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Giant Worm Not Actually Making Spice in Cornwall

Researchers at the Blue Reef Aquarium in Cornwall made a discovery worthy of a Frank Herbert novel: A massive, 4-foot-long reef worm that was chomping through their local corals. According to This Is The West Country: Staff eventually lured it out with fish scraps – but not before it bit through 20lb fishing line. Curator…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 19 '09

Cisco Acquires Pure Digital, Makers of the Flip Video Cam, For $590 Million

Cisco is surely on to something: an enterprise mobile videophone? $500,000 internet backbone router with cute modular Flip video cam? Or maybe they just want a consumer horse besides Linksys in their stable that clearly has some legs: Flip’s video cams have sparked a netbook-like fever, with everyone and their brother getting into the tiny…

Tech News John Mahoney Mar 19 '09

Mamiya’s $20k, 33-Megapixel DL33 Medium-Format Digital Is Beautiful

Medium format wizards Mamiya are continuing their legacy of huge-sensored digicams with the new DL33—33 megapixels spread across a 36mm x 48mm sensor, which is twice the size of a full-frame DSLR’s chip. As you know, sensor size and performance is the far more important factor governing image quality in digital photography. So the DL33…

Tech News John Mahoney Mar 19 '09

No One’s Kicking BigDog, Now That This Robot Has Horns

BigDog has been weaponized, with gigantic freaking bull horns. You remember that scary-as-hell walking military bot, whose owners videotaped themselves slo-mo kicking the crap out of him? Now BigDog will have revenge. https://gizmodo.com/dogoid-robot-with-no-head-moves-in-an-eerily-lifelike-m-368949 I’m actually very curious about who decided to put horns on Boston Dynamics’ quadrupedal robot, and whether they considered the possibility of…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 19 '09

iPhone 3G Tethering Now Working for Someone, Somewhere

A developer called Steve Troughton-Smith has managed to activate and use the 3G tethering feature available in the new iPhone 3.0 OS. He can now use his iPhone to connect his laptop to the internet. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3-0-os-guide-everything-you-need-to-know-5171796 I missed this one—even while I gave up and joined the Twitter cult a couple of days ago, after…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 19 '09

The New Shuffle Available in Pretty Colors for $129, Unofficially

While Apple insists on grey and black for the new iPod shuffle, Computer Choppers is happy to do some custom color anodizing for you. https://gizmodo.com/ipod-shuffle-review-2009-5169174 Any model in the pictured spectrum can be yours for $129, or a $50 premium over the stock iPod shuffle. But there are other options as well, such as copper,…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 19 '09

Echo’s Turning The Dollhouse Upside Down, And Summer Glau’s Having A Bad Day

Today’s spoilers include a ton of Dollhouse pics and plot twists. Plus clips from Sarah Connor and Smallville, plus tell-tale pics from K9, Lost, Heroes and Reaper. And Battlestar, Knowing, Thor and Thing spoilers Thor: Not only is Kenneth Branagh pumped up to direct the Thunder God’s saga, but he’s also thinking about ways Thor…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Mar 19 '09

ThumbTack iPod Mic Is as Cute as a Button Tack

If you’re the kind of person who demands that all electronics be twee and whimsical and you happen to need a mic for your Touch 2G or Nano 4G, well, here you go. The ThumbTack is touted as “the best quality micro-microphone in its category”, its category being, I assume, sub-$15 microphones that are shaped…

Tech News John Herrman Mar 19 '09

Google Brings 500,000 Public Domain eBooks To Sony Readers

If a book was published before 1923 and it’s at all worth reading, there’s a pretty good chance that you’ll soon be able to download it to your Sony reader for free. Sony is partnering with Google to offer a half-million public domain titles—already available to PC users on Google Book—to their library, making their…

Tech News John Herrman Mar 19 '09

iPhone 3.0 Lifts 10MB Over-the-Air Download Cap For Podcasts

This could easily get snuffed out before release, but OS 3.0 beta users can download >10MB podcasts over 3G. An annoying catch: the 10MB limit is still in place for the app store. The change, discovered by Macrumors forums user getinline1, preempts a dissonance that I wondered about during the Keynote: How could Apple/AT&T/everyotheriPhonecarrierintheworld justify…

Tech News John Herrman Mar 19 '09

Peek Emailer Spotted Running a Very Fuzzy Maps App

Spotted in the wild, this Peek appears to be running a maps app. Whether it’s a creative hack or a sign of things to come, the Peek might soon do more than just one thing. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-peek-pronto-is-peeks-business-email-device-5174291 Actually, the Peek currently does do more than one thing—it sends SMS messages as well as email—but this is…

