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Can We Study The Polar Icecap Without Wrecking It?

Too bad we have to smash the polar ice to understand it. A new ship being built by the European Science Federation will be able to drill through thousands of miles of ocean under the ice and collect core samples from the sea floor. The Aurora Borealis will be the first ship that can break…

io9 Charliejane

Mac OS X Market Share at 7.31% and Rising

Apple’s Mac OS X had a good year last year, according to Net Applications. Market share for OS X climbed to 7.31% for the month of December, 2007, up from 6.38% in February, a 14.57% increase. How about the Windows OSes? Why, they’re at a paltry 91.79 % of the market. [Net Applications]

Tech News Charlie White

Afternoon News: Apple’s Patent, Cashwrap, and Lawsuit

• An Apple Patent that refers to wobbling icons is strikingly similar to the same feature found in the leaked iPhone 1.1.3 firmware, confirmation? [Mobile Mag] • Apple stores that still have “cashwrap” counters, aka cash register counters, will soon be moving to those portable credit card-transaction computers. But don’t worry you cash lovers, the…

Tech News Christopher Mascari

Guide to Recent U.S. Generations, Including Elusive Anti-Anti-Utopians

Joshua Glenn, the brains behind Boston Globe blog Brainiac, has written a fascinating essay on U.S. generations — you know, like the Boomers and Generation X, two groups who considered themselves the most futuristic and modern types around. But Glenn argues that there are a lot of hidden generations that haven’t gotten much play despite…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Corsair Brings 32GB Flash Drives, College Students Get Excited

We’ve been using an 8GB to tote around our critical data (Futurama episodes), but Corsair’s 32GB USB flash drives can carry four times as much Fry and Bender on the go. The two drives, Voyager and Survivor, will be retailing for $229 and $249 each—not a bad price for this much storage. The Voyager is…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Belkin RockStar Shares Your Music With Five Friends (Now We Need Five Friends)

We seldom have the need to share what we’re listening to on our iPods with more than one other person, but if you’re having some sort of “party” that “people” are “attending,” this Belkin RockStar might be good. It’s just $20 and offers six ports—one input and five outputs—so you can split one signal to…

Gadgets Jason Chen

BlueAnt V1 Bluetooth Headset First Ever With True Voice User Interface

The Deal: BlueAnt, who we’ve seen some Bluetoothiness from before, is introing “the first ever Bluetooth headset with a true voice user interface,” the BlueAnt V1. The VUI is powered by BlueGenie, which is the first time it’s been used on a headset. Other than the big ant-stamped button, it should be pretty hands-free, with…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

2008 Presidential Campaign (1908)

It seems that American political campaigns start earlier and earlier with each political cycle. However, if you thought the 2008 presidential race started early, check out this article from the April 16, 1908 Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA) titled, “‘Count’ Opens Campaign for Presidency in Year 2008.” An excerpt along with the piece…

Tech News Matt Novak

Freedom Phone Looks Simple, Small, Elegant

Designed for those annoying bastards who always say “I want a phone that just calls,” the Freedom Phone does indeed bring freedom—freedom for the rest of us who are tired of you saying that every time you see a phone with fancy features. It’s a pay-as-you-go phone that you buy with minutes already on board.…

Tech News Jason Chen

Michael Bay Writes Like a Five Year Old

Michael Bay promises loads of new robots in his Transformers 2 sequel, promising us they’ll be “really unique.” You mean more unique than a Xbox 360, a soda vending machine, and a steering wheel transmorgrifying into lame-o- boticons? Just so you don’t forget, this movie franchise has already included “unique” robots that piss on people’s…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Motorola DH01 Mobile Video Player Does Live TV and DVR Clips, Hopes Mobile TV Will Get Better

The Skinny: The DH01 has a 4.3-inch screen (but how thin is it?), a five-minute memory buffer for pausing live mobile TV, DVR playback from SD or MultiMediaCard cards and four hours of playback time. The Catch: It’s dedicated—who’s gonna carry around a separate player if they can probably get the same live TV on…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Bad Science Looks Killer In “Sunshine”

