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BlackBerry Storm Emulator Available For Download

Considering the heaps of information available about BlackBerry’s new touchscreen phone, including our full hands-on report, there will be little surprise left for consumers when the devices actually ship. Using BlackBerry’s new Storm emulation software, released along with a suite of new development tools for the BlackBerry OS, you can take your dinner-spoiling habits one…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 8 '08

3D Translucent Laser Display Will Turn Windows Into Billboards

Sony has teamed up with the Max-Planck Institute in Germany to create a flexible, translucent display that creates 3D multi-color images from laser beams. The all-organic screen uses a chemical reaction called photoexcitation to render images, where energy moves from the lasers to the screen and “turns on” the photons to emit light. According to…

Tech News Elaine Chow Oct 8 '08

BlackBerry Storm Tech Manual Offers Proof of iPhone Inspiration

It’s probably not a surprise that RIM definitely had iPhones on the brain while creating the new (and pretty awesome) BlackBerry Storm—but who knew they’d make it this obvious. In the vodaphone technical specifications manual, the company’s Storm is sporting a very familiar OS, and it’s definitely not the regular BlackBerry’s. Hmmmm. [BlackBerry UK] https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-storm-first-hands-on-5060378

Tech News Elaine Chow Oct 8 '08

Asus G71 Gaming Laptop Uses Quad-Core Chip

Asus has updated its G-series gaming laptop line with the G71, a notebook that sports Intel’s new QX9300 quad-core processor. The computer comes with a 17-inch Crystal Shine display, an NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT GDDR3 512MB graphics card, and can be customized with up to 4GB of system memory and 1TB of hard disk space.…

Tech News Elaine Chow Oct 8 '08

Cylinder Solar Panels Generate More Energy For Less Cost

Solyndra, a California-based solar start up, says it’s figured out a way to make solar panels cheaper to install and better at producing energy—rolling them up. The company’s solar panels are comprised of rows of cylindrical solar cells deposited on glass tubes, a new type of shape that purportedly lets them absorb more light during…

Tech News Elaine Chow Oct 8 '08

Zombie Doll Will Eat Your Stuffed Animals’ Braaaaaains

This Halloween, instead of candy, why not hand out a couple of these cute zombie plushies? The Dismember-Me Plus can be torn limb from limb and reassembled to your heart’s delight. It even comes with a cuddly mini-zombie brain! The adorable undead doll is now available now on Think Geek for $15. After all, being…

Tech News Elaine Chow Oct 8 '08

BlackBerry Storm First Hands On

The very first time you touch the BlackBerry Storm—RIM’s first all-touchscreen keyboard-free smartphone, just announced for Verizon Wireless—you will be startled. No matter how many times your fingers dance on the screen like you’ve been trained on every other touchscreen, nothing will happen. At least, not until you push the screen all the way down…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 8 '08

Best Buy Presentation Leaks Cellphone Ship Dates

Oops, someone at Best Buy leaked a presentation that’s revealed the ship dates for several upcoming handsets. For instance, the titanium version of the Verizon Blitz, now has a ship date of October 26th (it’s only marked as Coming Soon on the Best Buy site. Other cellphones dropping on the 26th include Sprint’s HTC Touch…

Tech News Elaine Chow Oct 7 '08

HAL Robot Exoskeletons Available for Rent

The day for you to strap yourself into a robotic exoskeleton and fight crime the way your normally flabby limbs would never have let you has come! Cyberdyne, the Japanese company responsible for the HAL (hybrid assistive limb) prototype robot suit, is starting rentals this week. The price for being superhuman: about $2,200. The 22…

Tech News Elaine Chow Oct 7 '08

Blackberry Storm Goes Live On Vodafone With 3D Tour, Official Spec Page

Vodafone just launched the Blackberry Storm on their site (HUGE BOMBSHELL ANNOUNCEMENT), complete with a 3D image that offers a full view of the phone and a link to the Storm’s spec sheet. Other than that, not a whole lot new here, just seems to (more or less) confirm what we already suspected. [Vodafone]

Tech News Adrian Covert Oct 7 '08

PSP Hack Turns Your Handheld Into a 2nd Computer Screen

You know what was the first thing I thought when I got my hands on a PSP? This screen would make a really great second computer monitor… No, I’m just kidding; never in my life would I think that. But apparently PSP homebrew developer Jochen Schleu did, and worked up a mod that lets you…

Tech News Elaine Chow Oct 7 '08

Square-Enix Teams Up With NeuroSky For Mind-Controlled Gaming Concept

Square-Enix and NeuroSky will unveil a mind-controlled gaming demo on Thursday at the Tokyo Game Show. The setup works with a Windows PC and the MindSky headset, and runs Square’s software created specifically for this demo. The headset fits over your head with earmuffs and has one electrode that monitors brainwaves. The headset itself is…

