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Harry Potter And Dumbledore’s Wet N’ Wild Trip Clip

The boy and his wizard prepare for the worst. Once again it’s up to Dumbledore and Harry to save the world, but not before Harry swears on his pinky, super seriously, that he’ll do whatever Dumby asks of him. If you haven’t read the book I think it’s pretty easy to say that the studio…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Philips Cinema 21:9 TV Will Cost $7400

I don’t know if we will ever see the 56-inch Philips Cinema 21:9 in the US, but if I didn’t have a projector, I would totally fall for it. Even at the $7400 price tag just published in the UK. https://gizmodo.com/impressive-trailer-shows-why-youd-want-a-philips-21-9-c-5215136 The Philips 56PFL9954H Cinema 21:9 uses the same aspect ratio of most movies out…

Television Jesus Diaz

Sony X-Series OLED Walkman Shipping Now, Still $299/$399

SonyStyle.com is listing the touchscreen, OLED X-Series Walkman at MSRP, which means $299 for the 16GB version and $399 for the 32GB. From the looks of it, they’re shipping now—roughly corresponding with the 30-year anniversary of its tapey, disapproving father. [via Slashgear] https://gizmodo.com/great-sony-walkman-tv-and-print-ads-of-the-1980s-5305177

Tech News John Herrman

USB Cigar Puts Your Laptop One Martini Away From Benderhood

We appreciate a good electronic cigar, but we never imagined that we could roll our own with USB storage. https://gizmodo.com/electronic-cigar-marlboro-man-enters-the-digital-era-5127634 Over at Instructables, there’s a step by step on boring a cigar, treating its surface, and then loading it with a fiery LED along with a USB stick. The result is a classy cigar USB…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Torchwood Mini-Series “Like A Punishment” Says Star

Feeling disappointed that the third season of Torchwood is only five episodes? You’re not the only one; Series star John Barrowman has been talking about the new format, and he’s not exactly that happy about it. Talking to British TV Guide magazine Radio Times, Barrowman revealed hurt feelings about the decision to move networks from…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Major Spoilers For Iron Man 2, Transformers 3, BSG, Fringe, Supernatural And Stargate Universe!

Today’s spoilergasm includes more vague Star Trek statements, but also hints on Iron Man 2 and Transformers 3. Plus crazy pics from Torchwood, Fringe and FlashForward. Edward James Olmos talks BSG’s “The Plan.” Also: Supernatural, Stargate and Vampire Diaries spoilers. Star Trek: Yet another day of vague statements about the next Trek film. I missed…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Great Sony Walkman TV and Print Ads of the 1980s

To commemorate the Sony Walkman’s 30th birthday, here are the trippy ads Sony used to promote it in the ’80s. Noble monkeys, off-key kids and sweet-toothed senseis—where’s that f’d up sense of humor now, Sony? Back in 1983, Sony declared the WM-10 Super Walkman the “world’s smallest cassette player,” and promoted it with ads that…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

The Most Detailed 3D Map of Earth Yet

Forget Google Maps: NASA and Japan’s Ministry of Economy have released the most detailed three-dimensional map of Earth yet. It covers our planet between the 83 north and 83 south parallels thanks to 1.3 million stereo images like these: The images were captured by ASTER, and then stitched together into a seamless map. ASTER—Advanced Spaceborne…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Dell Mini 10 Lands Full Geolocation, Navigation Options

Starting next week, Dell Mini 10 netbooks will get a new geolocation option—and not just to foil bad guys. It’s a proper A-GPS+Wi-Fi system, complete with CoPilot navigation software and network location services from SkyHook. https://gizmodo.com/laptop-cop-geo-locates-stolen-laptops-with-wi-fi-5100967 Dell’s also throwing in the Loki browser plugin for FireFox and IE, which integrates your Mini 10 with their…

Tech News John Herrman

The Tokyo Gundam Like You Have Never Seen It Before

Now fully finished, the amazing full-scale Gundam has become an unofficial Tokyo landmark. The robot is so impressive that photographers are populating Flickr with beautiful photos showing every single little detail. https://gizmodo.com/activated-full-size-gundam-robot-looks-totally-absofri-5289548 I will repeat it again: LET’S DO THESE FOR REAL, DAMNIT. [Flickr Search]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Crazy Japanese Ironsmith Creates His Own Bulldozer

What do you get when you mix a Fiat 500—a popular and tiny 50s car in Italy—with a bulldozer and a crazy Japanese ironsmith? A Fiat 500 bulldozer with crazy—and very happy—Japanese ironsmith inside, as the video shows. Kogoro Kurata’s invention only runs at 3 kilometers per hour, but who cares. It’s red, it has…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Sony NAS-Z2000 iPod Dock Streams Over DLNA, Has One Hell of a Remote

