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Motorola Z12 Zine 5-Megapixel Cameraphone Spy Shot

This leaked spy shot of an upcoming 5-megapixel Motorola/Kodak cameraphone seems to confirm the rumor that MotoZINE was the name for Motorola’s upcoming multimedia phone series. According to IT168.com, the Z12 is going to be announced in Q1 2008 under the ZiNE brand, and will have either a candybar or a slider form factor and…

Tech News Jason Chen

Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate Now Available, Vista Haters Rejoice

A week after Vista SP1 RC hit, Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate is up on the download block. Release candidates are usually pretty close to the final version, though nervous Nellies might wanna hold back cause it’s technically still trial software. Rewarding your balls of stainless steel is a 10 percent performance boost, Network Access…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Pumping in Zero Gravity With the Best Sci Fi Sex Scenes

Science fiction doesn’t just give us the best machines; it also gives the best sex as well. After all, if the future is full of anti-gravity lifts and teleportation, just think how far the porno industry will evolve. Scifi isn’t just about human sex either: you can get it on with aliens, clones, and even…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Half of Mac Users Pay to Download Music; 84 Percent of PC Users Thieving Assholes?

According to market research by the NPD Group—who give out monthly console sales figures and other fun statistical fodder for flamewars—50 percent of all Mac users paid to download music during the last quarter, while a seemingly laughable 16 percent of PC users did. Mac drones are also more likely to buy real live CDs…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Buy a Sharp HDTV, Get a Vudu and $50 Movie Credit for Free

Buyers of new Sharp 1080p HDTVs over 42 inches will get a bonus with their purchase: a free Vudu set-top box. If you were thinking about checking out the on-demand box for yourself and are looking to buy a new big-screen TV, this could be a solid deal for you, as the Vudu’s run $400…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Turbo Toaster Prototype Jet Engines Make Your Toast

Want to make bread into toast in under a minute? This Turbo Toaster prototype by Oliver Newberry of London can do just that, provided you’re okay with the noise that two huge jet engine-like fans blowing hot air onto the toast will make. The inspiration for this invention? The fact that his beans became cold…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Unlocked Open Source Anti-DRM Logo

While we’re not sure logos are the solutions to all the world’s problems (you’ve seen that video of a Microsoft-designed iPod box), we kinda like the idea of an anti-DRM logo to make it easy for consumers to quickly pick up on content that’ll give ’em more bang for their buck, since they’re not restricted…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

A Performance-Enhancing Drug for Scientists and Professors

Barry Bonds isn’t the only guy trying to better his game with drugs. If you’re trying to compete for the best grants and patents in the cut-throat science industry, you might be taking modafinil (AKA Provigil). Named “professor’s little helper” in a Nature commentary today, modafinil is a stimulant that its users compare to a…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Creative Wi-Fi inPerson Video Phone Looks Promising

There’s little to no official detail available on this Creative Wi-Fi Video phone, called the inPerson, but the FCC has both pictures and the manual available for just anyone to peep through. The specs look beefy: VGA video at 2Mbps, “excellent low light performance,” a wide-angle lens, dual microphones, Wi-Fi, rechargeable battery, h.264 video, SIP…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Yearning For Serene Flying Paddleboats

A lot of sci fi concept art has a tendency to be spiky and sharp looking, and you’ll usually see enough spires and knife-edged towers to populate an entire world with if you flip through a book of book of alien artwork. That’s why artist Ryan Church’s floating paddleboat here looks serene and peaceful. You…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Joel Schumacher Dabbles In Vampire Nazi Experiments

The yawn-inducing still photo seen here was released yesterday as the first image from Joel Schumacher’s new film Town Creek, about a brother who seeks revenge on a family who has been hiding the result of some of the Third Reich’s experiments with the occult: a vampire. Not just any vampire, mind you, but a…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Wal-Mart Year-End Report Card: C

Oh, Wal-Mart. You are so easy to hate. What with your union-busting, mom-and-pop-killing, big box awfulness, who wouldn’t hate you? It would be all to easy for me to come in here and just give you an F and everyone would agree with me and we could all walk hand-in-hand into the sunset, hating Wal-Mart.…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Madrid’s ‘Air Tree’ Creates Its Own Energy, Oxygen

