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Snuggle Up With Monsters This November at the Bookstore

The election is over, and it’s time to return to the fantasy worlds that always provide us with more fulfillment than reality. This month, we bring you news of a treasure trove of new scifi books packed with monsters, interstellar politics, mad scientists, and shadow worlds filled with underwater cities of the dead. Plus, a…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Nov 5 '08

Shipments on New, Entry-Level MacBook Airs Delayed

Appleinsider is reporting that the early ship dates for new Nvidia-powered MacBook Airs will be pushed back until November 24th for anyone who purchased a 1.6GHz model with a 128GB HDD. Supply chain issues related to the hard drive seem to be behind the delay. [Appleinsider]

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 5 '08

Sir Ken Adam Guides You Through The Greatest Evil Lairs From James Bond

The BBC has a wonderful audio interview world famous James Bond’s Production Designer Sir Ken Adam about how he built an evil doer’s hangout inside a volcano and (my personal favorite) created an entire submarine on set for The Spy Who Loved Me. The amazing interview is accompanied by a slideshow of Adams’ concept art,…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 5 '08

Are We Feeling Dehumanized Yet?

Now that we’re living in a technological wonderland, you’re in constant danger of losing your humanity. It’s just a fact — every scientific or medical advance makes us that little bit less human, and every time you play with your Google Android or eat another stem-cell sex donut, a few cells of your body transform…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Nov 5 '08

Shang-Highed: On Top of the World’s Tallest Observatory

It’s an unfortunately foggy morning in Shanghai, but from where I am, the crappy weather only adds to the feeling of standing in the middle of clouds. I’m towering almost half a kilometer over the rest of the city, on the highest man-made observation deck in the world, the 100th floor of the Shanghai World…

Tech News Elaine Chow Nov 5 '08

Stevemail Promises Software Fix for Glitchy MacBook Trackpads

A growing mass of people have been reporting that the omni-button trackpads on the new MacBooks are glitchy—every 50 or so clicks, the trackpad will stop responding for a few seconds at a time, even to hard clicks. Whether it’s a hardware or software issue hasn’t been officially confirmed by Apple, but a supposed email…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 5 '08

Interactive Pong May be Most Fun You Can Have With a Whiteboard

Pong exerts a vicious grip on the minds of designers—it pops up in hundreds of reincarnations. But this one is sweet: a live “drawing on whiteboard” version, mixing electronics with the joy of drawing on, wiping off and repositioning your playing bat. Check it out, thrill to the high-speed action and grin at the ultimate…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 5 '08

British Libertarian Party Fights Surveillance with George Orwell

Over 400 years ago today, Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators placed 20 barrels of gunpowder beneath the British House of Lords. Today, the Houses of Parliament are getting a much more peaceful, but perhaps equally incendiary, delivery. Chafing beneath Britain’s widespread surveillance and increasingly restrictive laws, the Libertarian Party UK is sending each Member of…

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 5 '08

Dealzmodo: Circuit City Offering Discounts on Gaming Gear

Circuit City is sinking fast, but their loss is your gain! A tip coming in to Kotaku has revealed that the chain has begun discounting popular gaming gear. Apparently customers can now expect 5% off all consoles and their games, 10% off all accessories, 10% off “social games” like Rock Band and Guitar Hero, 10%…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 5 '08

Cthulhu Rising, Abstract German Style

The great and horrible Cthulhu is rising from his aeons-long slumber, and it’s up to you to either stop him and send him back to his watery resting place, or aid him and give rise to the ultimate evil. You can choose either the side of investigator or cultist in Twilight Creations’ upcoming game Cthulhu…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Nov 5 '08

Balance that SLR with 3-Axis Bubble Level

Despite my best intentions, my photography is often 1 or 2 degrees off center, as if the horizon is slowly sliding my subjects off its back. But with the Brando 3-Axis Bubble Level Cube that fits in any hot shoe mount, photographers can conveniently double check every possible angle of their camera before snapping a…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 5 '08

iPhone Unnecessarily Hacked to Add Real Keyboard

This guy’s taken a jail-broken iPhone and hacked it by wiring it up to a genuine physical keyboard that’s about as big as the phone itself. Yes… it’s clever. But nononono: the beauty of the iPhone is its slender slippery sleekness, and I’ve found myself speeding up to darn fast text-entry rates using the virtual…

