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10 Movies That Should Never Become Video Games

Times are tough, but word on the street is that video games could be recession proof. That’s why we predict purveyors of the medium will sign off on even more dubious game adaptations of movies. After scratching our heads over the troubling Watchmen: The End Is Nigh game, a bald effort to cash in on…

io9 Nisha Gopalan Nov 21

World’s Tallest Bridge Goes Up in China with the Help of Some Rockets

In China, they’re currently working on the Siduhe Grand Bridge, what will be the tallest bridge in the world when completed. How tall is it? Well, let’s just say that you could put the Empire State Building in the valley below it and it wouldn’t touch the bridge, with a whopping 360 feet of overhead.…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Nov 21

Vampire Novels for Your Post-Twilight Fix

Stephenie Meyer has put Midnight Sun, the fifth book in her Twilight series, on indefinite hold, meaning it could be a long time before Meyer addicts get their next dose of Edward and Bella. But bloodsuckers are rampant in modern fiction, from vampire detectives, hedonistic rockstars, and bloodthirsty children, to the Anne Rice brand of…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Nov 21

A Call for Revolution Against Beta Culture

I’m tired of this. This sense of permanent discomfort with the technology around me. The bugs. The compromises. The firmware upgrades. The “This will work in the next version.” The “It’s in our roadmap.” The “Buy now and upgrade later.” The patches. The new low development standards that make technology fail because it wasn’t tested…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 21

Kill Mickey Mouse in a Strange Game of Corporate Brand Slavery

You’re a hard-working Rep for AwesomeTech Solutions (ATS), a global corporation that values creativity, the future, and nostalgia. Except it doesn’t value any of those things, only profit. And they want you to assassinate Mickey Mouse. The skills to pull it off have been uploaded into your brain, but are you really willing to sell…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Nov 21

New Concept Art Shows James Cameron’s Alien Warriors Sexier Than Expected

We’ve been waiting months for our first glimpse of the Na’vi, the aliens from James Cameron’s new film Avatar. Too long have we subsisted on outlines and blurry set photos of our new alien pals. Well wait no more – in an interview with plan.siete, concept artist Jonay Bacallado revealed a handful of beautiful concept…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 21

AMD Shows Off Phenom II Processor’s Headroom, By Overclocking to 5GHz

From AMD’s upcoming chip roadmaps we know the Phenom II is due out early next year, and it’s AMD’s second 45nm chip, but in a recent show and tell session AMD demonstrated the “overhead” built into the chip by overclocking one to a crazy 5GHz. It did take a special CO2 sublimation cooling unit that…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 21

Woz Really Does Everything On His Segway

The balance, the precision aiming. The man: Woz takes a piss on his Segway. If this is Photoshopped (or the world’s most convincing Woz lookalike), there truly is no God. [Macenstein] UPDATE: Woz confirms in the comments! From the man himself: not photoshopped…it was years ago…some wild eyed guy was blurting out questions at a…

Tech News John Mahoney Nov 21

Where You’ll Wash Your Hands on Your Spaceship

The International Space Station may have a tiny bathroom and endless toilet problems, but future spaceships will have artificial gravity so you can run water over your hands in a gleaming receptacle. These futuristic water basins, like this curvy one by Kohler (pictured), will be to today’s sinks the way videogames are to shuffleboard. We’ve…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 21

iPhone 2.2 Update Review: Go Get It Now

The new iPhone 2.2 is here and we’ve been playing with it all night and morning. Like Apple says in their documentation, the stability and performance seems to have improved, but the spotlight falls on the new and improved Maps application, which has been polished up thanks to its public transportation and walking directions, as…

Reviews Jesus Diaz Nov 21

19-Year-Old Commits Suicide Live on Justin.tv While Commenters Egg Him On

Here’s a story nobody likes to see. 19-year-old Abraham K. Biggs overdosed on pills on a live webcam stream before hundreds of people on Wednesday night, all while commenters on Justin.tv and bodybuilding.com encouraged him, apparently thinking it was some kind of joke. He lay passed out on his webcam for hours until he appeared…

Tech News Adam Frucci Nov 21

Would You Sew Buttons Over Your Eyes To Live In Coraline’s Parallel Universe?

