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Wave UFO Controlled By Gestures, Not Convenient, Well-Vetted Remotes

The Wave UFO appears to be the first gesture-controlled…err…R/C vehicle. DVICE explains how you steer its flight: Wave UFO Controlled By Gestures, Not Convenient, Well-Vetted Remotes …start the motor and hold your hand underneath as it begins to hover. As you move your hand laterally to the ground, the UFO moves with you. Make an…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Notepod+ Is the Only Pad iNeed

Developers’ block: It’s a serious thing! It’s not easy to churn out app after app, somehow tricking the masses into giving you money for your decreasingly interesting widgets. Maybe—maybe—the Notepod+ can help. Never mind that the iPad SDK includes a full-featured emulator, which would let you test your apps live and in motion, the Notepad+,…

Tech News John Herrman

Abandoned Coal Plant: Well, That’s Depressing

Here’s a tacit reminder from an abandoned coal plant in Hagerstown, MD, that today’s priced tech is just tomorrow’s decay…and in other news, raise your hand if you want a shiny new phone! [Photo from Zero1o1’s Flickr via boingboing]

Tech News Mark Wilson

How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

Ann and Jeff VanderMeer are almost done reading the submissions for their second steampunk anthology, which will focus much more on stories from the past decade as opposed to classic tales. And they’re noticing some big changes in the make-up of steampunk lit. Writes Jeff VanderMeer: The biggest change is that a subgenre in which…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

SpyNet Video Watch Lets Your Kid Record You Picking Your Nose

The flagship toy in Jakks Pacific’s new SpyNet line is the Secret Mission Video Watch, a piece of wearable tech that lets spies-in-training covertly record video and audio and upload those sensitive materials to a secure website for further analysis. For my generation, Macaulay Culkin’s use of the Talkboy in Home Alone 2 was the…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Britons Set World Record For Most People Dressed In Star Trek Regalia?

Just days after a lightsaber-wielding flash mob invaded Bristol, a slew of Starfleet Officers descended upon London on to celebrate the release of Star Trek Online. https://gizmodo.com/jedi-flash-mob-liberates-mall-from-the-british-empire-5471898 Organizers claimed it was the largest gathering of begarbed Trekkies ever, but how many showed? This Valentine’s Day, 99 Trek fans showed up to the London Star Trek…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Meebo Is the New King of iPhone Messaging Apps

There are some very good paid instant messaging apps for the App Store, and plenty of free options too. Meebo is the first that manages to be both, with almost no compromise. Meebo was one of the first companies out of the gates with an instant message web app for the iPhone, so it’s weird…

Tech News John Herrman

Dance In The Time Vortex With Doctor Who!

Are you ready for Doctor Who to be splashy and fun again with the Eleventh Doctor? BBC America just sent us this awesome image of the Doctor and Amy dodging Daleks and Weeping Angels in the Time Vortex. Geronimo! As always, you can right-click the image and select “save link as” to get a high-res…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

South Korean Shipping Containers Repurposed For Optimum Sunset Observatory

Shipping containers in my mind are forever associated with grim situations seen in TV shows like Dexter or The Wire, but in South Korea they can also be observatories for viewing sunsets. Erected on the harbor of Songdo New City in Incheon, five shipping containers were recycled and placed together aiming sky-wards for the best…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Apple Now Has a Patent on Their Capacitive Multitouch Displays

This can’t be good for anyone but Apple—a patent app filed in 2004 has been granted for their capacitive multitouch display. UPDATE The patent is not necessarily all-encompassing, but it appears to be quite encompassing. The abstract explains the patent generally addresses: “A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Joke Of The Week: Microsoft Plans To Charge For Its Mobile Operating System

What’s the biggest difference between Microsoft’s newest mobile operating system and the Google version that it will be competing against (eventually)? Microsoft will charge carriers for its OS, while Google is giving Android away for free. (The other big competitors, Apple and RIM, don’t license their operating systems to third parties.) That’s just silly. Microsoft…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

TSA To Start Swabbing Travelers’ Hands Looking for Explosives

And you thought taking your shoes off was annoying! In the TSA’s never-ending quest to make traveling possibly safer and definitely more annoying, they’re going to start randomly swabbing passengers’ hands at airport checkpoints. Really, this makes a hell of a lot more sense than the shoe-checking and liquid-limiting that makes traveling such a pain…

