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Steampunk AIO Computer Is a PC That Looks Old, Which is Apparently Still Exciting

Saying that steampunk is played out is almost getting played out itself, but they just keep making things. This week we have a another winner: a computer! Covered in brass! With horns! Die. https://gizmodo.com/intricate-steampunk-mouse-might-have-gone-a-bit-far-wit-5105169 The screen, as is painfully obvious, is the centerpiece of this mod, which is the first problem. A good Steampunk device…

Tech News John Herrman

Take Your First Look Inside Whedon’s Dollhouse

Joss Whedon knows what to give his fans for the holidays: a brand new clip from next year’s Dollhouse, complete with the creepiness essential to make it through the sentiment of the season. The clip, which first appeared on Michael Ausiello’s Entertainment Weekly blog yesterday, shows Eliza Dushku’s Echo waking up from a mindwipe, and…

Television Graeme McMillan

Windows XP Lives for Four More Months

While Microsoft had planned to stop selling Windows XP licenses by January 31st, the company has extended that deadline to May 30th. You could blame the general mediocrity of Vista for the extension, but bigger still is probably the rise and popularity of netbooks and other PCs packing slower, lower wattage processors. While XP can…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Do Crazy Restaurant Ideas Make You The Final Cylon?

OMG spoilers! Terminator 4! Transformers and Dragonball pics! A new side of Gaeta from BSG season 4.5! Doctor Who and Lost hints! Plus Heroes, Sarah-Connor, Smallville, Spirit, Stargate, Life On Mars and Knight Rider. Terminator Salvation: Fans asked Arnie if he’d be in the new movie, and he said, “You never know.” [Arnold Fans via…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo Flies For the First Time

We saw ground tests last week, but yesterday morning WhiteKnightTwo-the funky-looking double-wide plane that will take SpaceShipTwo and its cargo of millionaires on suborbital spaceflights-finally took off on its maiden voyage. https://gizmodo.com/virgin-galactics-whiteknighttwo-performing-runway-tests-5110215 The flight lasted just under an hour, and apparently all went according to plan. You can see some brief in-flight videos at Flightglobal.…

Space & Spaceflight John Mahoney

NPR Mobile: iPhone’s First NPR App

If our googling serves us right, NPR Mobile is the first NPR application for the iPhone. So who wants to experience the unique sensation of falling asleep while jogging? (We kid, we kid.) Free to download, NPR Mobile allows you to browse and stream NPR programs, plus it includes a handy-looking NPR station finder along…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Octopuses Notice and Prefer High-Def TVs, Unlike Dad

Extremely important research is being done in Australia right now, and it’s yielding extremely important results: octopuses are officially more technically discerning than about 1/5th of the American public. https://gizmodo.com/one-in-five-hdtv-owners-cant-tell-standard-def-from-hd-5098282 Macquarie University’s Renata Pronk has discovered that the animals, despite probably not even seeing color, were much more interested in HDTV than in SD, though…

Tech News John Herrman

Brain-Implanted Bionic Sex Stimulation Chip Is Probably Not Needed

Scientists are working in a new brain-implanted sex stimulation chip that will make you (even more) horny than what you already are. Apparently, according to Oxford University researcher Professor Aziz, it was discovered by accident: A few years ago a scientist implanted such a device into the brain of a woman with a low sex…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

LG Transmissive/Reflective LCD Will Work Just as Well Outdoors as In

Transmissive and reflective illumination? Is this somehow exciting? Although they’ve done their best to make it sound boring, LG is onto something pretty significant here: a display that suits use indoors and out. LCDs are generally illuminated in one of two ways, either with a backlight, which pumps light through the pixels from the rear,…

Tech News John Herrman

iPhone App Store Bans Book App for Naughty Language

Self-published authors are now distributing books in self-contained iPhone apps, but when a friend of ours submitted his for approval, he got blackballed for content that was either “obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory.” NSFW pic: Yes, our buddy David Carnoy, an editor at CNet, wrote an emergency-room psychodrama called Knife Music which he published through…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Video of Next Android OS Shows On-Screen Keyboard

