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Full Apple Patent Shows iPhone Future Possibilities

The US Patent and Trademark Office has published today a 372-page document detailing every known and unknown aspect of the iPhone. As you can imagine, the most interesting bits of patent 20080122796 are the features never detailed before—like video conference, GPS, widget creator, multimedia messaging, and video recording. Apple secrecy often pushes USPTO patent publication…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Wachowskis Aren’t Done With Speed Racer Yet

A sequel to the candy-colored car crash Speed Racer is already on the minds of the writer-director Wachowskis, producer Joel Silver tells Moviehole. Didn’t they learn from the premiere that this movie just isn’t cost effective? Probably not, because Silver also revealed if they make a sequel it may be in the latest fad for…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Scifi Comedy With Ricky Gervais as a Lying Liar from Another World

Ricky Gervais, creator of the acerbic British version of The Office, lives in an alternate universe in This Side Of The Truth. He’s the man who discovers how to lie in a world where honesty is the only policy. Truth has a stellar comedy cast including Tina Fey, Jason Bateman, Jonah Hill Christopher Guest, and…

io9 Meredith Woerner

New Army Cluster Bomb Rains Down Thousands of Deadly Darts

Cluster bombs are increasingly frowned upon—there’s an international agreement banning them, though the US hasn’t signed on—in part because even low dud rates leave lots of little unexploded bombs scattered over a wide area. An alternative developed by the army is a GPS-guided version of the Multiple Launch Rocket system with a payload of thousands…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Boeing Developing Planes with Frickin Laser Beams

As far as air-to-ground weapons go, bombs are effective but not known for their precision. That’s why Boeing is hard at work on a project the U.S. military has long lusted after: plane-mounted lasers. Once we get these things operational, putting your munitions factories next to your day-care centers isn’t going to work anymore, and…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

RhythmFish Helps Your Goldfish Say “I Love You” (or “You Suck”)

RhythmFish is a suction-cupped USB webcam concept that sticks to the side of a fishbowl, tracking the movements of your little shiny-scaled compadres. Sensors inside the bowl measure the “currents” made by fish swimming, and your computer combines both data feeds into a visualization meant for “inter-organism communication.” Talking to goldfish? From the looks of…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Yo Again Joe

2009 is apparently already the year of the Joe. In addition to the GI Joe movie – and, yes, Sienna Miller does make a rather fetching Baroness, thank you for asking – those Real American Heroes will also be seeing a new line of comics from the people who currently bring you Transformers, Angel, Doctor…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Android Will Have an App Store Like the iPhone

This is good news: It looks like Android will have a one-stop shop for applications, making it easy for developers to get their goods out there and users to pick ’em up. While the “Android Store” isn’t confirmed, project lead Andy Rubin said at the Google I/O developer conference yesterday: https://gizmodo.com/htc-dream-android-phone-shown-off-at-google-conference-393752 “It would be a…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Philip K. Dick Is Spamming Me

Like anyone who has read their fair share of schizo-pharmo-technological Philip K. Dick and Robert Anton Wilson books, I sometimes find data on my computer that make me wonder if there is some kind of weird conspiracy at work. Or, worse, that somebody is trying to make me think there is a conspiracy to get…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Next PlayStation Firmware Update Bringing In-Game XMB?

There’s some pretty heavy rumorage that Sony’s next PS3 firmware update, 2.4, will bring long-awaited in-game XMB. (That just means players will be able to load the menu system without closing their game.) In addition, we’re supposed to see trophies (ala Xbox Achievements) supported as well. There’s a lot of buzz around the rumor with…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

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It’s thanks to our sponsors that we’re not on a crazy island with polar bears and commando dudes and Scottish guys that are actually kinda really awesome. Thanks AT&T, Arkadium, AutoTrader, Canon, Chevy Fuel Solutions, Cingular, Coors Light, Dash Express, Glyde, Jet Blue, Kicker, Lenovo, Linksys, MS Office Small Business, Netgear, Nikon Coolpix, Nokia, Nuance,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Wireless Pong Between Multiple iPhones, iPod Touch

