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We Have a Winner in the Fake Star Trek Footage Contest

Thanks to our intrepid, geektastic pals at Trek Movie, we have a winner in our fake Star Trek footage contest. Remember, this got started with this piece of fake footage, allegedly from JJ Abram’s upcoming Star Trek reboot. So we turned to you for more fake footage, because we just can’t get enough of it.…

Movies Annalee Newitz Apr 7 '08

World’s First OLED Lamp

We’re not sure why someone would want to make an OLED desk lamp at this point in time, what with the technology being relatively new and somewhat expensive right now, but OSRAM Opto Semiconductors and designer Ingo Maurer have done just that. This lamp, called “Early Future”, is made up of ten distinct OLED tiles…

Gadgets Jason Chen Apr 7 '08

Sony Hinting at Blu-ray Recording Directly Inside TVs

Sony’s President and Electronics CEO, Ryoji Chubachi, hinted at new areas that their Blu-ray technology could expand into, including burners that sit inside LCD HDTVs with “recording” functionality. If this means that your future Sony TV will be able to record HDTV shows onto Blu-ray, that would be super neat (and rather convenient). What we’d…

Television Jason Chen Apr 7 '08

Your Build-Your-Own-Universe-Kit, Coming Soon

The trailer just came out for God’s Puzzle, the new Takashi Miike film about identical twins who help a mysterious girl create a new universe. It looks as zany as you’d expect, but the visuals are also gorgeous. (As much as you can tell from the super low-res version Toei released. Sorry about picture quality.)…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Apr 7 '08

Explore the Vast Capitol Wasteland of 2277 in Fallout 3

This concept art for Fallout 3, which we mentioned once before, shows Washington D.C. reduced to ashen rubble. The highly-anticipated sequel to the classic “wander the wasteland and have sex with mutant hookers” RPG is slated for a Fall 2008 multi-platform release. The story is not directly related to the one from Fallout 2, but…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Apr 7 '08

Windows Vista SP1 Update: Endless Restart Bug Fixed, Automatic Rollout Starts Next Week

As people who’ve already made (or attempted) the jump to Vista SP1 know, before you get to the actual service pack, you’ve gotta clear a gauntlet of pre-install updates, which started rolling out in Feb. One of the updates apparently sent some users into an endless spiral of reboots, so Microsoft hit pause on the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 7 '08

Trapped In A City Of Dead Eyes

More proof that it’s all in the execution: if someone told you a new movie’s storyline was like Day Of The Triffids meets Doomsday, you might expect a crazy schlockfest of rubber monsters and kilt-flapping car chases. But then if you throw in that it stars Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo, is based on a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Apr 7 '08

Man Makes Canoe with Seven Thousand Chopsticks

Shuhei Ogawara spent two years of his life collecting 7,382 wood disposable chopsticks from his office cafeteria, glued them together in three months, and applied a polyester coat to build this 13-foot long, 66-pound canoe. This is heavier than a regular canoe, so he still doesn’t know if it’s going to float or not. What…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Apr 7 '08

R.I.P. Charlton Heston

If you hadn’t heard the news by now, Charlton Heston passed away Saturday night at the grand old age of 84. His broad-shouldered, square-jawed, teeth-gritting acting style launched historical characters from Moses to Judah Ben-Hur, but we were more fixated on his body of science fiction work, which was considerable as you can see from…

Movies Kevin Kelly Apr 7 '08

Is Sweding a Corporate Plot?

I hate to get all indie rock on your ass, but isn’t it kind of lame that everybody is going apeshit over Sweding when the whole meme was invented by the marketing team for Be Kind Rewind to get people interested in the movie? I’m not saying Be Kind Rewind was a bad movie, nor…

Movies Annalee Newitz Apr 7 '08

Sprint Licenses Visual Voicemail, Can Use It Without Being Sued

When I groped Sprint’s Instinct at CTIA and was flipping through the features, one of the reps made sure to show me visual voicemail—a necessity for any device taking on the iPhone. Apparently, he didn’t just mean visual voicemail in the generic sense, it’s the real, patented deal, licensed from Klausner—who’s currently suing the balls…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Apr 7 '08

A Closer Look Into the Chinese Cities That Make Our Bra Clasps, Plastic Bags and Other Everyday Gadgets

National Geographic has a fantastic story about the “instant cities” in China that have been popping up in response to the tremendous manufacturing boom in the last few decades. These cities are home to manufacturers who specialize in one niche product—such as bra rings, bra straps, plastic bags, or blue jeans—and sell them to the…

