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Fringe Comic Book To Feel Like TV Show, Literally

We’ve told you before about the Fringe comic book, but here’s something to make you a little more interested in picking it up: Although the overall plot to the six-issue series comes from show creators JJ Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci, the actual comic books will be written by three members of the show’s…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 10 '08

Silverlit RC Ducati Motorcycle Racer Leans Into Turns Around Your Furniture

There are plenty of RC cars and motorcycles out there today, so what Silverlit did with this 1:12 scale red racer is throw on a working driver and let him have some say in where the sportbike is going. Thanks to an onboard gyro, the rider actually leans from side to side, just like those…

Tech News Jack Loftus Aug 10 '08

5 Villains Batman Should – But Won’t – Face In The Next Movie

Click to viewWhen it comes to discussion about what should happen in the follow-up to The Dark Knight, all of the (so far entirely baseless) rumors seem to be centering around all the old familiar characters: Catwoman? The Penguin? The Riddler? Come on, people. Batman’s been around for almost 70 years, can’t he deal with…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 10 '08

Qingbar iPod Projector Puts Sub-Par Images On Upright Tray Tables

Qingbar probably hopes that its MP101 Mini Projector for the iPod/iPhone gets picked up en masse by business travelers looking to turn their seat backs into mini-movie theaters, but we think the image quality might deter all but the blindest travelers from abandoning their tiny screens. According to the specs and the image below, what…

Tech News Jack Loftus Aug 10 '08

Dead Space: Does It Walk The Space Walk, Or Just Talk The Space Talk?

We’ve skewered you with the Dead Space trailer cut by James Han, peppered you with details about the Community Event at Electronic Arts Redwood Shores, and slow-basted you in details about the game’s forward-thinking dynamic lighting mesh. But apart from the briefest of mentions, we’ve held off on serving up our impressions of Dead Space…

io9 Jeff Lester Aug 10 '08

Google StreetView Spies Burning Home (Probably Microsoft Guy’s House)

Google StreetView has been a peculiar bird since its inception earlier this century. It’s been banned for voyeurism, the trampling of privacy rights, and other infractions, but then again it’s also been known to capture a few nose pickers or two-so it’s a wash as far as I’m concerned. Today, we received word it has…

Tech News Jack Loftus Aug 10 '08

All Of Your Journeymen Questions Answered, Finally

Despite the show dying an unnaturally early death (helped along by the WGA strike), we here at io9 still have a deep and abiding love for NBC’s Journeyman. Was it the San Francisco setting that made us love it so? Star Kevin McKidd’s mixture of dreamy eyes and jaw that could kill a man? The…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 10 '08

Lightning Review: EdgeStar Portable Evaporative Air Cooler

The Gadget: The EdgeStar Portable Evaporative Air Cooler, a tall oscillating fan with a water tank that, when activated and with an ice pack inside, adds an addition element of cooling to the fan setup.The Price: $129 The Verdict: While this fan isn’t going to cool off a room better than an air conditioner, it’s…

Reviews Adam Frucci Aug 10 '08

MIT Team Developing Eye-Catching, Super Realistic 6-D Imaging Device

3-D images? Peshaw. Those are so 2007. What humanity needs now is what MIT researchers hope to provide very soon: super realistic “passive 6-D reflectance field displays” that not only look great, but also respond to stimuli, like lighting conditions. And, not only will these uber images do all that and a bag of chips,…

Tech News Jack Loftus Aug 10 '08

Moving Lego Donkey Kong People, Lego Donkey F*cking Kong

Lego. Mindstorms RCX. Donkey Kong. Rolling barrels. Donkey Kong throws rolling barrels. Mario jumps. And jumps. And jumps. All synchronized. Dan Kressin even generated the game start tune with Lego. After seeing it in action-and hearing the rattling noise it makes-I want this on the wall of my bedroom, as my alarm clock. Videos and…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz Aug 10 '08

Wooden Volkswagen Beetle Gives Us Woodenly Timber

A couple spent an eternity covering their Volkswagen Beetle with small oak pieces that look like fish scales, and replacing some parts with carved wood equivalents. I can’t decide if its the dragon look or its picnic-baskety flavor, but being unconditional fans of the classic Beetle and wood in general, we love it. The best…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 10 '08

Digital Edge Gaming Table Provides Three Tiers of Peripheral Storage

Like to game but hate unplugging and putting away the various peripherals you need? For $379 you can get Digital Edge’s Gaming Table, which fits every gaming gadget you could possibly own, plus three 21-inch LCD monitors. Granted, I haven’t fired up the PC for anything in a long while, but I don’t remember that…

