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5 Favorite Star Trek Rip-Offs

Ahead of next Friday’s release of the new JJ Abrams take on Star Trek, it’s worth taking some time to remember some other movies, TV shows and comics that boldly followed in its warpdrive trail. Space 1999 Perhaps understandably (The show’s second season showrunner was a Trek veteran), Gerry Andersen’s moonbase drama went from 2001-style…

io9 Graeme McMillan May 3 '09

Google Infrared Patent Further Details Firm’s Insatiable Book Assimilation Technique

We’ve covered Google’s attempt to suck the text from every book ever written before, but here’s a recent patent filing that details the infrared technique—in glorious pictures! [NPR via Memex 1.1 via Boing Boing]

Tech News Jack Loftus May 3 '09

Lego Takes $125 Off Millennium Falcon, Gives Chance To Win First Edition Set

North American residents can take advantage of two cool deals from Lego today for its incredible Ultimate Collector’s Edition Millennium Falcon. One deal is $125 off. The other is 100% off, because it’s a contest. https://gizmodo.com/legos-ultimate-collectors-millennium-falcon-unboxed-no-303613 And just for kicks, here’s that amazing 12-minute stop motion assembly video we posted a while back. https://gizmodo.com/the-building-of-the-lego-millennium-falcon-the-definit-5165255 [Lego…

Tech News Jack Loftus May 3 '09

Rumor: Blackberry 8900 Jumps To AT&T This June

The image and accompanying speculation purportedly confirms that the Blackberry 8900, long since comfortable on T-Mobile’s network, is heading to AT&T this June. (Which we figured, since we’ve held one that looks just like this.) https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-curve-8900-first-impressions-kills-the-orig-5071533 And June is basically all the news has to say about this phone right now. Early indications hint that…

Tech News Jack Loftus May 3 '09

Does DC’s Latest Revival Hint At Legal Victory?

This week’s release of DC Comics’ Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds included a return that may have surprised followers of a particular lawsuit over character ownership. Spoilers for lovers of teenage superheroes ahead. The return of Connor Kent, AKA Superboy, in this week’s fourth issue of Legion came as a double surprise to many…

io9 Graeme McMillan May 3 '09

Slap Chop Remix Breathes New Life Into Worthless Gadget, Vince’s Career?

DJ Steve Porter is trying his hardest to revive the career of Vince. You remember Vince, right? He’s the ShamWow guy who got bitten by, and beat up, a hooker earlier this year. Pretty catchy, no? Almost made me forget he got in a fist fight with a woman of the night and got arrested.…

Tech News Jack Loftus May 3 '09

Timekeeping, The Final Frontier

It’s incredibly simple, and yet still kind of wonderful. It’s a handmade working Star Trek clock from Etsy seller YOUgNeek, and I have to admit that I kind of want one right now. The clocks – called “We Need More Time Captain” and now being made to order, after the originals sold out – are…

io9 Graeme McMillan May 3 '09

TiVo Flash Developer Posting Hints At Intensive UI Refresh

TiVo’s looking for a seasoned flash developer to help out with “embedded systems.” The UI’s not bad, but it’s showing its age, so it makes sense that TiVo is looking for ways to refresh it. TiVo designs and develops Flash Lite applications. It’s all about balancing user experience, technical capability and time-to-market. Easy? No, but…

Television Jack Loftus May 3 '09

Your Kids’ TV Future Is Transformers

While I’ve often wished about a television network devoted entirely to Transformers, I have to admit feeling rather disturbed about losing an educational kids’ channel to get it. Rev up your “moral decay” outrage engines. Announced on Friday, the new network co-created by Transformers and GI Joe owners Hasbro and Discovery Communications (owners of the…

io9 Graeme McMillan May 3 '09

Heresy! Apple Rejects Trent Reznor’s NIN iPhone App Update For ‘Objectionable Content’

I Do Not Want This news to be true, but it is: Apple rejected the NIN app update for “objectionable content.” I have never felt Closer to Trent Reznor than I do today, Piggy. Updated. And just what was the bad, potty-mouthed content? Why, it was a reference to The Downward Spiral, hence the ridiculous…

Tech News Jack Loftus May 3 '09

T-Mobile’s HTC Magic Shall Be Known Henceforth In U.S. As ‘MyTouch’

Someone more adept at navigating the T-Mobile inventory screens than I am has discovered that the carrier’s version of the Android-packing HTC Magic might have a more official U.S. name in “MyTouch.” Hrmm. Now, to be frank (you can be Shirley), thinking about the name doesn’t exactly make me want to MyTouch myself, but it…

