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A Glasses-Less 3D Laptop From Toshiba With Selectable 3D Screen Areas?

It’s not like Toshiba doesn’t know how to make “normal” 3D laptops. They’ve already released several with active shutter glasses, but a glasses-less 3D laptop to match one of their hugely-pricey TVs? Sure. https://gizmodo.com/toshiba-dynabook-tx-98mbl-is-first-3d-blu-ray-playing-l-5557042 According to The Nikkei, Toshiba’s 3D laptops will be under their “Dynabook” series of laptops, and presumably will use the same…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 11 '10

LG Slips Early With Optimus 7 Windows Phone 7 Handset

Admittedly it’s not like we didn’t know LG was going to announce the Optimus 7, considering they’ve already shown it off several times themselves. However, their blog went live with the details today, showing off the panorama photo-shooting phone. The screen is a 3.8-inch WVGA display, with the overall phone measuring 125 x 59.8 x…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 11 '10

Older Versions of Android Are Receiving Updates for Froyo-Style Market

Over the weekend, older versions of Android started receiving automatic updates for Market, bringing it into line with the Froyo look and feel of it. If you haven’t already, fire up the Market and take a look, as chances are you haven’t spotted it yet. (There was no alert to this update due to its…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 11 '10

The Slanket Armchair, For Next-Level Warmth

When does a Slanket stop being a wearable-blanket, and start being a bed? I’d say right about now, when it’s attached to an armchair. Shame it’s not electric for added warmth. [Super-ette via The Design Blog] https://gizmodo.com/ultimate-battle-the-snuggie-vs-slanket-vs-freedom-bl-5190557 Update: This is not an actual Slanket product, so don’t go emailing Slanket in hopes of buying one.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 11 '10

No Angry Birds for WP7 Yet, Even if Microsoft Thought So

They’ve now removed the Angry Birds icon and passed it off as a mistake, but for a while yesterday Microsoft must’ve been quaking at the thought of Rovio dispatching the Angry Birds flock their way. Tweeting yesterday, Rovio said that “We have NOT committed to doing a Windows Phone 7 version. Microsoft put the Angry…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 11 '10

Banksy’s special Simpsons opening proves unicorns and clones are harmed in the making of the show

Tonight’s Simpsons “couch gag” was storyboarded and directed by world-famous street artist Banksy, and it reveals the depths to which the production team will stoop. Behold horrific unicorn abuse, toxic waste, and disenfranchised clones. Greatest Simpsons opening ever? [Wooster Collective]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 11 '10

The Simpsons’ Title Scene Secretly Created By Banksy

Just when I thought The Simpsons couldn’t surprise me anymore, yesterday’s 10/10/10 episode had the most acidic, in-your-face title scene I’ve ever seen on TV. Not surprisingly, it was storyboarded and directed by legendary graffiti artist Banksy. Update: Video back up. https://gizmodo.com/today-is-101010-the-ultimate-answer-to-the-ultimate-qu-5659984 Banksy, whose real identity remains unknown, is the author of some of the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 11 '10

The 15 most ridiculous quotes from The Venture Bros. NYCC press interviews

At NYCC, Venture Bros.’ Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer regaled hundreds at the Friday night panel. But the real action was in Saturday’s press room, where the writers of TV’s funniest show fired off quips like some quip-firing machine gun. Here were the pertinent spoilers from Friday night’s panel: — Molotov and Hunter Gathers will…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 10 '10

New Walking Dead footage introduces a bunch of new survivors

Brand new footage from the second episode of Frank Darabont’s The Walking Dead was screened at New York Comic Con. And what we saw were a whole lot of new faces not from Robert Kirkman’s comic book. Frank Darabont joined producer Gale Anne Hurd and Robert Kirkman on stage at NYCC to talk all about…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 10 '10

Largest Lego Ship Ever Built Is Bigger Than Three Queen-Sized Beds

The 23-foot-long Lego USS Intrepid aircraft carrier should be renamed the USS Insane. It’s the largest Lego ship ever built. Ed Diment made it to minifig scale, complete with Wildcat and Corsair airplanes built by Ralph Savelsberg. Watch the video: https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-the-evolution-of-the-minifig-5070884 I told you. This thing is absolutely insane, larger than Jumpei Mitsui’s 22-foot battleship…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 10 '10

Video of the Enterprise’s First Manned Glide Flight

Isn’t she a beauty, Captain? Update: Watch the video just released by Virgin Galactic. Today, the VSS Enterprise—which will be the world’s first commercial suborbital spaceship and the first aircraft in Virgin Galactic’s fleet—has completed its first manned glide flight, touching down at the Mojave Air and Space Port, in California. Spaceshiptwo—Enterprise—dropped from the WhiteKnightTwo…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 10 '10

