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Kaleidescape M500 Movie Player Rips Blu-Ray Discs

Kaleidescape, the multi-room home movie server that Bruce Wayne would totally use if he had any time to watch movies, has tweaked its UI and added Blu-ray support with the M500 and M300 players. But there’s a catch. Kaleidescape’s new M500 player works just like their old ones: you load a disc—CD, DVD, or now…

Movies Kyle VanHemert

An evocative trailer for Israeli post-nuke apocalypse flick “Radium”

If you’ve been wondering where the great stories of radioactive mutants and nuclear apocaplyse have gone, Israeli film student Daniel Fallick has the answer. His short Radium, set in a nuked Tel Aviv, gives us a Middle Eastern Mad Max. Here’s the story: 15 years have passed since the nuclear bomb dropped on the Nation…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Modular Neuroid Shows Everybody How Depressingly Polluted the World Is

The age of cheap, plentiful sensors, tracking everything from heartrates to the noise pollution slowly driving everybody insane is here. Joe Saavedra’s modular neuroid is a wearable, reconfigurable sensor system that monitors pollution we probably don’t wanna know about. The modular part of the system is that it works with different kinds of sensors. Currently…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Colin Farrell Brings Back The Vampiric 80s In Fright Night Remake

Colin Farrell is playing the sexy next-door-neighbor vampire, in the Fright Night remake. Sounds like somebody was listening to our prayers… from 2002. To top off that randomness, Toni Collette is playing a vampire victim, and Anton Yelchin’s mom. [THR]

io9 Meredith Woerner

Now, Anybody Can Accept Credit Card Payments With Square

Square’s been one of my favorite party tricks—watch me take your money with my iPhone!—but now everybody can join in with the full release of the apps for iPhone, Android and iPad. Which is actually more exciting. https://gizmodo.com/watch-the-iphone-swipe-a-credit-card-5450838 Noah at Fast Company lays out pretty much everything you need to know about Square—founded by Jack…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Gulf Oil Spill Is Bigger Than Connecticut

We’ve seen aerial shots of the oil spill before, but the damage is so broad it’s nearly impossible to get any perspective. Well, now you can map it over any city—or state—in the world, using Google Earth. https://gizmodo.com/the-gulf-oil-spill-as-seen-from-the-international-spac-5531967 Paul Rademacher has shown the extent of the spill—all 2500 square miles of ocean surface and even…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Has NBC Found Its Own Prisoner with Persons Unknown?

Come this June, NBC is launching Persons Unknown, a genre-tinged, paranoia miniseries from Oscar-winning writer Chris McQuarrie. Will it conjure memories of the British cult-classic The Prisoner…or AMC’s ponderous misfire, The Prisoner? It’s got a little bit of Oldboy, a whole lot of The Prisoner, and Ferris Bueller’s Alan Ruck, so I’ll check it out.…

io9 Marc Bernardin

Screencaps From Christopher Nolan’s Inception Trailer Are Full Of Clues

Watch a dream “collapse” around Leonardo DiCaprio in the HD version third trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Inception. Meanwhile, we pick up the pieces and try to make sense of his dream-heist movie, with a slew of screencaps and spoilers. Here’s the trailer in full HD, if you didn’t catch it before. And if we missed…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Fastest (and Slowest) Way to Charge an iPad

The flipside of the iPad’s seemingly inexhaustible battery life is that the length of time it takes to recharge it is best measured in epochs. Turns out, some methods work better than others. There’s a lot of ways to recharge an iPad—thank you, USB—but the iPad is finicky. For a portable, it has high power…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

MSI Slatebook: Microsoft’s Best Windows 7 Tablet Hope?

According to DigiTimes, MSI is going to be showing off a tablet next month at Computex. What it is: a 10-inch Atom-based system running Windows 7. What it’s not: one of the Tegra 2 tablets we’ve been yearning for. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-confirms-tegra-2-will-be-in-tablets-in-2010-5442839 Other details are scarce—and DigiTimes isn’t always the most reliable source—but it appears the Slatebook…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Get Down to Business on your iPad with LogMeIn Ignition

Beef up your iPad’s capabilities with LogMeIn Ignition (hello Flash). With just a simple touch, you can control your work or home computer (Mac or PC) anytime, anywhere from your iPad or iPhone. With access to absolutely everything on your computer, including programs not supported by iPad, you can do more wherever you are. All…

Tech News Gawkercreative

The Next Playboy Centerfold Will Be In 3D

When Hugh Hefner launched Playboy back in the 50s, he hired a photographer to shoot two nude women in 3D. But the price of bundling anaglyph glasses with the magazine was too high. This week, Hef’s dream becomes reality. In an effort to bolster low readership, the June edition of Playboy, on newsstands this week,…

Tech News Mark Wilson

How Much Oil Will Be Wasted In The Deepwater Spill?

