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After a Short Break, TiVo Gets Back To Losing All Its Money

First quarter results are in for TiVo, and they’re not great: revenue is down 9% from the same quarter last year, forcing the company to report a hefty loss just a few months after recording their first year of profitability, ever. https://gizmodo.com/tivo-gets-its-first-full-year-of-profitability-5163067 The loss isn’t actually as severe as they expected, and TiVo execs are…

Television John Herrman May 28 '09

Ars: PSP Go! Will Be Announced at E3, Sold Alongside Old PSP; PS3 Slim Is Real, But Far Off

Ars Technica has it from a “very well-informed mole” that the rumored flash-based PSP Go! will be announced at E3, and later sold alongside the current model. As for that PS3 Slim, it’s real too, but don’t expect an announcement next week. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-new-umd-less-psp-hardware-to-launch-at-e3-chris-5232000 Ars seems pretty confident about these reports, but they’re suspiciously close to…

Tech News John Herrman May 28 '09

Manufacturers Mercilessly Cram Intel i7 Nehalem Processors Into Laptops

Remember when ridiculously massive, fully loaded “desktop replacement” laptops from Alienware and the like were all the rage? Well, they never really went away; in fact, they’re reaching new heights of, eh, that thing that they strive for, whatever it is. OEMs like AVADirect and Eurocom—who both must know that Intel will eventually release a…

Tech News John Herrman May 28 '09

Someday, Somehow, I Will Learn How To Plug In This USB Ninja Star Just By Throwing It

Because unless you can do that, the Solidalliance Ninja 2G Shuriken flash drive is just a tacky, difficult to carry, 2GB poking hazard. It’s available now for just over $100, plus shipping from Japan. [Akihabara]

Tech News John Herrman May 28 '09

Dell Joins the Sorta Thin, Sorta Cheap Laptop Party With 14-Inch, $649 Studio 14z

Ok, this trend is really growing some legs. Dell has just announced and made available their Studio 14z, a $649 optical-driveless budget ultrathin kindathin with a 16:9 HD display, Nvidia 9400m graphics and a 14-inch footprint. https://gizmodo.com/intel-kinda-thin-kinda-cheap-laptops-are-the-next-big-5262332 Like Lenovo’s recently announced (but not available until July) u350, the 14z sacrifices something in the way of…

Tech News John Herrman May 28 '09

Spider Belt Holster Lugs DSLRs, Dad Style

That camera looks a little precarious, and I’m not sure how much I want to depend on my pants to hold something up, but I can see how a DSLR belt holster might be useful. As far as design goes, it’s simple and smart: the holster fastens to your belt like any other dad-clip, and…

Tech News John Herrman May 28 '09

‘Big Mess of Wires’ Homebuilt Processor Is, In Fact, a Big Wonderful Mess of Wires

Steve Chamberlin’s “Big Mess of Wires” processor took “18 months, about $1,000 and 1,253 pieces of wire” to build, measures roughly one square foot and, amazingly, computes at about the level of a Commodore 64. [Gadget Lab]

Tech News John Herrman May 28 '09

New Pandorum Trailer Debuts White Devil Toddler From Space Hell

We’ve got the new Pandorum trailer, which is a terrifyingly confusing mix of space Crawlers, skin-peeling madness, and an evil toddler. Take a closer look into the blackened eyes of evil while Ben Foster and Dennis Quaid look for the 60,000 missing passengers. And check out some screencaps below. Creepy baby people no? Some of…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 28 '09

Beautiful DIY Speakers Are Made of Actual Eggshells

These little speakers are made from real eggshells, meticulously cut to allow for one Hi-Vi B1S driver per egg. Creator Gomhi says they sound a little “narrow,” but what can you expect from such an adorably tiny “cabinet”? [Flickr via DVICE]

Tech News Dan Nosowitz May 28 '09

Chinese Buddha Phone Provides On-the-Go Nirvana

The Odin 99 phone, available only in China, includes such run-of-the-mill features as an mp3 player and both front- and rear-facing cameras. But it’s also a gold-painted, portable, virtual Buddhist altar that’s triggered with the press of a lotus-emblazoned button. The phone’s “portable altar” features are designed to provide a prayer space anywhere, including simulated…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz May 28 '09

Immersion’s New Haptic Touchscreen Tech Encourages Corny iPhone Romance

Haptic technology has the possibility to make touchscreens so much better, improving accuracy and adding a whole new range of sensory feedback. Immersion, primary developers of haptic technology, presented both a refined onscreen keyboard and an incredibly cheesy “Immersive Messaging” protocol at this year’s All Things D conference. The new soft keyboard improvement, called TouchSense,…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz May 27 '09

How Do You Avoid Hitting Stars at Warp 5? A Pulsar Positioning System

OK, mind blowing: A scientist at the Observatoire de Paris basically invented GPS for interstellar travelers: Simply tune in the radio signals from four pulsars, crunch some numbers having to do with relativity (natch) and read your position within the galaxy—to within a meter. It makes sense. GPS is, after all, a system of satellites…

Space & Spaceflight Wilson Rothman May 27 '09

Wanna Know What Apple Employees Are Eating?

