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16-Foot Tall Lego Pharaoh Floats Down the River Thames

Holy crippity crap! It’s a giant Lego pharaoh floating down river Thames. Have mummies in the British museum come back as zombies to find that Legos are easier to build with than stone? Not quite. Actually, the 16-foot Lego sculpture is on the final leg of a 1395 mile publicity tour down the river where…

Tech News Sean Fallon Feb 23 '09

Danglet Wrist Strap For iPhone Is a Horrible Idea

If you’ve ever wanted to hang your iPhone from your wrist or neck then you, Sir or Madam, have not thought things through. Neither have the people who created the Danglet. The $15 Danglet attaches to your iPod or iPhone’s dock connector and lets you hold it like a wrist strap. Which is fine if…

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 23 '09

The Evil Robot Monkey Just Wants To Create

Most stories about cybernetically “uplifted” animals tend to portray them as alienated super-soldiers or jolly butlers, but Mary Robinette Kowal probably has the right idea in her story “Evil Robot Monkey,” online as an audio. The story, from the Solaris Book Of New Science Fiction Vol. 2, is up as an audio file on Kowal’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 23 '09

A Roundup of the Academy Award Nominated Movies on Netflix

Currently, Netflix has a list of the Academy Award winning movies available on their website, but win or lose, you don’t get nominated for sucking. If you are interested in digging a little deeper into this year’s best movies Hacking Netflix has compiled a list of all the nominees along with info on when/where you…

Tech News Sean Fallon Feb 23 '09

Video: Nintendo DSi vs. DS Lite Browser Speed Test

Spoiler: The DSi’s browser melts the DS Lite’s face off. it’s way faster, the page is rendered better, and it’s readable as it loads. In other words, it’s actually usable: Click to view[Opera via Joystiq]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 23 '09

Vaio P Capoeira: Two Half-Naked Dudes Doing Flips and Crazy Stuff Holding a $900 Netbook

"The Vaio P isn’t pocketable? Well, how about some topless dudes in white pants jump around and do flips and and kicks and stuff? Now what? Yeah, that’s right. Suck it." [Pocketables via BBG]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 23 '09

Comic Con, The Movie?

Anyone else surprised this movie hasn’t been made yet? Producer Brian Levy is teaming up with writers Michael Diliberti and Matthew Sullivan to create the Comic Con movie. The idea sounds sort of Empire Records-esque: a local comic book shop is threatened by a big corporation, and the “geeks” stage some sort of Comic Con…

io9 Meredith Woerner Feb 23 '09

Why Can’t Your Favorite SF Author Write Faster?

Essayist Geoff Nicholson once tried to win a childhood reading contest by devouring science fiction stories. Now he’s struggling with a crucial question: why are some writers so prolific, and others slower than you’d like? To his credit, in his New York Times essay, Nicholson rejects some critics’ claims that super-bountiful literary production is confined…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 23 '09

Ritz Camera Files For Bankruptcy

The US’s largest camera chain has “between $100 million and $500 million of both assets and liabilities.” What with me being someone that’s not good with money or business, I have no idea what that means exactly. [Reuters]

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 23 '09

Academy Award Winning Films Distributed For Free At “Kopime” Stations

Apart from Iron Man, The Dark Knight, and Tropic Thunder, I was out of touch with the Oscars. Fortunately for cheapskates a “Kopime” (“Copy Me”) station can get you caught up for free. In support for sites like Pirate Bay, The Free Art and Technology lab installed Kopime kiosks in several locations (or at least…

Movies Sean Fallon Feb 23 '09

T-Mobile’s First 3G Laptop Card Coming March 25 for $60 a Month

T-Mobile will apparently be launching their first 3G laptop card on March 25 for existing customers. It’s $60 a month and has a 5GB cap, plus T-Mo’s fantastically widespread 3G coverage. [EngadgetMobile]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 23 '09

How Steven DeKnight Survived Last Friday’s Dollhouse

If you think last friday’s forest-hunting Dollhouse episode was a harrowing experience for you, the viewer, then just imagine how terrifying it was for writer/director Steven DeKnight. He told us his Dollhouse survival tale. Steven S. DeKnight, of course, is the guy who wrote a bunch of episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 23 '09

