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Getting Ready for the Final Battle

This looks like the poster for an awesome science fiction film that we’d like to see: a girl in a giant hulking exoskeletal suit of armor with her comic-effect tiny little robotic pal perched on her shoulder. You’ve got evil signified by the pouring lava on the left hand side of the background, while fighters…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Verizon Smartphone Unlimited Browsing and Email Now $30 a Month

Verizon is cutting its unlimited browsing and email plan for smartphones down to $30 a month. Right now it’s only available for a couple of devices—Moto’s Q9m and Verizon’s XV6800 and SMT5800—others will be added later on. (Blackberries have their own plan.) “Data” is nowhere in the release, so tethering will probably result in obscene…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

RED RAY Drive Plays 4K, 2K HD Video from RED Disc, RED Express and CompactFlash

RED’s last announcement for the day is the RED RAY disc drive, which looks like Darth Vader’s optical drive of choice. It plays 4K, 2K (Epic’s insane 5K looks like it’s off the table, but what about Scarlet’s 3K?) and 1080p video down through standard-def off of RED Disc or RED Express, plus native RAW…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Matthew McConaghey Merely Tool Of Religious SF Pundits?

Is Star Trek one of the last hold-overs of a Godless science fiction that’s slowly dying off and being replaced by an SF where spirituality is one of the main themes? That’s one of the theories put forward by physicist and pastor George Murphy in his lecture Real Faith and Fictional Worlds, part of Calvin…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Boa Sleeve Is Condom For MacBook Air, Only Stronger (We Checked)

Forget that tired old manila envelope joke, a new case by a company called Boa may just be the snuggest, sleekest wrapper for your MacBook Air. The Fashion Sleeve is plush-lined and offers what Boa calls “minimalist protection.” At just .65mm thin, it’s allegedly the thinnest Airbook case on the market. After seeing the pic,…

Tech News Kit Eaton

It’s X — In Space!

We all know the key to making something science fiction: Just take any old thing and stick it in space. It works every time! Got a bunch of dinosaur drawings but have to make a scifi cartoon show? Just put the dinosaurs in space! Or hey, how about race cars — but in space! Now…

io9 Annalee Newitz

RED Launches 5K RED EPIC Flagship Camera

RED just announced their new RED EPIC flagship video camera at NAB, which uses a new, full-frame S35mm Mysterium X sensor. The Mysterium X matches the quality of 35mm film at 5k resolution and one ups the 4k Mysterium sensor found in the RED ONE. The EPIC can also shoot framerates up to 100 FPS.…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Lightning Review: Kensington Ci70 Keyboard With Built-in Mini USB Cable

The Gadget: Kensington Ci70 compact keyboard with two USB ports and one mini USB cable for easy docking and syncing. The Price: $49.99 The Verdict: The Ci70 is a good typer, but you’ll want this for the mini USB convenience. If you’re a person that often syncs your digital cameras, smartphones or portable hard drives…

Reviews Jason Chen

Red Scarlet 3K HD Pocket Pro Camera Under $3000

Red’s pocket-sized professional camera, Scarlet has made its promised debut at NAB, and it is the tiny hotness. It shoots in heady 3k resolution with Red’s new 2/3-inch Mysterium X sensor, shooting from 1-120fps (180fps burst) and up to 100MB/sec REDCODE RAW HD, recording to dual Compact Flash cards. It’s got Wi-Fi control (sweet), and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Ron Moore Drags Us Back To The Holodeck

Battlestar Galactica producer Ron Moore is going back to his Star Trek roots for his next project, a “backdoor pilot” for Fox called Virtuality. Moore got his start writing for Star Trek: The Next Generation, which became notorious for its frequent episodes featuring the crew trapped inside a holographic simulation that got out of control.…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Steve Jobs Photoshop Gallery of Good, Evil, and Awkwardness

Yet again, the results of a Gizmodo Photoshop contest prove just how warped and twisted the minds of Giz readers are. The most recent challenge: use your skills to depict Steve Jobs as either good or evil. The results ranged from inspired to unsettling to confusing to borderline-offensive, which is just what any good Photoshop…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Collect Rainwater in Eco-Apocalypse Style

