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A possible Avengers villain, Captain America’s amazing evolving uniform, and a look at the second half of Caprica!

Did an actor just imply he’s the Avengers villain? Captain America discusses how his shield and uniform change with his situation. The Let Me In director explains changing cultural context. Plus the first look at Caprica, Priest, and Drive Angry! Avengers: Loki actor Tom Hiddleston gave a sort of non-denial denial when asked if Loki…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Faster New iMacs Can Run Both SSD and HDDs at Once

Two sizes of iMac (21.5″ and 27″), both available in different processor configurations, landed today. With the base price being $1,199 for the 21.5″ 3.06GHz Core i3 model, all of the models are faster and more fine-tuned than before. Updated less than a year ago, last October, the newest iMacs haven’t changed in price, but…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Apple’s LED Cinema Display Now Comes In 27″ Size

Up until now, 24″ was all the LED Cinema Display you were allowed. Apple’s newer 27″-sized monitor has a resolution of 2560 x 1440, and now costs $999—which is 100 bucks more than the 24″ model. https://gizmodo.com/apples-new-24-inch-led-cinema-display-with-isight-is-8-5063215 The other 27″-sized beauty in Apple’s pack is of course the iMac, which many of our readers had…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Apple’s Magic Trackpad Is Here

Apple desktops have touchpads now too. The new Magic Trackpad gives Mac Pro and iMac owners multitouch powers, gestures, and bluetooth connectivity. The Magic Trackpad is basically a larger version of the MacBook Pro touchpad, with 80% more surface area for all your swiping and pinching. The entire surface acts as a button, so it’s…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Mac Pros Now Have Up to 12 Cores

The new Mac Pros fit up to two (Westmere) 4-core Xeon processors, sure, but if you’ve got the inclination, you can load up on dual 6-core Intel Xeon processors, or 12 cores of power. As for the design? That’s unchanged. In simpler-speak, the big update is that the Mac Pro shifted from 45nm Nahalem processors…

Tech News Mark Wilson

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

This week on TreeHugger, Porsche is going electrics, the Autobahn shuts down for a 3 million-person party, how home workers are heading to garden sheds, a giant swimming pool for riverside Manhattan, and more! German Autobahn Closed for Gigantic Party – 1 Million Cyclists Celebrate Seriously. A portion of the Autobahn shut down for a…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch

ZumoCast Makes Your Computer a Personal Cloud For Watching Video on iPad and iPhone

At least to some extent, syncing is on its way out, and ZumoCast, which enters private beta today, offers an attractive alternative: turning your computer into a personal cloud and streaming video to iPads and iPhones instead of syncing it. This isn’t a new idea by any means. Apps like AirVideo and StreamToMe have shown…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Yes, the Apple Store is Down

The speculation will soon be over—is Apple about to unleash a new 27″ 16:9 Cinema Display, faster iMacs, sleeker Mac Pros or even a Magic Trackpad? [Apple] https://gizmodo.com/rumor-apple-27-16-9-cinema-displays-mac-pros-and-mag-5596706

Tech News Kat Hannaford

BlackBerry Seen as Major Security Threat In United Arab Emirates

Following Bahrain and India’s threats of legal action against RIM earlier this year, the United Arab Emirates is claiming BlackBerry phones are a threat to national security due to the fact that all of the data is stored overseas, thus making it more difficult for the UAE to spy on its citizens’ communication—or monitor worrying…

Privacy & Security Kat Hannaford

What Comes After the Large Hadron Collider?

What kind of particle smasher will succeed the Large Hadron Collider? It might seem premature to be asking that already, but it was one of the questions discussed at the International Conference on High Energy Physics in Paris, France. Two accelerator proposals are on the table to succeed the LHC: the International Linear Collider (ILC)…

Physics & Chemistry Kat Hannaford

Cloud Music iPhone App Streams Tracks Uploaded to Google Docs

Heaps of music-streaming apps already exist for the iPhone, but Cloud Music has one novel selling point: you upload the music files to Google Docs, and then stream the songs from there. Docs is not just for word-processing anymore, remember? https://gizmodo.com/google-docs-gets-file-storage-is-this-the-gdrive-5446314 MP3, MP4 and WAV files are supported by the app, which was only released…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Audiophile’s 20,000-Watt Home Sound Studio Took 48 Years to Build

