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Acer Ships Ginormous 8920G Gemstone Notebooks; 16:9, Dual HDDs, Blu-ray Included, Hernia Belt Not

Acer’s now shipping the 8920G Gemstone laptops, and they’re even more impressive than we’d thought. While not the biggest screen we’ve seen on a portable, they sport an impressive 18.2-inch LCD at 1920×1080 with a 16:9 aspect ratio, perfect for watching movies on the integrated Blu-ray R/W drives. They’re not light, tipping the scales at…

Tech News Matt Hickey Jul 17 '08

Time Travel Agency Posters for Your Favorite Eras

If you’re a time traveler who likes literate kids, we’ve got a deal for you. For a limited time, Echo Park Time Travel Mart will send you to the historical (or future) destination of your dreams, for the low price of $19.99 — with all proceeds going to a nonprofit that helps kids learn to…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 17 '08

Guitar Hero and Rock Band Controller Mod For Finicky Fingers

Guitar Hero fans usually hate the Rock Band guitar controller and vice versa. Instructables has a pretty good how-to that can solve the problem for Guitar Hero fans at the cost of a Rock Band controller. It’s a way to mash up an old PS2 Guitar Hero controller with the Rock Band Fender guitar and…

Tech News Matt Hickey Jul 17 '08

Panasonic Shows Off Surface-Like Digital Wall

Microsoft’s getting some competition for its Surface device. Panasonic is showing off a very Surface-like product it’s calling Digital Wall, and it’s exactly what it sounds like. While at this point it doesn’t appear to offer all the the features of Surface it could also come in much cheaper that the Microsoft version, and for…

Tech News Matt Hickey Jul 17 '08

Voodoo Envy Impressions Roll In

Laptop and Maximum PC have gotten their hands on Voodoo/HP’s Envy 133 thinnest-of-the-thin power notebooks and had some light hands on time. Nothing too shocking has been uncovered—it looks as good in person as it does in pictures, is almost as light as the Macbook Air, and all the rest, but Laptop was able to…

Tech News John Mahoney Jul 17 '08

io9’s (Semi) Annotated Picks for Comic-Con

We’re gearing up for Comic-Con next week, joining the over 100 thousand other nerds who are converging on San Diego to find out what the studios, publishers and toymakers have in store for us next year. All your editors will be there — Annalee Newitz (that would be me), Charlie Jane Anders, Meredith Woerner, and…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 17 '08

What Would It Take To Bring Alien Invasions Back?

Remember alien invasions? Strange creatures from beyond the stars, showing up on Earth and attempting to subjugate the heck out of us? Wasn’t that cool? What ever happened to those would-be dominators anyway? The only recent alien invasion movie I can think of was the Nicole Kidman Invasion… which is best forgotten anyway. What would…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 17 '08

Extending The Life of Your iPhone 3G With Battery Packs

If you are simply not satisfied with the battery life of your new iPhone 3G, you do have a few options. You could try and maximize it, or you could pick up some battery packs like the iPhoneck. Sure it extends your iPhone 3G by a whopping 2-inches, but it can also fully charge your…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 17 '08

Dark Knight iPhone App Lets You Jokerize Yourself

It’s essentially just a marketing tool for the Dark Knight movie, but hot damn if we don’t like this. Just run the app, take a picture of yourself, then add Joker elements to your face. Works on iPhone (use the camera) or iPod touch (use a saved picture). The only downside is that there’s no…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 17 '08

Arnold Will Be In T4 After All (Sort Of)

Meet the face of the T-800 model that started this whole robots-killing-people saga. Finally we can put the great Terminator Salvation-versus-Arnold Schwarzenegger debate to rest. Yes, Arnold will be in T4 – in spirit. Find out more about the origins of the T-800 and spoilers after the jump. Roland Kickinger, Austrian bodybuilder was outed in…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 17 '08

KITT’s Cylon Laser Saves The Day: Exclusive Look At Knight Rider Script

The new Knight Rider series will be every bit as cheesy as last winter’s TV movie, judging from the script for a road-racing episode. The good news is, KITT is a car of many talents. Including a 3-D “inkjet” printer that can create a fake key for any car, a special spray that can stop…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 17 '08

Locksmiths Hate Geeks

Why would the noble locksmith have a bone to pick with geeks? Because they are beating them at their own game, that’s why. A growing number of amateur lock picking enthusiasts are intimidating the professionals with their skill-a group comprised mainly of computer geeks who draw parallels between network hacking and lock busting. According to…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 17 '08

