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Well This Vibrating ‘SmartStylus’ Certainly Looks Stupid

Remember those giant pencils you’d buy as a kid, use them for a day in class as a joke and then chuck em before lunch? The SmartStylus is built on a similar premise. Coming in two models (SmartStylus 1 & 2), the stylus is designed to add vibration feedback “based on movements and commands in…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Gadget Deals of the Day

This is just what I need today! A free Blackberry Bold so I can post live about who ate it while I devour my free granola bar at the World Figure Skating Championships tonight! Woohooo! Cameras • Olympus Stylus 1050 10.1MP Digital Camera for $209.77 plus free shipping (normally $250). Cell Phones • Blackberry Bold…

Tech News Erica Ho

Orci And Kurtzman Not Returning To Transformers 3

Supreme genre writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are done bringing those zany transforming robots to life. But who else will be able to take us inside Bumblebee’s deepest character struggles? Over at the Don Murphy boards, Orci popped in to tell fans that the writing duo would most likely not be returning for the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

10 Ways Tech Magazines Are Failing Readers

Mike Elgan, former editor-in-chief for Windows Magazine, writes a great column on how gadgets blogs fail readers. It’s solid feedback and tough love. Here’s my list on why Tech Magazines are failing readers: 1) Too Slow: Most Computer magazines will write reviews of product you’ve already bought or read about on blogs 2 months before.…

Tech News Brian Lam

5 Things I Won’t Miss About BSG

I admit it; I was blown away by Battlestar Galactica’s almost-perfect series finale. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some things that I won’t miss about the show. Spoilers! Popularizing The Word “Frak” Yes, yes. It’s like “fuck” but in space. We get it already. “Frak” has become nerd cliche by this point, overused…

Television Graeme McMillan

How Vaccuum Tubes Are Made and Used, Explained in 1942

Just imagine, if everything that used transistors today was actually powered by beautiful vacuum tubes of old. Control yourselves, steampunkers, this 1942 RCA doc “Electrons on Parade” may blow your vintage thought fuses. And, also, forget Twitter—I need the narrator of these videos to just follow me around and annotate the minutiae of my life…

Tech News John Mahoney

Kazakhstan’s Cosmodrome Prepares for the Conquest of Space

It’s amazing how sleek and old-school the Soyuz rocket looks, preparing to blast off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. Especially surrounded by Soviet-looking guards. More Cosmodrome porn is below.

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Giz Explains: How a Brainy Worm Might Jack the World’s PCs on April 1

It’s lurking in millions of PCs around the world. It’s incredibly sophisticated and resilient, with built-in p2p and digital code-signing technology. It revels in killing security software. On April 1, the Conficker worm will activate. The scariest thing about the Conficker worm is that literally millions of infected Windows PCs could be linked together to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Wacom’s Intuos4 Pen Tablet Gets Reviewed (Verdict: Good Value)

Wacom has just released their newest pen tablet, the Intuos4, with features that are sure to interest any aspiring digital artist. If you fall in that category, PC Magazine thinks you won’t be disappointed. While it doesn’t compare to the Cintiq in terms of functionality, it also doesn’t carry the hefty price tag. For $230…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Walking, Talking Teddy Bear Built For Second Grade Science Project

When you have walking, talking Teddy bears with homemade computer chips showing up to a 2nd grade science fair, you know parental involvement has gone too far. Welcome to the seedy world of parent-sanctioned cheating. Speaking with the Chicago Tribune, one parent sheds light on the situation: Her son wanted to build a hockey game,…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

The Star That Died Too Young

It’s not just celebrities and beloved pets that pass before their time, apparently. Images from the Hubble Space Telescope have captured a star going supernova almost a million years before it should have. The star, which exploded back in 2005, existed in galaxy NGC 266, 200 million light years away. But at this point, scientists…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Nintendo DSiWare Launching April 5, Pricing Structure Revealed

If you were wondering about Nintendo’s DSiWare download store in the US, it will be available when the DSi hits retail on April 5, with games available for either free, 200, 500 or 800+ points. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-nintendo-dsi-this-blue-version-looks-dow-5171309 Much like Wii points, 100 DSiWare points will equal one dollar. The downloadable apps will include titles such as…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Blockbuster Wants Its OnDemand Content on Apple Devices

