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Popcorn-Flinging Basketball Bowl Shoots and Scores

The Wild Fling combines popcorn, basketball and a remote caddy in a single, ill-conceived bowl. And when you have tired of the hoop, lay siege to open mouths with precision popcorn shooting. [Taylor Gifts via 7Gadgets via SlipperyBrick]

Tech News Sean Fallon Aug 4 '09

How Do We Get New Science Fiction Stories? Have New Nightmares

Tired of the creaky entertainment machine churning out copy-cat stories of zombies, superheroes, apocalypses and cyborgs? Then you need to conjure new dreads and fantasies in the real world, since that’s where all our science fiction cliches come from. We look at science fiction from the Cold War era with a certain bemusement, with all…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 4 '09

Active Military Personnel Getting Priority, 24 Hour Google Voice Activation

Google is pushing active military personnel to the front of the Google Voice waiting list. That means if you have a .mil email address, an invite will go out inside 24 hours of your request. The move is intended to assist servicemen and women abroad that would otherwise have difficulty directly contacting loved ones. Army…

Tech News Sean Fallon Aug 4 '09

10 Of Your Biggest Cable Management Disasters

Last week I asked you to show us your cable management situation. Not surprisingly, elegant solutions were hard to come by. What we did have was complete chaos. https://gizmodo.com/show-us-how-badly-you-need-one-of-these-10-cable-manage-5325461/#comments ITLawMan: Yes. That is a boom box. Its for music on hold. Sue me. FannyGaia: this is my setup in my basement – note the wifi…

Tech News Sean Fallon Aug 4 '09

Welcome to Harmony

Welcome to the 3rd generation Prius, where Man’s wants and Nature’s needs agree. Using the wind, the sun and advanced hybrid technology, Prius balances our demand for mobility with the natural order of things. Options shown.

Tech News Chrissie Lamond Aug 4 '09

Portable Toilet Speakers For Music That Sounds Like Sh*t

Audiophiles avert your eyes (and ears). These shape of these little 2-watt speakers is probably a good indicator of the sound quality. Then again, country some music was meant to be played on speakers like this. [Chinagrabber via Technabob]

Tech News Sean Fallon Aug 4 '09

Learn to Twitter Like It’s 1899

It’s Twitter as Ada Lovelace would have imagined. To conserve characters and keep transmissions private, Victorians often wrote their telegrams in code. Refer to this handy list to make your tweets more efficient and confuse your friends. [NYT via Metafilter] https://gizmodo.com/babbage-and-lovelace-fight-crime-with-the-power-of-math-5318694

io9 Lauren Davis Aug 4 '09

Can You Capture a Laser In Your Hands?

Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Yes, if you’re demoing this remarkable laser/sound prototype that turns a laser pointer into…well…just watch the clip. It’s really fun stuff. [Daito via Califaudio via MAKE]

Tech News Mark Wilson Aug 4 '09

Scientists Teach Spine Nerves To Regenerate

Is science about to revolutionize treatment for spinal cord injuries? Researchers in San Diego may have figured out a way to do what was previously thought impossible, and train the nerves to regenerate themselves properly. Scientists at UC San Diego have proven that if they combine the use of a biological chemical called neurotrophin-3 (NT-3)…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 4 '09

Gadget Deals Of The Day

We have great deals on laptops today for back to schooolers. Also be sure to check out the offer from the awesome folks at Shapeways, a 3D metal printing service, exclusively for Gizmodo readers. Special Offers: • 10% off Total 3D Metal Printing Order from Shapeways. (only valid for first 50 orders – use coupon…

Tech News Don Nguyen Aug 4 '09

New Zune HD Erotica

I’m wet now. So, why the Zune HD is not a cellphone again? We will never know. Please excuse me as I flip through this newly-released publicity gallery using only my left hand. https://gizmodo.com/zune-hd-hands-on-photos-and-video-tour-5272228 Seriously. This thing looks so damn good that I’m actually pissed off with Microsoft for not making it a cellphone. [T03…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 4 '09

Third Largest App Store Developer Gets Banned, For Sucking

Perfect Acumen, purveyors of such fine $5 apps as “Top Sexy Ladies: Audrina Patridge” and “Skin Care Updates,” has had its dev license revoked, and its 900 applications pulled. Is Apple’s banhammer finally growing a brain? https://gizmodo.com/apples-chickenshit-approval-process-has-gone-too-far-5325539 Yes and no. No, in the sense that this, the removal of the third most prolific app-shitter in…