The trailer for Neil Gaiman’s Coraline is out, and it manages to combine stark beauty with some of the darkness of Gaiman’s original novel. We’ve already seen how they created the movie’s amazing-looking puppets, and now we can see what happens when those hand-crafted marvels are put together. The story follows a girl’s journey into…

Movies Meredith Woerner Nov 21

Pushing Daisies Lives Up To Its Name

It’s the news that we’ve been hoping we’d never have to share – even though we saw it coming for weeks. Sadly, ABC has canceled Pushing Daisies. The network has made no official announcement about the series’ end, relying instead on boilerplate comments that no final decision has been made. But show creator Bryan Fuller…

Television Graeme McMillan Nov 21

10 Really Cool Windows 7 Media Center Features

A few days back, I showed you the new touch interface for Media Center PCs running Windows 7, and though I had to pull the video, I promised a walkthrough of proposed Windows 7 Media Center features. I say “proposed” because, like everything else about Windows 7, this is all alpha and subject to change.…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Nov 21

Special Forces Fireproof Modular Glove System Now For Normal Rich Guys Too

Before you ask “why would I need fireproof gloves?” it’s just one feature of this glove system from Outdoor Research that’s in use right now by the military in Iraq, including special forces chaps. They can also handle extremely cold and hot environments, and the outer layer is made of a specially abrasion-resistant “wolverine” material.…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 21

Will Arnie Be In Terminator 4?

Thank spoilers it’s Friday! There’s a new Astro Boy pic, and Chris Pine spills some Star Trek sex secrets. (Really.) Even more excitingly, there’s another hint about whether, and how, Arnold Schwarzenegger will turn up in Terminator 4. There’s a German trailer for The Spirit and new 2012 dirt. Plus startling new Sarah Connor clips,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Nov 21

Patent For Gesture-Controlled Phones Could Be Nokia’s Answer to Touch

Nokia has always held the line that the reason their top-end N-series has yet to see any sign of a touch-based interface was because they were simply waiting to “do it the right way.” (The company’s first all-touch device, the 5800, was made official only a few months ago).All’s fair there, but when I asked…

Tech News John Mahoney Nov 21

Mercedes’ Web-Connected myComand Takes on BMW iDrive

Mercedes-Benz new myCOMAND system has appeared at the Los Angeles Auto Show, taking on the fourth-generation BMW iDrive. Whereas the latter has an Xbox 360 feeling, this one gets some clues from Apple, especially Coverflow and the menu navigation, which reminds me of the first version of the Apple TV and Front Row. One big…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 21

Atomic Floyd AirJax Headphones Made of Titanium2 Look The Biz

Atomic Floyd is new to the personal audio headphones game, and their first bit of kit is actually pretty decent looking. The AirJax headphones are in-ear, but have earloops made of something they’re calling Titanium2 (even better than version1?). They’re also made of “acoustic steel” which is apparently specially heat-treated for maxiumum audio quality, and…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 21

17,000 Square Foot LED Billboard Flipped On at 1 Times Square, Wraps Around Entire Building

When we first wrote about this comically huge Walgreens LED sign — the largest of its kind in the world — construction was just getting under way. That was May, and now they’re done. D3 LED, the firm behind the sign, finally turned on this 17,000 square foot, 340ft tall, three-sided tribute to technical and…

Tech News John Herrman Nov 21

10 Movies That Should Never Become Video Games

World’s Tallest Bridge Goes Up in China with the Help of Some Rockets

Vampire Novels for Your Post-Twilight Fix

A Call for Revolution Against Beta Culture

Kill Mickey Mouse in a Strange Game of Corporate Brand Slavery

New Concept Art Shows James Cameron’s Alien Warriors Sexier Than Expected

AMD Shows Off Phenom II Processor’s Headroom, By Overclocking to 5GHz

Woz Really Does Everything On His Segway

Where You’ll Wash Your Hands on Your Spaceship

iPhone 2.2 Update Review: Go Get It Now

19-Year-Old Commits Suicide Live on Justin.tv While Commenters Egg Him On

Would You Sew Buttons Over Your Eyes To Live In Coraline’s Parallel Universe?

Pushing Daisies Lives Up To Its Name

10 Really Cool Windows 7 Media Center Features

Special Forces Fireproof Modular Glove System Now For Normal Rich Guys Too

Will Arnie Be In Terminator 4?

Patent For Gesture-Controlled Phones Could Be Nokia’s Answer to Touch

Mercedes’ Web-Connected myComand Takes on BMW iDrive

Atomic Floyd AirJax Headphones Made of Titanium2 Look The Biz

17,000 Square Foot LED Billboard Flipped On at 1 Times Square, Wraps Around Entire Building

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