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Square-Enix Teams Up With NeuroSky For Mind-Controlled Gaming Concept

Square-Enix and NeuroSky will unveil a mind-controlled gaming demo on Thursday at the Tokyo Game Show. The setup works with a Windows PC and the MindSky headset, and runs Square’s software created specifically for this demo. The headset fits over your head with earmuffs and has one electrode that monitors brainwaves. The headset itself is…

Tech News Adrian Covert Oct 7

Silverstone Raven Gaming Mouse Has a Tumor on the Side, Can’t Possibly Be Comfortable

Silverstone’s Raven gaming mouse looks really interesting at first glance, what with the giant, glowing and strangely hypnotic tumor bolted to its side. It appears to be a secondary scroll wheel, which sits next to the usual thumb buttons. And you’ve got another pair of buttons next to your middle finger. But when you think…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 7

Remock Lockey Opens Doors With Its Wireless Mojo

Wireless deadbolts have been on the market for a while now, but the new Remock Lockey seems like a decent solution for doors you want to secure inside a home. The remote controlled lock is placed on the inside of a room and can only be opened with a remote control “key.” It runs on…

Privacy & Security Sean Fallon Oct 7

Democrats Still Most Tech Savvy, Rent Digital Billboard to Text Message Sarah Palin at Rally

Click to viewNeed more evidence that Democrats are more grassroots tech savvy than their elephantine counterparts? At a Sarah Palin rally in LA on Saturday, the California Democratic party rented a digital billboard across the street which displayed questions for the veep candiate sent by text message. Granted, even if Palin did read them, she…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 7

Ape Man Goes Wild!

In The Ape Man, an example of raw craziness from 1943, Bela “Dracula” Lugosi finds himself turned into an “ape man” due to some kind of mad science accident. After puttering about in his lab wearing gorillaface, he realizes that he only needs a bunch of spinal fluid to make himself human again. So he…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 7

Three New Ways to Watch YouTube: Lights Out, Theater View and Super HD

Not just one, but three new ways to view YouTube today. The first two should be familiar to anyone who’s used Hulu—lights out and theater mode. Lights out dims your whole screen except the video, while the latter also blows up the player and adds tacky/cool theater curtains on the side. Right now, they’re only…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 7

Japan Is Creating Your Future Cyborg Overlords Right Now

Wow, I don’t know what’s crazier — that there’s a Japanese company called Cyberdyne, or the fact that it’s creating cyborg limbs that look sort of like 1960s Cybermen. Or maybe the fact that its cyborg limbs are called “Human Assistive Limb,” or HAL for short. What’s next? The Brilliant Organ Replacement Group? It’s like…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 7

Michael Schumacher Tower to Take Over the World

Another day, another spectacular tower in Dubai: The Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower, a curvy building “inspired by the geometrical order of a snowflake and the aerodynamics of a Formula 1”, will not only appear in Dubai but in six other cities around the world. According to the architects—who worked in Beijing’s Water Cube—the design…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 7

The Superheroes of the Far East Are About To Get Really Good

The Busan International Film Festival in South Korea wrapped yesterday, and everyone was buzzing about two major superhero flicks hitting Asian countries this winter. The sequel to 2003’s Cicak Man from Malaysia will hit theaters in early December. And audiences eagerly anticipate Jeon Woo Chi, a Harry Potter superhero flick budgeted at $12 million. Want…

io9 Alex Carnevale Oct 7

Two Lamps One Flashlight

There have been other attempts at fusing a flashlight with a lamp, but ‘Two Lamps’ with its simple click-off rechargeable flashlight design offers up one of the most elegant solutions (similar to certain lantern camping flashlights, only probably wouldn’t suck). The flashlight may not be powerful enough to burn paper, but it would be nice…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 7

John Gulager Explains The Problem With Monster Peen

All hail the return of adorably quirky monster movie creator John Gulager, whose Feast was a Project Greenlight winner. He’s teamed up with the original Feast writers to bring us Feast II: Sloppy Seconds. We sat down with Gulager and grilled him about all the monster barf, blood, and puss that leaks out of Feast…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 7

Question of the Day: Who Controls the Remote in Your House?

