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Lightning Review: WiBrain B1E UMPC

The Gadget: WiBrain’s B1E UMPC, a slightly wider (and much thicker) than PSP-sized UMPC with full QWERTY keyboard, touchscreen, trackpad and on-board webcam. The Price: $699 The Verdict: Meh. The keyboard feels great and the trackpad works about as well as a standard laptop trackpad, but the speed and quirkiness set this thing back a…

Reviews Jason Chen Jan 21 '08

Bug Labs’ Open Source Gadget Store Now Open

The Bug Labs open source do-it-yourself hardware gadget store is now splayed open, ripe for a hot injection of your cash. [Bug Labs] https://gizmodo.com/bug-labs-store-launches-monday-minus-wi-fi-346789

Gadgets Jason Chen Jan 21 '08

Philips READIUS Materializes With Fold-Away Screen

The Philips READIUS prototype that we showed you over a year ago, is finally materializing as an actual consumer product, not just as an e-reader but as a mobile phone. The READIUS has a slightly different design than the prototype, with a 5-inch flexible display that actually rolls up around the phone, allowing it to…

Tech News Christopher Mascari Jan 21 '08

It’s a Shiny, Dancy, Pop-Fascist Future in “The Apple”

Welcome to the dystopian disco future in The Apple, where the evil Mr. Boogalow of Boogalow International Music (BIM) has mind-controlled the masses to be evil pop music worshipers. An innocent folk duo from Saskatchewan (with real Canadian prairie accents!) are drawn into his glittery spell, and the girl half of the duo, Bibi, becomes…

Movies Annalee Newitz Jan 21 '08

Everything You Need To Know To Build Your Own Enterprise

Star Trek screenwriter Roberto Orci wades into the controversy over whether the Enterprise was built on Earth with a super-complicated explanation. Apparently if you’re building a starship with simulated Earth gravity, it’s best to construct it in the gravity well you’re simulating. And warp travel is sort of similar to the pressure of gravity, so…

io9 Charliejane Jan 21 '08

New South Pole Station Self-Elevates with Hydraulics

A new scientific research station opened its doors last week in Amundsen-Scott, the southern-most inhabitable spot on our planet. It belongs to the US, and took 20 years and $174 million to design and build. Its creators are hoping it will last, this time—its previous incarnations were eventually buried by snow and fated for demolition.…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA Jan 21 '08

Stargate Ice Cube Maker

A junkyard-scavenging artist reports that he’s discovered the coolest thing ever in a metal scrap bin: a beautiful, detailed mold for making nine-inch replicas of the Stargate. He’s thinking he’ll use it to make big-ass Stargate ice cubes, but has posted some ginormous pictures to inspire your suggestions for other uses. [MAKE:]

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 21 '08

Japanese Infrared Revamp Transfers at Gigabit Speeds

While IR is still quite useful for certain things, transferring data between devices is something very few people still use it for. Japan’s KDDI R&D labs, however, have managed to increase the transfer rate 250 times to 1Gbps with a semiconductor laser that blinks incredibly fast. Although 1Gbps is fast, it doesn’t quite transfer a…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jan 21 '08

io9’s Official Spoiler Policy

There’s no doubt that io9 needed a spoiler policy. So, we surveyed over 1000 readers about their opinions. Then people debated it in comments, and meanwhile offline I was arguing with Charlie about it. Although Charlie writes the “morning spoiler” roundup, she is very strict in her no-spoiler-without-warning policy. I am a bit more lax.…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 21 '08

Leopard Boot Camp Gets 64-bit Windows Vista Support

Spendtastic dudes who splurged on the Eight Core Mac Pros revealed earlier this month have an extra surprise for them: 64-bit Boot Camp support. The Boot Camp install discs have 64-bit Vista drivers on board, meaning you can load up Microsoft’s 2^6 bit OS with little to no problems on your silver cheese-grating behemoth. [Macrumors]…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 21 '08

