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Facebook Like and Dislike Button Rubber Stamps Now Available

The Facebook Like rubber stamp was so popular, that its creators are now selling them. Not only that, but they’ve created what everyone wants for the real Facebook: A dislike button stamp. Come on, Zuckerberg, you know you want it. Like them? Then hit that like button in Facebook and go buy one. They are…

Social Media Jesus Diaz

Toy Story 3 has something other summer movies don’t: storytelling.

In Pixar movies, our consumer crap loves us. Whether it’s toys, cars or trash robots, Pixar plays to our fantasies that our mass-produced semi-durable possessions have deep inner lives. But Toy Story 3 takes this theme to a new place. Oh, and there are spoilers in this review. TOY spoilers! Toy Story 3, out today,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Improved Specs of the New Xbox 360, Tested

The new Xbox 360 is the most technologically advanced yet thanks to the CPU and GPU sharing one chip on the 45nm scale. It’s quieter, cooler and less energy hungry—sucking half the power of the original. AnandTech put the new 360 through its technical paces. Their findings: • It’s “noticeably quieter,” spinning discs at 51…

Tech News Mark Wilson

I Want to Live Inside The Bookshelf Apartment

The bookshelf stair is still one of my favorite home improvements ever, but this bookshelf apartment by Rintala Eggertsson bests it by converting your whole 6,000-book library into one intimate living space. Take the video tour. Here are some great photos by Pasi Aalto: Sadly, the Ark is not a real apartment, but a structure…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

MobileMe Mail Leaves Beta and Is Available to All Subscribers

Look what’s just come out of beta and is available to everyone who’s coughed up their $99 annual fee. It’s only the new MobileMe Mail, which looks just like iPad Mail. [Apple]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Designing the Dark Crystal

The World of the Dark Crystal book documents the conceptual work done for Jim Henson’s 1982 cult classic — and the pieces here, by British artist Brian Froud, show how lush the film was, even on the page. [Sci-fi-o-rama]

Movies Marc Bernardin

Get Yer Griffin Cases Before the iPhone 4 Launch

Some of the first accessories for the iPhone 4 have appeared on Griffin’s website, six days ahead of the launch-date. The Elan passport wallet may not be as colorful as the err, Bumper, but it can store all your cards. As well as the Elan Passport wallet ($40 / £30), there’s also a Reveal case…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Vampire Eric joins Peter Berg’s Battleship

Alexander Skarsgard has traded vampire yahtzee for Battleship, by joining Peter Berg’s epic alien-war film. We’ve seen him, fly, bite and bang Estonian strippers — now we will watch him fight alien invaders from the sky! Heat Vision broke the news that Skarsgard will be joining the film’s lead, Taylor Kitsch. And from the description…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Warp 11: This is not the Star Trek-themed band you’re looking for

It’s no wonder that a proposed TV show following this geekcentric quartet never went anywhere, given that their songs have titles like “Boldly Go Down on Me.” But this opening number from their pilot is kinda fun. [Topless Robot]

Television Marc Bernardin

If the Tron movie is anything like this video game clip, we’re sold

A brand new trailer for Disney’s Tron video game is out, and it looks exactly like the Tron Legacy film. Even Olivia Wilde’s character, Quorra, is in it! The visuals are stunning. Plus Tron Legacy’s coming to Comic Con! As for the Tron Comic Con news, here’s the press release Disney sent out with the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Solar Powered Fab Lab House May Save the World, But Not Your Eyes

On show until the end of June at the solar declathlon expo in Madrid, this Fab Lab house is already making waves due to the fact it can be built in 15 days and house a family of four. Measuring 75 squared meters, it’s the work of the Institut D’Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya, who chose…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Palm Teases New Phones and “New Version of the OS”

After two phones (and two spin-offs) running webOS, you’d think Palm and its new owner HP would be keen to get some new devices to market. All we’ve got to go on for now is a Palm rep’s comments, confirming that they “are working on future devices,” and a “new version of the OS.” Apparently,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

37% of the internet is porn

According to Optenet, a company that sells filtering and censorship software for schools, 37% of the internet is porn. Apparently company researchers had to look at millions of pages of porn before they figured this out. And there’s more! Another dangerous fact uncovered by the “PC home security” company is that web pages about gaming…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Find out who’s playing X-Men’s Beast, and who’s spawning the Planet Of The Apes. And glimpse The Hobbit’s Shire.

