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Innergie mCube90 is a Small, Sleek, Energy-Saving Power Adapter

I’m normally not interested in the onslaught of green power strips and surge protectors, but Innergie’s mCube90 is interesting because they’re working with electronics manufacturers to have special power-management tech installed in the gadgets. So here’s what makes the mCube90 surge protector/universal-power adapter unique: most devices, even when fully charged (or off) still continue to…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Jewelry Box Features USB and Fingerprint Authentication Security

Perhaps Paris Hilton would have avoided the $2 million theft of her jewelry recently if she had one of these BioMirage Coffers. It can only be opened via fingerprint identification or a USB key. That seems far more convenient than carrying around a key or remembering a passcode, but couldn’t you just take the whole…

Privacy & Security Sean Fallon

Early Results from Largest Ever Cellphone Cancer Study Are Horribly Depressing

Interphone researchers are conducting the largest-ever study investigating if cellphones cause cancer, examining studies from 6,400 tumors in patients from 13 countries. Final results are expected in early 2009, but the preliminary ones are badbadbad. Israeli researchers in the study found that regular cellphones users are a whopping 50 percent more likely than non-users to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Chumby Hack Brings Social Networking To Goldfish

Goldfish must get lonely in those little bowls. I’m sure that’s why designer Bruno Fosi used guts from a Chumby to create a device that allows you to automate an aquarium and bring it online. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-chumby-wi-fi-widget-beanbag-cuddly-in-more-wa-359388 The details on the “My Chumby’s Fish” design are pretty thin, but it appears that sensors monitor conditions inside…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Images of the Boeing 737-500 Accident Aftermath

Back home for the holidays after a two-day JFK-London-Malaga-Madrid odyssey due to bad weather, missing flights, and losing my bags. Happy to be alive, however, after seeing these shots of Saturday’s 737 crash in Denver. There’s still no reason why the Boeing 737-500 went off the runway at takeoff. Fortunately, everyone survived, although two of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

This is How You Explain Malware To Your Grandparents

Show them this. Explain that opening all those damn attachments is the equivalent of letting a bunch of dudes with hairy arms reach through the internet, into their homes. Watch their reaction. The image is taken from Sophos’ 2009 security threat report, which says 37% of malware comes from inside the US, 27% comes from…

Tech News Jason Chen

At Last, a Kung Fu Robot Movie

There’s never been a kung fu robot movie, which is basically a crime against culture. Luckily Chinese director Jeffrey Lau is about to deal out justice with his upcoming movie about cyborg kung fu masters. Lau, pictured here with stars Sun Li and Hu Jun (center), has directed a number of other science fiction and…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Boxee Media Center Open to Everyone on Jan. 8

Boxee, which is our favorite way to unleash the true power of Apple TV is going from invite-only to totally open on Jan. 8, as it chugs along from alpha to beta. [boxee via Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/how-to-max-out-apple-tvs-potential-with-boxee-5082130

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Soda Cup Phone: Because Hamburgers are SO 2007

Unlike its spoiled brat sibling, the Hamburger Phone, the Soda Cup Phone doesn’t have a major motion picture to serve as its marketing machine. So it turned to us, the blogs, to spread the word. I’ll be honest—the Soda Cup may not have the same quirky appeal as the Hamburger, but it has stealth on…

Tech News Adrian Covert

MobileAge Wine Enthusiast App Icon Looks Like Something…

…I just can’t put my finger in it. What could it be? [App Store – Thanks Jeremy!]

Tech News Jason Chen

Nom Nom Nom, Over And Out

ZOMG guinea peeeg spiez! Super guinea pig agents are out to stop a billionaire baddie in Jerry Bruckheimer’s new G-Force movie. Hooray for secret agent critters with gadgets! No one ever suspects the guinea pig. A group of technologically enhanced furries take on a billionaire bad guy who wants to control the world. The underwater…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Fry’s Electronic Store VP Allegedly Embezzled $65 Million For Gambling Debts, Probably Pocketed Some Slim Jims and an Odwallas Too

Fry’s VP Ausaf Umar Siddiqui has been accused by the IRS of taking $65 million of Fry’s company money to “fuel his lavish lifestyle and pay off gambling debts.” Siddiqui’s downfall came when another exec found a spreadsheet with backroom deals for contracts (he was a buyer for Fry’s). He’d then get vendors to sell…

