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Exercising Kintore-Z Robot Is Fundamentally Flawed

Last weekend Adam and I were stranded an extra day in Las Vegas, watching football in our Wynn tower penthouse, and the Fox Sports robot started doing pushups. And we struck upon a revelation. That revelation is that exercising robots make absolutely no sense. Robot exercise is destructive; it breaks things down, rather than build…

Tech News John Mahoney

The Lavish Vegas Demands of an Ex-Fry’s Executive

Ausaf Umar Siddiqui was a Fry’s executive who attempted to embezzle money after losing $120 million in Vegas over three years. Poor guy, Mercury News just received seven pages of his standard Vegas hotel demands. Fiji water, grouped in bottles of three. Golden raisins and warmed mixed nuts. Aramis cologne and badger hair shaving brush.…

Tech News Mark Wilson

This Woman May Eat You Alive

Is this the face of the Black Widow? Rumors have Emily Blunt as the front-runner to play the Russian femme fatale in next year’s Iron Man 2, and we couldn’t be happier. The always-reliable “sources” are reporting that Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada and soon to be seen in The Wolfman) is the lead in…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Physicists Believe Our Universe Is One Big Hologram, And They May Have Spotted the Pixels

It’s not until you acknowledge the world’s greatest physicists do you realize how fundamentally useless our role here is. You and I will not uncover the secrets of the Universe. Luckily, someone’s working on it. One branch of theoretical physics believes that the Universe is just a holographic version of 2D information. And scientists have…

Space & Spaceflight Mark Wilson

Star Trek Space Battles! Giant Slugs! Doctor Who Aliens! Smallville Clips!

Star Trek and BSG will make perfect sense, promise creators. Lost and Smallville clips! Plus dirt on Doctor Who, Star Wars, Heroes, Fringe, Sarah Connor and Dollhouse. The spoiler watch is right twice a day! Star Trek: Some old-school fans take issue with the new bar-brawling, jive-talking Kirk, because of a famous quote that Kirk…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Cyber Heartbeat Watch Tells Time Through EKG

The Cyber Heartbeat LED watch won’t measure your actual heartbeat, but the whole living breathing human thing is so overrated. The watch, coming in silver or black with a red or green display, uses a series of LEDs to mimic an EKG spiking in correlation to the time. You can either choose to view this…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Google Video Finally Falls to YouTube

YouTube stablemate Google Video, which tragicomically never made it out of beta, will stop accepting uploads in a few months. Plus, other no-name Google services are dying. Goodbye! [Google Blog via NoWhereElse]

Tech News John Herrman

Buffalo Draft N Wireless Dongle Makes Your Netbook Look Huge

Buffalo Electronics is claiming that their WLI-UC-GN Wi-Fi dongle is the smallest Draft N 2.0 adapter in the world. Is it? Who knows. But it’s definitely tiny, and surprisingly cheap. At 33mm by 16mm, this dongle really couldn’t be much smaller—the brains of the unit are almost the same size as the plug itself. Nor…

Tech News John Herrman

Palm Pre May Be a Best Buy Exclusive, At Least For a Few Months

WebOS Arena (jeez, that didn’t take long) is reporting that the Palm Pre will be exclusive to Best Buy Mobile (and Sprint stores, obviously) for its first two months, citing a “credible source”. This wouldn’t be totally surprising, as Sprint has previously given Best Buy such privileges, most notably in the case of the Samsung…

Tech News John Herrman

Next Intel Atom’s Biggest Upgrade Is Its Price

Some details have emerged about Intel’s Atom N280 processor, the successor to the wildly popular N270 that drove last year’s netbook craze. In short, it’s not looking like much of an update. The N280 gets three performance boosts: the speed will inch up from 1.6GHz to 1.66GHz, the front side bus will climb from 533MHz…

Tech News John Herrman

Tri3 Trash Can Recycles Your Waste Stylishly

The Tri3 trashcan stacks three cans together to make recycling even easier than normal. It’s also much neater, and more stylish, than my solution of throwing recyclables into a heap in the kitchen corner. The top can, which also contains a bag dispenser, is for disposable goods. The middle can is for packaging and the…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Mickey Mouse Autobot is More Than Meets the Eye

I love Transformers and I love Disney, but it never occurred to me that they’d go together. Luckily for us, Japanese toy makers are much better than I at coming up with cross-promotional products. With the Mickey Mouse Transformer, everybody’s favorite rodent goes from sitting in a semi to perched on top of a giant…

