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Exclusive: Wii Sports Resort With MotionPlus Is $49 In Spring

Click to viewA Nintendo exec told us that the Wii Sports Resort will be $49.99 when it’s released next Spring. This next version of Wii Sports comes with the MotionPlus accessory, which gives people a true 1:1 motion mirroring on their WiiMotes. The price of the MotionPlus accessory on its own is undetermined, but it…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 15 '08

I Love It When A Plan Totally Doesn’t Come Together

Click to viewIt happens to the best dashing science fiction hero: You come up with a preternaturally clever plan to stop the bad guys, involving a totally cunning bit of MacGyvering or hustle… and it totally fails. Your super-gadget blows up. Or your allies flake. The bad guys turn out not to be total idiots.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 15 '08

Rumor: Amazon Kindle 2 Coming This Fall

CrunchGear’s got it on good authority that the next year or so will see not only an update to the current model—making it thinner and lighter—but also an altogether new model with dimensions something like a piece of loose leaf paper. They should come out in October and sometime next year, respectively, though no word…

Commerce Matt Hickey Jul 15 '08

iPhone 2.0 Tips: Firmware 2.0 Has A New URL Trick

Just a quick note for you iPhone 2.0 users regarding entering domain names. In the original firmware there was a handy “.com” button when entering URLs, but you had to manually type “.org” and “.net” and “.co.uk” and other domain suffixes. Now, though, you simply hold down the “.com” button and presto, you’re offered the…

Tech News Matt Hickey Jul 15 '08

Lightning Review: iPhone Tetris App

The App: Tetris with excellent touch implementation. In a matter of seconds anyone will be comfortably rotating, placing and flicking blocks around the screen, and the block placement preview is a welcome addition. The Price: $9.99 The Verdict: Tetris isn’t exactly the most ambitious project for a company like EA Games. That’s probably why the…

Tech News John Herrman Jul 15 '08

Your Fleet Is No Match for Space Cthulhu

Even if you have an entire fleet of ships at your disposal, Space Cthulhu is going to crush you. At least, that’s the message I get from this amazing concept art by Thai CGI artist Monsit Jangariyawong. A fan of strange creatures and shiny ships, Jangariyawong works from Bangkok. Want to see another one of…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 15 '08

JATY DR7200 GPS With Digital TV, MP3 Player, Phone Charger, eBook Reader and a Breathalyzer

The JATY DR7200 could be the most absurdly feature-packed GPS device ever thanks to a whole slew of options that have no business being there. An eBook reader? Seriously. But that is not all-the device also features a SiRFStar III GPS chipset, a 533MHZ CPU, mountain, car and golf GPS navigation, video playback, a photo…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 15 '08

SoWine Bar Preserves Your Open Bottle For Up to 10 Days

If popping open a box of Franzia and drinking until you pass out is your idea of a sophisticated evening, you will have no use for the SoWine Bar. Believe it or not, there are people out there that prefer to enjoy a bottle of wine over an extended period of time. SoWine allows those…

Gadgets Sean Fallon Jul 15 '08

Top Gear Races Nissan GT-R Vs. Bullet Train In Japan

The Top Gear crew is in Japan for this week’s episode and they’ve got another heated race for us: A Nissan GT-R R35, a gadget car by dynamic handling and Playstation inspired dashboard vs. a bullet train, running both from Japan’s northern Hakui-Shi coast to Tokyo. With no surprise ol’ Clarkson is driving the fiery…

Tech News Christopher Mascari Jul 15 '08

Lost Planet Movie Will be Starship Troopers On Ice

David Hayter, writer for X-Men, X2 and Watchmen, is adapting the Lost Planet Xbox game into a full length feature film. First Bio Shock is being made into a movie, and now this? Has the world healed from the Uwe Boll-inflicted wounds of bad video game movies past? Is anybody really craving a Lost Planet…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jul 15 '08

An Anti-Stress Pill that Prevents Your Body from Aging

Click to view Stress runs down the body’s immune system, which is why people with high-stress jobs or events in their lives are vulnerable to illness. Now a researcher at UCLA has discovered the link between emotional stress and physical damage — and she’s going to develop a pill that will allow you to endure…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 15 '08

