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Ngmoco’s Xbox Live-esque iPhone Service Set to Launch Tomorrow

High-end iPhone gaming company Ngmoco will be launching Plus+, their social gaming service, for the iPhone tomorrow. https://gizmodo.com/ngmoco-wont-be-making-iphone-3gs-exclusive-games-5286132 Similar to Microsoft’s Xbox Live subscription, Ngmoco Plus+ gamers will be able to create profiles, keep track of friends, records and gaming history across multiple games. But unlike XBL, Plus+’s service won’t be $50 a year—it’ll be…

Tech News Andi Wang

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Here’s the stuff that we didn’t post today. (Until now, obviously.) I am saddened to report that the overdue This Is Spinal Tap Blu-ray experience has been downgraded from fully interactive to merely rich. The “Create Your Own Band” game I was personally awaiting as a means to return to rock stardom has been killed,…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Texas Cops Break Out the Taser on a 72-Year-Old Woman for Being Old and Curmudgeonly

Despite the fact that tasing a full-grown man borders on excessive, a Texas cop found it necessary to tase a 72-year-old woman because she was yelling at him. And the slightly horrific, slightly hilarious farce was all caught on camera. The Travis County cop says that he had to pull out the Taser last week…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Neat New Snow Leopard Tricks

I like all the little tricks surfacing in Snow Leopard, Apple’s next edition of OS X, from Macrumors, AppleInsider and Mac Life. Aside from the features we’ve already seen, here are some new favs: https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-snow-leopard-5283157 There’s this Wi-Fi strength indicator, long overdue, in the dock. And when a battery is close to end of life,…

Tech News Brian Lam

Hands On Samsung’s Galaxy i7500 Android Haptic Smartphone

The Galaxy i7500—Samsung’s Android handset—is one of the first major, advanced smartphones to feature haptic feedback. PCWorld managed to get their hands on one and report back with their first impressions. Samsung’s Galaxy is a 11.9 millimeter-slim handset that features a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen and 5-megapixel camera, and also comes equipped with GPS, Wi-Fi and…

Tech News Andi Wang

Cortex A9: ARM’s Multi-Core Mobile CPUs

Multicore processors in mobile devices are only a matter of time, and that time appears to be coming closer for ARM, as their Cortex A9 chips will ship in phones in 2010. Arm chips are found in various handsets, including all three generations of the iPhone. [CNET]

Tech News Brian Lam

You Too Can Wear the Head of Optimus Prime (in Augmented Reality, Of Course)

If you forgot to live out all your Optimus Prime role-playing fantasies when the first Transformers movie came out, fear not. Thanks to the awesome Satan powers of augmented reality, you can wear the face of Optimus Prime anywhere. https://gizmodo.com/optimus-prime-is-refused-service-at-mcdonalds-shows-me-274869 So here’s how this works: the Active X applet hijacks your webcam and uses face/eye…

Movies Adrian Covert

Apple Fine Print Warns That Palm Pre iTunes Syncing Could Die

Apple took to their support pages, informing Palm that they could disable the Pre’s compatibility with iTunes—without actually saying as much. https://gizmodo.com/palm-pre-to-sync-directly-with-itunes-5271917 Daring Fireball was first to point out the support article, titled “iTunes: About unsupported third-party digital media players.” In the one paragraph article, Apple writes: Apple designs the hardware and software to provide…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Andrew W.K. Hosts Destroy Build Destroy, Where Kids Blow Crap Up

Weirdo-rocker Andrew W.K. is good. Exploding pieces of machinery also happen to be good. When you put the two of them together, you get a kids show on Cartoon Network? And is that a ROCKET LAUNCHER?! Maximum Fun lauds the show for combining children and high power weaponry. I agree. Meanwhile, Laughing Squid informs us…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Elephant Flash Drive’s Junk Is Bigger Than His Trunk

If you think that trunk is impressive, wait until you see this Elephant’s giant dongle. The 4GB USB flash drive whips out from the beast’s underbelly when you’re ready for it to mount your computer. [XTremeGeek via GeekyGadgets via CraziestGadgets]

Tech News Andi Wang

Jurassic Park 4 A “Long Shot,” But NeverEnding Story’s Coming

Legendary producer Frank Marshall chatted up his future genre projects today, including whether we’ll be seeing the NeverEnding Story continue — and what are the chances of another Jurassic Park movie? We spent a lot of time following producer Frank Marshall. Talking to the press at a round table, Marshall was asked: Do you think…

