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The Mosspuppet App That Could Have Been

Is Mossboard, the official Mosspuppet iPhone app, scarily accurate or accurately scary? You be the judge. Warning: reference to Steve Jobs nipples ahead. Mossboard’s pretty great, but unfortunately you won’t be able to carry Mosspuppet around in your pocket any time soon—the app hasn’t been able to get past the App Store approval process. Can’t…

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Worst time-traveling serial killer ever: The Texas time-travel massacre!

Kylie Travis is fleeing from a gun-toting serial killer (James Belushi with a truly rotten Texas accent) when she stumbles into a time machine that zaps her back 20 minutes, to listen to Belushi’s dreadful blow-job jokes all over again. Retroactive is one of those movies that you think is going to be pretty terrible,…

Motorola and Verizon Working on Android-Based, FiOS-Enabled, Dual-Camera, Ten-Inch TV Tablet?

We’ve heard rumors of Motorola and Verizon partnering up for an Android tablet before, but this one’s rather interesting. According to FT, the two companies are putting together some sort of TV tablet: Motorola is developing a digital tablet device that will allow users to watch television on it, as the US mobile phone group…

The Most Beautiful Way to Clean-Up Space Junk

Space junk is everything from spent rocket upper-stages that measure meters across, to lost bags of tools let go by careless astronauts, to shattered Chinese satellites to flecks of paint moving at 25 times the speed of sound. Under the wrong circumstances any piece of junk could kill a perfectly good satellite or even an…

Star Wars XXX casts its porno Darth Vader

The makers of Batman XXX have their next porn parody all lined up: Star Wars. They’ve already cast porn legend Lexington Steele in the role of Darth Vader. May the Force be with him. [Vivid via Big Shiny Robot]

Underwhelming BlackBerry Spells Doom For RIM

Research In Motion needed a miracle. It needed a fresh-faced BlackBerry and an operating system that made people say “whoa.” Yet when it took the stage to unveil the BlackBerry Torch and the BlackBerry 6 operating system, one thing became clear: These were not heaven sent. This could very well mean the end for the…

Did Syfy borrow its latest “aliens among us” premise from a Buffy star?

Controversy erupted over the weekend when Amber Benson, who played Tara on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, claimed one of Syfy’s newly greenlit shows, Human Relations, was awfully similar to Drones, a film she wrote/directed with Adam Busch (Warren on Buffy.) Both projects are about a guy working in an office who realizes his quirky, off-kilter…

Orchestra Generates Music Based On Its Own Heartbeats

The Heart Chamber Orchestra is a stirring audiovisual project, involving an orchestra that generates its own musical score (and accompanying visuals) in realtime. The catch? The source of the music is the heartbeats of the orchestra’s own members. Each musician is hooked up to an electrocardiogram sensor, which sends their heart rate to a computer…

Chinese science fiction has always been political

For anyone who’s curious to learn more about The Gilded Age: China 2013, the political novel we blogged about the other day, there’s a fantastic new essay about it in Foreign Policy. Xujun Eberlein explains more of what makes this novel so subversive, but also provides a history of political science fiction in China, going…

AT&T Monolith Display Contents Finally Revealed

It was a fun guessing game while it lasted, but those mysterious AT&T displays turned out to be housing the BlackBerry Torch after all. Phew! We can all finally stop losing sleep over a marketing obelisk. [Thanks, Bryan!] https://gizmodo.com/whats-inside-at-ts-mysterious-monolith-display-5598966

Superman saves family from losing their home in foreclosure

An anonymous family in the American South was on the verge of foreclosure when they discovered a copy of Action Comics 1 in their basement. The comic, which contains the first appearance of Superman, could fetch more than $250,000. The owners of this rare comic have had the home in their family since the 1950s.…

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

This week on TreeHugger, Ford Explorer gets delivered via 9000 horsepower chopper, bike rides for blind people, robot powered by sewage, caterpillars inspiring softbots, and win a powermeter in our sweepstakes. 2011 Ford Explorer Promoted By 9000 Horsepower Heliocopter Air-Show Delivery This says a lot about how far the “green” movement is from where the…

August DVD releases, from Blipverts to comix documentaries

Have you been waiting forever for Max Headroom on DVD? Your dreams come true this month. We’ve got a rundown of noteworthy August DVD releases, from the very good to the, well, watch at your own risk (hello, Heroes!). Pick of the Month: Max Headroom: The Complete Series Almost 25 years ago, this ABC show…

Flash Memory Capable of Playing More Than a Few Movies at a Time

Last week’s annual SIGGRAPH conference was, as usual, a place where dazzling visual displays were commonplace. But solid-state storage firm Fusion-io’s demo of an ultra-efficient drive took was perhaps a bit overstimulating, playing 2,000 DVD-quality movies simultaneously. Eyedrops recommended. [Fusion-io via Core77] Photo by Paul Fraser

Tonight’s northern lights will be incredible, thanks to solar explosions

The sun blasted mass quantities of plasma into space a few days ago, and the “coronal mass ejection” is headed straight for Earth. Which means we’re about to get some incredible aurora displays. Harvard astronomer Leon Golub explains that predicting space weather is an extremely inexact science, but that these times are likely to be…

nPower PEG Kinetic Charger Juices Your Devices While You Move

The nPower PEG charger “harvests” your kinetic energy as a source of renewable power, allowing you to keep your phone or other small device running while away from outlets. Running, biking, or even just walking will keep the electricity flowing. By placing the nine inch tall nPower PEG in your bag vertically, it will begin…

iOS 4.1 Beta 3 Now Available to iPhone Developers

Looks like iOS 4.1 Beta 3 is now available for download in the iPhone Developer Center. We’ll be taking a look and letting you know what’s new since the last beta shortly. [Apple—Thanks, TJ!]

The first scenes from the Scott Pilgrim Adult Swim cartoon are online

On Thursday August 12, Scott Pilgrim vs. the Animation, a four-minute cartoon flashback of Scott’s high school years, will air from 12-12:30 AM on Adult Swim. The animated short recounts Scott forming his band Sex Bob-omb with drummer Kim Pine. The cartoon is divided into two portions that will be played during commercial breaks. The…

Why Has Apple Neglected the Remote App? Because Just One Guy Made It

Last week, I asked just why Apple has left its Remote App to rot in the App Store, unupdated despite new hardware coming out. The reason? One guy wrote it, and now he’s working on other things. https://gizmodo.com/has-apple-forgotten-about-its-remote-app-5599836 Yes, according to Posterous CEO Sachin Agarwal, Apple is run like a huge startup, with small, even…