Privacy & Security Adam Frucci

Lost’s Greatest Moments Immortalized As Cartoons

Cartoonist Graham Annable recently commemorated the last season of Lost with “Foggy Memories of Lost,” a series of cartoons depicting some of the show’s most memorable scenes. Never before has Sayid beating the crap out of Ben looked so adorable. [Super Punch via Graham Annable’s Flickr]

Television Cyriaque Lamar

NASA’s Laser Pulse ChemCam Is Destined For CSI: Mars

The best way to figure out what something’s made of? Vaporize it. With a laser. That’s NASA’s philosophy, anyway, in the form of a high-energy laser system that’s going to be mounted on the next Mars rover. PEWPEW. The laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy system (LIBS), called ChemCam, will launch next year on the Mars Curiosity. It…

Space & Spaceflight Brian Barrett

Trinity University Launches Its “Reality Hackers” Lecture Series

If you’re in the San Antonio, Texas area, you’ve got a chance to catch some lectures from a gang of futurists, critics, and science fiction writers during this spring’s Reality Hackers series at Trinity University. Students created this awesome lecture series trailer. I’m not sure how I got lucky enough to be included alongside R.U.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Outdoor Green Screen Use On TV Is Insane

Everything you thought you knew is wrong. On almost every exterior shot you see on TV, the background is filled in via green screen. Watch this video and have your mind blown. [That’s How It Happened via Kottke]

Television Adam Frucci

A Look Inside the Flip MinoHD

Just a bit of hardware erotica on the Flip MinoHD: the red circle is the lens, which is being pulled off the CMOS chip (directly below). The 720P chip leaves individual pixels just 2.2 microns to capture their snippets. And here’s another neat shot—the Flip MinoHD’s lens (top) next to a iPod nano 5th Generation…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Riddick 3 Will Be A Return To Pitch Black’s Creature Feature

Now that Riddick 3 is being made at Universal, there’s one important question to ask. Will the third film be a continuation of the Necromonger-focused Chronicles story line, or a return to the Pitch Black-style action? Rumors say the latter. https://gizmodo.com/riddick-3-is-on-its-way-5470466 Hollywood Reporter has the inside scoop on the new Riddick plot line: Though billed…

Movies Meredith Woerner

VTech Flip: The Ebook Reader Your Kids Never Knew They Wanted

With the era of the tablet upon us, eBook readers were the gadget du jour in a technological moment that is about to pass, if it hasn’t already. But your kids don’t know that, now do they? The VTech FLiP, an eBook Reader geared towards preschoolers, is definitely a worthy gadget for a budding bookworm…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Buzz Gets Its Inevitable EPIC FTC Complaint

Despite the apologies and quick-fixes, Google still has a lot of explaining to do about Buzz. And if the FTC decides to hear the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s complaint, we’d get some answers right quick. https://gizmodo.com/google-admits-buzz-testing-sucked-and-they-are-very-v-5473660 EPIC’s 16-page complaint, filed yesterday, cites a dissatisfaction with the measures Google has taken so far to shore up…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Wave UFO Controlled By Gestures, Not Convenient, Well-Vetted Remotes

Notepod+ Is the Only Pad iNeed

Abandoned Coal Plant: Well, That’s Depressing

How Steampunk Literature Has Changed In The Past Decade

SpyNet Video Watch Lets Your Kid Record You Picking Your Nose

Britons Set World Record For Most People Dressed In Star Trek Regalia?

Meebo Is the New King of iPhone Messaging Apps

Dance In The Time Vortex With Doctor Who!

South Korean Shipping Containers Repurposed For Optimum Sunset Observatory

Apple Now Has a Patent on Their Capacitive Multitouch Displays

Joke Of The Week: Microsoft Plans To Charge For Its Mobile Operating System

TSA To Start Swabbing Travelers’ Hands Looking for Explosives

Lost’s Greatest Moments Immortalized As Cartoons

NASA’s Laser Pulse ChemCam Is Destined For CSI: Mars

Trinity University Launches Its “Reality Hackers” Lecture Series

Outdoor Green Screen Use On TV Is Insane

A Look Inside the Flip MinoHD

Riddick 3 Will Be A Return To Pitch Black’s Creature Feature

VTech Flip: The Ebook Reader Your Kids Never Knew They Wanted

Buzz Gets Its Inevitable EPIC FTC Complaint

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