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Microsoft Branding Xbox Live Cheaters for Life, Like Sex Offenders

Microsoft justice is cold but apt. If you tried to goose your Xbox Live Gamerscore to match Chen’s (he’s an achievement demon, but I still rock his face at Halo) with game save hacks, the long arm of Microsoft is squeezing your nuts right about now. To start, they’re nuking your Gamerscore, and you can’t…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 25 '08

Callpod’s Drone Bluetooth Adapter Automates Connecting Headphones and Headsets

Callpod—maker of one of our favorite charging devices, the Chargepod—has just come out with a Bluetooth adapter called The Drone. What’s special about this Bluetooth adapter that’s not in any of the hundreds of other Bluetooth adapter sticks already out? It “automatically pairs itself with your headset or headphones,” which saves about 30 seconds of…

Gadgets Jason Chen Mar 25 '08

Defeated Giant Monster Hung From The City’s Rafters

“Wheke,” the giant calamari that invaded New Zealand in January 2000, went on display in Paris today. The massive tentacles almost make Wheke look like a space marauder or crazed mutant by themselves, but they’re not what make him science-fictional. Rather, it’s the process used to preserve Wheke so he can go on display for…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 25 '08

The Pedal Boat Gets a Solar Powered Boost

They say that inventors should find a need and fill it. I don’t know who needs a solar boosted pedal boat, but a design concept for one exists nonetheless. The boat features a center cockpit where up to four passengers can sit, alternating pedaling duties in two-person shifts. When you get tired (which should be…

Tech News Sean Fallon Mar 25 '08

Question of the Day: Do You Use Expensive Cable or Generic Cable?

The debate between expensive cable and generic cable has raged on for ages now, with the manufacturers of high-end products receiving quite a bashing for their high prices. So, even with all of the negative press about expensive cable being a waste of money, we have to ask: Do you use expensive cable or generic…

Tech News Sean Fallon Mar 25 '08

Researchers Using Blue LED Light to Keep Tired Truckers Awake

Researchers at New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute believe that truckers can put down the caffeine and NoDoze in favor of blue LED light to keep them awake on long rides. Apparently, certain wavelengths of blue LED light can trick the brain into thinking it is daytime—thereby increasing alertness. Possible applications of the technology include bathing…

Tech News Sean Fallon Mar 25 '08

MIT Students Create Giant 20-Sided Die In Honor of Gary Gygax

I haven’t played Dungeons and Dragons since I was a little kid, but I remember the time I spent geeking out with my friends fondly. So, when D&D co-creator Gary Gygax passed away earlier this month, I couldn’t help but feel a little bummed. Apparently, a group of students at MIT felt the same way—which…

Tech News Sean Fallon Mar 25 '08

Canoflauge: This Isn’t Beer Officer, It’s a Refreshing Can of Skunkpiss

Just because you are stuck at work doesn’t mean you can’t get boozed up! Thanks to these canoflauge vinyl can wraps, you can discreetly hide your alcohol problem behind an “inconspicuous” soft drink facade. So the next time someone asks what you are drinking, you can say “why, I am enjoying a harmless thirst-quenching can…

Tech News Sean Fallon Mar 25 '08

Trippiest Twilight Zone Episode Becomes A Movie

Click to viewA classic Twilight Zone episode written by Richard (I Am Legend) Matheson is getting a big-screen update called Countdown. The original episode, “Death Ship,” is about three astronauts who arrive on an alien planet, only to find their own dead bodies, in a crashed version of their own ship. The movie version will…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 25 '08

Ultron The Killer Robot Actually Wins For Once

The children of the Avengers have to… umm, avenge their parents, in a new direct-to-DVD animated movie from Marvel Studios. Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow takes place after the Avengers have all settled down and gotten married (including Captain America marrying the Black Widow) and had tons of kids. Then Ultron, the crazy killer robot,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 25 '08

OLPC Refusing to Cancel Orders?

