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Olympus’ E-5 DSLR Is Their First E-Series to Shoot HD Video

Priced at $1,700, Olympus claims their E-5 has the highest image quality of any of their cameras, combining a 12.3MP high-speed live MOS sensor with TruePic V+ processing. A pricey option for non-full HD video, it shoots just 720p. The full details are below in the press release, but key points include the 3-inch 270-degree…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Sep 14 '10

Samsung NX100 Mirrorless Camera: Smooth

The NX10, Samsung’s first mirrorless camera, was smaller than a DSLR, but it still looked like a DSLR. The NX100 does not—it’s all flat surfaces and gentle curves and even sticks a manual control on the lens itself. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-nx10-gets-real-new-nx-series-camera-format-and-5439191 In terms of guts, the NX100 doesn’t depart too much from the more conventional looking NX10:…

Gadgets Kyle VanHemert Sep 14 '10

Is This the Reason Why Most US Military Projects Go Over Budget?

Open this chart and look closely. After you get over the sudden nausea and dizziness caused by your eyes and brain trying to adjust to it, try to get deeper into it. Repeat until something, anything, makes sense. If you can’t make any sense out of it, don’t worry. The only more difficult thing would…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 14 '10

Playstation’s MoveMen Will Stalk You, Crash Your Party and Force You To Play Games

I’m not entirely certain what’s going on in this commercial for the Playstation Move, but it appears that there are these freaky MoveMen who’ll troll your Facebook page for mentions of parties, gatecrash, and force you to play a game. And here I thought that the Nintendo guys who showed up unannounced and proclaimed “Wii…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Sep 13 '10

Drunk Email to Obama Gets British Teen Banned From America for Life

This story reported by the Sun is not true and we apologize for having published it. The FBI doesn’t call the local police of a 1,729-people village in Bedfordshire, England, to tell someone is banned from entering the United States. According to Homeland Security rules, if you are banned from entering the United States, they…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Sep 13 '10

True Blood’s big finale will burn your face off

Last night was the season finale of True Blood, so was it a spine-ripping good time? Sorta. There was a lot of good, and a lot of bad. But let’s break it down Pro/Con style. All in all, I left this episode feeling satisfied but not as excited for the next season as I should…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 13 '10

Lenovo’s Brilliant New Laptop Charger Has Four USB Ports Built In

Lenovo is onto something with its new Power Hub. The $75 laptop charger comes with four built-in USB ports so that you can power and connect several USB devices. The charger does use up one of your existing USB ports, but that’s definitely a worthwhile sacrifice. All that needs to be done is for someone…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Sep 13 '10

How can you tell your daughter that you’re really a blood-sucking monster?

If you have friends who’ve been resisting checking out The Gates, this touching scene from last night’s episode may win them over. Vampires Dylan and Claire decide to “come out” to their daughter… but they get a surprise. Spoilers below. This was the “coming out” episode of The Gates all around, although the episode took…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Sep 13 '10

“Jaws in Japan” promises cyclopean Selachimorphae, breasts

Good news, lovers of trash cinema! The 2009 indie horror flick Psycho Shark (a.k.a. Jaws in Japan, its US name was changed for obvious reasons) is coming to America October 12. It’s shark versus bikini idols versus a serial killer! Here’s the synopsis of director John Hijiri’s gem from Cinema Epoch: College students Miki and…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 13 '10

Nothing Says “Good Cause” Like Remote Controlled Poop

If you’re trying to raise awareness for a cause—especially if that cause is providing toilets for the 2.6 billion people in the world who don’t have one—there are worse places to start than piloting an RC-turd. I think. WaterAid is the organization responsible for the stunt, in which Londoners were accosted by these presumably fake…

Tech News Brian Barrett Sep 13 '10

Children and adults see the world in fundamentally different ways

As we get older, our senses actually “fuse” together, and we lose the ability to focus on isolated pieces of sensory information. This means adults perceive certain events far more accurately than children can… and vice versa. Once people reach about the age of twelve, they start to combine sensory information to make better sense…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 13 '10

Sci-Fi Author’s Son Creates Wireless ISP To Give You 20Mbps Downloads For $40/Month

Sci-Fi author Rudy Rucker’s son’s one of the folks behind the cleverest wireless ISP serving San Francisco. He and his team have set up a system to provide customers with reliable 10-30Mbps download speeds for a mere $40 per month. Sure, you could get theoretical speeds of about “20 Mbps down and 4 Mbps up…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Sep 13 '10

Robot Opera Is Less Madame Butterfly, More “Oops I Dropped a Butterfly Screw”

Don’t be alarmed by the fact we’re writing about opera on Gizmodo. We’re not secretly donning velvet smoking jackets and pearls (except for Kyle). Death and the Powers features nine life-sized robots—or, “OperaBots,”…plus the odd human. It’s been 10 years in the making, but from this September in Monaco, MIT’s Media Lab Professor Tod Machover…

io9 Kat Hannaford Sep 13 '10

Most misleading and fanciful science fiction/fantasy movie posters ever!

