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  1. Rare Children's Books

    Children's literature is big business these days. Just go to any mega-chain bookstore and check out the square footage devoted to the kids. It's fantastic that there are so many options for young readers, but the popularity of children's literature...

    05.11.08 | 7:21 AM From Geekdad

  2. Ian Fleming's 100th Keeps Bond News Flowing

    With the late Ian Fleming's centennial already underway, news for James Bond movie fans is arriving daily. Penguin is republishing hardcover versions of the Bond novels with new, subtly feminist cover art by Michael Gillette. They hit shelves in late...

    05.11.08 | 5:52 AM From The Underwire

  3. Booze Slinging Bots Serve Fun at Roboexotica USA

    SAN FRANCISCO, California -- Outfitted in shiny, red digs, passing out drinks and cracking jokes in rapid-fire succession, Chassis is the type of guest any host would want to liven up a party. The only catch? Chassis is a robot....

    05.11.08 | 2:48 AM From The Underwire

  4. Oscar-winner John Gaeta Explains Speed Racer Effects

    If you caught Speed Racer this weekend, you might not be raving over the dialogue, but we're guessing the race track sequences made an impression. In this video clip, visual effects wizard John Gaeta, who won an Oscar when he...

    05.10.08 | 10:49 PM From The Underwire

  5. Review: Canon Rebel XSi is an Entry-Level Hip Pocket DSLR Rocket

    Last year’s Rebel XTi was a massive sales success, but not exactly a technological leap forward for DSLRs. Most critiques of that camera (including ours) came up just shy of disappointment while competing manufacturers of entry level DSLRs toiled to...

    05.10.08 | 9:39 PM From Gadget Lab

  6. Nintendo Taps U.S. Talent in Search of WiiWare Hits

    NEW YORK -- Nintendo videogame guru Shigeru Miyamoto says the future of indie games looks brightest outside his native Japan. "I think America has always been better at creating unique products," says Miyamoto, the head of Nintendo's game-development division and...

    05.10.08 | 3:15 PM From Game | Life

  7. Tricky Exposes His Roots, Crowdsources Remixes

    From his early days in Massive Attack to his storied solo career and onward into films like The Fifth Element, Adrian Thaws has come a long way, baby. That's because his alter ego Tricky has hopscotched across sonic convention while...

    05.10.08 | 2:50 PM From Listening Post

  8. Joseph Arthur's Tumblelog Is Hot With Music, Photos

    The Wired nation knows all about tumblelogs, text-lite microblogs that include art, audio, video and not much more. But indie artists are seizing upon them as vehicles for publicizing their works-in-progress. Earnest singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur has joined the tumblelog ranks...

    05.10.08 | 1:19 PM From Listening Post

  9. Klutz School Benefit Day Today In Palo Alto

    Today, Saturday, May tenth, is School Benefit Day at the Klutz main store in Palo Alto California. Klutz will donate 101% of your total purchase to the school of your choice! Festivities run from 10AM-6PM at: 572 College Avenue Palo...

    05.10.08 | 10:46 AM From Geekdad

  10. Reactive Revolution: Meet the Pulverizers

    Pam, Barnie and Bam Bam may sound harmless enough. In fact, they are new munitions that will tear apart rock and concrete with astonishing ease -- the "most effective ... concrete-damaging warhead known to date," thanks to the power of...

    05.10.08 | 9:22 AM From Danger Room

  1. Choose The Next LEGO Star Wars Scene

    The LEGO Group and Toysrus.com want your opinion on LEGO Star Wars products for 2009. What epic scene from the movies would you like LEGOized? Go to www.Toysrus.com/LegoStarWarsVote from May 10 at 12:01 am to May 18 at 11:59 pm...

    05.10.08 | 7:00 AM From Geekdad

  2. One Man Show Wraps Scarf Around Doctor Who

    The nasty stereotype of extreme sci-fi fans heads straight to their parents' basement and a carefully sorted collection of old VHS tapes. But, Toby Hadoke turned a life of desperate fandom into a decent acting career and a successful one...