The wells are running dry, and it’s time to start collecting rainwater in your backyard. Designer David L’Hote lets you weather the climate change apocalypse in style with Rainpod, his new contraption for collecting rainwater. The Rainpod’s body is deliberately set high so it can use gravity to deliver the goods; the legs it stands…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Will Your ISP F You In the A? Bandwidth Hogs Beware

As the amount of bandwidth we devour has skyrocketed, so has ISPs’ need to police our appetites, even as they offer more bandwidth to whet it. We talked to the biggest ISPs around to get their official positions on traffic management and content filtering to see what’s in store for your pipes. Here’s where you…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Soviet Monkey-Human Sex Experiments Live On

In a war-torn, forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union a battered laboratory stands, housing the remnants of twisted experiments. Some of the surviving tenants — part of an attempt by the insane veterinary doctor Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov to breed a slave race of ape/human hybrids — have escaped into the surrounding forest, their whereabouts unknown.…

io9 Michael Reilly

Latest iPhone Firmware Saves Pictures from Safari

At last! The latest beta version of Apple’s iPhone 1.2.0 firmware gives you the possibility of saving pictures straight from Safari and into the Photo Album. We tried and it works: just hold your finger against an image for a longer time than usual and the popup dialog will appear. The applications are many, like…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

What You Missed Last Weekend

Here’s a roundup of the weekend’s best, just in case you were busy watching Baywatch reruns across the lazy days. • Eee PC 900 got unboxed. • Amazon tax bill introduced. • $20 disposable cellphone introduced. • Heathrow Terminal 5. Fail. • WWII Star Wars figurines wee so cool they hurt us in our cool…

Tech News Haroon Malik

TV This Week: Doctor Who, Ben 10 And Smallville

There’s actually a lot of great science fiction TV coming up — unfortunately, it’s almost all at the end of the week. Doctor Who returns to the Sci Fi Channel, Ben 10 starts a new series with a more grown-up hero, and Smallville comes back from hiatus with an episode that will change everything. (Or…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

First Official Look at Bad Guys of “The Spirit”

For the past couple of weeks, unauthorized, unofficial images of the main characters from Frank Miller’s new flick The Spirit have been circulating online. The interest has been so intense that Lionsgate finally caved in to fan demand and released two CGI-treated images of the bad guys — Silken Floss, the evil secretary played by…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Super Genintari 4-in-1 Console Jams Nintendo, SEGA, and Atari

Super Genintari is the latest mega-console mod by Richard DaLuz, a perfect cocktail of Atari 2600, Nintendo Entertainment System, Genesis and Super NES enclosed in a retro-’80s bronze acrylic case, “formed and shaped on a homemade stript heater.” It connects to a TV using a single cable, running four games simultaneously, and probably cooks bread…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

A Solar-Powered Death Ray

A Spanish company has built a “Solar Power Tower” near Seville that could easily become the world’s first orbital solar death ray. It generates electricity via sunlight without photovoltaic cells, using 624 mirrors called heliostats to focus sunlight on a receiver at the top of the tower. The system generates temperatures hotter than the surface…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Getting Ready for the Final Battle

Verizon Smartphone Unlimited Browsing and Email Now $30 a Month

RED RAY Drive Plays 4K, 2K HD Video from RED Disc, RED Express and CompactFlash

Matthew McConaghey Merely Tool Of Religious SF Pundits?

Boa Sleeve Is Condom For MacBook Air, Only Stronger (We Checked)

It’s X — In Space!

RED Launches 5K RED EPIC Flagship Camera

Lightning Review: Kensington Ci70 Keyboard With Built-in Mini USB Cable

Red Scarlet 3K HD Pocket Pro Camera Under $3000

Ron Moore Drags Us Back To The Holodeck

The Steve Jobs Photoshop Gallery of Good, Evil, and Awkwardness

Collect Rainwater in Eco-Apocalypse Style

Will Your ISP F You In the A? Bandwidth Hogs Beware

Soviet Monkey-Human Sex Experiments Live On

Latest iPhone Firmware Saves Pictures from Safari

What You Missed Last Weekend

TV This Week: Doctor Who, Ben 10 And Smallville

First Official Look at Bad Guys of “The Spirit”

Super Genintari 4-in-1 Console Jams Nintendo, SEGA, and Atari

A Solar-Powered Death Ray

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