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more about #computers Mike Winder: Oh, hello. My name's Bruce. more » Wookie1972: I voted Jar Jar. I totally believed he was there, even if he was annoying. more » Purple Dave: Gollum? Are you freaking kidding me? He sucked donkey balls, and went back for seconds! Jar Jar was better than Gollum, and less annoying to boot. ... more » RobinSure: Summer Glau. Not many people know she doesn't really exist. Now, admittedly she suffers the uncanny valley effect, but it seems to appeal to some people. more » holdenfunk: no other cgi character even comes close. more » TemporalOutLaw: Wait, the Cloverfield monster was CGI? But he looked so lifelike... more » SJ_Edwards: re-300: Queen Gorgo was CGI? Say it ain't so! :) more » Dresan: Wall-e here. The dance in space is just an incredible experience to take in. Also the whole beginning where he tries to approach Eve... who here didn'... more » dabismail001: Norrin Radd in FF: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Nailed it, dude looked real and fluid. more » Illogic: I voted Max Headroom, but if I had to be serious I'd go with Wall-E more » dekeloved: You totally forgot the acorn-crazed prehistoric squirrel from the "Ice Age" movies. He should definitely be on the list. In my opinion he's numero uno. more » Hahaue: Gollum. Instead of just being an all-out CG movie, it was live-action, and he blended seamlessly with the other actors. You hated and pitied him at th... more » Pessimippöpötåmus: WALL-E is the only CG character to make me actually think that he was real. If you don't believe me, watch the part where he's reaching out for EVE's... more » CliffordLooney: A lot of votes for Wall-E and Gollum. I went with Gollum. I think it's more impressive to have a CGI character work seamlessly in a live-action movie ... more » Cash907Censored: Cortana. Always Cortana. more » Stanford Chiou: Hi there! more » ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.: GOLLUM! *HACK* *COUGH* GOLLUM! more » jbrecken: Grendel's mom more » Thrubeingcool: I scrupulously avoided looking at any male body in 300 - CGI or otherwise. more » quantumz001: SUMMER GLAU! more » -
#poll
Who Is The Greatest CGI Character Of Them All?
There have been countless characters in movies and television generated entirely using computer effects. But which one was the most believable as a character? More » -
#computersmakemovies
Your Favorite Movies Were Made By Computers
Like robots doing complicated surgeries, the computers that generate CGI effects are more than just tools. They're storytellers. This week on io9, we explore a world where humans watch the world through computer eyes just by going to the movies. More » -
#lolcat
IBM Recreate Cat's Brain Inside Computer
Well, as artificial intelligences go, it's no HAL, but it's definitely a step closer than we've ever been before. IBM researchers have reportedly simulated the cerebral cortex of a cat using 147,456 processors and 144 terabytes of memory. More » -
#futurism
The Man Who Predicted Handheld Computers In 1980
The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction awarded its $2,010 prize for the reader whose prediction (in 1980) of the world of 2010 came closest to reality. The winner? Allen MacNeill, who predicted handheld computers... sort of. More » -
#startrek
You Could Own Gene Roddenberry's 1980s Apple Mac
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry owned one of the first Mac-Pluses Apple built, back in 1986, and this led to him featuring the computer in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Now you can own Gene's Mac, model number 0001. More » -
#nanowireporn
A Fresh Crop of Mushroom-Shaped Nanowires Keeps Your Circuits Shrinking
Researchers at IBM are farming nanowires, growing wires a thousand times thinner than a human hair like microscopic silicon bonsai trees. This image shows the wires sprouting silicon. More » -
#hacking
Live As If You Are Already In The Future At Hacker Camp
Every four years, the Netherlands countryside is invaded by roughly 2500 people obsessed with technology. Together they build a futurist experiment, a massively hacked data network, and a party. Here's a gallery of last weekend's Hacking At Random camp. More » -
#retrofuturism
A Military Targeting Computer, Circa 1922
A stiff-backed man manipulates the knobs and levers of a "target computor (sic)," designed to help aim large pieces of artillery, in this image from 1922. Bigger version at the link. [Shorpy, thanks Bec!] -
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#miniaturelight
Who Needs Electricity When You Can Power Things With Light Alone?
Your iPod nano may today rely on electrical power (until its battery dies), but future nanodevices might be powered strictly by a combination of attractive and repulsive lights. More » -
#augmentedreality
More Augmented Reality Software That Will Change the Future
Using a new augmented reality (AR) service called Pachube, you can use your smart phone to "see" invisible environmental data about air quality and energy consumption. And we've got another amazing AR application too. More » -
#quantumcomputing
Super Small, Super Powerful Quantum Processor Can Solve Multiple Problems At Once
Soon your processor might be able to do three things at once. In a major stride towards commonplace quantum computing, a Yale university team has just unveiled a new two-qubit quantum processor that actually looks like a conventional computer chip. More » -
#miniaturescience
Three Recent Breakthroughs That Will Change Your Computer Forever
Scientists are engaged in a race to make electronics components even tinier. Now, three breakthroughs in the manufacture of chips and superconductors are about to make computer components so small that they can operate on the quantum level. More » -
#quoteoftheday
Computers Smarter Than Humans Are Inevitable This Century, Says Sawyer
We're bound to spawn computers smarter than us in the next ninety years or so. So we may as well start hoping they have our best interests at heart, says Wake author Robert J. Sawyer. More » -
#madscience
Five Brain-Manipulating Technologies That Prove Dollhouse Exists Right Now
Joss Whedon's new show Dollhouse is about a secret organization that supplies mind-wiped sex ninjas to the rich. It's not set in the future because neuromanipulated technoslaves could exist today. Here's proof. More » -
#crapfuturism
Online Media Will Never Threaten Print Media
Back in 1981, this newscast showed us an amazing new technology: Newspapers online! The newscaster chuckles that it can't really compete with print. And the editors say they'll never make money on it. -
#hacking
Hackers Warn Texas of Coming Zombie War
Over the weekend, Austin, TX drivers received some important warnings from their road signs about the impending zombie invasion. And the hackers who did it may know something we don't about the undead. More »