Movies Meredith Woerner

TweetDeck Now Available On The iPhone

Digg founder Kevin Rose got his hands on the beta for the iPhone version of TweetDeck, proclaiming that it will soon replace tweetie as his go-to app. If it works anything like the desktop version, I will also be making the switch. Apparently, the app version features the same column-based friend group structure as the…

Tech News Sean Fallon

8 Superhero Movies That Broke The Mold (Please Copy Them!)

If Marvel really goes ahead with its plan to put out four movies per year, and other studios follow, we could see a million cookie-cutter superhero origin stories. Make it stop! Or better yet, copy these eight mold-breaking superhero films. One reason why some people may dread the coming flood of capes-and-fights movies is the…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Disney Partners With Asus On Netpal Eee Netbook For Kids

In what seems like a natural partnership, Asus and Disney have teamed up to develop the Disney Netpal—a netbook designed specifically for kids that’s “fun, web-safe and easy to use.” The Netpal features a durable design, an 8.9-inch LCD display, Wi-Fi capabilities, Windows XP Home and over 40 parental controls including extra filters in browsers…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Expect To See More Of The Same In 2010

If you were hoping that the shelves of your local stores were going to be filled by new characters and ideas in the next year, time to ratchet back your expectations. Word is, everything new is old again. The recent Licensing International Expo in Las Vegas showcased the new conservatism. Warner Bros. Consumer Products executive…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Japanese Ice Suit Equips Ice Packs for Hot Tokyo Summers, Salarymen Now Expected to Give 110% Effort

This “New Ice Suit” has integrated jacket icepacks, designed to alleviate some of the discomfort of Japanese salarymen who have to walking around scorching Japan streets during the summer. Looks like this newfangled ice technology isn’t just for elite-level athletes anymore! https://gizmodo.com/nike-precool-vest-is-heatsink-for-athletes-386872 Crunchgear says the suits were designed by Japanese company Haruyama, who have created…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Find Out How Old Your Body Is: Scientists Can Measure Your Actual Molecular Age

You might know your chronological age, but do you know your “molecular age”? A newly found chemical in the human body could indicate how old your body actually feels, acting as a marker for aging in the body. Researchers at the University of North Carolina have found a protein, called p16INK4a, that is tied to…

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Western Digital’s SiliconDrive III Lineup Are Their First SSD Offerings

Western Digital just made their first move into the SSD world by announcing that their now shipping the SiliconDrive III lineup (presumably to OEMs), promising storage capacities up to 120 GB and read/write speeds of 100 and 80 MB/sec, respectively. This announcement comes on the heels of Western Digital‘s acquisition of SiliconSystems back in March,…

Tech News Adrian Covert

How Star Wars Changed Architecture

Star Wars may have transformed science fiction, but it also changed the look of our buildings. Like this trendy building, borrowing from the Jawa sandcrawler. A high-powered architecture journal honored Star Wars’ influence, and here are some Star Wars-inspired buildings. We already showed you a ton of buildings that look like the Death Star —…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Did You Pre-Order The iPhone 3GS?

I’m kind of curious to know how many people prefer to pre-order vs just showing up at the store. As far as the 3GS is concerned, this choice could make all the difference. As you may already know, there will be two separate lines on June 19th: one at 7 am and one at 8…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Ngmoco’s Xbox Live-esque iPhone Service Set to Launch Tomorrow

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Texas Cops Break Out the Taser on a 72-Year-Old Woman for Being Old and Curmudgeonly

Neat New Snow Leopard Tricks

Hands On Samsung’s Galaxy i7500 Android Haptic Smartphone

Cortex A9: ARM’s Multi-Core Mobile CPUs

You Too Can Wear the Head of Optimus Prime (in Augmented Reality, Of Course)

Apple Fine Print Warns That Palm Pre iTunes Syncing Could Die

Andrew W.K. Hosts Destroy Build Destroy, Where Kids Blow Crap Up

Elephant Flash Drive’s Junk Is Bigger Than His Trunk

Jurassic Park 4 A “Long Shot,” But NeverEnding Story’s Coming

TweetDeck Now Available On The iPhone

8 Superhero Movies That Broke The Mold (Please Copy Them!)

Disney Partners With Asus On Netpal Eee Netbook For Kids

Expect To See More Of The Same In 2010

Japanese Ice Suit Equips Ice Packs for Hot Tokyo Summers, Salarymen Now Expected to Give 110% Effort

Find Out How Old Your Body Is: Scientists Can Measure Your Actual Molecular Age

Western Digital’s SiliconDrive III Lineup Are Their First SSD Offerings

How Star Wars Changed Architecture

Did You Pre-Order The iPhone 3GS?

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