Tech News Adrian Covert Oct 7 '08

Silverstone Raven Gaming Mouse Has a Tumor on the Side, Can’t Possibly Be Comfortable

Silverstone’s Raven gaming mouse looks really interesting at first glance, what with the giant, glowing and strangely hypnotic tumor bolted to its side. It appears to be a secondary scroll wheel, which sits next to the usual thumb buttons. And you’ve got another pair of buttons next to your middle finger. But when you think…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 7 '08

Remock Lockey Opens Doors With Its Wireless Mojo

Wireless deadbolts have been on the market for a while now, but the new Remock Lockey seems like a decent solution for doors you want to secure inside a home. The remote controlled lock is placed on the inside of a room and can only be opened with a remote control “key.” It runs on…

Privacy & Security Sean Fallon Oct 7 '08

Democrats Still Most Tech Savvy, Rent Digital Billboard to Text Message Sarah Palin at Rally

Click to viewNeed more evidence that Democrats are more grassroots tech savvy than their elephantine counterparts? At a Sarah Palin rally in LA on Saturday, the California Democratic party rented a digital billboard across the street which displayed questions for the veep candiate sent by text message. Granted, even if Palin did read them, she…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 7 '08

Ape Man Goes Wild!

In The Ape Man, an example of raw craziness from 1943, Bela “Dracula” Lugosi finds himself turned into an “ape man” due to some kind of mad science accident. After puttering about in his lab wearing gorillaface, he realizes that he only needs a bunch of spinal fluid to make himself human again. So he…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 7 '08

Three New Ways to Watch YouTube: Lights Out, Theater View and Super HD

Not just one, but three new ways to view YouTube today. The first two should be familiar to anyone who’s used Hulu—lights out and theater mode. Lights out dims your whole screen except the video, while the latter also blows up the player and adds tacky/cool theater curtains on the side. Right now, they’re only…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 7 '08

Japan Is Creating Your Future Cyborg Overlords Right Now

Wow, I don’t know what’s crazier — that there’s a Japanese company called Cyberdyne, or the fact that it’s creating cyborg limbs that look sort of like 1960s Cybermen. Or maybe the fact that its cyborg limbs are called “Human Assistive Limb,” or HAL for short. What’s next? The Brilliant Organ Replacement Group? It’s like…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 7 '08

Michael Schumacher Tower to Take Over the World

Another day, another spectacular tower in Dubai: The Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower, a curvy building “inspired by the geometrical order of a snowflake and the aerodynamics of a Formula 1”, will not only appear in Dubai but in six other cities around the world. According to the architects—who worked in Beijing’s Water Cube—the design…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 7 '08

The Superheroes of the Far East Are About To Get Really Good

The Busan International Film Festival in South Korea wrapped yesterday, and everyone was buzzing about two major superhero flicks hitting Asian countries this winter. The sequel to 2003’s Cicak Man from Malaysia will hit theaters in early December. And audiences eagerly anticipate Jeon Woo Chi, a Harry Potter superhero flick budgeted at $12 million. Want…

io9 Alex Carnevale Oct 7 '08

BlackBerry Storm Emulator Available For Download

3D Translucent Laser Display Will Turn Windows Into Billboards

BlackBerry Storm Tech Manual Offers Proof of iPhone Inspiration

Asus G71 Gaming Laptop Uses Quad-Core Chip

Cylinder Solar Panels Generate More Energy For Less Cost

Zombie Doll Will Eat Your Stuffed Animals’ Braaaaaains

BlackBerry Storm First Hands On

Best Buy Presentation Leaks Cellphone Ship Dates

HAL Robot Exoskeletons Available for Rent

Blackberry Storm Goes Live On Vodafone With 3D Tour, Official Spec Page

PSP Hack Turns Your Handheld Into a 2nd Computer Screen

Square-Enix Teams Up With NeuroSky For Mind-Controlled Gaming Concept

Silverstone Raven Gaming Mouse Has a Tumor on the Side, Can’t Possibly Be Comfortable

Remock Lockey Opens Doors With Its Wireless Mojo

Democrats Still Most Tech Savvy, Rent Digital Billboard to Text Message Sarah Palin at Rally

Ape Man Goes Wild!

Three New Ways to Watch YouTube: Lights Out, Theater View and Super HD

Japan Is Creating Your Future Cyborg Overlords Right Now

Michael Schumacher Tower to Take Over the World

The Superheroes of the Far East Are About To Get Really Good

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