Movies carry us away to fantastical worlds, but the journey begins with super-vivid poster-art. The best movie posters are an art-form all their own… but sometimes, it’s the art of deception. Here are the most misleading posters of all time. Welcome back to Monday Hate, an irregular column in which we hate things because it’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 13 '10

Is American Influence Making the Internet Prudish?

An op-ed in The Register poses an interesting and contentious question: is American moral conservatism ruining the internet? Is the American prudish aversion to nudity, explicit language, sexual deviance, drugs—at least in public—stifling the rest of the world? Jane Fae Ozimek wants us to consider whether the internet is too prudish because of the moral…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 13 '10

The mysterious life and death of scifi author F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre

He published witty books and short stories in top scifi magazines. But he also lived under several aliases, kidnapped and tortured a neighbor, and finally burned himself to death in his tiny Brooklyn apartment. Who was F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre? There’s a fantastic article in the New York Times about the life of the acerbic writer,…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 13 '10

I’m Gonna Kill All You Potatoes—With My Rotary Peeler!

I usually peel everything with one of my ceramic or Adamantium knives, but I guess I could put my manliness aside and go for convenience and function with the Rotary Peeler. The Joseph Joseph Rotary Peeler is a thingamajig with three stainless steel blades in one: Standard, soft-skin, and Julienne. Obviously, to change to the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 13 '10

Samsung Galaxy Tab, Red and White BlackBerry Torches Coming to AT&T This Year

Engadget has a (partial) peek at AT&T’s holiday lineup, and it looks like Samsung’s Android 2.2-running Galaxy Tab will be hopping on the network, joined by the WP7 Samsung Cetus and BlackBerry Torches in festive red and white. [

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Sep 13 '10

Bureaucratic molasses gums up asteroid apocalypse prevention

A 2005 congressional mandate requires NASA to record 90% of the 20,000+ near Earth objects (NEOs) sized 140+ meters in diameter. NASA has until 2020 to catalog them but lacks time and funding. Ah, the politics of doomsday prevention. A recent article in Nature notes the political and logistical difficulties inherent in logging those NEOs…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 13 '10

Walmart’s Getting In the Wireless Business

Looks like Walmart’s wrapping its tentacles around cellphones; the indomitable retailer announced its Walmart Family Mobile plan today. Surprise! It’s cheap. Really, really cheap. Walmart Family Mobile will offer unlimited calling and texting for $45 per month for the first line, and an additional $25 for a second. The plan, in partnership with T-Mobile, also…

Tech News Brian Barrett Sep 13 '10

Olympus’ E-5 DSLR Is Their First E-Series to Shoot HD Video

Samsung NX100 Mirrorless Camera: Smooth

Is This the Reason Why Most US Military Projects Go Over Budget?

Playstation’s MoveMen Will Stalk You, Crash Your Party and Force You To Play Games

Drunk Email to Obama Gets British Teen Banned From America for Life

True Blood’s big finale will burn your face off

Lenovo’s Brilliant New Laptop Charger Has Four USB Ports Built In

How can you tell your daughter that you’re really a blood-sucking monster?

“Jaws in Japan” promises cyclopean Selachimorphae, breasts

Nothing Says “Good Cause” Like Remote Controlled Poop

Children and adults see the world in fundamentally different ways

Sci-Fi Author’s Son Creates Wireless ISP To Give You 20Mbps Downloads For $40/Month

Robot Opera Is Less Madame Butterfly, More “Oops I Dropped a Butterfly Screw”

Most misleading and fanciful science fiction/fantasy movie posters ever!

Is American Influence Making the Internet Prudish?

The mysterious life and death of scifi author F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre

I’m Gonna Kill All You Potatoes—With My Rotary Peeler!

Samsung Galaxy Tab, Red and White BlackBerry Torches Coming to AT&T This Year

Bureaucratic molasses gums up asteroid apocalypse prevention

Walmart’s Getting In the Wireless Business

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