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Apologies to Jim from JimonLight!

We posted our feature on Christmas Lights yesterday and the writer, the talented but inexperienced Chris Jacob used Jim Hutchison’s piece as a source for some of his writing. But he didn’t attribute clearly enough! We had the idea for the story, coincidentally, without knowing of Jim’s fine work. And when it came time to…

Tech News Brian Lam Dec 14

SGU Gets Another Season And Takes Responsibility For Sexism-Gate

Just as Stargate Universe started to get better, so did its future. Syfy has decided that SGU should stay around for another season, along with Sanctuary. But will this next season hold a better future for the women of SGU? Right now, SGU is on a break after its midseason finale two weeks ago, and…

Television Meredith Woerner Dec 14

A Few More Nexus One Google Phone Details

The WSJ follows up their original story, adding things we heard, like that Google might partner with a carrier eventually and that they talked to Verizon and T-Mobile about it. The price is still elusive. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobiles-pushing-the-nexus-one-google-phone-because-ve-5425542 Which is what matters at this point, really. The WSJ continues to insist it’ll be sold “directly to consumers”…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 14

World’s First Power Plant Using Osmosis To Generate Power Opened in Norway

If a failed Russian missile launch hadn’t been confirmed as the instigator for those mysterious sky spirals, we would’ve seriously looked at this osmotic power plant in Norway as the potential source. https://gizmodo.com/giant-mysterious-spiral-takes-over-the-skies-of-norway-5422574 Statkraft, the company leading this project, has built a small-scale operation near Oslo in Norway, but hopes that it’ll have a commercial…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Dec 14

ELAC Uses De Stijl Art Movement as Loudspeaker Inspiration

Not likely to match anything in your house unless you’ve wallpapered using LEGO, these limited edition De Stijl FS 247 speakers are bound to be cheaper than buying anything from the Dutch artists they take their name from. Part of ELAC’s Art Edition range, these $1,500 left and right loudspeakers measure 1,021mm high × 220mm…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Dec 14

Relive the Human-Machine War with Matrix Concept Art

Even if you prefer to pretend that the latter Matrix movies don’t exist, you can still appreciate these gloomy pieces of concept art from The Matrix trilogy, filled with sinister machines and the interminable levels of the human city Zion. Coolvibe describes this as “lost and forgotten” concept art (although we’ve seen a couple of…

io9 Lauren Davis Dec 14

NASA Launches New Infrared Telescope to Capture Hidden Space Objects

NASA just launched the new Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, this morning. It’ll be used to detect light- and heat-emitting objects that the Hubble might miss. Such as spaceships, I’ll bet!!! The WISE will be in orbit for the next nine months, snapping a photo every 11 seconds to map the entire universe in…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci Dec 14

What’s J.J. Abrams’ Next Mystery Project?

Buried deep down in the bottom of New York Times’ interview with Paramount’s Chariman Brad Grey was the news that neither the Star Trek sequel nor Mission Impossible 4 may be J.J. Abrams‘ next film project. But what is? In the NYT article Grey leaks out a little news in regards to Star Trek 2…

Movies Meredith Woerner Dec 14

Tell Us What You’d Shoot Using a Camera With 158 Lenses

The Guinness World Records doesn’t just award insanely tall men and disgusting long fingernails, you know. Sometimes they happen over to our side of the crazy pool, to give recognition to things like the camera with the most lenses ever. Created at the Nagoya Institute of Technology of Japan (it had to be Japan), the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Dec 14

Merry Whomas From Paul Cornell

Get your holiday season properly underway with an early gift from writer Paul Cornell: An all-new Doctor Who story about the end of time (But not the one you’ll see on television in just over a week). The story, “The Last Doctor,” is the first of what Cornell’s calling his 12 Blogs of Christmas, a…

Television Graeme McMillan Dec 14

One Potential Batmobile

How could Christopher Nolan ever follow up on the Tumbler? Maybe he won’t. Maybe Batman will just walk. But should Nolan give in to inevitable studio pressure to design another new, marketable Battoy, I humbly propose this modified Lamborghini Ankonian. A concept Russian design student Slavche Tanevski, the Ankonian, named after a breed of black-haired…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 14

