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Mystery White Substance, But No Water Yet at Martian Pole

The Phoenix Lander, our favorite robot chemistry lab on Mars, has successfully cooked up some soil in its oven to see if water evaporates from it when heated. So far, no dice. Though the Martian rovers Opportunity and Spirit have found evidence of evaporated water at the equator of the planet, Phoenix hasn’t yet found…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 17 '08

Question of the Day: What Type of Keyboard Is the Best to Use?

After reading some of your comments in my review of the Das Keyboard Professional, it got me thinking about the countless keyboard variations out there and the differences between the QWERTY and Dvorak layouts. So the question today is simple-what type of keyboard is the best to use? https://gizmodo.com/lightning-review-the-clicky-das-keyboard-professiona-5016763 Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jun 17 '08

Banned Teeth Movie Poster Has Bite

Remember that terrifying little horror movie Teeth, about the sweet girl with a set of fangs in her lady business? Empire Magazine has a look at the X-ray movie poster that was banned for being too naughty. Any one else think this is what The Happening should have been about: women evolving to protect themselves…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 17 '08

Roomba Maker to Develop DARPA’s ChemBot Morphing Robots

Last year DARPA began the search for a company that could develop robots capable of squeezing through small openings and returning to their original size, shape, and functionality on the other side. Like most of DARPA’s projects, the idea was way-out there. However, it appears that iRobot (the guys behind practical home robots like the…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jun 17 '08

White-Leather-Clad Gene Vincent Takes Girls on a “Spaceship to Mars” in 1961

In keeping with last week’s posts, here’s a bit of Mars-related pop culture. It’s the incomparable Gene Vincent singing about how he’d like to get you (if you’re a girl, that is) on a spaceship to the Red Planet. He reportedly hated the song, but he looks great in white leather, a break from his…

io9 Lynn Peril Jun 17 '08

Coolpad Phone Has Dual SIMs, Dual CDMA/GSM

This Coolpad phone is the thing to have for the type of person (arms dealer, super spy) who has to go abroad often and doesn’t know what kind of cellphone service they have out in who knows where. It’s got two SIM slots, which can swap between your home US network and a foreign one,…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 17 '08

Gears Of War Movie Brings Life To Alien Subculture

Bloody alien-killing video-game movie Gears of War may actually see the light of day thanks to new director Len Wiseman. Possibly one of the most popular video games, up there with Halo, Gears follows the Delta Squad fighting on the planet Sera. It’s all-out war between the humanoid inhabitants of Sera and the Locust Horde…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 17 '08

iPhone 3G Family Plan Price Details (Yes it Exists!)

One of the major questions still unanswered about the iPhone 3G on AT&T is whether or not you can do family plans with it. Good news. AT&T just let us know that yes, Family Talk plans ARE available. Voice plans start at $39.99 a month (same as the regular one-line starting plan) and additional lines…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 17 '08

Midwest Emo Boys vs. Giant Monster — Who Wins?

We’ve told you before about Zero Trooper F, a giant monster flick set in a town much like Madison, Wisconsin, and now there’s an action-packed clip from it online as well as a full trailer. Basically it’s the simple tale of a mad scientist having a life crisis while super-soldiers fight a giant monster (see…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 17 '08

Lego-Built Wall-E: It Was Only a Matter of Time

It was only a matter of time before someone decided to tackle a Lego version of Disney-Pixar’s cute little cash cow Wall-E. After a three month planning session, Joe Meno, editor of BrickJournal magazine, managed to get the job done. The result is a very impressive model that features a moving neck and arms along…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jun 17 '08

Most Science Fiction Books Are Torture, Author Warns

Sturgeon’s Law was too generous, argues science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer. Writer Theodore Sturgeon said that 90 percent of science fiction was “crud” (or “crap,” depending on where he’s quoted.) But actually, the chances of choosing a good SF novel at random are way lower than that, Sawyer tells Bookmarks: Someone who gets interested…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jun 17 '08

Bunny Bots Reflect On Metal Carrots And Sunsets

Digital artist Goro Fujita evokes a sense of life in the cold metal of his rabbit-bots in “Sunset,” by putting them in glowy happy surroundings. It’s just one of a bunch of cute robot pics by the freelance character animator and visual development artist, currently living in Germany. Click through to see more images of…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 17 '08

Firefox 3 Available Now (Go Set a World Record!)

