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How Big Is the Biggest Yacht In the World?

You remember the Eclipse, the 560-foot long yacht by Russian gazillionaire Roman Abramovich. It is the largest private yacht in the world. But maybe that claim is hard to visualize… until you see it compared to a 747. https://gizmodo.com/anti-paparazzi-laser-shield-equipped-yacht-no-match-for-5520991 More than double the size of the Jumbo, in fact. Not big enough for you? It…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Tiny Surveillance Aircraft Can Charge Itself By Landing On Power Lines

Click to viewThe engineers at MIT have come up with a way for tiny surveillance aircraft to never have to return to base. By enabling them to latch on to power lines, they can charge themselves up whenever they want. The trick to making this possible, it turns out, is making them perform a controlled…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Some German Tech Companies Know Their Target Market Too Well

This ad—from VPN/WAN access router company Viprinet—says: “Redundancy Creates Security”. I don’t know about you, but I would get a kernel panic in a situation like this. [Viprinet]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Wylie Agency Ebooks Only To Be Found On the Kindle and Kindle Apps Until 2012

Amazon and the Kindle ebook store will have exclusive rights to publish works by authors such as Salman Rushdie, Oliver Sacks, and Philip Roth, among others. The 2 year agreement looks like the start of an inescapable trend: a divided ebook marketplace, where if you want access to every author in digital form, you’ll need…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Microsoft Uses Forensic Tech To Catch Software Counterfeiters

Microsoft takes fighting software counterfeiting so seriously that it’s looking at crime-scene forensic technology for inspiration. Apparently the software maker is using custom microscopes to match counterfeit discs to their creators—just like bullets to guns: At a crime lab in Dublin, Microsoft’s Donal Keating uses a custom-built microscope to take 72 high-resolution images of a…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

DIY Manipulator Arm: Make Your Own ‘The Clawww’

Today we’ve got a Lynxmotion manipulator arm that’s been expertly modded to be controlled by a USB mouse. [Insert image of those little green aliens from Toy Story here, gazing upwards in adoration.] The video shows how perfectly the mouse operates this thing: sliding the mouse controls its movement in all directions, the scroll wheel…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Does Andrew Lincoln have what it takes to be your Walking Dead hero?

The Walking Dead’s Rick Grimes is one of the greatest post-apocalyptic heroes. Does Andrew Lincoln have what it takes to play him? Let the actor himself explain to you just how far he’s willing to go for the character. Spoilers ahead! Why did you want to be Rick Grimes? He’s a man, he’s an everyman.…

Television Meredith Woerner

Robots Will Feed Us Pancakes Before They Destroy Us

Here’s a robot learning to flip pancakes. It’s hard not to laugh, watching this dumb bot flub flip after flip. But we won’t be laughing when we’re running for our lives, slowed down by a stomach full of fluffy pancakes. Also: the robot seen here is dubbed the Barrett WAM 7 DOFs. IS GIZMODO WRITER…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Checking out the new Transformers cartoon and the coolest Transformers toys at Comic Con!

Transformers have returned to Comic Con, and while Michael Bay is busy filming the third movie elsewhere, every other part of the Transformers empire is here. New cartoon, video game, pictures of awesome new toys – we’ve got it all! Transformers Prime debuts this October as the flagship program on Hasbro’s new TV channel, the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Will True Blood’s Sookie ever become a vampire? Charlaine Harris has the answer.

True Blood is a dominant presence at Comic-Con, and while author Charlaine Harris has little to do with the HBO series, she has plenty to say about its characters. Today she revealed what’s next for Sookie. Harris is the bestselling author who created Sookie Stackhouse, Bill Compton, and Viking hottie Eric Northman in her Southern…

io9 Louis Peitzman

Kurt Busiek’s Astro City soars towards the big screen

Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films have made a deal to adapt Kurt Busiek’s critically acclaimed metropolis—full-of-superheroes comic Astro City for film. The deal allows Busiek to pen the film’s script. We approve. [Deadline]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Gizmodo’s Jason Chen Nominated For T3 Gadget Person of the Year Award

Our dear Jason Chen‘s been nominated for T3’s Gadget Person of the Year award, but he’s too shy to tell everyone. So I’m doing it for him! Say congratulations to Jason and go vote for him or his fellow nominees. Voting can be done through the T3 page which has the Person of the Year…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Stan Lee’s Three New Superheroes Sure to Provide Stan Lee With More Painful Acting Moments

