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Britain Goes Fannish Over New Trek Footage

JJ Abrams and Paramount screened four brand new, entirely completed scenes from next year’s Star Trek to British journalists yesterday, and the first reports are already online. According to those lucky enough to see what the rest of us have in store for us next May, the footage was “absolutely amazing;” Empire Magazine loving them…

Movies Graeme McMillan Nov 11

Electronic Wristlet Helps You Nag Your Children From Afar

With all of the dangers lurking out there these days, you probably shouldn’t let your toddler out of your sight for any length of time. However, should they escape your clutches this electronic wristlet concept could deliver text and graphic symbol messages to the child via a solar-powered display. My thought on this is that…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 11

The Complete New XM Sirius Channel Listing (Sorry XM Fans)

The spawn of the XM Sirius fusion emerges tomorrow, and Orbitcast has picked up the complete channel listing for XM subscribers that goes into effect in less than 24 hours. It’s fairly grim for some diehard XM fans—a lot of rock stations have been erased (bye bye punk channel) or are being replaced by Sirius…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 11

Meshpack: First Four Microsoft Live Mesh Apps Revealed

Microsoft’s Live Mesh, a file synchronization system across Windows XP, Vista and Mobile along with OSX, has looked fine from a technical standpoint…we’ve just been lacking some actual programs to take advantage of the infrastructure. At a recent developers conference, Microsoft announced their first four Live Mesh applications to excite the public and developers alike…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 11

AT&T iPhone Tethering to Cost $30/month?

According to a MacBlogz source, AT&T’s upcoming 3G iPhone tethering plan will run $30 a month over existing subscriptions and have a 5GB cap. That sounds about right to us, as the plan is identical to that which AT&T already offers to Blackberry users.They also explain that the connection will simply be cut if you…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 11

Your Chance To Champion Space Exploration With Fiction

The Moon Society, dedicated to lunar exploration, is launching a new free online science fiction magazine called Moonbeams. They make no promises about how often Moonbeams will be coming out, but they’ll try to make it quarterly. Stories should include only accepted physics, so no faster-than-light travel, teleportation or wormholes. “Just give us a good…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Nov 11

DIY Super Nintendo Digital Alarm Clock

I wouldn’t sacrifice a working SNES for this mod, but if you have a broken one in your closet somewhere, transforming it into a digital alarm clock is an interesting (and inexpensive) way to give it new life. As you can see in the video, the display can be set using the standard controller. Plus…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 11

Double Bike Takes You on a Supremely Ridiculous Ride

By the looks of things, this double-wheeled bike concept can easily stand alongside gems like the 12-foot tall bicycle, face to face tandem bicycle and the running bicycle in terms of sheer stupidity and pointless danger. Since there is no chain attached to the lower wheels, I can only assume that the upper wheel is…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 11

T-Mobile G1’s Build Price Is Just $143.89 Says iSuppli

T-mobile’s G1 has been given the teardown treatment again by the guys at iSuppli, and their official estimate of its materials price is $143.89. The most costly part inside is the dual-ARM processor baseband at $28.49, followed by the display at $19.67 and the 3-megapixel cam at $12.13. Obviously this doesn’t include external costs such…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 11

Twilight Mob Of 3,000 Descends On San Francisco Mall

The doe-eyed Robert Pattinson had to cancel his Twilight signing after about 3,000 screaming fans showed up outside of the Stonestown Galleria in San Francisco. The unexpected numbers turned into a tween mob outside the mall where screaming fans pushed and trampled each other to get a closer look at Pattinson’s lovely vampire mane, and…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 11

23 Personal HUDs That Would Make All of Our Lives Easier

This week’s Photoshop Contest asked you to design your own personal Heads-Up Display, and we got some really awesome results. Unlike many contests, nearly every single entry was unique and there aren’t a lot of the same gags over and over again. And I can personally say that I would kill to have almost all…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Nov 11

New Beginnings And Pretty Pictures Dominate This Week’s Comics

After the cathartic experience of last week’s election, the comic industry is obviously looking to move onto new beginnings this week, if the raft of new series is anything to go by. We have supernatural forensic teams, superheroine envy, a beautiful art book and even a comic version of a novel that will make many…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan Nov 11

