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OnLive Desktop Now Available for Android Tablets

Just like with the iPad, the OnLive Desktop service—which provides remote access to a server-powered version of Windows 7—is now available for Android Tablets for the same five bucks a month. https://gizmodo.com/onlive-desktop-plus-hands-on-they-put-windows-on-my-ip-5887484 Because Android supports mouse input, it brings a dimension to OnLive Desktop the iPad lacked, but still supports all the same multitouch gestures…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Get These Han Solo Frozen in Carbonite Crayons Before Lucas’ Empire Strikes Back

I’m not sure how the Lucasfilm marketing machine hasn’t invaded the world of crayons already, but it looks like Etsy seller extramoneyformommy is the first to the market with a set shaped like Han Solo in his carbonite prison. For just four bucks you get a set of eight in red, orange, yellow, green, blue,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Is the New iPad Going To Be Called iPad HD? (Update 2)

Would Apple name the new iPad 3 the iPad HD? According to alleged part listings from Griffin and Belkin, this may be the case. The product name is a good match for the its new Retina-like display. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-ipad-3-hiding-in-plain-sight-5888989 Accessories manufacturers don’t have a clue about Apple marketing plans until the very last minute. They usually…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

First trailer for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie = the tale of a boy and his dead dog

Tim Burton returns to the realm of stop-motion animation with Frankenweenie, a remake of his 1984 short film about a boy who can’t bear to part with his deceased pooch. This preview makes me want to resurrect my dead childhood mutts, until I remember they were all tremendously incontinent. Here’s the synopsis via Yahoo: After…

Trailers Cyriaque Lamar

Magneto would approve of new magnetized yeast cells

Some Frankenstein yeast cells had part of their own DNA removed and some human cell tissue put in. Why did this happen? So they could be so stuffed full of iron that they’re super-magnetized and moved with magnets. Are us mere mortals far behind? Harvard Medical School scientists are pleased to announce that they’ve taken…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

BlackBerry’s Jeff Gadway Is Answering Your PlayBook OS 2.0 Questions Live Right Now

We’ve sifted through your questions about BlackBerry® PlayBook™ OS 2.0 (thanks!) and Jeff Gadway, senior marketing manager for BlackBerry, is here in the post right now to answer them. So sit back and watch the questions and responses magically appear below. Got a question for Jeff now? Email it to [email protected].

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If Batman lived in 1459, he’d battle a half-knight, half-Celt Two-Face

We recently saw a snazzy suit of Batman armor, but with whom would this ye olde Dark Knight duke it out? https://gizmodo.com/medieval-batman-armor-turns-you-into-a-dark-knight-lit-5887246 Artist Igor Kieryluk has depicted a ripping medieval Batman and Joker, but his masterstroke here is the half-Crusader, half-pagan Two-Face. It’s more fodder for all your Batman/Hamlet fan fiction. https://gizmodo.com/the-batman-hamlet-crossover-that-never-was-5876735 [Via Project Rooftop]

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Razer Blade Review: Sharp, But…

There’s something fundamentally broken in the world of PC laptops: Machines designed nearly four years ago still provide the basic model for how to build one correctly today. The Razer Blade is, in some ways, one of the best Windows laptops I’ve used in a long time. But I can’t decide if it’s merely ironic…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

The Army’s New Long-Lasting Surveillance Drone Can Probably See Your House from Here*

*Here being Afghanistan. But that’s what you get when you combine the Army’s newest UAV helicopter, the A-160 Hummingbird, with a 1.8 Gigapixel ARGUS sensor, the Army’s single most powerful camera package to date. The A-160 Hummingbird is a long-loitering, remotely-operated surveillance platform. It has been under development by the Boeing corporation since 2004 but…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Anonymous Blames Arrests on Snitches

Anonymous boasts of itself as being a loose collective, a patchwork of mixed, at times conflicting ideals, sans leadership. It seems to work well for them! Except this nebulousness also lets in pretty much anyone. Including the cops. MSNBC reports the recent rash of Anonymous arrests, spanning Spain and South America, can be traced back…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Warp Drives May Come With A Killer Downside

Planning a little space travel to see some friends on Kepler 22b? Thinking of trying out your newly-installed FTL3000 Alcubierre Warp Drive to get you there in no time? Better not make it a surprise visit – your arrival may end up disintegrating anyone there when you show up. “Warp” technology and faster-than-light (FTL) space…

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Why You Never Hear About World-Altering Inventions Created by Committee

Modern corporate culture is in L-O-V-E, love with meetings (and any opportunity to engage in groupthink). But if you look back, history’s real intellectual heavyweights weren’t “team players.” Intellectual giants like DaVinci, Einstein, and even Steve Wozniak, all developed their best works in near solitude. Quiet, by Susan Cain, examines why the world’s best thinkers…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Shooting Challenge: FREE FOR ALL!!

