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The HTC Jetstream Tablet Is AT&T’s First Tablet with 4G LTE

The HTC Jetstream, formerly known as the Puccini, is headed to AT&T on September 4th. It’s running Android 3.1 on a 10.1-inch screen (nice!) and will be AT&T’s first tablet with real 4G LTE (really nice!). For some reason though, it’s going to cost $700 (ugh). https://gizmodo.com/htcs-first-10-inch-tablet-is-the-operatic-puccini-5824838 Not only that, the HTC Jetstream is “discounted”…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 31 '11

Gizmodo Hops the Pond with Giz UK

The Giz family just gained a surly, Cockney cousin: this fall, Gizmodo UK will kick off in full force, helmed by the incomparable Kat Hannaford. It’ll be just like the Gizmodo you know and love, just with more crumpets. Welcome! Gizmodo, perhaps the most (in)famous technology website in the world, is coming to the UK…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 31 '11

Beautiful behind-the-scenes Blade Runner video will change how you think about movies

Watch this amazing short created for fans at science fiction conventions in 1983, which shows the elaborate designs Ridley Scott and his crew created to illustrate Blade Runner’s striking future dystopia. From the Vimeo account which posted this footage: One of the Blade Runner Convention Reels, featuring interviews with Ridley Scott, Syd Mead and Douglas…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 31 '11

Samsung’s New Notebooks Are Super Skinny MacBook Clones (and Look Damn Good)

Samsung’s heavy borrowing of Apple’s design is pretty established by now—they’re getting the shit sued out of them for it! But, undeterred, they’re dropping the new Series 7 notebook, with wonderfully thin bezel, Apple looks, and great specs. The Series 7 is only 0.9 inches thick, but the tiny bezel’s what catches my attention: only…

Gadgets Sam Biddle Aug 31 '11

Turn Your Magic Trackpad Into a Magic Numpad

The numpad, as antiquated as it is, is still useful for many. Bankers! Gamers! Crude mathematicians! But damn it takes up so much space. That’s why Mobee is letting you transform your Magic Trackpad into Magic Numpads. It’s clever, you just put a film on top of your trackpad and all of a sudden, a…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 31 '11

Panasonic’s New Video Cam Shoots (And Shows) HD 3D sans Glasses

Instead of faking a 3D picture by overlapping images (as some other cameras do), Panasonic’s new Lumix 3D cam and HDC-Z10000 camcorder use two lenses to record the real thing in fat, extra-dimensional HD. The HDC-Z10000’s 3.5-inch displays shows what you’ve capped in 3D without the need for glasses, using dual CMOS sensors to record…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 31 '11

Terminator 5 might resurrect an iconic character. Plus the Game of Thrones writers preview the new season two cast!

David Fincher’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea will focus on three particular characters from Jules Verne’s novel. Doctor Who’s Steven Moffat explains why the Doctor’s past is catching up to him. Plus new set photos from The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from The Dark Knight Rises.…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Aug 31 '11

Unique Video Captures the Sun Changing Its Spots

We knew that sunspots change quite rapidly from photos, but this video shows how fast this phenomenon is. The video was made from visible light frames captured by the NASA SDO’s Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager. [NASA Goddard Flickr]

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Aug 31 '11

Sony’s Wearable 3D Home Theater Sits on Your Face

File this one under crazy/awesome/but really more crazy. This fall, Sony will be releasing personal 3D home theater headgear for one viewer at a time. Called the HMZ-T1, it’s your chance to finally quash your Geordi La Forge envy. You connect the half-helmet, half-goggles contraption to its own gaming console-sized processor, which in turn attaches…

Television Brent Rose Aug 31 '11

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Tech News Brent Rose Aug 31 '11

Picture of the Day: August 30, 2011

AFTERMATH OF STAR DEATH | A stunning image of supernova remnant G292.0+1.8, including the “pulsar wind nebula” near the center, as revealed by X-ray scans. Via NASA. Want to read today’s io9 stories a different way? Check out our blog view.

