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How Over-Hyped Is The Dark Knight?

We’ve been as excited about The Dark Knight as just about anybody, but lately we’ve been starting to wonder: has the chorus of hype gone too far? With a few early reviews suggesting the movie has a slow first hour and falls apart slightly on the second viewing, could the most anticipated movie of the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 14 '08

How To Maximize Your iPhone 3G’s Questionably Adequate Battery Life

The new iPhone’s brighter screen, GPS and 3G connectivity are nice, but you know what’s nicer? Not running out of batteries halfway through the friggin’ day. iPhone 3G battery life may or may not be shorter; even the geek gods at Ars don’t have a definite answer. But chances are with the new apps and…

Tech News Brian Lam Jul 14 '08

USB Multi-Cleaner Keeps You Healthy And Tidy

We’ve seen our share of so-called air purifiers, and desktop vacuums, but when they combine into a maximum cleaning tool, and it’s powered by USB, you get to see it here. It sits on your desk, quietly sucking up all the dust coming your way from your filthy co-workers. And to make sure you don’t…

Tech News Matt Hickey Jul 14 '08

Mysterious Wireless Guitar Hero Controller For Wii Surfaces

A reader in Michigan sent in this image he snapped at his local Wal-Mart of a hither-to unknown controller for Guitar Hero for the Wii called the Rage. None of us have heard of it, a Google search turned up nothing, and there’s nothing on Wal-Mart’s website about it, so it’s a mystery. But it’s…

Tech News Matt Hickey Jul 14 '08

Video: Girl Cheats Claw Game In Creative Way

Click to view Either this little girl is very ballsy or very, very dumb, but I have to give her credit for just going for it. Not content to be ripped off by one of those claw game scams, she just went for it, climbed up into the machine somehow, and picked her trophy. But…

Tech News Matt Hickey Jul 14 '08

PSP Update Version 4.05 Available NOW

We knew the PSP 4.05 Firmware update was coming soon, but we didn’t expect it to come today. The firmware is now out and ready to download, so fire up your PSP and get to it. https://gizmodo.com/sony-psp-update-version-4-05-coming-soon-5024751

Tech News Christopher Mascari Jul 14 '08

Welcome Your New Robot Over… Oh, Never Mind

The robot uprising has been delayed slightly, thanks to German engineers. The new Care-O-bot home robot faces several disadvantages if it decides to slaughter us all: First, it only has one highly flexible arm. Secondly, the arm automatically deactivates if a human comes into its radius, thanks to color cameras, 3-D sensors and laser scanners.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 14 '08

EA iPhone Games Upgrades: Scrabble Getting Multiplayer, Tetris Getting Piece Drawing, Plus New games

The three games we already saw on the iPhone from EA are Scrabble, Tetris and Sudoku. Scrabble is getting Wi-Fi upgrade for multiplayer plus accelerometer action that shakes up the words on your tray. Tetris is getting a feature where you can actually draw the upcoming piece right on your screen. Upcoming games are Need…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 14 '08

Give a Bluetooth Handgun Handset a Shot

Got an unused airsoft gun from your guns are cool teenage years? Why not transform it into a Bluetooth handset that you’ll probably still never use. A user at Instructables did just that by rewiring an older Jabber handset inside an airsoft gun. Even though it’s probably the biggest and most absurd Bluetooth handset, the…

Tech News Christopher Mascari Jul 14 '08

Heroes Webisodes Feature Hugs Of Death

The first of the Heroes webisodes has premiered online, featuring a plucky little mailman with one of the worst superpowers ever. The first chapter, “Nifty Trick,” also introduces a new villain who may have Marvel Comics calling its lawyers, and teaches us the true meaning of product placement. Web series spoilers after the jump. The…

Television Meredith Woerner Jul 14 '08

The Moon Rocket Project NASA Doesn’t Want You to Know About

A group of secretive rocket designers have defected from NASA’s rocket-building team to spearhead their own forbidden project. They spend their evenings designing Jupiter (pictured), a moon rocket they think will work far better for less money then NASA’s current moon rocket, Ares, set to bring some people to the moon in 2020. With all…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 14 '08

Netflix on Xbox 360 Quick Impressions

At today’s Microsoft roundtable, we saw the new Xbox 360 Netflix streaming service in action. Users can expect an experience very similar to that of the Roku box or Netflix on PC, as all the content still comes from Netflix servers. In other words, the 360 will feature the same SD quality video we’ve seen…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 14 '08

Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update Details

Here’s what we just learned from Microsoft in their round-table discussion on Xbox Live and the new Dashboard. First, the impetus for re-designing the dash was that the current content navigation is too difficult. They only planned on a couple hundred/thousand items, but they currently have 20,000+ pieces of content in their marketplace. There needed…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 14 '08

Sidekick 2008 Images Appear, Bigger And Clearer

Some more images have popped up at Hiptop3 of the forthcoming Sidekick Gekko aka 2008 from T-Mobile, and they’re the best we’ve seen to date. This is a slender looking hiptop witch will launch with a multitude of skins, making it the most customizable Sidekick to date. And really, with a feature like that, you’d…

Tech News Matt Hickey Jul 14 '08

Woody Harrelson Is Final Nail In Coffin For 2012

I didn’t think Roland Emmerich’s2012 could get worse, seriously. I was already bored with the done-to-death plot of a struggling divorced science fiction writer (John Cusack) trying to win back the love and respect of his family. Throwing in the apocalypse doesn’t make it any more interesting, sadly, plus the big surprise twist is laugh-out-loud…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 14 '08

A Few Stupid iPhone Apps

Benny tested out a few of the obvious timewasters in the iPhone App Store, including iMilk, Crazy Mouth, and iPint. They range from fun (the $1 Crazy Eye) to the dumbest app ever (the $1 CowToss), but a mixed bag is expected when so many apps come out at once. Normally, Benny does know how…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jul 14 '08

Rediscover Classic SF Tales with Planet Stories

The pulp era gave rise to some of the most exciting, innovative science-fiction ever written, but far too many of these classic SF tales have been lost and nearly forgotten. Planet Stories, an imprint of Paizo Publishing, has been working to change that by putting out novels and short story collections on a monthly basis,…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jul 14 '08

Wait to Buy! HDTVs About To Get Even Cheaper

Wait on buying your TV. Fresh off a round of price-cuts barely two months old, Mitsubishi, Sharp, Panasonic and Samsung will drop prices on their sets by as much as $400 in the coming weeks. https://gizmodo.com/dealzmodo-ahoy-hdtvs-will-get-stupid-cheap-next-month-385729 With too much inventory and not enough demand, the HDTV makers are cutting prices yet again to clear out…

Gadgets Benny Goldman Jul 14 '08

Dell Selling 128GB SSDs in Notebooks for $600

Erica Ogg of CNet informs us that hot on the heels of the $500 price cut for the MacBook Air’s 64GB SSD, Dell is offering a 128GB SSD for $600 in their “Latitude, XPS, Alienware and Precision laptop models.” I’m glad to see these things moving toward more reasonable prices so quickly, perhaps thanks to…

Tech News Brian Lam Jul 14 '08

Thomas Disch’s Tragic Love Poems Live On

The book-focused scifi gathering Readercon starts on Thursday, and includes guests of honor Jonathan Lethem and James Patrick Kelly. It also includes the first public showing of the late Thomas Disch reading his poem sequence “Winter Journey,” which he wrote after the death of his partner Charles Naylor. Based on Schubert’s lider cycle “Winterreise,” the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 14 '08

How Over-Hyped Is The Dark Knight?

How To Maximize Your iPhone 3G’s Questionably Adequate Battery Life

USB Multi-Cleaner Keeps You Healthy And Tidy

Mysterious Wireless Guitar Hero Controller For Wii Surfaces

Video: Girl Cheats Claw Game In Creative Way

PSP Update Version 4.05 Available NOW

Welcome Your New Robot Over… Oh, Never Mind

EA iPhone Games Upgrades: Scrabble Getting Multiplayer, Tetris Getting Piece Drawing, Plus New games

Give a Bluetooth Handgun Handset a Shot

Heroes Webisodes Feature Hugs Of Death

The Moon Rocket Project NASA Doesn’t Want You to Know About

Netflix on Xbox 360 Quick Impressions

Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update Details

Sidekick 2008 Images Appear, Bigger And Clearer

Woody Harrelson Is Final Nail In Coffin For 2012

A Few Stupid iPhone Apps

Rediscover Classic SF Tales with Planet Stories

Wait to Buy! HDTVs About To Get Even Cheaper

Dell Selling 128GB SSDs in Notebooks for $600

Thomas Disch’s Tragic Love Poems Live On

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