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BlackBerry Storm 2 Wi-Fi Update: Possible, But Will Verizon Allow It?

We’ve just gotten a shot of the BlackBerry Storm 2 with a clearly-visible Wi-Fi option. It’s a Vodafone version, not Verizon, but it’s a good hint that Verizon may follow through and unblock Wi-Fi on the handset. Fingers crossed! [CrackBerry] https://gizmodo.com/wi-fi-enabled-blackberry-storm-2-coming-to-verizon-in-s-5201094

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Live Streaming MLB Games Now Available on Roku

In addition to Netflix and Amazon on Demand, Roku users will now be able to access baseball games from premium MLB.tv accounts. That means live, out-of-market games as well as on-demand games from the past week. Only problem is, you have to be a subscriber of the paid MLB.tv service, which would cost $35 for…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

The Shittiest N64 Casemod Ever…AT&T Bans Class Action Suits…Surprise! Overworked Telecommuters Want Overtime…A Report Tells NASA to Get Awesome Again… “Rough around the edges” doesn’t begin to do justice to this unpostably ugly briefcase-bound N64. How about that particle-board liner? Looks like it was hacked with a butter knife. Nice translucent orange controller—I hope it…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Second Gen EyeClops Night Vision Goggles Cheaper, Better, and Still Creepy

Our chief complaints with the EyeClops Night Vision goggles were that they’re uncomfortable and allowed only one eye to be used. Thankfully the second gen is not only cheaper and better, but lets you look creepy in comfortable binocular style. https://gizmodo.com/lightning-review-eyeclops-night-vision-goggles-5072778 According to Ars Technica, the newest toy from JAKKS Pacific has many improvements over…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Bionic Athlete Aimee Mullins To Speak at TEDMED 2009

After displaying her collection of prosthetic legs at this year’s TED conference, bionic actress, athlete and model Aimee Mullins recently announced that she will speak at the TEDMED convention this fall. Mullins has been instrumental in changing the public perception of prosthetics. After setting multiple world records at the 1996 Paralympic games, she has used…

Tech News Chris Jacob

Genome Sequencing Gets 99.9833% Price Cut

Dr. Quake of Stanford University only needed $50,000 and a month’s time to complete a genome sequencing process which previously took $300 million, over 250 people, and several years. How cheap would Windows 7 be with this guy’s cost-cutting? Dr. Stephen Quake and his team used a “commercially available, refrigerator-sized instrument called the Helicos Biosciences…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

The PRC Rocking Computer Chair Works On Many Levels

As the name suggests, the PRC (Personal Rockin’ Computer) chair is intended as a workstation…of sorts. Although, these images suggest otherwise. Seriously, the gallery reads like this is something you might purchase in a unassuming building with no windows in the bad part of town. Whatever it is, I wouldn’t mind having one. It’s kind…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Draganfly X4 UAV: Tiny, Camera-Packing, UFO-Looking ‘Copter Is Cheaper Than Ever

Draganfly’s series of photo/video-based UAVs have always been awesome, but they’ve also been more of a pipe dream than anything else. The X4 is smaller than the X6, but the smaller size also comes with a 25% price cut. Yes! https://gizmodo.com/draganfly-x6-uav-ufo-thingy-packed-with-carbon-fiber-5042268 Like the X6—featured in Giz Gallery 2008—the X4 is a carbon fiber-bodied UAV with…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Nintendo Giving Themselves a Year to Figure Out WTF to Do With Wii Vitality Sensor

It looks like the Wii won’t be sensing vitalities for a while. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata says they “would like to deliver the actual product not too late in the year next year.” I suggest you pick up yoga. [Joystiq]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Cheetos Lip Balm Can Restore My Lips and My Manhood at the Same Time

There’s nothing much to say about the Cheetos Lip Balm, except it may be the product of the decade. If not the century. Even more so than the gargantuan Cheetos. Except that the Cheetos Lip Balm is a real product. https://gizmodo.com/i-ate-the-worlds-largest-cheeto-over-the-worlds-most-ex-5224528 It is made by Lotta Luv, a New York-based company that makes lip balm…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Wolverine 2’s Japan-Centric Story Already In Motion

We’re going to be seeing Logan’s life in Japan a lot sooner than we expected. Hugh Jackman confirmed that he’s already got his claws deep into the next Wolverine and a mutton chop Samurai is not far away. At the Teen Choice Awards, Jackman joked that he’d see if Wolverine could use his surf board…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Geek Squad Certification Test Is Absolutely Stupid

If you thought that Geek Squad employees were kind of dumb, well, you may be right. At least, that’s the impression I get by looking at the absolutely stupid multiple-choice answers in their CompTIA A+ preparation test: https://gizmodo.com/geek-squad-attempting-first-look-at-naked-female-gets-251738 According to our anonymous tipster: I collected some pictures from a GS Test new Agents take while…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

