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Peer Into The Deadly Eye Of Tim Burton’s Machine Seamstress From 9

A collection of knives, needles and scissors make up the snakelike machines from our future. Check out the first concept art of the mechanical beasties that did what Skynet never could: wiped out the human race. Dread Central as has a closer look at the frightening creature from our post apocalyptic future. This is one…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Insert Technology Into Classic Album Covers

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want you to take classic album covers and insert gadgets or technology where they really don’t belong. Send your best work to me at [email protected] with “Album Covers” in the subject line. Name your files FirstnameLastname.jpg with the name you want used as credit, and save your files as…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Did a Meteor Take Down Air France Flight 447?

Could a meteor strike be the reason behind the crash of Air France flight 447? The math geeks at Discover crunched some numbers and it turns out that it’s not as implausible as you might think. According to their calculations, there’s a 1-in-20 chance that a meteor would hit one flight over the past 20…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci

Via Amos 3000 Fan-Less PC Is Half the Size of a Mac Mini

The Via Amos 3000: A monitor-mountable Pico ITX board running at 500Mhz, with 1GB of RAM, gigabit ethernet, four USB, and DVI video, in a cool metal case with no fan. It can probably grill burgers too. [BBG]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Why Can’t Spidey Stay Away From Weddings?

Someone is getting married in the 600th issue of Marvel’s Amazing Spider-Man, but does this mean that the comic book version of the webslinger is headed back to wedded bliss, just like his newspaper strip counterpart? https://gizmodo.com/spider-mans-single-reboot-fails-5268366 Let’s be honest: Almost all signs point to “no” – If nothing else, there are two more likely…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Peregrine Overpowers the Power Glove, May Actually Work

Like the beloved Nintendo Power Glove, Peregrine is essentially a glove-shaped controller, though for the PC this time. It can recognize about 30 gestures (touching a finger to thumb, or finger to palm, for example) and recognize them as hotkeys. Peregrine is manufactured by a company also named Peregrine, and their namesake USB glove was…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Angel And X-Files Alum Takes Charge Of ABC’s V Remake

Good news for V fans: former Angel showrunner Jeffrey Bell has signed on as showrunner for the highly anticipated remake of the alien drama on ABC. So stop worrying that this is just Scott Peter’s 4400 with a new skin. Bell, is known for his work on X-Files, Alias and the best part of Angel…

Television Meredith Woerner

Antonov Eats F/A-18, Then Eats Another One for Dessert

If you didn’t have enough with my video at the Dubai Air Show, here is another view at how huge an Antonov AN-124—one the largest mass-produced plane in the world—is. https://gizmodo.com/inside-the-biggest-mass-produced-cargo-aircraft-in-the-324741 Yes, it’s big enough to gobble not one, but two F/A-18 airplanes. TWO fighter jets, people. It happened in Mirabel, where those two aircraft…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Heroes’ New Cult Leader Into Teabagging, Fires

When NBC’s superpowered Heroes returns in the fall, traditional enemies Sylar and/or the government will be replaced by faces more unexpected… but, for fans of canceled Fox show Prison Break or Star Wars, a little more familiar, as well. Spoilers… Break’s Robert Knepper – AKA the show’s resident white supremacist racist T-Bag – has been…

Television Graeme McMillan

40 Second Toothbrush Doesn’t Use Torture, Just “Enhanced Cleaning Techniques”

On paper, the 40 Second Toothbrush, which de-plaques two rows of teeth at a time, looks like a fine idea. On paper. Would you put this in your mouth? The thinking is that, by fitting around your teeth like some kind of bristly retainer, the 40 second toothbrush can decrease necessary brushing time by 66%.…

Tech News John Herrman

Awesome Pics From G.I. Joe, Astro Boy, Sarah Jane Adventures And Green Lantern!

Bloggers visited the set of Iron Man 2 and came away with minor spoilers. There are G.I. Joe pics and spoilers from Avatar, Transformers, Astro Boy, Thor and Moon. Plus Sarah Jane set pics, Doctor Who rumors and Green Lantern. Avatar: Even more deets about James Cameron’s mega-movie, from E3. Apparently the planet of Pandora…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Videos So Close to the Moon You Can Almost Touch It

Selene— Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s spacecraft mapping and filming the moon in High Definition for the first time—keeps returning crystal-clear videos of the Moon surface. And the video will keep getting closer and closer, until it crashes. https://gizmodo.com/selene-captures-amazing-footage-of-earth-eclipse-5160797 The video next to these lines shows Antoniadi from approximately 13 miles (21 km). The large impact…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

HTC Magic Reborn, Repackaged as the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G

T-Mobile’s inventory system clued us in to possible ‘myTouch’ branding for the HTC Magic, and this leaked box art all but confirms it. There’s other important info here too! For example, the myTouch will come in a box. [Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/t-mobiles-htc-magic-shall-be-known-henceforth-in-u-s-a-5237963

Tech News John Herrman

Where Is Xbox Live Anywhere?