The Deepwater Horizon oil leak is still spewing crude into the Gulf of Mexico, but just how much oil is being wasted daily? This infographic breaks down the disaster with absolutely depressing lucidity. [David McCandless via Information Is Beautiful]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Hands-On: Sony Alpha NEX-5 Interchangeable-Lens Camera

Eagerly anticipated ever since Sony floated its wood-block concept designs at the PMA show in February, Sony’s Alpha NEX-5 and NEX-3 have finally arrived. Its debut models are the smallest entrants to date, and are aggressively priced given their features. The cameras are nearly identical, differing only in two ways. They have slightly different body…

Tech News Kevin Lee

Inception TV Spots! Your Least Favorite Transformers Are Back! And New Leonard Nimoy Glimpses!

Three TV spots sum up Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending Inception, and new Transformers 3 set video includes crazy car stunts. There’s True Blood scandal and Lost romance. Plus Lost, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Fringe, FlashForward and V spoilers! Inception: OMG here are three new TV spots for Christopher Nolan’s new non-Batman movie about a guy who flies…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

NZXT Vulcan Micro ATX: Portable Viciousness

It’s tough to tell in this grandiose lead shot, but the new NZXT Vulcan Micro ATX case is LAN-party-portable, as it stands just 16 inches tall and 16 inches deep—40% smaller than a typical tower. Plus, there’s a handy non-slip handle on top to carry the thing around, and much of the system seems to…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Sony Alpha NEX-5 photos

May 10, 2010 10:00 PM PDT By: Lori Grunin Compact The NEX-5 is so small that it gets visually overwhelmed even by its 18-55mm kit lens. Still, it feels balanced in your hands while shooting. Photo credit: Sarah Tew/CNET May 10, 2010 10:00 PM PDT By: Lori Grunin Tiltable LCD The tiltable LCD is a…

Tech News Kevin Lee

Shoot Pointless Tweets to Death

Yahui Gu’s @twitter project lets us do something everybody wants to do, at least a few times a day: Vaporize pointless tweets. The moral is something about information overload, but I was too busy shooting Twitter to ponder it. [Parsons]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Sony Alpha NEX-5 photo samples:

Noise Both visually and by the numbers, the NEX-5 delivers excellent noise performance for its class. Photos are pretty clean up through ISO 800, and you don’t start to see significant softness until ISO 1600. Photo credit: Matthew Fitzgerald/CNET May 10, 2010 10:00 PM PDT By: Lori Grunin Noise, ISO 6400 Sony has really gotten…

Tech News Kevin Lee

Famous Pop Artist David Hockney’s New Paintbrush Is The iPad

He’s known as one of the most famous English artists of the twentieth century, was hugely popular in the Pop Art phase—and now, David Hockney is creating artworks with his iPad. After experimenting with iPhone artwork, Hockney’s picked up an iPad (despite it not being available in the UK yet), and is making streaky masterpieces…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Kaleidescape M500 Movie Player Rips Blu-Ray Discs

An evocative trailer for Israeli post-nuke apocalypse flick “Radium”

Modular Neuroid Shows Everybody How Depressingly Polluted the World Is

Colin Farrell Brings Back The Vampiric 80s In Fright Night Remake

Now, Anybody Can Accept Credit Card Payments With Square

The Gulf Oil Spill Is Bigger Than Connecticut

Has NBC Found Its Own Prisoner with Persons Unknown?

Screencaps From Christopher Nolan’s Inception Trailer Are Full Of Clues

The Fastest (and Slowest) Way to Charge an iPad

MSI Slatebook: Microsoft’s Best Windows 7 Tablet Hope?

Get Down to Business on your iPad with LogMeIn Ignition

The Next Playboy Centerfold Will Be In 3D

How Much Oil Will Be Wasted In The Deepwater Spill?

Hands-On: Sony Alpha NEX-5 Interchangeable-Lens Camera

Inception TV Spots! Your Least Favorite Transformers Are Back! And New Leonard Nimoy Glimpses!

NZXT Vulcan Micro ATX: Portable Viciousness

Sony Alpha NEX-5 photos

Shoot Pointless Tweets to Death

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Famous Pop Artist David Hockney’s New Paintbrush Is The iPad

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