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Sperm Could Be the Slave Drivers of the Nanobot Future

Scientists are investigating the possibility of using the “tiny assembly line that powers the whip-like tail of sperm” to send medical nanobots racing throughout the body. In order to work, these devices would have to be made from biomedical components—and at that size, “biology would provide the best functional motors.” This approach seems bizarre, but…

Tech News Sean Fallon

An Underwater City Gone Wrong

This concept artwork from 2K Games’ BioShock shows one of the most starkly dystopian video game worlds created in the past several years. Here you can see one of the observation areas in a city that has seen better days. There’s a central statue of Atlas holding up the world, which has been smashed by…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Asus Eee PC Can Play WoW…

…And a slew of other PC games, like HL2: Ep 2, GTA: Vice City and Warcraft III (natch) to name a few. EeeUser forum members are cobbling together a list of games that run on the machine, plus any caveats required for install and ownage. There’s a request test list too, for the altruistic and…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Now Playing: TiVo2Go For Series 3 on a Mac for Free

The most recent update to Now Playing widget for OS X gives it the ability to download shows from your TiVo Series 3 and have it automatically decode for playing using TiVoDecode. This looks to be the free alternative to Roxio programs for watching TiVo2Go on your Mac. Although it’s missing functionality to burn discs…

Tech News Brian Lam

Is the U.S. the Least Futuristic Country?

Is the United States the least futuristic post-industrial country? Every week we hear about cool robots playing soccer and musical instruments in Japan, or the Tron-looking Pad building in Dubai (see photo.) Meanwhile, the U.S. is retiring its space shuttles and has the slowest broadband in the universe. What’s going on? Five futuristic inventions from…

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Your Subway Car Wants Kill You

What do you get when you combine a sentient, artificially intelligent subway train (starring Emma Clarke, the voice of the London Underground and Keanu Reeves) with Speed and Titanic? It turns out you get “Sentient Subway,” a hilarious Hollywood movie pitch that needs a bit of work on its title. However, having heard this whole…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Love Mattress Offers Comfort and…Traction

Sleeping with your arm around a loved one—how sweet. Unfortunately, doing this in a conventional bed is massively uncomfortable. There is simply no place to put the extra arm—and its not like your loved one can just lay on it. If you do that, you might as well go the whole 9 and chop it…

Tech News Sean Fallon

The Old Music Industry Is Dead: Apple Launching Record Label With Jay-Z

Looks like there might another major announcement at MacWorld. BGR says they’ve “confirmed” that Apple is launching a record label with Jay-Z, who’s set to step down from Def Jam. Jay-Z and Jobs are both brilliant businessmen, and the move would make sense on a number of levels: The labels almost view iTunes as a…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Blender With Built-In Tachometer: How Fast Does It Blend?

We present the latest evolution in “Will It Blend?” technology: A 900-watt, 20,000-RPM blender with a built-in tachometer. Although I’ve been quite happy with my run-of-the-mill Cuisinart, I have slight gadget lust for the brushed steel-y, $134 L’Equip RPM blender and a pulsing desire to see how many RPMs it takes to liquefy my new…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Myst Architectures in the Real World

People who play the Myst puzzle games are often so taken with the steampunk beauty of the worlds in them that they begin to see Myst imagery everywhere. No, they’re not crazy. We have photographic evidence. The left-hand photo above was taken of real tubes in Berlin (photo by extranoise), while the one on the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Question of the Day: Which Music Player Do You Use?

Do you know anybody that doesn’t have a portable music player, let alone several? It’s 2008, and just about everyone we know has either an iPod, Zune, SanDisk or cellphone that can play back MP3s on the go. Here’s our question to you: which PMPs do you own, and which one is your “main” player?…

Tech News Jason Chen

Which Will Suck Less? New Terminator TV Show or New Terminator Movie?

