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SpaceNavigator 3D Mouse Gives Full Range of Motion to Second Life Avatars

3Dconnexion’s SpaceNavigator, a rubber-capped multi-axis metal dial meant mainly for 3D design, has been put to even better use as a pan-dimensional controller for Second Life. The video says it all: watch as Beast, one of the “Lindens” who works at Second Life’s founder company, demos movement of his avatar on both land and in…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Sony HDR-TG1 Handycam Is World’s Smallest “Full HD” Camcorder

Meant more for geeky vacationers than pros, Sony’s calling its HDR-TG1 Handycam the world’s smallest “full HD” camcorder, packing 10 ounces into a 1.3 x 4.7 x 2.5-inch titanium frame. Sony is all about face-detecting as of late, which comes standard here on both video and still shooting. It can identify up to eight mugs,…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Computer Games of the Future (1981)

This holographic computer game of the future is from the 1981 book Tomorrow’s Home by Neil Ardley. The caption explains, “A home computer game of the future has solid images of spaceships that move in midair. These are holographic images produced by laser beams. The game is played with other people who also sit at…

Tech News Matt Novak

Lightning Review: PlayStation 3 DualShock 3 Rumble Controller

Click to viewThe Gadget: The DualShock 3, PlayStation 3’s now de facto controller with both rumble and motion-sensing. It replaces the previous SIXAXIS controller without rumble, which is now discontinued. https://gizmodo.com/playstation-3s-dualshock-3-controller-coming-next-week-375158 The Price: $54.99 The Verdict: Fantastic. It’s what the PlayStation 3 controller should have been at launch. You don’t realize how much you’re missing…

Reviews Jason Chen

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

DOCSIS 3.0 is the next-gen cable internet standard that allows crazy fast bandwidth of up to 160Mbps downstream and 120 up. The lucky first city to get a piece of that action from Comcast—which plans to cover 20 percent of its market with the awesome by the end of this year—is St. Paul, Minnesota. Denizens…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Apple WWDC08 Sessions Open

If you got nothing better to do June 9 through 13, Steve Jobs is hosting his “landmark” three-pronged developer conference in San Francisco, with choices for Mac, IT and iPhone concentrations. Have a look at the list of session topics, including iPhone Multi-Touch Gestures, Ruby on Rails Apps for Safari, even CoreBanana and Xcode for…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Trapster Mobile Service Helps You Dodge Speed Traps

A new mobile service called Trapster aims to help motorists avoid speed traps using a networked approach that calls on users to warn each other using their cellphones. Using simple keystrokes like "pound-1," motorists can report speed traps and red light cameras into the system. The information is fed into a map which will be…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Video: AT&T’s Mobile TV Service In Action

The new LG VU is the first handset to support AT&T’s new Mobile TV offering and we got a quick video of the service in action at CTIA. The best part is that Mobile TV on the VU is all run from the touchscreen; from the channel up/down to the on-screen guide. The video quality…

Tech News Adrian Covert

What Happens If The Galactica Finds Earth?

The final season of Battlestar Galactica starts this Friday, which means Admiral Adama and his crew have just twenty episodes to find the legendary Earth. But even if they do make it to their goal, chances are Ron Moore and the other BSG writers will have at least one more twist up the sleeves of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

LEDs Go Where No LEDs Have Gone Before: Buckle Up Guys (NSFW)

Believe me guys, the innocuous image of LEDs posted at the top of this article is merely a front for the glory that awaits you in the video after the break. This juvenile delight comes to us courtesy of AudioJunkies after their visit to this year’s Spring Break Nationals at Daytona Beach. One can only…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Rock Band Drum Kit Crochet Covers Prevent Eviction

Are you one of those people who has to bang on the Rock Band drums as hard as humanly possible, leaving yourself open to a possible eviction notice? Here’s a $40 purchaseable custom-made Rock Band drum kit crochet cosy set, made just for softening your blows and keeping you on your lease. All four are…

Tech News Jason Chen

First Sun Tsunami Recorded, No Sign of the Silver Surfer

STEREO, NASA’s twin spacecraft mission getting a nice tan and taking tridimensional images of the Sun, has recorded a solar tsunami for the first time. The tsunami, a circular shockwave which traveled a million kilometers (621,371 miles) in just 30 minutes, is caused by a huge explosion on the star’s surface. STEREO took the images…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Amazingly Awful Spider-Man

