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Palm Adding Voice Commands to Treos For Messaging and Browsing

Thanks to an agreement with Nuance Communications, Palm will be delivering voice command capabilities to Palm OS supported smartphones like the Centro and the Treo. More specifically, Palm will be utilizing Nuance’s VSuite apps to handle functions like name dialing, digit dialing, message addressing for text, picture, and video messages as well as application launching.…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Newest Book Covers Don’t “Scream Scifi”

There’s an interesting discussion going on over at Media Bistro’s Galleycat blog about when science fiction books should have dignified covers that look less pulpy and “skiffy.” Case in point: Clifford Simak’s The Way Station, which has had a host of lurid covers over the years (see left) and now has gotten reissued with a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Analyst Pulls 2nd-Gen iPhone OLED Display Rumor

Another day, another analyst making crazy predictions about Apple products that most likely aren’t true. Today it’s Ken Dulaney of Gartner saying the second generation iPhone will have an OLED display instead of the current LCD display. Where did Ken get this wacky idea? “‘Rumors’ overheard in Asia.” Here’s our take on it. 1) OLED…

Tech News Jason Chen

Automated Science Fiction Convention Finder

You know you’re living in the future when somebody builds a web application to help you find the science fiction conventions nearest to your zip code. Over at BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow points us to the just-born “Convention Finder,” a creation of SpaceWesterns editor Nathan Lilly. Now it’s up to us to help make Convention Finder…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Steve Jobs Apple Collage Looks Impressive

We’re not sure how many hours it took to assemble this collage of Steve Jobs made solely out of Apple products, but we’re pretty sure the process was done on a Mac. Even though Apple hasn’t really had a diverse lineup of “stuff” to use, it’s enough to make this picture look 95% like Jobs.…

Tech News Jason Chen

Letter from a Moto Insider: How Stupid Execs Ran Moto Into the Ground

Geoffrey Frost was Motorola’s Chief Marketing Officer, and the RAZR was his baby. Last month, we got a letter from his former personal adviser, Numair Faraz, written to current Motorola CEO Greg Brown about how a cabal of inept, out-of-touch executives more worried about their golf score than the company drove once mighty Moto into…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Dealzmodo: Rock Band For $147

There’s no question that we’re big fans of Rock Band here, which is why we’d totally get in on this $147.99 deal if we already didn’t all own a copy. That’s a good $22 off the normal price, which means you’re getting $22 worth of extra enjoyment out of it. Do it! Do it now!…

Tech News Jason Chen

Make Friends With The Ultimate Weirdness

The New Weird, the awesome new anthology edited by io9 contributors Ann and Jeff Vandermeer, has its own MySpace Page. That means you can make friends with a whole literary movement, which focuses on urban settings and visceral, disturbing imagery borrowed from horror. The anthology follows the genesis of the New Weird school, starting with…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Who Would Want To Be This Superhero?

The people competing to be Stan Lee’s newest superhero in Who Wants To Be A Superhero? must not have seen his 2006 TV movie Lightspeed. Lightspeed stars Sean Connery’s son Jason as Daniel Leight, a government agent who gains the ability to run at super-speed… but the speed is killing his metabolism. (Just imagine Stan…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

New Pictures of Snake-Eyes Costume Meet Your Futuristic Ninja Needs

You can finally take a gander at photos of “Darth Maul/The Toad” Ray Park in his full Snake-Eyes costume from the upcoming G.I. Joe film, and we grudgingly have to admit that he looks fairly badass. Even though his visor looks a bit like Geordi’s from Star Trek: The Next Generation, we’d never tell him…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Dash Express Pre-orders Shipping Now!

One of our readers just let us know that his Dash Express GPS device just shipped, one day ahead of the previous March 27 date. Don’t know why this Dash GPS could be the coolest GPS device ever? Check here. Update: Dash PR just confirmed that they are shipping to pre-order customers. [Thanks Tipster!] https://gizmodo.com/dash-express-gps-preorders-shipping-march-27th-359322

Tech News Jason Chen

RadTech ProCable iPhone Headphones Are a Cheap Alternative

If the $100ish V-Moda iPhone headphones are slightly out of your price range, RadTech’s got a cheaper alternative for your iPhone listening and talking needs. It’s essentially the same as the V-Modas or the default iPhone headphones: a pair of earbuds with a microphone on board so you can take a call. For $24.95, we…

