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5,000-Year-Old Mummy DNA Part of New Human Extinction Mystery

The so-called Tyrolean Iceman, a 5,000-year-old mummy found in an Alpine glacier roughly two decades ago, lived in an era when people were smelting copper and living in cities. But a recent study of his mitochondrial DNA — circlets of genetic material passed on solely through mothers — revealed something astonishing about this recent human…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 30

Square Enix Making Final Fantasy Based iPhone Game

Square Enix, the famed Japanese publisher behind all 3,000 Final Fantasy games, is hard at work on Crystal Defenders, a new game for the iPhone based on the FF universe. It’ll be a “defense simulation” game that utilizes the touchscreen, so I’m guessing it’ll have more in common with Final Fantasy Tactics than Final Fantasy…

Tech News Adam Frucci Oct 30

Motorola’s “Focus On Android” Won’t Yield an Actual Phone Before Christmas 2009

So yesterday, Motorola comes out with some optimistic sounding news (well, unless you’re getting the axe) of streamlining the operation and shifting focus to Android, an OS that is built specifically for its relative ease to bring to market. And then, one day later on their quarterly earnings call (in which they announced a staggering…

Tech News John Mahoney Oct 30

Shut Up Or Die In New Pontypool Trailer

Discover the dirty virus embedded in the English language that turns townspeople in quiet little Pontypool stark raving mad. So mad that their eyes start to bleed and they rip passerby in half. We’ve been following the zombie outbreak film Pontypool since it took over the little radio station where it’s set. This is the…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 30

Catch 22 Yo-Yo: At $460 It’d Better Walk MY Dog

Where as most of us grew up on cheap plastic Duncans, the Catch 22 Yo-Yo caters to our new elitist tastes. We may not be able to even use a “Yo-Yo,” but we need an uberpremium version all the same. With just 70 in existence, each Catch 22 is constructed from a black aluminum base…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 30

HP Wants To Sell You a Carrier-Subsidized Netbook For Cheap With 3G Data

We’ve seen netbooks bundled with a cellular data service contract popping up in other parts of the world, but a report today by the WSJ finds HP considering the same tactic here in the US, where it hasn’t been done effectively yet. This would let you buy a Mini 1000 or any other HP netbook…

Tech News John Mahoney Oct 30

Fear And Outdated Loathing In New Marshal Law Novel

While the world awaits the Watchmen movie, another 1980s classic comic series from two British creators that took a new look at superheroes is trying to make a comeback. Twenty-one years after his first appearance, how does Marshal Law measure up to today’s superhero-saturated culture?Titan Books’ new release Marshal Lew: Origins collects two novellas that…

io9 Graeme McMillan Oct 30

Xbox 360 Netflix HD Won’t Work On Non-HDCP Digital Connections, But Component Works Fine

Microsoft and Netflix are requiring that users of their swell little HD streaming service are connected to HDCP-compatible display. This potentially limits access for people who connect to older LCD screens via DVI. UPDATE: It should be noted, however, that component cables work fine in our testing. From what we can tell, the problem is…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 30

First Look At McLovin As A Superhero, Plus Snake Eyes’ Motorcycle From G.I. Joe

Sometimes the best spoilers can come from an enterprising photographer — like the intrepid soul who got our first glimpses of the awesome motorcycle that super-ninja Snake Eyes will ride in the new G.I. Joe movie. Or the person who caught a precious snap of Christopher Mintz-Plasse (aka McLovin) and Aaron Johnson in their superhero…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 30

Rusty Old Tanks Become Red-Hot Fire Extiguisher Speakers

It wasn’t a mod we would have ever imagined, but what’s seen cannot be unseen. These gorgeous fire extinguisher speakers were painstakingly fabricated through lots of patient cutting and welding. The result is a seamless, industrial metal design that you can’t pick up at Walmart, or even your local speaker boutique. While we’re not skilled…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 30

NASA-TV Streams HD Film to Celebrate 50 Years in Space

50 years ago this month NASA rocketed into existence, and to celebrate this fact NASA-TV is streaming its special retrospective show “50 Years of Exploration: The Golden Anniversary of NASA” in HD format today at 1pm and 8pm EDT (and again tomorrow at 10am and 2pm). Check it out: it’s presented by none other than…

Space & Spaceflight Kit Eaton Oct 30

Sauna Gondola Car is Perfect Mix of Snow, Skiing and Nudity

Screw jacuzzi-ing on top of Mont Blanc, or shrinking your unmentionables in a freezing ice sauna, this is the best kind of winter sport relaxation: a ski gondola has been converted into a sauna. Ohboy yes, you can dangle free and naked over a snowy mountain in the Lapland resort of Ylläs. Après-ski? Nah… with…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 30

