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BlackBerry Bold AT&T Release Confirmed: November 4, $299

In their earnings call this morning, AT&T confirmed that the BlackBerry Bold will be available in stores on Tuesday, November 4. Whatever delays were holding things up have apparently been resolved, as was hinted last week by some AT&T network-specific details beginning to pop up on unlocked phones. Price is “as low as” $299, which…

Tech News John Mahoney Oct 22

The Real Stars Of Our Favorite Movies: Gadgets and Cheeseburgers

We love high budget sci fi and action as much as anyone, but who really starred in Iron Man? Robert Downey Jr? Sure, he made an appearance. But so did his co-stars Apple, Dell and Burger King. The Dark Knight? Christian Bale peeked his head in, but so did Canon, Nokia and Bang & Olufsen.…

Movies Mark Wilson Oct 22

The Real Mad Scientist Is Always Better Than The Movie

Last night, New York’s Imagine Science Film Festival featured four short films about mad scientists — but they left out the maddest parts. Even though the films brought some unjustly overlooked geniuses to light — and shed some new light on familiar ones — they were missing some of the most important, and wildest, historical…

io9 Alex Carnevale Oct 22

Miu’s Does-Everything HDPC Gets Stylish Makeover, Atom Processor

Someone with a better sense of product design has been in Miu’s offices: the new version of its dual-screened Hybrid Dual Portable Computer actually looks pretty slick (the old one looked like a bucket of bolts, if you remember). It’s still packing navigation/computing power/cellphone/media player/kitchen-sink functionality inside, only this time it’s got an Atom processor…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 22

Mutant Children Harvest Your Eyes For Accessories, In Plague Town

Super creepy horror film Plague Town has released its trailer online. This “when mutant children attack” flick follows an American family on a holiday excursion through the back roads of Ireland. When they get ditched by their posse, a group of deformed, infected and mutated children descend upon their ranks and pick them off one…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 22

Google Gears Can Now Divine Your Laptop’s Precise Location Using Wi-Fi

Google Gears, the gears that power the tubes (really a browser plug-in that lets you work in web apps offline) has been updated with enhanced geo-location powers for laptops, so now developers can “securely locate users to within 200m accuracy” in hundreds of cities in either IE, Firefox, Safari or Chrome, and soon, Opera. Sorta…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 22

RC Hand Flips the Bird at Other Drivers, So You Don’t Have To

Gadget makers just occasionally stump-up with something that seems so wonderful you have to buy it: the remote-controlled electroluminescent gesturing hand is one of these. Sucker it onto your car’s rear window, and enjoy the ability to signal your pleasure or displeasure at other drivers without sticking your arm out the window. Guess which gesture…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 22

Naked Martian Robot

It’s the Phoenix Lander the way you’ve never seen it before, with all its private parts showing. This image by a NASA artist shows what Phoenix looked like before it opened up and unfurled all its lab equipment and other tools. Every single piece of equipment that Phoenix brought had to be packed into a…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 22

Study Finds the Color of Dreams Dependent On the Color of Your Childhood TV

Further evidence that media’s placating massage fingers mine even the deepest jelly regions of our brains, a new study has claimed to prove the long-thought notion that the type of TV and film exposure during youth drastically affects the color of dreams, even much later into life. In the study, only 4.4 percent of those…

Television John Mahoney Oct 22

Hollow Spy Coins Are Perfect Metaphor of Current Economy

Back in the good old days of the Cold War, spies didn’t have encrypted cellphones or digital thingamajigs to do their thing, so they did their spy business with classic spy stuff like spy camera-pens, spy shoe transmitters, spy bacon strips, and messages encoded on their spy underpants. Or these Hollow Spy Coins, which were…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz Oct 22

Star Wars Goes Online With Their New Old Republic

The rumors are true; Lucasfilm and BioWare announced yesterday that the two companies are working on an MMORPG called Star Wars: The Old Republic that will not only offer players a chance to step into the Star Wars universe, but will also change the way that MMOs are made forever. But that’s about all that…

io9 Graeme McMillan Oct 22

Cactus Back Scratcher Reaches That Place You Just Can’t Make Bleed

For those in the audience who have really, and we mean really, scratchy backs, the cactus back scratcher should do the trick. That green tip is no gimmick; that’s 100% real Arizona cactus bud if we’ve ever seen it (and we have, friends). So if you purchase this $10 therapeutic device, scratch your back and…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 22

iPod Speaker System by Jean-Michel Jarre’s Has Le Style

Jean-Michel Jarre has stopped twiddling with his synthesizer long enough to design this iPod dock/speaker system dubbed Aerosystems, and it’s undeniably stylish. And un petit peu phallic. It’s aimed at the top-end of the dock market, since it’s specifically designed to deliver high-quality audio: the circuitry in its integrated amp is apparently clever enough to…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 22

