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The Masculine Mint Pass Robot Music Tank Could Crush Sony’s Rolly Under its Tracks

The Korean Mint Pass is doing some pretty neat things in the MP3 player world, with this Robot Music Tank player/speaker concept tracking humans with its pyroelectric sensor, locking onto their thermal temperature and rolling after them, gleefully playing music. https://gizmodo.com/mintpass-cube-remembers-that-analog-rocks-5418848 Your cat/dog/ferret may get peeved if it detects their thermal temperature and follows it…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Amazon To Open Physical Store in UK?

With Best Buy opening in the UK soon, could Amazon be planning a walk-in store too? Sounds pretty crazy to us, considering its doing so well already without the massive overheads a central London store would bring. UPDATE The Sunday Times has reported that Amazon’s currently looking for “bricks-and-mortar stores” to open up in, hopefully…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

HTC Suffers Redface With its First Android 2.0 Phone, Passion, Delayed

Our dreams of an HTC-shaped Android 2.0 device launching before Christmas now lie in tatters, with Digitimes reporting that the oft-leaked, much-hyped Passion has been delayed by several months to an early 2010 on-sale date. It must be pretty embarrassing for HTC, with Motorola beating them to the Android 2.0 finish line with its Droid…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Intel Confirms Larrabee Graphics Card is Dead

Last week Intel blabbed to us that its high-end Larrabee card would never debut as a “standalone discrete product,” and now its demise has been made official. Can you hear Nvidia and AMD crowing from where you are too? [Reuters] https://gizmodo.com/intels-high-end-larrabee-graphics-card-wont-be-released-5419399

Tech News Kat Hannaford

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Barnes & Noble Nook Review: Pretty Damn Good

It’s a relief to finally lay hands on the Nook. The dual-screen reader was just a prop at its unveiling so I’m happy to report it works (pretty) well. It can’t kill Kindle yet, but it’s an alternative worth considering. https://gizmodo.com/gizmodos-barnes-noble-nook-full-coverage-in-one-place-5386403 A Two-Horse Race Do this now: Disregard all other ebook readers on the market…

Reviews Wilson Rothman

Flight of the Conchords And Always Sunny Get Into The Scifi Indie Biz

There’s a whole heap of cult fodder for you this week, including the new Black Lightning trailer, a disturbing new Telepathy trailer, our favorite TV comics getting into the scifi business and more flying babies. First up, I wanted to add an impromtu “steal this pitch” to all you indie filmmakers and fans out there.…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The New Real, Day 2, con’t

Continued from The New Real, Day 2 https://gizmodo.com/the-new-real-livewriting-day-2-5419970 Chapter 20 Questions #2D1D #c20q1 Action or reason? #2D1D #c20q2 Heads or tails? #2D1D #c20q3 A song on the radio. #2D1D #c20q4 Another song on the radio Chapter 20 Answers Action or reason?: RT @1889ca Action or reason? // reaction by am_harte Heads or tails?: Can’t tell…

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HTC 2010 Product Roadmap Leak: Legends, Salsa, Buzz

The folks at Android and Me have what is purportedly the product roadmap for HTC going into the new year. The eight phones are divided into four product categories: Design/Lifestyle, Performance, Productivity and Social. Let’s dive in, shall we? In design/Lifestyle there’s the Legend and the Salsa, due out in March and June 2010, respectively.…

Tech News Jack Loftus

The Most Powerful Lego Minifigs In the Universe

When Lego Galactus comes to consume our plastic planet, who will heed the call to defeat him? How does the minifig Green Lantern Corps wear rings without separate fingers? Ulises Farinas illustrates superhero scenes in the Lego world. Farinas is the artist behind ACT-I-VATE webcomic MOTRO, and he has recently taken to drawing Marvel and…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Retromodo Made New: The Cobra-Matic Casemod

It’s ability to play tunes long gone, this 1951 Zenith H664 Cobra-matic phonograph was born anew thanks to modder Alvin “Mach” Barber. That’s the DVD player, modded to look like it’s spinning one of the original LPs. More DVD player, now with more lights! And more lights… And the internals. Inside is a Core 2…

Tech News Jack Loftus

The Master Returns In New Doctor Who Trailer

Can’t wait until December 25th (or 26th, if you’re watching BBC America) for more Doctor Who? This new trailer for “The End of Time Part 1″ won’t help, showing a newly-blond Master and Christmas being canceled. Click through to view. [Via]