    05.10.08 | 5:54 AM From The Underwire

  3. Festival Hosts Psyched for Global Chatter

    On Saturday, Current TV personalities Max Lugavere and Jason Silva co-host the international Pangea Day music and film festival. Wired.com caught up with the duo a few hours before showtime. Wired: How did you prepare for this transcontinental broadcast? Lots...

    05.10.08 | 2:43 AM From The Underwire

  4. 24/7 Berkeley Webcam Monitors Code Pink Witchcraft

    For months now, the anti-war group Code Pink has been fighting to oust a Marine recruiting station out of Berkeley, Calif. Apparently, Berkeley folks don't like the military. Who knew? Up until now, none of that qualified for Underwire coverage....

    05.09.08 | 11:04 PM From The Underwire

  5. Astronaut Garrett Reisman Chats With Stephen Colbert From Outer Space

    Last night on the Colbert Report, Astronaut Garrett Reisman was patched through Mission Control in Houston through to New York for a live interview with Stephen Colbert. There is nothing more fun then watching a true Colbert Report fan in...

    05.09.08 | 11:04 PM From Wired Science

  6. Funk Archivists Truth and Soul Unearth Forgotten Gems, Scold Pro Tools Slackers

    Like their indie label peers at Daptone on the East Coast and Stone's Throw on the West Coast, Brooklyn's Truth and Soul is invested in carving out a space in pop culture for the lost funk of yesteryear and the...

    05.09.08 | 9:47 PM From Listening Post

  7. Gnarls Barkley's Lo-Fi Sci-Fi Video "Going On" Samples Matrix, 2001

    Wendy Morgan shot the new Gnarls Barkley video for "Going On" in Jamaica, but geography is just what the characters in the video are trying to escape. And they do, right through a door they carry around town, which also...

    05.09.08 | 7:56 PM From Listening Post

  8. In Praise of Friendster

    "Friendster" has become a euphemism for a dried up, has-been, washed-up business in Silicon Valley. Nobody here wants to be a Friendster. In reality, most web start-ups should be so lucky to become Friendster. No, it's not a web darling...

    05.09.08 | 7:35 PM From Epicenter

  9. The Car of the Future Will Know You Can't Drive

    Someday soon your car may be able tell you about an oncoming vehicle in your lane on a blind curve or even calm you down on a harried commute. But it may also tell your insurance company how often you...

    05.09.08 | 7:18 PM From Autopia

  10. View Hard Rock's Dinosaur Memorabilia (Through The Past Darkly)

    The Hard Rock Cafe isn't really my idea of a good time, although the one in Vegas has a decent music venue and a nice selection of blackjack tables. But thanks to its new memorabilia site, it's now possible to...

    05.09.08 | 6:43 PM From Listening Post

  1. Rifftrax takes on Star Trek: New Voyages Sans Mike Nelson

    Rifftrax, the movie mockery download service, is kicking Michael J. Nelson out of the studio and taking on Star Trek: Voyages. Rifftrax Presents sends Nelson out of the recording booth and introduces new riffers, including British writer and comic, Matthew...

    05.09.08 | 6:29 PM From The Underwire

  2. First Pics! Fisker's $80K Hybrid Hits the Road

    Fisker Automotive isn't wasting any time getting its Karma plug-in hybrid on the road. Five months after pulling the wraps off the car at the Detroit auto show, it's flogging a test mule in Southern California. The pictures offer the...

    05.09.08 | 6:13 PM From Autopia

  3. Q&A;: NASA Scientist Answers Your Questions About Lying in Bed for 90 Days

    Our readers had a lot of questions following our last post on the NASA Bed Rest Study, in which participants spend 90 days lying in bed in exchange for about $5,000 a month. What did participants eat? Could they have...

    05.09.08 | 5:59 PM From Wired Science

  4. Video: Exoskeleton Overdose

    A week after the Iron Man release, months after the movie hype began, you are probably sick to death of exoskeletons - those powered suits that give ordinary people seemingly superhuman abilities. But just in case you haven't OD'd on...

