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Knight Rider Smashes Our Childhood Memories Without Turbo Boost

NBC aired its Knight Rider TV movie last night. It was a two-hour long Ford commercial disguised as entertainment, padded with lesbians, threesomes, bad acting, questionable technology, and meta-commercials. Whether it was nostalgia beckoning viewers to watch, or leftover Transformers lust, this TV “event” about an artificially intelligent car was Sunday night’s biggest draw. Was…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Schizo Beam Can Put Voices In Your Head From Afar

Non-lethal yet still horribly unpleasant weapons are all the rage these days, from puke rays to pink tasers. What’s the next step? How about a beam that inserts voices into your head? Yes, you could be minding your own business looting a Best Buy during a riot and all of the sudden there’s a voice…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Habitrail-Style Office Tower to Dominate Beijing Skyline Later This Year

As part of Beijing’s efforts to look good for the summer Olympics, its central TV station, CCTV, is getting brand new headquarters. It’ll be the first of 300 buildings to be completed in the city’s new Central Business District. The 5.9 million square foot building is actually a continuous loop of horizontal and vertical sections,…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Samsung Ace Official on Sprint: Mega World Phone Does GSM and CDMA

The Samsung Ace is coming to Sprint. It’s worth noting because it’s a cellphone that uses CDMA cellular tech, like all Sprint phones. But it also has an unlocked slot for a GSM SIM card in case you’re wandering around a foreign country and want to buy a prepaid card (or just use Sprint’s GSM…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Hulk Toys Have Incredible Veins

With images of this summer’s Incredible Hulk movie still few and far between — especially compared to Marvel’s other summer movie, Iron Man — you may have been wondering what to expect from the Edward Norton-scripted and -starring vehicle. Luckily, two different toy fairs featured some Hulk paraphernalia that give a pretty good idea of…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Web Browse on Apple TV With Safari HD, Out Now

If you have a burning desire to surf the internets on your TV with Apple TV and its crappy little remote, Safari HD has you covered. It’s actually a native Apple TV browser coded with the WebKit rendering engine, and it supports Flash plus anything else Safari can handle. After downloading the installer, you’ve gotta…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Waterproof MP3 Player is iRiver, Dives to 200 Feet Under the Sea

I wouldn’t—well, I would just once, like to see what it’s like to dive with The Hives singing along while I fin down to a reef —because I like to live out my Darth Vader fantasies, but this MP3 player could just persuade me otherwise. What is remarkable about this iRiver iFP-380T, with its waterproof…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Thanko’s Vacuum Cleaner Mouse Keeps Your Desk (Relatively) Clean

Your desk is littered with Cheetos crumbs, fingernail clippings, short ‘n’ curlies and any number of other undesirable pieces of personal detritus. You could take the time to clean up your work space every now and then, but why bother? The new Vacuum Mouse from Thanko will allow you to keep things relatively clean with…

Tech News Adam Frucci

A Battery Made by Bioengineered Viruses

All viruses have an organic outer shell, but it turns out that with a little genetic tinkering they can be trained to produce an inorganic outer shell made of gold or cobalt oxide. Angela Belcher’s lab at MIT has created an entire factory of trained viruses whose genes have been reprogrammed to grow battery ingredients.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

New EyeClops Adds Enhanced Zoom, Bug Sucking Vacuum

We just saw the EyeClops lineup for 2008, and it seems your days of magnifying everything in sight just got more fun (not to mention, much grosser). The next-gen EyeClops looks like last year’s model but comes with three different zoom lenses, so you can see what your zits look like in 100x, 200x, or…

Tech News Benny Goldman

Torchwood’s Captain Jack Runs Away To Join The Circus

John Barrowman may desert Torchwood for the Greatest Show on Earth. Barrowman, who plays Captain Jack Harkness in the Doctor Who spin-off, is in talks to take the lead role in a revival of the musical Barnum towards the end of next year, providing scheduling can be worked out around his roles in both Torchwood…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Steampunk Taxidermy Takes Steampunk to Awkward Places

Stuffed animals are creepy enough as is — there are few better ways to make people uncomfortable in your home than having a dead animal propped up next to the sofa — but this just takes it to the next level. The “Fixed – Fawn” by New Zealand artist Lisa Black crams gears and mechanics…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