Tech News Elaine Chow Aug 9 '08

Getting Primeval on Your Television

If you’re a fan of dinosaurs, the premise of British series Primeval will immediately appeal to you. Airing for the first time in the U.S. tonight, Primeval is the story of a glittering portal that opens in Gloucestershire’s Forest of Dean — a portal that connects a Jurassic desert with contemporary England. Lucky for giant…

Television Annalee Newitz Aug 9 '08

Chewbacca Mouse Cutest Thing To Make Kessel Run In 12 Parsecs

Just in case the Ewoks were too ugly for you, Etsy’s TheHouseOfMouse has come up with the ultimate in Star Wars-related cuteness – Chewbacca Mouse. Yours for just $34.99, this one-off exists to remind you that even the rodents of the planet of Kashyyyk are entirely awesome. Chewbacca Mouse [Etsy]

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 9 '08

Medeco High Security M3 Locks Hacked With Easy Credit Card Trick

With all the hacks going on this weekend at DefCon, the world’s largest annual hacker convention, perhaps the most embarrassingly easy to crack was Medeco’s high-security locks. According to a group of security researchers, all you need to get into an Medeco M3 lock, used in sensitive facilities such as the White House and the…

Tech News Elaine Chow Aug 9 '08

Why Hacking History Is Harder Than You’d Think

You’d think that messing around with the timelines would be fun and easy – after all, we’re always hearing that the slightest change to history could change everything. But it’s not that simple, as we learned at a panel yesterday at Worldcon. For one thing, history is a lot more resilient than you’d expect, according…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 9 '08

AlterEgo Shows Off Incredibly Realistic 3D Animated Faces

Pendulum Studios, the guys who brought you the in-game movies in Stuntman 2 and are working on the forthcoming Silent Hill 5, have released a couple videos showing off their AlterEgo team’s proprietary facial performance software. The program brings out some of the most realistic and precise 3D animated expressions available to the market today.…

Tech News Elaine Chow Aug 9 '08

How Dead Space Blinded Us With Science, Hit Us With Technology

The developers of upcoming sci-fi survival horror game Dead Space are more than happy to show you the schematics they’ve worked up for protagonist Isaac Clarke’s ore cutter, or how a handheld graviton accelerator might work in the far future, but it was the practicalities of the game’s dynamic lighting system that blinded us with…

io9 Jeff Lester Aug 9 '08

Smart Contacts Will Detect Glaucoma Before It Blinds You

Researchers at UC Davis have designed contact lenses that can give you an in-eye checkup to make sure there’s nothing wrong, as well as dispense medication automatically when needed. The “smart” lenses use an organic polymer called PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane, if you’re nasty) that detects eye pressure and sends that data to a computer-important updates to…

Health Elaine Chow Aug 9 '08

Is The Phantom Really Sci-Fi?

Announced at Comic-Con, Lee Falk’s classic comic strip hero The Phantom is being developed as a TV movie and potential series for the Sci-Fi Channel by Carnivale’s Daniel Knauf and his son, Charlie. But what is it about “the Ghost Who Walks” that makes him especially science fiction-y? We run down what to expect from…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 9 '08

Fringe Comic Book To Feel Like TV Show, Literally

Silverlit RC Ducati Motorcycle Racer Leans Into Turns Around Your Furniture

5 Villains Batman Should – But Won’t – Face In The Next Movie

Qingbar iPod Projector Puts Sub-Par Images On Upright Tray Tables

Dead Space: Does It Walk The Space Walk, Or Just Talk The Space Talk?

Google StreetView Spies Burning Home (Probably Microsoft Guy’s House)

All Of Your Journeymen Questions Answered, Finally

Lightning Review: EdgeStar Portable Evaporative Air Cooler

MIT Team Developing Eye-Catching, Super Realistic 6-D Imaging Device

Moving Lego Donkey Kong People, Lego Donkey F*cking Kong

Wooden Volkswagen Beetle Gives Us Woodenly Timber

Digital Edge Gaming Table Provides Three Tiers of Peripheral Storage

Getting Primeval on Your Television

Chewbacca Mouse Cutest Thing To Make Kessel Run In 12 Parsecs

Medeco High Security M3 Locks Hacked With Easy Credit Card Trick

Why Hacking History Is Harder Than You’d Think

AlterEgo Shows Off Incredibly Realistic 3D Animated Faces

How Dead Space Blinded Us With Science, Hit Us With Technology

Smart Contacts Will Detect Glaucoma Before It Blinds You

Is The Phantom Really Sci-Fi?

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