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Minutemen Arcade Takes Us Back to a Time That Never Was

I just love this Minutemen arcade machine. Sure it’s just a Flash-based recreation of an 80s-style beat-them-up game that never happened, but I played for a few minutes and I want it for my iPhone. The graphics and the music are just spot on, the controls simple, and the purpose is clear: Kick goons’ ass…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Secret of Eternal Life, Better Sex Found in Mammoth Graveyard

Get ready for eternal life and better sex: Russians scientists working on a Siberian mammoth graveyard have found unknown bacterium DNA which, according to preliminary lab results, effectively extends mice’s life-as well as other things. According to Professor Anatoli Broushkov, their “set of tests and the results prove that simple organisms like fruit flies and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Pointui 2 Gives Touchscreen Windows Mobile Phones a New Lease on Life

A new beta of the hotly praised but seemingly dormant Pointui Windows Mobile shell project is available for download. A quick test leaves us with this tentative verdict: it’s awesome. Jason got a pretty serious boner about Pointui Home when he tested the first version early last year, and things have only gotten better. A…

Tech News John Herrman

Big Blue PC Is Ultimate Homage to 80s Lego Sets

This is Big Blue, a custom PC homage to the best Lego sets in history, including the Galaxy Explorer, the Yellow Castle, the Firefighter Station, plus a built-in touchscreen, spectrum analyzer, and HDTV tuner. https://gizmodo.com/best-lego-sets-in-history-349929/ It’s like a Lego secret vault in a box. And that Lego logo on top just rocks my brick world.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Palm Pre Spec Sheet Confirms Tethering, But At What Cost?

Palm has updated their Pre website with a spec list, most of which we’re already familiar with. Except for one thing: Unlike its stated nemesis, the Pre will feature data tethering from the get-go. It looks like USB and Bluetooth tethering will be enabled on the Pre, linking your laptop or PC to Sprint’s speedy…

Tech News John Herrman

New Warning Label: Lithium-Ion Batteries May Explode

Apparently some lawyers heard that lithium-ion batteries explode, and are now making companies ship gear with these stickers. But what’s with the wine glass? Literally: Drinking with mismatched batteries may lead to consumption by fire.

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Polished “Universe” Ring Models Our Insignificance

The #5 Universe Ring is a beautiful piece based on a theory that our universe is actually shaped like a donut. See that tiny little speck on its side? That imperfection is us. Magnify the speck and you’ll realize that it actually contains a model of the known universe. Made by a group of three…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Garmin-Asus Nuvifone M20: A Surprisingly Cute WinMo 6.1 GPS Phone

Garmin-Asus will launch the M20, a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone, sometime this year. True to the name, this cute touchscreen handset comes with car dock and a full set of GPS maps for deep-country use. As we mentioned last week, this never-before-seen handset will actually be the second Nuvifone to hit the market, after the…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Garmin-Asus Nuvifone G60 Screenshots and Specs

Though Garmin-Asus’ Nuvifone M20 may soon steal the spotlight, the original phone—now called G60—will still be first to market. Here are its final specs, and a new screenshot gallery of the Garmin-designed interface. https://gizmodo.com/garmin-asus-nuvifone-m20-a-surprisingly-cute-winmo-6-1-5152088 • 3.5″ touchscreen display • HSDPA 3G plus Bluetooth and wi-fi • Built-in accelerometer • Pre-loaded maps of your region (so…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Real Friends Don’t Use Friends As Target Practice For World’s Most Powerful Nerf Gun

A couple of dudebros created what they called the World’s Most Powerful Nerf gun. They then proceeded to shoot their friend… in a very unfriendly place. Man, that looks like it hurt. [Break] Click to view

Tech News Elaine Chow

Canon’s VIXIA HD Camcorders Get Prices and March/April Release Dates

When we reported on Canon’s new VIXIA HD camcorders at CES this year, pricing and availability had yet to be announced. Now, it looks like they’ll cost $250-$1,300 and will be released by April. https://gizmodo.com/canon-drops-five-new-vixia-hd-camcorders-imaging-and-s-5123482 The prices and availability dates are as follows: • Vixia HF S10: $1,299.99, early March • Vixia HF S100: 1,099.99,…

Tech News Andi Wang

How Palm’s OS Tried To Go From PDAs to Smartphones

After today’s remarks from Palm Co-CEO Ed Colligan, the Palm OS is officially dead as far as new updates and development goes. But here’s a look at its evolution over its 13-year lifespan https://gizmodo.com/palm-os-is-dead-long-live-pre-and-windows-mobile-5151721 Palm OS will continue to exist for a short while in the Centro, but after that, it’s done. Palm OS was…