At least one Gizmodo reader has informed us that he attempted to cancel his OLPC laptop order and was denied. Apparently, they are “not accepting cancellations from anyone for any reason.” That is, unless you refuse your shipment then call and cancel after the laptop arrives back at the manufacturer. This doesn’t make a damn…

Tech News Sean Fallon Mar 25 '08

Classic Tale of Extraterrestrial Medicine from Vonda N. McIntyre — Free Online

A doctor on an alien planet has only three tools in her medical kit, and they are all living snakes. Using a kind of biotechnology in her own body, she’s able to synthesize tailor-made drugs from the snakes’ venom after exposing them to people who are ill. Leading a nomadic life, she moves from town…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Mar 25 '08

Digital Billboards Hacked in Southern California

A well known 18 year old graffiti artist that goes by the name “Skullphone” has expanded his repertoire of vandalism to include 10 digital billboards around L.A. Earlier this week, onlookers were treated to Skullphones’s calling card in between the normal ads running on the display. Nice work dude, let’s hope that the police and…

Tech News Sean Fallon Mar 25 '08

New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers

Sadly, I think these lightsabers planted by SpikeTV might not be the real *bzzt* *plop* flesh-disintegrating deal, so even if you did break in case of Sith (or muggers) at best you could just beat them over the head and hope they don’t Force choke you and steal your wallet. Since people will swipe just…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Mar 25 '08

The Triumphant Journeys of Martian Robots

Since 1960 we’ve been attempting to explore the red planet, and along the way there have been countless failures and lost spacecraft that attest to just how hard it is to fly those 35 million miles from here to there. However, there have also been success stories, like the twin rovers Opportunity and Spirit, who…

io9 Kevin Kelly Mar 25 '08

Tandem Umbrella For Clingy Couples

Much like a tandem bike, this concept tandem umbrella by designer Jasmine Rasnahan has a romantic vibe to it. However, it also has some of the same flaws. For example, I am 6’3″ and my girlfriend is 5’3″—therefore it would be next to impossible for couples of vastly different heights to walk around comfortably under…

Tech News Sean Fallon Mar 25 '08

Sewer Gas May Allow For Suspended Animation

Suspended animation – the state that space travelers are always put into in movies so they don’t age while traveling for many years – may turn out to actually be possible, and it’s a simpler process than you’d expect. Yep, all you need to fall into a deep sleep and not age is a good…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci Mar 25 '08

Provigil is the Cocaine of the Twenty-First Century

Provigil (AKA modafinil) has been called a wonder drug: it can keep you awake and alert for hours without side-effects, and it’s even recommended as “the professor’s little helper” by neuroscience researchers writing in the prestigious journal Nature. Provigil, approved by the US food and drug administration for the treatment of narcolepsy, is often prescribed…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 25 '08

Over the Counter DNA Paternity Tests Seem Like a Great Idea

After home pregnancy kits revolutionized stick peeing from an office to a home affair, the door was opened to the general public performing previously lab-only work on their own toilets. Identigene and Rite Aid have taken it one step further, allowing you to tell whether or not that kid is yours with a simple $29.99…

Gadgets Jason Chen Mar 25 '08

Now That Plagues Are Played Out, What Should Be Movies’ Next Apocalypse?

We fell in love with Doomsday’s plague-quarantine horror, but sadly the rest of the world failed to fall with us. And maybe the failure of yet another movie about a deadly virus wrecking civilization means that people are finally sick of plagues? After I Am Legend, 28 Days/Weeks, and countless others, it’s time for something…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 25 '08

Microsoft Branding Xbox Live Cheaters for Life, Like Sex Offenders

Callpod’s Drone Bluetooth Adapter Automates Connecting Headphones and Headsets

Defeated Giant Monster Hung From The City’s Rafters

The Pedal Boat Gets a Solar Powered Boost

Question of the Day: Do You Use Expensive Cable or Generic Cable?

Researchers Using Blue LED Light to Keep Tired Truckers Awake

MIT Students Create Giant 20-Sided Die In Honor of Gary Gygax

Canoflauge: This Isn’t Beer Officer, It’s a Refreshing Can of Skunkpiss

Trippiest Twilight Zone Episode Becomes A Movie

Ultron The Killer Robot Actually Wins For Once

OLPC Refusing to Cancel Orders?

Classic Tale of Extraterrestrial Medicine from Vonda N. McIntyre — Free Online

Digital Billboards Hacked in Southern California

New York Bus Stops Now Stocked With Lightsabers

The Triumphant Journeys of Martian Robots

Tandem Umbrella For Clingy Couples

Sewer Gas May Allow For Suspended Animation

Provigil is the Cocaine of the Twenty-First Century

Over the Counter DNA Paternity Tests Seem Like a Great Idea

Now That Plagues Are Played Out, What Should Be Movies’ Next Apocalypse?

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