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Ears-On EX2 Force Feedback Headphones: My Ears Feel Funny

We knew we were in for good things from any company called iFeelU. Their EX2 2.2-channel body-sonic earphones promise to deliver a “home theater in your ears” with real force feedback using a second pair of conduction speakers on the back. For explosions and other big booms, these things are surprisingly great, with solid feedback…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

MSI Wind Gets Final Specs, Packs an Atom

We’ve gotten the final specs on the Eee PC competitor from MSI called the Wind. The big news is that the sub-$500 Wind will be the first 10″ laptop to pack Intel’s new Atom processor, beating Asus to the punch by a couple of months. Maybe Intel’s latest and greatest little chip will help the…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Iron Man Takes on MODOG, Mo’ Problems

This just may be the most disappointing news of the week. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of giant-headed genetically-modified killing machines as the next person, but although the reveal of Marvel’s new villain MODOG – his name is an acronym for Mobile Organism Designed Only for Genocide – may look very impressive, it’s…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Microsoft TouchWall: Surface for the Common Man

While we found Microsoft’s Surface interesting for retail contexts, it’s simply too expensive (at $10,000) for the average consumer to get all that excited about. But Microsoft has an enticing alternative to the Surface called the TouchWall—a rear-projection system constructed from just “a few hundred dollars worth of readily available hardware.” And their demonstration is…

Tech News Mark Wilson

StairSteady Helps the Elderly Climb Stairs on Shaky Legs

Ruth Amos, an 18-year-old student from the UK, has come up with a simple and ingenious device for helping the elderly hobble their way up stairs with as little chance of hip-breakage as possible. Dubbed the StairSteady, it’s essentially a bar that one can hold onto as they walk up the stairs, moving up or…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

New Details About J.J. Abrams’ Weird FBI Show

Here’s the first glimpse of the filming for Fringe, J.J. Abrams’ new FBI-investigates-weird-shit show. Yes, it’s just a row of Boston police cars, but this picture was taken in Toronto (by Flickr user Asianz.) Another batch of reviews of the Fringe pilot script have emerged online — and apparently it’s not really an X-Files clone.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Here’s What The Guitar Hero IV Drums Look Like

Here’s the first shot of the Rock Bandesque drum kit coming to Guitar Hero IV. Scanned from the latest GameInformer magazine, it looks like there will be three main drums, two cymbals and a bass drum. All in all, it’s actually just one more drum/button than in Rock Band’s kit (which will be incompatible with…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

BBC’s “Life On Mars” Gets “Boston Legal” Treatment

Here’s a first look at the American remake of the the BBC’s time bending police drama, Life On Mars, which just got picked up by ABC for the fall season. Yes, it’s kind of cheesy, especially the moment where the music suddenly gets fun-kay. But is it just a cheesy trailer — or a trailer…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Another Classy Gadget T-Shirt

We humbly suggest this When In Doubt, Try Another Hole shirt for your annual “please let me keep my Gizmodo” plea to your IT guy. But note that while we condone the apparel, we can’t necessarily support the advice. Lest it lead to an awkward night with your spouse, or worse still, their printer/fax. [ThinkGeek…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

David Cronenberg May Direct Ultra-Violent Time-Travel Remake

David Cronenberg (The Fly, Crash) is in talks to direct the American remake of the Sundance scifi crime movie Timecrimes, according to original director Nacho Vigalondo. Which would be amazing news for Timecrimes as Cronenberg could bring a lot grit and darkness to the American version, as long as it’s not as bewildering as eXistenZ.…

io9 Meredith Woerner

It’s 2202, and This Space Marine is All Outta Bubblegum

Earth has been destroyed, the remnants of humanity are fleeing through space on a massive worldship, and one heavily-armed space marine has to mow down hordes of vicious alien scum to save them. Will he sacrifice his own humanity and gain powerful cybernetic implants to aid his quest? You’ll have to wait for this fall…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

50% Off iPod Classic Accessories

Over at Mertiline, you can save 50% off iPod classic accessories including GelaSkins. The savings might not sound like much when it comes to already cheap accessories, but coupled with free shipping you can score a GelaSkin for $9, car charger for $5, USB car charger for $6, alarm clock for $25, or shower adapter…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Force Unleashed Better Than Admittedly Bad Games, Says Lucas Employee