Tech News John Herrman Mar 19 '09

With No Real Apple Netbook on the Horizon, Chinese Create Fake One

Sure, you could always wait for Apple to release its first netbook (if they actually do). But over here in China, when we want something bad enough, we go and make it ourselves. https://gizmodo.com/apple-releasing-a-touchscreen-netbook-this-summer-5166576 That’s right, manufacturers in Shenzhen have gone and created their own netbook. And in true copycat fashion, it has a hilariously…

Tech News Elaine Chow Mar 19 '09

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

A high-end ping pong club, natural skin care, and custom beer tap handles — just another week at Uncrate. This week at Uncrate: We enjoy our booze in proper fashion with the Johnnie Walker Tasting Kit, get down to work at the Spotlight Desk, and trim up the lawn the same way grandpa did with…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 19 '09

Israel Has Nukes, US Army Confirms

Good news people! The US army has confirmed that Israel has their very own circumcised version of Dr Manhattan’s schlong. Sources estimate a collection of 200 to 400 nuclear warheads. https://gizmodo.com/watchmen-review-is-ozymandias-steve-jobs-5164510 After years of ignoring the Israeli nuclear program—which was denounced in 1986 by former nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu—the United States’ Department of Defense has…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 19 '09

Spider Drill Piano Produces Symphony of Cacaphony

Brazilian artist Paulo Nenflidio, who’s currently showing off his work in Arizona, creates weird noise-producing sculptures like this robot drill spider, which ends up sounding as frightening as it looks. Each of the six hammer drills is linked keys on the main body’s keyboard. When a key is pressed, it causes the drills to start…

Tech News Elaine Chow Mar 19 '09

New F-15 Silent Eagle Is Cheap Stealth Plane for Recession-minded Warmongers

Here you have the F-15 Silent Eagle, a classic fighter with special coating and sightly angled surfaces to reduce its radar signature. Check out its completely new weapons bays, integrated in the fuel tanks. Obviously, this plane won’t have the same stealth capabilities of the F-35 Lightning II or the F-22 Raptor, but according to…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 19 '09

Internet Explorer 8 Gets All Final to Join New Browser Party

Microsoft seems like the last one to the new browser party that’s dragged out over the last month, but they are the first to make their entrance final with Internet Explorer 8. If you’ve used the release candidate, or even the beta right before it, it’ll be a mostly familiar experience, with nothing that seriously…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 19 '09

UFO Spotted Over China

Chinese officials have reported a UFO sighting while they were on an airplane and, in case anyone thought it was just a case of baijiu-induced hallucinations, they snapped pictures of it too. In a report from Xinhua, the government-sponsored news agency, a group of journalists and officials were on a Southern Airlines flight in late…

Tech News Elaine Chow Mar 18 '09

Cyborg Crocodile Would Make Captain Hook Pee His Pirate Panties

Holy ashfjksahfkdfhja. This is Robo-Croc. He’s built with a pair of metal rods that run down his face, and over forty screws are bolted to his head holding his jaw and skull together. Surgeons were forced to construct the biotechnological terror now known as Robo-Croc after a car crushed his formerly ordinary-but-endangered crocodile head last…

Biology Matt Buchanan Mar 18 '09

Computer Science Majors Get Laid More Than Any Other Kind of Geek

Or they lie a lot more than any other geek. This chart shows the percentage of virgins by major at Wellesley. I always knew there was a reason I liked art chicks. [Forwardon via Geekologie]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 18 '09

Giant Worm Not Actually Making Spice in Cornwall

Cisco Acquires Pure Digital, Makers of the Flip Video Cam, For $590 Million

Mamiya’s $20k, 33-Megapixel DL33 Medium-Format Digital Is Beautiful

No One’s Kicking BigDog, Now That This Robot Has Horns

iPhone 3G Tethering Now Working for Someone, Somewhere

The New Shuffle Available in Pretty Colors for $129, Unofficially

Echo’s Turning The Dollhouse Upside Down, And Summer Glau’s Having A Bad Day

ThumbTack iPod Mic Is as Cute as a Button Tack

Google Brings 500,000 Public Domain eBooks To Sony Readers

iPhone 3.0 Lifts 10MB Over-the-Air Download Cap For Podcasts

Peek Emailer Spotted Running a Very Fuzzy Maps App

With No Real Apple Netbook on the Horizon, Chinese Create Fake One

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

Israel Has Nukes, US Army Confirms

Spider Drill Piano Produces Symphony of Cacaphony

New F-15 Silent Eagle Is Cheap Stealth Plane for Recession-minded Warmongers

Internet Explorer 8 Gets All Final to Join New Browser Party

UFO Spotted Over China

Cyborg Crocodile Would Make Captain Hook Pee His Pirate Panties

Computer Science Majors Get Laid More Than Any Other Kind of Geek

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