Follow Batman’s Journey Through Time on Twitter

Wondering what Batman is up to on his travels through time? You could wait for Grant Morrison’s The Return of Bruce Wayne, or you see what he’s tweeting at TimeLostBatman. However, Batman’s tweets aren’t precisely in character: https://gizmodo.com/bruce-wayne-to-return-next-year-and-throughout-time-5422478 Debating crime with Plato. Not going well. Considering employing the Sobatic method and applying a thoughtful kick…

io9 Lauren Davis Dec 14

Fuse: What Your Next Touch Phone Is Going to Feel Like

Fuse is what Synaptics—who probably made the trackpad you’re swirling your finger on, and maybe your phone’s touchscreen—says the next generation of touch phones will be like: You’ll be squeezing, touching and stroking the phone, all over. The more three-dimensional interface is designed by The Astonishing Tribe, who also designed Android’s UI, as well as…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 14

Ravaging the Nook: a Teardown, a Spec List and Android Hacks

Let’s face it, nobody was too upset by the opaqueness of the Nook’s spec sheet—screens and software, not board-level componentry, are what make ereaders great. But with this teardown comes something glorious: the Nook’s Android software has been hacked. And not hacked like “oh, cool, now we can change the system font” hacked, or “sweet…

Tech News John Herrman Dec 14

JVC’s New Soundbar System Yells “NO MORE WIRED SPEAKERS”

The world’s first dual wireless sound bar system with wireless subwoofer and rear speakers makes me want to clear space on my walls and crank some of that rock and roll music. The TH-BA3 system is a 280 watt 5.1 home theater that doesn’t let any wires get in the way. The sound bar has…

Tech News Brian Barrett Dec 14

Ultra Rumor Control For Ghostbusters 3, Transformers 3 And Spider-Man 4!

Sigourney Weaver’s crazy Ghostbusters 3 hints and a leaked Transformers 3 script: real or just awesome? Also, we catch up with Iron Man 2, Spider-Man 4, Thor, Daybreakers and Harry Potter. Plus Doctor Who, Lost, Supernatural, True Blood and Chuck. Ghostbusters 3: So you might have heard that Sigourney Weaver says that Venkman (Bill Murray)…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Dec 14

I Would Buy the Philco PC Right This Second

The iMac? That would be sent back in a heartbeat for this glorious homage to the 50s. https://gizmodo.com/did-my-imac-ship-broken-5424452 The Philco PC is pretty much a reimagined Philco Predicta—a short-lived but ridiculously iconic television. Then there are other fantastic touches as well, like a typewriter keyboard and a mouse that looks like some sort of repurposed…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 14

Guitar Hero Played On Side of House in Christmas Lights Invents New Class of Neighborhood Competition

This isn’t the first time Christmas lights have met Guitar Hero on the pages of Gizmodo, but this former Disney employee’s efforts are definitely the best use of the game that I’ve ever seen. https://gizmodo.com/interview-with-the-guitar-hero-christmas-lights-guys-w-338254 Using 21,268 lights and LEDs, ex-Disney imagineer and special effects specialist Ric Turner turned the front of his house into…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Dec 14

For a Post-Christmas Treat, Order a Looky-Likey Android From Japan

What would you spend $225,000 on? An animated android, styled after yourself? Starting in January the Japanese store Sogo & Seibu will begin taking pre-orders for these “Actroids.” They may not walk, but they can move their upper bodies. Kokoro, the company which brought us those HRP-4C female androids back in 2005, will make these…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Dec 14

Enterprising eBay Seller Flogging Crap Google Nexus One URL Already

In case you’re interested Google, www.Google-Nexus-1.com is being sold buy-it-now for $5,000, described as a “a premier domain name for millions of hits.” [eBay]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Dec 14

Apologies to Jim from JimonLight!

SGU Gets Another Season And Takes Responsibility For Sexism-Gate

A Few More Nexus One Google Phone Details

World’s First Power Plant Using Osmosis To Generate Power Opened in Norway

ELAC Uses De Stijl Art Movement as Loudspeaker Inspiration

Relive the Human-Machine War with Matrix Concept Art

NASA Launches New Infrared Telescope to Capture Hidden Space Objects

What’s J.J. Abrams’ Next Mystery Project?

Tell Us What You’d Shoot Using a Camera With 158 Lenses

Merry Whomas From Paul Cornell

One Potential Batmobile

Follow Batman’s Journey Through Time on Twitter

Fuse: What Your Next Touch Phone Is Going to Feel Like

Ravaging the Nook: a Teardown, a Spec List and Android Hacks

JVC’s New Soundbar System Yells “NO MORE WIRED SPEAKERS”

Ultra Rumor Control For Ghostbusters 3, Transformers 3 And Spider-Man 4!

I Would Buy the Philco PC Right This Second

Guitar Hero Played On Side of House in Christmas Lights Invents New Class of Neighborhood Competition

For a Post-Christmas Treat, Order a Looky-Likey Android From Japan

Enterprising eBay Seller Flogging Crap Google Nexus One URL Already

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