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Repost: Geek Mustache

There is history between geeks and facial hair. See: 1978. The very first staff photo of Microsoft includes several bearded members totaling 7 out of 9 men, mostly programmers. And I presume it wasn’t 8 out of 9 because young Bill Gates looks incapable of sprouting much at this time. (The talented female programmer on…

Tech News Brian Lam

Bandai RilakKuma Finally Achieves Maximum Netbook Adorability

It can be hard to tell the legions of identical netbooks apart, but this Bandai RilakKuma will never have that problem, because it’s the cutest Atom-based piece of hardware we’ve ever seen. RilakKuma, meaning “Relax Bear,” is the name of the character whose eyes and nozzle are seen on the back of the netbook. This…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Modern Warfare 2 “Prestige Edition” Features Real, Working Night Vision Goggles

Modern Warfare 2’s exercise in excess “Prestige Edition” features a book of artwork and character details, a metallic collector’s edition of the game and…a fully functioning pair of night-vision goggles with a creepy sculpted head as a stand. We don’t know much about the night-vision goggles, except that they’re MW2-branded and feature “alternating modes” (alternating…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

The Dustbuster: Cleaning Up After You Since 1979

Unveiled in 1978 but released in 1979, the Black & Decker Dustbuster was a revolutionary home-cleaning device, and the only power tool a parent was likely to let a children play with. Vroom! Reading this retrospective, I’m both surprised and unsurprised at how innovative and well-designed the Dustbuster is. It was rechargeable, wall-mountable, used a…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Space Shuttle Endeavour Delayed By Ferocious Lightning

The little thing at the bottom of this image is the space shuttle Endeavour, which was supposed to launch today. That huge glowing thing is a lightning striking from the sky. Not surprisingly, the launch has been delayed: Liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour on the STS-127 mission has been rescheduled for Wednesday, July 15 at…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

New Software Corrects Shaky Camerawork by Warping the Crap Out of It

Click to viewAdobe and University of Wisconsin scientists have created software that can correct shaky camerawork, but it’s way cooler than anything on the market now. Using 3D modeling, it guesses the intended look, then warps the original video to adjust. Basically, the software examines each frame and warps it to form a steady line…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Ecto-1 for sale on eBay…a dismemberment plan for Steve Jobs’ mansion…air conditioning so efficient it will never get made…Sears’ revolutionary new way to deal with faulty gadgets… How much you got on you? Let’s pool cash and score Ecto-1, the original Ghostbusters’ ’59 Caddy ambulance. OK, maybe not the original, but at least one that…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Would You Like to Destroy this 6-Story Condo With an Earthquake?

Sometimes, when you least expect it, something happens that shatters your life so hard that the resulting wave could destroy this 6-Story condo. This time, you can expect it to happen tomorrow, Juluuii 14tgdsgas wwwehatt thgee fuchthtoh isgg ghoonngg oooonnn See? See what I did there? Aw, never mind. Tomorrow you can tune in live…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

“Solar Sunflower” Collectors Lend Credibility to “Solar Farm”

In the spot where the old Robert Mueller airport used to be, the city of Austin is building, among other things, a solar farm made of these contest-winning, 16-foot-high “sunflower” style solar collectors. The collectors aren’t active yet, but when they’re switched on they’ll be used to power lights for a nearby hiking and biking…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Music, Mustaches and Marijuana Collide In Idiotic LP Smuggling Attempt From 1979

Thanks to some moronic Jamaican and Canadian drug smugglers, the 1979 mustache patrol cracked down hard on LPs that had the rare distinction of being certified "pot." Gizmodo ’79 is a week-long celebration of gadgets and geekdom 30 years ago, as the analog age gave way to the digital, and most of our favorite toys…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Someone Finally Figured Out What a 600FPS Camera Is For

This 600FPS video of slow motion Japanese boobs is mesmerizing. Update: video’s back. Click to view There’s a reason why both Canon and Nikon are both made in Japan. And if you’re asking how I know this is Japanese without seeing the faces? Trust me, I can tell. [Boobieblog (NSFW) via Fleshbot (NSFW)]

Tech News Jason Chen

A Decontamination Chamber Scene That Will Make You Feel Contaminated

Italian B-movie director Antionio Margheriti decided to make his own version of Alien in 1989. And just like Ridley Scott‘s monster, the creature in Alien From The Deep can affect humans. Luckily, there’s a cure… involving stripping to your underwear. Oh, and this scene is probably work-safe… we think. If only we’d known about this…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

