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Wireless Resonating Power from Intel Research

Intel researchers are working on wireless power that doesn’t use a conductive pad. Instead, it uses magnets and a tuned directional transfer coil to send music from an iPod a couple of feet to a speaker. Saw it. It works! https://gizmodo.com/intel-says-theyve-taken-a-huge-leap-in-wireless-power-t-5039871 This setup is deceptively simple. There’s an electro-magnetized ring of wire sending 1-watt signal…

Tech News Brian Lam

Court Orders File-Sharer to Pay $80,000 Per Song to RIAA

A delusional Minnesota court has ordered Jammie Thomas, wanton criminal Kazaa user, to pay a total of $1.92 million for sharing 24 songs. As my own little protest, I’m going to illegally download Metallica’s entire discography. And I hate Metallica. The decision has taken a ton of twists and turns—even after the jury had decided…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Pentagon’s New “Suburb Warrior” UAVs Promise to Try to Kill Slightly Fewer Civilians

The Pentagon’s current crop of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are insanely powerful—the “Hellfire” is so named for a reason—but also fairly imprecise, often killing innocent, nearby civilians. The DoD’s new UAVs hope to cut down on such casualties. In a recent briefing, the Department of Defense laid out its new plans: Smaller and far more…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Hot Hot Hot: iPhone 3GS Shamelessly Stripped Naked

Those deconstructionists over at Rapid Repair have taken their tiny screwdrivers or whatever to the iPhone 3GS and disassembled the poor baby. And so soon after its birth! Rapid Repair went out to France to snag the iPhone 3GS at its first site of release, the Orange Boutique in France. The teardown is pretty basic…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Yamaha’s MusicCAST2 Wireless Audio Streamer, For Those Who Missed MusicCAST1

Yamaha’s MusicCAST2 Network Music System is a Wi-Fi-based tunes center that allows you to wirelessly transmit and listen to music in up to 32 rooms throughout your home. Do you even have 32 rooms in your home? Touted as the ultimate multiroom wireless system for music lover’s, the MusicCAST2 supports iTunes AAC files as well…

Tech News Andi Wang

NASA Rocket to Crash Into the Moon’s Crust In Search for Water

NASA launched a lunar satellite into orbit today, which will fire a rocket booster at 5,600 MPH into a Moon crater, causing a six-mile-high explosion. They hope to find water in the Moon’s south pole. But I find this deeply disturbing. You savages may be all excited that they want the Lunar Crater Observation and…

Space & Spaceflight Adrian Covert

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Here’s the stuff that we didn’t post today. (Until now, obviously.) I see a headline that reads “Jetliner lands safely after pilot dies,” I click, expecting a story about how advanced modern planes are, that they can even land with a corpse at the wheel. But no, this mostly happy ending came because not one…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

MyVibe Thighs-On: First iPhone Vibrator App Approved by Apple (NSFW)

MyVibe is probably the first x-rated app approved by Apple—following the introduction of content ratings—and the first vibrator. Sexual health expert Dr. Debby Herbenick has tried it. Here are her thoughts on it (NSFW): https://gizmodo.com/iphone-os-3-0-will-turn-your-phone-into-a-revolutionary-5172615 If you haven’t already checked out MyPleasure.com’s MyVibe app in the iPhone’s app store, you might want to. Unlike many…

Reviews debby herbenick

Freakishly Tiny Drill Inspires Us to Believe Anything Is Possible in Life

This drill, posted by Flickr user S8, serves absolutely no purpose. On any level. Yet I look at it and still think to myself, “that’s friggin awesome.” Ladies and gentleman, an unbelievably small drill. [Flickr via Make via CrunchGear] Click to view

Tech News Adrian Covert

Code-X Yacht Will Have Two Kinds of Power: Super Clean and Oh So Dirty

There’s a real company promoting a not-so-real poweryacht called the Code-X. The differentiator—or “thing that’s supposed to land a billionaire customer”—is that the boat will have two Formula 1 engines and two solar-powered electric ones. It’s not abundantly clear when you’d use the as-yet-unannounced electric engines, or exactly how efficiently the onboard solar panels will…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Good God, Even the Commodore 64 Has a Twitter Client

After seeing this latest Twitter app offering, I think Commodore 64 availability should be the benchmark to judge whether or not your web 2.0 app has officially “made it.” Yes, there’s really a twitter app for the C64. Breadbox64 runs on the embedded Contiki OS, and lets you tweet and view your friends’ timeline from…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Omega Recoil Makes Art With Tesla Coils

