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X-Files Movie Has a Title at Last

At last, the X-Files movie that’s coming out in July has a title. It will be called X-Files: I Want to Believe, a reference to the poster Agent Mulder had hanging in his office during most of the series. Director Chris Carter told Yahoo News, “It’s a natural title. It’s a story that involves the…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Amazing Direct Note Access is Photoshop For Music

Charlie over at DVICE is a musician, so if he says this Direct Note Access is miraculous, we definitely believe him. Think of this software suite as Photoshop, but for music—able to change any note to any other note even if it’s buried inside chords or other instruments playing simultaneously. Up until now, you could…

Tech News Jason Chen

Which Big Summer Movie Ruined Science Fiction Forever?

With more big summer spectacles exploding, laser-blasting and CGI-ing all over the place, is serious, thoughtful science fiction being pushed out? Have movies like Transformers or Star Wars tractor-beamed the genre of science fiction away from perceived as serious literature, even in the book world? And which giant battle cruiser of a movie deserves the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Region-Free Wii Gaming Gives You Japanese Games Early

Region-free gaming on the Wii is a whole lot simpler now with the new release of Gecko Region Free. Now you don’t need a Freeloader or any type of fancy hacking, but you do need the Twilight Princess disc and the ability to run homebrew apps. It’s not a completely optimal solution, because of certain…

Tech News Jason Chen

Time to Make a Movie Version of “Astronauts in Trouble”

In a world where it seems as if every comic ever made has had their movie rights optioned, the lack of news about a future Astronauts in Trouble movie feels more and more like a failure on Hollywood’s part. The indie series of graphic novels centering around TV news crews and astronauts getting in and…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Guy Trapped in Elevator: 41 Hour Ordeal Caught On Tape

A quick cigarette break by Business Week employee Nicholas White turned into a nightmare when his elevator stopped dead in its shaft and trapped him there for a crazy 41 hours—all of it caught on a security camera. It seems like all of the technological developments in elevator design, from Archimedes through Otis’ security brake…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

What Would Chicks Do for a Klondike Bar? Give Up Their Password

I thought that the whole chicks would do anything for chocolate stereotype was just, you know, a stereotype, but vaguely scientific market research proves it’s true! Infosecurity Europe went around posing as marketers, offering people chocolate bars in exchange for their computer passwords, and 45 percent of the women gave it up like prom night.…

Privacy & Security Matt Buchanan

Five Reasons to Watch Movies that Hurt You, Haunt You, and Make You Want to Vomit

Welcome back to Horrorhead, a column where we explore the intersection of horror and scifi. I wasn’t born a horror movie fan, I made myself one through years of careful practice and studious watching. Everybody has an origin story, and mine begins with the pulsing, gooey strands of sludge that enveloped and destroyed every single…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Mobile Term Madness: LTE, WiMax, EV-DO and More Explained

We’ve been talking a lot about emerging mobile tech lately, tossing around crazy acronyms and words like WiMax, LTE, 3G, G-Spot, EDGE and whatnot. A lot of you probably already know this stuff cold, but in case you don’t, here’s the quick and dirty guide to what you need to know. GSM is the most…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Sawed Off USB Flash Drive is Badass in a Nerdy Kind of Way, Just Like You

This might look like the world’s dumbest criminal stole your printer by sawing through the USB cable rather than just unplugging it, but it’s actually a totally badass USB flash drive. It’s actually a relatively simple DIY project, so if you’ve got the inclination and an hour or less of time to spare, you could…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Pioneer’s 2008 Blu-ray Player Line Leaked

A source tells us that in May, Pioneer will announce two new Blu-ray players, including the Elite BDP-05FD you see above. Surprisingly, they won’t be Profile 2.0, just 1.1 (so PIP but no Ethernet), but they will have some other talents: https://gizmodo.com/coming-blu-ray-2-0-update-makes-ps3-best-player-ever-370116 • Internal decoding of all high-res audio formats • 8-bit to 12-bit Deep…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Superman, Batman Face Their Mortality And Morality In Final Crisis

Marvel’s Secret Invasion may be the comic book getting all the press right now, but DC’s Final Crisis is truly the big idea event comic of the year. At least, if the latest interview with writer Grant Morrison is anything to go by. A seven-part series involving all of the DC Universe and detailing what…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

C1 Tourbillon Watch Has 18th Century Tech to Correct for Gravity

We’ve shown you some beautiful retro-digital watches recently, but this timepiece takes the prize for integrating real old technology: a tourbillon escapement. Invented in 1795, this type of escapement actually rotates inside its frame and was designed to counteract lop-sided gravity effects caused by the vertical position gentlemen’s pocket watches usually sat in. Concord’s C1…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

When Did Summer Become Science Fiction Overkill Season?

