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Seinfeld and Gates Are Out, “I’m a Mac” Counterattack Ads Are In

Alas, the Abbott and Costello-esque partnership between funny man Jerry Seinfeld and billionaire nerd Bill Gates is now officially over, after Microsoft decided to go with a slightly less ambiguous advertising campaign. (As probably planned, contrary to what’s floating around the internet tonight about pulled Seinfeld ads.) In their place is a direct shot at…

Tech News Elaine Chow Sep 17 '08

HTC Touch HD Quick Sizemodo: Pretty Close To The iPhone

French Gadget Site GeekInc, got an early HTC Touch HD unit to play with, and took a bunch of pics to show for it, including a couple of size comparisons against the iPhone. As you can see, they’re pretty much the same size, save for some backend tapering. Their own impressions more or less coincide…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 17 '08

Blu-ray Association: Wallet-Slaying Prices Here to Stay Because You’re Not Buying Enough Blu-ray

If you’re hoping Blu-ray will get cheaper, sooner—thanks to weak sales and that whole economy thing—hug your DVDs tight. Blu-ray Disc Association Chairman Andy Parsons says prices won’t be deflating for a while. And it’s precisely because you’re not buying enough Blu-ray! “There’s not enough market [volume] to lower the price.” No, there has to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Sep 17 '08

Sony Brings Their $114,000, 4K Projector Out From Hiding

Sony’s 4K Projector (or Super Mega Ultra HD Projector in my terms), provides 4 times the pixels at a 4096×2160 resolution. Akihabara News says the liquid crystal on silicon projector uses SXRD technology, has a 2500:1 contrast ration, a 2 kW lamp and it produces 11,000 lumens of light. At $114,000 and 268 pounds with…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 17 '08

The Lesbian Matronage of Mars

There’s a lot to recommend John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars, a tale of freaky-ass Martian ghosts who possess the bodies of human colonizers and turn them into cannibalistic Burning Man rejects. It’s got Ice Cube and Natasha Henstridge as ninjas fighting the ghosts. But best of all, for no apparent reason, Martian culture is a…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 17 '08

Do You Really Want Science Fiction Books To Be More Literary?

When will “the literary establishment” start taking science fiction more seriously? Everybody from Michael Chabon to David Hartwell wants to know. But would most readers really be happy if science fiction actually became more literary? Here’s our list of things that might change about science fiction if it took on more literary pretensions. I actually…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 17 '08

Education’s Many Problems Solved With Multitouch Desks

Education is a bitch. Teachers usually leave the profession within five years, kids either bomb standardized tests or learn them so well they bottom out immediately after, and funding is scarcer and scarcer to come by. The solution? Interactive multi-touch desks, naturally! Currently in England’s Durham University, researchers received about $3 million to create SynergyNet,…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Sep 17 '08

It’s A Galactic Eclipse!

Call your astrologer! What does it mean when one galaxy passes in front of another? I’m guessing it means you’ll find love, or spontaneous human combustion or something. Ground-based telescopes saw these overlapping galaxies as a single blob, but the Hubble Space Telescope was able to distinguish two different galaxies, a small one passing in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 17 '08

Windows 7 Milestone 3 Previewed: Just Like Vista, But With Office 2007 Ribbon UI

Mary Jo Foley, who revealed that the first Windows 7 beta would drop in December and could still make its late 2009 release date, has seen the latest build of Windows 7, Milestone 3, which is just preview build away from becoming Beta 1. The verdict? Other than Office 2007’s loved/hated Ribbon UI sprinkled throughout,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Sep 17 '08

The Audition That Gave Us Megan Fox’s Under-The-Hood Shot

Click to viewBelieve it or not, Megan Fox didn’t just show up in a ripped up tank top to the set of Michael Bay’s Transformers, she actually had to audition. Wal-Mart released Fox’s original audition tapes to the public as part of a big Transformers promotion. We took a peek and were blown away at…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 17 '08

Audio Engineer Claims that Metallica’s Latest Album Sounds Better on Guitar Hero III

Mastering Engineer Ian Shepherd is among those who believe that the distortion Metallica fans have been complaining about since the release of Death Magnetic is not present in the Guitar Hero III version. As he notes: “In comparison, the released CD version is – to coin a technical phrase – smashed to f**k.” So who…

Tech News Sean Fallon Sep 17 '08

Grody Pregnancy, Eyeballs, and a Little Light Corporate Fascism

Although Fringe got off to a rocky start last week with the two-hour pilot about weird viruses, this week’s episode was quicker and more fun. In many ways it felt like the real pilot, with all our characters being reintroduced along with the show’s central conceit: There is a “pattern” of pseudo-science weirdness going on,…