    05.09.08 | 5:52 PM From Danger Room

  5. Roofing Company Develops Peel-and-Stick Solar Panels

    A construction company has developed solar panels that use peel-and-stick technology to attach to roofs. That's right: Lumeta's Power-Ply 380 is a solar panel sticker. The product's adhesive back allows it to be installed about twice as fast as conventional...

    05.09.08 | 5:26 PM From Wired Science

  6. EA Loosens Spore, Mass Effect DRM

    In response to criticism of the security measures that it had planned for its major upcoming PC game releases, Electronic Arts has backed off of the harsher parts of its plan. Specifically, EA's plan to dial in to game owner's...

    05.09.08 | 5:22 PM From Game | Life

  7. New Online Videos Take Aim at Obama, by Fair Means And Foul

    A couple of new anti-Obama web videos are previewing what could be likely avenues of attack from Republican communications strategists in upcoming months -- exploiting voters' fear of the unknown. The first is the launch of a new website, CanWeAsk.com, and a video from the...

    05.09.08 | 5:21 PM From Threat Level

  8. Clinton Resorts To PowerPoint

    We all knew it, but Hillary Clinton's advisers this morning proved the point -- they're kind of old-school when it comes to technology. Hit By PowerPoint: Clinton advisers pinged around 800 superdelegates with a PowerPoint presentation about her electability on Friday. Slide courtesy of the...

    05.09.08 | 5:13 PM From Threat Level

  9. Even Luddites Will Enjoy Recording with TapeDeck

    If you've ever used an old school-style tape deck with the tilty buttons on the front, you'll be able to use TapeDeck to record your voice or anything else. The resulting "tapes" can be sent to your iPod or Apple...

    05.09.08 | 5:08 PM From Listening Post

  10. Pangea Day Globe-Cast Celebrates Virtual Culture

    Cameron Diaz and musician/activist Bob Geldof hop aboard the Pangea Day parade slated to take place May 10 when musicians and filmmakers from Cairo (pictured), Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro join virtual hands for a highly...

    05.09.08 | 4:59 PM From The Underwire

  1. Gamer Gifts for Every Kind of Mom

    In case Hallmark's marketing juggernaut hasn't reached you, allow us at Game|Life to remind you that this Sunday is Mother's Day. Sure, you could buy Mom dinner or send her flowers, but we can't think of a better way to...

    05.09.08 | 4:26 PM From Game | Life

  2. Vinyl Cutter Etches Music Grooves onto Unwanted CDs

    Aleks Kolkowski has discovered a new use for old CDs: repurposing them into vinyl-style records that can be played on any record player. Attendees of the Manchester Futuresonic 2008 Festival were invited to bring their unwanted CDs and DVDs to...

    05.09.08 | 4:13 PM From Listening Post

  3. Google to Newspaper Publishers: We Come in Peace

    Google cares about copyright protections. Well, that's the message it wants to get out to newspaper publishers, anyway. In a Q&A; with a Toronto Star reporter, Google News content specialist Josh Cohen swore up and down that Google plays fair...

    05.09.08 | 3:39 PM From Epicenter

  4. Levi Strauss Scores Viral Gold With Back-Flipping Jeans Clip

    The hottest video on YouTube right now showcases a handful of agile hipsters effortlessly hopping, leaping and even back-flipping into their jeans. Amateur videos of friends performing such stunts are common enough on YouTube, but this video is the work...

    05.09.08 | 3:35 PM From The Underwire

  5. Podington Bear Scores Single-Frame Films

    Herbie Hancock told us that for the past ten years, he has been writing music by envisioning a scene and then coming up with melodies that complement it. It's been a while since we checked in with Podington Bear, and...

    05.09.08 | 3:28 PM From Listening Post

  6. Free MP3: Die! Die! Die! Upgrades Wire For the 21st Century

    Straight outta the New Zealand boondocks, Die! Die! Die! are anything but quiet. They exhibit a sonic intensity that starts with the legendary Wire and Pixies and ends somewhere between The Silversun Pickups and Interpol. Which is another way of...

    05.09.08 | 3:28 PM From Listening Post

  7. It's 10 pm; Do You Know Where Your Data Is?

    I don't mean to pick on Netvibes. I use it as my daily feed aggregator. I enjoy its features, I've created my own custom modules, and it makes my life significantly more convenient. But I've seen that message above a...