Pull up Safari on your iDevice, punch in menu.apple.com, and you’ll get a beautiful web app explaining what’s cooking at the Caffè Macs at five different Apple campuses. Tonight at Infinite Loop: grilled snapper and pork carnitas, plus vegetarian pizza for the Jobs wannabes. [Thanks Tom!]

Tech News Wilson Rothman May 27 '09

Our Favorite Lifehacker Posts of the Week

This week Lifehacker makes us hungry with steaks, shows us which movies have stuff after the credits, and tell us the best ways to grill those steaks. • Separate your data partition from your Windows partition. That way, when you have to reinstall Windows, you’ll keep your data intact. • MovieStinger tells you which movies…

Tech News Jason Chen May 27 '09

Don’t Just Save A Baby, Save Six with the BabyScatt Evacuation Device

Intended for nurseries, hospitals and Angelina Jolie, the BabyScatt Evacuation Device is a cart that can safely hold six infants or four toddlers in case of an emergency. Metal bars surrounding all sides of the cart work to protect the babies as one adult maneuvers them down stairs, over rough terrain and out of harm’s…

Tech News Andi Wang May 27 '09

Hand In Hand Clock Would Need Plenty of Wall Space

The Hand In Hand clock is a fully functional software creation, where the minute hand rotates on the end of the hour hand, and the second hand rotates on the end of the minute hand. It’s hard to read at first, but soon makes sense. The catch? If my careful calculations are correct, the thing…

Tech News Wilson Rothman May 27 '09

Next-Generation iPhone 3G Parts Revealed by Chinese Wholesaler?

Wholesaler China Ontrade.com has posted parts from the next-generation iPhone 3G 2009: The LCD screen and the middle internal bezel. They even have pictures comparing the new parts to the old ones: The wholesaler says the following in their site: This is great honor for China Ontrade (HK) chinaontrade.com to be the 1st started to…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 27 '09

Plastic Logic E Book Reader Video Tour and Hands On

Plastic Logic’s device is big, over 10 inches across the screen and 7mm thin. It’s touchscreen driven. What’s surprising is that they’ll have a store, 3G/WiFi and are coming out in Jan 2010. https://gizmodo.com/plastic-logics-e-reader-shown-on-video-more-details-em-5048316 The prototype I saw was definitely nice, but also sluggish to refresh its screen. (They have time to improve it as…

Tech News Brian Lam May 27 '09

Zombie Mermaids Are The New Cyborg Unicorns

The brilliant Japanese wrestling movie Oh! My Zombie Mermaid is finally coming to the West in July, raising all kinds of intriguing questions that aren’t answered in the most bizarre way possible in the trailer. According to Nippon Cinema: Kouta (Shinya Hashimoto), the leader of a pro-wrestling organization called “Zero”, is planning an over-the-top housewarming…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 27 '09

First Photographs Taken With a Palm Pre

Here is one of the first photos ever taken by a Palm Pre: a blonde coed riding a stallion. A coin-operated one. Zooming in, I’m not impressed. And the photo quality is not that good either. But there is a lot more. The 1520 x 2032 pixel image looks very videoish, just like the iPhone.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 27 '09

After a Short Break, TiVo Gets Back To Losing All Its Money

Ars: PSP Go! Will Be Announced at E3, Sold Alongside Old PSP; PS3 Slim Is Real, But Far Off

Manufacturers Mercilessly Cram Intel i7 Nehalem Processors Into Laptops

Someday, Somehow, I Will Learn How To Plug In This USB Ninja Star Just By Throwing It

Dell Joins the Sorta Thin, Sorta Cheap Laptop Party With 14-Inch, $649 Studio 14z

Spider Belt Holster Lugs DSLRs, Dad Style

‘Big Mess of Wires’ Homebuilt Processor Is, In Fact, a Big Wonderful Mess of Wires

New Pandorum Trailer Debuts White Devil Toddler From Space Hell

Beautiful DIY Speakers Are Made of Actual Eggshells

Chinese Buddha Phone Provides On-the-Go Nirvana

Immersion’s New Haptic Touchscreen Tech Encourages Corny iPhone Romance

How Do You Avoid Hitting Stars at Warp 5? A Pulsar Positioning System

Wanna Know What Apple Employees Are Eating?

Our Favorite Lifehacker Posts of the Week

Don’t Just Save A Baby, Save Six with the BabyScatt Evacuation Device

Hand In Hand Clock Would Need Plenty of Wall Space

Next-Generation iPhone 3G Parts Revealed by Chinese Wholesaler?

Plastic Logic E Book Reader Video Tour and Hands On

Zombie Mermaids Are The New Cyborg Unicorns

First Photographs Taken With a Palm Pre

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