Tech News Elaine Chow

AT&T Testing the Waters with American Idol Spam Texts

AT&T is the first cellphone carrier to begin spamming its customers with text ads. It recently sent texts advertising American Idol to a “significant number” of its customers. Stop right there, AT&T. Obviously, this is a terrible, terrible idea. The company defended itself by saying that the texts were free and that people could easily…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Eyelash Growing Drug Will Cure That Baldness Around Your Eyes

If you’ve ever worried about the inadequacy of your eyelashes, the company that brought you Botox now has a serum to make them longer and fuller. The source of its power: repurposed glaucoma meds. Allergan will introduce the lash growing drug, named Latisse, at the end of the month. It’ll be used to treat “eyelash…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Think of It As a Vibrator for Your Mind [NSFW]

The new Cinemax series Forbidden Science started last Friday, delivering a sexy, low-budget tale of renegade clones, memory downloads, and android property rights. Also, did we mention the sexy part? Created by longtime concept designer Doug Brode, who previously worked props for Iron Man and JJ Abrams’ Star Trek, Forbidden Science is a fun, Flash…

Television Annalee Newitz

On Apple Reporting: Fake Steve Rips CNBC a New One

When we published a rumor we got raked across the coals by Jimbo over sources. Unfortunately, he was wrong. UPDATE: Fake Steve Jobs is “banned” for asking Jim to apologize on CNBC. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-health-declining-rapidly-reason-for-macworl-5120687 When Apple announced that Steve Jobs was skipping Apple’s final Macworld keynote on Dec. 16, CNBC’s Jim Goldman assured everyone that it…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Fakemodo: CNBC’s Jim Goldman’s Apple Sources Revealed

Jim assures us that his new Apple sources are “tangible and trustworthy.” They are quite tangible, Jim. And soft, too.

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Women Control Gadget Buying Regardless of Who Controls the Remote

From a Sex and Electronics article: “Women buy 57% of consumer electronics (to the tune of about $80B), but influence 90% of all CE purchases.” I find those numbers shocking. But I am not married. The figures are from CEA and Best Buy respectively, and were presented at a panel at CES on Sex and…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Mutant Solar Powered Doohickey Monster Brings a Touch of Ugly to Any Room

I think the term “handmade” just about covers this, this…whatever it is. For about $80 you to can own this freaky electronic Frankenstein that does nothing but consume sunlight and writhe around in agony. I’ll admit, “Nigel the Bugbut” is kind of cool in a Edward Scissorhands and Naked Lunch sort of way—but I’ll bet…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Will Smith To Star In McG’s Undersea Adventure?

McG is already starting to put the word out (to the press) that he’s interested in casting science fiction’s most bankable actor in the role for young Nemo in 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. https://gizmodo.com/mcg-to-battle-a-baby-giant-squid-as-new-captain-of-20-0-5125509 After the NYC screening for Terminator Salvation, McG apparently got a bit chatty to a group of reporters about his…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Exercising Kintore-Z Robot Is Fundamentally Flawed

The Lavish Vegas Demands of an Ex-Fry’s Executive

This Woman May Eat You Alive

Physicists Believe Our Universe Is One Big Hologram, And They May Have Spotted the Pixels

Star Trek Space Battles! Giant Slugs! Doctor Who Aliens! Smallville Clips!

Cyber Heartbeat Watch Tells Time Through EKG

Google Video Finally Falls to YouTube

Buffalo Draft N Wireless Dongle Makes Your Netbook Look Huge

Palm Pre May Be a Best Buy Exclusive, At Least For a Few Months

Next Intel Atom’s Biggest Upgrade Is Its Price

Tri3 Trash Can Recycles Your Waste Stylishly

Mickey Mouse Autobot is More Than Meets the Eye

AT&T Testing the Waters with American Idol Spam Texts

Eyelash Growing Drug Will Cure That Baldness Around Your Eyes

Think of It As a Vibrator for Your Mind [NSFW]

On Apple Reporting: Fake Steve Rips CNBC a New One

Fakemodo: CNBC’s Jim Goldman’s Apple Sources Revealed

Women Control Gadget Buying Regardless of Who Controls the Remote

Mutant Solar Powered Doohickey Monster Brings a Touch of Ugly to Any Room

Will Smith To Star In McG’s Undersea Adventure?

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