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The Mystery of Project Natal Revealed

The secret technology that powers Xbox 360’s Project Natal lollipop-free motion controls actually isn’t leprechauns, as we initially suspected. The guts are made by a little company called PrimeSense. Microsoft built Project Natal around a reference design made by PrimeSense, called PrimeSensor. It’s essentially three components: a CMOS image sensor, an infrared light source, and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Microsoft Electric Cars

Plugging in your electric car willy-nilly strains utility companies and costs you money. Ford’s new vehicles will use Microsoft’s Hohm, a cloud-based application for managing energy consumption, to make sure you’re being smart about charging your electric car. Ford and Microsoft have teamed up before on Ford Sync, bringing cars’ entertainment and communications technologies into…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Saving The Planet May Require Getting Rid Of Democracy For “A While”

Environmentalist, inventor and futurologist James Lovelock (who was the first person to detect CFCs in the atmosphere) says humans may not be smart enough to prevent global warming. And he adds that saving the planet might require putting democracy on hold: We need a more authoritative world. We’ve become a sort of cheeky, egalitarian world…

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DoubleTwist Gives the Android App Market a Desktop Interface

It’s nice to able to search, browse and download mobile apps from your computer as well as your handset. (See: iTunes.) Google doesn’t seem to realize or care about this, so 3rd-party syncing app DoubleTwist picked up their slack. In theory, this is Android’s iTunes: It’s a place where Android users can sift through apps…

Tech News John Herrman

Strobing UFO Shakes The City of Luque, Paraguay

A UFO that zoomed over the city of Luque in Paraguay sounds very much like the strobing, disco-like UFOs in 1970s movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Check out the picture and judge for yourself. Inexplicata reports that many people in the Luque area saw the object: According to their story, the sighting involved…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Weird Your iPad Up with a Lady Gaga Decal

The iPad isn’t even out yet, but you can have yours all Gaga’d out on day 1 with this decal. [Etsy via Book of Joe]

Tech News Adam Frucci

“A Galactic Empire State of Mind”, Featuring Leia On The Max Rebo Piano

This Star Wars-centric remake/spoof of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys v10_medium” alt=””A Galactic Empire State of Mind”, Featuring Leia On The Max Rebo Piano” title=””A Galactic Empire State of Mind”, Featuring Leia On The Max Rebo Piano” /> Click to view See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Lyrics: [DARTH VADER/JAY-Z] Yeah No longer…

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Hamilton Time Player Watch Inspired By 2001: A Space Odyssey

Here’s some interesting context for Hamilton’s watch: they recycled the design from a clock they originally made for 2001: A Space Odyssey. Director Stanley Kubrick was notoriously pernickety about design, so what was good for him is good for us. The titanium Time Player watch has nine tiles on the face, eight of which have…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Sunshine Supergirl

Sometimes, you just want to bask in the sun — especially given the weather of late — and this evocative shot of Supergirl reminds you why. No, this image — created in 2006 by comics jack-of-all-trades Dean Trippe — isn’t new. But it’s perfect. And a thing of beauty is a joy forever, right? Comics…

Books & Comics Marc Bernardin

Are You Feeling AT&T’s 100 Day Plan to Fix Their Network?

Another iPhone, another round of AT&T promising it’ll be better this time. Honest! In fact, in December they started a 100-day plan to ” to dramatically improve the company’s network in densely-populated cities.” Are you feeling it yet? That was a rhetorical question. But since December, AT&T’s supposedly added new spectrum (a familiar line), pointed…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

First Look At Movie Version Of Space Pirate Captain Harlock Surfaces

Captain Harlock’s CG-animated movie face has surfaced at Tokyo’s Anime Fair. We’re pretty impressed with the space pirate’s look, including the swoon-inducing scar. But according to people who saw the footage, he’s not the only sexy thing in the movie. Harlock the lone space pirate, romantic hero, and massive source of inspiration to the many…

Movies Meredith Woerner

You’re Not Truly Rich Until You Have Your Own Mothership

This is absolutely insane. Apparently, there are people so rich that, not happy with having their own megayacht, get themselves a huge support ship to carry giant speedboats, sailboats, helicopters, and even submarines. That’s what the Sea Axe is. https://gizmodo.com/russian-billionaire-floats-above-economy-in-350-millio-5290050 The Sea Axe comes in 37, 51, or 67 meters flavors, and it’s capable of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

