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Dematerialize Yourself

A current exhibition in London gives you the feeling of stepping into a teleportation beam. Artist and film-maker Anthony McCall fills a room with dry ice, then two projectors beam a Quicktime video of moving cones of light into the haze. Thanks to the artificial smoke, the cones appear solid and it looks as though…

io9 Charliejane Jan 8 '08

Justify Your Gadget: Optimus Maximus Keyboard

Kotaku readers will already recognize our Justify series, but we give people 15 seconds to pitch us their product or answer a question. If they make it, great. If they miss it…you don’t want to know. For our inaugural Justify Your Gadget, we talked to Art.Lebedev’s very own Art Lebedev. So can he justify all…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Jan 8 '08

RealEase Shogo Frame Is First With Touchscreen and Wi-Fi

Though we’re prone to turn our nose up at the majority of digital picture frames, this one doesn’t smell so bad. The Euro-born Shogo by RealEase is like an oversized PDA with built-in Wi-Fi and an intuitive touch interface. You can subscribe to public Flickr feeds, download weather forecasts, stream internet radio. Like some other…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Jan 8 '08

iPhone Knock-Off on Demo; Makes Us Weep a Little

We just had a hands on with this disastrous iPhone knock-off. The UI is like a pile of steaming poo, and the case is like…well, a pile of steaming poo. In general, we thought it was excrement-like—avoid like you would carcinogenic toxins if you were not a smoker. Stop smoking.

Tech News Haroon Malik Jan 8 '08

Bollywood Star Will Save Us From a Killer Robot

Finally, some real news about the Bollywood robot flick that everyone’s been rumoring about. It looks like famed director S. Shankar has locked in “South India’s darling” Rajnikanth, pictured here in front of a glowy yellow background, as the main actor in his groundbreaking sci-fi film Robot. https://gizmodo.com/bollywood-robot-film-seeks-muse-325025 https://gizmodo.com/dont-give-your-kids-a-robot-friend-333539 The film has a monster budget…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA Jan 8 '08

Eubiq Wall-Mounted Power Strip Goes Consumer

We’ve known about the Eubiq wall-mounted power strip for a while, but they’ve just told us that they’re making a consumer version that doesn’t need to be professionally installed by someone who won’t burn your house down. https://gizmodo.com/quick-power-connector-165811 The concept is the same: a strip that mounts on the wall and allows you to modularly…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 8 '08

Gamboxx Cabinets are XXX Hot

We got a chance to feel up some new arcade cabinets from manufacturer Gameboxx. They have some new models on the show floor that only need a distributor to get to your door. The first (model GBU003), is a miniature, single-player cabinet with 7″ screen, running $699 retail (a price well worth feeling like a…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 8 '08

OptiMax-i iPod Dock/Projector Gives Your iPod Movies Big(ish) Screen Action

We just hung out with the guys at genieSys Technologies, and they really had some great products to show us. The OptiMax-i iPod dock/projector really caught our attention. The ultra portable projector has a standard iPod dock (cross generation), which allows you to hook up your iPod and watch stored movies in awesome projected fashion.…

Tech News Haroon Malik Jan 8 '08

Charles Stross Talks to io9 About Sex, Prison, and Politics

Yesterday we talked to Jim Munroe about one of the most political science fiction novels written in the last century, and today we’ve cornered science fiction author Charles Stross into talking about the future of a more socio-political issue: sex. Stross is the author most recently of Halting State, a near-future MMO crime thriller, as…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Jan 8 '08

Is CES Leaving Las Vegas?

MSNBC reports that rising costs of food and accommodations during CES week could drive the show out of Las Vegas when their contract ends in 2011. [MSNBC]

Tech News Benny Goldman Jan 8 '08

Giz Intern Smokes Competish at Tiger Direct AMD PC Building Contest

Last night, our weekend intern Eric Sheline made his mama proud by finishing fourth in the 11th annual Tiger Direct AMD Acer PC building contest. You’ll recall in years past that Blam finished both 3rd and 5th, which means that Sheline basically tied his master, and smoked over 80% of the seasoned editors in the…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Jan 8 '08

Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Makes Cameo at CES

So we’re hanging in the robotics area of the Sands Convention Hall, about to talk to WowWee, when our contact says, “Can you excuse me for a second? Dean Kamen is here…it’s the opportunity of a lifetime.” He runs off giddy. You know Dean Kamen as the inventor of the Segway (as well bigger milestones…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 8 '08

