How many times have you been waiting for your new gadget to ship only to have a delivery issue? UPS just introduced a new Delivery Intercept feature. It will allow you to do things like change the shipping address or have them hold it at the shipping depot for pickup.

9 months. That's how long it took Blu-ray to grab its first 100,000 seller, Casino Royale. Not only that, but it hit this milestone faster then DVD, which took 11 months to hit that goal.

Microsoft has admitted that they are to blame for the compromised Xbox Live accounts. Their support staff was subject to pretexting. Way to go originaly blaming us dumb users, when it was actually your own staff.

"You're right, my camera does have 8 Megapixels!"—ripfire4

First off we have motion computing launching their LE1700 slate tablet. The highend will top out at $2200 and sports a 12.1-inch touch screen and a 1.5GHz Core2Duo processor.

Now from processors to chipsets. IBM has created an optical chipset that will allow us to move files online up to 8x faster then current methods. How fast is that? Try 160 Gigabits per second. But it looks like the parts needed won't be in great enough supply until 2010.

See where this weaving goes after the jump.

From optical to optics. Scientists at Johns Hopkins and UC: Santa Barbra are finally giving back to the lab rat community. After years of harmful tests they decided to do one where they gave rats the ability to see in color.

And speaking of vision, check out the video glasses from Lumus, the PD-20. It attempts to give you the benefits of the other typical video screens, but without the impending doom caused by blocking your vision.– Ben Longo

First off our own lab rat, Louis Ramirez, is trying to save what is left of his lush head of hair with the Laser Comb. While there aren't any results yet, we're hopeful that some of it will grow back eventually.

The PS3 has obliterated the other folding@home competition. With only 13,000 PS3 running the program, it jumped to the number one spot counting for over 56 percent of the computing power in the program.

Last week we asked you how Adam Frucci should destroy his Motorola V710 cellphone. You voted to let it burn. And burn it did, check out the video.

And finally, we answered those lowly questions that until now, were still unanswered about the Apple TV. And as always send in any other questions, concerns, or paranoid conspiracy theories you have about any new gadgets here.

Now go and have some fun. Unless you work weekends, in that case get ready for work.– Ben Longo

"Who is this now famous adult as a teenager?
A) Elton John
B) Steve Wozniak
C) Billy Jean King"
—BuccoBobby

Microsoft wants to let everyone know that the rumor going around about Xbox Live accounts being hacked/stolen isn't true. I don't know if I believe them though. It's a tough call, since we're dealing with a company trying to save its ass and video game message boards, both of which are notorious for lying.

Find out where the Motorola Q is going and what Baseball team is going solar after the jump.

Amp'd Mobile is getting their very own version of the Motorola Q. It should be available in April for $199 bundled with the carrier's usual slew of entertainment like MTV and Comedy Central content.

Finally, the San Francisco Giants are going to become the first professional baseball team to have their stadium be powered (at least partially) by solar panels. Maybe with the added power they can add some heaters, because that park gets freezing cold.

Woof! Woof! Quote me!

Research firm, Interpret, is claiming that the reach of video games is bigger then just their sales figures. Well duh! I've played more games in my lifetime then I've owned. I'm sure you all have too. Hopefully the in-game advertisers don't catch wind of this report.

Find out who Stephen Netherton is & what the CEO of Intel is doing in Beijing after the jump.

Intel confirmed that the reason their CEO, Paul Otellini, is headed to Beijing is for a big announcement next week. Don't get too excited, rumor has it that the big announcement will only be a new chip fabrication plant in China.

And I thought that we were gadget crazed. Check out this guy, Stephen Netherton a finance director for some vegetable oil company, swindled almost $2,000,000 from company accounts. And why did he do this? In order to finance his gadget & movie obsession. Bravo sir, bravo.– Ben Longo

"That's not exactly what I had in mind when you said, 'Let me introduce you to the twins'..."—synaesthetique

IBM & Cisco are partnering up to create a new crisis management service. Where they will strap enough tech to your emergency vehicles to create a portable command center.

Find out what Yahoo! & LG are up to after the jump.

Yahoo! is showing Google its mobile claws with their new OneSearch service. Basically the ex–search engine king is trying to reestablish their dominance in the industry, even if it means switching to mobile.

Oh, and just in case you've got some non-HDTV's still lying around, it looks like those digital-to-analog converters that will keep your TV running after the big switch in 2009 will cost $60. Well, at least the ones from LG will.– Ben Longo

"There, I just deleted all my big brothers saves. That'll teach him for ripping the arms off my teddy bear."—Lupison

And Tivo CEO, Tom Rogers, said that their focus this year is to lower prices. You better try that out Tom, because the Tivo user interface isn't worth hundreds of dollars & service fees any more, even with HD.

More about HD DVD, Blu-ray, and Yahoo after the jump.

Blu-ray might be on the rise in the US, but over in Europe it looks like HD-DVD is taking the cake with 85% of hardware sales in January. I wonder if this trend will continue or if it was just a temporary fluke?