This summer will be the biggest “blockbuster” movie season ever, with no fewer than 23 would-be smash hits coming out between early May and mid-August. It didn’t used to be this way. Back in the mists of time — like, say, in the late 1990s — there were only one or two big science fiction…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Psystar Exposed: Looks Like a Hoax

Click to viewAfter the Guardian did their own investigation into the Mac clone maker Psystar yesterday, we decided to take it a step further and see if they actually exist, in the physical sense. How could a company so brazenly challenge Apple and have little to no record of actually being a company? We sent…

Tech News Jason Chen

Rumor Smashed: LG Voyager NOT Coming to Sprint or AT&T

Earlier this week, we posted a rumor about the possibility of the LG Voyager coming to Sprint and AT&T. We finally got in touch with LG reps, who told us the rumor is false, false, false. They say they have no intention of bringing the Voyager to Sprint, AT&T or any other carrier and don’t…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The Pirate Bay to Turn Tables, Sue International Music Industry

Oh, Pirate Bay. You know just what to do to get people’s attention, you rabble rousers. In February, The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI; essentially, the international RIAA) went to court and got Danish ISP Tele2 to block access to the famous BitTorrent tracker. It now appears that the courts are going to…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Looking for Life on Other Planets? Look in the Mirror

At the Astrobiology Science Conference 2008 Nick Wolfe of the University of Arizona said yesterday that the best way to tell whether an exoplanet may harbor water — and life — is for us to launch a mission into space that will look back at Earth. Ever since Voyager I launched we’ve had a chance…

io9 Michael Reilly

Internal Microsoft Vista Video is as Painful as Videos Get

You’ve gotta wonder how, in a company the size of Microsoft, there’s not a single person who has the balls to step up and say “Hey, you know what? This Vista music video we’re making for the sales department, complete with a cheesy Bruce Springsteen impersonator and horrible music, damages the dignity of not only…

Tech News Adam Frucci

GeeWhiz Condom Catheter Still Gives Me the Willies

You know why I never wanna have a heart attack or prostate problems? The catheter. You know which one I’m talking about. Just the thought makes my junk burn. Enter this year’s truly deserving Medical Design Excellence award winner, the GeeWhiz Condom Catheter. No more tubes twisted and crammed into tiny holes they don’t belong…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

X-Files Movie Has a Title at Last

Amazing Direct Note Access is Photoshop For Music

Which Big Summer Movie Ruined Science Fiction Forever?

Region-Free Wii Gaming Gives You Japanese Games Early

Time to Make a Movie Version of “Astronauts in Trouble”

Guy Trapped in Elevator: 41 Hour Ordeal Caught On Tape

What Would Chicks Do for a Klondike Bar? Give Up Their Password

Five Reasons to Watch Movies that Hurt You, Haunt You, and Make You Want to Vomit

Mobile Term Madness: LTE, WiMax, EV-DO and More Explained

Sawed Off USB Flash Drive is Badass in a Nerdy Kind of Way, Just Like You

Pioneer’s 2008 Blu-ray Player Line Leaked

Superman, Batman Face Their Mortality And Morality In Final Crisis

C1 Tourbillon Watch Has 18th Century Tech to Correct for Gravity

When Did Summer Become Science Fiction Overkill Season?

Psystar Exposed: Looks Like a Hoax

Rumor Smashed: LG Voyager NOT Coming to Sprint or AT&T

The Pirate Bay to Turn Tables, Sue International Music Industry

Looking for Life on Other Planets? Look in the Mirror

Internal Microsoft Vista Video is as Painful as Videos Get

GeeWhiz Condom Catheter Still Gives Me the Willies

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