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BlackBerry Thunder Touch Keyboard Aims to Be Best Ever: Like a Giant Button With Haptics

The BlackBerry’s keyboard is an object of worship, and RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis has publicly said the iPhone’s touch keyboard sucks. So, the BlackBerry Thunder‘s touch keyboard had better be the best one you’ve ever smeared your fingerprints on. According to Crackberry, it has two big tricks: The screen itself is “sort of like a…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 8 '08

Rumor: Leaked Microsoft Email Confirms 60GB Hard Drive Package, 120GB Hard Drive Price Drop

A leaked email sent out to buyers at GameStop and Blockbuster shows three things that Microsoft will announce before or around E3 next week. One, there’s a 60GB Pro console package coming. Two, there’s a $99 60GB hard drive pack for Arcade and Core owners, which comes also with 3 months of Xbox Live, a…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 8 '08

MSI Wind Preorders Finally Shipping

Hooray! If you preordered an MSI Wind and suffered through a few delays, know that the mini-notebooks are shipping now. Remember they’re only coming with a 3-cell battery, and apparently the $499 6-cell and $399 Linux versions aren’t hitting until September. The $479 Wind should be available at popular retailers somewhere between now and soon.…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 8 '08

Thrill-Crazed Space Bugs Swarm Through World’s Longest Novel

Got some spare time? The world’s longest novel is available as a free download! Coppell, TX writer Mark Leach has just published an expanded 12.6 million word edition of his apocalyptic novel Marienbad, My Love. It’s nearly ten times longer than the official record-holding longest novel, Proust’s In Search Of Lost Time, not to mention…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8 '08

Lightning Review: i2i Stream Wireless Music Sharing Device

The Gadget: Aerielle’s i2i Stream allows users to share audio from any source between two or more i2i devices using a wireless 2.4 GHz frequency. Just plug in a set of headphones and listen to the music your friends are broadcasting on their i2i Streams (up to 7 audio sources). The Price: $119.95 for a…

Reviews Sean Fallon Jul 8 '08

Stargate’s Commander Makes Movie For Genius Kids

Star Trek: Voyager’s holographic doctor, Robert Picardo, joins John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Michelle Gellar and James Earl Jones in the animated feature Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey. Picardo calls the movie not only entertaining but educational. The film explains quantum physics and breaks down protons, photons, animatter and the big bang theory.…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 8 '08

BillShrink Helps You Pick the Right iPhone 3G Plan

Although you can pull out a pen and paper and do the math yourself, BillShrink is an easy web-based way to calculate how much that iPhone 3G family plan is going to cost you over two years. Just move the sliders around, choose how many lines you want and pick the amount of text messages…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 8 '08

Steampunk Soviet Gas Mask Looks Like That Nazi From Hellboy 1

This specially-created one-off steampunk gas mask was made from leather, brass, and a Soviet-era gas mask. What’s special about this isn’t that it looks incredibly creepy and incredibly cool, it’s that it looks kinda similar to that Nazi villain from the first Hellboy movie. Maybe it’s just us and our excitement for Hellboy II that…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 8 '08

Look Who Nurse Joker Is Coming To Visit

So that shocking Harvey Dent image we ran in this morning’s spoiler round up? The one I was pretty sure was a fake? It’s looking more like it might be real. Spoiler TV’s movie blog posted a bunch of screencaps from The Dark Knight, including a better version of that image. And it does look…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8 '08

The Backpack Bicycle For Ultra-Portable, Potentially Dangerous Transportation

The idea of a compact, folding bicycle is nothing new, but designer Chang Ting Jen is hoping to take the concept even further with his Backpack bike. According to the specs, a production version would weigh around 12 pounds and fold into a backpack that measured just under 2 feet in length. Naturally, that means…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 8 '08

Asus Offering $100 Rebate on Eee 900

Asus just released their Eee 901 for sale in the US and all is well with the world…except for one thing. They built a bunch of Eee 900s that they have to get rid of. Remember the Eee 900? That was the original 8.9-inch Eee that used a Celeron processor instead of a shiny new…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 8 '08

Lost To Go Home To Sci Fi Channel

Not that it will convince anyone who isn’t already willing to consider the concept, but it looks like the makers of Lost are finally embracing the fact that any show with time travel, psychic children and a villain as awesome as Ben has to be science fiction. Come September, the show will start again from…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jul 8 '08

