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Obama En Route To Becoming Most Popular Comic Book Character Ever

Yet another superhero comic is co-opting President-Elect Barack Obama to gain some extra publicity, sales and a claim to being hip to the political beat. Us, we’re wondering when enough will be enough already. The latest comic to jump onboard the Obama wagon (Obamagon?) is Image Comics’ Youngblood which, like Marvel’s Amazing Spider-Man, will feature…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan Jan 15

Wiimote-Controlled Coil Gun Gets Serious About Office Warfare

Having Nerf weapons in your office makes for a fun battle every now and then. Having a coil gun? Well, that takes things up a notch. You don’t mess with the Wiimote-controlled coil gun dude. Sure, it doesn’t seem like the most agile weapon in the world, and he still needs to hook up the…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jan 15

They Entered Gamespace to Refill Their Neuro-Drives

This long, glowing corridor that hides monitors in its curves can only be found if you make your way through the madness of the Harajuku district in Tokyo. No it’s not a spaceship, or a game show set, or even the backdrop to a J-pop music video. It’s an immersive advertisement for gaming. Called the…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 15

The Table Phone: Like a Regular Phone on Stilts

Why would anyone put legs on a landline phone? Furthermore, why would anyone sell a landline phone with legs? These are both good questions to ask the folks at Sundayland. [Sundayland via Design Crisis]

Tech News Sean Fallon Jan 15

Video From Inside Sam Rockwell’s Moon Base

Duncan Jones‘ Moon starring Sam Rockwell as a space miner, has finally released some footage. And it looks just as beautiful and lonely as we predicted. The movie focuses in on a guy putting in his solo work time on a desolate moon, waiting for his time to be up so he can return home…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 15

Kenya Hearts Barack With First Obama-Branded Cellphone

Mi Fone says yes we can…slap some red-and-blue Barack branding on a cellphone and sell it in Kenya, home of Papa Obama. And they’re selling like the proverbial hot cake. On the Obamaphone, the head of Mi Phone says: “The coming of the new President of the USA is an auspicious moment for all Kenyans…

Tech News John Mahoney Jan 15

Beautiful U.K. Stamp Series Features Britain’s Most Iconic Industrial Designs

So the English get to lick and stick ten beautiful icons of modern design, and we get Elvis? I see how it is. Everything featured is great—from the Concorde and Supermarine Spitfire from the aviation world, to the miniskirt from fashion and the Penguin book jacket from, well, English bookishness. I love these. More at:…

Tech News John Mahoney Jan 15

Finally: Is Batman RIP Or Not?

The conclusion to Batman RIP has finally arrived. Two months after the end of the story, and in a different comic altogether, yes, but the final fate of Batman is now (kinda) known. Spoilers, obviously. As those who read this week’s comics have apparently already seen, Bruce Wayne is dead. He died at the end…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan Jan 15

Hand Gesture USB Sticks Salute You, Your Data

And they also flash the horns, and indicate which side of the city they’re repping. Don’t even think about saving your wussie indie tunes on the horns. $35 for 2GB. [Sirtified via Engadget]

Tech News John Mahoney Jan 15

Crank 2 Poster Delivers Exactly What We Want From Statham

Pain, violence, gross pulsing veins — yep, Crank 2 is delivering all the goods I want from this cracked-out Jason Statham flick. Check out each poster separately below. Chev Chelios is back in Crank 2, kicking ass despite being saddled with a mechanical heart that needs to be pumped up every few moments with electricity.…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 15

Exercising Kintore-Z Robot Is Fundamentally Flawed

Last weekend Adam and I were stranded an extra day in Las Vegas, watching football in our Wynn tower penthouse, and the Fox Sports robot started doing pushups. And we struck upon a revelation. That revelation is that exercising robots make absolutely no sense. Robot exercise is destructive; it breaks things down, rather than build…

Tech News John Mahoney Jan 15

The Lavish Vegas Demands of an Ex-Fry’s Executive

Ausaf Umar Siddiqui was a Fry’s executive who attempted to embezzle money after losing $120 million in Vegas over three years. Poor guy, Mercury News just received seven pages of his standard Vegas hotel demands. Fiji water, grouped in bottles of three. Golden raisins and warmed mixed nuts. Aramis cologne and badger hair shaving brush.…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 15