With The Force Unleashed about to hit consoles the world over, you may be slightly worried that it’s not going to be “the greatest Star Wars game ever” (as some have said) and, instead, just another in a long line of crappy games based upon George Lucas’ double trilogy of daddy issue movies. Thankfully, the…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Microsoft Denies Slimmer Xbox 360

Everyone is pretty sure that Microsoft is shrinking the heart of the Xbox 360 onto one chip when the production process hits 45nm, but as we said yesterday, that doesn’t necessarily mean a slim Xbox 360 is on its way. Microsoft has officially responded to the rumor with a big “nayi”: https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360-slim-might-come-in-2009-390095 While we don’t…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Earth Set to Receive Alien Reply, Invasion in 2015?

If all goes well—or very wrong—Earth may receive a message from aliens from the Altair solar system as early as 2015. Japanese astronomers Hisashi Hirabayashi and Masaki Morimoto sent an email there back in 1983, which was lost and has just been re-discovered by the latter at the Nishi-Harima Astronomical Observatory. Hirabayashi says they were…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Support Your Candidate for Scifi President of the United States

It’s just not an election season here in the United States — it’s smartass t-shirt season. To celebrate the fact that fictional people and monsters would probably make better presidents than the real-life humans currently running, we’ve got a few choices for scifi presidential swag for you. First up is the lovely Firefly-themed “Reynolds/Washburn” ticket…

io9 Annalee Newitz

It’s Just Kinda Neat: Interactive Color Cube

The Interactive Color Cube doesn’t do anything per se, other than change color based upon its angle of rotation. Three accelerometers each control a different axis (X, Y, and Z) which directly correlate with either a red, blue or green set of internal LEDs (that “float” in a cube within the cube). The result is…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

LiMo Mobile Linux Becomes “Preferred OS” for Verizon

It looks like Verizon Wireless is super duper committed to open development, because they’ve just joined the LiMo Foundation board of directors. LiMo is “an industry consortium dedicated to creating the first truly open, hardware-independent, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices.” Verizon isn’t dropping support for Android (or any other OS) as a result of…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Zen Returns To Comics From Outer Space

Most people think of zen as a state of calm reflection. Only the chosen few understand that zen is, in fact, named after one of the most deadly interstellar ninjas in history, and star of comic page, computer game and chromium-covered trading card set from the 1990s. Now, twenty-one years after his creation, Zen the…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Samsung Threatens to Pull out of the Laptop Market Within Three Years

A senior manager for Samsung has said that the company will stop manufacturing laptops if it doesn’t triple sales. Sukyong Hong, the senior manager of overseas sales and marketing, claims that the Korean giant will need to shift 11 million notebooks in order for the division to remain sustainable. At the moment, Samsung has a…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Ears-On EX2 Force Feedback Headphones: My Ears Feel Funny

MSI Wind Gets Final Specs, Packs an Atom

Iron Man Takes on MODOG, Mo’ Problems

Microsoft TouchWall: Surface for the Common Man

StairSteady Helps the Elderly Climb Stairs on Shaky Legs

New Details About J.J. Abrams’ Weird FBI Show

Here’s What The Guitar Hero IV Drums Look Like

BBC’s “Life On Mars” Gets “Boston Legal” Treatment

Another Classy Gadget T-Shirt

David Cronenberg May Direct Ultra-Violent Time-Travel Remake

It’s 2202, and This Space Marine is All Outta Bubblegum

50% Off iPod Classic Accessories

Force Unleashed Better Than Admittedly Bad Games, Says Lucas Employee

Microsoft Denies Slimmer Xbox 360

Earth Set to Receive Alien Reply, Invasion in 2015?

Support Your Candidate for Scifi President of the United States

It’s Just Kinda Neat: Interactive Color Cube

LiMo Mobile Linux Becomes “Preferred OS” for Verizon

Zen Returns To Comics From Outer Space

Samsung Threatens to Pull out of the Laptop Market Within Three Years

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