesta Coming to AT&T?

Cellpassion found the UA Profile (kind of a spec list for phones) for the upcoming HTC Fiesta, an Android-based smartphone we know very little about. But an internal link indicates that this could very well be AT&T’s first Android phone. https://gizmodo.com/bluetooth-sig-filing-drops-clues-about-htcs-next-androi-5209627 There are a couple interesting tidbits here: The phone is slated to have a…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Aug 8 '09

Heath Ledger’s Final Film Gets an Acid Trip Trailer

The first trailer for Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus explains little more about the plot behind Heath Ledger’s final bow. But it does offer glimpses of the flying jellyfish, neon motels, and Christopher Plummer-shaped balloons filling Gilliam’s world. In the film, Christopher Plummer plays Dr. Parnassus, a traveling showman who, a thousand years…

Movies Lauren Davis Aug 8 '09

Best Buy in 3D Needs to Go Back to the 2D Drawing Board

With all the talk about augmented reality and 3D lately, it’s only natural that the advertising folks jump the bandwagon. While among the first to take advantage of this tech, Best Buy’s advertising team really missed the point. https://gizmodo.com/apple-will-let-iphone-apps-augment-our-sad-little-reali-5322448 I’m the sort who gets excited about 3D, augmented reality, and holograph technology really quickly (I…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Aug 8 '09

Has NBC Given Up On Sci-Fi?

At an appearance at the Television Critics Association Press Tour this week, NBC’s Angela Bromstad said that Kings failed because it was “too highbrow and sophisticated” to sell to their audience. But is that the show’s fault, or the network’s? Talking about the failure of Kings on the network, president of prime time entertainment Bromstad…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 8 '09

Fresh Shots of the Nokia RX-5 Tablet Prototype

From the wilds of the Indonesian jungle message boards come these new shots of a mysterious Nokia tablet (or MID, or large phone) with a sliding QWERTY, labeled RX-5. The RX-5 is packing a 5MP Carl Zeiss camera, a full QWERTY in the style of the N97 or Sony’s XPERIA series, and a bunch of…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Aug 8 '09

Watch Daniel Craig’s Return As 007 In This Skyfall Trailer

Daniel Craig returns as James Bond in Skyfall this November. MI6 is under attack and the only man who can locate and destroy the threat is 007. Javier Bardem enters the Bond saga as a villain in this highly-anticipated return to the world of British Intelligence. Check out this teaser trailer now and go see…

Tech News Gawkercreative Aug 8 '09

iTunes 9 Feature Rumors: Blu-Ray, App Organization, Social Networking

One of Boy Genius Report’s sources, which he says is reliable, hinted at a few of the new features to be found in the upcoming release of Apple iTunes 9. Let’s take a look. The biggest new feature would have to be the addition of Blu-Ray support, supposedly to go along with the Blu-Ray integration…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Aug 8 '09

The 20th Century The Way It Should Have Happened

Part-Star Wars homage, part-alternate history, If Star Wars Was Real retells the history of the 20th century with some added players, offering up a Photoshopped-fantasia of nerditry and “What If”s. Click through to see more. If Star Wars Was Real (Via)

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 8 '09

Baby’s First Trip Around the Sun in Two Minutes

My dear friend Zac Bir had a great idea: Photograph his son Alexander every single day since he was born, creating this beautiful one-year time-lapse calendar. Watching him grow so happy makes me happy too. Look for the special days. https://gizmodo.com/best-video-ive-seen-today-will-make-you-smile-5231112 Click to view

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 8 '09

Downloaded Child Porn? Blame Your Kitty Cat

Floridian Keith Griffin most certainly didn’t download over a thousand images containing child pornography. No siree. It must’ve been his dear puddy-tat who downloaded pictures of those oh-so-illegal birds. According to a sheriff’s report Friday, Griffin told investigators his cat jumped on the keyboard while he was downloading music. He said he had left the…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Aug 8 '09

NASA Should Look Outside Itself For The Future, Says Panel

If NASA wants to move into the future, it should start by resurrecting an idea from its (very recent) past, according to a US National Research Council committee. Namely, harnessing the very best minds that they haven’t already harnessed. The committee are suggesting that NASA bring back NASA’s Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC, for short),…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 8 '09

Six-Month-Long Camera Exposure Shows Both Winter and Summer Solstices

Justin Quinnell left his homemade pinhole camera continuously exposed for a whopping six months to capture this incredible photo of Saint Mary Redcliffe Church in the UK. Those individual lines are images of the sun trailing across the sky: The lowest one is the winter solstice, captured on December 22nd, and the highest one is…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Aug 8 '09

The iPhone’s First Streaming Live Concert Starts Now

Best Buy to Sell LG Chocolate Touch, Samsung Omnia 2 and More Come August 23rd

Portable Tap Dispenser: The Partier’s Camelback

A Peek Inside the Life of a Science Fiction Editor

Computer May Rule Household in 1999 A.D. (1967)

Can You Still Write Science Fiction Set In The Future?

We Have a New Winner of the “Worst Shipping Practices” Award

GI Joe Rises At Box Office

HTC’s Android-Based Fiesta Coming to AT&T?

Heath Ledger’s Final Film Gets an Acid Trip Trailer

Best Buy in 3D Needs to Go Back to the 2D Drawing Board

Has NBC Given Up On Sci-Fi?

Fresh Shots of the Nokia RX-5 Tablet Prototype

Watch Daniel Craig’s Return As 007 In This Skyfall Trailer

iTunes 9 Feature Rumors: Blu-Ray, App Organization, Social Networking

The 20th Century The Way It Should Have Happened

Baby’s First Trip Around the Sun in Two Minutes

Downloaded Child Porn? Blame Your Kitty Cat

NASA Should Look Outside Itself For The Future, Says Panel

Six-Month-Long Camera Exposure Shows Both Winter and Summer Solstices

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