There’s exciting casting news for X-Men: First Class and the Planet Of The Apes prequel. Find out how The Last Airbender’s special effects bend the elements. Plus Doctor Who, Predators, The Hobbit, Akira, Supernatural, Chuck, Torchwood and True Blood spoilers! X-Men: First Class: The cast of this mutant coming of age film continues to gel.…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Digital Camera Binoculars From Thanko Are Perfect For “Ornithologists”

I think we’ve just stumbled across the answer to that age-old question, “what to buy the man who has everything.” Thanko’s digital camera binoculars! It’s essentially an 8MP camera integrated into a set of binoculars, with two different digital zooms: 4x for the camera, and 8x for the binoculars. It may not be the first…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

“Find My iPhone” App Locates Lost Apple Gadgets

Was it really only last June that Apple introduced the Find My iPhone feature? Since then it’s stopped thieves and more than paid for itself. Now there’s an iPhone app (for installing on iPhones other than your own, obviously). It’s been added to the App Store just today for iOS 3.1.3 and higher products, and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Super-Clean Space Rock Puzzles Astronomers

More used to seeing rocks covered in grime after billions of years of floating around space, a team of astronomers at MIT are scratching their heads over a surprisingly pristine rock in Kuiper Belt, near Neptune. After first spotting the rock several years ago, MIT astronomer James Elliot finally found out the true nature of…

Space & Spaceflight Kat Hannaford

HTC Cracks Down on ROM Hackers With Cease and Desist Letter

We’ve covered a fair few of the ROM hacks here on Gizmodo, which many parts of an extremely active network of hackers/Android-lovers have created. Now though, HTC is cracking down on them, sending Conflipper‘s community a cease-and-desist. Conflipper has been behind a few of the most high-profile hacks, but is also particularly skilled at digging…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Hustler’s Highest-Budget Movie To Date: A 3D Porn Parody of Avatar

Yet another parody of Avatar has just finished production. It’s called This Ain’t Avatar XXX and it’s a 3D porno with production costs so high that Hustler, the company behind it, is calling it their highest-budget movie to date. The movie will supposedly be available in September. [MNN via Digg]

Movies Rosa Golijan

How To Build Your Own Tablet For $400

If you are not sold on the iPad and are tired of waiting for tablets from other PC makers to show up, try getting your hands dirty with a tablet you can build on your own. Liquidware, an open source hardware company, is selling a $400 tablet starter kit. The DIY tablet is mainly targeted…

Tech News Priya Ganapati - Wired

Facebook Like and Dislike Button Rubber Stamps Now Available

Toy Story 3 has something other summer movies don’t: storytelling.

The Improved Specs of the New Xbox 360, Tested

I Want to Live Inside The Bookshelf Apartment

MobileMe Mail Leaves Beta and Is Available to All Subscribers

Designing the Dark Crystal

Get Yer Griffin Cases Before the iPhone 4 Launch

Vampire Eric joins Peter Berg’s Battleship

Warp 11: This is not the Star Trek-themed band you’re looking for

If the Tron movie is anything like this video game clip, we’re sold

Solar Powered Fab Lab House May Save the World, But Not Your Eyes

Palm Teases New Phones and “New Version of the OS”

37% of the internet is porn

Find out who’s playing X-Men’s Beast, and who’s spawning the Planet Of The Apes. And glimpse The Hobbit’s Shire.

Digital Camera Binoculars From Thanko Are Perfect For “Ornithologists”

“Find My iPhone” App Locates Lost Apple Gadgets

Super-Clean Space Rock Puzzles Astronomers

HTC Cracks Down on ROM Hackers With Cease and Desist Letter

Hustler’s Highest-Budget Movie To Date: A 3D Porn Parody of Avatar

How To Build Your Own Tablet For $400

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