Gadgets Jason Chen Apr 7 '08

Postmachina’s Project E Trades Business Cards, Personal Info Wirelessly

This wireless data exchange concept is very similar to a few designs we’ve seen already, but Postmachina is going to be manufacturing a wireless device called Project E that holds your personal information and swaps it when it comes into contact with another, similar device. In essence, it can hold all the info on your…

Gadgets Jason Chen Apr 7 '08

Building the Watchmen Sets Before Your Eyes

Want to see a misguided attempt to build some online buzz for Watchmen, Zack Snyder’s upcoming adaptation of the comic of the same name? Then perhaps you’d like to marvel over the construction of some sets and listen to set designers talk about how awesome they are. That’s pretty much what to expect from the…

Movies Graeme McMillan Apr 7 '08

Who Tall Are You? Mirror: Yep, Tom Cruise Is Teeny

When I was a kid, I used to think all celebrities were like 30 feet tall, since they look pretty gigantic on the big screen. Then I got older, and heard nasty rumors about how dwarf-y people like Sly Stallone and Tom Cruise really were, but I didn’t really believe it, since I couldn’t exactly…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Apr 7 '08

Mitsubishi Kuro-Killer LaserVue TV Arriving Late Summer (New Best TV Ever?)

Mitsubishi’s Laser TV stunned us back at CES (though the booze-filled nightclub filled with half-naked dancing girls might have skewed our, um, vision). Apparently, it’s gotten even better, like better than the best TV on earth better. HD Guru says that the LaserVue set popped colors that were “the most vivid of any display device…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Apr 7 '08

Hummer HT2 Phone Is Smaller, Brighter, Even More Pointless than the Original

Fifty-thousand people compensating for something bought the Hummer HT1 phone. The new HT2 pulls the same trick as the H2 truck—it shrinks the original and adds a brighter coat of paint, with a fresh splash of asinine. In this case, even more so, because it seems to pack the same ho-hum specs as the HT1.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 7 '08

Nanoparticle Gym Socks Poison Wildlife

Your socks are creating an insidious form of nanotech pollution. Sure, nanotechnology holds great promise for everything from treating cancer to making cloaking devices a reality. But critics have argued for a while it poses huge risks to the environment, and now engineers from Arizona State University are reporting that silver nanoparticles are almost certainly…

io9 Michael Reilly Apr 7 '08

Daisy, Robo Daisy, Spin Your Sculptural Propeller, Do

Yesterday we had one scary(ish) robot design, and here’s another. Ok— not so scary, really, as all Daisy’s slice’n’dice menace is just a sham. That huge propeller is simply a fiberglass copy of a cargo ship one. And all it does is flex and rotate its robot muscles, slowly. But it’s massive, and it does…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Apr 7 '08

Europe Approves In-Flight Cell Calls, Travel Gets Even More Annoying

Be happy to arrive late to every cellphone technology party, America, because the European Union has just approved the use of cellphones in airplanes. Effective immediately, any compliant aircraft will allow for in- and outbound calls using regular cellphones starting at 9,800 feet. The technical requirements are quite simple. You will only need an on-board…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Apr 7 '08

We Have a Winner in the Fake Star Trek Footage Contest

World’s First OLED Lamp

Sony Hinting at Blu-ray Recording Directly Inside TVs

Your Build-Your-Own-Universe-Kit, Coming Soon

Explore the Vast Capitol Wasteland of 2277 in Fallout 3

Windows Vista SP1 Update: Endless Restart Bug Fixed, Automatic Rollout Starts Next Week

Trapped In A City Of Dead Eyes

Man Makes Canoe with Seven Thousand Chopsticks

R.I.P. Charlton Heston

Is Sweding a Corporate Plot?

Sprint Licenses Visual Voicemail, Can Use It Without Being Sued

A Closer Look Into the Chinese Cities That Make Our Bra Clasps, Plastic Bags and Other Everyday Gadgets

Postmachina’s Project E Trades Business Cards, Personal Info Wirelessly

Building the Watchmen Sets Before Your Eyes

Who Tall Are You? Mirror: Yep, Tom Cruise Is Teeny

Mitsubishi Kuro-Killer LaserVue TV Arriving Late Summer (New Best TV Ever?)

Hummer HT2 Phone Is Smaller, Brighter, Even More Pointless than the Original

Nanoparticle Gym Socks Poison Wildlife

Daisy, Robo Daisy, Spin Your Sculptural Propeller, Do

Europe Approves In-Flight Cell Calls, Travel Gets Even More Annoying

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