We can’t wait for Danny Boyle’s Sunshine to come out on DVD next Tuesday. Sunshine might have been the best SF movie of 2007, even though its science was iffy in places. Take this cool-looking scene, where hapless communications officer Harvey tries to jump from one spaceship to another without a suit and doesn’t quite…

io9 Charliejane

Traveler 350 Adds More Trackball to Laptops

Laptops usually come adorned with either a trackpad or a IBM-style nub for cursor navigation, but what’s a guy that loves trackballs to do? Unless they want to bring a full-sized 1995 trackball mouse with him like Travis witnessed last year at CEDIA, their only option is this Traveler 350 USB trackball. It clips onto…

Tech News Jason Chen

Destroy All Planets with the Best Scifi Superweapons

Let’s face it, there are times when something like a laser pistol, a fancy light-up sword, or the ability to crush people with your mind just won’t get the trick done. When you’re commanding an entire fleet of ships hell-bent on invasion, you need a weapon that’ll really get things done. In the world of…

io9 Kevin Kelly

io9 Analyzes Three Leaked Scripts for Watchmen

While Director Zack Snyder is working away feverishly to complete his live-action adaptation of Alan Moore’s seminal Watchmen graphic novel, we decided to take a look at the three versions of the film’s script floating around on the etherwebs. This project has had several stalled-out development attempts since 1986, and reading through some of these…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Science Proves That Drinking Makes You Horny

You probably already guessed this from observation in the real world, but alcohol makes people hornier and more likely to hit on you cluelessly. Now a team of researchers from Penn State have gotten a bunch of fruit flies drunk on a daily basis to prove that mating behavior skyrockets when you’re an alcoholic. And…

io9 Annalee Newitz

OhMiBod iPod Vibrator Getting iPhone Compatibility

The OhMiBod iPod Vibrator, which we got hands-on of above, is set to get an iPhone compatibility upgrade next week at the Adult Entertainment Expo (AVN) in Vegas. Our own videograhers loved it when they saw it last year, which allows you turn on the music and start “jamming away.” Here’s what the founder has…

Tech News Jason Chen

Ernesto Neto’s Bouncy White Humanoid Blobs

Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto likes soft, blobby, stretchy membrane-like things. He likes to hang them from walls, slather them across the floors, and wrap human beings in them. He uses materials like nylon and cotton for maximum softness, and sometimes even fills them with aromatic spices. People love going to see his exhibits because they…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Killing Aliens Runs In The Family

The Old Man’s War universe isn’t just for men any more. A new quasi-sequel will follow the old man’s daughter into more battles with claim-jumping aliens. That’s just one of the many, many books that military SF maven John Scalzi is putting out in 2008 and 2009. Scalzi’s newly announced pipeline also includes a sequel…

Books & Comics Charliejane

Apple to Start Shipping Macs with Blu-ray at Macworld?

According to analyst Shaw Wu, Apple has plans to start selling computers with Blu-ray drives built-in. It’ll announce this at Macworld, and immediately thereafter the HD DVD camp will gulp audibly. That is, if it’s merely a Blu-ray drive: [There’s] a smaller chance Apple may use a combo Blu-ray/HD DVD drive to ensure full compatibility…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Can We Study The Polar Icecap Without Wrecking It?

Mac OS X Market Share at 7.31% and Rising

Afternoon News: Apple’s Patent, Cashwrap, and Lawsuit

Guide to Recent U.S. Generations, Including Elusive Anti-Anti-Utopians

Corsair Brings 32GB Flash Drives, College Students Get Excited

Belkin RockStar Shares Your Music With Five Friends (Now We Need Five Friends)

BlueAnt V1 Bluetooth Headset First Ever With True Voice User Interface

2008 Presidential Campaign (1908)

Freedom Phone Looks Simple, Small, Elegant

Michael Bay Writes Like a Five Year Old

Motorola DH01 Mobile Video Player Does Live TV and DVR Clips, Hopes Mobile TV Will Get Better

Bad Science Looks Killer In “Sunshine”

Traveler 350 Adds More Trackball to Laptops

Destroy All Planets with the Best Scifi Superweapons

io9 Analyzes Three Leaked Scripts for Watchmen

Science Proves That Drinking Makes You Horny

OhMiBod iPod Vibrator Getting iPhone Compatibility

Ernesto Neto’s Bouncy White Humanoid Blobs

Killing Aliens Runs In The Family

Apple to Start Shipping Macs with Blu-ray at Macworld?

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