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3R Systems ViTiny Pocket Digital Microscope, for Viewing Pocket Fluff?

Well, it might be for viewing your pocket fluff, if you’ve got a scientific mind and it’s interesting to you. This new ‘scope is a little smaller and more portable than ones we’ve shown before and features 24-90x zoom, a 1.8-inch LCD, 2MB of internal memory and a 300,000-pixel CMOS sensor. If you like exploring…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Voodoo’s Envy 133 Is Thinnest Notebook Alive; Based On Intel Metro Concept Laptop

Voodoo’s new Envy 133 will be the thinnest laptop on the market at 0.7″. It matches Intel’s most holy Metro concept laptop, and with good reason: Says Voodoo, the Envy 133 was “developed using the smallest available Intel Centrino technology and elements from an innovative Intel reference design.” This means that, when it goes on…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Voodoo Omen Gaming Desktop Is Most Beautiful Ever, Only $6500-$20,000

I almost don’t care what’s inside Voodoo’s Omen desktop, beyond the usual gaming PC bombast —quad radiator and liquid cooling with integrated copper pipes to stave thermonuclear meltdown for extreme overclocking—because this is the best-looking made-to-order gaming desktop I’ve ever seen. It looks like a clean, efficient killing machine, not a disco-in-a-box. (Okay, there is…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

HP Pavillion DV Series Notebooks Redesigned with Magic Chrome, Blu-ray, HD Tuners and More

HP overhauled its feature-packed consumer DV notebooks, the familiar black-and-silver ID getting a “magic chrome” enhancement: otherwise invisible controls light-up when touched. It’s the first new look for the Pavilion line since 2006. The entire line features HD tuners, Blu-ray drives, webcams, fingerprint readers and built-in 3G internet. Here’s a closer look at the line,…

Tech News Benny Goldman

HP EliteBook 6930p: One Badass Business Laptop

HP is announcing 10 business notebooks today, but there’s only one that we care about: the flagship EliteBook 6930p, a ruggedized, super-encrypted, QuickLook 2-boosted, 4-and-a-half pounder. Toughened to Mil-Spec 810F against extreme temperatures, humidity, dust, bumps, and other torture, it also has DOD-grade file deletion. HP got rid of the Vista-only SideShow app launcher QuickLook…

Tech News Benny Goldman

HP DreamColor LP2480zx Shows Off Its One Billion Colors

LCD monitors are generally pretty convenient, but many graphic design and video professionals can’t rely on LCDs alone because they just aren’t color accurate enough for finesse jobs. So they end up double checking images in clunky CRT monitors. HP is addressing this issue with their DreamcColor display. An LED-backlit 24-inch widescreen monitor, the DreamColor…

Tech News Mark Wilson

HP Touchsmart IQ506 Brings New Interface, Bigger Screen and Intel Processor

HP turned the Touchsmart line on its head and designed an entire new touch interface for its IQ506 PC. The touch UI focuses around “lifestyle apps” such as calendars, weather, news and multimedia, and is supposed to offer a more intuitive experience. It also has 22-inch screen (up from 19-inches), 500 GB HDD and a…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS: A Great DSLR For Cost-Conscious Noobs

Canon Japan today unveils the EOS Digital Rebel XS, a little brother to the critically praised Rebel XSi DSLR camera. This is good news for everyone but Nikon. When I reviewed the Canon XSi, the only thing that saddened me was its price tag, $200 more than the Nikon D60, but with enough performance to…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

World Gets iPhone and Multiple Carriers per Country, Canada Stops Whining

Yes, this is another iPhone post, but embrace it with true love, because it means two things: one, no more damn “iPhone to be available in [insert name of some weird country here]” articles ever again (stop saying words, Canada.) And two: you get to see We Are the World one more time. It also…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Doctor Who And The Dumb Girls Who Are Dumb OK

Well, that was a little bit disappointing. I still think Steven Moffat is the best writer for the new version of Doctor Who, the BBC’s action-comedy about an eccentric time traveler. But after watching the second part of Moffat’s haunted-library two-parter, I have a fuller understanding of exactly what people are talking about when they…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Why Do the Worst Movies Have the Coolest Depictions of Post-Singularity Tech?

While I was a huge fan of the anime AEon Flux, I’m willing to admit that the Charlize Theron movie based on the series flopped for good reason. The plot felt cliched, the dialogue was bad, and Theron never convinced me she was a badass. I mean, she never even grits her teeth ferchrissake. But…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Rocketshields Put a Detachable Roof on Your Sportbike

In the big book of ideas that sound better than they probably are, you will find the Rocketshield canopy for sportbikes. Obviously, the device is intended for people who are looking to turn their sportbike into a viable daily commuter, but the whole damn thing just seems a bit unnatural and dangerous if you ask…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Apple Says White Is Cool Again… But Is It?