Television Graeme McMillan

Shred Like a Geek: Recycled Circuit Board Guitar Picks

These recycled circuit board guitar picks aren’t cheap, as far as picks go, but if you’re serious about your alt-rock IT garage band’s image they may be a necessity. Just don’t go tossing them willy-nilly to your screaming fan. Because at $7 to $8 per pick, that just wouldn’t be wise. Unless your fan is…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Headless Luke Wilson Continues the Great AT&T/Verizon Ad War of 2009

To be bigger but slower, or speedy yet spotty? This is the ridiculous question indirectly posed to us today by AT&T spokesman Luke Wilson. Here’s my question: When do these commercials go away? https://gizmodo.com/luke-wilsons-droppin-post-cards-on-verizon-wireless-5410354 I mean, wasn’t the original Verizon ad that started this off about the size of the 3G network? Now AT&T is…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Was This The Decade Of The Reboot?

Looking back at the fictional stories that defined the last decade, you might think of things like The Dark Knight, Battlestar Galactica, or failures like Bionic Woman and Speed Racer. Was this the decade we ran out of original ideas? Okay, that’s obviously not completely fair; after all, this last ten years have also seen…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Trolley Scooter Luggage Shaves Minutes Off Terminal Lap Times

Not since the treasure bath have two amazing things coalesced so perfectly to form something even more amazing. I present the Trolley Scooter. Air travel just got competitive. The piece is a collaboration between Samsonite and Micro Mobility, and will certainly improve your Terminal A travel time thanks to the three wheels housed below. Not…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Mind-Bending Quentin Tarantino Commercial May—May—Be Selling Speakers

Say I told you I have a commercial with Quentin Tarantino selling Softbank products as Uncle Tara-chan while a talking dog opines and a woman answers a dog phone. Would you believe me? This is Japan. Of course you would. With these two ads, Tarantino joins a long line of U.S. celebrities who have flown…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Unconfirmed: Amazon’s Secret Underground Play in the Retail Space

Is Amazon prepping the U.K. for a British retail chain invasion? Possibly, says a report in the Times today. Indeed, says the source, as part of a move that goes against the shrinking retail space, Amazon would open a number of branded retail stores there, and soon. It’s not entirely crazy. As we reported earlier…

Commerce Jack Loftus

WallDock iPhone Charger Boosts Battery On the Down Low

Word to the wise: The WallDock iPhone charger sits low, but allows for access to the touchscreen. When typing with your feet, avoid sticking an errant toe into the socket. Better yet, get a charger that sits on your desk. Of course, this might make a bit more sense plugged into a countertop socket, but…

Tech News Jack Loftus

The Existential Loneliness That Unites Batman and the Joker

A university lecturer in philosophy suggests that Gotham’s hero and its worst villain share an unwilling awareness of society’s fragility — and a profound isolation from others as a result. We’re pretty sure we knew this, but validation is nice. Ron Novy, a lecturer at the University of Central Arkansas, argues that what Batman and…

io9 Alex Eichler

The Masculine Mint Pass Robot Music Tank Could Crush Sony’s Rolly Under its Tracks

Amazon To Open Physical Store in UK?

HTC Suffers Redface With its First Android 2.0 Phone, Passion, Delayed

Intel Confirms Larrabee Graphics Card is Dead

Caprica Gallery

Barnes & Noble Nook Review: Pretty Damn Good

Flight of the Conchords And Always Sunny Get Into The Scifi Indie Biz

The New Real, Day 2, con’t

HTC 2010 Product Roadmap Leak: Legends, Salsa, Buzz

The Most Powerful Lego Minifigs In the Universe

Retromodo Made New: The Cobra-Matic Casemod

The Master Returns In New Doctor Who Trailer

Shred Like a Geek: Recycled Circuit Board Guitar Picks

Headless Luke Wilson Continues the Great AT&T/Verizon Ad War of 2009

Was This The Decade Of The Reboot?

Trolley Scooter Luggage Shaves Minutes Off Terminal Lap Times

Mind-Bending Quentin Tarantino Commercial May—May—Be Selling Speakers

Unconfirmed: Amazon’s Secret Underground Play in the Retail Space

WallDock iPhone Charger Boosts Battery On the Down Low

The Existential Loneliness That Unites Batman and the Joker

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