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TI Builds Pico Projector Into BlackBerry Curve

Texas Instruments has expressed its intention to build its LED Pico tech into mobile devices before, but this is the first well-implemented example to be properly demonstrated. Crunchgear got a brief go on the Frankenberry, and it looks like it works just fine. While the small clip doesn’t totally assuage our fears that such a…

Tech News John Herrman

Texan Law Requires Computer Repair Techs To Have PI Licenses

Texas has a new law that makes it mandatory for computer repair technicians in the state to have private investigator licenses. This is being contested by at least one advocacy group that’s suing, as many techs don’t know they’re being criminals by doing their jobs. The strange new law comes about because sometimes in the…

Tech News Matt Hickey

Ass, Grass Or Antimatter — Nobody Rides For Free

A space zombie gives comedian Mel Smith a lift in this weird scene from 1985’s Morons From Outer Space. And it turns out that space zombies get horny too. Sadly, a lot of Morons, about aliens who visit Earth and become rockstars, is not as funny as I’d remembered — despite being co-written by Smith,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Medical Manikins Freak Us Out

Meet the manikins (not to be confused with mankinis), medical dummies (spelled “manikin”, apparently) used to train future doctors on how to do the bare minimum to keep you alive that the HMO will pay for. There are all types, from the sexy Overweight CPR manikin to the Deluxe Child Crisis manikin. My favorite is…

Tech News Matt Hickey

Would Robin Ruin The Christopher Nolan Bat-Movies?

Christian Bale has promised we’ll never see Robin in one of the new Bat-movies, telling a reporter: “If Robin crops up in one of the new Batman films, I’ll be chaining myself up somewhere and refusing to go to work.” What do you think – could a Dark Knight sequel benefit from having a little…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Creepiest Robots Ever

If you thought it was disturbing to watch humans kicking around the cute robot Big Dog, then you might want to avoid ever looking at a medical robot. The old medical dummy that you could practice CPR on has become so sophisticated that it fits the definition of robot – these machines can respond to…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Apple Sets July 7 Cutoff Date For iPhone App Store Launch

If you want to get your iPhone App into the App Store in time for the July 11 launch, you’ll have to submit it by July 7. That’s next Monday. If you’re one of those kids who always does their homework at the last second, we suspect there’s going to be less BBQ and more…

Tech News Jason Chen

Twist and Squeeze Remote Concept Requires Two Hands

Jason Kline’s gesture-based remote looks cool, but might not be practical for everyday usage. You adjust the volume with the left knob and the channel with the right, but there’s no place to enter in buttons. It does allow you to keep going with the knob turning concept of old time TVs while still allowing…

Tech News Jason Chen

SAG Strike: Much Ado About Nothing, Or Disaster For Scifi?

With all the fussing and fretting over the possible Screen Actors Guild strike, it’s surprising that it’s so far gone nowhere, and doesn’t seem to be harming our beloved scifi movies at all. Was it the fact that people were tired of talking about a strike or did the public just not care what the…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Sprint Forcing Subscribers Out of Standalone Data Plans?

According to the SprintUsers forum, Sprint smartphone owners looking to renew their plans are being forced out of their standalone data plans, and pushed into Sprint’s All-In-One plan that packages voice, data, and messaging under one roof. In many cases, these new plans are costing the user way more than they paid before. Does this…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Does the New Shape of the Solar System Prove Vernor Vinge is Right About the Galaxy?

By now you’ve probably heard the news about our solar system not quite being the shape that everybody thought. A study in Nature today shows results gathered from the two Voyager space probes launched in the 1970s, which are both nearing the edge of the heliosphere, the region where the solar winds end and deep…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Sony Ericsson C702 Toilet Test Is Gross, Yet Intriguing

Nowhere in the specs of the Sony Ericsson C720 does it say that it’s completely waterproof—just dust and splash proof. And if there’s one thing that a toilet does well (at least when we use it), it’s splash. This could be one of the more disgusting tests imaginable for a phone. Seriously, are you going…