True Blood, Spawn, and Darwyn Cooke’s Outfit are NYCC’s bestselling comic books

Comic book fans hit the floor at NYCC’s Javits Center, eager to put the “comic” in Comic Con. From classics like Spawn to TV adaptations like True Blood to up-and-comers like The Outfit, here’s convention-goers most wanted comics. It is, at least in theory, the focus of any comic con – the opportunity to expand…

io9 Kelly Faircloth Oct 10 '10

You Can Scratch And Sniff The Moon

This is a scratch and sniff print that resembles the smell of the moon. So what does it smell like? According to Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke, like gunpowder. In 1972 Duke said, about the moon’s smell: It is really a strong smell. It has that taste—to me, gunpowder—and the smell of gunpowder, too. The…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan Oct 10 '10

Where Is The Long Piece In Tetris When You Need It?

That long piece in Tetris is so unreliable, I can never count on it to show up when I need it the most. [Optipess via thedailywh.at]

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 10 '10

Ford Redesigns Car Dashboards To Be More Like Cellphones

Ford recently overhauled their car dashboards to make car interfaces less sucky and more like cellphones. They focused on better usability and teamed up with design firm Ideo to create a consistent UI for all their cars. Ford sought advice from Ideo, maker of Apple’s original mouse, to come up with a consistent DNA that…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 10 '10

This Door Is Supposed To Save Lives During Earthquakes

When an Earthquake hits, what do you do? Typical Earthquake 101 tells you to run to the nearest doorway to protect yourself under the “strongest frame in the house”. This bendable door is supposed to improve on that thinking. However! Recent theories (Earthquake 201, I guess) suggest that standing underneath a typical doorway is no…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 10 '10

Lung on a chip is the first lab-ready mini organ to be used in drug research

This ersatz lung, no bigger than a multivitamin, could represent a new pharmaceutical testing method. On it, researchers have created an artificial alveolus, one of the sacs in the lungs where oxygen crosses a membrane to enter the body’s blood vessels. A polymer sheet that stands in for the membrane is in the blue strip.…

io9 Victor Zapana - Popular Science Oct 10 '10

Electrostatic traps: When photons are too big

In their quest to study ever smaller and smaller particles, scientists have hit on particles too small even to be captured in a wavelength of light. What can you use to trap these particles? Meet the electrostatic trap. An older post on Io9 discussed optical traps as a way to deal with particles too small…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Oct 10 '10

The Cold War Museum In Russia Was Actually Once A Real Cold War Bunker

Bunker-42 was built during the Cold War and was a classified bunker equipped with everything necessary in case of a nuclear attack. After the end of the Cold War, it’s been transformed into Russia’s Cold War Museum. The visuals are stunning and they speak to a time where the threat of nuclear warfare was reality.…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 10 '10

George R.R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons is really almost done!

Good news from New York Comic Con’s Del Rey / Spectra panel: George R.R. Martin is just 5 chapters away from the end of A Dance with Dragons! Plus, we’ll soon see old school Del Rey titles in ebook form. Several members of the Del Rey/Spectra team gathered to preview their upcoming books. Panelists included…

Books & Comics Kelly Faircloth Oct 10 '10

A Glasses-Less 3D Laptop From Toshiba With Selectable 3D Screen Areas?

LG Slips Early With Optimus 7 Windows Phone 7 Handset

Older Versions of Android Are Receiving Updates for Froyo-Style Market

The Slanket Armchair, For Next-Level Warmth

No Angry Birds for WP7 Yet, Even if Microsoft Thought So

Banksy’s special Simpsons opening proves unicorns and clones are harmed in the making of the show

The Simpsons’ Title Scene Secretly Created By Banksy

The 15 most ridiculous quotes from The Venture Bros. NYCC press interviews

New Walking Dead footage introduces a bunch of new survivors

Largest Lego Ship Ever Built Is Bigger Than Three Queen-Sized Beds

Video of the Enterprise’s First Manned Glide Flight

True Blood, Spawn, and Darwyn Cooke’s Outfit are NYCC’s bestselling comic books

You Can Scratch And Sniff The Moon

Where Is The Long Piece In Tetris When You Need It?

Ford Redesigns Car Dashboards To Be More Like Cellphones

This Door Is Supposed To Save Lives During Earthquakes

Lung on a chip is the first lab-ready mini organ to be used in drug research

Electrostatic traps: When photons are too big

The Cold War Museum In Russia Was Actually Once A Real Cold War Bunker

George R.R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons is really almost done!

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