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Canon D10 Submarine Toughcam: Love It, But Hate It

I love Canon’s D10 toughcam because it looks like a submarine. I hate it because I can’t fit its blimp-sized ass in my pocket or anywhere else in my pants. https://gizmodo.com/canon-d10-water-shock-and-freeze-proof-camera-is-lovec-5155511 The reason Canon gave for the D10 being so bulbous is to make the buttons big and easy to use underwater (which, if you…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 3

Meet Julius Genachowski, Obama’s Pick For FCC Chairman

Say hello to Julius Genachowski, a former Harvard buddy of Obama’s and a net neutrality defender. He not only helped with Obama’s campaign efforts online, but “previously worked as chief counsel to Democratic FCC Chairman Reed Hundt.” He was also “a top Obama technology advisor and aided in crafting a technology platform that supported Net…

Tech News Brian Lam Mar 3

Blockbuster Denies Rumors of Bankruptcy

Contrary to earlier reports, Blockbuster is denying that they’re considering filing for bankruptcy. [Marketwatch]

Tech News Brian Lam Mar 3

Christian Bale Will Be Angry At This Terminator Character Banner

“What the fuck is wrong with you? You’re giving a fucking robot equal billing as me? Who the fuck is this Sam Worthington guy anyway?” – Imaginary Christian Bale In My Head

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 3

Get Clean and Get Probed By the Aquapeutics Shower

The Aquapeutics shower is the kind of shower you’d take if you really needed to clean yourself off. The kind you’d take if you accidentally saw your parents having sex. It has two handheld nozzles, mirrors, 8 side jets, a radio, an LCD TV, MP3 input, 6mm of tempered glass, a heater pump, steam generator,…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 3

BREAKING: CAT BONG OWNER PUT CAT IN BONG THREE TIMES

The cat bong owner put his cat into a bong three times. Three times! [SF Gate] https://gizmodo.com/terrible-human-being-puts-his-cat-in-a-bong-to-chill-it-5163722

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 3

Stop External Drives From Spinning Down With NoSleepHD

Lifehacker found this NoSleepHD utility, which stops external (USB) hard drives from powering down to save energy. https://lifehacker.com/nosleephd-stops-external-hard-drives-from-shutting-down-5163175 This saves precious seconds if you’re only accessing the drive every few minutes, causing it to shut down between each use. It also helps avoid problems if your media server has an issue with drives going to…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 3

Car Smashes Through A Mac Store and Vindicates Windows Users

It’s sweet, sweet vindication when a Mac store gets pummeled by a car: I’m sick of those iPods, IcePods and those overpriced computers. Take that, Gizmodo Apple fanboys! https://gizmodo.com/who-wants-icepod-i-want-icepod-5163796 I don’t know exactly how, when, and what this car did to come crashing through the front of The Mac Store (which is a certified Mac…

Tech News Erica Ho Mar 3

Image of the Day: Gigantic Timekeeping

Flickr user cocoip captures this scene in Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan, as some lady walks past some gigantic digits. Is it a clock? A street address? A Godzilla countdown? [Flickr]

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 3

The Rise of Science Among Insects in “Incandescence”

Rakesh is sick of wandering the well-traveled galaxy, searching for a reason to live. That’s when a mysterious alien tells him about an uncatalogued, DNA-based species who have lived in isolation for millions of years. Greg Egan, author of Diaspora and other great space operas, released his most recent novel Incandescence late last year on…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 3

Summer Glau And Shirley Manson Talk Killer Robots

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles features two female Terminators: Summer Glau plays John Connor’s jealous sorta-girlfriend, while singer Shirley Manson is the world’s worst mother. We talked to them about “Octomom,” faux-humanity, and girl-fights. First of all, here’s the trailer for the last six episodes of the season that they showed at Wondercon, courtesy of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 3

Uh, We Almost Got Asteroided Yesterday

A 30-50 meter-wide asteroid just passed seven times closer to us than the moon, glowing so bright you could see it through a cloud. If it had hit the ocean, it would have tsunamied. The Sydney Morning Herald says that if it had been headed toward a populated part of the world, we would have…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 3

Final Text Message from Crashing Conductor: ‘ur gonna run the locomotive’