    05.09.08 | 3:16 PM From Compiler

  8. The Greatest Coffee Table Ever Made

    Despite his lack of woodworking experience, Kyle Downes managed to craft himself a gorgeous coffee table fashioned after a classic NES controller. It even has a storage area for Kyle's other gaming paraphernalia. Not enough to impress you? Then how...

    05.09.08 | 3:15 PM From Game | Life

  9. The 95, er, 70 MPG Aerocivic is Back With Video

    Remember the guy who used 400 bucks worth of plastic and aluminum to turn his Honda Civic into a streamlined 70 mpg wonder? His local TV station recently profiled him and we thought you'd like to see the video. There's...

    05.09.08 | 2:59 PM From Autopia

  10. Only Greentech Can Save U.S. Economy, Says Über-Investor

    "The U.S. financial system is in a mess. The global marketplace is in the same disarray ... What the hell is going on? Can we get out of this mess, and how? And will our children be living in caves?"

    05.09.08 | 2:50 PM From Wired Science

  1. Nader Slams Feds For Caving on Roof-Crush Standards

    Auto-safety pioneer and perennial presidential candidate Ralph Nader is at it again. The longtime activist is pushing the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration to require automakers to put stronger roofs on vehicles. Although the protest he led outside the...

    05.09.08 | 2:36 PM From Autopia

  2. 'Abandon the Green Zone': Former Pentagon Staffer

    The U.S. is mulling over the idea of turning Baghdad's "Green Zone" enclave into a billion-dollar luxury zone, complete with high-end shopping and five-star hotels. Sam Brannen, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and former Defense...

    05.09.08 | 2:28 PM From Danger Room

  3. Review: Olympus E-420 is One Smokin' SLR

    Let's get one thing out of the way: Even though it's called the 420, Olympus' latest camera has absolutely nothing to do with illicit drug use. We tried to find a secret compartment for storing your stash: No dice. In...

    05.09.08 | 2:15 PM From Gadget Lab

  4. The Greenest Aircraft On Earth?

    California to Florida on 40 gallons of fuel? The people at Quasar Aircraft hope so. The company is developing the Quasar Light, a 500-pound light sport aircraft powered by a 121-pound HKS-700E 60-hp 4-stroke engine that burns between 1.7 and...

    05.09.08 | 2:00 PM From Autopia

  5. U.S. Cops to Battle Bombs in Iraq

    The newest tool in the battle against improvised explosive devices is not an electronic jammer, a lightning weapon, or high-tech explosive detector -- it's the U.S. police. This won't come as a complete surprise to those who have followed the...

    05.09.08 | 1:51 PM From Danger Room

  6. Darkstalkers Meets Disgaea In Mega-Crossover RPG

    Move over Marvel vs. Capcom and Kingdom Hearts: The mother of all Japanese crossover games is coming. X Edge (pronounced "Cross Edge") is an upcoming role-playing game to be published by Compile Hearts for the PlayStation 3. It will bring...

    05.09.08 | 1:51 PM From Game | Life

  7. Lost's Fox Fills Keanu Reeves' Helmet in Speed Racer

    Keanu Reeves was the Wachowski brothers' first call to play Racer X, the mystery man who broods his way through Speed Racer. When the Matrix star turned out to be unavailable, Lost hero Matthew Fox got the gig. Shooting on...

    05.09.08 | 1:44 PM From The Underwire

  8. Teen Superhero Academies Popping Up All Over

    While Josh Schwartz (Gossip Girl) spends his summer writing his X-Men movie spinoff about an academy of superpowered teenagers with attitude, Brazilian artist Gabriel Ba and writer-musician Gerard Way are preparing for a San Diego Comic-Con appearance in July to...

    05.09.08 | 1:01 PM From The Underwire

  9. Last.fm Launches Video Channel for Band Interviews

    CBS's Last.fm aims the camera at a number of worthwhile recording artists in the inaugural iteration of Last.fm/Presents, its new video interview channel. They've come out of the gate at a full sprint, with interviews from some fairly serious badasses...

