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Coming Soon: Nature As Amusement Park

Finnish artist Ilkka Halso believes that, once we’re done depleting the ozone, destroying the rainforests, and using up all arable land, nature will be on view in amusement parks, kinda like zoo animals—glorified yet completely devoid of purpose. Below are more images of nature amusement parks from the future. Images by Ilkka Halso Ilkka Halso…

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Wii Fit Gets Launch Frame: Q2 2008

The yoga-stretch-exercise add-on for the Wii finally gets a launch “frame” for the US: Q2 2008. Excuse us while we queue up stories about Wii Fits breaking under the massive weight of American fatties. Maybe that’s what took Nintendo so long to localize it for the NA audience—trying to find enough structural engineers. [Kotaku] http://kotaku.com/345707/nintendo-lays-out-08-wii-fit-mario-kart-wii-vaguely-dated

Tech News Jason Chen

Galactica Heading to Caprica After All?

Remember back a year or two ago when Battlestar Galactica was the darling of the airwaves, and everyone was praising it as the best scifi show to come out since… well, forever? Fans rejoiced when the producers said they were working on a new prequel series to be called Caprica, that would explore the days…

Television Kevin Kelly

Will We Hold Robots Accountable for War Crimes?

Now that the military is using autonomous surveillance/combat robots created by iRobot, the company behind the Roomba robot vacuum, a strange question emerges: What do we do if a robot commits a war crime? This isn’t idle speculation. An automated anti-aircraft cannon’s friendly fire killed nine soldiers in South Africa last year, and computer scientists…

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iPhone 1.1.3’s Lesser-Known Features

You already know the main features of iPhone 1.1.3 from our hands-on and from the keynote, but there are a few interesting tweaks that got lost in all the other Apple coverage. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-iphone-firmware-1-1-3-345179 • The SMS storage has been upped from 1,000 to 75,000, which means you probably won’t need to ever clear a conversation…

Tech News Jason Chen

Let’s Hear It for Fish Biscuits!

Remember when he-man hillbilly Sawyer figures out the levers and knobs in his cage and is rewarded with a fish-shaped biscuit and a cascade of people chow? “Only took the bears two hours.” Definitely one of my favorite moments from Lost season 3. Last year, an enterprising fan came up with a recipe and pattern…

Television Peril

Cyber-Zombies Haunt A Near-Future Dystopia

Do you wish the zombies in I Am Legend had been more interesting and believable? Then you should be excited for near-future dystopia Sleep Dealer, judging from this brief teaser trailer and some new stills. Sleep Dealer is a bleak fable about immigration and cyber-slavery, but it’s also yet another horrible future where science turns…

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Electronic Contact Lenses Give Future You Crazy Eyesight, Heads-up Display

Having the internet be constantly displayed no matter where we look is a dream we’ve had for years, but having to shove an electronic contact into our eyes makes us think twice. This prototype device, which has red LEDs and can be worn for up to 20 minutes (tested on rabbits) with no adverse effects.…

Gadgets Jason Chen

First Look At New Enterprise

Click to view Just a day before the teaser trailer starts showing, the first image of the new Starship Enterprise from J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Trek movie finally went online, at Moviefone. (Thanks, Falconfire!) Click through for the full image. https://gizmodo.com/treks-rumormongering-eats-itself-345873 Ohhh, all dark and shiny! Actually, this does look genuinely cool. Maybe JJ can…

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Posthumously-Published Roger Zelazny Novel Coming Soon

Hard Case Crime just announced that they’ll be putting out a previously-unpublished novel by deceased multiple Hugo- and Nebula-award winner Roger Zelazny at the start of next year. Currently, nothing else is known about the project – not even whether or not it’s all Zelazny or an unfinished project completed after his death – but…

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New Study of the Bizarre Disease Where Wires Grow in Your Skin

You’ve probably heard about Morgellons, the bizarre disease where people start out by feeling itchy all over and then suddenly discover brightly-colored, tiny wires growing out of their skin. For years doctors have treated the ailment as a psychological condition because its symptoms match a well-known mental illness where people believe they have parasites. But…

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iPhone Getting a Business/Corporate Plan on January 21st

Here’s some good news for those of you who want an iPhone but have sold your soul to the corporate overlords: AT&T is said to be announcing iPhone compatibility to corporate and business accounts on January 21st. The “business iPhone” is the same as the regular iPhone, but it has a slightly different pricing setup…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Question of the Day: Leopard Causing Wi-Fi Dropouts?

