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iSleep Laptop Airbag: Because Work is Not That Bad When You Sleep Through It

Designers these days seem bound and determined to lower our productivity with products that entice us to sleep when we should be working. The iSleep concept expands on the idea behind products like the Napbook by making the process a little more high-tech. When you close your laptop, the fan exhaust automatically fills up the…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 6

iPhone OS 2.1 Won’t Fetch Emails in Sleep Mode

Another bug in iPhone OS 2.1, which we have tested and reproduced, is that it will no longer fetch emails in the background while in sleep mode on battery power. It’s most probably one of the power-saving tweaks introduced in 2.1, since Apple says that the 15-minute fetch interval is the worst wear on the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 6

True Blood Goes Old Timey And Shows Civil War Sluts

This week on True Blood, we journeyed back into vampire Bill’s past and encountered some of the women who have wanted to sleep with him. And we heard some of the worst Civil War pick-up lines ever. Spoilers and dishing below.Sookie breaks things off with Bill, and quickie picks up with Sam as an escort…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 6

CNN Responds To Giz’s Pundit-Laptop Baseball-Watching Exposé

Update! After our shocking reveal of exactly what happens on CNN pundits’ laptops while Anderson Cooper is blabbing about Sarah Palin (thanks again, Mark), the folks at the world’s Most Trusted Name in News have responded. Unable to let such a scandal sit unanswered, on Friday night’s 360 Cooper dialed up legal analyst and guilty…

Television John Mahoney Oct 6

Another iPhone Security Hole in Password-Protected Mode

While this iPhone security hole isn’t nearly as gaping as the last one we covered (which was fixed by Apple), it too exploits the emergency call feature in password-protected mode. In password-protected mode, there’s an option to disable SMS preview, so if someone picks up your locked phone, they can’t see incoming text messages. However,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 6

A Cure for Progeria, the Disease that Makes Children Die of Old Age

One in every 4 million children suffers from a genetic disorder called progeria that causes them to age prematurely — developing wrinkled skin and baldness before the age of 10, and usually dying of heart disease or stroke by puberty. The disease has always intrigued researchers interested in unlocking the genetic key to aging. Now…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 6

Indiana Jones 5 Is An Unsurprising Go, Says Ford

The world may not have accepted Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull’s foray into science fiction, but that hasn’t stopped George Lucas from planning a fifth outing for Indy… or Harrison Ford from apparently agreeing to do it: “It’s automatic, really, we did well with the last one and with that having…

io9 Graeme McMillan Oct 6

DARPA Working on a Submersible Aircraft That Can Go From Air to Sea

DARPA is pumping money into developing a submersible aircraft: a vehicle that can fly in the air and dive straight into the water, becoming a submarine (kind of like this one). Badass! The DARPA Submersible Aircraft research project is focused on making a submersible aircraft, not, as they not, a flying submarine. There’s a difference!…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Oct 6

Dealzmodo: $80 Off Xbox 360 Elite

Remember that deal from last week where you could save $50 on a new Xbox Elite at Dell? Well, I really hope you didn’t listen to us. Because this week—today only, actually—you can save $80 on an Elite at Dell. Enter the code ‘NP?CKPRH$KTWLL’ at checkout and knock the price down to $320 (with free…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 6

16-foot Kitchen on Wheels

Niners, Giants, and Berkeley fan Trey D. built this fully-loaded BBQ trailer from the ground up. It has 2 charcoal grills, one covered gas grill, a hot plate, 4 propane burners, a huge prep area, a smoker, and a sink. There’s also a stereo system located in the side compartments with 4 speakers surrounding the…

Tech News Chrissie Lamond Oct 6

Playing Baseball with Rocket Launchers and Tanks on Japanese TV

You’ve gotta love Japanese television. Two nights ago, the show NTV showed the results of an experiment it attempted involving baseball, tanks and rocket launchers. I don’t speak Japanese, so I don’t know what their scientific justifications were for the experiments, but I do know the results, thanks to the below videos captured by Japan…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Oct 6

The Herman Miller Embody Chair, or Aeron Part II

Can Man place a pricetag on the comfort of his rump? Yes. Yes he can. And the Embody chair—the sequel to the iconic, $1.5 billion grossing Aeron chair by Herman Miller—is probably way, way too good for your posterior at its $1,600 asking price. But that doesn’t mean you can’t gawk for a while.Built from…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 6