    05.09.08 | 12:58 PM From Listening Post

  10. Japan Sales: Link Enters the Fray

    The Media Create sales ranking for the week of April 28th to May 4th is out, revealing only one new entry in the top 10, in the form of Link's Crossbow Training (in at #3). Mario Kart Wii and Monster...

    05.09.08 | 12:42 PM From Game | Life

  1. Activision to Announce 'Innovative' Guitar Hero 4 Features Soon

    Activision plans to "innovate" with the release of Guitar Hero 4 later this year, and says that we'll find out exactly what that means in the next "couple of weeks." In a conference call with investors Thursday, Activision president and...

    05.09.08 | 12:35 PM From Game | Life

  2. Cloak of Light Makes Drone Invisible?

    Counter-illumination -- lighting up an aircraft's leading edges -- is a decades-old technique for making planes harder to see. But researchers have come up with a new, "spectacular" twist on this method for "visual signature suppression." Back in WWII, US...

    05.09.08 | 12:29 PM From Danger Room

  3. New JavaScript Library Creates Amazing Animations

    John Resig, JavaScript Evangelist for Mozilla and creator of the JQuery library, has ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript. We cover a lot of language and software developments here at Compiler, but this might be the most impressive thing...

    05.09.08 | 12:25 PM From Compiler

  4. Call of Duty 5 to Launch on Six Platforms

    Yes, there will be a Call of Duty 5, and you'll be able to play it on (almost) every single console you own. During a conference call with investors yesterday, Activision announced that the next game in the popular first-person...

    05.09.08 | 12:21 PM From Game | Life

  5. Puppy Linux Growing Up, Unleashes Dingo

    Dingo is version 4.0 of the cutest live Linux distribution around. It's compatible with packages from good old Slackware, the distribution that has the longest history, but it's condensed into a tiny, robust package. The live CD image weighs in...

    05.09.08 | 12:12 PM From Compiler

  6. Professor Layton 3 Teaser Site Open

    Ready to revisit the puzzle-filled world of Professor Layton? Japanese gamers will get to do so for a third time this fall with Professor Layton and the Final Time-Travel. Developer Level-5 hasn't revealed any official release date, but they have...

    05.09.08 | 12:08 PM From Game | Life

  7. Hydrophones Help Scientists Pinpoint, Protect Right Whales

    Regular Wired Science readers know that I have a thing for underwater microphones. Streaming the depths of the ocean to your laptop is just plain awesome. But now scientists are using them to do some good. Researchers at the Cornell...

    05.09.08 | 12:06 PM From Wired Science

  8. Doko! A New Online Game for Tweens

    Launching today, May 9th, is a new game from Mammoth Brand. Doko [dokodrop.com] is targeted at 6-13yo geeklets and looks like a cross between a trading game and an online world. As players obtain Doko discs, they register them online...

    05.09.08 | 12:00 PM From Geekdad

  9. Microsoft, Sony Trade Volleys as Console Wars Heat Up

    Above: Home, Sony's upcoming massively multiplayer virtual world for PlayStation 3. Sony says it's a killer app for its console, Microsoft says it's a vaporware boondoggle. Who's right? God only knows at this point, but one thing's for sure: It'll...

    05.09.08 | 11:42 AM From Game | Life

  10. Nobody Here But Us Chickens

    Spring has arrived on the b-b-balmy shores of Lake Ontario, and the local fauna and flora have gotten down to doing what they do best - making more fauna and flora. It may be that your geeklets aren't ready for...

    05.09.08 | 11:32 AM From Geekdad

  1. 'Human Terrain' Social Scientist Killed in Afghanistan

    Any death notice is sad. But it's particularly saddening to read that Michael V. Bhatia, a social scientist who was working in Afghanistan on the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System, was killed by a roadside bomb. The Chronicle of Higher...

    05.09.08 | 11:32 AM From Danger Room

  2. Can Sea Urchins Handle Human Appetites?

    Sea urchins are the new It Food. So I learned yesterday, from no less buzzworthy a source than a trendspotter at Converse. Meanwhile, two of the chefs picked to provision the New Yorker Stories From the Near Future conference were...