Tech News Jason Chen

PuzzleQuest Puzzling Up iPhones Now, Two More Installments Coming

PuzzleQuest, one of the pioneers of combining Bejeweled-style gameplay with RPG-style spells and weapons, just hit the iPhone. What’s interesting is that publisher TransGaming is releasing this in three chapters, meaning you’ll have to pay $10 three times if you want to get the “complete” experience. That is, if you haven’t already played the game…

Tech News Jason Chen

3 Novel(la)s About Financial Shenanigans Of The Future

Every day, new revelations about financial wrongdoing come out, and the Bernard Madoff scandal seems to be the tip of the crapheap. But fear not — science fiction is here to make sense of it. Lately, I’ve come across a couple of recommendations of science fiction novels/novellas about financial hustling and evildoing. (Plus, of course,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Lego Santa Crab Will Eat Your Cookies, Drink Your Milk, Kill You

Dear Kids. You all have been bad. You’ll be all dead tomorrow night. Merry Xmas, Lego Santa Crab. P.S. Check out my other cool pics. I rock. You don’t. Ho Ho Ho. Ho. [Andrew Colunga via Neatorama]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Notebooks Beat Desktops for the First Time Ever

According to the trusted researchers at iSuppli, laptop computer sales outpaced desktops for the first time last quarter. Strong netbook sales may have played a decisive role in the change. Netbooks may have been the deciding factor in pushing notebooks over the top. “The big news from iSuppli’s market share data for the third quarter…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Sex . . . In Space!

Need to know exactly how sex in space would work? Luckily our sister site Fleshbot has braved the dark byways of the History Channel, and unearthed a clip from one of their recent shows that explores this very question. With a video and everything. Check it out. (Video is worksafe, but it’s on Fleshbot, so…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Google Street View Captures Man/Woman Peeing In the Street

Google Street view has caught a lot of people doing a lot of things, but is this the first instance of it catching someone peeing on the street? Here’s what we think. This takes place in Madrid, Spain. Jesus frequents Madrid. This person likes peeing. Jesus is known to pee from time to time. Thus,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Martha Washington Goes To The Movies

With The Spirit under his belt and Buck Rogers waiting in the wings, will Frank Miller return to his own creations for a third attempt at movie direction? Watchmen’s Dave Gibbons says maybe. Doing promotional interviews for next year’s Watchmen movie, Gibbons hinted that there may be a movie in the offing for his co-creation…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Eyeglasses With Fluid-Filled Sac for World’s Poor Are Instantly Adjustable

British Inventor Josh Silver has developer a pair of eyeglasses that are instantly adjustable. They’ve got a liquid-filled sac in the middle—add more fluid to make the glasses stronger, deflate to weaken them. The no-optician-required glasses rely on the principle that the fatter a lens is, the more powerful it comes, so by pumping in…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Innergie mCube90 is a Small, Sleek, Energy-Saving Power Adapter

Jewelry Box Features USB and Fingerprint Authentication Security

Early Results from Largest Ever Cellphone Cancer Study Are Horribly Depressing

Chumby Hack Brings Social Networking To Goldfish

Images of the Boeing 737-500 Accident Aftermath

This is How You Explain Malware To Your Grandparents

At Last, a Kung Fu Robot Movie

Boxee Media Center Open to Everyone on Jan. 8

The Soda Cup Phone: Because Hamburgers are SO 2007

MobileAge Wine Enthusiast App Icon Looks Like Something…

Nom Nom Nom, Over And Out

Fry’s Electronic Store VP Allegedly Embezzled $65 Million For Gambling Debts, Probably Pocketed Some Slim Jims and an Odwallas Too

PuzzleQuest Puzzling Up iPhones Now, Two More Installments Coming

3 Novel(la)s About Financial Shenanigans Of The Future

Lego Santa Crab Will Eat Your Cookies, Drink Your Milk, Kill You

Notebooks Beat Desktops for the First Time Ever

Sex . . . In Space!

Google Street View Captures Man/Woman Peeing In the Street

Martha Washington Goes To The Movies

Eyeglasses With Fluid-Filled Sac for World’s Poor Are Instantly Adjustable

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