Blockbuster said today that getting the company’s OnDemand content to TiVos wasn’t the last step—they’re aiming for Apple devices as well. The Senior VP didn’t clarify or expand on this statement. [Reuters via Apple Insider] https://gizmodo.com/tivo-gets-blockbuster-ondemand-rentals-and-purchases-so-5182898

Tech News Jason Chen

Wii to Support SDHC, Not a Hard Drive

During Nintendo president Satoru Iwata’s GDC keynote today, the company revealed that the Wii will finally get SDHC support (that means compatibility with bigger SD cards) through an update that’s available now. With the new Wii Menu 4.0 update, you can download content directly from the Wii Shop Channel to your SD/SDHC, and the card…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Nintendo’s Miyamoto Is Always Behind You

From Kotaku’s liveblog: Nintendo shows why Mario creator Miyamoto is the boss. And why they really shouldn’t comment on ongoing legal proceedings. [Kotaku] https://kotaku.com/nintendos-satoru-iwata-gdc-keynote-liveblog-party-5183222 And a bonus! Thanks Frucci.

Tech News Jason Chen

Taye Diggs Gets Fanged As The Leader Of Dylan Dog’s Vampires

Dead Of Night, the live-action movie adaptation of the supernatural comic book Dylan Dog, has its brooding bad boy. According to Shock Till You Drop, Taye Diggs will be starring opposite Brandon Routh, the nightmare investigator, as the leader of the town’s gang of vamps. Also the lovely Anita Briem will be playing Dog’s mysterious…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Do You Like Old Cellphones? And Flash Drives?

This is a 2GB flash drive shaped like a tiny, ancient cellphone. Stub antenna and everything. It costs $10, and probably appeals only to collectors of things small, miniature and solid-state. [Product Page via ChipChick]

Tech News John Mahoney

Fingertip Mini Mini USB Trackball Is, Well…Mini

For those of you that hear “Fingertip Mini Mini” and think “vibrator” I’m with you. However, this device doles out pleasure by offering mobile users a compact means of interface control. The good news is that the Mini Mini supports all of the normal mouse functions like click, scroll and cursor mode. On the flipside,…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Will Spider-Man 4 Be Another Villain Logjam?

Spider-Man 4 is just in the early stages, according to director Sam Raimi. But Australian cinema chain Hoyts posted a synopsis on its website, including the movie’s villians. And it sounds… similar to Spider-Man 3. Here’s the Hoyts synopsis, which should obviously be taken with several massive grains of salt: Peter Parker now faces a…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

This Talking Cardboard Dude Is a Murderer (Allegedly)

A murder case that’s been cold for two years. Do you: Throw more detectives on it? Go on Japan’s Most Wanted? Or create life-size, talking cardboard cutouts of the killer? I think we have a winner! To catch the man who’s suspected of killing a young British woman in March 2007 and hasn’t been spotted…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Well This Vibrating ‘SmartStylus’ Certainly Looks Stupid

Gadget Deals of the Day

Orci And Kurtzman Not Returning To Transformers 3

10 Ways Tech Magazines Are Failing Readers

5 Things I Won’t Miss About BSG

How Vaccuum Tubes Are Made and Used, Explained in 1942

Kazakhstan’s Cosmodrome Prepares for the Conquest of Space

Giz Explains: How a Brainy Worm Might Jack the World’s PCs on April 1

Wacom’s Intuos4 Pen Tablet Gets Reviewed (Verdict: Good Value)

Walking, Talking Teddy Bear Built For Second Grade Science Project

The Star That Died Too Young

Nintendo DSiWare Launching April 5, Pricing Structure Revealed

Blockbuster Wants Its OnDemand Content on Apple Devices

Wii to Support SDHC, Not a Hard Drive

Nintendo’s Miyamoto Is Always Behind You

Taye Diggs Gets Fanged As The Leader Of Dylan Dog’s Vampires

Do You Like Old Cellphones? And Flash Drives?

Fingertip Mini Mini USB Trackball Is, Well…Mini

Will Spider-Man 4 Be Another Villain Logjam?

This Talking Cardboard Dude Is a Murderer (Allegedly)

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