It turns out that the engineer who crashed a train in California last year, killing 25 people, was a big fan of texting constantly with teenage rail fans. And letting them drive his train. https://gizmodo.com/death-toll-rises-to-26-in-la-train-crash-engineer-may-5050222 Minutes before crashing his train head-on into another train, he texted “I’m gonna do all the radio talkin’ … ur…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 3

Powershot SD780 Is the Puny Point-and-Shoot Canon Employees Wanna Take Home

Canon’s got a bajillion cameras laying around, but this little guy, the Power SD780, is the one that most of the Canon reps said they want to stick in their pants and take home. https://gizmodo.com/canon-digital-elph-sd970-sd960-sd780-and-sd1200-point-5155513 That’s because it’s really teeny and the easiest to stick in your pants, and it pulls off the square form…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 3

What’s the Difference Between CMOS and CCD? Giz Explained It

Almost a year ago, we explained image sensors. This week, with all the camera news, it seems fitting to mention that, along with our explainers on the upside of lenses and the downside of megapixels. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-digital-camera-image-sensors-383170

Tech News Wilson Rothman Mar 3

Punching Bag Toy Requires You To Blow Wolverine

This one almost bests the Jesus’ bonerswitch. Almost. Logan won’t be happy. Or maybe he will, who knows. [Walyou] https://gizmodo.com/jesus-switch-turns-on-off-359540

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 3

Circuit City Scoreboard Shows Why They’re Shutting Down

One of the guys from our Circuit City retrospective just sent us this, a scoreboard from the back room of one of their stores tallying the reasons why customers say CC sucks. https://gizmodo.com/their-final-words-as-the-grunts-of-circuit-city-5146694 The winner by a long shot? Treated like crap. Of course. Other good reasons: overpricing, not having things in stock (it’s a…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 3

Pump Yourself Up For Astro Boy With Latex Cosplay

Prepare for the release of this year’s Astro Boy movie, with this bizarre and slightly disturbing cosplay tribute to Osamu Tezuka’s famous robotic boy dynamo. Okay, I admit it; I’m creeped out by that photo. It’s the headpiece, which doesn’t just have that disturbingly shocked expression but is, in fact, inflatable: The main feature, its…

io9 Graeme McMillan Mar 3

Who Wants icePod? I Want icePod!

The icePod holds no songs, nor will it play back video. But I dare say that it’s the sweetest icePod yet. Now I can’t speak for everyone here, but frankly, I’m a little sick of Apple’s incremental iPod updates. Luckily for me, there’s still a bit of crazy, no-holds-barred ingenuity in the world—and that ingenuity…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 3

Scott Wolf To Eat Heaps Of Guinea Pigs In V

Girly squee – my favorite cutie-with-a-drinking-problem has been cast in the reboot of stealth-invasion drama V. We don’t know if he’s an alien for sure – but a girl can dream. According to Entertainment Weekly Wolf has been cast as a series regular named Chad Decker. an Anderson Cooper wannabe who is tapped by the…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 3

Canon D10 Submarine Toughcam: Love It, But Hate It

Meet Julius Genachowski, Obama’s Pick For FCC Chairman

Blockbuster Denies Rumors of Bankruptcy

Christian Bale Will Be Angry At This Terminator Character Banner

Get Clean and Get Probed By the Aquapeutics Shower

BREAKING: CAT BONG OWNER PUT CAT IN BONG THREE TIMES

Stop External Drives From Spinning Down With NoSleepHD

Car Smashes Through A Mac Store and Vindicates Windows Users

Image of the Day: Gigantic Timekeeping

The Rise of Science Among Insects in “Incandescence”

Summer Glau And Shirley Manson Talk Killer Robots

Uh, We Almost Got Asteroided Yesterday

Final Text Message from Crashing Conductor: ‘ur gonna run the locomotive’

Powershot SD780 Is the Puny Point-and-Shoot Canon Employees Wanna Take Home

What’s the Difference Between CMOS and CCD? Giz Explained It

Punching Bag Toy Requires You To Blow Wolverine

Circuit City Scoreboard Shows Why They’re Shutting Down

Pump Yourself Up For Astro Boy With Latex Cosplay

Who Wants icePod? I Want icePod!

Scott Wolf To Eat Heaps Of Guinea Pigs In V

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