This Woman May Eat You Alive

Is this the face of the Black Widow? Rumors have Emily Blunt as the front-runner to play the Russian femme fatale in next year’s Iron Man 2, and we couldn’t be happier. The always-reliable “sources” are reporting that Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada and soon to be seen in The Wolfman) is the lead in…

Movies Graeme McMillan Jan 15

Physicists Believe Our Universe Is One Big Hologram, And They May Have Spotted the Pixels

It’s not until you acknowledge the world’s greatest physicists do you realize how fundamentally useless our role here is. You and I will not uncover the secrets of the Universe. Luckily, someone’s working on it. One branch of theoretical physics believes that the Universe is just a holographic version of 2D information. And scientists have…

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson Jan 15

Star Trek Space Battles! Giant Slugs! Doctor Who Aliens! Smallville Clips!

Star Trek and BSG will make perfect sense, promise creators. Lost and Smallville clips! Plus dirt on Doctor Who, Star Wars, Heroes, Fringe, Sarah Connor and Dollhouse. The spoiler watch is right twice a day! Star Trek: Some old-school fans take issue with the new bar-brawling, jive-talking Kirk, because of a famous quote that Kirk…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jan 15

Cyber Heartbeat Watch Tells Time Through EKG

The Cyber Heartbeat LED watch won’t measure your actual heartbeat, but the whole living breathing human thing is so overrated. The watch, coming in silver or black with a red or green display, uses a series of LEDs to mimic an EKG spiking in correlation to the time. You can either choose to view this…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 15

Google Video Finally Falls to YouTube

YouTube stablemate Google Video, which tragicomically never made it out of beta, will stop accepting uploads in a few months. Plus, other no-name Google services are dying. Goodbye! [Google Blog via NoWhereElse]

Tech News John Herrman Jan 15

Buffalo Draft N Wireless Dongle Makes Your Netbook Look Huge

Buffalo Electronics is claiming that their WLI-UC-GN Wi-Fi dongle is the smallest Draft N 2.0 adapter in the world. Is it? Who knows. But it’s definitely tiny, and surprisingly cheap. At 33mm by 16mm, this dongle really couldn’t be much smaller—the brains of the unit are almost the same size as the plug itself. Nor…

Tech News John Herrman Jan 15

Palm Pre May Be a Best Buy Exclusive, At Least For a Few Months

WebOS Arena (jeez, that didn’t take long) is reporting that the Palm Pre will be exclusive to Best Buy Mobile (and Sprint stores, obviously) for its first two months, citing a “credible source”. This wouldn’t be totally surprising, as Sprint has previously given Best Buy such privileges, most notably in the case of the Samsung…

Tech News John Herrman Jan 15

Next Intel Atom’s Biggest Upgrade Is Its Price

Some details have emerged about Intel’s Atom N280 processor, the successor to the wildly popular N270 that drove last year’s netbook craze. In short, it’s not looking like much of an update. The N280 gets three performance boosts: the speed will inch up from 1.6GHz to 1.66GHz, the front side bus will climb from 533MHz…

Tech News John Herrman Jan 15

Obama En Route To Becoming Most Popular Comic Book Character Ever

Wiimote-Controlled Coil Gun Gets Serious About Office Warfare

They Entered Gamespace to Refill Their Neuro-Drives

The Table Phone: Like a Regular Phone on Stilts

Video From Inside Sam Rockwell’s Moon Base

Kenya Hearts Barack With First Obama-Branded Cellphone

Beautiful U.K. Stamp Series Features Britain’s Most Iconic Industrial Designs

Finally: Is Batman RIP Or Not?

Hand Gesture USB Sticks Salute You, Your Data

Crank 2 Poster Delivers Exactly What We Want From Statham

Exercising Kintore-Z Robot Is Fundamentally Flawed

The Lavish Vegas Demands of an Ex-Fry’s Executive

This Woman May Eat You Alive

Physicists Believe Our Universe Is One Big Hologram, And They May Have Spotted the Pixels

Star Trek Space Battles! Giant Slugs! Doctor Who Aliens! Smallville Clips!

Cyber Heartbeat Watch Tells Time Through EKG

Google Video Finally Falls to YouTube

Buffalo Draft N Wireless Dongle Makes Your Netbook Look Huge

Palm Pre May Be a Best Buy Exclusive, At Least For a Few Months

Next Intel Atom’s Biggest Upgrade Is Its Price

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