Mini Coyote Saves Us from the Worst Orwellian Abomination Ever: Speedtrap Cameras

Of all the Big Brother things corporations, governments, and other nosy entities that want to examine all the minutiae of our daily lives looking for transgressions of stupid little rules, I feel like speedtrap cameras are the most egregious. Endemic in Europe, they’re gaining a foothold in the US. They break the whole system that…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 11

Toshiba Advances Bullet-Time to Next Level In Ad Filmed By 200 Camcorders

Toshiba‘s new “timesculpture” advert takes The Matrix’s Bullet Time film technique one bizarrely cool step forward by animating within the freeze-frame. It was filmed with 200 Gigashot camcorders arranged on a special rig, recording a mahoosive 20 terabytes of data from which the ad was composed. Check it out—it’s like a weird moving Bullet-Time ballet,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 11

Chocolate Superhero Costumes Leave You Craving Sweet Justice

When designing your superhero outfit, it’s important to select the proper material. After spandex and chrome, chocolate leaps to mind immediately. Sure it’s tasty, but will it protect you in battle? Last weekend, a group of pastry chefs took on crimefighting fashion’s ultimate challenge: cooking up cocoa costumes that look as sweet as they taste.Sixty…

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 11

Homemade Wasp Sucking Machine Creates a Wasp Holocaust

If you spot a hole in the side of your house that a bunch of wasps are constantly going in and out of, obviously building a nest, what do you do? Do you get a can of Raid and spray it in there and hope you don’t get stung? Do you just stay the hell…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Nov 11

Stop Future Plagues By Mutating Viruses To Death

The next time a viral infection starts spreading zombie-like madness across England (or wherever), we might put a halt to the plague before the sequel ever gets made. Our secret weapon will be a designer drug created by plugging some numbers into a mathematical formula. Rice University researchers have developed just such a formula, and…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Nov 11

HTC Fuze (Touch Pro) Now Available on AT&T

Just yesterday the HTC Fuze was spotted for the first time in its AT&T retail packaging and we assumed that the launch was not far off. Fortunately, we only had to wait a few hours. AT&T has announced that the Fuze is now available at stores and online for $299.99 with a two-year contract and…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 11

Best Buy’s Gift Card is a Tiny Audio Speaker

Who is the consultant that told all of the big boxers that it would be a good idea to turn this year’s holiday gift cards into some sort of tangible object? They are raking it in right now. First Target made this year’s gift cards into digital cameras, and now Best Buy’s are a cheap-o…

Tech News John Mahoney Nov 11

Will DVD Bring the Real Babylon A.D., Minus Studio Meddling?

It’s never a good sign when your first DVD release has two different versions of your film, but Vin Diesel’s Babylon A.D. was a special kind of terrible. In the January 6 DVD release there will be two Babylon A.D. films: One the original theatrical release, and the other an unrated cut. Now, at last,…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 11

Britain Goes Fannish Over New Trek Footage

Electronic Wristlet Helps You Nag Your Children From Afar

The Complete New XM Sirius Channel Listing (Sorry XM Fans)

Meshpack: First Four Microsoft Live Mesh Apps Revealed

AT&T iPhone Tethering to Cost $30/month?

Your Chance To Champion Space Exploration With Fiction

DIY Super Nintendo Digital Alarm Clock

Double Bike Takes You on a Supremely Ridiculous Ride

T-Mobile G1’s Build Price Is Just $143.89 Says iSuppli

Twilight Mob Of 3,000 Descends On San Francisco Mall

23 Personal HUDs That Would Make All of Our Lives Easier

New Beginnings And Pretty Pictures Dominate This Week’s Comics

Mini Coyote Saves Us from the Worst Orwellian Abomination Ever: Speedtrap Cameras

Toshiba Advances Bullet-Time to Next Level In Ad Filmed By 200 Camcorders

Chocolate Superhero Costumes Leave You Craving Sweet Justice

Homemade Wasp Sucking Machine Creates a Wasp Holocaust

Stop Future Plagues By Mutating Viruses To Death

HTC Fuze (Touch Pro) Now Available on AT&T

Best Buy’s Gift Card is a Tiny Audio Speaker

Will DVD Bring the Real Babylon A.D., Minus Studio Meddling?

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