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 31 '11

Mozilla Brings the Best of Honeycomb to Firefox for Tablets

Mozilla released a sneak peak at Firefox for Tablets today, a version of the popular web browser built on the Firefox Mobile engine but optimized for a tablet’s roomier screen. As we can see from the screen shots, tabs will now either appear along the left or top of the screen—depending on its orientation. Yes,…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 31 '11

T-Mobile May Roll Out In-Home Signal Boosters For Cancelling Customers

If you’ve your T-mobile coverage at home is spotty at best, don’t cancel your service just yet. If you wait until Wednesday, September 7th, T-Mo might just give you a free in-home signal booster to get you to stay. According to leaked images obtained by TmoNews, the signal boosters will only be available to customers…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 31 '11

Go Inside Gaddafi’s Security HQ

The Wall Street Journal takes the first look since the fall of the regime inside Col. Gaddafi’s security headquarters. You know, the one with all the tech purchased from international security firms. The complete photo journal is available at WSJ.com. https://gizmodo.com/international-tech-companies-helped-gaddafi-spy-on-liby-5835940 Image: Edu Bayer for The Wall Street Journal

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 31 '11

The LaCie Little Big Disk Is Pretty—Pretty Fast (Like Thunderbolt Fast)

It’s got a 500GB solid state drive and an exterior designed by Neil Poulton—what more do you want? Thunderbolt? Yes, it does that too. The LaCie Little Big Disk is available as either a 240GB and 500GB SSD, or as a 1TB traditional 7200RPM hard drive. All three varieties use dual disks as a striped…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 31 '11

The $40 Million Delivery Blimp

The Ice Road Truckers may soon have themselves some competition if Canadian specialty aviation company, Discovery Air, has its way. They want to deliver supplies to the Great White North’s most remote locales via dirigible by 2014. Discovery Air and Hybrid Air Vehicles have announced plans to launch a commercial Heavy Lift Air Vehicle service…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 30 '11

Watch Soccer Players Take a Dive While Grocery Shopping

Soccer, football, footie, whatever you’re supposed to call it, British grocery store Sainsbury’s and broadcaster Sky are currently testing shopping carts fitted with iPad docks specially made for the Sky Go iPad app so patrons can watch sports while shopping. The Sky Go trolley—trolley is the British term for shopping cart—iPad dock has speakers in…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Aug 30 '11

The First Hi-Res Simulation of the Milky Way’s Formation

It took nine months and 1.4 million processor-hours of work from NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer but a group of researchers from UC Santa Cruz have discovered how, exactly, our galaxy was born. The Cold Dark Matter theory posits that right after the Big Bang, gravitational forces influenced the minute variations in density of dark matter, slowly…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola Aug 30 '11

United Airlines Doesn’t Give a Damn What You Lost on Their Planes

Steve Silberman suffered through a flight from Hell. Not only did United attendants ask him to switch seats when the woman next to him irrationally demanded so, but after forgetting his Kindle on the plane, the attendants refused to grab it. As the story goes, moments after stepping of the plane, Silberman realized he had…

Commerce Adrian Covert Aug 30 '11

Warehouse 13‘s Janeway and Bering are our new favorite action duo

We thought we’d never get another pairing to replace Myka Bering and H.G. Wells, but Warehouse 13 has come through again. The team-up of Kate Mulgrew’s regent, Jane, with Myka Bering was utterly perfect — and that’s before they started joking about being Thema and Louise. Spoilers ahead… I would seriously watch a few episodes…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Aug 30 '11

The HTC Jetstream Tablet Is AT&T’s First Tablet with 4G LTE

Gizmodo Hops the Pond with Giz UK

Beautiful behind-the-scenes Blade Runner video will change how you think about movies

Samsung’s New Notebooks Are Super Skinny MacBook Clones (and Look Damn Good)

Turn Your Magic Trackpad Into a Magic Numpad

Panasonic’s New Video Cam Shoots (And Shows) HD 3D sans Glasses

Terminator 5 might resurrect an iconic character. Plus the Game of Thrones writers preview the new season two cast!

Unique Video Captures the Sun Changing Its Spots

Sony’s Wearable 3D Home Theater Sits on Your Face

sony hmz press gally

Picture of the Day: August 30, 2011

Mozilla Brings the Best of Honeycomb to Firefox for Tablets

T-Mobile May Roll Out In-Home Signal Boosters For Cancelling Customers

Go Inside Gaddafi’s Security HQ

The LaCie Little Big Disk Is Pretty—Pretty Fast (Like Thunderbolt Fast)

The $40 Million Delivery Blimp

Watch Soccer Players Take a Dive While Grocery Shopping

The First Hi-Res Simulation of the Milky Way’s Formation

United Airlines Doesn’t Give a Damn What You Lost on Their Planes

Warehouse 13‘s Janeway and Bering are our new favorite action duo

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