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Robot Detectives Battle Superhero Bastards For Your Comics Dollars

Hope you’ve been saving up your pennies for this week’s comic haul: There’s an impressive amount of new releases that you’ll want to take home and cherish for at least the next seven days. Yes, these are Comics We Crave. Let’s start with Electropolis, the new Dark Horse collection of Dean Motter’s Retrofuture Deco Noir…

Google Search Is About to Get a Lot Better

For the last couple of months, Google’s been testing a new search architecture called Caffeine—a back-end upgrade, but one that changes the results in virtually any search. Today, Lifehacker gets word that Caffeine is ready to go live in Google proper. https://lifehacker.com/googles-better-search-caffeine-going-primetime-5401305 So what does this mean, exactly? Well, if you believe roughly 75% of…

Pablo Picasso Was Inspired by Octopus-On-Girl Action [NSFW]

Pablo Picasso’s paintings had numerous influences, from the old masters to African artifacts. A new exhibit explores a heretofore little-studied influence on Picasso’s work: Japanese erotic art, including some of the tentacled variety. The Picasso Museum in Barcelon has just launched “Secret Images,” which explores Picasso’s fascination with Japanese erotic art and how it influenced…

Hahahaha! Blockbuster Renting Movies on SD Cards! Hahahahaha! From Kiosks!

Oh, I hope whatever exec came up with this idea scores a huge bonus. Blockbuster is piloting a new program that will load a DRM’d movie rentals onto an SD card from a kiosk. The future! So say you’re at the airport. You want to rent, I dunno, some movie that wasn’t good enough to…

Razer’s No-Frills Abyssus Gaming Mouse Needs More Frills

I’m a minimalist when it comes to mouse bling, but for $50, Razer’s Abyssus is a little too lean—there aren’t even any thumb buttons—just raw 3500DPI tracking and a 1ms response time with on-the-fly adjustment. SteelSeries’ Kinzu pulls off the bargain gaming mouse gambit way better, at $35. Or you can get more aggressively armed…

Bloody Bikini Piranha Pics Get Dreyfuss Back Into The Water

There’s nothing like seeing Richard Dreyfuss playing around with deadly fish yet again — but this time instead of one shark, it’s a school of prehistoric piranha, hungry for bikini-clad flesh. Check out some new bloody, watery Piranha set pics. Here’s the official synopsis for Piranha: A tremor under the surface of Lake Victoria unleashes…

Droid Does Higher Res Video Streaming With New Qik App

Droid records video at an impressive 720×480 resolution—it’s certainly more impressive than its photo prowess anyway—and streaming service Qik’s the first take advantage of that higher resolution, allowing full res streams later tonight with a beta release. [MobileCrunch] https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-review-5396168

New Spacecraft Uses Starlight to Propel its Sails

A new spacecraft is being launched in about a year, one designed to travel across the solar system. But instead of using rockets to propel itself, it uses sails. Sails pushed by light. Starlight carries not only energy but momentum. Comet tails, for example, are the result of light blowing dust off the comet’s core.…

Why Did Samsung Just Announce Another Mobile OS?

They’re calling it “Bada,” which means ocean in Korean. And it’s got an SDK! After sifting through hundreds of words of deliberately vague press release, this is all we really know about Samsung’s new mobile OS. Well, almost. Samsung is as aware as any company of just how many smartphones OSes there are in the…

Does Pam Grier Mean That Smallville’s Going To Get Suicidal?

Pam Grier has joined the cast of the CW’s Smallville, and if her character is any indication, we can expect to see an increase in the amount of underhanded governmental black-ops… And maybe even a Suicide Squad? Spoilers below. Grier will join the long-lived superhero soap later this season for a multi-episode arc playing Amanda…

The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is part of a consortium of researchers working to apply the science of regenerative medicine to battlefield injuries. For example, two projects are to engineer a human ear and a finger in the laboratory, with the ultimate goal of being able to engineer an entire limb. Here, scientists…

Rachel McAdams As Black Cat? Yes, Please

The Spidey rumors are tingling. Could we possibly be seeing Rachel McAdams in head to toe leather? If she gets cast as Felicia Hardy, aka the Black Cat, in Spider-Man 4, then yes. But she’s not the only one auditioning. Mania is reporting based on inside sources that McAdams has met with producers for Spider-Man…

Canon 7D Review

For a long time with Canon, if you weren’t dropping nearly three grand on a 5D, you were stuck with a vastly lesser DSLR. The $1700 7D is Canon’s first semi-pro DSLR, and actually it’s my favorite yet. https://gizmodo.com/canon-5d-mark-ii-vs-nikon-d700-review-shoot-out-5160540 What’s New and Dandy What makes it my favorite Canon so far is actually everything that’s…

Ecomodo – The Best of Treehugger

This week on TreeHugger, motorcycles that run on Linux, sneakers only a geek could love, a design project that lets you text fish (and get responses), growing bacteria into packaging, and more. Sneakers for Geeks and Hackers Are Made form Recycled Computer Chips Gabriel Dishaw, junk-metal artist extraordinaire, fashioned these incredible shoes out of pieces…

Droid Opening Weekend: 100,000 Sold

Not a bad opening weekend for Droid, with estimates that Verizon and Moto pushed out 100,000 of ’em. To compare, that’s about how many Pres were sold on opening weekend, give or take. [Bloomberg]

Don’t Bother Wonder Woman During Her Smoke Break

After a long hard day of fighting evil, sometimes Wonder Woman likes to kick back with a cigarette. And, as this comic from Kate Beaton reveals, it’s best not to bug Wonder Woman when she’s trying to relax. If you’re not familiar with Kate Beaton and her hysterical (and often historical) comics, go go go…

New iControlPad Prototype Controls the iPhone with Dual Analog Nubs

The iPhone gamepad case is back with an overhauled design that brings controls to the front, and adds dual analog nubs (the same as the Pandora gaming handheld). There’s also an internal battery that charges the iPhone while playing. https://gizmodo.com/pandoras-nintendo-ds-on-steroids-will-be-out-for-the-ho-5058535 The previous design was a lot sleeker, and placed the controls on the side. But…

Spy Toothbrush Hopes to Capture Erotic Moments, Will Probably End with Embarrassing Ones

Chinese manufacturers keep working hard to push the world forward into a hole of crappy amateur porn, one spy pinhole camera at a time. But when they add one to an Oral-B electric toothbrush, you know things won’t end well. https://gizmodo.com/shoe-spy-camera-will-probably-get-you-arrested-5351078 I like how they justify it: There is time date stamp for the record,…

Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless N Networking Adaptor Arrives for $100

This may be the millionth unofficial launch of the new 360 Wireless N Adapter, but Newegg has the device listed for $100 and on sale…NOW! And it doesn’t look like they’re frantically pulling it. [Newegg via Kotaku] https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360-wireless-n-adapter-resurfaces-for-a-little-les-5398596

Nikon’s Twitter-Inspired Digital Film Festival Will Feature Ashton Kutcher and Dwight Schrute

Twitter is so hot right now, you guys. It’s so hot it influences things totally unrelated to Twitter, like the Nikon Festival—a digital film fest that challenges micro-auteurs to create 140-seconds-or-less digital videos. Obviously, Ashton Kutcher is involved. The Nikon Festival has the theme “A Day Through Your Lens,” and asks budding filmmakers to upload…