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Are You Ready For War With High-Tech Undersea Aliens?

Writers Alan Kurtzman and Roberto Orci managed to transform the old Transformers franchise into a hit movie, and everyone’s hoping they’ll do the same for Star Trek. But will they be able to work similar magic with a graphic novel that almost nobody has read, that hasn’t even finished publishing in comic-book form? They just…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Starship Dogfights and Galactic Rebellion for the Cheap-Ass Gamer

If you want to take to the skies in an advanced aerospace fighter, frag noobs with missile clusters and join a massive battle against a hulking enemy mothership, but your gaming budget is spread a little too thin, then you should check out Air Rivals. It’s a spaceship dogfighting MMORPG that’s easy to jump right…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

First Universal Blu-ray Discs Hit July 22, But Where’s The Big Lebowski?

Five months after converting to Blu-ray, former HD DVD diehard Universal will finally release its first Blu discs: The Mummy trio on July 22. The Mummy was already on HD DVD, so they’re firing off re-releases from the get-go. All told, Universal plans to drop about 40 discs by the end of the year. Appropriately…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs

A neurosurgery team at Osaka University is now installing brain-machine interfaces directly into patients’ heads. They claim the invasive open-skull surgery allows control over robotic limbs with the mind more accurately. In fact, in trials with four test subjects, their method has more than 80% accuracy. Team leader Professor Toshiki Yoshimine says that using electrode…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

This week at Uncrate: We hit the road on the 2008 Kawasaki Vulcan 900 Custom, crank it up with the Bird-Electron EZ0 Portable Speaker, and tear up the backyard with the Stihl Yard Boss. We also stock up on summer-wear with the Robot Rebellion T-Shirt Collection, hit the course with some new Grafalloy Epic Shafts,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Pope Refuses To Bless Technology

Paul Pope is a comic creator and fashion icon (designing a line for DKNY tends to give you some credibility towards that title, at least). And he may have a tendency to place his projects in futuristic SF settings, but don’t take that to mean that he’s any kind of futurist. As he explained in…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Multi-grope: Interacting with Microsoft Surface at the AT&T Store

Microsoft’s near-mythical Surface table just appeared at five AT&T Stores across the country (with seven more locations soon to get one), and we were happy to have a go with it this morning. As you’ll see in the video, this one is programmed for mobile phone sales pitches, and doesn’t have all of the fun…

Tech News Benny Goldman

ASUS M70 One Terabyte Laptop Screams “FIRST!!!”

For the digital pack rats, the ASUS M70 (which was quasi-announced at CES) looks to be the first stock laptop to support a full terabyte of storage (a feat achieved by packing dual 500GB Hitachi Travelstar drives). So what do you do with all that data? Store HD videos to play back on the built-in…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Light-in-Fog Computer Simulation Is Ultra Realistic and Cheap

Now your computer can simulate the movement of light through fog in a way that will easily fool the untrained eye. Using new “photon mapping” algorithms that map how light would bounce off water particles in the air (i.e. fog), UC San Diego computer scientists can now whip up a quick, realistic fog world for…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Darwin Manuscripts Evolve From Paper Notes to Online Archive

The manuscripts that later became On The Origin of Species are going online for the first time. The good guys at the Cambridge University library, who were the only people with access beforehand, have put Charles Darwin’s notes on his book and another 20,000 archive items online, turning it into one vast educational/scientific resource. Apparently…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

ThunderCats Were Loose On Palace of Westminster

When most DVDs are released, production studios put up some posters and run a few television spots. However, when ThunderCats Season 2 hits store shelves…lets just say Lion-O isn’t settling for an afternoon at Kinko’s. Instead, he boldly emblazons the ThunderCats signal onto London’s Houses of Parliament. While some surely see the stunt as a…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Now You Can Own Two Bakers And Another Doctor

It wasn’t until seeing a press release about the launch of a new Classic Doctor Who toy line that I realized (a) I may want to own an action figure of a much-beloved fictional character from my youth for the first time, and (b) said action figure should be renamed “Tom Baker Doctor With A…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Conquest Credit Card Perfume Makes Eliot Spitzer Happy

