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Old White Airline Passenger Turns Into Young Asian Man Mid-Flight

Yes, both of these pictures are of the same guy. To the right is how he looked when he boarded Air Canada flight AC018 from Hong Kong to Vancouver. The picture on the left is what he turned into. According to CNN, the Canada Border Services Agency issued an alert about this “unbelievable case of…

Tech News Adrian Chen

Watch Out for That 3D Optical Illusion on the Road!

You’re cruising down the road, nearing a school zone, when BAM! Out of nowhere, a little girl chasing her ball across the street appears. Your heart races, you slam on the brakes, and then her image dissolves. What? Two Canadian safety organizations have partnered to install a $15,000 device that projects the likeness of a…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Greatest Swag In The History of Swagginess: The Canon Lens Thermos

Those press covering the Olympics sure do have a plum life. They bundle off to Vancouver for 16 days of watching ice-skaters embarrassing themselves, and ruthless Russian bobsledders showing their dark sides. Oh, and they get lens-shaped thermoses. UPDATE http://tv.gawker.com/5472578/the-olympic-night-of-figure-skating-fail The story goes that a Microsoft employee by the name of Josh Weisberg wandered into…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Control 20 Spotlights in Vancouver’s English Bay From Your Web Browser

I spend all day online, but sometimes I like to pretend that I’m doing something exciting out there in the real world. Vectorial Elevation let me control 20 gigantic spotlights in Vancouver. I almost forget I was in my sweatpants. The site is one component of a telerobotic art installation that includes twenty spotlights scattered…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

NBC Olympics App Hits Just In Time to Track Hot Biathlon Action

The 2010 Olympics start tonight! And while I might not be so excited about curling, I’m looking forward to updates and athlete profiles on my iPhone. NBC’s free Olympics app also has a social component, ideal for trash-talking Norwegian lugers. There are also updated medal counts, video (US-only), and sport-by-sport forecasts. The focus is predominantly…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Google Street View Comes to the Ski Slopes

Google is really pushing to expand Street View off of the streets. First they talk about Google Store View, and now the Google Snowmobile is mapping ski trails. https://gizmodo.com/google-wants-to-add-store-interiors-to-maps-5464532 The new mapped trails are all in Vancouver at Whistler, the site of the Olympic games. Since the tie-in is with next week’s games, I wouldn’t…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Population Surge Leads to Micro-Apartments

We’ve seen it in science-fiction books and movies before — the urban dystopia where living space has shrunk to almost nothing to house a teeming humanity. Now it seems to be here… or at least scheduled for 2011. The loft — already a compact, efficient living arrangement that eschews most luxury — is being replaced…

io9 Scott Timberg

The Future of Vancouver Takes Shape

In the misty distance is the gleaming sphere of Science World, and in the foreground is Vancouver’s ultra-green Olympic Village, which planners say will hold 16,000 people by 2020. They’ll eat food grown on roofs and drink reclaimed rainwater. The village is located in the heart of Vancouver. Here are some of the green features…

io9 Annalee Newitz

V Reboot Takes Place In The Vancouververse

ABC’s reboot of classic alien-invasion show V won’t just feel like co-creator Scott Peters‘ show The 4400, it’ll also be filmed in The 4400’s stomping grounds of Vancouver. Plus there are more script details. It’s starting to feel like more and more science fiction shows take place in the Vancouververse, that nondescript urban landscape where…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Large, Goliath-Sized Apple Tells Small, David-Sized School to Stop Using Logo

Apple is again flexing its immense legal muscle today with a threat of legal action against a small Vancouver Island business school over the use of the Apple logo. The tiny Victoria School of Business and Technology, which may remind some of a certain Biblical character named David, adopted the Apple-esque logo in 2005. Apple…

Tech News Jack Loftus

William Gibson Talks to io9 About Canada, Draft Dodging, and Godzilla

Yesterday William Gibson rolled into San Francisco to do a book signing for the paperback release of Spook Country, his recent novel about surveillance, augmented reality, dream politics, and advertising. The novel is also, incidentally, a fairly overt critique of the idea of “cyberspace,” a term Gibson invented early in his career, and which several…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Where’s Waldo? Available to Play on Google Earth

Fans of Waldo, the geek in the striped beanie and glasses who’d pop up where you least expected, can now hunt him down on Google Earth. Canadian student Melanie Coles has installed a 55-foot painting of Waldo on a Vancouver rooftop, and expects other people to follow suit with their own Waldos. More below the…

Tech News AddyDugdale

Take A Trip To New Caprica In Vancouver

Visitors to Vancouver can now join a tour group that takes them across the city’s Battlestar Galactica filming locations. You can bet that a trip up to the Great White North will be a lot cheaper than finding something with faster-than-light drives on it.

io9 Kevin Kelly

Old White Airline Passenger Turns Into Young Asian Man Mid-Flight

Watch Out for That 3D Optical Illusion on the Road!

Greatest Swag In The History of Swagginess: The Canon Lens Thermos

Control 20 Spotlights in Vancouver’s English Bay From Your Web Browser

NBC Olympics App Hits Just In Time to Track Hot Biathlon Action

Google Street View Comes to the Ski Slopes

Population Surge Leads to Micro-Apartments

The Future of Vancouver Takes Shape

V Reboot Takes Place In The Vancouververse

Large, Goliath-Sized Apple Tells Small, David-Sized School to Stop Using Logo

William Gibson Talks to io9 About Canada, Draft Dodging, and Godzilla

Where’s Waldo? Available to Play on Google Earth

Take A Trip To New Caprica In Vancouver

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Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway’s Mystery’s Sci-Fi Film Has Its First Trailer

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