The Micro Millennium (1979)

The 1979 book The Micro Millennium heralded the arrival of the microprocessor as a revolution that would forever change our lives. From the back cover of the 1981 paperback edition: By the year 2,000 – 17 years from now – you will live in a world transformed by one tiny, cheap computer chip – the…

Tech News Matt Novak Jul 17 '08

AMD CEO Hector Ruiz Flees

AMD CEO Hector Ruiz is out the door. While he drove their burly competition with Intel, he’s also responsible for AMD’s poor acquisition of ATI and its struggles of late, like losing money for seven straight quarters, leading them to dump their handheld and DTV businesses. Taking over is Dirk Meyers, who’s more chip geek…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 17 '08

Sin City Rip-Off Series Boggles The Mind

Why would anyone want to make a poor man’s Sin City? Looking like it was filmed in someone’s garage, a new show in development called Dead End City has a host of “sexy” ladies wearing outfits from a box of old Halloween costumes. The show’s ancient main character is Murphy, played by Gary Graham from…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 17 '08

The New Hottest Spot in the Milky Way

Two days ago, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope revealed an image of what could be the brightest star in our galaxy: Wolf-Rayet star WR 102ka or, more fondly, the “Peony nebula” star. Astronomers say that it burns with the light intensity of 3.2 million suns — but that’s a rough estimate, and one that might even…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel Jul 17 '08

Question of the Day: What is Your Take on Push Email? Love it, Hate It, Or Somewhere In Between?

I don’t know about you, but I receive far too many emails to be messing around with push email. Those emails constantly chiming in annoy me, which is why I have everything set to manual update. However, that is certainly not the case with everyone. Some people really need to be on top of every…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 17 '08

Microsoft Backed Zumobi Browser Now Available on Blackberry Devices

I have been keeping up with the Zumobi browser platform since it was launched last year, but up until now the tile-based UI was only available on Windows Mobile devices. However, the Microsoft-backed company announced today that it will deliver the application for 81xx, 83xx, or 88xx Blackberry devices with OS 4.2 or later. The…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 17 '08

Warren Ellis Is Resolute About GI Joe

After the surprise announcement that Transmetropolitan and Planetary writer Warren Ellis was the man behind the new, “adult”, GI Joe cartoon GI Joe: Resolute stunned fans of both Ellis and the Joes a couple of weeks ago, enough dust seems to have settled that Ellis has felt it safe to start talking about the project’s…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jul 17 '08

Vintage Time Travel Posters Shatter Space Time, Harken Back/Forward to Our Favorite Epochs

Dave Eggers’ temporally advanced Time Travel Mart in LA (“whenever you are, we’re already then!”) just released a fantastic poster set that takes on the look and feel of old Pan Am travel ads to hype several of the historical eras we’ll all be hitting in our future DeLoreans-Pangaea to run with the dinos, Tokyo…

Tech News John Mahoney Jul 17 '08

Acer Ships Ginormous 8920G Gemstone Notebooks; 16:9, Dual HDDs, Blu-ray Included, Hernia Belt Not

Time Travel Agency Posters for Your Favorite Eras

Guitar Hero and Rock Band Controller Mod For Finicky Fingers

Panasonic Shows Off Surface-Like Digital Wall

Voodoo Envy Impressions Roll In

io9’s (Semi) Annotated Picks for Comic-Con

What Would It Take To Bring Alien Invasions Back?

Extending The Life of Your iPhone 3G With Battery Packs

Dark Knight iPhone App Lets You Jokerize Yourself

Arnold Will Be In T4 After All (Sort Of)

KITT’s Cylon Laser Saves The Day: Exclusive Look At Knight Rider Script

Locksmiths Hate Geeks

The Micro Millennium (1979)

AMD CEO Hector Ruiz Flees

Sin City Rip-Off Series Boggles The Mind

The New Hottest Spot in the Milky Way

Question of the Day: What is Your Take on Push Email? Love it, Hate It, Or Somewhere In Between?

Microsoft Backed Zumobi Browser Now Available on Blackberry Devices

Warren Ellis Is Resolute About GI Joe

Vintage Time Travel Posters Shatter Space Time, Harken Back/Forward to Our Favorite Epochs

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