    05.09.08 | 11:26 AM From Wired Science

  3. Army Yanks 'Voice-To-Skull Devices' Site

    The Army's very strange webpage on "Voice-to-Skull" weapons has been removed. It was strange it was there, and it's even stranger it's gone. If you Google it, you'll see the entry for "Voice-to-Skull device," but, if you click on the...

    05.09.08 | 11:26 AM From Danger Room

  4. The Five Worst Movie Toy Tie-Ins Of All Time

    Since Star Wars, every movie made comes with some form of tie-in. Many of these have become collectible and many have been forgotten. There were also some pieces of merchandise begging to be made but which somehow never materialized, such...

    05.09.08 | 11:23 AM From Gadget Lab

  5. The Worlds In Our Heads: An Interview With Beach House

    Beach House's stunning sophomore effort Devotion has been out for a couple of months now, but it remains hard to shake. Its Lynchian dream sonics thrive on waking life, the way all great albums do, offering up sublime soundtracking for...

    05.09.08 | 10:38 AM From Listening Post

  6. Five for Fighting 5/9/08

    * Battles in Beirut * Pak press pushes out U.S. general * Navy shops "the Diet Coke of jammers?" * Penis theft panic * Manu! (High five: Ares)

    05.09.08 | 9:56 AM From Danger Room

  7. Microhoo Tea Leaf Watch: Proxy Directors Set Free

    In what the Wall Street Journal says is a "clear" sign that Microsoft isn't about to quickly resume a run at Yahoo (though it has no photographs, or even etchings, of any winks and nods), potential directors that would have...

    05.09.08 | 9:28 AM From Epicenter

  8. FAA Managers Blew Off Hundreds of Inspections, Received Free Flight Lessons

    USA Today reports that Bobby Hedlund, the FAA manager currently responsible for overseeing the agency's Southwest Airlines office, received months of flight training from the airline during 2005. This in itself isn't news. The FAA has had an inspector training...

    05.09.08 | 9:14 AM From Autopia

  9. The MacBook. All USB Ports Are Not Equal

    This gadget tip comes to you by way of the resplendent Andy Ihnatko, tech hack for the Chicago Sun Times and lover of Internet Pants. It turns out that some MacBook USB ports are more equal than others. Only one...

    05.09.08 | 9:02 AM From Gadget Lab

  10. Edutopia - Creating schools for the twenty-first century

    George Lucas has an idea for reforming public schools, and it has nothing to do with dressing little kids in homespun robes and teaching them to make objects float with their minds. Instead, the George Lucas Educational Foundation is looking...

    05.09.08 | 9:00 AM From Geekdad

  1. How MySpace Plans to Become Everybody's Space

    MySpace has unveiled a new plan to turn the site into a central storage hub for your personal data and profile information by allowing you to access and use that information when you visit other websites. The idea is to...

    05.09.08 | 8:18 AM From Compiler

  2. Grandin Road Offers Half A Brolly For Twice The Lolly

    I love umbrellas, and not just because I grew up in England, where they are issued to four year olds on their first day at school, along with an instruction book on how to cook every kind of food (it's...

    05.09.08 | 8:01 AM From Gadget Lab

  3. Marching Band Does Nintendo

    I grew up next to, and spent many formative hours in, Berkeley, California. This probably explains a lot about me. One of the coolest things about the University of California there has always been its marching band, and the creative...

    05.09.08 | 8:00 AM From Geekdad

  4. Orion Preliminary Design Review Slips Two Months- Off Nominal Returns Examined

    The Orion crew capsule that can ride atop NASA's planned Ares I rocket has a Preliminary Design Review slip from September 26th to November 21st. The Critical Design Review slips even further from September 2009 to April 2010. While schedule...

    05.09.08 | 7:56 AM From Wired Science

  5. Speed Racer Slot Car Set is Go

    Here he comes Here comes Speed Racer He’s a demon on wheels He’s a demon and he’s gonna be chasin’ after someone Go!!! Carrera, the toy car maker, has announced the Speed Racer slot car set. Within, you will find...