The Future Is Coming Up Nukes

Nuclear power is the other alternative energy – cleaner than biomass, and less retarded than ethanol. Sure there’s that pesky problem of nuclear waste, but that’s not stopping a union of European, Asian, and United States task forces from working on the next generation of nuclear power plants, that will look something like this on…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Muscle Robot Suit Makes Most Powerful Carpenters Since Jesus

While we’re all about powered exoskeletons to accelerate soldiers’ badassery, Japan builds them for stuff like carpentry. Apparently the suckiest aspect of the job is fitting in ceiling boards, which requires a lot of raw power in an unnatural body position, since it’s all done over-the-head. Nagoya University’s robot suit basically makes their arms like…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Giant Squids Invade The Dead Zones Of California

Every summer since 2002, the waters off the West coast die. And then the giant squids come. It’s all thanks to global warming, which causes massive “low oxygen zones” off the coast, in which almost everything in the water dies off due to oxygen starvation. It’s already too late to reverse the ocean’s “George Romero…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

DSLRs Shoot Video With New Patent

The one feature point-and-shoots still have over DSLRs is the ability to shoot video clips. DSLRs are optimized in the other direction—the mirror setup, specialized auto-focus systems, etc. Hiroshi Terada’s patent for a movie mode on DSLRs has one big innovation—a semi-transparent mirror—and then pulls a PS2-on-PS3 emulation trick, cramming in the components necessary to…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

New Watchmen Hints, Plus Batman and Wolverine Spoilers

We were excited to see Peter at Slashfilm striking a blow against excessive spoiler sensitivity with his rant on Saturday. It’s not just because we revel in spoilers and wish there could be spoilers for real life, either. It’s also because we want the term “spoiler” to refer to only the juiciest and most forbidden…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The £99 Elonex One Laptop: Basically British OLPC Without the Innovation

Brit PC maker Elonex is developing the Elonex, a PC meant to run in the same range as the OLPC. It’ll have Wi-Fi, a flash HDD, a Linux OS, a rugged case, wireless music server and weigh less than 2.2 pounds. The price? About £99. Of course, they’re doing it for the kids and not…

Tech News Brian Lam

iRiver’s Multimedia Unit2 has Everything We Could Want, Including Apple-esque UI

We know that iRiver has been working on its all-singing, all-dancing multimedia player-dock-thingie the Unit2 for over a year. The Apple-esque interface, its voice over IP internet telephone (yes, a telephone) and the removable 16:9 touchscreen make it look quite amazing. And expensive. We don’t know the price yet, though. Seeing the unit and the…

Tech News Kit Eaton

Even Toy Fair Exploits Booth Babes

I was honestly shocked to see this at Toy Fair. I mean, it’s about toys. Yet they have this model prancing around in a skin-tight outfit that leaves little to the imagination. You so deserved that. One nice thing I can say about Toy Fair is that there’s no booth babe exploitation, unless you count…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Knight Rider Smashes Our Childhood Memories Without Turbo Boost

Schizo Beam Can Put Voices In Your Head From Afar

Habitrail-Style Office Tower to Dominate Beijing Skyline Later This Year

Samsung Ace Official on Sprint: Mega World Phone Does GSM and CDMA

Hulk Toys Have Incredible Veins

Web Browse on Apple TV With Safari HD, Out Now

Waterproof MP3 Player is iRiver, Dives to 200 Feet Under the Sea

Thanko’s Vacuum Cleaner Mouse Keeps Your Desk (Relatively) Clean

A Battery Made by Bioengineered Viruses

New EyeClops Adds Enhanced Zoom, Bug Sucking Vacuum

Torchwood’s Captain Jack Runs Away To Join The Circus

Steampunk Taxidermy Takes Steampunk to Awkward Places

The Future Is Coming Up Nukes

Muscle Robot Suit Makes Most Powerful Carpenters Since Jesus

Giant Squids Invade The Dead Zones Of California

DSLRs Shoot Video With New Patent

New Watchmen Hints, Plus Batman and Wolverine Spoilers

The £99 Elonex One Laptop: Basically British OLPC Without the Innovation

iRiver’s Multimedia Unit2 has Everything We Could Want, Including Apple-esque UI

Even Toy Fair Exploits Booth Babes

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