Tech News Jason Chen

You Can’t Hide From The Mafia In The Past

Warner Brothers has bought the rights to time-jumping organized crime comic Hiding In Time. In the future, the Witness Protection Program hides its precious narcs and rats in the past, where the hoods can never find them. But when a group of assassins gets its hands on the locations and dates of these highly prized…

io9 Meredith Woerner

iPhone Keeps Cyclists’ Leg Skin From Becoming Part of the Street

Sure, the iPhone can help you make calls and check your email and settle arguments in bars, but when was the last time it helped keep a stretch of skin on your leg from getting peeled off on a hot stretch of pavement? Not recently, I’m guessing. But that’s just what happened to an avid…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Doctor Who’s Journey Won’t End With A Whimper For Americans

Good news! The massive 65-minute season finale of time-travel drama Doctor Who, “Journey’s End,” will not be edited when it appears on the Sci Fi Channel in August. Sci Fi Channel reps tell io9 that the episode will appear as a 90-minute special instead, which means that whatever happens to make you bawl like a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Great Giz Ideas: Harass Your Neighbors With Your Wi-Fi Hotspot Name

We were setting up our wireless router in this our new house when we made a startling realization. Our wireless hotspot doesn’t need to be limited to boring names like LinksysN or 2Wire1969, they can be messages to our neighbors that they see every time they connect to their router. Here are some that our…

Tech News Jason Chen

Does Anybody Want To See Eddie Murphy’s Little Man?

What’s going on with Meet Dave, Eddie Murphy’s new scifi comedy? It’s coming out July 11, and there’s barely been a peep about it, aside from a trailer a while ago. No buzz, no press. And it doesn’t sound as though it’ll be screened for critics. Update: Actually, it is being screened after all. With…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Sony Pulls PS3 2.40 Update To Fix Bricking Issues

Sony’s just pulled the 2.40 PS3 firmware update due to reports of it bricking and causing various other problems. If you’re unlucky enough to already have installed it and ran into issues, Kotaku has a few solutions up. If not, just hold off until the fixed release is available soon. UPDATE: Sony has issued an…

Tech News Jason Chen

The Game’s Trickery Meets Disturbia’s Setting In Seminar

Got a sassy teen? Now you can punish their heathen ways by hiring an evil consulting firm to mess with their reality their life and their sanity. CBS Films have purchased Richard D’Ovidio’s spec screenplay The Seminar based on the ideas that you can pay someone else to mess up your kids mentally. With a…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Democratic Ecology: Philippe Starck’s Cheap Designer Wind Turbine For Your Home

Famous designer Philippe Starck recently revealed he felt a certain shame that all the things he’d designed were not essential for living. This turbine, which he designed with the help of generator company Pramac, can theoretically provide a single home with 20-60% of all the electricity it needs. The name, which needs work, or at…

Tech News Brian Lam

TI Builds Pico Projector Into BlackBerry Curve

Texan Law Requires Computer Repair Techs To Have PI Licenses

Ass, Grass Or Antimatter — Nobody Rides For Free

Medical Manikins Freak Us Out

Would Robin Ruin The Christopher Nolan Bat-Movies?

The Creepiest Robots Ever

Apple Sets July 7 Cutoff Date For iPhone App Store Launch

Twist and Squeeze Remote Concept Requires Two Hands

SAG Strike: Much Ado About Nothing, Or Disaster For Scifi?

Sprint Forcing Subscribers Out of Standalone Data Plans?

Does the New Shape of the Solar System Prove Vernor Vinge is Right About the Galaxy?

Sony Ericsson C702 Toilet Test Is Gross, Yet Intriguing

You Can’t Hide From The Mafia In The Past

iPhone Keeps Cyclists’ Leg Skin From Becoming Part of the Street

Doctor Who’s Journey Won’t End With A Whimper For Americans

Great Giz Ideas: Harass Your Neighbors With Your Wi-Fi Hotspot Name

Does Anybody Want To See Eddie Murphy’s Little Man?

Sony Pulls PS3 2.40 Update To Fix Bricking Issues

The Game’s Trickery Meets Disturbia’s Setting In Seminar

Democratic Ecology: Philippe Starck’s Cheap Designer Wind Turbine For Your Home

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