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Hands On: Fusion Visual Voicemail App For Android Now Available

We were promised visual voicemail for the G1 (and subsequent Android phones) by the end of the year via the folks at Fusion, a VVM provider that already has apps for several other platforms. Today, the Android version hit the Market, and we’ve given it a spin. So how does it work? Pretty well. Setup…

Tech News John Mahoney

New Movie Let Fans Choose Their Own Adventure

The teaser trailer for upcoming movie Jathia’s Wager has been released, offering viewers their first chance to see the fruits of their collaborative labors on one of the world’s first “open source” science fiction movies. Is letting fans write, cast and edit your movie a sign of laziness, or the way of the future?Wager is,…

Movies Graeme McMillan

See Saw Bicycle: Crashing is Only One of the Ways It Can Kill You

Once again, someone has taken absurd and dangerous bicycle design to another preposterous level. Thankfully, the See Saw bike is only in the prototype phase because if you didn’t flat out crash and burn trying to ride it (with someone of equal weight), you would surely go brain dead repeatedly head-butting your partner. [My Atomic…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Discover Your Secret Psychic Inheritance, Before The Computers Get You

Classic anime TV movie Toward The Terra is finally coming out on DVD. Based on Keiko Takemiya’s award-winning manga series, the 1980 movie follows Jomy, a boy who grows up in a world run by supercomputers which brainwash humans when they reach the age of fourteen. Jomy discovers he has psychic powers, and the mysterious…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

HAL 9000 Papercraft Will, At Some Point, Cut You

We know. He certainly looks cute and harmless. But sooner or later, the HAL 9000 (freely printable papercraft version) could get a small, unintentional dent in the side. “I’ll just toss him in the shredder for another,” you say out of earshot from the harmless little paper computer. Or so you thought… [Mr. Hal 9000…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Gadget Deals of the Day

It’s almost Black Friday, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t deals to be had today. We’ve got cheap monitors, digital cameras, flash drives and video games after the jump, with many of these offers valid for today and today only. Oh, and today’s also the day you can score a free Dr. Pepper courtesy of…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Tear Down The Bookshelf Markers, Urge Le Guin and Martin

Call it a sign of the times: A Public Radio discussion about the future of science fiction turned into a conversation about the ways SF is struggling. On the one hand, it’s lost ground to fantasy, which has become the more popular book genre by far. On the other, the best science fiction writers still…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Sony PRS-700 Reader Review: Blinding Glare Kills All Improvements

Though it must scare the crap out of the publishing biz, we will all one day carry ebook readers. In the US, Sony and Amazon have led the way with impressive E-Ink systems that prove that digital displays can be as readable as ink on paper. For this holiday season, Sony presented the $400 PRS-700…

Reviews Wilson Rothman

The International Space Station Celebrates Its 10th Birthday

This month, the International Space Station turns 10. One of the coolest examples of humanity’s huge leaps forward in technology, it’s still an amazing sight to behold 10 years later. And now The Big Picture has collected over 30 photos of our beloved ISS. Hit the jump for another of my favorites and then head…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci

Hackmodo: Use a Chicken’s Head as a Camera Stabilizer

Don’t have an anti-shake camera stabilizer in your camera? Have a chicken handy? Great! Just strap your cam to its head and watch as nature’s image stabilization service does all the work. According to the video, motion processors use an inertial measurement unit, which senses motion (rate, type and direction) and compensates for it. Chickens…

Tech News Jason Chen

Fiber Optic Sculpture Transforms Field into a Luminous Alien Landscape

To see yourself on an alien planet, you need go no farther than Cornwall, England. That’s where lighting designer Bruce Munro has placed his outdoor installation, “Field of Light.” Thousands of fiber optic cables topped with acrylic orbs illuminate the countryside, giving the impression that the field is populated with bioluminescent vegetation from another world.…

io9 Lauren Davis

ZzzPhone Is Second Google Android Cellphone Ever

According to CrunchGear’s John Biggs, the second-ever Android cellphone doesn’t come from Motorola, Nokia or Sony Ericsson. The Zzzphone is a full-QWERTY keyboard Chinese slider which apparently runs the Android operating system, and has a web site designed in 1994. It not only runs Android, but it also seems to have mutant powers. This thing…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