How long did it take you to set up your audio system? Dick Burwen’s been at his for 48 years—and he still isn’t finished. According to the biography on Burwen’s site, the chap has been interested in audio since the age of eight, going on to work at several audio companies over the years, where…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Stanford Researchers Developing Rocket-Powered Sewage Treatment System

In what sounds like the most over-engineered toilet tech ever, Stanford engineers are using rocket science to clean up sewage. It’s actually simpler than it sounds—the scientists are developing a system that exploits sewage-loving bacteria to produce nitrous oxide, which can be used up by a rocket thruster. The nitrous-powered rocket’s only byproduct is hot,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Talk a Load of Exhaled Hot Air Into This LASER

As YouTube user/laser-magician Magx1 says, “it doesn’t get much more DIY than this!” After creating all sorts of gas lasers previously, he exhaled his own breath and created a carbon dioxide laser. What did you do with your breath today? Using nitrogen, hydrogen and helium, Magx1’s carbon dioxide laser fires up by breathing into a…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Phoenix Cooktop

The Buechele Phonix is a neat little stove top that has a retractable hood. On one side there’s a recirculating vent, the other, a warmer. On the back? A blackboard! The Phoenix is a 2010 reddot design award winner. [Beuchele via Appliancist]

Tech News Brian Lam

True Blood teaches us how to talk dirty vampire style

Blood poured from the skies in Sunday night’s episode of True Blood. And we also got to learn what kind of dirty talk turns vampires on. No surprise here – it’s graphic blood whispering. Watch!What did we learn? That Denis O’Hare is a gosh darn delight. His take on the King of Mississippi is award…

Television Meredith Woerner

Arthur C. Clarke Predicted GPS and Satellite TV in 1956

In August of 1956, science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke wrote a letter to his friend Andrew G. Haley. In this letter, he predicted—with uncanny accuracy—the GPS and satellite TV systems of today. Here’s the letter as transcribed by the folks of Letters of Note: Aug 56 Dear Andy, Odd that we should have crossed in…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Can Gadgets Become Heirlooms?

Heirlooms are significant objects—often jewelry or prized items—passed through generations. But as our priorities in life change, will our choices of heirlooms as well? Will I find myself entrusting an original Game Boy to my child one day? Ellen Lupton has a wonderful piece in the NYT discussing heirlooms, their place in our world, and…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

The Abyss Watch Capitalizes On Touch Screen Tech And Minimalism

It seems that watch hands and easy-to-read digital displays are a thing of the past according to Japanese style watches. A matte black touch screen face surrounded by time indicating LED’s is infinitely more chic. The Abyss watch sports a black snakeskin textured leather band and black face circled by “Tron blue” and white LED’s.…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Other iPad Apps As Seen Through Annamika, the Animated Kaleidoscope App

Annamika is a neat new iPad app that lets you run any image of your choosing through an animated kaleidoscope. That includes screenshots of other iPad apps. Ready to get meta? That up there? That’s Words With Friends. Annamika, which uses customizable kaleidoscope software by Scott Collard, comes preloaded with art by Catherine Hubert, which…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

A possible Avengers villain, Captain America’s amazing evolving uniform, and a look at the second half of Caprica!

Faster New iMacs Can Run Both SSD and HDDs at Once

Apple’s LED Cinema Display Now Comes In 27″ Size

Apple’s Magic Trackpad Is Here

Mac Pros Now Have Up to 12 Cores

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

ZumoCast Makes Your Computer a Personal Cloud For Watching Video on iPad and iPhone

Yes, the Apple Store is Down

BlackBerry Seen as Major Security Threat In United Arab Emirates

What Comes After the Large Hadron Collider?

Cloud Music iPhone App Streams Tracks Uploaded to Google Docs

Audiophile’s 20,000-Watt Home Sound Studio Took 48 Years to Build

Stanford Researchers Developing Rocket-Powered Sewage Treatment System

Talk a Load of Exhaled Hot Air Into This LASER

The Phoenix Cooktop

True Blood teaches us how to talk dirty vampire style

Arthur C. Clarke Predicted GPS and Satellite TV in 1956

Can Gadgets Become Heirlooms?

The Abyss Watch Capitalizes On Touch Screen Tech And Minimalism

Other iPad Apps As Seen Through Annamika, the Animated Kaleidoscope App

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