SenseSurface: Stick Real Control Knobs On a Flat-Panel Virtual Display

Touchscreens are great, but for many of us nothing beats old fashioned tactile controls. That seems to be one of the reasons why Lyndsay Williams of Girton Labs is in the process of developing SenseSurface-a system that allows users to stick working knobs to on-screen virtual controls. Apparently, the magnetic knobs can be placed anywhere…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 15 '08

iSuppli Official Estimate: The iPhone 3G Build Price is $174.33

Late last month iSuppli, the authority on gadget teardowns, released a guess that the 8GB iPhone 3G cost $173 to manufacture-only a hair away from the figure of $174.33 they have arrived at as their official take. This figure does not include additional costs like software development, shipping and distribution, packaging and miscellaneous accessories included…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 15 '08

MTV’s New Cartoon Brings You Cutting Edge Of 1960s Animation

If you believe MTV, then the future of animation may have arrived in the shape of their new adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s superhero soap opera Invincible, coming to televisions, cell phones and iPods near you soon. Thing is, we can’t help but feel that we’ve seen it all before. MTV’s executive vice president of new…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jul 15 '08

5 Takes on the Lenovo X200 Notebooks

Lenovo’s 12.1-inch X200 is the newest and smallest member of the revamped X series. More than that, this thing is actually affordable, bringing some of the X300’s sweet form factor (0.8 inches of thinness) and power down to a reasonable price, starting at just $1199. It almost sounds too good to be true. Is it?…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 15 '08

You’ve Got Comic-Con Questions, and We’ve Got Answers

Wanna ask Ron Moore what the frak was up with Gaius Baltar’s sex harem in Battlestar Galactica this season or ask James Callis himself what is was like to be a cult leader? At San Diego Comic Con this year, you can ask via io9. The nice folks over at Sci Fi have opened up…

Television Meredith Woerner Jul 15 '08

How the Wii MotionPlus Makes the Wiimote More Accurate

When Nintendo revealed the Wii MotionPlus dongle, they talked about how the snappier response time and 1:1 motion accuracy it provided would let you do crazy stuff like swing swords (or lightsabers) and ride a jet ski—demoed live at E3. But they didn’t tell us how it worked. Turns out, it’s got a multi-axis gyroscope…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 15 '08

Question of the Day: Are You Still Excited About the iPhone 3G, Or Are You Sick of It?

The iPhone 3G hype has been building steadily over the last few months and now that it has been launched, I’m willing to bet that many of you are feeling completely saturated by now. However, there are probably quite a few of you who can never get enough. So, I have to ask: Are you…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 15 '08

Dr. Horrible’s Freeze Ray Will Stop the World

At last we’ve seen the first installment of Joss Whedon’s new web series, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and it’s sweeter than we’d ever imagined. And I do mean sweet: It’s the tale of a romantic but evil mad scientist, Dr. Horrible (Neil Patrick Harris), who wants nothing more than to snag the attention of a…

Television Annalee Newitz Jul 15 '08

Two-Foot-Tall Motorized Lego Windmill Set

If you’re a fan of both Lego and renewable energy, you’re gonna love the new Vestas Windmill set from Lego. It stands at over two feet tall, has a motor that rotates the windmill around on its own, and is pretty awesome looking. Unfortunately, there’s no way to rig a bunch of these together in…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jul 15 '08

Exclusive: Wii Sports Resort With MotionPlus Is $49 In Spring

I Love It When A Plan Totally Doesn’t Come Together

Rumor: Amazon Kindle 2 Coming This Fall

iPhone 2.0 Tips: Firmware 2.0 Has A New URL Trick

Lightning Review: iPhone Tetris App

Your Fleet Is No Match for Space Cthulhu

JATY DR7200 GPS With Digital TV, MP3 Player, Phone Charger, eBook Reader and a Breathalyzer

SoWine Bar Preserves Your Open Bottle For Up to 10 Days

Top Gear Races Nissan GT-R Vs. Bullet Train In Japan

Lost Planet Movie Will be Starship Troopers On Ice

An Anti-Stress Pill that Prevents Your Body from Aging

SenseSurface: Stick Real Control Knobs On a Flat-Panel Virtual Display

iSuppli Official Estimate: The iPhone 3G Build Price is $174.33

MTV’s New Cartoon Brings You Cutting Edge Of 1960s Animation

5 Takes on the Lenovo X200 Notebooks

You’ve Got Comic-Con Questions, and We’ve Got Answers

How the Wii MotionPlus Makes the Wiimote More Accurate

Question of the Day: Are You Still Excited About the iPhone 3G, Or Are You Sick of It?

Dr. Horrible’s Freeze Ray Will Stop the World

Two-Foot-Tall Motorized Lego Windmill Set

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