    05.09.08 | 7:20 AM From Gadget Lab

  6. Virginia Is For Kid Lovers

    Virginia: Eat The Kids First I thought this was one of the funnier license plates I've seen. The bloody hand prints really set it apart. [via daddytypes.com]

    05.09.08 | 7:00 AM From Geekdad

  7. NBC Offers Free, Full Length Episodes For iPhone

    IPhone and iPod Touch owners should head over to NBC.com to stream free, full episodes of 30 Rock and The Office directly to their handset. As far as we know, this is the only way to legally watch NBC content...

    05.09.08 | 6:57 AM From Gadget Lab

  8. Stumpy Marvel Hero Squad Rushing to TV, Games

    While the adults are flocking to Iron Man now and looking ahead to The Incredible Hulk flick next month, Marvel is still worried that it might run out of money some day. So, it's reaching out to the kids and...

    05.09.08 | 6:45 AM From The Underwire

  9. Customizer Copies Classic Keyboard: Conclusion Convincing

    After our keyboard nerd-out on Wednesday, we bring you news of another classic battleship of a keyboard, the Customizer. Based on the IBM Model M, the Customizer from Unicomp uses the same buckled spring design as the original for good...

    05.09.08 | 6:23 AM From Gadget Lab

  10. Adam Sandler Bringing Gong Show Back to TV

    America never did anything to Adam Sandler. Why must he lash out like this? Sandler's Happy Madison Productions is bringing back that 1970s benchmark for heartwarming artistic entertainment, The Gong Show, to Comedy Central for an eight show run starting...

    05.09.08 | 6:04 AM From The Underwire

  1. Doctor Who Comes Up Trumps with New Game

    When the 21st Century resurgence of Doctor Who exploded in the UK, the BBC was quick and thorough in its merchandising -- especially to kids. It seems that if a character or creature graced a TV screen for even a...

    05.09.08 | 5:38 AM From The Underwire

  2. Reactive Revolution: Turbocharged 'Superbombs'

    Reactive Materials can be used to replace inert metals in munitions, all different kinds of weapons. Even Explosively Formed Penetrators, or EFPs, the "superbombs" used to such deadly effect in Iraq and Afghanistan, are candidates for the reactive materials revolution....

    05.09.08 | 3:59 AM From Danger Room

  3. Verbinski to Direct BioShock Film

    Gore Verbinski's next film will take us back to Davy Jones' locker -- but this time, into the undersea world of BioShock. The Pirates of the Caribbean director has been tapped to direct and produce a film based on the...

    05.09.08 | 1:07 AM From Game | Life

  4. Kids' DIY Raiders Remake Hits Hollywood at Last

    Ain't It Cool News may not be loving Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but the backyard Raiders of the Lost Ark remake that the film site called "pure magic" is about to get its Hollywood premiere....

    05.09.08 | 12:49 AM From The Underwire

  5. 11-Year-Old Snags Speed Racer Exclusives

    At the Hollywood premiere of Speed Racer last month, an enterprising 11-year-old named Jennifer Smart cornered Emile Hirsch, Matthew Fox and child actor Paulie Litt on the red carpet. Besides chatting with the film's stars, Jennifer also interviewed a dentist...

    05.08.08 | 10:20 PM From The Underwire

  6. Obama Campaign Urges Online Audience To Lobby Superdelegates In College

    He may be in the lead, but Barack Obama's campaign isn't pausing for breath when it comes to lobbying the superdelegates needed in order to win his party's presidential nomination. Today, Obama won the support of Reps. Rick Larson of Washington and Brad Miller of...

    05.08.08 | 9:15 PM From Threat Level

  7. Sleep Dealer Director Talks Sci-Fi Cities for Cyborgs

    SAN FRANCISCO -- You've seen the far-out, futuristic interpretations of New York, London and Los Angeles in every sci-fi thriller from Minority Report to Blade Runner. What about Mexico and the rest of the developing world? What will they look...

    05.08.08 | 7:59 PM From The Underwire

  8. Tension Runs Low In Google Shareholder Meeting

    Google shareholders are either fat and happy or they were drugged during the annual stockholder meeting that took place in Mountain View this afternoon. As expected, Amnesty International made something of a nuisance of itself. Though they don't own any...

