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Xbox 360 HD DVD Player Now $29.99

Some day these Microsoft Xbox 360 HD DVD players might be worth something to someone. We can’t really imagine who—maybe the technology museum of the 22nd century—but someone should want it. And with the limit of 12 per customer, you and your family can even stock up and make a fort out of these. A…

Tech News Jason Chen

Nacho Carbonell’s Mutant Furniture

Spanish designer Nacho Carbonell believes that chairs can mutate—and will, when given the opportunity. Evolution, his new collection, shows how a public park bench can become into a private pod chamber for people to crawl into when they’re feeling antisocial. There’s also a pod-like makeout chamber for lovers. The lovers seat provides a private make-out…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Are Tron Guy and Xkcd the Future of Celebrity?

If you ever watched the Star Wars Kid and Homestar Runner, or gawked at the Tron Guy and web comic Xkcd, you’re changing the future of celebrity. You’re building a world where Paris Hilton and Tom Cruise will be replaced by captioned pictures of cats and clever comics about algebra. At least, that was the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

TeaCube Auto-Undangles Tea Bags for Perfect Cuppas

All the knowledge about freshly drawn, freshly boiled water making the best cup of tea won’t help you if you’re as absentminded as me. Four times out of five, I forget all about the tea bag and leave it dangling in the water until the liquid is as dark as the inside of a cat,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Fluidhand Prosthetic Makes Us Think of Darth and Luke

*Warped voice through Tannoy system* Chut chut. Pay Luke Skywalker bolla Tatooine frumf ti pund, konchee er pinkosponto kapa. Luke Skywalker bolla Tatooine frumf ti pund, pay.” Translated from Huttese into Galactic Basic, that reads: “Greetings. Could Luke Skywalker make his way to the Tatooine Lost & Found, where his prosthetic hand has been handed…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Epic Supervillains Ready To Devastate Paragon City

Summon your robot spiders, fire off your long fang attack, then unleash the Omega Maneuver. Or just fry your enemies’ brains with a psionic blast. Whatevs. Villainous MMORPGers will have a few new ways to strive for global domination when City of Heroes/City of Villains releases the Wolf Spider and Blood Widow epic villain classes…

Books & Comics Ed Grabianowski

First Glimpse Of New, Non-CGI Sleestaks

USA Today features our first look at the new Sleestaks in the Land Of The Lost movie, now filming — and they don’t look all that different from the classic Sid-And-Marty-Krofft versions. Director Brad Silberling (Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events) says he fought to keep the humanoid shape of the menacing lizard people,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Top Gun 2008, the Movie (Without Cruise, Fortunately)

Not everything was about the stunning A-10 Warthog at last week’s Top Gun 2008 competition, the largest R/C event in the world. 10,000 people watched the 120 invitation-only R/C airplanes competition—which included everything from from World War I Fokker fighters to WW2’s Mustangs and Lightnings to Vietnam War’s Phantoms, and plenty of civil aviation models.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

RallyPoint Combat Glove for Computing Under Fire

Wearable computers may be a reality in today’s army, but use is restricted to safe environs like a bunker or an armored vehicle—out in the open, soldiers’ priority is keeping hold of their guns. The RallyPoint Handwear Computer Input Device is unique in that it is designed specifically to be used even while the soldier…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

A Natural Landscape in Microns

It looks like an alien city on the edge of a canal. But this is actually just a few microns across — it’s a scanning electron microscope image by Fatih Buyukserin. What you’re seeing are polymers stuck to a silicon mold full of beehive-like cells. This nano-city even has its own flowers made of wire.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once

For those times when 59 copies just isn’t enough, make 60 USB copies at once with this Virtual Console duplicator. Featuring optional 128-bit encryption and the ability to duplicate actual files (rather than just writing a binary mirror), it takes the copier just two minutes to fill 60 1GB drives with whatever pictures of your…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Dark Knight Trailer Reveals New Bat-Villain