Which version of Terminator has you jazzed? The TV show starting in a few weeks, with Firefly’s Summer Glau as a sassy protector bot? Or the 2009 movie starring Christian Bale (unless he comes to his senses)? Vote below! https://gizmodo.com/this-terminator-doesnt-need-legs-to-kick-ass-323289 Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through…

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Guillermo Del Toro Piecing Together Frankenstein For TV

Guillermo del Toro isn’t content enough to sit back on his Pan’s Labyrinth earnings and let Hellboy 2: The Golden Army just ride the coattails of the original film into the box office. He’s rumbling about a new television version of the mad scientist classic Frankentstein. “The only way to do the Shelley novel is…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Digital TV Converter Coupons From Uncle Sam Available Now, Old People Rejoice

Old people love coupons, especially ones worth 40 bucks, which buys a lot of Metamucil. They’re also the people most likely to need digital converter boxes for analog sets to receive digital over-the-air broadcasts after Feb. 2009. So I’m happy to report that your gramps you can pick up his $40 coupon for the box…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

George Lucas Explains Why You’ll Hate Indy IV

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will be hitting theater screens on May 22nd, marking nineteen years since we’ve seen the whip-swinging archeaologist going after mysterious antiquities and occasionally teaching school. However, George Lucas thinks that both critics and fans alike will hate the movie. Find out why he told Vanity Fair…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Zeemote Wireless Wii-Like Nunchuk Controller Makes Mobile Gaming Less Sucky

The major reason I hate cellphone games is the super-shitty controls. A pad designed for stubby thumbs to punch out series of digits is not an optimal gaming control surface, especially when it comes to 3D movement. The Zeemote is a Bluetooth analog joystick—that looks a lot like a Wii nunchuk, and they’ve even got…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Road to CES: Liveblogs

Oh CES, how we love and despise you simultaneously. We love you because there’s just so much electronic goodness in your stinky, sweaty halls; but we hate you because there’s just so much stuff going on there that a person would have to spend a month to check out each and every gadget. There’s good…

Tech News Jason Chen

What To Wear For Your Outer Space Wedding Party

Space tourism company Rocketplane Kistler wants their customers to fly in style. Last year, they collaborated with JAXA to hold a space fashion contest in Tokyo. Space Style 2007, a fashion event held by the California Space Authority late last year, brought these designs stateside as part of an interplanetary runway show. (Rumor has it…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Afternoon News: Sharper Image Cellphones, Cancer-Detecting Mouthwash and More

• Sharper Image is now selling four unlocked Windows Mobile cellphones. The top of the line model has a 2MP camera, touchscreen, Bluetooth, tri-band, and GPRS, but sadly no ionic air-purifier or back massager. [Uber Phones] • A new smart plug from the UK will reduce energy consumption by turning off gadgets that are turned…

Tech News Benny Goldman

USB Mouth Camera: A Haiku

Drink soda all day? Need no gadget to know that Your dentist hates you. [Chinavasion]

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Sperm Could Be the Slave Drivers of the Nanobot Future

An Underwater City Gone Wrong

Asus Eee PC Can Play WoW…

Now Playing: TiVo2Go For Series 3 on a Mac for Free

Is the U.S. the Least Futuristic Country?

Your Subway Car Wants Kill You

Love Mattress Offers Comfort and…Traction

The Old Music Industry Is Dead: Apple Launching Record Label With Jay-Z

Blender With Built-In Tachometer: How Fast Does It Blend?

Myst Architectures in the Real World

Question of the Day: Which Music Player Do You Use?

Which Will Suck Less? New Terminator TV Show or New Terminator Movie?

Guillermo Del Toro Piecing Together Frankenstein For TV

Digital TV Converter Coupons From Uncle Sam Available Now, Old People Rejoice

George Lucas Explains Why You’ll Hate Indy IV

Zeemote Wireless Wii-Like Nunchuk Controller Makes Mobile Gaming Less Sucky

The Road to CES: Liveblogs

What To Wear For Your Outer Space Wedding Party

Afternoon News: Sharper Image Cellphones, Cancer-Detecting Mouthwash and More

USB Mouth Camera: A Haiku

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