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What Will Happen When the LHC Turns On? 10 Scifi Stories Have the Answer

Click to view Today the mad physicists over at Swiss lab CERN will turn on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and begin the physics experiments that might end the world. While some fringe scientists worry that the LHC will destroy the fabric of spacetime, the rest of us armchair physicists are on the edge of…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 10

Cool Visualization Shows World’s Spending On Electronics By Country (We Spend A Lot)

Here we see ol’ Mercator, if country sizes were drawn according to the amount of discretionary income spent on electronics by its citizens. As the world’s largest economy, the US being the biggest blob here at $162 billion for 2007 is not that surprising. But what might be surprising is Japan, who spends more on…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 10

The Future Of Murder Will Be Undone By Time Travel

Proving that even good films can be improved with the injection of some good science fiction, New Line Cinema have announced their plans to produce a movie based on The Thirteenth Hour, an upcoming novel that takes the reverse storytelling of Chris Nolan’s Memento and adds some time traveling goodness… as well as a murder.…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 10

The Nintoaster: Breakfast of Champions

We’d always heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and now we know why. A real toaster gutted of its heating elements and filled with the sumptuousness of an NES, its cartridge actually pops out with the toaster’s working lever. The only non-working part is the heat knob, which would have…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 10

The Greatest American Hero Returns, But Did He Bring The Hero-Fro?

The worst hero hair of all time returns to the skies, all the way from the 1980s. The Greatest American Hero is coming to a theater near you, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. Creator Stephen J. Cannell told the audience at the Screen Actors Guild’s 25th-anniversary: “We’ve written a screenplay, and…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 10

The Large Hadron Collider Drinking Game

You may have noticed that io9 is pretty into the Large Hadron Collider. Not only does it look awesome, it does amazing science at the cutting edge of physics that could fundamentally change our understanding of the universe itself. Plus, it gives us all these sexy sci-fi things to think about, like other dimensions, exotic…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Sep 10

Dial Directions 411 Phone Service Automatically Beams Routes to Your Dash GPS

Call up “DIR-ECT-IONS” (clever) on your way to the car and tell the friendly robot who answers where you want to go, and you can have a route beamed to your Dash GPS over the web instantly. Dial Directions already works with a few other online and mobile services, but this Dash integration is a…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 10

Ninja Turtles Mutate One More Time

It appears the look of the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie has mutated from a man in a turtle suit to a CG blend of costume and computer. Although the live-action ninja turtle rumors have been circulating, thanks to co-creator Kevin Eastman, it now seems that we’ll have to get our TMNT fix in…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 10

Google’s Chrome Comic Gets Bastardized 70 Different Ways

Last week, I asked you to put your creative powers to good use by Photoshopping those Google Chrome comics for comedic effect. Remember Google Chrome? It wasn’t released by Apple. How refreshing! In any case, hit the jump for your one very insane and head-scratching winner and the rest of the best in the Gallery…

Tech News Adam Frucci Sep 10

HTC Touch HD Looks Big and Beautiful

It’s all rumor and speculation, but a picture paints a thousand internet links. This alleged HTC Touch HD is a fullscreen touch device with WVGA (800X480) resolution—essentially taking, say, the Touch Diamond‘s razor-sharp screen and making it longer. As another metric, if you think the iPhone looks nice, realize that screen runs in 480×320. Other…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 10

Sony Vaio AW Laptop With Adobe RGB Screen Is a Photographer’s Dream

Sony’s AW Laptop isn’t really meant for the average technology set, but its ocean of storage space, high quality screen and HDMI out seem to indicate it’s more for a designer who needs color accuracy, or a photographer who has to run through a lot of shots. And with a palm rest that matches the…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 10

Sprint to Get HTC Touch Pro in October for $300

Sprint already confirmed some HTC goodness recently with the Touch Diamond, which drops in September, and today added the Touch Pro to their official lineup, available on October 19th for $300 with contract, deliciously un-gimped compared to the phone expected to hit Verizon. Sprint just officially announced that the HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 10