AT&T Sells 2.4 Million iPhone 3Gs, 40 Percent to New Customers

Not surprisingly for AT&T, the iPhone 3G is a strong part of their quarterly earnings report. Off the top they added two million net subscribers, ballooning to nearly 75 million total, and it looks like the iPhone 3G played a solid part in landing them. Of the 2.4 million iPhone 3Gs activated last quarter, 40…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 22

Crazy Flood Of Transformers 2 Rumors!

If every leak from “informed sources” about Transformers 2 was true, it would be insane (even by Michael Bay standards) and 10 hours long. At least the leaks about Quantum Of Solace and Splinter come from the directors themselves. And official sources are revealing that one of Lost’s weirdest characters will be back next season,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Oct 22

Mini Slasher Musical Movie Inspired by Macs Vs PCs Debate

Forget the old Macs Vs PCs rap and its slightly worn-out ilk, this has to be my new fave geek-inspired musical tribute. If only for its Dusk Till Dawn-alike transformation into a slasher gore-fest after a few minutes. Seriously—beating someone to death with a MacBook? Strange stuff. There’s just one flaw taking the shine off…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 22

New Robot Lets Surgeons Operate on a Heart While It Still Beats

Heart surgery is usually a case of “be still my beating heart” since it’s easier to work with static tissue, despite the risk of brain damage and all the complications of cardiopulmonary bypass machines. No longer, perhaps: some clever bods at Harvard University and the Children’s Hospital Boston have come up with a robotic system…

Health Kit Eaton Oct 22

SMART Table for Kids is Like a Cheaper, Funner-er Microsoft Surface

As much fun as it is to tinker with Microsoft’s multitouch Surface table, most of its applications have been decidedly gimmicky. By offering a lower price (sooner than MS), more compact design, and more complete suite of software, SmartTech wants to bring multitouch tables to the people who would probably most appreciate them — kids.…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 22

Intel: ARM is Fat, Ugly, Responsible for All of iPhone’s Problems

At the Intel Developer Forum in Taiwan, an Intel chief took an opportunity to piss all over one of the company’s biggest mobile competitors. “The shortcomings of the iPhone are not because of Apple,” he said, “The shortcomings of the iPhone have come from ARM.” What shortcomings are those, exactly? “Even if they do have…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 22

Android’s Interface Designers Show Us How It Could Have Looked

The Astonishing Tribe, the interface wunderkinds that designed the G1’s Android UI, have released a series of images and videos showing off a few other mobile design concepts — some that clearly didn’t make the Android cut, and others that were probably never intended to. These mockups could be penance for the actual Android UI,…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 22

BlackBerry Bold AT&T Release Confirmed: November 4, $299

The Real Stars Of Our Favorite Movies: Gadgets and Cheeseburgers

The Real Mad Scientist Is Always Better Than The Movie

Miu’s Does-Everything HDPC Gets Stylish Makeover, Atom Processor

Mutant Children Harvest Your Eyes For Accessories, In Plague Town

Google Gears Can Now Divine Your Laptop’s Precise Location Using Wi-Fi

RC Hand Flips the Bird at Other Drivers, So You Don’t Have To

Naked Martian Robot

Study Finds the Color of Dreams Dependent On the Color of Your Childhood TV

Hollow Spy Coins Are Perfect Metaphor of Current Economy

Star Wars Goes Online With Their New Old Republic

Cactus Back Scratcher Reaches That Place You Just Can’t Make Bleed

iPod Speaker System by Jean-Michel Jarre’s Has Le Style

AT&T Sells 2.4 Million iPhone 3Gs, 40 Percent to New Customers

Crazy Flood Of Transformers 2 Rumors!

Mini Slasher Musical Movie Inspired by Macs Vs PCs Debate

New Robot Lets Surgeons Operate on a Heart While It Still Beats

SMART Table for Kids is Like a Cheaper, Funner-er Microsoft Surface

Intel: ARM is Fat, Ugly, Responsible for All of iPhone’s Problems

Android’s Interface Designers Show Us How It Could Have Looked

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