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Nintendo Announces Wii Music: Look Out, Beamz!

Nintendo just announced Wii Music, a new music game that lets you use the Wiimote, Nunchuk and Balance Board to create music. Unlike Rock Band or Guitar Hero, this one isn’t based on precise timing. Rather, it lets you basically hit buttons and swing the remote around to create original tunes. The Wii interprets your…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jul 15 '08

Surveillance Camera Software that Identifies and Catalogues Everybody’s Race

A new piece of software available in England for CCTVs can identify the race of people passing its lens, and change the camera’s behavior accordingly. Based on the race of the person being watched, the camera can choose to track the person or continue to randomly survey the area. The race-identifying software was developed by…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 15 '08

WiiSpeak Community Mic: Online Group Chatting Comes to the Wii

The second new Wii accessory out of E3, the WiiSpeak community mic and speaker finally lets you chat with other people online. Unlike an Xbox 360 headset, it’s more about group chatting and is placed on top of your TV, like a conference call mic (how does it filter out game sounds?). It’s bundled with…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 15 '08

This Week’s Comics Are Full Of The Undead, Abducted, Possessed And Rapping

Signs that you can tell that it’s getting near San Diego Comic-Con, Part 23: Indie comic publishers start releasing more material, hoping to avoid con glut while making sure that they’ll have something to show the eager masses. So while Marvel and DC have relatively restrained Wednesdays, you’ll still be able to find alien abductees,…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jul 15 '08

Apple Finally Unleashes Lawyers, Force Lightning on Psystar

Three months after Psystar openly declared war on Apple’s EULA and started selling its Open Computer running Mac OS X, Apple has filed a formal complaint against the company with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. They apparently waited for Psystar to distribute a modded version of the 10.5.4 update, filing…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 15 '08

Nintendo E3 Liveblog

Mark and I are down at the Kodak Theater for Nintendo’s E3 press event. It starts at 9:00 AM PDT, with Miyamoto and pals showing off whatever’s going to be sold out at Gamestops around the country for the rest of the year. Mark’s prediction: a bundled Wii Sports 2 that comes with the new…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 15 '08

World’s Largest Hourglass Filled With Silver Balls and a Luxury Sedan For BMW Moscow Launch

For its 7 series Euro launch in Moscow, BMW constructed the monstrosity you see here and filled it with 180,000 silver balls that slowly revealed their new oligarch cruiser. Funny they should pick the city with probably the highest ominous-luxury-sedan-with-90%-window-tint concentration per capita on the continent. I guess that explains the drama-everyone in the Moscow…

Tech News John Mahoney Jul 15 '08

Marvel Exposes Your Children To Drunk Superheroes and Warring Giants

Marvel released two highly anticipated animated trailers in preparation for their cameos at San Diego Comic Con this year. First is the DVD movie Hulk Vs., which is exactly what it sounds like. The big green giant will be smashing the comic book characters Thor and Wolverine in an epic battle. Second is a trailer…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 15 '08

First Intel Mobile Quad-Core Processor Coming Soon (Zoooom)

In addition to bragging about how awesome and zippy (while only power-sippy) Centrino 2 is, Intel execs also slipped that they’d be launching a set by the end of the quarter with their first mobile quad-core processor. Thanks to its hardcore power management on the Centrino 2, you’ll actually be able to run four cores…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 15 '08

The Spirit Trailer Tries Too Hard To Get Some

Frank Miller is banking pretty hard on the whole “sex sells” idea in this new trailer for his movie of Will Eisner’s classic comic book The Spirit. The black, white and red motif looks like a page torn right out of Miller’s Sin City, despite the director’s protests that he’s not copying his first movie.…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 15 '08

Fart Tanks Fight Methane, Give Al Gore Weird Ideas

Being the world’s largest beef producer with 55 million cows, Argentinian scientists tested claims about bovines being one of the worst polluters on the planet thanks to the methane they produce. To do this, they used big pink tanks on top of the cows, connected to their intestines with a tube inserted into their rear…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 15 '08

‘Sculpture’ Fires Beer Bottles at a Wall at 373MPH

Now this is what I call art. It’s a sculpture/robot that flings empty beer bottles at a solid wall at 373 MPH, smashing them to smithereens. As the exhibit goes on during the day, a pile of green shards of glass piles up under the wall. It’s a comment on rock and roll or something,…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jul 15 '08

