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Palm Warns About Pre Tethering Hack – Because Sprint Won’t Like It

Palm have “politely” warned the Pre homebrewers behind the Pre Dev Wiki not to talk about hacking the handset for internet tethering on their site … because Sprint might complain. The caution from Palm suggests that ‘they’ don’t have a problem with someone figuring out a tethering solution for the easily hackable handset, but that…

Tech News Simon Crisp

Olympus E-P1 Gets a Face-Forward Reveal; Official Announcement Tomorrow

The Olympus E-P1 Micro Four Thirds rangefinder-style camera (and Gizmodo lust object) has revealed itself in an official, full-frontal shot, accompanied by some iffy specs. https://gizmodo.com/olympus-e-p1-is-the-micro-four-thirds-camera-weve-been-5282802 According to 43rumors, the E-P1 will shoot 720p video, and retail for just under $1000: SD storage 13MP RAW, JPEG, and RAW+JPEG modes 1280×720 video for 7 minutes at…

Tech News John Herrman

Theremin-Controlled Mario Offers Glimpse of a Bizarre Motion Gaming Alternate History

Now, there are officially three things you can do with a theremin: you can score a low-budget sci-fi film; you can join a prog rock cover band; and, as of today, you can play Super Mario Bros, awkwardly. YouTube user conquerearth hooked up his theremin to a PC, mapping its tone—which, for those of you…

Tech News John Herrman

Is Dell Working On An Android Smartphone?

Is this Dell’s first cellphone? That is at least what one man and his blurry camera seem to think. After what seems like years of ‘will they? won’t they?’ speculation, this pic has appeared on the Chinese site PDAFans and is at the least a vaguely Pre-looking device baring a Dell logo. It is rumored…

Tech News Simon Crisp

Nokia E72 And 5530 XpressMusic Are Now Official

After “leaking” a promotional video over the weekend Nokia have officially unveiled the E72 – their new QWERTY smartphone followup to the fantastic E71- at the Connection 09 event in Singapore. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-e72-featured-in-leaked-promotional-video-5290192 Compared to its none-too-old brother, the E72 will see its camera bumped up to 5 megapixels along with the addition of an integrated…

Tech News Simon Crisp

iPhone Push Notifications Discreetly Rolled Out In… Tap Tap Revenge?

Tapulous has issued an update to their Tap Tap Revenge rhythm game which includes working push notifications, despite the fact that iPhone OS 3.0 isn’t officially available for two more days. It certainly isn’t the most creative use of background notifications—the messages only pop up when you’re challenged by another player—and I’m already wondering how,…

Tech News John Herrman

Zombie Christ Tries To Save Us From More Undead Spoofs And Vampire Girl Upskirts

This week, meet the next Zombie Christ and check out the latest viral plague (extra gory). Plus, we’ve got an exclusive look at the Vampire Girl Versus Frankenstein Girl poster, complete with an New York Asian Film Festival update. Here is an exclusive first look at the slightly-less-bloody-than-we-expected-but-still-pretty-hot poster from Vampire Girl Versus Frankenstein Girl.…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Busted: Why I Can’t Wait for Flexible Displays

When I got up this morning, I threw my Kindle in my bag’s padded courdoroy laptop sleeve like I always do. A few hours later, I pulled it out and it looked like this. Granted, this is partially my fault—I didn’t keep it in the ugly cover that comes with the Kindle, just like I…

Commerce Matt Buchanan

Falling In Love With The Wolfboy

It’s the same old story. Boy vampire meets girl, girl and boy have tumultuous affair, boy goes away, girl falls for boy werewolf. The vampire-human-werewolf triangle has become almost cliché. When will these darn kids learn the term “threesome”? Now that the whole world has seen the New Moon trailer, tweens everywhere are holding their…

io9 Sarah Hope Williams

Google Voice About to Get More Amazing By Letting You Port Your Number

If you call Jason, his iPhone, Pre, Ion and pants all ring because he has Google Voice. The service’s biggest downside is that you have a new number to deal with—but TechCrunch says number porting is coming. https://gizmodo.com/grandcentral-sputters-back-to-life-as-google-voice-add-5168592 That means you’ll be able to port the phone number you’ve had for 5 or 10 or…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Megan Fox: Transformers “Is Not A Movie About Acting”

Megan Fox’s cover interview in this week’s Entertainment Weekly took our breath away. Admitting that her Transformers 2 role consists of two things: 1) running and 2) screaming, the famously outspoken star says her debut performance in Transformers was “terrible.” https://jezebel.com/megan-foxs-50-best-worst-bon-mots-5285875 Fox is pretty brazen about saying Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen won’t be a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Asus ‘Seamless Experience’ Concept Knows More About Your Coffee Than You Do

