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PlayStation 3 2.42 Update Now Available (Might Want to Wait Before Installing)

The 2.42 firmware release for PS3 is now out, and you can go grab it now. You might want to wait until tomorrow morning to install it, however, since we all remember what happened with the 2.40 update. We recommend waiting until other people have canaried the situation out for you. As a side note,…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 30 '08

Philippe Kahn Successful in Transpac Sailing Record Attempt

Sunday morning, Philippe Kahn of camera phone fame and Richard Clarke successfully finished their double handed record attempt of the Transpac Cup. The sleep deprived two man team survived squall after squall, cuts and bruises, waves the size of small buildings, exploding rigging, and fishing nets wrapped around their keels to arrive from SF to…

Tech News Brian Lam Jul 29 '08

Heart Robot Looks Like an Anemic Leprechaun, Demands Physical Affection Anyway

Dave McGoran of the University of West England has built what he calls the Heart Robot, a semihumanoid doll that “appreciates” affection. Covered in a variety of sensors, Heart Robot responds to your attentions with a range of expressive and, to be honest, unsettling tools: batting eyelids, a beating heart and pleasant purring, to name…

Tech News John Herrman Jul 29 '08

Rocket Racers: Like Crazier NASCAR In the Sky

If you thought Red Bull Racing was crazy, you won’t believe the Rocket Racing League. Think NASCAR, but in the air, using planes powered by solid-state rockets flying simultaneously. The racers take off in pairs, separated by minutes, competing against the clock at the same time. That means that they will have to maneuver around…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 29 '08

iPhone Apps We Like: Dynolicious Car Performance Meter

Dynolicious is an all-purpose automotive performance meter, utilizing the built-in accelerometer in the iPhone and iPod touch to record your driving characteristics. BunsenTech, the makers of the software, claim that it can record 0-60 times within .08 of a second, accurately estimate your current speed and monitor and record any directional G force. The system…

Tech News John Herrman Jul 29 '08

Glass Multi-touch Trackpads Only Make Sense With Displays Under ‘Em

New Apple notebooks are most certainly coming in the next six to eight weeks, and they will probably have the most extensive design overhauls in years. And the long-fabled MacBook touch might finally appear on the mortal plane. But the best rumor, we think, is that the new MacBooks will have a glass, multi-touch trackpad.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 29 '08

Current Profits For Game Publishing Puts Nintendo Up Front With Infinite Gold Cheat

These are the current software profits for Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony based on first-party game titles published under their banner. It’s much like the hardware situation, with Nintendo up front with an uncountable amount of money, Microsoft somewhere in the middle with a deficit, and Sony pulling up the rear with billions in the red.…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 29 '08

Why Alice Ain’t Married Anymore

I adored Resident Evil: Extinction, the third in the series of movies starring Milla Jovovich as the bio-engineered, satellite-controlled ninja Alice. She has to fight evil computers, plus all the zombies created by a virus that’s escaped from the evil R&D mad science outfit Umbrella Corporation. But to fully appreciate why Alice is so badass,…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 29 '08

Sony BDP-S350 and Panasonic DMP-BD50 Blu-ray 2.0 Enabled/Ready Players Reviewed Head-to-Head

Our good friend Gary Merson the HD Guru reviewed Sony’s BDP-S350 and Panasonic’s DMP-BD50, the latest Blu-ray players from each company, Battlemodo style. Both BD players scored high marks on video performance, with a slight edge to Panasonic, but Panasonic’s $600 BD50 smoked Sony’s S350 on pretty much everything else. https://gizmodo.com/bdp-s350-and-s550-sonys-first-full-2-0-spec-blu-ray-pl-360642 Panny’s player can decode…

Reviews Benny Goldman Jul 29 '08

iPhone Apps We Like: Here I Am Location Sender

The idea of taking your current location and emailing it to one of your contacts is super simple, but super effective. If the recipient opens the resulting URL on their iPhone, it’ll pop open the GMaps app and show exactly where you are, which can then be used as an endpoint for driving directions. We…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 29 '08

How We’d Give Farscape a Battlestar-style Reboot, and Make a New Hit

After chatting briefly with the extremely nice (and still-ultra-hunky) Ben “Farscape” Browder at Comic-Con, I realized what society needs most right now: A reboot of 1990s space opera Farscape. Supposedly the Sci-Fi Channel is airing 10 Farscape webisodes, but those have yet to materialize and besides they are not enough. There are a lot of…

Television Annalee Newitz Jul 29 '08

Last Night’s Middleman Was A Shipper’s Dream

Last night’s Middleman was the second episode in a row where the “A” plot was sort of meh. But for the second week running, the “B” plot, involving the show’s characters and their lives, was thrilling and awesome. I’m beginning to wonder if I really mostly like The Middleman for its characters. Spoilers — and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 29 '08

