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Desktop PC Start Button Eliminates Gamer’s Crack

If you thought plumber’s crack was bad, imagine a gamer in crawling under his desk to turn on his PC. He’ll never have to do that again if he grabs one of these Sharkoon PC Jump Start Buttons, which hook up via USB to his PC and allows him to not only start a computer,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Los Angeles is Open for Your Time Travel Business

If you’re a temporal traveler stuck between decades and you find yourself in need of Mammoth Chunks, Anti-Robot Fluid, or Barbarian Repellent, you can now head to Time Travel Mart in Echo Park, Los Angeles. They’ll probably have it in stock. Unfortunately, you’ll have to come back yesterday if you want something from the Time-Freezy…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Diebold Accidentally Leaks 2008 Election Results Early

Diebold, the company run by unscrupulous Republicans that manufactures crappy, easily-hacked voting machines, has done a bang-up job of pretty much destroying many people’s confidence in the legitimacy of the democratic process. No one is better at calling out such depressing aspects of our country with biting humor like The Onion, who here tell us…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Who Has The Biggest Power Generator In Space?

It takes a lot of energy to zip around the stars standing akimbo in your rolled-down boots. So the best battlecruisers and starships have really powerful energy sources. But what’s the most powerful spaceship or station, in terms of energy output? This isn’t just an idle question, because we’ll need to know which fictional technology…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

What Went Wrong With Sharper Image

Now that Sharper Image declared bankruptcy and plans to close down 90 out of its 180 stores, us (vibrating) armchair quarterbacks are all trying to figure out why the store shut down. The Washington Post explores, and says that the chain’s downfall came because it remained the same—stainless steel tools that streamlined “your life by…

Gadgets Jason Chen

‘Alien’ Figures Have More Details Than Actual Humans

Hot Toys is a Hong Kong based production house, and they put out large-scale figures that are extremely detailed down to the smallest level. They not only put out 13″ figures based on Marlon Brando’s Jor-El from Superman, and Brandon Routh’s Clark Kent from Superman Returns, but they’re releasing 1/6th scale figures of Kane and…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Andy Rubin Shows Off Quake, Google Maps Street View On Android

Here’s a video of Andy Rubin, the Android head honcho at Google, showing off a build of the new mobile OS on a touchscreen phone to the BBC’s Darren Waters. It’s interesting, with things like DoomQuake and Google Maps Street View looking pretty great, especially on a phone running at 300 Mhz (half of the…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Mysterious Curved Mouse Gets a Countdown to its March 4 Release

We’re as in the dark as you are about this mysterious mouse on speedofthelight.com, but it seems to be some kind of corded mouse? For gaming? Called “The Light”? Either way, those curved left and right mouse buttons seem fairly ergonomic for flack gunning in UT3, or clicking for the 10,000th time mining ore in…

Tech News Jason Chen

Sprint Finally Offers $99 ‘Simply Everything’ Flat Rate Calling Plan

It’s not the super cheap $59 plan everyone was hoping for, but it has finally joined the other three carriers in offering a $99 unlimited plan. Sprint’s version includes unlimited voice, data, text messages, Sprint TV, Sprint Music, GPS, Direct Connect and Group Connect. This seems like it’s even better than most of the other…

Tech News Jason Chen

Postsingular Is Rudy Rucker’s Wildest Ride Yet

It’s not much of a spoiler to say that the Singularity happens in Rudy Rucker’s new novel Postsingular, since the title gives that development away. But what happens after the Singularity will surprise you. People usually define the Singularity as the moment when artificial intelligences improve themselves to the point where they surpass us, but…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

DORmino Mouse Feeds on Laptop Heat for Power

Designers really are exploring every corner of the laws of physics to bring you eco-friendly products nowadays— this latest design even makes use of the waste heat kicked out by a laptop. The DORmino concept uses an oversized mousepad to soak up the warmth, which embedded electronics convert and transmit to power a wireless mouse.…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Starbuck And Six Go On Wine Drinking, Motorcyle Riding Romp

