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Sony PS3’s VidZone Service Gives You Free Music and Video

Sony’s just announced a video service for their PS3 called VidZone, which somehow offers up free music and videos, albeit only in PAL regions for the time being. It’ll allow you to streaming unlimited music on demand for free, but it’s unclear whether it’ll be ad-supported, or whether the catalog will be full of only…

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 20 '08

PlayStation 3 Keypad to Bring Thumb Typing to PS3

Sony has just announced a keypad peripheral that sits on top of a DualShock 3 and SIXAXIS to allow QWERTY typing (it also appears to have its own Bluetooth connection and power source). A lot like the keypad Microsoft released a while back for the 360, it also has a touchpad for mouse support as…

Tech News Mark Wilson Aug 20 '08

Sony Makes PSP-3000 Official

We knew the PSP-3000 was on the way, but now Sony has made it official. We don’t have a full spec sheet yet, but the big two updates are going to be a new, brighter screen (“highest-level contrast ratio, response time, and wider color gamut possible on a portable LCD screen” Sony claims) and an…

Tech News Mark Wilson Aug 20 '08

The British Empire Still Rules In Cyberspace

America is just a virtual world – at least that’s what British citizens have been told to believe. The Matrix-esque online graphic novel The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore has been optioned by MGM for a TV series. The British empire hasn’t fallen, and it still controls the world via an “all-pervasive and addictive virtual…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 20 '08

Motorola Insider Blame Game: Engineers Shoved Designers Aside

These days, most in-the-know folks would sooner eat glass than carry a Motorola phone. The company has shredded its reputation by failing to address basic interface design issues: freeze-prone software, head-scratching menus, keys that demand Herculean strength. It’s baffling that such a venerable company could build such frustrating phones, considering the zillions presumably spent on…

Tech News Brendan I. Koerner Aug 20 '08

U.S. Navy Developing Lasers and Huge Guns

The year is 2019. The destroyer U.S.S. Mason patrols enemy waters, and is suddenly faced with a barrage of incoming missiles. Almost instantly, dozens of brightly colored lasers beam out of the Mason, intercepting the missiles and destroying them harmlessly in the air. Then a massive deck-mounted gun turns and takes aim at an onshore…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Aug 20 '08

American Airlines In-Flight Wi-Fi Launches Today on Three Routes

If you’re flying on an AA 767-200 from NYC to San Francisco, Miami or Los Angeles, you can kick the tires of American’s new Gogo/Aircell in-flight Wi-Fi service for $12.95 (the rate for flights over 3 hours). It’s the same provider Delta will be using as they roll out the service fleetwide starting soon. Let…

Tech News John Mahoney Aug 20 '08

First Look Behind The Scenes Of The Prisoner Remake

A new video of the first table read for AMC’s remake of 60’s imprisoned-spy series The Prisoner shows the cast and crew psyching themselves up to play the Villagers. The most endearing thing is hearing nervous Jim Caviezel (playing the main character Number 6) and Ian McKellen (who plays the evil Number 2) both talk…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 20 '08

Spy Camera Watch Looks Like it May Actually Be Good For Spying

Forget those naff spy pens: This spy camera watch from Brando may actually be a decent spying gizmo. For example… can you see the camera in the photo of it? It’s in the whorl of the numeral 2, and the watch is pretty convincing. It only shoots 352 x 288 pixel AVIs, but it does…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Aug 20 '08

BlackBerry 8210 and 8820 Flip Phones Leaked by Web Retailer

A tiny mistake by online retailer Expansys has revealed two new quad-band BlackBerry clamshell phones. Some info on the 8220 has surfaced before, but the 8210 seems new. The phones are apparently very similar, with both having a 2.6-inch internal 240x 320 pixel screen, a small 160 x 128 external screen, and clamshell format. Both…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Aug 20 '08

New Official Xbox 360 Controller Spotted

Over at a German games convention going on now, IGN has come across a new Xbox 360 controller by Microsoft. Apparently it looks pretty much identical to the old one but includes an entirely redesigned directional pad (which makes sense, because the current d-pad isn’t so good). Here’s what IGN had to say about the…

Tech News Mark Wilson Aug 20 '08

Deprive Yourself of Sleep and Your Neurons Will Get You High

People who are sleep-deprived often report getting a “second wind” where they suddenly wake up and feel great — though they are still too fatigued to do any major problem-solving. A group of researchers have discovered there’s a good reason for this. Sleep deprivation floods your brain with dopamine, the very same hormone that amphetamines…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 20 '08

Palm Treo Pro Official

This week’s best kept secret just got official: The Palm Treo Pro is a Centro-sized Windows Mobile 6.1 phone (whither Palm OS?) with tri-band 3G, Wi-Fi and GPS with a 320×320 touchscreen, exactly like the recent Treo 800w. Powering the show is a 400MHz processor and 128MB of RAM. And yep, the proprietary Palm connector…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Aug 20 '08

Emily Isn’t Real, But Would You Have Guessed?