In an otherwise surprise-free keynote today, one without booms or “one more thing”s, one bit of news stood out: White made a quiet return to the iPod family in the premium 16GB iPhone 3G. Sure, it never fully left Apple—remaining the default color for earbuds, plugs, power bricks, AirPort products and the cheapest MacBooks—but we…

Tech News Benny Goldman

First Vertigo-Inducing Screenshots From Spider-Man: Web Of Shadows

The huge innovation of Sam Rami’s Spider-Man movie was its CGI web-slinging, which really made it look as if Peter Parker was bouncing around the skyscrapers of New York by his web thread. But movie CGI still isn’t up to the task of creating an airborne battle as breathtaking — and air-sickness-causing — as this…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Full Stevenote Video Online Now

In case our liveblog didn’t make you feel enough like you were there, you can get a step closer or (just re-live the glory) with the freshly posted video of the entire Stevenote. [Apple]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard Revealed: Multi-Core Optimized, GPU Lovin’ OS Upgrade Due In One Year

Yep, you heard right: Apple showed off the OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, due out in a year, to the attendees at WWDC, and let some details slip to the public, including: • Optimization for multi-core processors • GPU friendly (actually GPU utilization of highly parallel tasks generally done on a CPU) • Supports “breakthrough”…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Nokia Prepping New E-Series Phones

Nokia is planning on delivering the long-awaited N96 and a group of new E-series models to the market sometime in the 3rd quarter of this year-with the E66 and E71 models coming as early as next week. Naturally, details are scarce, but both devices are expected to feature GPS, a 3.2 megapixel camera and 128MB…

Tech News Sean Fallon

The Science Behind The Happening Is Jesus?

The Happening director M. Night Shyamalan sat down with the press to talk about the science behind his latest flick — and the science is a weird mixture of Jesus and algae at the bottom of the sea. Night was inspired by reading Albert Einstein’s biography and discovering Einstein had rejected religion at first, until…

io9 Meredith Woerner

U.S. Soldiers Need Brain Enhancers, Say Defense Department Scientists

The latest arms race will take place entirely inside the human mind. So say top scientists with the U.S. military, who have gotten quite a bit of government funding to explore things like memory-enhancing drugs, mind-reading binoculars, and brain-computer interfaces. Today Danger Room’s Noah Shachtman reports on how the U.S. military’s greatest fear these days,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Iron Man 2 Will Have More Armored Heroes, But No Drunken Armor Mastery

Iron Man’s coolest armored sidekick, War Machine will have a major role in Iron Man 2, says actor Terrance Howard. Filming for the Iron Man sequel starts next March, in the hopes of meeting the film’s release date, set for April 2010, Howard told Military.com. But how does Howard’s character, Jim Rhodes, become War Machine…

io9 Meredith Woerner

3R Systems ViTiny Pocket Digital Microscope, for Viewing Pocket Fluff?

Voodoo’s Envy 133 Is Thinnest Notebook Alive; Based On Intel Metro Concept Laptop

Voodoo Omen Gaming Desktop Is Most Beautiful Ever, Only $6500-$20,000

HP Pavillion DV Series Notebooks Redesigned with Magic Chrome, Blu-ray, HD Tuners and More

HP EliteBook 6930p: One Badass Business Laptop

HP DreamColor LP2480zx Shows Off Its One Billion Colors

HP Touchsmart IQ506 Brings New Interface, Bigger Screen and Intel Processor

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS: A Great DSLR For Cost-Conscious Noobs

World Gets iPhone and Multiple Carriers per Country, Canada Stops Whining

Doctor Who And The Dumb Girls Who Are Dumb OK

Why Do the Worst Movies Have the Coolest Depictions of Post-Singularity Tech?

Rocketshields Put a Detachable Roof on Your Sportbike

Apple Says White Is Cool Again… But Is It?

First Vertigo-Inducing Screenshots From Spider-Man: Web Of Shadows

Full Stevenote Video Online Now

Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard Revealed: Multi-Core Optimized, GPU Lovin’ OS Upgrade Due In One Year

Nokia Prepping New E-Series Phones

The Science Behind The Happening Is Jesus?

U.S. Soldiers Need Brain Enhancers, Say Defense Department Scientists

Iron Man 2 Will Have More Armored Heroes, But No Drunken Armor Mastery

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