Christian Faur’s Crayon Art Will Make You Cross-Eyed

You are familiar with drawing and crayons, but Christian Faur is taking a different approach to the medium. He uses hundreds of thousands of individual crayons to produce a single, pixelated image. The product is a series of photorealistic landscapes and figurative images that are formed at the surface of the thousands of tightly packed…

Tech News Sean Fallon Feb 23 '09

iPoint 3D Lets You Control a 3D Display Using Only Hand Gestures

The creators of iPoint 3D claim their technology lets you walk up to a 3D display, and without having to wear any special eyewear, interact with the screen just by gesturing in the air. According to Electronista, Fraunhofer plans to show off the technology at next month’s CeBIT show, and say its uses could range…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 23 '09

John Cusack’s Hot Tub Time Machine Puts Some Steam In The Timestream

There may be some hope to find a good science comedy movie in the waters of Josh Heald’s Hot Tub Time Machine movie. Some pretty impressive actors are getting wet and paradoxical. John Cusack, The Daily Show’s Rob Corddry, and Craig Robinson are all rumored to be joining the cast of Hot Tub Time Machine,…

io9 Meredith Woerner Feb 23 '09

How to Cut Hulu Ads Down to One

By refreshing the video you’re currently watching on Hulu, the site will give you a choice to either watch normal ads or one long one before the program starts. Pick the long one. By viewing Honda’s short film, you can eliminate interruptions, which means your video can buffer without having to cut off to view…

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 23 '09

iPhone 3G $50 and $100 Off for Best Buy Reward Zone Members

If you’ve sold your soul to Best Buy‘s Reward Zone program, you can knock $50 or even $100 off an iPhone 3G this week. Unfortunately, Best Buy isn’t using the promotion to grab new members—you need to have been a Reward Zone member since at least Feb. 21. But if you’re a regular (free) Reward…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 23 '09

Google Maps Reveal Lost City of Atlantis?

On Friday, Google maps spawned another web myth. A mysterious grid of lines revealed by the company’s new undersea terrain maps had the interwebs buzzing about the lost city of Atlantis. Google quickly pointed out that the grid was caused by its own terrain mapping equipment, which incorporates data in a grid pattern. Reps from…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 23 '09

iPod Touch and iPod Nano Get a Mini Microphone

Not that the iPhone really needs it, but it and the iTouch/iPod Nano are getting an external mini microphone that plugs directly into the headphone jack. And it’s only $15. The accessory is also compatible with the 120GB iPod classic (claims its product page), and should be a decent way to conduct interviews or surreptitiously…

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 23 '09

Take A Spin In Piccolo’s Power-Recliner, In New Dragonball Pics

Some new Dragonball Evolution images have come out, and they show lots of bright spandex-wearing combat. Shiny! Plus, James Marsters did a photoshoot showing off his swelled head, as Lord Piccolo. I have to admit, I like the design sensibility of some of these images. Especially the Piccolo’s Big Chair image above. It reminds me…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 23 '09

16-Foot Tall Lego Pharaoh Floats Down the River Thames

Danglet Wrist Strap For iPhone Is a Horrible Idea

The Evil Robot Monkey Just Wants To Create

A Roundup of the Academy Award Nominated Movies on Netflix

Video: Nintendo DSi vs. DS Lite Browser Speed Test

Vaio P Capoeira: Two Half-Naked Dudes Doing Flips and Crazy Stuff Holding a $900 Netbook

Comic Con, The Movie?

Why Can’t Your Favorite SF Author Write Faster?

Ritz Camera Files For Bankruptcy

Academy Award Winning Films Distributed For Free At “Kopime” Stations

T-Mobile’s First 3G Laptop Card Coming March 25 for $60 a Month

How Steven DeKnight Survived Last Friday’s Dollhouse

Christian Faur’s Crayon Art Will Make You Cross-Eyed

iPoint 3D Lets You Control a 3D Display Using Only Hand Gestures

John Cusack’s Hot Tub Time Machine Puts Some Steam In The Timestream

How to Cut Hulu Ads Down to One

iPhone 3G $50 and $100 Off for Best Buy Reward Zone Members

Google Maps Reveal Lost City of Atlantis?

iPod Touch and iPod Nano Get a Mini Microphone

Take A Spin In Piccolo’s Power-Recliner, In New Dragonball Pics

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