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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

MSI Wind Now on Sale at Best Buy

MSI has announced that people wishing to get their hands on an MSI Wind U100 Netbook can stroll into their nearest Best Buy starting today and pick up the 10″ 3-cell version with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor and Windows XP for $399. Before your rush out to get one though, keep in mind that…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 6

Motherboard Cake, Eat Before Obsolete

Who knew sugar wafers and Rolos could so accurately recreate the situational Pavlovian response we get from looking at the latest silicon wonders from Intel, AMD, ATi and NVIDIA? While we’ve never before craved some motherboard and milk or hot motherboard à la mode, we must admit, we’re coming around to what could be the…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 6

The Zombie Apocalypse — in Legos

This past weekend, the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall played host to BrickCon 2008, an annual convention of adult Lego hobbyists. The best part? Lego enthusiasts Brothers Brick sponsored a large-scale zombie apocalypse made entirely from plastic bricks. Participants in the Zombie Apocafest created interlocking segments of a city overrun with the Lego undead to form…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 6

Pink Pedal-Powered Panzer Lays Waste With Wieners

A guy named Vin Marshall along with a team of nine talented but misguided individuals have constructed a 2000 pound pedal-powered Panzer tank replica complete with a pneumatic cannon that fires water, wieners or whatever onto unsuspecting crowds. Then they painted it pink—making it the most effeminate war machine ever constructed. The “Pink Panzer” is…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 6

The BBC Wanted A Baby Doctor Who, Says RTD

It’s weird to think of Russell T. Davies as the voice of restraint on Doctor Who, after some of his crazy plot twists. But Davies told the Times that the BBC really wanted to turn the show’s time-traveling eccentric, the Doctor, into a little kid. (Or show him as a child?) Says Davies, “It would…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 6

Ford MyKey System Lets Parents Control the Speed, Stereo Volume of Teenagers’ Cars

Parents! Are you looking for a way to make sure your teenagers are safe while they drive? Also, are annoyed while they drive? Well Ford has your back. Its new MyKey system is sure to make driving an infuriatingly annoying ordeal. When enabled, MyKey can cap the top speed of the car to 80MPH. That’s…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Oct 6

Stargate Worlds Screenshots And Battle Armor Get You Gate Ready

New screenshots and detailed armor images (ripe for new wallpaper) are out for the 2009 MMO Stargate Worlds. We’ve collected of gallery of the new Ablative Armor and battle scenes. Looks like some of the worlds you will be traveling to have a Bladerunner-esque advertising style. The release date is still just 2009, with no…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 6

Tivo and Echostar DVR Patent Saga Ends With $104 Million Payout to Tivo

After getting resoundly swatted in court by Tivo time and again for walking all over its patent for a “multimedia time warping system” (cool retro-future speak for a DVR), Echostar (now just Dish) is finally admitting defeat once and for all. Following its loss to TiVo in a US Appeals court earlier this year, Echostar…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 6

A Conspiracy of Badness in Novel Writing

Every year, the Bulwer-Lytton Awards honor people who strive to write the worst first sentences for a novel that they can possibly imagine. But the winning science fiction entry this year is so weirdly similar to the first sentence of a forthcoming novel from Del Rey that we have to wonder if there isn’t some…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 6

Logitech Unveils New Entry-Level Harmony 510 Universal Remote

Logitech has quietly released a new entry-level universal remote, the Harmony 510, for $100. Looking quite similar to the Harmony 550, it offers basically the same features as the rest of the Harmony 500 with a slightly different button layout and a lower price. You should be able to find this online for less than…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Oct 6

Sanyo’s New High-Power Blu-ray Laser Will Burn 100GB Discs at 12x, Someday

Even though the blank media companies have been touting 200GB Blu-ray discs for years, mostly as part of the psy-ops war against HD-DVD, the largest discs today’s players and burners can handle are dual-layer 50GB blanks that burn at up to 8x. A new 450 mw blue laser diode unveiled by Sanyo, however, will enable…