When you have Microsoft’s VP of LIVE, Software and Services for Interactive Entertainment Business John Schappert in front of you, you can’t not ask whatever happened to the long-lost Live Anywhere service. So we did. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-says-xbox-360-is-less-than-halfway-done-5279383 I set the stage by talking about all of Xbox’s features since the New Xbox Experience that go way…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Acer’s Android Netbook Will Come With Windows, Fail at Being an “Android Netbook”

When a company says they’re working on an Android netbook, people make assumptions: they’ll come up with a fresh UI; they’ll cater the netbook’s hardware to Google’s lightweight OS; they’ll make it cheap. Acer is doing none of these things. https://gizmodo.com/acer-planning-an-android-netbook-for-q3-of-this-year-5275329 Their Android netbook will actually be an Windows XP netbook, in that it’ll ship…

Tech News John Herrman

CinemaNow Showing Up On BestBuy.com, “Select Devices at Best Buy”

CinemaNow, the subscription-less, on-demand streaming movie service, is partnering up with Best Buy. What does that mean? CinemaNow will stream from their website, and we’ll see more supported hardware in their stores. Nobody’s overly excited about Best Buy rebranding an existing service and building it into their website, because, well, it’s just not very exciting.…

Tech News John Herrman

Google Chromium Alpha Builds Available for OS X, Linux

GoogleThe Chromium team has posted early alpha builds of the ported browser for OS X and Linux, along with some explicit instructions: “DON’T DOWNLOAD THEM!” But really, you should. This tongue-in-cheek advice refers to the fact that these builds aren’t finished, and could be buggy. And they’re right—Flash, printing, and most of the settings pages…

Tech News John Herrman

Spycraft Hits Paperback In Time for Father’s Day

Remember that awesome CIA gadget book, Spycraft, written by our spooky friends Bob Wallace and Keith Melton? Well, it just came out in paperback, people—$12.24 at Amazon. Go git ’em. [Amazon] https://gizmodo.com/5-reasons-to-check-out-the-cia-spycraft-book-393928

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Nintendo On Conan’s New Mario-Style Backdrop: “That’s Great”

Intentionally or not, Conan’s new backdrop looks like it was constructed by a team of Mario level designers, circa 1992. Asked about the homage/coincidence, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime sounded pretty pleased: “That’s great.” https://gizmodo.com/conans-new-backdrop-sure-looks-familiar-5278719 It was Kotaku who caught up with Reggie, after Seriouslunch made the initial spotting: https://kotaku.com/nintendo-thinks-conan-obrien-mario-homage-is-great-5279071 We know that he…

Tech News John Herrman

Rumor: Financial Times Says Cheaper iPhone in the Works

Citing analysts at Morgan Stanley, the Financial Times claims Apple has plans to release a cheap iPhone at either a $99 or $149 price point, and could possibly announce it Monday at WWDC. The article goes on to state that the move could dramatically increase Apple’s smartphone marketshare and production of the new devices is…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Peer Into The Deadly Eye Of Tim Burton’s Machine Seamstress From 9

Insert Technology Into Classic Album Covers

Did a Meteor Take Down Air France Flight 447?

Via Amos 3000 Fan-Less PC Is Half the Size of a Mac Mini

Why Can’t Spidey Stay Away From Weddings?

Peregrine Overpowers the Power Glove, May Actually Work

Angel And X-Files Alum Takes Charge Of ABC’s V Remake

Antonov Eats F/A-18, Then Eats Another One for Dessert

Heroes’ New Cult Leader Into Teabagging, Fires

40 Second Toothbrush Doesn’t Use Torture, Just “Enhanced Cleaning Techniques”

Awesome Pics From G.I. Joe, Astro Boy, Sarah Jane Adventures And Green Lantern!

Videos So Close to the Moon You Can Almost Touch It

HTC Magic Reborn, Repackaged as the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G

Where Is Xbox Live Anywhere?

Acer’s Android Netbook Will Come With Windows, Fail at Being an “Android Netbook”

CinemaNow Showing Up On BestBuy.com, “Select Devices at Best Buy”

Google Chromium Alpha Builds Available for OS X, Linux

Spycraft Hits Paperback In Time for Father’s Day

Nintendo On Conan’s New Mario-Style Backdrop: “That’s Great”

Rumor: Financial Times Says Cheaper iPhone in the Works

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