These Donkey Kong Shelves Set a Pretty High Bar for Shelving

Your shelves officially suck compared to these. They’re Donkey Kong shelves, complete with a monkey, NES, SNES and N64. Oh, and the N64 only has Goldeneye as opposed to a full collection of games. Awesome. [Sprite Stitch via TDW]

Tech News Adam Frucci

ATI Stream vs. Nvidia CUDA Graphics Accelerated Deathmatch

The eternal graphics war: ATI vs. Nvidia. With the rise of GPGPU computing, if you’re deciding who to fall in line with based on their graphics-accelerated platforms—Stream or CUDA, respectively—PC Perspective’s done the dirty benchmarking work for you. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-gpgpu-computing-and-why-itll-melt-your-f-5252545 It actually boils down fairly simply to a mixed bag: ATI’s Stream tends to be outright…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

10 Machines So Huge They’ll Destroy Your Sense of Scale

With consumer technology companies locked in an endless race to to make the smallest, sleekest gadgets they can, it’s easy to forget the primal joy of seeing mindblowingly huge hardware. Here are ten machines that are so enormous that they’ll screw with your sense of what’s large, what’s small, and what is truly gigantic—each handily…

Tech News John Herrman

Saturn’s Mysterious Splattered Moon

Iapetus may be Saturn’s most enigmatic moon, with an unknown dark material splattering most of the surface and a strange ridge that makes one side of the moon resemble a walnut. Astronomers hope the Cassini spacecraft can unlock its mysteries. Iapetus travels in a tidally locked orbit with Saturn, always showing the same face to…

io9 Lauren Davis

Slingplayer 1.1 For iPhone Adds Improved Widescreen, Speeds and DISH Integration

Sling just submitted the 1.1 version of Slingplayer, which we reviewed here, to the App Store. It’s going to have 16×9 widescreen, better remote, a faster connection for channel changing and remote control, plus DISH integration. https://gizmodo.com/slingplayer-mobile-for-iphone-review-wi-fi-only-30-5250885 The DISH stuff is new, and will connect directly to the DISH receiver to “draw” the guide on…

Tech News Jason Chen

Predictive Texting Turning Kids Into Fast-Thinking Idiots, Scientists Predict

A study published in the Journal of Bioelectromagnetics, says that children aged 11 to 14 abusing predictive texting in cellphones are turning into fast-thinking idiots. Sounds about right. Of course, lead researcher Professor Abramson doesn’t say it exactly that way: The kids who used their phones a lot were faster on some of the tests,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

True Blood’s Vampire’s “Like A Virgin” Lament

This week we learned a lot about vampire anatomy and why breaking up with a vampire is messy thing, unless you can let your 1,000 year-old Dad Vampire handle the situation. It’s True Blood time. This entire episode was packed with strange happenings and uncomfortable situations from Bill walking in on Jessica and Hoyt doin’…

Television Meredith Woerner

Zune HD Prices Leaked: 16GB for $220, 32GB for $290

It feels like we know everything about the Zune HD—except the price. Well, now we know, if Best Buy’s inventory system is right: the 16GB model will go for $220, and the 32GB model will be $290. It also backs up the previously rumored launch date, Sept. 8. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-zune-hd-comes-in-16-32gb-sizes-launches-septemb-5302077 Those prices look dirt cheap compared…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

BlackBerry Storm 2 Wi-Fi Update: Possible, But Will Verizon Allow It?

Live Streaming MLB Games Now Available on Roku

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Second Gen EyeClops Night Vision Goggles Cheaper, Better, and Still Creepy

Bionic Athlete Aimee Mullins To Speak at TEDMED 2009

Genome Sequencing Gets 99.9833% Price Cut

The PRC Rocking Computer Chair Works On Many Levels

Draganfly X4 UAV: Tiny, Camera-Packing, UFO-Looking ‘Copter Is Cheaper Than Ever

Nintendo Giving Themselves a Year to Figure Out WTF to Do With Wii Vitality Sensor

Cheetos Lip Balm Can Restore My Lips and My Manhood at the Same Time

Wolverine 2’s Japan-Centric Story Already In Motion

Geek Squad Certification Test Is Absolutely Stupid

These Donkey Kong Shelves Set a Pretty High Bar for Shelving

ATI Stream vs. Nvidia CUDA Graphics Accelerated Deathmatch

10 Machines So Huge They’ll Destroy Your Sense of Scale

Saturn’s Mysterious Splattered Moon

Slingplayer 1.1 For iPhone Adds Improved Widescreen, Speeds and DISH Integration

Predictive Texting Turning Kids Into Fast-Thinking Idiots, Scientists Predict

True Blood’s Vampire’s “Like A Virgin” Lament

Zune HD Prices Leaked: 16GB for $220, 32GB for $290

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