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Roxio CinemaNow Brings Streaming Movies to the Wii (in Japan)

Well, it’s Japan-only for now, but the Wii is finally starting to compete with the PS3 and Xbox 360 in the only category in which it’s in third place: Media center functionality. CinemaNow, apparently, is the guinea pig of choice. Sonic (makers of Roxio) are bringing CinemaNow to the Wii. CinemaNow, in case you’ve forgotten,…

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Ray Bradbury: “To Hell With the Internet!”

Good old Ray Bradbury (author of Fahrenheit 451, among other sci-fi classics) let loose with a little bit of the crazy when speaking of Yahoo! and the Internet as a whole. He classified the Internet as “meaningless” and “distracting.” Bradbury was speaking in defense of public libraries, and recounted an anecdote of Yahoo! asking him…

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Phil Spector Requests iPod to Pass the Time While in Jail

Famed Beatles producer and founding member of the Horrible Mugshot Hall of Fame Phil Spector is beginning to serve his 19-year prison sentence for murder, and made a specific request to help him pass the time: An iPod. Prisoners at Spector’s new forced California residence are permitted certain objects, often musical instruments or personal mementos.…

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HTC CEO Says the Sexy “Sense” Android Interface Coming to Existing Phones

HTC’s been known to slap a polished finish on an existing smartphone OS, first with WinMo’s TouchFlo and now Android’s Sense. But fret not, HTC G1 and/or Magic/MyTouch owners: HTC’s CEO hinted that Sense is coming to existing Android phones. https://gizmodo.com/htcs-next-gen-touchflo-windows-mobile-6-1-interface-in-373418 This is unconfirmed for now, but Peter Chou, the CEO of HTC, reportedly noted…

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SanDisk Claims Title of World’s Fastest 32GB SDHC Card

The new Extreme SDHC card from SanDisk comes in 4/8/16/32GB capacities and boasts speeds of up to 30MB/s, which SanDisk claims as the world’s fastest. These cards are designed for HD video and are marketed with the new MacBook Pros in mind, since Apple’s new laptops finally (finally!) have SD card slots. 30MB/s is easily…

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Western Digital’s My Book World Edition II Offers 4TB of RAID Network Storage

WD’s new NAS drives, the My Book World Edition II, packs either 2 or 4TB of storage in a dual-drive RAID array. It seems like a pretty solid system for those dangerously paranoid about the safety of their data. The My Books can connect either as an NAS through ethernet or simply as an external…

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RealPlayer SP Rips, Converts, Shares and Syncs Internet Video

Real’s new RealPlayer SP software, currently in beta, adds functionality to rip YouTube and other streaming videos from the Internet and get them onto whatever handheld you choose. It works well enough, but it’s also crammed full of unnecessary features. RealPlayer SP is the evolution of the long-running RealPlayer software, which has become a multi-limbed…

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Boxee Beta Finally Coming to Windows, and Brings MLB, Digg, and Tumblr Support

Boxee held a big developer’s meeting today in San Francisco, and boy did they pack in the announcements. Aside from Windows support, the platform as a whole now supports Digg, Tumblr, and MLB. Most importantly, it’s finally leaving alpha soon. At the event, Boxee announced that they’ll finally be moving out of alpha to beta…

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Panasonic Toughbook Survives Tiger Attacks, Elephant Stomps, and Gunshots

Most of us have no need for Panasonic’s Toughbook-30: Its specs are unremarkable and the 13.3-inch laptop weighs over 8 pounds. But then, our mortal laptops could never survive the ridiculous, almost cartoony beating Forbes gave it. Forbes’s intrepid testers used the Toughbook to crush soda cans, used the screen as a dartboard, ran over…

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Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs’s Transplant, Denies He Received Preferential Treatment

With Steve Jobs’s consent, the Memphis hospital that conducted his liver transplant two months ago issued a statement denying he received any special treatment, classifying him as “the sickest person on the waiting list.” https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-recovering-from-a-liver-transplant-still-re-5297650 Presumably in response to the New York Times’ speculation that Jobs’ wealth and influence helped him secure a liver sooner…

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We Don’t Need No Gmail iPhone App: Gmail Mobile Adds Touch Gestures

A native Gmail app would allow for gestures, offline reading, and quicker access, but Google just keeps improving the iPhone-optimized mobile Gmail site instead. With iPhone 3.0, they’ve added swiping gestures within the iPhone’s browser. Google announced that they’d be periodically adding new features for both Android and iPhone, and today they rolled out in-browser…

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Synthetic Tree Will Hopefully Capture Tons of Carbon Dioxide, Save the Planet

Scientists at Columbia University are working on a sort of synthetic tree that aims to capture about 1,000 times as much carbon dioxide as more organic versions. They’re hoping to extend the technology even to heavy-emitting cars and planes. The units, demo versions of which already exist (this is assuredly not a concept), take CO2…

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Computerized Train Runs Over Local Man for “Unknown Reason”

We here at Gizmodo are anything but fearmongering sensationalists. We’re analytical, skeptical, and rational at all costs. That being said, this robot train ran over some dude in Miami and everyone in south Florida should run for their lives. The story: An unmanned, computerized train slowly rolled forward onto a repairman, who unfortunately did not…

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It’s a Woot! Off, Everyone

Everyone’s favorite witty, one-product-per-day often-electronics online warehouse reseller, Woot!, is doing one of those fun Woot! Offs where they sell the remainders of all their stock at once. Let us know what you’ve snagged! [Woot!]