This slick Seamless Experience video from the Asus Computex booth is a neat glimpse at a future where even coffee cups have a story to tell. It looks, unsurprisingly, like Microsoft Surface. Let the marketing concept arms race commence. Judging from the concept, the future works surprisingly well, so long as your desktop is populated…

Tech News Jack Loftus

20 Marvel Heroes Who Deserve A Shot At The Movie Big Time

If Marvel really wants to make four movies a year, then they’re going to have to dig deep into their toybox to find enough characters to fill them. Luckily, we’re here to help out with some suggestions. https://gizmodo.com/marvel-aims-for-4-movies-a-year-leading-to-world-domin-5279606 First off, let’s remember that Marvel doesn’t have access to all of their own characters when it…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Marvel’s Potential Trippy SF Franchises

Warlock The Pitch: “Man’s struggle against himself made flesh.” The Explanation: Artificially created to be the perfect human, Adam Warlock struggles against his own evil side… literally; his nemesis, the Magus, is a future version of himself gone bad, and attempting to speed along the transformation. Is the only way to defeat him to kill…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Marvel’s Potential Thriller Franchises

Hawkeye The Pitch: “Mr. & Mrs. Smith, but with spies instead of assassins.” The Explanation: While Hawkeye’s been kicking around with the Avengers, Defenders and even Thunderbolts for years, the ideal Hawkeye movie should avoid all that and skip straight to Jim McCann’s recent New Avengers: The Reunion mini-series – Make Hawk the former criminal…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Marvel’s Potential Fantasy Franchises

Doctor Strange The Pitch: “Harry Potter meets Nip/Tuck.” The Explanation: What happens when one of the world’s greatest surgeons loses the full use of his hands in a car accident? If your answer is “He goes to Tibet and becomes the world’s greatest magician,” then you clearly know your Strange. We’re saying, keep him as…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Marvel’s Potential Comedy Franchises

Power Man and Iron Fist The Pitch: “Shanghai Noon meets 48 Hours. Meets I’m Gonna Git You Sucka.” The Explanation: Yes, yes, I know that Luke Cage has a respectable career with the New Avengers these days, and Iron Fist has his own series back, but these two characters (Both born of Marvel’s 1970s bandwagon-jumping…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Marvel’s Potential Action Franchises

Nova, the Human Rocket The Pitch: “Spider-Man meets The Last Starfighter.” The Explanation: Rich Rider, an everyday American teenager, is chosen by the last surviving member of intergalactic police force the Nova Corps, to take his place and defend the universe from the space pirate who’s out to kill them all. Part Spider-Man homage, part…

Movies Graeme McMillan

PS2 Casemod Lives Inside Jack Thompson’s Book About Video Game Violence

For gamers well-versed in the antics of former attorney Jack Thompson, this PS2 casemod found over at Kotaku has to be all sorts of Schadenfreude. [Kotaku] https://kotaku.com/do-not-judge-this-ps2-casemod-by-its-cover-updated-5290009

Tech News Jack Loftus

DIY High Speed Photography Studio In the Comfort of Your Own Home

Do you want to create your own slow motion water gun fight, just like Gizmodo? You do? Then head on over to Lifehacker, where they’ve discovered a DIY project that will create a high speed studio in the garage. [Lifehacker] https://gizmodo.com/the-gizmodo-water-gun-battlemodo-royale-our-slo-mo-tra-396842

Tech News Jack Loftus

Palm Warns About Pre Tethering Hack – Because Sprint Won’t Like It

Olympus E-P1 Gets a Face-Forward Reveal; Official Announcement Tomorrow

Theremin-Controlled Mario Offers Glimpse of a Bizarre Motion Gaming Alternate History

Is Dell Working On An Android Smartphone?

Nokia E72 And 5530 XpressMusic Are Now Official

iPhone Push Notifications Discreetly Rolled Out In… Tap Tap Revenge?

Zombie Christ Tries To Save Us From More Undead Spoofs And Vampire Girl Upskirts

Busted: Why I Can’t Wait for Flexible Displays

Falling In Love With The Wolfboy

Google Voice About to Get More Amazing By Letting You Port Your Number

Megan Fox: Transformers “Is Not A Movie About Acting”

Asus ‘Seamless Experience’ Concept Knows More About Your Coffee Than You Do

20 Marvel Heroes Who Deserve A Shot At The Movie Big Time

Marvel’s Potential Trippy SF Franchises

Marvel’s Potential Thriller Franchises

Marvel’s Potential Fantasy Franchises

Marvel’s Potential Comedy Franchises

Marvel’s Potential Action Franchises

PS2 Casemod Lives Inside Jack Thompson’s Book About Video Game Violence

DIY High Speed Photography Studio In the Comfort of Your Own Home

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