Jumper Teleporting Through Commercials

Advertising has gone so meta that only teleportation can explain it. In this ad, Jumper star Hayden Christensen uses his teleporting gift to throw himself into Serena Williams’ computer ad. So basically he’s leaping out of a commercial for the film, which is about teleporting mutants, and into an old ad for Hewlett Packard, starring…

io9 Kevin Kelly Jan 8 '08

Monsters, Hotpants and Horrors Dominate January’s Second Week in Comics

Welcome back to New Comics We Crave, a weekly column about what comics to buy on Wednesday, written by our resident Comics Czar, Graeme McMillan. Way to go, Marvel. Not even a week after I go and say that January is a graveyard for interesting comic releases, and you put out two big-name books in…

io9 Grae Jan 8 '08

Apple Store Back Up, Stocked With New Eight-Core Mac Pros and Xserve

After going down for Apple elves to stock the shelves with the new eight-core Mac Pro and the most powerful Xserve ever—it’s back up. Mac Pros here, Xserve here. [Apple Store] https://gizmodo.com/new-apple-mac-pro-eight-cores-support-for-eight-30-in-342091

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jan 8 '08

What’s Going to be Big at CES Today

Sure, everyone here is bitter about Apple taking a steaming dump on CES for the second year in a row, but that doesn’t mean we’re finished. Oh no, not even close. Here’s what you (and we) have to look forward to today, Giz faithful: •Laser TVs! •New Guitar Hero guitars! •A surprise from AMD? •Us…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jan 8 '08

Sunshine Should Be Burning Up the Oscars

The Academy’s shortlist for visual effects awards hit the web yesterday, and Sunshine isn’t anywhere to be found. If you want to see why this is such a travesty, then head out and pick up a copy on DVD today. We know all of you didn’t see it, and it flew under the radar for…

io9 Kevin Kelly Jan 8 '08

Time Travel Turns Ordinary Guy Into Monster

Time travel corrupts absolutely in Time Crimes, the new movie from Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo. A guy travels back in time by accident and meets himself, along with a mysterious creepy figure whose head is wrapped in pink rags. The ability to exist in an infinite number of circumstances thanks to time travel inevitably draws…

io9 Charliejane Jan 8 '08

Modify Your Body But Also Worry About the Planet

Warren Ellis has created a new biopunk blog called Grinding, spun out of his Doktor Sleepless comic. Mostly it’s about body modification, but is also sprinkled with Ellis’s traditional techno-urbanism and pretty picture obsessions. The best part is Ellis’ introduction to the site, where he talks about a new breed of body-hacking humans. Ellis writes:…

Books & Comics Grae Jan 8 '08

Tetris-Style Slovenian Housing Projects

Public housing projects might have limited funds, but that doesn’t mean they have to look cheap. Slovenian architecture firm Ofis Arhitekti built these Tetris-style apartments in Ljubljana for the Slovenia Housing Fund last year. The firm was given limited funds, 4 stories, and less than 54,000 square feet to build on. Plus the land faced…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA Jan 8 '08

Dematerialize Yourself

Justify Your Gadget: Optimus Maximus Keyboard

RealEase Shogo Frame Is First With Touchscreen and Wi-Fi

iPhone Knock-Off on Demo; Makes Us Weep a Little

Bollywood Star Will Save Us From a Killer Robot

Eubiq Wall-Mounted Power Strip Goes Consumer

Gamboxx Cabinets are XXX Hot

OptiMax-i iPod Dock/Projector Gives Your iPod Movies Big(ish) Screen Action

Charles Stross Talks to io9 About Sex, Prison, and Politics

Is CES Leaving Las Vegas?

Giz Intern Smokes Competish at Tiger Direct AMD PC Building Contest

Segway Inventor Dean Kamen Makes Cameo at CES

Jumper Teleporting Through Commercials

Monsters, Hotpants and Horrors Dominate January’s Second Week in Comics

Apple Store Back Up, Stocked With New Eight-Core Mac Pros and Xserve

What’s Going to be Big at CES Today

Sunshine Should Be Burning Up the Oscars

Time Travel Turns Ordinary Guy Into Monster

Modify Your Body But Also Worry About the Planet

Tetris-Style Slovenian Housing Projects

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