Yahoo finally apologized to a woman from Kerela, India after they stole recipes off of her blog without permission. If you check out her site (most of which we couldn't make out) you can see that she had quite a protest going, way to go.– Ben Longo & Photo by Pete Ark

Drop in a caption, or the dog gets it.

The Microsoft/Google rivalry looks to be progressing nicely. MS has got its knickers all twisted up because Google isn't adhering to copyright laws with their book scanning project. What's this? Microsoft is pissed because a competitor isn't following the rules? Hmm...

More important stuff after the jump.

On the other end of the MS spectrum, they announced that their Xbox Live service is now 6 million users strong. Although this number includes both Xbox & Xbox 360 users.

161 exabytes were generated last year of digital content. That comes out to around 2 billion 80gb iPods full of movies, photos, e-mails, and what not.– Ben Longo

Geeks need captions too.

It seems like everyday another major application is considering going web based. Todays entrant is a free ad-supported Adobe Photoshop. That sounds like a bloggers dream, free access to Photoshop from any Internet enabled computer.

Find out who's becoming the tag-a-long sibling of the web & who's heating up for a recall after the jump.

Blockbuster is turning into the "me too" little brother that Netflix never wanted. Obviously looking to compete with the Netflix video streaming service, Blockbuster is in talks with Movielink about a possible buyout.

Steven Hawking in space-ace-ace! Well not quite, but he is going to experience weightlessness thanks to one of those Zero Gravity planes. It's weird, we never really thought about the fact that one of the foremost authorities on black holes, gravity, and such has never even been to outer space. – Ben Longo

"After gutting and stuffing his new attachment, unit 1475674 realized he may have taken the term "rabbit ear antenna" way too literally."—Strykeout

IBM is trying to get computer clusters one step closer to plug-and-play simplicity, by offering already assembled cluster systems. The best part is that these cluster systems can be made as small as two computers, so no company is too tiny for this program.

More about the iPhone & PS3 after the jump.

Sony is claiming that they will be able to meet customer demand for the PS3 by May 31. I wonder if that is due to falling demand or if Sony's pumping up production?

Ever since the Apple TV had been delayed, there were small but growing concerns inside our heads that maybe the iPhone could suffer the same fate. Well Apple COO, Tim Cook, went on record saying not to worry; the iPhone is still on track for June. – Ben Longo

"If You beat my score on Guitar Hero, I'll pee on you"—Deviant Spawn

Being a tech obsessed person your electricity bill is probably a little higher then average, but you've got nothing on Al Gore. His yearly average power consumption came to 221,000-kWh. That's nearly $1,400/month. So much for an Inconvenient Truth.

More important stuff after the jump.

The British are complaining, the British are complaining. About the price of Vista that is. They are petitioning Tony Blair to demand MS to lower the U.K. price of Vista, which currently is coming in at $254 US for just an upgrade.

In other Vista news, a bug has been found that is forcing some users to have to reactivate their operating system when they install new drivers or software. Wow the more I hear about Vista, the happier I am that I decided to stick with XP/OS X for the time being. – Ben Longo

You know the drill, pop in a caption.

33.3% of Internet users in the US have used wireless internet. Wow, only 1/3? Can you remember the last time you weren't using wireless Internet. But I guess we're not the norm.

More important stuff & a poll after the jump.

Thanks to a new spambot, by the end of the 2007 around 90% of emails could be spam. Well I guess we can look forward to lots of fake stock tips and Viagra offers.

Remember that Vonage/Verizon patent suit? Well it looks like Vonage is prepared to fight. Vonage CEO, Mike Snyder, said that "we believe the Verizon patents are invalid." Well there you go, invalid. There's no stat here so we'll make one.– Ben Longo

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"Any attempt to use the full exoskeleton resulted in a violent uncontrolled motion"—dieseltravis via Wikipedia

The Gamecube lives on? A few days ago Perrin Kaplan, VP of Marketing at Nintendo of America, was caught saying that the aging Nintendo console was no longer being produced. Well it looks like she was a little off base, since a spokesperson for Nintendo UK is refuting the entire statement.

See more important stuff after the jump.

Samsung graphics card memory is going to be getting quite the speed boost. There new memory called GDDR4 is already pushing the clock speed of some high end cards all the way up to 2,000 MHz.

If you feel like you might be addicted to the web, (Visits to Gizmodo don't count) you might want to check out China. They are mounting a public crusade against Internet addiction. Complete with shock therapy, on second thought maybe we all should stay away. – Ben Longo

"That's where my financial aid went!"—PhoenixDebaser

Trying to pick a college where you'll be able to download tons of free songs? The RIAA has a list of what Universityies have been sent the most copyright infringement letters. Ohio University's on top with 1,287.

But for those of you might be graduating soon and are looking for a job with the next big deal, CNN has a roundup of

25 hot ass startups that could blow up this year. Here's a tip, sign on for shit pay and tons of stock.