Whenever I give up the TV remote to someone else in the house, I am inevitably forced to suffer through The Bachelor or something that involves female friendship and bonding during difficult situations. It’s torture—which is why the remote rarely leaves my side these days. Besides, I consider myself a fair remote ruler. I try…

Television Sean Fallon Oct 7

Yep, We’re Screwed: National Debt Clock Runs Out of Numbers

It’s official. We’re hosed. The National Debt Clock near Times Square has just run out of spaces to add more zeroes to its running count of our national debt, thanks to the one-two punch of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout and the $100 billion used to prop up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 7

The Glowing, Shattered Face of Mercury

NASA’s Messenger spacecraft zoomed past Mercury yesterday, sending back a set of luminous images that look like they were taken by celebrated nature photographer Ansel Adams in space. Here you can see the bright pocks left by recent meteors crashing to the planet’s surface, opening up complicated webs of cracks. Want to see those cracks…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 7

Heroes Isn’t Derivative, Claims Executive Producer

Whatever you do, don’t suggest that Heroes is derivative to the show’s executive producer Jeph Loeb. On the latest edition of comic book creator interview podcast WordBalloon, he shrugs off comparisons to Watchmen (“Oh, like nothing’s ever ended with the end of the world ever”) and The Fly (“Have you ever seen the Wolfman? Okay,…

io9 Graeme McMillan Oct 7

MLB At Bat iPhone On Sale Because You Have to Re-Buy It Every Season

The MLB’s must-buy At Bat iPhone app for baseball fanatics, which delivers live game info, video, more stats than you can swing a stick and other goodness, is currently on sale for $2.99, two bucks off of its usual $5 pricetag. But it’s more of a bait-and-switch than a steal, because the app will expire…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 7

World’s Deepest Fish Filmed For the First Time

This is a group of snailfish-the deepest living fish in existence-filmed alive for the first time in history in the name science and nausea. They live at depths of 4.6 miles (7,500 meters) or more, so scientists had to develop new camera technology capable of supporting a pressure of 8,000 tonnes per square metre-“the equivalent…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 7

Ian Fleming in Space, Courtesy of Paul Cornell and Pyr Books

Want to read an awesome alternate history, space-colony spy story from Doctor Who scribe and comic book writer Paul Cornell? Pyr Books publisher Lou Anders posted a free preview of Cornell’s story “Catherine Drewe” online last week — the tale serves as the opener to short story collection Fast Forward 2, which Anders calls “all…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Oct 7

Sonim XP3 “The World’s Toughest Phone” Coming to the US

Sonim has gone to great lengths to convince European customers that its XP1 is the toughest phone on the market. They even went so far as to take the phone on tour and encourage spectators to try and beat it into submission. Now the company is planning on launching an updated version, the XP3, in…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 7

Show Us Your Best (or Most Humiliating) Scifi Halloween Costumes

It’s Halloween month, and we’ve already regaled you with instructions on how to make some of the coolest scifi costumes around. Now it’s your turn to show and tell us about your best — or worst, or most humiliating — scifi costume moments. We’ve created an io9 Flickr pool called io9 Scifi Halloween Costume Show…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 7

Square-Enix Teams Up With NeuroSky For Mind-Controlled Gaming Concept

Silverstone Raven Gaming Mouse Has a Tumor on the Side, Can’t Possibly Be Comfortable

Remock Lockey Opens Doors With Its Wireless Mojo

Democrats Still Most Tech Savvy, Rent Digital Billboard to Text Message Sarah Palin at Rally

Ape Man Goes Wild!

Three New Ways to Watch YouTube: Lights Out, Theater View and Super HD

Japan Is Creating Your Future Cyborg Overlords Right Now

Michael Schumacher Tower to Take Over the World

The Superheroes of the Far East Are About To Get Really Good

Two Lamps One Flashlight

John Gulager Explains The Problem With Monster Peen

Question of the Day: Who Controls the Remote in Your House?

Yep, We’re Screwed: National Debt Clock Runs Out of Numbers

The Glowing, Shattered Face of Mercury

Heroes Isn’t Derivative, Claims Executive Producer

MLB At Bat iPhone On Sale Because You Have to Re-Buy It Every Season

World’s Deepest Fish Filmed For the First Time

Ian Fleming in Space, Courtesy of Paul Cornell and Pyr Books

Sonim XP3 “The World’s Toughest Phone” Coming to the US

Show Us Your Best (or Most Humiliating) Scifi Halloween Costumes

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