    05.08.08 | 7:36 PM From Epicenter

  9. Adaptive Driving Steps Up to the Next Generation

    Call them the do-what-I-mean, not-what-I-say vehicles. The latest generation of luxury sports sedans continues to get smarter about adapting to your driving style, almost telepathically. This is certainly true with the forthcoming Mercedes Benz AMG C63, which features a sport...

    05.08.08 | 7:33 PM From Autopia

  10. MTV to Honor Top Online Movie Spoofers

    Make fun of a movie in less than three minutes and you might just win a trip to Hollywood for the 17th annual MTV Movie Awards. The network is inviting movie-spoof auteurs to submit their work by May 18. Seven...

    05.08.08 | 6:56 PM From The Underwire

  1. Do You Care if Indy 4 Sucks?

    An early-bird review of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has surfaced online, courtesy of Ain't It Cool News, and hints at the worst: Indy 4 might suck. Big time. The revelation doesn't come as a huge...

    05.08.08 | 6:47 PM From The Underwire

  2. New Killzone 2 Trailer

    Fresh from its showing at SCEE's PlayStation Day earlier this week is a brand new Killzone 2 trailer. Sony clearly wants us to be champing at the bit to get at this game, but I can't say I was blown...

    05.08.08 | 6:36 PM From Game | Life

  3. Making a Better Robotic Hand: It's All In the Palm

    What makes a hand so versatile? Fingers come to mind first -- but as designers of robot arms have learned, said neurobotics pioneer Yoky Matsuoka, the hand is just as much about the palm. Specifically, the palm's flexibility -- a...

    05.08.08 | 6:19 PM From Wired Science

  4. Interview: The Former Hedge Fund Owner Who Teamed with Tutu for Free Music

    Steve Nowack decided to reinvent the music business after a chance meeting with a singer/songwriter in a Toronto bookstore. Another chance meeting – with Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Heathrow airport – led to the two of them announcing Nowack's new...

    05.08.08 | 6:15 PM From Listening Post

  5. Uncharted Ditched Dead Fish to Keep 'T' Rating

    Many things can bump a T-rated game up to M-rated status, like nudity, or drug use, or, apparently, dead fish. Evan Wells, co-president of Uncharted developer Naughty Dog, explained to the semi-official PlayStation 3 blog Three Speech that at one...

    05.08.08 | 6:13 PM From Game | Life

  6. TorrentSpy Won't Pay $111 Million Court Order, Lawyer Says

    A day after a U.S. judge dinged TorrentSpy with one of the largest fines in copyright history, the lawyer for the torrent-tracking search engine said Thursday the $111 million judgment won't get paid. Nevis-based Valence Media, the owner of TorrentSpy, filed for bankruptcy protection in...

    05.08.08 | 5:54 PM From Threat Level

  7. Video: Supersonic Jets, Turned into Target Drones

    Back in the day, supersonic F-4 fighters were some of the baddest birds in the sky. Now, they're being refitted for target practice -- "test drones for air-to-air missiles," our pals at Popular Mechanics report. "Contractors the world over have...

    05.08.08 | 5:44 PM From Danger Room

  8. Climate Scientists Put Their Money Where Their Models Are

    Last week, a group of German scientists led by N.S. Keenlyside published a paper in Nature asserting that the Earth might be experiencing a slight cooling that could continue for several more years. Today, a group of rival scientists have...

    05.08.08 | 5:42 PM From Wired Science

  9. Free MP3: Longwave's "Sirens In The Deep Sea"

    Although they enraptured The Strokes shortly after their New York emergence in 1999, Longwave owes more to the so-called shoegaze sound of the newly-reunited My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver. Which is probably why they are opening for Swervedriver for a...

    05.08.08 | 4:47 PM From Listening Post

  10. Navy Wants to Militarize Bioluminescence

    Down in the ocean's depths, nearly every creature turns into a living glowstick, by converting chemical energy into light. So many things -- even the energy of passing ships and subs -- can cause single-celled organisms to light up. The...

    05.08.08 | 4:40 PM From Danger Room
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