Tech News John Mahoney Oct 6

New Re-Animator Fights Zombies, Lawyers

Indie comic Hack/Slash is about to become a lot more independent, after a legal battle over the ownership of cult zombie movie Re-Animator spilled over from the courtroom into the comic book world and forced them to choose between pulling the series or getting dumped by their distributor. But can the tentacles of attorneys stop…

io9 Graeme McMillan Oct 6

Mozilla CEO: First Firefox Mobile Alpha Release “In a Few Weeks”

When we saw Firefox Mobile in action a few months ago, it looked pretty snazzy, but we were a bit concerned by a few reports floating around that it might be a long wait to actually get our hands on it. Happily, that’s not the case. Mozilla CEO John Lilly says that we’ll see the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 6

Latest New Yorker Cover was Created in Photoshop 3.0 on Mac OS 7

You probably assume that most major magazine covers are designed on top-of-the-line systems with the most advanced software available. Most of the time, you’d be right. But this week’s New Yorker cover was created by Bob Staake on some pretty ancient technology: Mac OS 7 and Photoshop 3.0. Mac OS 7 was released in 1991…

Tech News Adam Frucci Oct 6

T-Mobile Cameo: Now Even Your Digital Picture Frame Needs a Cellphone Plan

The Cameo is T-Mobile’s $100 digital picture frame that’s loaded with a GSM cellphone tech. Users, who are willing to fork over $10 a month for a subscription, will be able to snap shots on their phones and have the pictures automagically beamed to their Cameo. For those who ditch out on the subscription, the…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 6

Scientists Plan to Decimate Our Enemies With Dinosaurs

It is no secret that there has been a major shift towards UAVs for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. With big contracts on the line, researchers are scrambling to come up with the next big breakthrough in unmanned military technology. One group of researchers believes that the “next big thing” could be a dinosaur…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 6

Why Was This Freaky Scene Cut From Tonight’s Sarah Connor?

When Shirley Manson went on Last Call With Carson Daly the other day, she showed this weird clip from Monday’s Sarah Connor Chronicles. It answers some of your questions about CEO Catherine Weaver’s relationship with her “daughter,” and it doesn’t look like Catherine is in line for mother of the year. But this scene wasn’t…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 6

TR2N Will Be Motion Capture, Jeff Bridges Says

Kevin Flynn actor Jeff Bridges gushed about the sequel to Tron, and what it’s like making a movie of light cycle goodness in motion capture. If there was any doubt that TR2N was going to be bushels of awesome and heaps of greatness, I think Disney’s wise decision to use the best technology in the…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 6

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

Lee Adama Takes On The Doctor

MSI Wind Now on Sale at Best Buy

Motherboard Cake, Eat Before Obsolete

The Zombie Apocalypse — in Legos

Pink Pedal-Powered Panzer Lays Waste With Wieners

The BBC Wanted A Baby Doctor Who, Says RTD

Ford MyKey System Lets Parents Control the Speed, Stereo Volume of Teenagers’ Cars

Stargate Worlds Screenshots And Battle Armor Get You Gate Ready

Tivo and Echostar DVR Patent Saga Ends With $104 Million Payout to Tivo

A Conspiracy of Badness in Novel Writing

Logitech Unveils New Entry-Level Harmony 510 Universal Remote

Sanyo’s New High-Power Blu-ray Laser Will Burn 100GB Discs at 12x, Someday

New Re-Animator Fights Zombies, Lawyers

Mozilla CEO: First Firefox Mobile Alpha Release “In a Few Weeks”

Latest New Yorker Cover was Created in Photoshop 3.0 on Mac OS 7

T-Mobile Cameo: Now Even Your Digital Picture Frame Needs a Cellphone Plan

Scientists Plan to Decimate Our Enemies With Dinosaurs

Why Was This Freaky Scene Cut From Tonight’s Sarah Connor?

TR2N Will Be Motion Capture, Jeff Bridges Says

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