Tech News Adrian Covert

RIM’s New Blackberry Enterprise Server 5.0 Launches in Q2 2009, Adds Better Desktop Syncing

Research in Motion (RIM)’s Blackberry Enterprise Server 5.0, known as Argon, will launch in the second quarter of 2009 and will include more user-friendly functions, like the ability to view attachments in calendar entries. Some of the improvements will include: • Retrieve corporate documents behind firewalls • Add, read, rename and delete folders on the…

Tech News Erica Ho

How Many Hamsters Does It Take To Power a Device?

The answer is four, say scientists at Georgia Tech. If you are high now or plan to be soon, watch this video a few times. You can thank me later. [Full Story: Technology Review]

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Sony Ericsson W395 Walkman Phone’s Speaker is Bass-y

Sony Ericsson’s newest Walkman cell phone is targeting the youth, not only by photographing the gadget with skateboards, but also by highlighting the phone’s built-in stereo speakers—with an emphasis on high quality bass. Sony Ericsson is bringing great music to the masses with the slick slider W395 Walkman phone, complete with large powerful built-in stereo…

Tech News Andi Wang

Ultimate Windows Tweaker Now Works On Windows 7

The Ultimate Windows Tweaker has been updated with 20 additional tweaks for Vista (150 in all). Even better news is that it appears to work with Windows 7 as well. According to DownloadSquad, the new 1.1 software worked well on the beta 7 install, save for a single error message that didn’t seem to have…

Tech News Sean Fallon

It’s Good To Be A Sandman . . . Except When Naked Chicks Are Sad

Logan’s Run perfectly captures everything people in the 1970s thought was futuristic – including a bunch of hippie fascists who teleport random sex partners into their bedrooms via a device called “the circuit.” The plot has become as timeworn as space flowerchildren themselves: A domed city run by computers forces everyone to die at the…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Dark Knight Director’s New Project Begins With Inception

Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan‘s next movie will be an epic sci-fi action movie for Dark Knight studio Warner Bros. – But it won’t feature Batman. Instead, Nolan is looking to create something all new. Inception, described by Warners as “a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind,” and is based on…

Movies Graeme McMillan

The Transformers’ Devastator: 23 Years Later

The image on the left, The Transformers: The Movie Devastator (1986). The image on your right, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Devastator (2009). Which version do you prefer? [tfw2005 via Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/transformers-2-devastator-revealed-gives-us-nightmares-5151764

Tech News Mark Wilson

Doctor Who Revisits Its Lowest Point, With Colin Baker

The Doctor Who audio adventures sold by Big Finish have gone a long way towards rehabilitating the much-reviled Colin Baker version of the Doctor. Are they about to throw all that away now? The audio company, which has been doing Who stories for years now, has given Baker some decent scripts, which allowed him to…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Minutemen Arcade Takes Us Back to a Time That Never Was

Secret of Eternal Life, Better Sex Found in Mammoth Graveyard

Pointui 2 Gives Touchscreen Windows Mobile Phones a New Lease on Life

Big Blue PC Is Ultimate Homage to 80s Lego Sets

Palm Pre Spec Sheet Confirms Tethering, But At What Cost?

New Warning Label: Lithium-Ion Batteries May Explode

Polished “Universe” Ring Models Our Insignificance

Garmin-Asus Nuvifone M20: A Surprisingly Cute WinMo 6.1 GPS Phone

Garmin-Asus Nuvifone G60 Screenshots and Specs

Real Friends Don’t Use Friends As Target Practice For World’s Most Powerful Nerf Gun

Canon’s VIXIA HD Camcorders Get Prices and March/April Release Dates

How Palm’s OS Tried To Go From PDAs to Smartphones

RIM’s New Blackberry Enterprise Server 5.0 Launches in Q2 2009, Adds Better Desktop Syncing

How Many Hamsters Does It Take To Power a Device?

Sony Ericsson W395 Walkman Phone’s Speaker is Bass-y

Ultimate Windows Tweaker Now Works On Windows 7

It’s Good To Be A Sandman . . . Except When Naked Chicks Are Sad

Dark Knight Director’s New Project Begins With Inception

The Transformers’ Devastator: 23 Years Later

Doctor Who Revisits Its Lowest Point, With Colin Baker

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