Tricia Helfer has posted some personal photos on her blog that show her with fellow Battlestar Galactica actress (and possible Cylon) Katee Sackhoff riding motorbikes through California’s Santa Ynez wine country. Does this mean Starbuck and Six are forming a secret alliance that involves romantic trips and alcohol? Only time will tell. In fact, speaking…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Stop! Why It Still Isn’t Safe to Buy Blu-ray

Click to viewBy now you know waaaaay too much about Toshiba’s format-war surrender, the death of HD DVD at the hands of the larger Blu-ray armada. You may even be eying the Blu-ray players mounted proudly in point-of-sale displays at Best Buy or Wal-Mart. Pricing hasn’t come down to HD DVD player levels—and with those…

Gadgets Wilson Rothman

SatNav system for Zimmer Frames for Those Senior Moments

So, gadgeteers, this is what we will be reduced to riding around on by the year 2080. Developed by the University of Arnhem-Nijmegen in Holland, the Zimmer SatNav is for either olds, amnesiacs or for people whose sense of direction is so poor that they get lost on their way to the bathroom. It’s Luddite-friendly,…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Stonehenge Structures Make Cool New Skyscrapers

Colombian architect Giancarlo Mazzanti was commissioned to build a new modern library in Santo Domingo. But instead of making the facade a shiny, multi-dimensional steel thing that stuck out like a sore thumb, he created these three giant artificial rocks. It’s a kind of urban-Stonehenge look, mixing ancient paganism with the ultra-modern. The rocks are…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Is The Truth Out There For SciFi Channel?

Sure, we may tease History Channel’s UFO Hunters every Monday when we run down the shows you should watch each week on TV, but elsewhere on the internet, fans are wondering what happened to the SciFi Channel’s show of the same name, that debuted on the same day and in the same time slot as…

io9 Graeme McMillan

The Awkward Japanese Robot That Can Jump Up From Flat on Its Back

This awkward robot from Japan showcases the huge leaps forward we’ve made in robot technology. They can jump up into a squat from lying flat on their backs now! The next huge leap forward: standing up. [TV in Japan]

Tech News Adam Frucci

Five Large-Scale Attempts to Change the Course of Human Evolution

Charles Darwin first explained the principles of sexual selection in his controversial book The Descent of Man (1871). Ever since then, people have wanted to tinker with human evolution via artificial sexual selection. Dictators, mad doctors, and crazed social scientists have proposed — and even carried out — human breeding experiments aimed at improving the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Scientologists’ Home Planet Revealed

We all know about the obvious science fiction connections to Scientology – thanks for that career choice, L. Ron Hubbard – but who knew that all of America’s third-favorite religion could be explained away by an old Superman character’s homeworld? That’s the claim made by the PseudoScientology blog, which reaches back to one of Clark…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Death Star Hotel in Azerbaijan Is No Moon

This 521-foot-high hotel is coming to Baku, Azerbaijan, either to host a bunch of Imperial forces or obliterate the local population with a giant death ray. They call it “Full Moon” but they are not fooling us: this is a fully armed, fully operational battle station. And it shall be destroyed before it’s too late,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Desktop PC Start Button Eliminates Gamer’s Crack

Los Angeles is Open for Your Time Travel Business

Diebold Accidentally Leaks 2008 Election Results Early

Who Has The Biggest Power Generator In Space?

What Went Wrong With Sharper Image

‘Alien’ Figures Have More Details Than Actual Humans

Andy Rubin Shows Off Quake, Google Maps Street View On Android

Mysterious Curved Mouse Gets a Countdown to its March 4 Release

Sprint Finally Offers $99 ‘Simply Everything’ Flat Rate Calling Plan

Postsingular Is Rudy Rucker’s Wildest Ride Yet

DORmino Mouse Feeds on Laptop Heat for Power

Starbuck And Six Go On Wine Drinking, Motorcyle Riding Romp

Stop! Why It Still Isn’t Safe to Buy Blu-ray

SatNav system for Zimmer Frames for Those Senior Moments

Stonehenge Structures Make Cool New Skyscrapers

Is The Truth Out There For SciFi Channel?

The Awkward Japanese Robot That Can Jump Up From Flat on Its Back

Five Large-Scale Attempts to Change the Course of Human Evolution

Scientologists’ Home Planet Revealed

Death Star Hotel in Azerbaijan Is No Moon

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