Broomstick Bike Is Perfect Vehicle for Wannabe Witches

A black bike with a broomstick mechanism designed to steer it? It must belong to… a witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! We’ve found a witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! We’ve got a witch! A witch! A witch! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! We’ve found a witch! We’ve found…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 30

Didiom Streams Your Entire iTunes Library to Your BlackBerry

The software relationship between RIM and Apple is growing more and more passionate, with third-party companies stoking the the fire that RIM started with its iTunes pairing program, BlackBerry Media Sync. Like Simplify Media for the iPhone, Didiom is an app for virtually any recent BlackBerry that allows for full streaming of a user’s iTunes…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 30

Nokia N96 Media-Cameraphone Lands at Best Buy For $800

News of the European debut and pricing of Nokia’s anticipated N96 slider cellphone stirred up debate about its cost: but now it’s nearly here in Best Buy and yes, that $800 price tag is intact. That’s clearly just for the phone, naked and un-contracted to a provider, but it’s a massive amount of cash—half as…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 30

Cara Lamp is Crystal-Like LED and Silver Circuit-Board Beauty

Those little interlaced blades of ice you sometimes get on the edge of ultra-cold things in wet air: that’s the image that popped into my head on seeing the Cara lamp. It’s by designer Andreas Ostwald and that fragile crystal-like shape is composed of interlocked flat white circuit boards with silver tracks, sprinkled with 70…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 30

Microsoft SecondLight Caught on Video: It’s Like Surface, With Magic

Microsoft announced the SecondLight table a few days ago, offering plenty of explanations as to how this modified, quasi-X-ray Surface table works and how one might use it, but little in the way of visual aides. The dual-projection system, by which the table identifies where it is being touched and projects a second, alternative image…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 30

Truly Scare Neighbour Kids with CNC-Carved Geek-o-Lantern

With just one day to go, the novelty Halloween pumpkins have been slowly building up: but I say none of them, none, have the scariness factor of this. It’s a geek head pumpkin, geekily precision-carved using a geekily cool open-source DIY CNC machine into a genuine geek pumpkin. OK, so the last part is a…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 30

Translucent OLEDs Go Large, Turn Your Windows into Crappy TVs

We’ve been teased with OLED technology for a while, and with good reason — one of the promises of ultrathin OLED tech is the wide proliferation of HUDs, which aren’t served well by most displays’ opaque panels. By stretching their translucent OLED panels to about 12 inches, tiling them together and dropping them into a…

Gadgets John Herrman Oct 30

Japanese iPhones Getting TV

Softbank’s just stumped-up with this interesting mobile TV add-on for Japanese iPhone users: it’s a separate unit with tuner and aerial that retransmits the signal over Wi-fi to the phone. The rechargeable device will give about three hours of TV oggling, and connects to a special iPhone app that’ll be distributed free when the device…

Tech News Kit Eaton Oct 30

5,000-Year-Old Mummy DNA Part of New Human Extinction Mystery

Square Enix Making Final Fantasy Based iPhone Game

Motorola’s “Focus On Android” Won’t Yield an Actual Phone Before Christmas 2009

Shut Up Or Die In New Pontypool Trailer

Catch 22 Yo-Yo: At $460 It’d Better Walk MY Dog

HP Wants To Sell You a Carrier-Subsidized Netbook For Cheap With 3G Data

Fear And Outdated Loathing In New Marshal Law Novel

Xbox 360 Netflix HD Won’t Work On Non-HDCP Digital Connections, But Component Works Fine

First Look At McLovin As A Superhero, Plus Snake Eyes’ Motorcycle From G.I. Joe

Rusty Old Tanks Become Red-Hot Fire Extiguisher Speakers

NASA-TV Streams HD Film to Celebrate 50 Years in Space

Sauna Gondola Car is Perfect Mix of Snow, Skiing and Nudity

Broomstick Bike Is Perfect Vehicle for Wannabe Witches

Didiom Streams Your Entire iTunes Library to Your BlackBerry

Nokia N96 Media-Cameraphone Lands at Best Buy For $800

Cara Lamp is Crystal-Like LED and Silver Circuit-Board Beauty

Microsoft SecondLight Caught on Video: It’s Like Surface, With Magic

Truly Scare Neighbour Kids with CNC-Carved Geek-o-Lantern

Translucent OLEDs Go Large, Turn Your Windows into Crappy TVs

Japanese iPhones Getting TV

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