Waiting in Line Now Fastest Way to Get T-Mobile G1

When T-Mobile announced that they had sold out of the initial G1 pre-order and were tripling production to meet demand, they said that you could still pre-order a phone through Oct. 21 to receive it at a later date. Unfortunately, it looks like a much later date. If you pre-ordered one after Oct. 3, you’ll…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 6

6 Science Fiction Classics To Help You Choose The Next President

Click to viewWe asked six political pundits, including Andrew Sullivan and DailyKos’ Markos Moulitsas, to pick one piece of science fiction that you must read or watch before stepping into the voting booth next month. After all, science fiction often deals with some of the biggest what-ifs and alternate futures imaginable. So we couldn’t imagine…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 6

For Your Consideration: 10 Halloween Costumes That Rule

Click to viewChristmas is the covetous one, Thanksgiving the gluttonous one, but Halloween, the holiday that kicks off the great holiday trifecta, is the awesome, proud one. It’s a day when even the most ordinary of citizens take self-expression to heart and fly their freak flag high. That is, once they can figure out what…

io9 Nisha Gopalan Oct 6

Build Your Own Cross-Temporal Weapon

Instructables’ gmjhowe has created this amazing “Fabergépunk” egg, which he calls the Egg of Time. And now you can build one too, if you just follow his instructions. Apparently, “When you look into its time vortex you can see all that was, and all that will be.” This will prove a valuable skill, points out…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 6

Voodoo Envy 133 Review (Verdict: Plenty Thin, Plenty Pricey)

VoodooPC’s Envy 133, the world’s thinnest laptop, just started shipping, and we scored one of the first production units straight outta Calgary. It’s a lithe black laptop that keeps cool while running Vista, a super light machine that’s strong as hell thanks to a carbon-fiber frame. It’s the size of a MacBook Air with way…

Reviews Wilson Rothman Oct 6

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Phone Will Miss Xmas Release Date in US

It looks as though the highly anticipated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (aka ‘Tube’) will not make its way to the US in time for the Xmas season. Instead, Nokia seems to be content with focusing on emerging markets like India, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Russia and Spain before setting their sites on…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 6

Question of the Day: Has Your iPhone Learned Swear Words?

News about the possibility of manual auto-correct shut-off showing up in the iPhone 2.2 software has sparked a minor debate amongst the editors about the usefulness of such a feature. Most people would probably leave it on, but it would be nice to type the word “fuck” now and then without iPhone wholesomeness turning it…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 6

Lee Adama Takes On The Doctor

Oh my goodness, there is about to be one messy intergalactic fight up in this space. Jamie Bamber (aka Apollo, Lee Adama and previously Fat Lee) from the critically acclaimed Battlestar Galactica is strutting around picking fights with none other than the Doctor himself. Bamber was complaining that BSG would rival Dr. Who in British…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 6

iSleep Laptop Airbag: Because Work is Not That Bad When You Sleep Through It

iPhone OS 2.1 Won’t Fetch Emails in Sleep Mode

True Blood Goes Old Timey And Shows Civil War Sluts

CNN Responds To Giz’s Pundit-Laptop Baseball-Watching Exposé

Another iPhone Security Hole in Password-Protected Mode

A Cure for Progeria, the Disease that Makes Children Die of Old Age

Indiana Jones 5 Is An Unsurprising Go, Says Ford

DARPA Working on a Submersible Aircraft That Can Go From Air to Sea

Dealzmodo: $80 Off Xbox 360 Elite

16-foot Kitchen on Wheels

Playing Baseball with Rocket Launchers and Tanks on Japanese TV

The Herman Miller Embody Chair, or Aeron Part II

Waiting in Line Now Fastest Way to Get T-Mobile G1

6 Science Fiction Classics To Help You Choose The Next President

For Your Consideration: 10 Halloween Costumes That Rule

Build Your Own Cross-Temporal Weapon

Voodoo Envy 133 Review (Verdict: Plenty Thin, Plenty Pricey)

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Phone Will Miss Xmas Release Date in US

Question of the Day: Has Your iPhone Learned Swear Words?

Lee Adama Takes On The Doctor

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