And Google is getting closer and closer to obliterating their whole we're not competing directly with Microsoft stance. Today they launched a premium version of Google Apps that could start to pose a baby threat to MS Office. Hey the more competition the better.– Ben Longo

Yuko-san enjoyed his new LittleGirl Backpack, by Sanrio, and never took it off, even to play DS Lite.—Brad

Former Dell CEO Kevin Rollins is going to get $5 million in severance pay, since he was replaced by founder Michael Dell. Man, I can't wait to become a CEO of a huge corporation, get fired, and then collect my huge-normous severance package.

Apple TV could take over 30% of

the set top box market resulting in $7 billion in revenue. At least analyst Chris Whitmore from Deutsche Bank thinks so. Really? 30%? That is one hell of an optimistic view. I wonder if he really knows how many boxes are already out there?

Remember when the NHL announced that they were getting down with YouTube? It seemed like a match made in heaven, but you and I both knew something had to go awry. And something did, the NHL doesn't allow video embedding. Wasn't that the whole point of putting the videos on YouTube?– Ben Longo

"Gizmodo editor's new years party circa 2006"—slowreader

I don't know which stat is crazier, that in 2012 there will be an estimated 3.7 trillion text messages sent. Or that there will be $67 billion worth of revenue reaped from all of those messages.

Cuba, is following in the paths of Brazil & Venezuela with their

migration to open source instead of Microsoft. Cuba's main reason for the switch is because of growing fears that MS has installed back doors so that the US government can snoop around, which doesn't sound completely out of the question.

Microsoft is being sued again, this time by Virnet X. They are claiming that the big MS is infringing on a couple of their VPN patents and are looking for some obvious monetary compensation.– Ben Longo

So THAT'S how you join the dark side!-trunk666.

Guitar Hero II Associate Producer, Ted Lange, is making some bold claims regarding downloadable content on the 360. He said in an interview that it will have more downloads available then any other game to date. I wonder if he is just talking about just Xbox games?

Remember that Russian principle that had 12 of his schools computers filled with $10,000 worth of pirated Microsoft software?

The charges have been dropped, which could have amounted to over $10,000 dollars in fines and as much as 5 years in prison.

AOL's CFO, Steve Swad, has left the company to "pursue an opportunity in the growing private-equity field". Basically the guy is just bored and wants to try his hand at something else. Wouldn't you be too if you spent the last 4 years at AOL?– Ben Longo

"MOM?!"—Azdak

Two Dell employees are suing their employer due to an error in their clocking in system, which has resulted in wrongful pay. The interesting part is that they want to make it into a class action law suit, which could apply to over a 1,000 people.

Well it looks like you can't even trust the Better Business Bureau, thanks to a new phishing scam. Emails coming from

operations@bbb.org are actually trying to get you to download your typical malware code.

Cisco announced today that they have discovered that some of their routers are susceptible to two new vulnerabilities. Basically a hacker could bypass the IPS, which is supposed to keep out unauthorized users as well as prevent malicious code from being activated.

The WSJ has a story today about how love affects your brain, similarly to a mental illness like OCD. Complete with changes in serotonin & dopamine levels, which can have very strong effects on the brain. Happy Valentines Day.– Ben Longo

Catherine Zeta-Jones REALLY likes being the spokesperson for T-Mobile.—Geisrud

Bank of America is adding one more reason to be pissed off for losing your cellphone, mobile banking. Users from all the major US cell phone providers will be able to access everything from balances to paying bils.

Looks like the the preliminary 802.11n is taking off faster than anyone could have guessed.

The chairman of D-Link, Ken Kao, is now predicting that it will be the dominant player in wireless lans by the end of 2007.

The hmm... quote of the day goes to Shane Kim, the VP of Microsoft Games Studio (MGS). Kim said that "A Kameo or a Viva Pinata on a DS makes a lot of sense in a lot of ways from a franchise perspective". I know that Rare just released a game for the DS, but MGS is a whole other story.– Ben Longo

""Why is Jason Chen sticking our Gamecube down his pants?"—Mike01256

How many Laptops has the FBI lost in the last 4 years? 2? 4? Try a 160, and that's an improvement. Before the investigation was done, they were losing around 300 every 2 years. I hope none of our info was on any of those laptops.

MySpace is trying to clean up their filthy act as much as possible. This week they are trying out a new

video filtering system that will block illegal videos from being posted. Basically the system scans the video for certain "digital fingerprints" and then checks them against a database of banned videos. If yours matches up, then it's not going to show up on your page.

And on the other end of the video spectrum, Google is being shunned by a large group of media companies (Disney, Viacom, NBC Universal, etc.). Think it's because of YouTube/Google Video posting pirated videos? Nope, it's because they sold AdSense advertising space to two known piracy websites. Are you serious? Didn't anyone ever told these guys to pick their battles wisely? This is ridiculous.