We’ve noticed this a bit ourselves, but reader ggperez points out that there’s been some reports of Airport Wi-Fi dropouts on Mac laptops running Leopard. He describes the situation: After a few seconds of internet browsing, the browser hangs up and you get a problem loading page/lost connection message (both Firefox and Safari). The problem…

Tech News Jason Chen

The Future of Glass (1958)

The December 11, 1958 Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune (Chillicothe, MO) quotes Smith Rairdon, director of marketing for Owens-Illinois Glass Company, about the future of glass. His quotes appear below. “In the year 2008 a bride will be carried over the threshold of a glass house. Her kitchen may be glass-walled with a glass refrigerator, glass chairs, shelves…

Tech News Matt Novak

HTC Pharos Spy Shot – Windows Mobile, GPS and Confusing Name

We’re not sure if this HTC Pharos 3470 Windows Mobile Smartphone will actually be called the Pharos when it launches—especially since it gets people confused with Pharos, who also make GPS Windows Mobile smartphones—but this spy shot looks interesting. The phone has a 200MHz OMAP processor, 128MB RAM, 2.8-inch QVGA display, Bluetooth 2.0, and GPS.…

Tech News Jason Chen

The Best Sampled Lines from Scifi in Music

We’ve already told you about the scifi-themed songs you might be entertained (or tortured) by if you end up stranded on Asteroid B17-X. But the music-scifi relationship goes both ways: music has been sampling your favorite scifi movies and shows for years. When a musician decides to include a line from Solaris (the original, not…

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Chewbacca Looks Better Than Colin Farrell

Worth 1000 asked readers to improve non sci-fi movies by giving them the George Lucas treatment. The readers didn’t disappoint. Sci-Fi Theater [Worth1000.com]

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No Aliens In X-Files 2?

Here’s the first picture of Mulder and Scully in the long-awaited second X-Files movie. (Click through for the full image.) Director/creator Chris Carter confirmed in a new interview that the movie is missing all of the long-running “mythology” and conspiracy elements from the original show. But he also seemed to hint there would be no…

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Modem Berlin is an Art/Music Space in an Abandoned Cold War Power Plant

The Modem is a new art and music venue opening in Berlin that’s being built in an abandoned power plant that used to supply juice and heat to East Berlin. It’s a gigantic space, nearly 250,000 square feet in size, and it’s full of Cold War-era contraptions, knobs, levers and other fun doodads that are…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Giant Robot Repairs the Arc de Triomphe

We hope that upcoming MMOThe Day manages to look like its sumptuous concept art, pictured above. That image of the Arc de Triomphe being repaired, upgraded, or duplicated is just simply amazing. The premise of The Day is that two parallel worlds smash together, and we’ve got a whole gallery of strange history-mashup imagery from…

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Coming Soon: Nature As Amusement Park

Wii Fit Gets Launch Frame: Q2 2008

Galactica Heading to Caprica After All?

Will We Hold Robots Accountable for War Crimes?

iPhone 1.1.3’s Lesser-Known Features

Let’s Hear It for Fish Biscuits!

Cyber-Zombies Haunt A Near-Future Dystopia

Electronic Contact Lenses Give Future You Crazy Eyesight, Heads-up Display

First Look At New Enterprise

Posthumously-Published Roger Zelazny Novel Coming Soon

New Study of the Bizarre Disease Where Wires Grow in Your Skin

iPhone Getting a Business/Corporate Plan on January 21st

Question of the Day: Leopard Causing Wi-Fi Dropouts?

The Future of Glass (1958)

HTC Pharos Spy Shot – Windows Mobile, GPS and Confusing Name

The Best Sampled Lines from Scifi in Music

Chewbacca Looks Better Than Colin Farrell

No Aliens In X-Files 2?

Modem Berlin is an Art/Music Space in an Abandoned Cold War Power Plant

Giant Robot Repairs the Arc de Triomphe

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