Tech News Kit Eaton Nov 5 '08

Simon Pegg Demands A Return To Traditional “Zombie Values”

Lovable Brit and part-time undead fighter Simon Pegg (Shaun of The Dead), knows a thing or two about whacking the crap out of some zombies. Which is why he is penning his own article, in the Guardian no less, about how he’s sick to death of all these speedy zombies. After going to a zombie…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 5 '08

Dealzmodo: $50 Limited Edition Red Xbox 360 Controller

We’re still not sure that it’s worth it, but if you wanted to get your hands on one of the Xbox 360 Limited Edition Red Accessory Kits complete with red controller and gray Play & Charge components, we’ve found it for $50 with free shipping, or about $15 below retail. It’s possible we’ll see the…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 5 '08

Right-Wing Futurists Are Already Predicting the Liberal Dystopia

A little over a week before the election, an astonishing work of near-future science fiction started circulating on the internet. Called “Letter from Obama’s America,” it’s an epistolary short story written by a person living in 2012 and suffering under the horrors of the Obama Regime. Pornography is proudly displayed in gas stations, and private…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 5 '08

Sony Gives Us Another Delicious Blu Format: Blu-spec CD

By the time you finish reading this post about Sony’s latest media format—Blu-spec CD, which uses the same Blu Laser Diode as Blu-ray for audio CDs—they will likely have launched yet another one that we’ll report on shortly. In the meantime, Blu-spec CDs are apparently excellent because the new CD cutting machines “eliminate vibration,” which…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 5 '08

A.I.s Are Still Trapped In The Summer Of Love

“Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling ways, and that behaved (or were programmed to behave) very much like human beings… Now we have 14-year-olds with more computing power on their desktops than existed in the entire…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Nov 5 '08

Scientist Designs Nanoparticle Optics That Self-Assemble

Nanoparticles that self-assemble into complex optical structures sounds like an early ingredient in a future Robot Uprising recipe, but the science team at University of California, Berkeley thinks they’ll be useful for nicely tame things. The self-assembly of the nanoparticle silver crystals can be controlled to produce different nano “devices” and it’s a a neat…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 5 '08

Sarah Brightman Flashes Her Holographic Eyes, Belts Out New Repo! Song

The goth-y movie musical Repo! The Genetic Opera, set in a sad dystopia where organ harvesting is common practice, has released a new song video-clip out into the world. Powerhouse singer Sarah Brightman haunts the screen as Blind Mag, who sings to her long lost god daughter and spits out holographic pictures from her eyes.…

Movies Meredith Woerner Nov 5 '08

Voting Machines Coincidentally Elect Voting Machine as President

Click to view It’s amazing that you can fall asleep with the polls showing one thing and wake up to a world you don’t even recognize. Despite who I may have supported as of November 4th, as a fervent supporter of both democracy and touchscreen technology, I accept DRE 700:259 as the 44th President of…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 5 '08

Snuggle Up With Monsters This November at the Bookstore

Shipments on New, Entry-Level MacBook Airs Delayed

Sir Ken Adam Guides You Through The Greatest Evil Lairs From James Bond

Are We Feeling Dehumanized Yet?

Shang-Highed: On Top of the World’s Tallest Observatory

Stevemail Promises Software Fix for Glitchy MacBook Trackpads

Interactive Pong May be Most Fun You Can Have With a Whiteboard

British Libertarian Party Fights Surveillance with George Orwell

Dealzmodo: Circuit City Offering Discounts on Gaming Gear

Cthulhu Rising, Abstract German Style

Balance that SLR with 3-Axis Bubble Level

iPhone Unnecessarily Hacked to Add Real Keyboard

Simon Pegg Demands A Return To Traditional “Zombie Values”

Dealzmodo: $50 Limited Edition Red Xbox 360 Controller

Right-Wing Futurists Are Already Predicting the Liberal Dystopia

Sony Gives Us Another Delicious Blu Format: Blu-spec CD

A.I.s Are Still Trapped In The Summer Of Love

Scientist Designs Nanoparticle Optics That Self-Assemble

Sarah Brightman Flashes Her Holographic Eyes, Belts Out New Repo! Song

Voting Machines Coincidentally Elect Voting Machine as President

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