This Would Make For an Interesting Coffee Table

As DeviantArt artist DivineError noted: Windows are made glass, so why not glass Windows? Download the wallpaper at DA. [Deviant Art]

Tech News Jason Chen

Jesus The First Vampire, And Undead Hotel Amenities

After a week off, this week’s True Blood really delivered. Everybody was sexy dancing, whether in Jason’s mind or revved up on Eric’s v-juice — plus we got to see how the rich vampires roll, in Dallas. This was the first episode this season when we really got to start seeing how the other vampires…

Television Meredith Woerner

Nintendo DS Game Selector Switches Between, Shows Off Your Top 3 Games

This Blaze Game Selector for the Nintendo DS Lite attaches to the DS’s back and allows you to toggle between 3 games with the flip of a switch. We’re not sure the marginal effort saved is worth the aesthetic sacrifice. The Selector features three slots for games and an indicator light to show which game…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Will People On Long Space Missions Inevitably Kill Each Other?

For 105 days, 4 Russians and 2 Europeans holed up in isolation in Moscow, to see if they could survive a mission to Mars without killing one another in frustration, while American scientists watched. Tomorrow, they’ll be freed. https://gizmodo.com/6-astronauts-subjected-to-brutal-psychological-experime-5192294 The experiment was designed to see if the crew could conduct experiments and deal with stressful…

io9 Megan Carpentier

Stanford Cart: When Robots Started Seeing in 3D

Terminators have night and infrared vision. But they had to start somewhere, right? In 1979, a robot at Stanford called Cart that was radio-linked to a mainframe tracked and navigated 3D obstacles using a sliding camera for stereoscopic vision. First, they saw chairs littered around rooms. Then they saw us. [CMU] Gizmodo ’79 is a…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Nike+ Sportband 2009 Reviewed (Verdict: Saves Money On an iPod)

Lisa @ BBG took the updated Nike+ Sportband for a run. The short of it is that it does what you think it does, and does it with a better screen than the original. https://gizmodo.com/official-59-nike-sportband-works-without-ipod-375156 The upside is that it’s only $59 and functions as a wristwatch when you’re not running. It doesn’t have all…

Tech News Jason Chen

Your Brain Will Eventually Be Used Against You

Although every lie detector ever built has proved unreliable, scientists continue to search for that magic machine that will reveal dishonesty. Now two Harvard neuroscientists have hit on a “pre-crime” technique that reveals intent to lie before it happens. While some people already think that brain-imaging lie detectors are a scam, others remain convinced that…

io9 Megan Carpentier

Did Battlestar Galactica Have The Worst Ending In Science Fiction History?

We’ve all had our problems with Battlestar Galactica’s weird solar flare-out of an ending, but was it actually the worst ending in the history of science fiction? That’s what Usenet luminary and Electronic Frontier Foundation Chairman Brad Templeton is claiming. Oh, and there will be spoilers for “Daybreak Parts 2 and 3” in this post,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Repost: Geek Mustache

Bandai RilakKuma Finally Achieves Maximum Netbook Adorability

Modern Warfare 2 “Prestige Edition” Features Real, Working Night Vision Goggles

The Dustbuster: Cleaning Up After You Since 1979

Space Shuttle Endeavour Delayed By Ferocious Lightning

New Software Corrects Shaky Camerawork by Warping the Crap Out of It

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Would You Like to Destroy this 6-Story Condo With an Earthquake?

“Solar Sunflower” Collectors Lend Credibility to “Solar Farm”

Music, Mustaches and Marijuana Collide In Idiotic LP Smuggling Attempt From 1979

Someone Finally Figured Out What a 600FPS Camera Is For

A Decontamination Chamber Scene That Will Make You Feel Contaminated

This Would Make For an Interesting Coffee Table

Jesus The First Vampire, And Undead Hotel Amenities

Nintendo DS Game Selector Switches Between, Shows Off Your Top 3 Games

Will People On Long Space Missions Inevitably Kill Each Other?

Stanford Cart: When Robots Started Seeing in 3D

Nike+ Sportband 2009 Reviewed (Verdict: Saves Money On an iPod)

Your Brain Will Eventually Be Used Against You

Did Battlestar Galactica Have The Worst Ending In Science Fiction History?

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