Television Annalee Newitz Sep 17 '08

Da Vinci Sleep Alarm Clock Gives You 21 Hours of Awake Time

Many people swear by polyphasic sleep, or the idea of taking frequent naps throughout the day as opposed to sleeping in one long chunk. Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most notable proponents of this seeping method, noting that it helped him be more productive throughout the day. This alarm clock concept follows da…

Tech News Sean Fallon Sep 17 '08

Apple “Let’s Rock” Liveblog Archive

We’ve archived the entire Apple “Let’s Rock” Liveblog over here, in case you want to re-live all the Steve Jobs/iPod nano memories. All the images made it over intact, including ones of Jack “I’m not John Mayer” Johnson. [Liveblog]

Tech News Jason Chen Sep 17 '08

Do We Really Need Another Hitchhiker’s Book?

Let’s be honest here: the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy was a wonderful radio show, some 30 years ago. It managed to survive the transformation into a couple of decent books and a TV show, more or less intact. Everything since then has been less and less amusing, like a stand-up comic who started off…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 17 '08

BlackBerry Javelin Sells for $17,000 on eBay

We’re anxious to check out the BlackBerry Javelin, don’t get us wrong. But even we have our limits. Like, we wouldn’t pay $17,100 for the thing. Maybe $16,500. But anything over $16,800? That’s just nuts. [eBay via CrackBerry]

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 17 '08

The Rotary Phone 4-Port USB Hub Reminds Me of a Crazy Teacher

This 4-port rotary phone USB hub reminds me of this teacher in my junior high school that enjoyed “talking” to her husband on a toy telephone during class. She also named her rings and kept them in little cages she designed (seriously). The running joke in the school was how bat-shit crazy she was—which is…

Tech News Sean Fallon Sep 17 '08

MAVEN Will Uncover the Secrets of Mars’ Ancient Past

In the distant past, both Earth and Mars were covered in thick atmospheres and held large bodies of water. While Earth has become a cradle of life in our solar system, Mars lost its atmosphere and became a barren, desert world. No one knows why. NASA’s 2013 MAVEN mission will offer scientists many clues as…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Sep 17 '08

Microsoft Sends Out Weird Press Kit for IE 8 Beta

I got this super weird IE 8 press kit from Microsoft in the mail a little while ago. I don’t think the phrase “slicing the web” has ever been used by anybody to refer to browser usage. Anybody. Still, it’s a decent effort (even if it is just for IE 8 beta 2 and not…

Tech News Jason Chen Sep 17 '08

We Ask Tony Leondis and Chris McKenna: Is Igor Too Funny To Be Scary?

Igor’s writer Chris McKenna and director Tony Leondis talk about the balance they tried to achieve while making a comedy/horror film. Can you make a suicidal rabbit funny? I say hell yes. In a video interview together they address the concerns for making Igor both happy and scary in an exclusive clip. Igor is in…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 17 '08

Seinfeld and Gates Are Out, “I’m a Mac” Counterattack Ads Are In

HTC Touch HD Quick Sizemodo: Pretty Close To The iPhone

Blu-ray Association: Wallet-Slaying Prices Here to Stay Because You’re Not Buying Enough Blu-ray

Sony Brings Their $114,000, 4K Projector Out From Hiding

The Lesbian Matronage of Mars

Do You Really Want Science Fiction Books To Be More Literary?

Education’s Many Problems Solved With Multitouch Desks

It’s A Galactic Eclipse!

Windows 7 Milestone 3 Previewed: Just Like Vista, But With Office 2007 Ribbon UI

The Audition That Gave Us Megan Fox’s Under-The-Hood Shot

Audio Engineer Claims that Metallica’s Latest Album Sounds Better on Guitar Hero III

Grody Pregnancy, Eyeballs, and a Little Light Corporate Fascism

Da Vinci Sleep Alarm Clock Gives You 21 Hours of Awake Time

Apple “Let’s Rock” Liveblog Archive

Do We Really Need Another Hitchhiker’s Book?

BlackBerry Javelin Sells for $17,000 on eBay

The Rotary Phone 4-Port USB Hub Reminds Me of a Crazy Teacher

MAVEN Will Uncover the Secrets of Mars’ Ancient Past

Microsoft Sends Out Weird Press Kit for IE 8 Beta

We Ask Tony Leondis and Chris McKenna: Is Igor Too Funny To Be Scary?

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