You take orders from me every week. But you’re no robot. You have visions, dreams and aspirations. You want to do things YOUR way. And you will. Because for this week’s Shooting Challenge, anything goes. The Challenge Shoot anything you want. With your camera, not a gun. I don’t have that sort of authority. Repeat,…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Always call Nathan Fillion when voice actors break down

To celebrate the release of the Justice League: Doom DVD, Nathan Fillion has staged an intervention with the voice of Superman, actor Tim Daly. The results are expectedly awesome. Oh Smallville, if only you were this self-aware! [Via Topless Robot]

Movies Meredith Woerner

Bulgaria’s abandoned Socialist monument is secretly on the ice planet Hoth

We’ve looked at some abandoned Bulgarian Socialist architecture before, but never like this. This winter, photographer Timothy Allen braved snowstorms and horrific cold to shoot the UFO-like Buzludzha monument in the Bulgarian Balkans. The resulting pictures look like the lost Communist equivalent of Echo Base. https://gizmodo.com/the-otherworldly-fortresses-that-are-bulgarias-socialis-5630648 Allen traveled 250 kilometers outside of Sofia to get…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Google’s New Privacy Policy Violates EU Law

On BBC Radio this morning, EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said that the EU had investigated Google’s new Privacy Policy—which gives Google access to the activity of all its users across all its services—and found that it was in violation of privacy laws. https://gizmodo.com/reminder-googles-new-privacy-policy-kicks-in-tomorrow-5889360 According to Reuters, Reding offered the following examples when pressed about…

Tech News Adrian Covert

How To Make an Inflatable Snowboard

Every third Thursday of the month California-based Signal Snowboards likes to experiment with unique board designs that push the boundaries of form and function. And this time around it created a snowboard with inflatable inner tubes like a bike tire. While a snowboard that inflated like a balloon would certainly be easier to travel with,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

No, people do not gouge out their eyes out because they want to have sex with their mothers

File this under “things that should be self-evident”, but new research has come out showing that the reason people occasionally gouge their own eyes out isn’t because they want to have sex with their mother, or due to Christian religious guilt — it’s because of psychotic illness. Alternately called oedipism, auto-enucleation, or self-enucleation, the act…

io9 Tim Barribeau

What if the Three Little Pigs went on trial for murder in the 21st century?

In this clever (and fairly creepy) spot for The Guardian’s open journalism initiative, the story of the Three Little Pigs is transformed into the trial of the century, complete with protestors wearing the porcine equivalent of V for Vendetta masks. In this reality at the nexus of fairy tales and media brouhaha, we can also…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The Crazy Gun That Can Physically Stop You From Talking

Freedom of speech is a fundamental part of American culture. A lot of Americans, or protestors in other countries, would stare down the barrel of a gun to defend it. Unless that gun happens to be this insane SpeechJammer device that renders you incapable of forming coherent sentences. The SpeechJammer, developed at the National Institute…

Gadgets Kyle Wagner

OnLive Desktop Now Available for Android Tablets

Get These Han Solo Frozen in Carbonite Crayons Before Lucas’ Empire Strikes Back

Is the New iPad Going To Be Called iPad HD? (Update 2)

First trailer for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie = the tale of a boy and his dead dog

Magneto would approve of new magnetized yeast cells

BlackBerry’s Jeff Gadway Is Answering Your PlayBook OS 2.0 Questions Live Right Now

If Batman lived in 1459, he’d battle a half-knight, half-Celt Two-Face

Razer Blade Review: Sharp, But…

The Army’s New Long-Lasting Surveillance Drone Can Probably See Your House from Here*

Anonymous Blames Arrests on Snitches

Warp Drives May Come With A Killer Downside

Why You Never Hear About World-Altering Inventions Created by Committee

Shooting Challenge: FREE FOR ALL!!

Always call Nathan Fillion when voice actors break down

Bulgaria’s abandoned Socialist monument is secretly on the ice planet Hoth

Google’s New Privacy Policy Violates EU Law

How To Make an Inflatable Snowboard

No, people do not gouge out their eyes out because they want to have sex with their mothers

What if the Three Little Pigs went on trial for murder in the 21st century?

The Crazy Gun That Can Physically Stop You From Talking

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