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Bejeweled + Science Fiction = Galactrix

The addictive fantasy puzzle game Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords has just made the leap into science fiction. Game-maker Infinite Interctive recently announced Galactrix, which mixes portions of Hexic, Tetris and Bejeweled with outer space battles between all kinds of spaceships. Plus you can challenge other players to puzzle duels, and there will be…

io9 Kevin Kelly

News Corp Set-Top Box Becomes DVR: Just Add External Hard Drive

How much simpler can it get? You take the HD satellite set-top box already sitting in someone’s living room, perform a quick firmware update, plug an external hard drive into the USB jack and voila, it’s a bleedin’ DVR. Voila is right, though, since this News Corp-owned software fix is currently only available to Canal+…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Exclusive Han Solo Carbonite Desk Info and Gallery

Click to viewWho wouldn’t want a desk with Han Solo encased in carbonite? We checked in with Tom Spina Designs, the company that created this one-off custom-order desk, and found out that 1) it’s incredibly solid—it’s constructed out of steel—and 2) those lights on the side create mood lighting when admiring your human prize. Hit…

Tech News Jason Chen

Sarah Connor Chronicles Wants To Be Battlestar Galactica

Sarah Connor’s uppercut to her ex-shrink’s jaw was one of the most satisfying moments in last night’s episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. That annoying psychiatrist who kept Sarah drugged and locked up in Terminator 2 finally apologizes to her for being such a jack-ass (after he’s just torched an FBI agent) and she…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Hands On Bluetooth A820 Walkman: It’s Spotty

The major difference between the A820 and the A720 Walkmen is Bluetooth (and a 16GB flavor). Unfortunately, the Bluetooth was fairly crappy in the model I fussed with, unless you enjoy the odd rhythm of skipping music. I tried the player in my back jeans pocket, front jeans pocket and front jacket pocket, and got…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game

What if everything you did online was part of a game? A company named Gamelayers is built on the idea of a PMOG, Passively Multiplayer Online Game. The idea is that everything you do while surfing earns experience points, and the play experience seamless overlays your online life. I was struck by this idea of…

io9 Austin Grossman

Wired Feature on Deep Sea Cowboys Saving Giant Ships

The cargo ship Cougar Ace was entering Alaskan waters when its ballast tanks malfunctioned and a wave turned it on its side. Millions of dollars in shiny new Mazdas were dangling feet from the cold water. Then the A-Team of sea salvage (including a geek) flipped it right side up without the help of cranes…

Tech News Brian Lam

In the Year 2000, You’d Hose Down the House and Melt the Dinner Plates

In 1950, Popular Mechanics magazine visited the world of the future, which turned out to be an imaginary suburb called Tottenville, home of a pretend family named the Dobsons. So what was life like for the Dobsons in the year 2000? Housing is cheap! “With all its furnishings, Joe Dobson paid only $5000 for it.”…

io9 Lynn Peril

Watch Designer Creates Elegant Sabar Love Device For ‘Business Time’

Apparently sick of designing watches to tell people what time it is, Michael Young has just created the Sabar, a smooth, black, banana-shaped love machine. One look at it and you’ll know what time it is. Business time. That’s right ladies (and some gentlemen), it’s the perfect time go into business for yourself. Coming and…

Tech News Jason Chen

What Scifi Fascist Regime Would You Rather Live Under?

Science fiction is full of fascist governments, especially in the decades after World War II, but some of them just seem like more fun than others. But some scifi fascists don’t seem like they would govern that well — for example, the BBC series Doctor Who clearly uses the cyborg Daleks as a metaphor for…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

A Steam-Powered Battery Charger Seems Really Practical

You read that right. It’s a steam-powered battery charger. Yeah, this is something we can picture everyone building on their own. Before you go and ridicule these people with emails they’ll probably never read (because they’re insane mountain people), the charger doesn’t charge your standard AA batteries. It charges a 48V battery bank. You know,…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Superman’s Eyeballs

Superman used to be just strong and sort of invulnerable, but now his powers are officially out of control. According to Superman II, he can erase your mind just by kissing you, not to mention his super-breath, super-hearing and super-ventriloquism. But Superman’s out-of-control power really started with his super-peepers, which have a whole arsenal of…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Popcorn Hour A-100 Networked Media Streamer Reviewed (Verdict: Admirable, But Buggy)