True Blood Brings Us Strangest Naked Dog Man/Burned Vampire Action Scene Ever

Screw you sparkle vampires — this week’s season finale of True Blood showed us all how a real blood sucker deals with the sunlight. This week, our vampire friends from Louisiana pulled out all the crazy-pants stops, delivering one if the most ridiculous action scenes I’ve ever seen. Crusty vampires fight murderous lunatics, with help…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Umbuster Brass Knuckle Umbrella Now For Sale

The internet design concept phenomenon known as the Umbuster has finally jumped out of that nightmare you have about an old man beating you to a pulp in the street into cold, hard reality. That’s right—you can start using this knuckle-dusting umbrella to bust up rainclouds and jawbones right now for the equivalent of $287…

Tech News Sean Fallon

16 Tricked Out Gadget Suitcases

The folks at OObject have put together a list of 16 gadget suitcases that can handle any situation a super spy may find himself in. Spy transmitter suitcase? Check. Spy kitchen suitcase? You bet. Spy kayak suitcase? Definitely (that one always comes in handy). Spy suitcase nuke? Well…sort of. Hit the link to check out…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Alien Gods Make Wonder Woman Nervous

While Wonder Woman may have been magically made from clay, that doesn’t mean that there isn’t any science fiction in her world. Check out the exclusive preview of the opening of this week’s issue to see a nervous Amazon full of foreboding as her gods return home from a trip into outer space. Wednesday’s issue,…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Mini Mario Kart R/C Racing Set Takes the Game Into the Real World

The giant Mario Kart R/C racer was cool, but Mario on Mario races don’t do a great job of bringing the game out of the Wii and into the real world (even the slot racer set doesn’t quite do the trick). However, these new mini R/C toys from Brando are a different story. Each rechargeable,…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Harbingers of the Cute-o-pocalypse

When you see these tiny metal “Apocalypt-Ephunts” you’ll know the truth about the end of the world. It will be signaled by the arrival of cute, miniature elephants bearing cannons. These intriguing and bizarre creatures made by Los Angeles artist Amanda Visell go on sale today, and you can get them in a variety of…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Cellphone Gun Delivers Hot, Sneaky Death, Can’t Send Text Messages

Italian police officers recently seized a tiny gun that’s disguised as a cellphone. It can hold four bullets and is powerful enough to kill somebody. It looks pretty good, phone-wise, if pretty outdated. It’s stuff like this that makes me having to pour my water out at airport security seem even more idiotic. If I…

Tech News Adam Frucci

3D Power Is Highly Varied Across iPhone/iPod Touch Iterations

We already knew that the latest iPod touch featured the fastest processing of its siblings (a 532MHz-clocked processor vs 412MHz on the original iPhone, the original iPod touch and even the new iPhone 3G). But we were surprised to hear from software developers that the latest iPod touch can render character models with nearly double…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Hands On: Fusion Visual Voicemail App For Android Now Available

New Movie Let Fans Choose Their Own Adventure

See Saw Bicycle: Crashing is Only One of the Ways It Can Kill You

Discover Your Secret Psychic Inheritance, Before The Computers Get You

HAL 9000 Papercraft Will, At Some Point, Cut You

Gadget Deals of the Day

Tear Down The Bookshelf Markers, Urge Le Guin and Martin

Sony PRS-700 Reader Review: Blinding Glare Kills All Improvements

The International Space Station Celebrates Its 10th Birthday

Hackmodo: Use a Chicken’s Head as a Camera Stabilizer

Fiber Optic Sculpture Transforms Field into a Luminous Alien Landscape

ZzzPhone Is Second Google Android Cellphone Ever

True Blood Brings Us Strangest Naked Dog Man/Burned Vampire Action Scene Ever

Umbuster Brass Knuckle Umbrella Now For Sale

16 Tricked Out Gadget Suitcases

Alien Gods Make Wonder Woman Nervous

Mini Mario Kart R/C Racing Set Takes the Game Into the Real World

Harbingers of the Cute-o-pocalypse

Cellphone Gun Delivers Hot, Sneaky Death, Can’t Send Text Messages

3D Power Is Highly Varied Across iPhone/iPod Touch Iterations

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