This has to be the coolest implementation of Pong ever: load the iPong application in two or three iPods touch units or iPhones, and start playing between them using your finger, with the ball actually passing from one screen to the other depending on the ball angle. The software was made by Mr. Kondo—a colleague…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Wired Editor Drops, Destroys RAZR on Live TV

Wired Senior Editor Nick Thompson was on the Today Show this morning talking about why the N95 and iPhone are the best high-end phones and the RAZR is the best cheap phone. OK, fair enough. Unfortunately for Nick, when he dropped the RAZR to the floor to demonstrate its durability, it ended up getting destroyed…

Tech News Adam Frucci

25 Glorious Years of Loving the Ewoks

It may make you feel old, but you have to face up to the truth of the matter: This year, Ewoks celebrate their first quarter century since springing, fully-formed no matter how short, from George Lucas’ fevered furry mind. And, while these days the little midget bears have come to personify everything that went wrong…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Valve’s Steam Cloud Brings Cloud Computing to Gaming Masses

In the next update to Valve’s Steam client, which distributes and manages PC games, and is probably the best digital distribution setup around (other software companies wish they had a setup half as good), Valve will be throwing cloud computing into the mix. Called Steam Cloud, the update will let you store profiles, keybindings and…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Are You Getting Screwed? Quick-Glance ISP Pricing Chart

Electronic House has done some serious homework, compiling price, bandwidth and plan information from most US ISPs, from sluggy dial-up to hyperspeedy fiber. (I couldn’t spot Cablevision, but there were others I hadn’t even heard of.) Due to cable build-out and the territorial nature of phone companies, you can’t do as much comparison shopping as…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Asus Reinvents the Wiimote

Some of our readers pointed out that the new Asus Eee Box resembled a Nintendo Wii. And while that may be true, Asus has just debuted something straight out of Nintendo’s handbook: a “Wiimote” for the PC. https://gizmodo.com/first-details-on-the-asus-eee-box-393892 Spotted at a trade show in Taipei, the controller looks like a pair of wireless nunchuks, It’s…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

An Unlikely Guest Star Returns In Transformers 2, Plus A New Caprica Character

We’re trying a bit of an experiment with morning spoilers — instead of dumping all the spoilers below the fold, we’ve created separate pages with spoilers for each movie/show/whatever. So if you don’t want to know which characters from Transformers will be back in the sequel, you can avoid clicking that link. But if you’re…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Gigantic, Ceiling-Sized Digital Clock Threatens to Crush You with Time

Do you ever feel like time is hanging over your head, adding apprehension and dread to your life? Like it could just crash down and kill you at any moment? Like time has an annoying buzz to it and that it throws a harsh, flat light? Either you have OCD or you’ve got one of…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

.Mac Getting a New Name?

Aside from the obvious 3G iPhone rumor floating around this year’s WWDC, the other, quieter rumor has been that Apple will be revamping .Mac in a major way. Now one code enthusiast thinks he’s found some evidence in a pile of 10.5.3 strings that points to a name change (which we think points to a…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Full Apple Patent Shows iPhone Future Possibilities

The Wachowskis Aren’t Done With Speed Racer Yet

Scifi Comedy With Ricky Gervais as a Lying Liar from Another World

New Army Cluster Bomb Rains Down Thousands of Deadly Darts

Boeing Developing Planes with Frickin Laser Beams

RhythmFish Helps Your Goldfish Say “I Love You” (or “You Suck”)

Yo Again Joe

Android Will Have an App Store Like the iPhone

Philip K. Dick Is Spamming Me

Next PlayStation Firmware Update Bringing In-Game XMB?

Sponsors Thanks

Wireless Pong Between Multiple iPhones, iPod Touch

Wired Editor Drops, Destroys RAZR on Live TV

25 Glorious Years of Loving the Ewoks

Valve’s Steam Cloud Brings Cloud Computing to Gaming Masses

Are You Getting Screwed? Quick-Glance ISP Pricing Chart

Asus Reinvents the Wiimote

An Unlikely Guest Star Returns In Transformers 2, Plus A New Caprica Character

Gigantic, Ceiling-Sized Digital Clock Threatens to Crush You with Time

.Mac Getting a New Name?

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