It’s pretty easy to see why the live-action Amazing Spider-Man show hasn’t ever made it to DVD. It’s not just the lame special effects, like the obvious stop-motion camerawork when Spider-Man uses his webshooters to grab someone’s gun or cobweb a gun-happy dowager. Nor is it the fact that every episode includes half an hour…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

iShield Mirror: For Obsessively Vain iPhone Owners Only

The iShield Mirror is, at its core, a two-piece hardshell protective case for the iPhone. However, the manufacturer takes it a step further by adding a film to the surface that functions as a mirror when the phone is not in use. When activated, the film is transparent enough and thin enough to allow for…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Massive Half-Life 2 Drydock Needs Defense and Some Paint

This is a drydock in HullBreach, a complete conversion for the Half-Life 2 video game. The team has an ambitious goal of creating 100% new content for the game, and they’ve been hard at work on it for several years. The game is set 2,000 years in our future, and involves a bloody world war…

io9 Kevin Kelly

LEGO Brick Tower Mood Light Builds a Castle of Happiness

These aren’t LEGO in the way that actual LEGO are LEGO, but they are translucent bricks that you can stack on top of each other to build structures. In this case, the structure is a tower with a hole in the middle for a light to go, which then passes through the various colors you’ve…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Nanowire Power Shirt Generates Electricity While You Wear It

Now you can power your cell phone just by wearing a special shirt made of two tiny layers of nanowires that rub against each other as you move. These super-conductive wires are “piezoelectric,” generating energy through pressure and movement. The result is a shirt that generates more electricity the more you move around. A few…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Scott Baio Is 21 … And Telekinetic [NSFW]

The 1980s gave us an entire slate of movies that seemed to exist just to have as much teenage T&A as possible. Porky’s made gratuitous shower scenes a must-have, and producers began working in topless scenes left and right. But nobody thought of joining the teensploitation and science fiction genres until Zapped! came along. This…

io9 Kevin Kelly

WiMax Competitor LTE Runs Wii Online Multiplayer So Fast It Seems Local

WiMax isn’t the only the live 4G game in town. Alcatel-Lucent is running an arguably much sexier demo of LTE (long-term evolution), the high-speed 4G network that Verizon and AT&T are going to deploy. Besides streaming video to a wall of TVs with over 100Mbps of throughput, they have two Wiis hooked up, one on…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Question of the Day: How Much Do You Text Message?

With CTIA 2008 in full-swing and my cellphone chiming in constantly with text messages, I began to wonder about the phenomenon of text messaging as a whole. Sometimes it seems that it would make more sense to call or send an email, but that crap is for old people. There are definitely situations where sending…

Tech News Sean Fallon

SpaceNavigator 3D Mouse Gives Full Range of Motion to Second Life Avatars

Sony HDR-TG1 Handycam Is World’s Smallest “Full HD” Camcorder

Computer Games of the Future (1981)

Lightning Review: PlayStation 3 DualShock 3 Rumble Controller

Comcast Rolls Out Japan-Fast Cable Internet, But Can You Afford It?

Apple WWDC08 Sessions Open

Trapster Mobile Service Helps You Dodge Speed Traps

Video: AT&T’s Mobile TV Service In Action

What Happens If The Galactica Finds Earth?

LEDs Go Where No LEDs Have Gone Before: Buckle Up Guys (NSFW)

Rock Band Drum Kit Crochet Covers Prevent Eviction

First Sun Tsunami Recorded, No Sign of the Silver Surfer

The Amazingly Awful Spider-Man

iShield Mirror: For Obsessively Vain iPhone Owners Only

Massive Half-Life 2 Drydock Needs Defense and Some Paint

LEGO Brick Tower Mood Light Builds a Castle of Happiness

Nanowire Power Shirt Generates Electricity While You Wear It

Scott Baio Is 21 … And Telekinetic [NSFW]

WiMax Competitor LTE Runs Wii Online Multiplayer So Fast It Seems Local

Question of the Day: How Much Do You Text Message?

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