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Gateway LT3100 Netbook Runs an AMD Athlon Processor, LED Backlit 11-inch screen and Multitouch

What’s up, Gateway? You think you’re too good for the Atom? All the other netbooks are using it. Doesn’t this really make your new LT3100 more of a tiny-screened, $400 laptop? Yes, plus LED backlight and multitouch. Well, we might think so, but that enticing price and surprisingly good looks are enough to keep us…

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3 Year-Old Russian Superbaby Can Operate Heavy Machinery

It’s usually considered irresponsible to leave a toddler (or as I like to call them, walking babies) alone at the helm of a massive backhoe. But that’s no problem with this new breed of Superbabies. We don’t know much about this Superbaby, and in fact I’m not totally sure he’s even Russian (or human. Get…

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Gamebone Valiantly Tries to Improve iPhone Gaming

The Gamebone is an external gamepad for the iPhone platform that hopes to add buttons (and therefore gaming cred) to the buttonless devices, but we’re just not confident it’s been fully thought through. First of all, games would have to be compatible with the controller, and given that so many games are dependent on the…

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DIY Voice Modulator Makes Everybody Do the Robot (or at Least Sound Like One)

This DIY project takes common parts, including a clock from IKEA and a fluorescent desk lamp, and turns them into this sweet robot voice modulator that makes even the most emotional, dramatic vocals seem cold and calculating. This doesn’t look like the easiest project we’ve seen; it calls for laser cutting and a significant amount…

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Xbox 360 Played on Dallas Cowboys’ 11,200 Square Foot Screen

The current largest video screen in the world, in the Dallas Cowboys stadium, measures an insane 159×71 feet. Feet! And what better way to show that immensity off than by playing a little Gears of War? https://gizmodo.com/dallas-cowboys-stadium-will-have-worlds-largest-video-s-5015918 Apparently the gamer who masterminded this hedonistic joyride was Steve Fatone, brother of *NSYNC’s Joey and music video…

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Confirmed: Zune HD Rocks the Nvidia Tegra

We were pretty confident before, but now we’ve got it straight from the horse’s podcast: The Zune HD will indeed pack the Nvidia Tegra chip, which should give it better battery life and enviable video acceleration. [ZuneInsider] https://gizmodo.com/zune-hd-packs-nvidia-tegra-better-video-and-better-bat-5293404

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Roxio CinemaNow Brings Streaming Movies to the Wii (in Japan)

Ray Bradbury: “To Hell With the Internet!”

Phil Spector Requests iPod to Pass the Time While in Jail

HTC CEO Says the Sexy “Sense” Android Interface Coming to Existing Phones

SanDisk Claims Title of World’s Fastest 32GB SDHC Card

Western Digital’s My Book World Edition II Offers 4TB of RAID Network Storage

RealPlayer SP Rips, Converts, Shares and Syncs Internet Video

Boxee Beta Finally Coming to Windows, and Brings MLB, Digg, and Tumblr Support

Panasonic Toughbook Survives Tiger Attacks, Elephant Stomps, and Gunshots

Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs’s Transplant, Denies He Received Preferential Treatment

We Don’t Need No Gmail iPhone App: Gmail Mobile Adds Touch Gestures

Synthetic Tree Will Hopefully Capture Tons of Carbon Dioxide, Save the Planet

Computerized Train Runs Over Local Man for “Unknown Reason”

It’s a Woot! Off, Everyone

Gateway LT3100 Netbook Runs an AMD Athlon Processor, LED Backlit 11-inch screen and Multitouch

3 Year-Old Russian Superbaby Can Operate Heavy Machinery

Gamebone Valiantly Tries to Improve iPhone Gaming

DIY Voice Modulator Makes Everybody Do the Robot (or at Least Sound Like One)

Xbox 360 Played on Dallas Cowboys’ 11,200 Square Foot Screen

Confirmed: Zune HD Rocks the Nvidia Tegra

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Travelers Experiencing the Longest Security Lines in TSA History

Could There Be a ‘Project Hail Mary’ Sequel?

Meta Has More Smart Glasses Coming Whether You Want Them or Not

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: It Looks So Good, I Wish It Were an iMac

RayNeo Air 4 Pro Review: My Eyes Love These Video Glasses, but My Nose Disagrees