Tech News Jack Loftus May 3 '09

Dollhouse’s Tudyk Comes Clean

Well, now we know that Alan Tudyk is in Joss Whedon‘s Dollhouse, and just what character he plays. He talked to Entertainment Weekly about preparing for the role… including a depressingly buff body double. Spoilers! Talking to Michael Ausiello, Tudyk explained how he ended up as Dollhouse’s big bad, Alpha: Joss told me about the…

io9 Graeme McMillan May 3 '09

Rumor: Sony UK Support Page Reveals ‘Alpha 330’ DSLR Line, Lenses

The Canon Rebel T1i and Nikon D5000 aren’t the only DSLRs having fun this week, if a new rumor pans out. Apparently, Sony’s preparing something new for the Alpha series—but what?! https://gizmodo.com/canon-rebel-t1i-vs-nikon-d5000-entry-level-dslr-battle-5234607 A DSLR, that’s what. The mysterious entry-level DSLR was revealed accidentally in the lower levels of the company’s support pages, of all places,…

Tech News Jack Loftus May 3 '09

JD Power and Associates Ranks iPhone First Among Smartphones in Customer Satisfaction

Apple took top prize in JD Power and Associates customer satisfaction survey in the smartphone category, while LG ranked first among dumbphones. But one nagging complaint kept the iPhone’s scores closer to the competition. Those surveyed gave the iPhone top marks in all the categories save one: Battery life, where it scored a below-average two…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz May 2 '09

The Road Finds Release Date Light At The End Of A Depressingly Bleak Tunnel

After shoving Cormac McCarthy’s big screen adaptation further and further down (ahem) The Road, it sounds like a release date has finally been set. Plus, we scavenged up new stills from the spirit-shattering film. After banishing John Hillcoat’s adaptation of The Road to the next year, many wondered if the the burned down post apocalyptic…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 2 '09

In The Future, Cyborg Singers Will Be Our Teachers

The man in charge of Google’s new university plans to become a cyborg and dreams of the day when he can fulfill his fantasy of being a female rock singer. Where can I sign up? The UK’s Guardian newspaper interviewed Ray Kurzweil, the visionary in charge of the Google-sponsored, NASA-endorsed Singularity University (opening next month),…

io9 Graeme McMillan May 2 '09

Sap Cap Packs a Blackjack Into a Black Hat

The Sap Cap isn’t just a logo-less baseball cap. It’s also a blackjack, one of those weighted leather weapons private eyes used to get socked with all the time back in the 1940s. The bill is meant to be held like a handle, and the crown of the cap is heavily weighted, in case you…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz May 2 '09

We Already Know How The Dollhouse’s Story Ends

Last night’s Dollhouse advanced a theme the show has sneaked into a few episodes so far: The idea that the abusive, mind-crushing Dollhouse is the future of the human race. Of course, that bit of wisdom comes from the show’s “villain,” Alpha, who’s arguably the most perfect product of the Dollhouse’s mind-conditioning technology. Alpha used…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 2 '09

Moore On British Apocalyptic Fiction

It’s the explanation you’ve always wanted: V For Vendetta and Watchmen author Alan Moore talking about the British school of apocalyptic science fiction, and the influence it’s had on his own work. Concluding his six-part interview with Newsarama.com, Moore was asked about the influence authors like Ballard, John Wyndham and John Christopher have had on…

io9 Graeme McMillan May 2 '09

Verizon Partnering With Boingo to Give Free Wi-Fi to FiOS and DSL Customers

According to the ever-popular “sources familiar with the matter,” Verizon is planning to partner up with Wi-Fi hotspot provider Boingo. Now, how’s about you make with the WiFi-enabled phones, Verizon? Boingo is the world’s largest WiFi hotspot provider with over 100,000, and even though I’d never heard of them, it turns out they’ve got hotspots…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz May 2 '09

5 Favorite Star Trek Rip-Offs

Google Infrared Patent Further Details Firm’s Insatiable Book Assimilation Technique

Lego Takes $125 Off Millennium Falcon, Gives Chance To Win First Edition Set

Rumor: Blackberry 8900 Jumps To AT&T This June

Does DC’s Latest Revival Hint At Legal Victory?

Slap Chop Remix Breathes New Life Into Worthless Gadget, Vince’s Career?

Timekeeping, The Final Frontier

TiVo Flash Developer Posting Hints At Intensive UI Refresh

Your Kids’ TV Future Is Transformers

Heresy! Apple Rejects Trent Reznor’s NIN iPhone App Update For ‘Objectionable Content’

T-Mobile’s HTC Magic Shall Be Known Henceforth In U.S. As ‘MyTouch’

Dollhouse’s Tudyk Comes Clean

Rumor: Sony UK Support Page Reveals ‘Alpha 330’ DSLR Line, Lenses

JD Power and Associates Ranks iPhone First Among Smartphones in Customer Satisfaction

The Road Finds Release Date Light At The End Of A Depressingly Bleak Tunnel

In The Future, Cyborg Singers Will Be Our Teachers

Sap Cap Packs a Blackjack Into a Black Hat

We Already Know How The Dollhouse’s Story Ends

Moore On British Apocalyptic Fiction

Verizon Partnering With Boingo to Give Free Wi-Fi to FiOS and DSL Customers

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