The woman above is not real. I mean, she was real once, when real actress Emily O’Brien provided Image Metrics (you know their work from GTAIV) with 35 facial poses in front of a pair of digital cameras. From there, O’Brien was dismissed so the animators could go to work. Apparently “ninety per cent of…

Tech News Mark Wilson Aug 20 '08

Mitsubishi 40mm-thin HDTV Panel Packs External WHDI Wireless Tuner, BD Player

While there have been several other ultra-thin TVs to cheat on size by moving some of the set’s guts into an external box, we’re starting to see a few of the biggies taking advantage of the newly-codified WHDI spec to beam the signal from the external box to the screen wirelessly. Details are somewhat thin…

Tech News John Mahoney Aug 20 '08

Galactica’s Final Season Won’t All Be On TV

When Battlestar Galactica makes its long-awaited comeback next year, it won’t just be our television screens that it’s returning to. In a recent interview, executive producer David Eick revealed that fans can expect more The Resistance-style minisodes, as well.Talking to Newsarama, Eick admitted that webisodes are definitely part of the plan for Battlestar’s final season:…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 20 '08

Megan And Shia Ready For Action In New Transformers 2 Set Pics

Click to viewThis morning’s spoilers include half a dozen exciting details for the Lost episodes you won’t see for another five months… including filming at the house of one of the Oceanic Six. Speaking of set reports, there are new pics of Shia LaBoeuf and Megan Fox, back on the set of Transformers 2. Find…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 20 '08

Real Sim City Comes to Life in the Desert

Yesterday’s images of the almost-finished Burj Dubai blew our minds with its scale and grandiosity. Today, reader David Hobcote zooms out his Canon 1Ds Mark III on board a Bell heli to show us the current state of some of Dubai’s new landmarks, including the stunning New Atlantis Hotel and the first house constructed on…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 20 '08

Kurage Fiber-Optic Chandelier Adjusts Brightness By Tweaking its Curves

This chandelier-ish lighting design, dubbed Kurage3, allows you to change its level of illumination by changing how curved a shape it makes. Simple science really: If you make it curve past the critical angle for the 1.5-mm fiber-optic, instead of shooting through the tube of glass, the light from an LED light source leaks out…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Aug 20 '08

HTC Diamond’s Hidden Multitouch Revealed

If you’re reading the back of the HTC Diamond’s box, it doesn’t show some little child laughing with glee as he pinches in and out of webpages or draws with two fingers at once, in fact, it doesn’t even list multitouch as a feature at all. But just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean…

Tech News Mark Wilson Aug 20 '08

Sony PS3’s VidZone Service Gives You Free Music and Video

PlayStation 3 Keypad to Bring Thumb Typing to PS3

Sony Makes PSP-3000 Official

The British Empire Still Rules In Cyberspace

Motorola Insider Blame Game: Engineers Shoved Designers Aside

U.S. Navy Developing Lasers and Huge Guns

American Airlines In-Flight Wi-Fi Launches Today on Three Routes

First Look Behind The Scenes Of The Prisoner Remake

Spy Camera Watch Looks Like it May Actually Be Good For Spying

BlackBerry 8210 and 8820 Flip Phones Leaked by Web Retailer

New Official Xbox 360 Controller Spotted

Deprive Yourself of Sleep and Your Neurons Will Get You High

Palm Treo Pro Official

Emily Isn’t Real, But Would You Have Guessed?

Mitsubishi 40mm-thin HDTV Panel Packs External WHDI Wireless Tuner, BD Player

Galactica’s Final Season Won’t All Be On TV

Megan And Shia Ready For Action In New Transformers 2 Set Pics

Real Sim City Comes to Life in the Desert

Kurage Fiber-Optic Chandelier Adjusts Brightness By Tweaking its Curves

HTC Diamond’s Hidden Multitouch Revealed

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