Amidst all the business turmoil, tepidly-received new products and high-concept gaming news, it’s easy to forget that, man, Sony can still do hardware design. Exhibit A: The NAS-Z200iO media player dock, CD player, radio and network streaming device. https://gizmodo.com/why-sonys-howard-stringer-has-one-of-the-hardest-jobs-i-5302818 Its nondescript exterior belies a fairly impressive feature set: support for iPods as well as other…

Tech News John Herrman

iPhone OS 3.1 Features: Better Video Editing, Voice Control Over Bluetooth, And More

Now that the iPhone OS 3.1 SDK (and accompanying beta firmware) is out in the wild, new features are showing their faces. The update improves video editing and app integration, Voice Control over Bluetooth and a slew of minor tweaks. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3-1-sdk-available-now-5305017 Here’s the breakdown, according to people who’ve played with it: * Video editing on…

Tech News John Herrman

Windows 7 Beta Shutting Down Every Two Hours Now

If you still have the Windows 7 Beta installed, today is the day when it starts shutting down every two hours. You know, to annoy the hell out of you. https://gizmodo.com/reminder-windows-7-beta-will-start-shutting-down-on-yo-5287086 So go and get the Windows 7 Release Candidate. That one will start shutting down every two hours in about a year. https://gizmodo.com/windows-7-rc1-will-auto-shut-down-every-two-hours-mont-5240677

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Nazi Planes That Could Have Dropped a Nuclear Bomb in NYC

Nazis or aliens or Nazi aliens are back and they have invaded Northrop Grumman’s top secret grounds in California, where engineers have been testing the surprising anti-radar capabilities of the Horten 2-29 fighter. The results: It could have changed everything. Germany lost the Battle of Britain partly thanks to the British radar. The fat baton-bearing…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

USB 3.0-Equipped PCs To Start Shipping By End of 2009

Most of the news about USB 3.0—the finalization of the spec, the first drivers, the first controller—doesn’t tell us much about when we’ll actually get to see a product hit stores. The answer? According to Nikkei, before 2010. https://gizmodo.com/superspeed-usb-3-0-spec-finalized-its-fast-5090769 Their contacts in the Tawianese PC industry predict the first machines to include the hardware will…

Tech News John Herrman

Long Before Virtuality, Another Star Trek Alum Tried To Get Edgy With The Holodeck

Melinda Snodgrass is best known for writing the Star Trek episode where Data’s personhood gets put on trial. But in the mid-1990s, she created Star Command, which took Trek’s holodeck much, much further. Just check out this holo-torture sequence. Edgy! Star Command is a totally ludicrous attempt to do a Trek-esque space opera on a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

$10,000 USB Drive Makes Life More Difficult, Destitute

Mnemosyne’s $10,000, 16GB USB drive is housed inside a puzzle that must be solved to physically get to the memory within. Apparently simple encryption is just too middle-class for anybody rich enough to afford this thing. “Mnemosyne,” in Greek mythology, is the personification of memory, which you of course did not know, and that’s why…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Glowing Vacuum Tube Is Actually a USB Sound Card

From the vaults of Brando comes this retro glowing vacuum tube that’s actually a little USB sound card. https://gizmodo.com/meeting-brando-hong-kongs-usb-willy-wonka-5136739 It’s got both audio in and out, and could actually be kind of useful in certain situations. I know in my clumsier younger days, I once accidentally kicked an audio cable that was plugged into my…

Gadgets Dan Nosowitz

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

…Michael Bay’s Transformers 2 Sneak Peek…Kindle DX Pisses Off Blind Students…Sony Can Give All PS3s PS2 Emulation—But Probably Won’t…Band Uses iPhone Gimmick to Get Attention (and Succeeds)… Anyone who still hasn’t seen Transformers 2 might want to skip this spoiler-riddled “preview” presented by the master of explosions, crashes, booms and more explosions himself, but it’s…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Harry Potter And Dumbledore’s Wet N’ Wild Trip Clip

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iPhone OS 3.1 Features: Better Video Editing, Voice Control Over Bluetooth, And More

Windows 7 Beta Shutting Down Every Two Hours Now

The Nazi Planes That Could Have Dropped a Nuclear Bomb in NYC

USB 3.0-Equipped PCs To Start Shipping By End of 2009

Long Before Virtuality, Another Star Trek Alum Tried To Get Edgy With The Holodeck

$10,000 USB Drive Makes Life More Difficult, Destitute

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