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Your Complete Guide To Fall Science Fiction TV

The fall TV season is just around the corner, bringing us aliens, visions of the future and slutty witches. Here’s a complete rundown of new and returning shows, with launchdates and clips, so you won’t miss any of the shininess. Mondays: Heroes The conflicted heroes and struggling villains move on with their lives this season.…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 24

Take a Look At the House Made Completely of Lego Bricks

Top Gear’s James May is working on building an entire house out of Lego bricks for another show, and it’s really coming together. Hell, even the toilet is made of Lego in this place. It’s not 100% Lego, but it’s close. There’s a timber “safety frame” inside the walls to provide an extra level of…

Tech News Adam Frucci Aug 24

Apple MacBook Knockoff For a Netbook Price

At first glance this MacBook knockoff doesn’t look all that bad, but by picture three it looks like week old garbage. According to the not very official picture caption, the “Macbook Mini” has the specs of a netbook. It is powered by a good old 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard…

Tech News Joanna Stern Aug 24

9 Nauseating “Will It Blend” Food Recipes

The folks at Will It Blend were kind enough to contribute some of their favorite food-related videos for our Taste Test this week. However, these are the kind of recipes you will probably taste going down and coming up. Spam and Eggs: Carny Cuisine: The Superbowl Smoothie: Pickled Pigs Feet: The Workout Smoothie: Christmas Dinner:…

Tech News Sean Fallon Aug 24

So What’s the Real Final Version of Snow Leopard?

So what is the build number of the final version of Snow Leopard shipping in boxes next week? Is it 10A432, as had been widely speculated? Or is it this new-fangled 10A435 some people have been talking about? https://gizmodo.com/snow-leopard-shipping-august-28th-5344120 Looking at the history of OS X releases, final builds, and rumors about final builds, ZDNet…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Aug 24

David Tennant And Russell T. Davies Talk Death, Endings… And The Return Of An Iconic Villain

BoingBoing TV’s Richard Metzger interviews outgoing Doctor Who star David Tennant and producer Russell T. Davies, and they talk about the end of an era. Including some hints about how it happens. [BoingBoing, thanks Xeni!]

Television Charlie Jane Anders Aug 24

Thought for Food: Alinea’s Reinvention of Cooking and Eating

In his Taste Test guest editor intro, Nick Kokonas recounts meeting chef Grant Achatz and founding Alinea, a restaurant that cooks food by freezing it, distills ingredients’ essences to vapor and questions the very eating utensils you use everyday. Let’s bend history a bit and pretend it is 1948 and a 22-year-old Miles Davis is…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Aug 24

Gadget Deals Of The Day

We have some great notebook and monitor deals for folks heading back to school. Be sure to take a look at the Thinkpad x200 if you’re looking for an ultra-portable to carry around campus. Computing and Peripherals: • 16″ HP G60 for $449.98 plus free shipping (normally $560). • 12.1″ Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Notebook for…

Tech News Don Nguyen Aug 24

I Would Like an HTC Think+ In My Car—If My Car Wasn’t the Subway

The HTC Think+—which is integrated in the new Luxgen 7 MPV car—may look simple in its interface, but it has so many features built-in that it will make you feel like you are driving the Batmobile. The 10.2-inch device has absolutely everything—from integrated 3.5G connectivity and SMS read-back to the obligatory GPS and USB media…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 24

Who’s Television’s Biggest Badass Of All Time? Day One: Six Vs. Six

Television has beamed some great heroes, and deadly villains, into your home. But who’s the biggest ass-kicker in the television universe? You decide. Today’s match: Caprica Six versus Number Six. Caprica Six, of course, is the sexiest Cylon (unless you’re got a Dean Stockwell fetish) who plays a key role in almost destroying humanity, and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 24

iPhone Call Recorder: There is an Fugly Piece of Hardware for That

If there isn’t an app you deem decent, make an unattractive, bulky hardware solution. At least that was this guys idea. Apparently making a switch box was the only way to inconspicuously record iPhone calls. Dissatisfied with apps It is actually impressive to see how much planning went into this iPhone call recorder. Since time…

Tech News Joanna Stern Aug 24

All Of Rorschach’s Secrets — Revealed!