Firefox 3 is finally available, which means you should go download it. They’re trying to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours, so if you’re at work, go to everyone’s cube and download FF. Even if your office computers are locked down and can’t use FF, just download it…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 17 '08

C’mon Ride the (Bike) Train, Hey Ride It

“Right about now it’s about that time for me to holler Girl, I wanna waller in the back of my Impala Woo, don’t need no tickets for this thing Just jump on in, let me hit them switches on the train” Wait, this song is about WHAT?? As for the Electric Bike Train, it’s a…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 17 '08

New Garmin nuvifone UI Shots Are A Thing of Beauty

Laptop Magazine got a hands-on with the Garmin nuvifone, and this new batch of UI shots shows it may be a promising competitor in the touchscreen smartphone market. While most cellphone makers still don’t understand less is more when it comes to the touchscreen UI, Garmin seems to have embraced this, giving the nuvifone big,…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 17 '08

Dead iPod Cross-Stitch Warms Hearts, Cools Tempers

Surely at least a few of our readers have encountered the dead iPod icon, and now one crafter has taken it upon themselves to immortalize the moment in cross-stitch. No longer will the sad music player invoke the agony of money lost, but the joy of afternoons at grandma’s and the smell of freshly baked…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 17 '08

First Look At Gerard Butler As A Video-Game Killer

Here’s the first picture of Gerard Butler from Game, the movie about prisoners being forced to play a deadly game to the death, while they’re controlled by spoiled teenagers. He looks every bit the psycho killing machine, dealing out death and destruction at the whim of his rich online controller. Writer/directors Mark Neveldine and Brian…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 17 '08

Ergonomic Workstation: The Ultimate in Geeky Gaming Comfort

The Ergonomic Workstation from Ergo Motions may look like a dentist’s chair, but I must say that if my dentist had this thing in his office, I would be in there for a root canal right away. Ergo Motions mission is to help gamers and heavy workstation users avoid the repetitive stress injuries and posture…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jun 17 '08

Wanted Movie Delivers, If You Don’t Expect Too Much

There was a lot of initial fan outrage that Timur Bekmambetov’s movie version of Mark Millar’s “If supervillains ruled the world” comic Wanted ditches the costumes, superpowers and even plot of its source material. But early reviews of the movie seem to suggest that the comic’s biggest selling point – that it’s a fun, dumb…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jun 17 '08

Andy Dick Is Maxwell Smart’s Son

Let’s all rejoice that the new Get Smart movie starts over from scratch instead of trying to be a sequel to the TV show and its various follow-ups. Or else it would have had to deal with the short-lived 1995 Get Smart revival that shows what happened after Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 got married…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 17 '08

Mystery White Substance, But No Water Yet at Martian Pole

Question of the Day: What Type of Keyboard Is the Best to Use?

Banned Teeth Movie Poster Has Bite

Roomba Maker to Develop DARPA’s ChemBot Morphing Robots

White-Leather-Clad Gene Vincent Takes Girls on a “Spaceship to Mars” in 1961

Coolpad Phone Has Dual SIMs, Dual CDMA/GSM

Gears Of War Movie Brings Life To Alien Subculture

iPhone 3G Family Plan Price Details (Yes it Exists!)

Midwest Emo Boys vs. Giant Monster — Who Wins?

Lego-Built Wall-E: It Was Only a Matter of Time

Most Science Fiction Books Are Torture, Author Warns

Bunny Bots Reflect On Metal Carrots And Sunsets

Firefox 3 Available Now (Go Set a World Record!)

C’mon Ride the (Bike) Train, Hey Ride It

New Garmin nuvifone UI Shots Are A Thing of Beauty

Dead iPod Cross-Stitch Warms Hearts, Cools Tempers

First Look At Gerard Butler As A Video-Game Killer

Ergonomic Workstation: The Ultimate in Geeky Gaming Comfort

Wanted Movie Delivers, If You Don’t Expect Too Much

Andy Dick Is Maxwell Smart’s Son

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