This week in gadgets, Feb. 9th-13th

iTunes: Anywhere?

According to AppleInsider the nearly-finished iTune Replay service is bringing movies on-demand, anywhere. The Replay service will purportedly provide streaming of purchased movies and TV shows on iTunes. This means no more lengthy download times, so you can watch Mama Mia at the touch of a button (oh what a world!). Details are scant as to what, if any, Apple devices will make use of the service (Apple TV seems like the most logical, though streaming videos to the iPhone would be pretty nifty). It’s believed that Replay will be a component of iTunes 8, so we won’t have to wait for an entirely new version before we see the service.

Longer Life and Woolly Mammoths

Scientists unearthing Siberian Mammoths from the permafrost have found ancient bacterium DNA still thriving. What’s even more astounding, a truly worthy of a science-ficiton tale in and of itself, is that when the mice are vaccinated with the bacterium extract they exhibit increased mental alertness, physical activity, and sexual virility. What’s more, the bacterium has actually been shown to increase life expectancy. While the Japanese and Russian scientific teams who made the discovery are not claiming eternal life, they do anticipate at least a ten year life extension.

DTV Officially Delayed

It’s long been rumoured and now it’s official; the DTV transition has been delayed until June 12th. Barack Obama but his John Hancock on a piece of paper yesterday making the delay in transition from analog to digital television official. The delay is being spited by 40% of America’s TV stations which plan on shutting down analog broadcasts by the end of the week.

Blockbuster Total Access

Blockbuster is set to begin testing videogame rentals via it’s by mail service ‘Total Access.’ Assuming things are up to standards in the testing phase, the movie rental behemoth plans on rolling out the service to regular Joes in the second half of 2009. Pricing details have yet to be revealed.

Motion Comics

Here’s something you may not know; iTunes sells comics. Several upstart companies have begun building up libraries of iPhone/iPod Touch tweaked comics. The specially formatted comics display one frame at a time, a move designed to embrace the small screen size. Well, in another bid to embrace the medium Marvel Comics is preparing to launch a new form of your favourite nerd literature: motion comics. These partially animated, voice-acted comics ditch the speech bubbles and embrace a more multimedia approach. The first Motion Comic to be released will be “Astonishing X-Men #1-10” and is being ‘directed’ by John Cassady.

Check out the trailer here.

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