In Madrid, Spain, a unique, hulking structure is currently being built. An “Air Tree,” it’s designed to both affect the surrounding environment and act as a social center. It’s loaded up with solar panels that create electricity that’s sold to the local electric company. It’s completely self-sufficient, powering itself and using the money it makes…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Leaves Us Unimpressed

When we last played the Duke Nukem series, it ran exclusively on German Enigma machines, which means that unless this teaser trailer showed graphics so far ahead of its league that it makes Crysis look like stick figure drawings, there’s no way that anybody will be impressed. It’s not that the graphics are horrible, but…

Tech News Jason Chen

A Bevvy of 1960s-Era Star Trek Babes

One of the best parts of Trek Classic is its propensity to dress its hot ladies in strange cloth squares, or to give them improbably huge go go boots. Sure, it was weird that female officers brought the male ones coffee on the Bridge, but hey it was the 1960s and everything was groovy. If…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Digital Clapperboard Alarm Clock Looks Like the Real Thing

We’ve shown you a digital clapperboard alarm clock before, but it was lame compared with this one. The Digital Clapperboard Alarm Clock reminds me of the real digital slates we use in professional show business. We’re not sure how distracting its display would be if you wanted to use it as an alarm clock on…

Tech News Charlie White

Nonobject Two-Way Camera Shows Us What We Can’t Control

We’ve shown you some of Branko Lukic’s “Nonobjects” before, including the touchless cellphone and those unique pebbles of electronic awesomeness. The latest concept from this man’s fertile mind is the Behind The Scenes camera, with lenses and displays on both sides for simultaneously recording what you’re aiming at, and what you’re not. Why? The stuff…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Aliens Kick Predator’s Ass and That’s Final

Welcome back to Horrorhead, a fortnightly column about all things scifi and horror. This week, a crucial topic: Aliens vs. Predators. Not the movie, the smackdown. Colin Strause, one of the two Brothers Strause who directed the upcoming Aliens vs. Predator sequel, is known across the webonets as a serious Predator fan. The brothers claim…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Wi-Fi Detecting Watch, The Broadband Sniffer for Your Wrist

If you feel like you’re going commando when you’re not in the presence of Wi-Fi, strap on this Wi-Fi wristwatch that detects signal strength from 0 to 8, letting you sniff out that broadband connectivity wherever you go. Simply push the Wi-Fi button and it shows you the signal strength right there on its LCD…

Tech News Charlie White

Giz Tech Tip: How to Sing and Play Rock Band Simultaneously

If you’ve been playing Rock Band as much as we have, you’ve tried to sing and play guitar/drums at the same time at least once. Unless you’ve got a mic stand lying around, you had to use either a human mic stand (I tried that; she got tired and started choking me with a Wiimote)…

Tech News Jason Chen

Motorola Z12 Zine 5-Megapixel Cameraphone Spy Shot

Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate Now Available, Vista Haters Rejoice

Pumping in Zero Gravity With the Best Sci Fi Sex Scenes

Half of Mac Users Pay to Download Music; 84 Percent of PC Users Thieving Assholes?

Buy a Sharp HDTV, Get a Vudu and $50 Movie Credit for Free

Turbo Toaster Prototype Jet Engines Make Your Toast

Unlocked Open Source Anti-DRM Logo

A Performance-Enhancing Drug for Scientists and Professors

Creative Wi-Fi inPerson Video Phone Looks Promising

Yearning For Serene Flying Paddleboats

Joel Schumacher Dabbles In Vampire Nazi Experiments

Wal-Mart Year-End Report Card: C

Madrid’s ‘Air Tree’ Creates Its Own Energy, Oxygen

Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Leaves Us Unimpressed

A Bevvy of 1960s-Era Star Trek Babes

Digital Clapperboard Alarm Clock Looks Like the Real Thing

Nonobject Two-Way Camera Shows Us What We Can’t Control

Aliens Kick Predator’s Ass and That’s Final

Wi-Fi Detecting Watch, The Broadband Sniffer for Your Wrist

Giz Tech Tip: How to Sing and Play Rock Band Simultaneously

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