Here’s a cameraphone copy of the Batman: The Dark Knight trailer which showed in New York yesterday and then popped up on YouTube. I joined the Clown Gang in New York for a rendezvous, which led to a trailer screening. Blink and you’ll miss the first appearance of a major new Bat-villain. Minor spoilers ahead.…

io9 Meredith Woerner

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

This week at TreeHugger: The MIRA ‘plugless’ plug-in hybrid car. The batteries are swappable, eliminating the charging time when you are in a hurry. LED bulbs are maturing; the new EvoLux 13W model can replace a 100W incandescent. And finally, from Sweden, the Manodo smart-home gadget helps you monitor your house’s power consumption in detail.…

Tech News Jason Chen

Glass Micromachine Makes Silk the Same Way Spiders Do

A team at the Technical University of Munich in Germany has designed a glass chip pierced with micro-sized tubes that act the same way as spider silk glands, and can be used to replicate the initial stages of natural silk production. It’s an interesting development since production of artificial spider silk has proven difficult in…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

This is How Cyber Criminals Party (Mimes and Blow-Up Dolls)

Say you’re part of KLIK Team, an Eastern European software/cyber criminal organization that has flooded countless computers with malware (such as fake spyware protection) and made a lot of money doing it. What do you do to celebrate another successful year of screwing the world? A corporate night out at Dave & Busters with all…

Tech News Mark Wilson

New X-Files 2 Pic Confirms A Startling Rumor

Are you ready for absolute knowledge? At the risk of breaking your brain, we’re going to bombard you with insane spoilers — including the names of two surprising guest stars in Doctor Who. We also give away the secret superpower of a new Heroes character, and a key scene in the pilot for Joss Whedon’s…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

TomTom 130, 130s, 330, 330s: One and XL Redesigned, Stow-Away Mount

Today TomTom announces all new TomTom One and XL navigators. The software doesn’t appear to be any different, but the exteriors have been streamlined even further, and the company introduced a new EasyPort mount that can stow-away in the back of the device itself, so you don’t have to worry about leaving your mount in…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

iPhone Finally Announced in Canada

Yes. We know. After 512,436 mails to tips speculating about this since the iPhone appeared in the US, the iPhone is finally arriving to Canada: “We’re thrilled to announce that we have a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Canada later this year. We can’t tell you any more about it right now,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Color Laser Printer CLP-315K is World’s Smallest, Says Samsung

20% smaller than the previous generation, Samsung is claiming their new CLP-315K is actually the World’s smallest color laser printer. It’s got a resolution of 2,400 x 600 dpi and can spit out four letter-sized pages per minute in color and 17 in black, and apparently it has improved photo quality output. There’s also another…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Overall Health Balance Scale Measures Everything But Peen Size

Aimed, one guesses, at Japanese health obsessives, the Overall Health Balance Scale measures a person’s health in six different ways: weight; BMI; subcutaneous fat ratio; organ fat level; muscle level; and basal metabolic rate. On top of that, it rates your health on a scale of one to five. Sounds to me like a version…

Health AddyDugdale

Xbox 360 HD DVD Player Now $29.99

Nacho Carbonell’s Mutant Furniture

Are Tron Guy and Xkcd the Future of Celebrity?

TeaCube Auto-Undangles Tea Bags for Perfect Cuppas

Fluidhand Prosthetic Makes Us Think of Darth and Luke

Epic Supervillains Ready To Devastate Paragon City

First Glimpse Of New, Non-CGI Sleestaks

Top Gun 2008, the Movie (Without Cruise, Fortunately)

RallyPoint Combat Glove for Computing Under Fire

A Natural Landscape in Microns

Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once

Dark Knight Trailer Reveals New Bat-Villain

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

Glass Micromachine Makes Silk the Same Way Spiders Do

This is How Cyber Criminals Party (Mimes and Blow-Up Dolls)

New X-Files 2 Pic Confirms A Startling Rumor

TomTom 130, 130s, 330, 330s: One and XL Redesigned, Stow-Away Mount

iPhone Finally Announced in Canada

Color Laser Printer CLP-315K is World’s Smallest, Says Samsung

Overall Health Balance Scale Measures Everything But Peen Size

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