Face-Hugger Clean Up In Aisle Twelve

Aliens touch down on Earth and begin infecting humans inside a local supermarket, in the new direct-to-DVD movie Alien Raiders. The infection changes humans into what appear to be gag-worthy decomposing masses. The parasitic hosts look pretty sweet as well, like a combination of Aliens’ face-huggers and bugs. But even though this film fills a…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 29 '08

Phoenix Lander Crew’s Cubicles Designed to Fight Perpetual Martian Jet Lag

I’ve always tried to look at jet lag from a more recreational perspective (when else will I rise from sleep wide awake at 3:45 AM?), but what the scientists of the Mars Phoenix Lander mission have to go through makes a 19-hour direct flight to Singapore look like cupcakes. Since Martian Sols are longer than…

Space & Spaceflight John Mahoney Jul 29 '08

Lightning Review: Belkin CushTop Hideaway Laptop Cushion

The Gadget: A semi-solid cushion for your laptop that separates hot aluminum from fleshy thighs, plus has a small space to store random things (like your charger). The Price: $39.99 The Verdict: Alright. It does what it says, which is giving you a small cushion between your laptop and your thighs. It’s better than a…

Reviews Jason Chen Jul 29 '08

New iPod nano Will Be Taller, Skinnier, More Zune-Like (Gasp!)

iLounge is reporting that this year’s iPod nano will have a bigger screen than the current generation, with the same 1.5:1 widescreen aspect ratio as the iPhone and iPod touch. In order to cram in that kind of screen real estate, it’s getting stretched back out to its old school proportions (which I like better…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 29 '08

Art Lebedev’s “Plastinkus” Lets You Jam With Wallet-Sized Scratch Sessions

There are a number of products out there that allow aspiring DJs to engage in mobile scratch sessions (like the recently released Mixmeister application for the iPhone), but Art Lebedev’s new Plastinkus scratch pad claims to deliver a sound that is close to the real thing on a disk that you can fit comfortably in…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 29 '08

Superman’s Mortal Kombat Weakness Revealed

If you’re like me, you were wondering how Superman could be wounded in Mortal Kombat Versus DC Universe fighting game. Wouldn’t Scorpion’s harpoon deflect off the man of steel’s chest? Well no, not when you use “magic,” according to Ed Boon, the creative director of MK Versus DC, which now includes the Joker and Green…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 29 '08

iPhone 3G Data Plan for Deaf: $50/Month

The iPhone 3G’s data plan for the deaf will be $10 higher than the original, just like it is for everyone else. It comes with unlimited texting, email and web browsing for $50 a month, or $65 for the enterprise flavor (basically if you use Exchange). You have to sign up for a voice plan…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 29 '08

Clone Wars’ Baby Jedi Scampers Like A Cartoon Animal

Click to viewI kind of love this hand-drawn concept art of new Jedi apprentice Ahsoka Tano, from Star Wars: Clone Wars. It makes her look more like an old school cartoon character, and apparently her visual influences include Hiyao Miyazaki and the Zatoichi blind samurai films. If the animated Ahsoka keeps even some of this…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 29 '08

PlayStation 3 2.42 Update Now Available (Might Want to Wait Before Installing)

Philippe Kahn Successful in Transpac Sailing Record Attempt

Heart Robot Looks Like an Anemic Leprechaun, Demands Physical Affection Anyway

Rocket Racers: Like Crazier NASCAR In the Sky

iPhone Apps We Like: Dynolicious Car Performance Meter

Glass Multi-touch Trackpads Only Make Sense With Displays Under ‘Em

Current Profits For Game Publishing Puts Nintendo Up Front With Infinite Gold Cheat

Why Alice Ain’t Married Anymore

Sony BDP-S350 and Panasonic DMP-BD50 Blu-ray 2.0 Enabled/Ready Players Reviewed Head-to-Head

iPhone Apps We Like: Here I Am Location Sender

How We’d Give Farscape a Battlestar-style Reboot, and Make a New Hit

Last Night’s Middleman Was A Shipper’s Dream

Face-Hugger Clean Up In Aisle Twelve

Phoenix Lander Crew’s Cubicles Designed to Fight Perpetual Martian Jet Lag

Lightning Review: Belkin CushTop Hideaway Laptop Cushion

New iPod nano Will Be Taller, Skinnier, More Zune-Like (Gasp!)

Art Lebedev’s “Plastinkus” Lets You Jam With Wallet-Sized Scratch Sessions

Superman’s Mortal Kombat Weakness Revealed

iPhone 3G Data Plan for Deaf: $50/Month

Clone Wars’ Baby Jedi Scampers Like A Cartoon Animal

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