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Microsoft Throwdown: You Can’t Possibly Make a Stupider Video Than Us

Yeah, so that awesomely stupid (or stupidly awesome) Microsoft video from yesterday with a fake Bruce Springsteen painfully crooning about the power of Vista was a spoof. Duh. (Probably.) Microsoft actually has a sense of humor occasionally, remember? But it’s not just a spoof—it’s a challenge. We talked to Microsoft, and they think they’re not…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 17 '08

AT&T Mobile TV Launch Date, Channels and Pricing

Boy Genius has some more details about AT&T’s imminent mobile TV service, adding to what AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega told us earlier. It’s going to launch May 4, and there will be three packages: Limited ($13/month), Basic ($15) and Plus ($30). It’s the exact same as what Verizon VCast offers, price and…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Apr 17 '08

Robotic Hand May Be Tiny, Has Strong Grip

Scientists have developed a pair of robotic hands that are both strong and sensitive. The tweezers can guide themselves to pick up and move individual cells without damaging them, and have a grip that can be as slight as 20 nanoNewtons of force. In fact, so advanced are the little grippers, that they can be…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Apr 17 '08

Where Is My Medical Tricorder?

Reader Juan asks: If not the medical tricorder from Star Trek, when could we possibly see diagnostic equipment capable of scanning for infections, viruses or impending heart attacks, attached to wrist watches or other portable devices? Nothing against the phaser, but for many of us the most coveted piece of away team equipment is the…

io9 Terry Johnson Apr 17 '08

French Army to Get Aliens-Like Biomonitors

Soldiers in the French army will have their heart rate, BP and other vital signs monitored by telemetry à la the troops in Aliens as part of the next-gen combat suit due around 2015. The FELIN system —Fantassin à Équipements et Liaisons Intégrés— will now include this health-status uplink so commanders can check on their…

Health Kit Eaton Apr 17 '08

Spaceman Made of Coathangers

David Mach is a London-based sculptor who owns lots of coat hangers, so he made a spaceman sculpture out of them. He also made a giant gorilla and a hooker out of hangers. We have more images and a quick recap of his sculptural method. First, Mach creates a plastic base. Then he wraps it…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA Apr 17 '08

Are You Ready For War With High-Tech Undersea Aliens?

Writers Alan Kurtzman and Roberto Orci managed to transform the old Transformers franchise into a hit movie, and everyone’s hoping they’ll do the same for Star Trek. But will they be able to work similar magic with a graphic novel that almost nobody has read, that hasn’t even finished publishing in comic-book form? They just…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Apr 17 '08

Starship Dogfights and Galactic Rebellion for the Cheap-Ass Gamer

If you want to take to the skies in an advanced aerospace fighter, frag noobs with missile clusters and join a massive battle against a hulking enemy mothership, but your gaming budget is spread a little too thin, then you should check out Air Rivals. It’s a spaceship dogfighting MMORPG that’s easy to jump right…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Apr 17 '08

First Universal Blu-ray Discs Hit July 22, But Where’s The Big Lebowski?

Five months after converting to Blu-ray, former HD DVD diehard Universal will finally release its first Blu discs: The Mummy trio on July 22. The Mummy was already on HD DVD, so they’re firing off re-releases from the get-go. All told, Universal plans to drop about 40 discs by the end of the year. Appropriately…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Apr 17 '08

Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs

A neurosurgery team at Osaka University is now installing brain-machine interfaces directly into patients’ heads. They claim the invasive open-skull surgery allows control over robotic limbs with the mind more accurately. In fact, in trials with four test subjects, their method has more than 80% accuracy. Team leader Professor Toshiki Yoshimine says that using electrode…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Apr 17 '08

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

This week at Uncrate: We hit the road on the 2008 Kawasaki Vulcan 900 Custom, crank it up with the Bird-Electron EZ0 Portable Speaker, and tear up the backyard with the Stihl Yard Boss. We also stock up on summer-wear with the Robot Rebellion T-Shirt Collection, hit the course with some new Grafalloy Epic Shafts,…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 17 '08

Pope Refuses To Bless Technology

Paul Pope is a comic creator and fashion icon (designing a line for DKNY tends to give you some credibility towards that title, at least). And he may have a tendency to place his projects in futuristic SF settings, but don’t take that to mean that he’s any kind of futurist. As he explained in…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan Apr 17 '08

Multi-grope: Interacting with Microsoft Surface at the AT&T Store

Microsoft’s near-mythical Surface table just appeared at five AT&T Stores across the country (with seven more locations soon to get one), and we were happy to have a go with it this morning. As you’ll see in the video, this one is programmed for mobile phone sales pitches, and doesn’t have all of the fun…

Tech News Benny Goldman Apr 17 '08

ASUS M70 One Terabyte Laptop Screams “FIRST!!!”