A perfume called Conquest which comes in a credit card made of steel, capable of storing 20 milliliters of musk-loaded liquid? Atomize it away, Mr. Spitzer, because this seems like the perfect addition to the wallets of punters, NY state ex-governors or anyone with perfume-to-go needs. Whoever you are. [Tuvie]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

See Tony Stark’s House, Wolverine’s New Claws, And Adrien Brody’s Mutant Girl

It’s mostly television spoilers this morning — we have tons more details about upcoming Lost episodes, including dozens of new stills. And there are three clips from tonight’s Smallville episode, plus a partial leaked script for the season finale. But we also have a ton of new details about Splice, the genetic experimentation movie starring…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

HP MediaSmart SL4278N and SL4778N Get Media Extender Update

If you own an HP MediaSmart television, you can now download a firmware update that brings the Media Center support you’ve been waiting for. Go for, rejoice, etc. HP Upgrades the Digital Entertainment Experience with Industry’s First Integration of HDTVs and Media Center Extender PALO ALTO, Calif., April 17, 2008 – HP today announced it…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Yes, We Have Some Bananas, ‘Cause We Saved Them With NANA Saver

Whole bananas just look after themselves in your fruit bowl until they go all brown and spotty. But if your recipe calls for half a banana, then you know the spare hemibanana is going to go all gooshy really fast and you’ll end up binning it. That’s where NANA Saver comes in, with its pincer-like…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Lumix DMC-TZ50 Coming to US, with T-Mobile Hotspot Access

Remember that saucy little Lumix with the Wi-Fi and free photosharing that was Japan only? Well, Panasonic is releasing the nine-megapixel point-and-shoot over here, and it’s going to come with a year’s free access to T-Mobile Hotspots. The TZ-50 is available in silver, and will cost $450 when it comes out next month. [Wired] https://gizmodo.com/nine-megapixel-lumix-dmc-tz50-has-wi-fi-photo-sharing-369553

Tech News AddyDugdale

Apple Patents Laser Head-Mounted Display, Sharks Rejoice

Apple has applied for a patent for a laser-based headset to use with its iPod and iPhone. And, unlike most headset displays, which can be bulky due to the light source and optical elements, the Cupertino company has come up with a way of slimming the device down. Here’s how. All the image-generation electronics, the…

Tech News AddyDugdale

Rotator Bath-cum-Shower (Stop Sniggering at the Back) is Confusing

I have a soft spot for Ron Arad. His Bookworm bookshelf was the first piece of designer furniture I craved (admittedly, this might have been due to the fact that it was up on the wall in the apartment of a boy I craved.) He has me confused now, though, with his this design for…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Massage Pants Soothe the Parts Other Pants Just Can’t Reach

Here’s a product for those of you whose desk-bound working life puts a strain on your posterior: massage pants. Ohoho yes. They’ve got seven massage units arranged in a “a scientific and rational allocation” to best soothe your (ahem) parts, a number of different vibration modes and an exciting-sounding 20-minute automatic mode for handsfreeness. I’ll…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Are You Ready For War With High-Tech Undersea Aliens?

Starship Dogfights and Galactic Rebellion for the Cheap-Ass Gamer

First Universal Blu-ray Discs Hit July 22, But Where’s The Big Lebowski?

Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

Pope Refuses To Bless Technology

Multi-grope: Interacting with Microsoft Surface at the AT&T Store

ASUS M70 One Terabyte Laptop Screams “FIRST!!!”

Light-in-Fog Computer Simulation Is Ultra Realistic and Cheap

Darwin Manuscripts Evolve From Paper Notes to Online Archive

ThunderCats Were Loose On Palace of Westminster

Now You Can Own Two Bakers And Another Doctor

Conquest Credit Card Perfume Makes Eliot Spitzer Happy

See Tony Stark’s House, Wolverine’s New Claws, And Adrien Brody’s Mutant Girl

HP MediaSmart SL4278N and SL4778N Get Media Extender Update

Yes, We Have Some Bananas, ‘Cause We Saved Them With NANA Saver

Lumix DMC-TZ50 Coming to US, with T-Mobile Hotspot Access

Apple Patents Laser Head-Mounted Display, Sharks Rejoice

Rotator Bath-cum-Shower (Stop Sniggering at the Back) is Confusing

Massage Pants Soothe the Parts Other Pants Just Can’t Reach

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