ASUS 5870 Eyefinity Supports More Displays Than You Have Eyes

When you’re about to drop a black market kidney payment on a graphics card, you may go for flat-out speed—which makes sense. But another option might be more than enough speed and support for six displays. https://gizmodo.com/the-sapphire-radeon-hd-5970-is-faster-than-every-other-5484731 The upcoming ASUS 5870 Eyefinity, price and ship date TBA, is a PCI Express 2.1 card that combines…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Iron Man 2 Viral Site Reveals Tony Stark’s Mad Science Wonderland

In Iron Man 2, Tony Stark revives the Stark Expo, a technology fair pioneered by his industrialist father. A new viral site, Stark Expo 2010, is a fake ad for Tony’s billionaire playground. It resembles the Venture compound on barbiturates. At the Stark Expo 2010 viral site, visitors can marvel at concept art for the…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Ebooks, iPads, and the Terrifying Death of the Dust Jacket

If publishers are good at one thing, it’s publishing. If they’re good at two things, it’s publishing and consecrating every aspect of the paper book, until changing anything about it seems unthinkable. This week’s e-crisis: The Death of the Cover. The New York Times notes one of the many incidental—and admittedly kinda fascinating—consequences of switching…

Tech News John Herrman

Scientists Explain How Males Evolved From A Self-Fertilizing “Third Sex”

Most creatures on Earth have one sex that fertilizes and one that gets fertilized. Not so with olive trees. Last week scientists described how these trees evolved a system of males and a third sex which can go both ways. The sexual system these trees have is called androdioecy: It includes males and a third…

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Autobots Going To Gotham City? Plus New Iron Man/Kick-Ass Posters And Revealing Doctor Who Pics!

Michael Bay plans to film Transformers 3 on the Chicago street that represents Gotham City. There are new images/posters for Iron Man 2, Doctor Who and Kick-Ass. Syfy talks Being Human remake plans, and Grahame-Smith talks the Abraham Lincoln movie. Transformers 3: Businesses along Chicago’s iconic Michigan Avenue, aka Magnificent Mile, have been told to…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Linksys E3000 Review: Still a Lot of Router

The E3000 is Cisco’s new king of Linksys routers, replacing the WRT610N. It’s a pretty minor upgrade to the previous simultaneous dual-band beast, with a major exception. https://gizmodo.com/lightning-review-linksys-wrt610n-dual-n-band-wireless-5021685 Price $180 MSRP. Models As you’d notice if you were a router nerd, Linksys has ditched all of the old model numbers—but the same basic stratification comes…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Cisco Valet Plus Review: The Flip Camcorder of Routers?

You won’t see the word “router” or Linksys anywhere on the box for Cisco’s Valet. No, “it’s the simple way to create your own wireless hotspot.” It’s the router for everybody else. That’s the idea, anyway. Home networking is gross. Truth. Lots of numbers, stuff that doesn’t work for reasons you can’t understand. Cisco, since…

Reviews Matt Buchanan

Ferris Bueller’s Ferrari Up For Auction

Surprise! The Ferrari seen in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off wasn’t really wrecked—if it was, I doubt the owner would be expecting bids of around $45,000 for it. To give you the full story, the 250GT Spyder California isn’t actually one of the 100 originals made by Ferrari—it was a replica created by John Hughes and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Mystery of Project Natal Revealed

Microsoft Electric Cars

Saving The Planet May Require Getting Rid Of Democracy For “A While”

DoubleTwist Gives the Android App Market a Desktop Interface

Strobing UFO Shakes The City of Luque, Paraguay

Weird Your iPad Up with a Lady Gaga Decal

“A Galactic Empire State of Mind”, Featuring Leia On The Max Rebo Piano

Hamilton Time Player Watch Inspired By 2001: A Space Odyssey

Sunshine Supergirl

Are You Feeling AT&T’s 100 Day Plan to Fix Their Network?

First Look At Movie Version Of Space Pirate Captain Harlock Surfaces

You’re Not Truly Rich Until You Have Your Own Mothership

ASUS 5870 Eyefinity Supports More Displays Than You Have Eyes

Iron Man 2 Viral Site Reveals Tony Stark’s Mad Science Wonderland

Ebooks, iPads, and the Terrifying Death of the Dust Jacket

Scientists Explain How Males Evolved From A Self-Fertilizing “Third Sex”

Autobots Going To Gotham City? Plus New Iron Man/Kick-Ass Posters And Revealing Doctor Who Pics!

Linksys E3000 Review: Still a Lot of Router

Cisco Valet Plus Review: The Flip Camcorder of Routers?

Ferris Bueller’s Ferrari Up For Auction

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