For the digital pack rats, the ASUS M70 (which was quasi-announced at CES) looks to be the first stock laptop to support a full terabyte of storage (a feat achieved by packing dual 500GB Hitachi Travelstar drives). So what do you do with all that data? Store HD videos to play back on the built-in…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Apr 17 '08

Light-in-Fog Computer Simulation Is Ultra Realistic and Cheap

Now your computer can simulate the movement of light through fog in a way that will easily fool the untrained eye. Using new “photon mapping” algorithms that map how light would bounce off water particles in the air (i.e. fog), UC San Diego computer scientists can now whip up a quick, realistic fog world for…

io9 Annalee Newitz Apr 17 '08

Darwin Manuscripts Evolve From Paper Notes to Online Archive

The manuscripts that later became On The Origin of Species are going online for the first time. The good guys at the Cambridge University library, who were the only people with access beforehand, have put Charles Darwin’s notes on his book and another 20,000 archive items online, turning it into one vast educational/scientific resource. Apparently…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Apr 17 '08

ThunderCats Were Loose On Palace of Westminster

When most DVDs are released, production studios put up some posters and run a few television spots. However, when ThunderCats Season 2 hits store shelves…lets just say Lion-O isn’t settling for an afternoon at Kinko’s. Instead, he boldly emblazons the ThunderCats signal onto London’s Houses of Parliament. While some surely see the stunt as a…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 17 '08

Now You Can Own Two Bakers And Another Doctor

It wasn’t until seeing a press release about the launch of a new Classic Doctor Who toy line that I realized (a) I may want to own an action figure of a much-beloved fictional character from my youth for the first time, and (b) said action figure should be renamed “Tom Baker Doctor With A…

io9 Graeme McMillan Apr 17 '08

Conquest Credit Card Perfume Makes Eliot Spitzer Happy

A perfume called Conquest which comes in a credit card made of steel, capable of storing 20 milliliters of musk-loaded liquid? Atomize it away, Mr. Spitzer, because this seems like the perfect addition to the wallets of punters, NY state ex-governors or anyone with perfume-to-go needs. Whoever you are. [Tuvie]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Apr 17 '08

See Tony Stark’s House, Wolverine’s New Claws, And Adrien Brody’s Mutant Girl

It’s mostly television spoilers this morning — we have tons more details about upcoming Lost episodes, including dozens of new stills. And there are three clips from tonight’s Smallville episode, plus a partial leaked script for the season finale. But we also have a ton of new details about Splice, the genetic experimentation movie starring…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Apr 17 '08

Microsoft Throwdown: You Can’t Possibly Make a Stupider Video Than Us

AT&T Mobile TV Launch Date, Channels and Pricing

Robotic Hand May Be Tiny, Has Strong Grip

Where Is My Medical Tricorder?

French Army to Get Aliens-Like Biomonitors

Spaceman Made of Coathangers

Are You Ready For War With High-Tech Undersea Aliens?

Starship Dogfights and Galactic Rebellion for the Cheap-Ass Gamer

First Universal Blu-ray Discs Hit July 22, But Where’s The Big Lebowski?

Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

Pope Refuses To Bless Technology

Multi-grope: Interacting with Microsoft Surface at the AT&T Store

ASUS M70 One Terabyte Laptop Screams “FIRST!!!”

Light-in-Fog Computer Simulation Is Ultra Realistic and Cheap

Darwin Manuscripts Evolve From Paper Notes to Online Archive

ThunderCats Were Loose On Palace of Westminster

Now You Can Own Two Bakers And Another Doctor

Conquest Credit Card Perfume Makes Eliot Spitzer Happy

See Tony Stark’s House, Wolverine’s New Claws, And Adrien Brody’s Mutant Girl

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