A Helmet that Lets You Smash into Walls Without Breaking Your Neck

A sturdy helmet does a great job of protecting your head whether you’re clearing aliens from an off-world mining colony or clearing the puck away from a 6’4″ power forward on a hockey rink. They don’t do much for your neck, though, which is why certain head-on impacts can lead to devastating spinal injuries. A…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jul 15 '08

Shape Up Alarm Clock Dumbbell Won’t Shut up ‘Til You Do 30 Reps

Shape Up from Fred and Friends is one of those bullying-style digital alarm clocks, designed to force you awake. It’s shaped like a mini dumbbell and won’t stop buzzing until you do 30 reps. This would not get me out of bed in the AM, nossir. But it might make me smile. Smile happily as…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jul 15 '08

Cinema’s Captain America… Revealed! Okay, Not Really

With studios using viral campaigns to market their movies so often these days, it’s not surprising that actors have started using the same techniques to try to convince fans that they’re in the running for certain high-level roles. Even if no-one knows who they actually are. Under the jump, meet the new Captain America .…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan Jul 15 '08

New B-2 Bomber Crash Photos Show Carnage Up Close

Joe Pappalardo got some crisp, high quality military close-ups of the Spirit of Kansas, the $1.2 billion stealth B-2 bomber that crashed in Guam last February. We published other images of the crash scene before (because we like to see a billion dollars burning), but all the mess was cleaned up then. Here you can…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 15 '08

Environmentalists Destroy the Environment in Bulgaria

The area where Bulgaria hugs the Black Sea is a mass of cheap, crappy resorts punctuated by a few luxury hotels. Still, areas with untouched forest remain — at least, they will until next year, when an eco-community will turn nature into “nature” by creating a carbon-neutral city in a place where there are currently…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 15 '08

Tom’s Hardware Corrects Study, Says Solid State Drives Do Improve Battery Life

Tom’s Hardware tested battery life in laptops with SSDs yet again and found that they aren’t such a power suck, correcting a previous study. SSDs didn’t outperform their HDD counterparts in all tests, but combined with Laptop Mag’s study I think we can safely put the issue to rest for now. [Tom’s Hardware] https://gizmodo.com/swindled-solid-state-drives-dont-extend-battery-life-5021166

Tech News Benny Goldman Jul 15 '08

Logitech Announces Wireless Keyboard for the Wii

If you use your Wii to surf the web because you really miss your WebTV and want to relive the frustrations of using the internet on your television, this new Logitech Cordless Keyboard for Wii was designed with you in mind. It broadcasts using 2.4 GHz wireless technology and works from up to 30 feet…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jul 15 '08

Abrams Upset At Comic-Con’s Lack Of Trek

Disappointed that there won’t be any Star Trek sneak peeks at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con? You’re not the only one – Director JJ Abrams (who will be there, in support of his new TV show Fringe) has been sharing his feelings about the decision to reporters on the Television Critics Association tour, and he’s…

Movies Graeme McMillan Jul 15 '08

Nintendo Announces Wii Music: Look Out, Beamz!

Surveillance Camera Software that Identifies and Catalogues Everybody’s Race

WiiSpeak Community Mic: Online Group Chatting Comes to the Wii

This Week’s Comics Are Full Of The Undead, Abducted, Possessed And Rapping

Apple Finally Unleashes Lawyers, Force Lightning on Psystar

Nintendo E3 Liveblog

World’s Largest Hourglass Filled With Silver Balls and a Luxury Sedan For BMW Moscow Launch

Marvel Exposes Your Children To Drunk Superheroes and Warring Giants

First Intel Mobile Quad-Core Processor Coming Soon (Zoooom)

The Spirit Trailer Tries Too Hard To Get Some

Fart Tanks Fight Methane, Give Al Gore Weird Ideas

‘Sculpture’ Fires Beer Bottles at a Wall at 373MPH

A Helmet that Lets You Smash into Walls Without Breaking Your Neck

Shape Up Alarm Clock Dumbbell Won’t Shut up ‘Til You Do 30 Reps

Cinema’s Captain America… Revealed! Okay, Not Really

New B-2 Bomber Crash Photos Show Carnage Up Close

Environmentalists Destroy the Environment in Bulgaria

Tom’s Hardware Corrects Study, Says Solid State Drives Do Improve Battery Life

Logitech Announces Wireless Keyboard for the Wii

Abrams Upset At Comic-Con’s Lack Of Trek

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