Tech News John Herrman Aug 4 '09

GDGT Launch Party Tonight in San Francisco, and We’ll Be There

GDGT, the gadget-based social networking site, is throwing a launch party tonight at DNA Lounge here in sunny San Francisco. There’ll be gadgets to grope, giveaways, and we’ll be there too—it’s a party with gadgets, after all. [GDGT]

Gadgets Dan Nosowitz Aug 4 '09

4 Ways The United States Could End In The Next 100 Years

The United States is always collapsing in science fiction. The U.S. implodes, explodes, or just declines. But a team of professional futurists sees only four scenarios that could end the U.S.A. — and they’ve got a chart to prove it. Slate talks to GBN, a corporate futurist organization, and despite being professional doomsayers, the GBN…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 4 '09

Gorilla HIV Leaps To Humans

A French woman from Cameroon has been identified as being the first human to become infected with a new strain of the HIV virus – one that originated in gorillas. But it’s still not clear how it happened. Scientists studying the case of the unnamed 62-year-old from Cameroon say that they don’t believe that she…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 4 '09

23 New Gadgets That Would Make Summer Even More Fun

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to design some summer gadgets that we’ve never seen before. And they all make me want to go outside. First Place—Thai Bui Second Place—Manu Raivio Third Place—Daniel M.

Tech News Adam Frucci Aug 4 '09

Spaceball: Like Basketball, but More Expensive and Ridiculous

Spaceball is a sport that combines volleyball, basketball, jumping a lot and spending $700 on a fancy trampoline. It’s apparently a great workout for potential astronauts, too. You play the game by trying to throw the ball past your opponent through a netted hole while you both jump around. It certainly looks fun, at least…

Tech News Adam Frucci Aug 4 '09

Moxi HD DVR Gets 6TB Drive Support, Spawns “Moxi Mate” Media Extender

The Moxi HD, everyone’s favorite not-TiVo, has been joined by a media extender box, alongside a fresh software update, which among other things allows the Moxi to offload video to Lacie’s 6TB drive clusters. That’s over 1000 hours of HDTV. https://gizmodo.com/lacie-5big-is-slightly-less-infamous-than-hal-9000-5062336 But first, the extender: The Moxi Mate is a small $399 ($199 for now,…

Television John Herrman Aug 4 '09

Should the Space Program Join Forces with Reality TV?

First Virtuality, and now Defying Gravity, predict we’ll someday watch the adventures of cloistered astronauts broadcast from space. But why wait? Some suggest the upcoming simulated Mars missions offer the perfect opportunity to introduce the space program to reality television. Since a manned mission to Mars would, using current technology, take roughly 520 days, both…

io9 Lauren Davis Aug 4 '09

Windows Mobile Wants In On the iPhone App Action, Literally

The last few app store launches we’ve seen were plagued by the same problem: a dearth of stuff that’s at all new, or that anyone, you know, wants. Microsoft’s novel idea to avoid this same problem? Port some iPhone apps! The company posted a third-party case study on their Developer Network, which explains, step by…

Tech News John Herrman Aug 4 '09

Popcorn-Flinging Basketball Bowl Shoots and Scores

How Do We Get New Science Fiction Stories? Have New Nightmares

Active Military Personnel Getting Priority, 24 Hour Google Voice Activation

10 Of Your Biggest Cable Management Disasters

Welcome to Harmony

Portable Toilet Speakers For Music That Sounds Like Sh*t

Learn to Twitter Like It’s 1899

Can You Capture a Laser In Your Hands?

Scientists Teach Spine Nerves To Regenerate

Gadget Deals Of The Day

New Zune HD Erotica

Third Largest App Store Developer Gets Banned, For Sucking

GDGT Launch Party Tonight in San Francisco, and We’ll Be There

4 Ways The United States Could End In The Next 100 Years

Gorilla HIV Leaps To Humans

23 New Gadgets That Would Make Summer Even More Fun

Spaceball: Like Basketball, but More Expensive and Ridiculous

Moxi HD DVR Gets 6TB Drive Support, Spawns “Moxi Mate” Media Extender

Should the Space Program Join Forces with Reality TV?

Windows Mobile Wants In On the iPhone App Action, Literally

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