The Rorschach test is a hallowed tradition in psychology, and nobody is supposed to have access to those smudges that patients project their psyches onto. But a Saskatchewan surgeon has flouted tradition, by posting all ten inkblot images to Wikipedia. According to the New York Times, there was a debate on Wikipedia over whether one…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 24

D-Link DIR-685 Wireless Storage Photo Frame Router Review

This D-Link DIR-685 router is an example of what you get when you let engineers get wild and shove in everything they think is cool into a product. And that’s just the type of product we like to see. The Price: $230 or so on Google Shopping The Verdict: Very interesting and very promising. It’s…

Reviews Jason Chen Aug 24

Microsoft Responds to 54.2% Xbox 360 Failure Rate Claim, Doesn’t Dispute It

Remember the Game Informer survey that found that the Xbox 360 has a 54.2% failure rate? Well, Microsoft has responded, and it didn’t even try to dispute that fact. https://gizmodo.com/survey-xbox-360-failure-rate-is-over-50-people-dont-5339915 Here’s the response: Microsoft stands behind the Xbox 360 as a superior entertainment console with one of the best warranties in the industry. We are…

Tech News Adam Frucci Aug 24

The Television Series You Can’t Stop Thinking About

Everybody has one: It’s the TV series you’ve collected on DVD, the one you quote from way too often. You’ve scientifically identified the best episodes, and try to convert new viewers by showing them. Now, try to convert us. What show should we all be watching RIGHT NOW, and why? And what are the best…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 24

Surprise! The Pirate Bay’s Buyers Are Extremely Shady

Heroically snatched from near-death by a mysterious, benevolent gaming company, the Pirate Bay had a rosy future laid out ahead of it. But hey, that company? They’re turning out to be kind of rotten, and possibly fraudulent. https://gizmodo.com/pirate-bay-bought-out-suddenly-respects-copyrights-5304354 A few days ago, amidst talk of how a new, improved, crowd-powered Pirate Bay would work should…

Tech News John Herrman Aug 24

Sanyo Xacti DXM-CG11 Pocket Camcorder Does 720p Video, May Have Built-in Eye-Fi

Though it’s a budget model, the latest Xacti still has a 10-megapixel CMOS sensor that records 720p video (H.264 encoded MPEG-4). But the best part: it looks to have built-in Eye-Fi for super-easy wireless video/photos transfers to your computer. I say “looks”, because it’s hard to 100% confirm from the Google-translated Japanese. The spec listing…

Tech News Danny Allen Aug 24

FlashForward Stars Act Out The “Dancing On The Ceiling” Video

FlashForward’s premise, about a mysterious blackout that grants everyone a glimpse of the future, is kind of hard to convey in advertising. So what do you do? Stick some furniture to the walls, and play “We’re falling sideways!” Based loosely on the novel by Robert J. Sawyer, FlashForward debuts on Sept. 24. [Lyly Ford and…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Aug 24

8 Years of Great Mac OS X Box Design End In a Stupid Clip Art Cat

Mac OS X Snow Leopard leaked box is real. And painful to watch. What happened to 8 years of great packaging design? Are ideas running so low in Cupertino that they have grabbed a cat from a clip art package? https://gizmodo.com/oh-mac-os-x-leopard-box-315236 Check the commentary for every design in this gallery I understand cost-cutting measures. Production-wise,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 24

Where Apple Prints Money

That would be the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in New York City. Newmark Knight Frank Retail estimates it pulls in over $350 million in revenue a year, or about $35,000 per square foot for the 10,000 square foot space. To put that in perspective, Tiffany & Co., who says diamonds has sales of about…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Aug 24

Your Complete Guide To Fall Science Fiction TV

Take a Look At the House Made Completely of Lego Bricks

Apple MacBook Knockoff For a Netbook Price

9 Nauseating “Will It Blend” Food Recipes

So What’s the Real Final Version of Snow Leopard?

David Tennant And Russell T. Davies Talk Death, Endings… And The Return Of An Iconic Villain

Thought for Food: Alinea’s Reinvention of Cooking and Eating

Gadget Deals Of The Day

I Would Like an HTC Think+ In My Car—If My Car Wasn’t the Subway

Who’s Television’s Biggest Badass Of All Time? Day One: Six Vs. Six

iPhone Call Recorder: There is an Fugly Piece of Hardware for That

All Of Rorschach’s Secrets — Revealed!

D-Link DIR-685 Wireless Storage Photo Frame Router Review

Microsoft Responds to 54.2% Xbox 360 Failure Rate Claim, Doesn’t Dispute It

The Television Series You Can’t Stop Thinking About

Surprise! The Pirate Bay’s Buyers Are Extremely Shady

Sanyo Xacti DXM-CG11 Pocket Camcorder Does 720p Video, May Have Built-in Eye-Fi

FlashForward Stars Act Out The “Dancing On The Ceiling” Video

8 Years of Great Mac OS X Box Design End In a Stupid Clip Art Cat

Where Apple Prints Money

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