Repo’s Angsty Teen Goth Rocks In Her Room, Parents Don’t Understand

Here’s a glimpse into the family life of Anthony Stewart Head’s organ-repossession man, from Repo! The Genetic Opera. He’s locked his sad little goth daughter Shiloh, played by Spy Kid Alexa Vega, in her room. So she dons a black wig and pasty white face paint to jerk and dance around in her fantasy rock…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 8 '08

Crawling Businessman Robot Is a Critique On Japanese Salarymen

Japanese Performance artist Momoyo Torimitsu built a crawling Japanese businessman robot and took it to the streets of Australia to creep out little kids and turn on weird dudes with camcorders. The bot is her critique on the Japanese salaryman lifestyle and the apparent upcoming Asian economic crash. All we know is that dressing up…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 8 '08

Anton: 512-Processor Supercomputer Being Built to Simulate Molecules, Drugs

Named for microbiology pioneer Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Anton is currently being built with 512 highly specialized processors. These are clocked at just 400MHz, and the machine has modest memory, but its architecture lets it process problems in a massively-parallel way. Ultimately, that’ll offer a performance boost of 1000x over current complex molecular simulations. And that’s…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jul 8 '08

A Deadly Mailman, In New Heroes Webisodes

Your favorite mutant soap opera Heroes won’t be back until fall, but you can get a few new hits of superpowered angst this month. The show is running a three-part miniseries of “webisodes” online, starting this Monday, called “Going Postal.” They don’t include any indestructible cheerleaders or brain-eating teddy bears, but instead introduce a new…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8 '08

Gas Only Available to Those Who Win the Lottery

In the United States, gas has become such a luxury that it’s now being awarded as a lottery prize instead of money. people living in states like Florida and Oklahoma can get “free gas for life” if they win the lottery — which means they get $2600 for gas every year. In 40 years, they’ll…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 8 '08

Logic 3 Wireless Wii Keyboard Activates Couch Typing Mode

Why be tethered to your Wii when the rest of your controllers are free to swing about and fly around your living room? Logic 3’s 32-key wireless keyboard lets you enter in names, messages and Wii Friend Codes like an expert, not a spastic ten-year-old swatting at invisible flies. It’s £13.99 ($27) when it’s released…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 8 '08

Sheep Dialysis Machine: Are Pets the Medical Devices of the Future?

Using animals to grow human body parts has been done, but how about using a live sheep for dialysis? The idea comes from one design student Revital Cohen. The project she’s calling “Life Support” seeks to use a sheep whose genome has been spliced with a human to produce human blood. The transgenic sheep then…

io9 Michael Reilly Jul 8 '08

30 Napkin Sketches Prove There’s a Little Inventor in All of Us

Click to viewLast week I asked you to send me napkin sketches of your brilliant gadget ideas. The sketches I received ranged from good ideas to bad ideas to flat-out horrible ideas. It’s safe to say that no time machines or gadgets that’ll make you attractive to ladies are suddenly feasible because you did a…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jul 8 '08

BlackBerry Thunder Touch Keyboard Aims to Be Best Ever: Like a Giant Button With Haptics

Rumor: Leaked Microsoft Email Confirms 60GB Hard Drive Package, 120GB Hard Drive Price Drop

MSI Wind Preorders Finally Shipping

Thrill-Crazed Space Bugs Swarm Through World’s Longest Novel

Lightning Review: i2i Stream Wireless Music Sharing Device

Stargate’s Commander Makes Movie For Genius Kids

BillShrink Helps You Pick the Right iPhone 3G Plan

Steampunk Soviet Gas Mask Looks Like That Nazi From Hellboy 1

Look Who Nurse Joker Is Coming To Visit

The Backpack Bicycle For Ultra-Portable, Potentially Dangerous Transportation

Asus Offering $100 Rebate on Eee 900

Lost To Go Home To Sci Fi Channel

Repo’s Angsty Teen Goth Rocks In Her Room, Parents Don’t Understand

Crawling Businessman Robot Is a Critique On Japanese Salarymen

Anton: 512-Processor Supercomputer Being Built to Simulate Molecules, Drugs

A Deadly Mailman, In New Heroes Webisodes

Gas Only Available to Those Who Win the Lottery

Logic 3 Wireless Wii Keyboard Activates Couch Typing Mode

Sheep Dialysis Machine: Are Pets the Medical Devices of the Future?

30 Napkin Sketches Prove There’s a Little Inventor in All of Us

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