Mix Tourette’s With Precognition, and You Get Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage will be starring in Knowing, where he apparently has knowledge about the future, and Tourette’s syndrome. Alex Proyas, who also directed Dark City (yay!) and I, Robot (meh) will direct this flick about a man who digs up a time capsule and finds information inside that he and his son might be responsible…

io9 Kevin Kelly Jan 21 '08

Crazy Time-Traveling, American Style

Time-travel thriller Timecrimes is only just debuting at Sundance, but already United Artists is planning a U.S. remake. Timecrimes is about a guy who stumbles into a time machine and travels back in time one hour. Meeting his own doppleganger is only the beginning of his nightmares. [Bloody Disgusting]

io9 Charliejane Jan 21 '08

Love and Sex With Robots Author on Colbert

David Levy, author of Love and Sex With Robots (a book about how we’re going to have sex with robots within 5 years and fall in love with them within 40) explains his extensive research with the subject on the Colbert Report. Between being made fun of by Colbert, the good doctor (he’s got a…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 21 '08

Star Trek Trailer, Now With Crisp Starship Porn

Now that you’ve suffered through the cameraphone version of of the J.J. Abrams Star Trek trailer, a non-migraine-inducing version is online at the movie’s official site. And the shots of the struts and nacelles being welded into place are pretty gorgeous now that all the details are visible. Thanks to David for the heads up!…

io9 Charliejane Jan 21 '08

The Justice League Of America Goes Steampunk

The big screen version of the Justice League of America has been put on hold and sent back to the drawing board. Plus, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie was fairly craptastic. But pretend, for a moment, that the two projects collided in your imagination and the resulting movie kicked ass. Got it? Now imagine…

io9 Kevin Kelly Jan 21 '08

Biometric System Narcs On Kids’ Eating Habits at School

In an effort to curb unhealthy eating habits, one Catholic school in Utah has implemented a biometric finger scanning system that is used to track what kids are eating during lunch. Parents are then given the information in hopes that they will use it to help children make better choices. Here is the thing though—the…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jan 21 '08

When Summer Movies Collide!

Drunk on the success and movie admiration that comes from attending the Sundance Film Festival, William Hurt has gone ahead and officially confirmed for the first time the crossover between Marvel’s upcoming Iron Man and Hulk movies. Not only that, but Hurt – who plays Hulkbustin’ General Thunderbolt Ross in the Ed Norton-led Hulk reboot…

io9 Grae Jan 21 '08

MacBook Pros Getting MacBook Air’s Multi-touch Trackpad

We think this is pretty obvious, but AppleInsider says they’ve received info that the MacBook Pros will also be getting the MacBook Air‘s multi-touch trackpad feature (which we got hands-on of here). The feature was supposed to be rolled out in another refresh for the MBP line around Macworld, but was delayed in order to…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 21 '08

NBC and Apple Exchange a Few Kind Words, Spark iTunes Rumors

NBC has a newfound respect for Steve Jobs and Apple, and Jobs himself has spoken about mending the fence with NBC. But do a few kind words really substantiate rumors that NBC will bring their shows back to iTunes? While we don’t think a future reunion is far-fetched, there’s nothing in either interview that supports…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 21 '08

Once You Go Bot, You Never Go Back

Stephen Colbert chats with David Levy, author of a new futurist-sexology-robotics book called Love and Sex with Robots, in this strange clip. The best part is Levy’s laconic delivery, as he ponderously explains that people will have sex with robots “within five years” and fall in love with them “within the next 40 to 50…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 21 '08

Lightning Review: WiBrain B1E UMPC

Bug Labs’ Open Source Gadget Store Now Open

Philips READIUS Materializes With Fold-Away Screen

It’s a Shiny, Dancy, Pop-Fascist Future in “The Apple”

Everything You Need To Know To Build Your Own Enterprise

New South Pole Station Self-Elevates with Hydraulics

Stargate Ice Cube Maker

Japanese Infrared Revamp Transfers at Gigabit Speeds

io9’s Official Spoiler Policy

Leopard Boot Camp Gets 64-bit Windows Vista Support

Mix Tourette’s With Precognition, and You Get Nicolas Cage

Crazy Time-Traveling, American Style

Love and Sex With Robots Author on Colbert

Star Trek Trailer, Now With Crisp Starship Porn

The Justice League Of America Goes Steampunk

Biometric System Narcs On Kids’ Eating Habits at School

When Summer Movies Collide!

MacBook Pros Getting MacBook Air’s Multi-touch Trackpad

NBC and Apple Exchange a Few Kind Words, Spark iTunes Rumors

Once You Go Bot, You Never Go Back

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