Art is great, sure. But art made from bolts of electricity fired from tesla coils? That’s my kind of art. Boing Boing Video went and checked out Omega Recoil, a group of crazies who put on performances with gigantic Tesla Coils. And while I’m sure you’d love to read me opine about what their performances…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Pizza Hut Delivering Limited Edition ‘Fight Night’ Xbox 360

EA sports and Pizza Hut have teamed up to bring boxing fans the chance to win a limited edition Fight Night Round 4 custom Xbox 360 console. It’s made by colorware, the same people that paint consoles for regular folks. Oh, and the grand prize is a trip to Vegas to see a championship fight.…

Tech News Sean Fallon

The Man Wall

If you still don’t know what you’re getting Dad for Father’s Day, HybridSpace Furniture has come up with an all-in-one home entertainment “Man Wall,” which includes gadgets that are stereotypically man. A 52” Vizio LCD HDTV is the wall’s centerpiece, with two smaller flat panels, a Panasonic 5.1 home theater system, DVD player, CD changer,…

Tech News Andi Wang

What Awful Sadist Demanded A Sequel To The Cell?

Psychic detective Maya goes inside a killer’s mind… only to see an image of the killer, in the real world, injecting her with something nasty, in The Cell 2. “Nooooooooo!” She screams. Maybe she’s watching the same movie we are. Who demanded a sequel to Tarsem Singh’s The Cell? Whoever it was, he or she…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Node Power Outlet Makes Power Strips Almost Useless

Rob at Boing Boing Gadgets thinks that Node—a power outlet that can accept several cables safely—may be the power outlet of tomorrow. I completely agree with him. If you live in the US or Japan, that is. [Metaphys via BBG]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Achieve Galactic Fame And Fortune With New Science Fiction Publishing Contest

Attention, aspiring novelists! A new competition could get your space epic or Singularity romance published by a major publisher, and bring you the adoration of millions. SciFiNow is sponsoring the War Of The Words contest in collaboration with Play.com and (more promisingly) Tor U.K. — and even though it’s a U.K. contest, people can enter…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Yes! Star Trek Is Cool Because a Pie Chart Says So!

Sci Fi Wire makes a convincing argument, in both authoritarian pie chart form and debatable exposition, as to why Star Trek is cool (again). But what’s missing from the chart? Two words: Lens flare. https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-review-5226460 Man has long marveled at the bright and shiny. He obsesses over soft metals, like gold, because of their luster.…

Movies Mark Wilson

Xbox 360 Arcade Now Ships With 512 MB of Internal Storage

Eurogamer got Microsoft on record to confirm that the Xbox 360 Arcade will begin shipping with 512-megabytes of built-in storage. Here’s what Microsoft told them: “The Xbox 360 system software uses some of the included 512MB memory; less storage will be available to users. Additional storage (sold separately) may be needed for game saves, Xbox…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Will The Buffy Motion Comic Be Animating Every Part Of Ms. Summers’ Recent Adventures?

Joss Whedon’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer comic is getting its own animated recreation… sort of. Think Watchmen-style motion comic, but hopefully without horrible voiceovers. So how long until that scene? Comics spoilers below. https://gizmodo.com/new-chapter-of-watchmen-motion-comics-released-5059846 So yeah, I’m asking about the steamy scene in the comic between Buffy and Satsu, you know what I mean. But…

Television Meredith Woerner

Wireless Resonating Power from Intel Research

Court Orders File-Sharer to Pay $80,000 Per Song to RIAA

Pentagon’s New “Suburb Warrior” UAVs Promise to Try to Kill Slightly Fewer Civilians

Hot Hot Hot: iPhone 3GS Shamelessly Stripped Naked

Yamaha’s MusicCAST2 Wireless Audio Streamer, For Those Who Missed MusicCAST1

NASA Rocket to Crash Into the Moon’s Crust In Search for Water

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

MyVibe Thighs-On: First iPhone Vibrator App Approved by Apple (NSFW)

Freakishly Tiny Drill Inspires Us to Believe Anything Is Possible in Life

Code-X Yacht Will Have Two Kinds of Power: Super Clean and Oh So Dirty

Good God, Even the Commodore 64 Has a Twitter Client

Omega Recoil Makes Art With Tesla Coils

Pizza Hut Delivering Limited Edition ‘Fight Night’ Xbox 360

The Man Wall

What Awful Sadist Demanded A Sequel To The Cell?

Node Power Outlet Makes Power Strips Almost Useless

Achieve Galactic Fame And Fortune With New Science Fiction Publishing Contest

Yes! Star Trek Is Cool Because a Pie Chart Says So!

Xbox 360 Arcade Now Ships With 512 MB of Internal Storage

Will The Buffy Motion Comic Be Animating Every Part Of Ms. Summers’ Recent Adventures?

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