NMT’s Popcorn Hour network streamer looks great on paper (YouTube/Google Streaming, DVD Image playback, XviD, MPEG4, and even BitTorrent client support), but how does it actually perform? Quite well, says Networking Audio Video dot com, but with a few very annoying bugs. https://gizmodo.com/popcorn-hour-does-just-about-anything-a-set-top-media-s-359690 The streamer has NFS and Samba support (with only Samba working correctly…

Tech News Jason Chen

Wall-E-nator Mashup Proves Cuteness May Destroy the Future

Something strange is going on . . . the soundtrack to the original Terminator trailer perfectly fits the new Wall-E trailer. Coincidence? We think not. We’ve synced up the two trailers so you can judge for yourself whether Wall-E is secretly making reference to Terminator. Could our cute little robo-buddy have more in common with…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Red PSP Coming Bundled With God of War This Summer

There’s no exact date yet, but Kotaku’s reporting that a red PSP will be hitting this summer bundled with a copy of God of War: Chains of Olympus as well as Superbad and a gift certificate for a downloadable PlayStation Store game. It’s similar to the Star Wars PSP from last summer in that it’s…

Tech News Jason Chen

Ears On Sony’s PFR-V1 Space Headphones

Pulling on the Sony PFR-V1 Personal Field Speakers is like putting on orthodontal headgear—bewildering and maybe slightly humiliating. The metal probes that stick into your ear for bass are cold and creepy, like I’m being probed. If you lean your head back, they dive deeper into your ear and pick up a serious sensation of…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Don’t Give Up On Post-Holocaust Kansas

Jericho isn’t toast yet, insists producer Carol Barbee. The post-apocalyptic TV drama’s first two episodes of its second season got “good but not great” ratings, but the demographics were decent. And if tonight’s episode shows an uptick, then the show about Kansas surviving a nuclear holocaust could still win a third season. If CBS pulls…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

iPhone 1.1.4 Update is Out

Click to viewiPhone 1.1.4 Update is Out. You can get it now from iTunes. Remember, if you have jailbreaked or unlocked your iPhone, don’t install it. If your iPhone is clean, have fun. We will keep updating this space with our discoveries. Apparently, the 162.1MB update “fixes bugs and supersedes all previous versions.” As Leander…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Lightning Strikes With A Sucktastic Title For Shazam Movie

Director Peter Segal was at WonderCon plugging his upcoming Get Smart film, but he also talked a bit about the Shazam/Captain Marvel movie he’s slated to helm. While he didn’t reveal anything new (they’re talking to The Rock about playing Black Adam, etc), he did say that the tentative new title for the project is…

io9 Kevin Kelly

PlayStation 3 DualShock 3 Gets US Date: April 15

April 15 won’t just be tax day, it’ll be the day you can pick up the DualShock 3 (rumbling PS3 controller) in the US. The controller’s already been available in Japan for months now, which means that if you’re really keen on getting vibration before your buddies, you could import it from Asia and hook…

Tech News Jason Chen

Bejeweled + Science Fiction = Galactrix

News Corp Set-Top Box Becomes DVR: Just Add External Hard Drive

Exclusive Han Solo Carbonite Desk Info and Gallery

Sarah Connor Chronicles Wants To Be Battlestar Galactica

Hands On Bluetooth A820 Walkman: It’s Spotty

Rise of the Passively Multiplayer Online Game

Wired Feature on Deep Sea Cowboys Saving Giant Ships

In the Year 2000, You’d Hose Down the House and Melt the Dinner Plates

Watch Designer Creates Elegant Sabar Love Device For ‘Business Time’

What Scifi Fascist Regime Would You Rather Live Under?

A Steam-Powered Battery Charger Seems Really Practical

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Superman’s Eyeballs

Popcorn Hour A-100 Networked Media Streamer Reviewed (Verdict: Admirable, But Buggy)

Wall-E-nator Mashup Proves Cuteness May Destroy the Future

Red PSP Coming Bundled With God of War This Summer

Ears On Sony’s PFR-V1 Space Headphones

Don’t Give Up On Post-Holocaust Kansas

iPhone 1.1.4 Update is Out

Lightning Strikes With A Sucktastic Title For Shazam Movie

PlayStation 3 DualShock 3 Gets US Date: April 15

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