Stan Lee, that guy with bit parts in all the superhero movies, unveiled three new superheroes at ComicCon: Soldier Zero, Starborn and The Traveler. The characters are “a time traveler, an unwitting heir to an intergalactic empire and a wheelchair-bound professor who winds up bonded to an alien weapon.” And you know, they sound pretty…

Books & Comics Adam Frucci

Nissan’s Optimum Driving Experience Means You Are Comfortable, Stress-Free… And Moisturized

But with seat details like an articulated back rest, three-layered padding, and leg rests that can rise up a la your favorite La-Z-Boy, it sounds like it would make a better napping experience. Taking a distinct departure from the green tech and energy saving campaigns of competitors like Honda and Toyota, Nissan has decided to…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Bruce Willis reveals that the movie of Warren Ellis’ ultra-violent Red is “a romantic comedy”

We already know that the film adaptation of Warren Ellis’ Red is going to be completely different from the comic book. So what can we expect from this action comedy? And how closely is it related to the original? Spoilers… When the first trailer for Red came out, we noted that the film version of…

io9 Lauren Davis

Darth Vader Robbed A Bank

Darth Vader must either be down on his luck or trying to gather funds for another Death Star, because he was last seen robbing a bank in Long Island, New York. Here’s what the poor bank teller faced: Scary, no? I mean, what on earth do you do if you glance up to see a…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Impossible Sounding Solar Plant Generates Electricity at Night

Skeptics of modern technology, behold: a newly opened solar plant in Sicily is able to continue generating electricity long after the sun goes down. The trick lies in the plant’s use of salt to store up heat for later use. The “Archimede” facility uses what’s known as concentrated solar power, absorbing the sun’s heat and…

Tech News Sam Biddle

My Favorite Todo/List App, Zenbe Lists, Comes to iPad

Zenbe has become my de-facto todo list—beating Google’s and any sort of Apple solution—for two reasons: Ease of use and cross-platform compatibility. I can make grocery list on the computer and check them off on the iPhone at Safeway. And, if you already have the iPhone version, you get this for free. It’s $3 for…

Tech News Jason Chen

Project Your True Inner Geek Onto This Paintable Android Figurine

You might assume that Dyzplastic’s blank Android canvas would attract only lovers of Google’s mobile OS. But you’d be wrong, because for those with true passion, beauty is in the eye of the fanboy. The $6 Do It Yourself Android will be available at Comic-Con this week and should pop up for sale on Dyzplastics…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

What’s next for Marvel Comics: Ultimate Doom, new Captain America, and Groot

At the San Diego Comic-Con’s Mondo Marvel panel, Marvel luminaries including Brian Michael Bendis, Jeph Loeb, Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning divulged new Avengers-esque projects lined up for 2010-2011. What’s on the docket? Oodles of Cap and Ultimates projects. On deck for the panel was Marvel SVP C.B. Cebulski, Marvel’s Manager of Sales Communications Arune Singh…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

How Big Is the Biggest Yacht In the World?

Tiny Surveillance Aircraft Can Charge Itself By Landing On Power Lines

Some German Tech Companies Know Their Target Market Too Well

Wylie Agency Ebooks Only To Be Found On the Kindle and Kindle Apps Until 2012

Microsoft Uses Forensic Tech To Catch Software Counterfeiters

DIY Manipulator Arm: Make Your Own ‘The Clawww’

Does Andrew Lincoln have what it takes to be your Walking Dead hero?

Robots Will Feed Us Pancakes Before They Destroy Us

Checking out the new Transformers cartoon and the coolest Transformers toys at Comic Con!

Will True Blood’s Sookie ever become a vampire? Charlaine Harris has the answer.

Kurt Busiek’s Astro City soars towards the big screen

Gizmodo’s Jason Chen Nominated For T3 Gadget Person of the Year Award

Stan Lee’s Three New Superheroes Sure to Provide Stan Lee With More Painful Acting Moments

Nissan’s Optimum Driving Experience Means You Are Comfortable, Stress-Free… And Moisturized

Bruce Willis reveals that the movie of Warren Ellis’ ultra-violent Red is “a romantic comedy”

Darth Vader Robbed A Bank

Impossible Sounding Solar Plant Generates Electricity at Night

My Favorite Todo/List App, Zenbe Lists, Comes to iPad

Project Your True Inner Geek Onto This Paintable Android Figurine

What’s next for Marvel Comics: Ultimate Doom, new Captain America, and Groot

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