Robot Legs Not So Different from Our Own

Humans make walking look easy, but that’s only because walking is a very efficient process in which our tendons and muscles work in conjunction to store and release 40% more energy than we exert. Obviously robots want in on this action. Oregon State University researchers have developed a leg that uses motors to drive a…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 10

Nobody Can Explain the Ghost Caught on CCTV in a Pub

So there’s a spooky “floating light” that shows up on CCTV footage from a pub in York, and apparently nobody can figure it out. Even the “expert” who installed the cameras is spooked by the weird blob that moves across the screen in the direction of the pub’s pool hall. Obviously it’s a ghost who…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 10

7 Years of iPod: What You Paid and What You Got

With yesterday’s refresh to Apple’s iPod line, it was hard not to feel at least a little deja vu. I’ve been following new iPod announcements—which often come more than once a year—since 2001, when the first iPod showed up in stores for an astronomical $399. In the iPod’s seven years, a sort of price mean…

Tech News John Herrman Sep 10

SlingPlayer Mobile Now On Symbian UIQ Phones

If that headline made no sense to you, no worries. Carry on with your cushioned world of neutered iPhone apps. If it did, then you may be pleased to know that SlingPlayer Mobile is now available on Symbian phones running the UIQ interface. And just because we’re so thoughtful, we pasted the currently supported phones…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 10

Blindingly Fast Touchscreen Text Entry System Gets a Push By Creator of T9

Everyone who has owned a cellphone over the last 10 years should at some point pour one out in thanks to Cliff Kushler, one of the inventors of the T9 text entry system that knows you mean “DONKEY” when you type 366539 in an SMS. Now Cliff is smartly shifting his focus on touchscreens with…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 10

Frank Miller Gives Batgirl Too Dirty A Mouth For DC Comics

Earlier this week, comic retailers were notified that all copies of All Star Batman And Robin that they receive in this week’s shipments were to be destroyed instead of placed on sale. No futher explanation was forthcoming – until someone got a hold of a copy, and discovered that a problem with self-censorship had accidentally…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 10

Installed Xbox 360 Games: Old Titles Load Much Faster, New Ones Not So Much

When The New Xbox Experience update hits at an unspecified time this fall, gamers will be able to install full titles to their system hard drives. And there’s no doubt—every game will load faster because of the faster transfer times compared to DVD. But some will see marked improvements while others will be moderate to…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 10

Every Shocking Twist From Chuck — Revealed!

This morning, we have a ton of Chuck spoilers, including leaked script pages and details about some irrevocable developments. There are some new images from Transformers 2, but are they fan art or leaked drawings? You decide. Some new Igor images are definitely genuine, but you may wish they weren’t. There are new set reports…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Sep 10

What Will Happen When the LHC Turns On? 10 Scifi Stories Have the Answer

Cool Visualization Shows World’s Spending On Electronics By Country (We Spend A Lot)

The Future Of Murder Will Be Undone By Time Travel

The Nintoaster: Breakfast of Champions

The Greatest American Hero Returns, But Did He Bring The Hero-Fro?

The Large Hadron Collider Drinking Game

Dial Directions 411 Phone Service Automatically Beams Routes to Your Dash GPS

Ninja Turtles Mutate One More Time

Google’s Chrome Comic Gets Bastardized 70 Different Ways

HTC Touch HD Looks Big and Beautiful

Sony Vaio AW Laptop With Adobe RGB Screen Is a Photographer’s Dream

Sprint to Get HTC Touch Pro in October for $300

Robot Legs Not So Different from Our Own

Nobody Can Explain the Ghost Caught on CCTV in a Pub

7 Years of iPod: What You Paid and What You Got

SlingPlayer Mobile Now On Symbian UIQ Phones

Blindingly Fast Touchscreen Text Entry System Gets a Push By Creator of T9

Frank Miller Gives Batgirl Too Dirty A Mouth For DC Comics

Installed Xbox 360 Games: Old Titles Load Much Faster, New Ones Not So Much

Every Shocking Twist From Chuck — Revealed!

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