Tech News Jason Chen

More Windows Mobile 6.1 Features: New Camera UI, AT&T Video Share, Albums

Boy Genius has a few more details to add to the tons we already know about Windows Mobile 6.1. There’s going to be AT&T Video Share support, an “albums” feature, Windows Live integration (uploading, blogging perhaps, which was already supported before with a Windows Live web client), an updated camera UI and TV out. We’ve…

Tech News Jason Chen

Kids Build Their Own Universe In Takashi Miike’s New Movie

Takashi Miike, the director best known for freaky horror films like Audition and One Missed Call, is going to channel Michel Gondry with a lighthearted romantic comedy that adapts a prize-winning novel by Shinji Kimoto. In God’s Puzzle, a young slacker agrees to attend his identical twin’s college classes for him. And then the twins…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Retromodo: Doggy Treadmill Idea is Actually From 1930

We were wrong when we thought that our crazy technologically-obsessed culture now was responsible for the doggy treadmill idea. It originated in the the 1930s. Modern Mechanix dug up one of their old articles from the last century and found this thing, first debuted at the LA Dog Show, which supposedly lets dogs run for…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Dealzmodo? Best Buy Dumping All HD DVD Flicks for $10, TV Sets 70 Percent Off

TGDaily is reporting that selected Best Buys—like one in Dublin, Calfornia—are so eager to clear out their HD DVD stock they’re a step away from building a huge bonfire: All HD DVDs are just $9.99, with TV series on HD DVD walking away at a steep 70 percent discount. But your YMMV. Some stores have…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

We Already Knew Men Could Get Pregnant

The media is going nuts over a man named Thomas Beatie who has become pregnant, but to anyone familiar with cutting-edge science or science fiction his situation is totally old news. Here’s how it happened: there was this guy who used to be a chick, but when he switched over to the guy side he…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Motorola DH02: Moto’s Third Mobile TV In As Many Months

OK, not to punch the weakling when he’s down on all fours, but this is quite a tale of WTF: First, at CES, Moto unveils a plan for the DH01 Mobile TV with MicroSD card reader and DVB-H for terrestrial reception (where available). Then, it upgrades to the DH01n, adding GPS and a Tele Atlas…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

The Coolest Rumors (That Turned Out To Be Fake)

Quentin Tarantino will direct at least one of the Star Wars prequel films — which features a naked Natalie Portman. Meanwhile, Star Trek XI is all about the evil Captain Kirk from the alternate “Mirror Mirror” universe teaming up with an evil Picard and an evil Archer. If only every rumor in science fiction turned…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Asus Eee PC 900 Lands at the FCC: MacBook Air Style Multi-touch Trackpad Revealed

Click to viewThe Asus Eee PC 900 is out of the cat’s FCC’s bag. No WiMax, GPS or touchscreen, and the specs are otherwise what we’ve heard. But here’s the biggie: The manual reveals it’s got a MacBook Air/Pro style multi-touch trackpad, with two-finger pinch zooming, and two finger scrolling. Check it out, along with…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Palm Adding Voice Commands to Treos For Messaging and Browsing

Newest Book Covers Don’t “Scream Scifi”

Analyst Pulls 2nd-Gen iPhone OLED Display Rumor

Automated Science Fiction Convention Finder

Steve Jobs Apple Collage Looks Impressive

Letter from a Moto Insider: How Stupid Execs Ran Moto Into the Ground

Dealzmodo: Rock Band For $147

Make Friends With The Ultimate Weirdness

Who Would Want To Be This Superhero?

New Pictures of Snake-Eyes Costume Meet Your Futuristic Ninja Needs

Dash Express Pre-orders Shipping Now!

RadTech ProCable iPhone Headphones Are a Cheap Alternative

More Windows Mobile 6.1 Features: New Camera UI, AT&T Video Share, Albums

Kids Build Their Own Universe In Takashi Miike’s New Movie

Retromodo: Doggy Treadmill Idea is Actually From 1930

Dealzmodo? Best Buy Dumping All HD DVD Flicks for $10, TV Sets 70 Percent Off

We Already Knew Men Could Get Pregnant

Motorola DH02: Moto’s Third Mobile TV In As Many Months

The Coolest Rumors (That Turned Out To Be Fake)

Asus Eee PC 900 Lands at the FCC: MacBook Air Style Multi-touch Trackpad Revealed

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