Anticipating a selection of QWERTY-less handsets to run the platform in the near future, the next version of Android will have an onscreen keyboard, among other things. Here’s what it’ll look like. The two most notable aspects of the keyboard are its style and its method of feedback, which are both slightly derivative. You may…

Tech News John Herrman

First Designer Baby to Be Born in UK

This week, the first truly designer baby will be born in Britain. She’s the offspring of a woman whose family had an incredibly high incidence of early breast cancer – all traceable back to a specific gene that causes a predisposition for the disease. Without intervention, her baby would have had a 50-80% chance of…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Metropia’s Gorgeous CG Cast Remind Me To Get Back Into The Sun But Avoid The Zombie Samurais

Tarik Saleh’s absolutely stunning futuristic Swedish film, Metropia, creates such believable characters that you’ll start to question just how real it is. Plus, Zombie Samurai fills the necessary blood quota for the week. Metropia’s collection of beautiful yet sickly characters made me do a double- and triple- take. Set in a not-so-distant future, the world…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Unofficial Theory Of Sci-Fi Connectivity

Click to viewIf you’ve ever suspected that all of your favorite shows, books and comics all took place in the same universe, you’re probably right. And we’ve got a chart to prove it. Click through for awesome. We’ve concentrated on three types of crossovers between series: Direct Crossover, where characters from one series or another…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Evernote

Already a popular web service and found on other devices, Evernote does something that every location-aware cameraphone should be able to do: quickly take and store geotagged photos so you can remember stuff. For as much as I love finding new NYC bars, I have the darndest time remembering where I found them when it’s…

Tech News John Mahoney

Play In a College Football Bowl Game, Get Piles of Free Gear

There’s more to playing football in college than a potential NFL contract and a sound education—there’s stacks of free gear and gadgets to be had too! Just as an example, the players that butt heads in the Rose Bowl will receive a package that includes: # Sony DVD camcorder # Commemorative Fossil watch # Commemorative…

Gadgets Jack Loftus

Roku Player Gets Update for Netflix HD, Future Service Expansion

Roku owners were greeted with a brand new home screen this morning as the service was updated to handle HD video and a expansion that could see new channels and web content on your TV. According to NewTeeVee, the new screen was accompanied by a welcome message: By now you’ve discovered our new home screen.…

Tech News Jack Loftus

“What is the name of a movie where two boys find a monster in their school toilet?”

The most awesome thing on the internet is when people post a vague, rambling description of a science fiction story they read, or saw – and most of the time, amazingly, someone identifies it. Here’s one that popped up just the other day, from someone who watched part of a scene from a movie: An…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Sony Declares Death to Clamshell Packaging by Way of Campy Video

As someone who’s ended up on the wrong end of clamshell packaging, I welcome all news about manufacturers that abandon the practice. Sony did just that this week (but the video still needs work). As we reported yesterday, Sony is but one of several big name companies that have pledged an end to wasteful, destructive…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Dev-Team Shows Live iPhone 3G Unlock ‘Yellowsn0w’ Demo

This video is the first public demo of the iPhone 3G unlock, named “yellowsn0w”, courtesy of Dev-Team member MuscleNerd. With a wave of his hand, he goes from AT&T to T-Mobile, and makes a call. Click to view The target release date for the official unlock is New Year’s Eve. The unlock will only be…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Steampunk AIO Computer Is a PC That Looks Old, Which is Apparently Still Exciting

Take Your First Look Inside Whedon’s Dollhouse

Windows XP Lives for Four More Months

Do Crazy Restaurant Ideas Make You The Final Cylon?

Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo Flies For the First Time

NPR Mobile: iPhone’s First NPR App

Octopuses Notice and Prefer High-Def TVs, Unlike Dad

Brain-Implanted Bionic Sex Stimulation Chip Is Probably Not Needed

LG Transmissive/Reflective LCD Will Work Just as Well Outdoors as In

iPhone App Store Bans Book App for Naughty Language

Video of Next Android OS Shows On-Screen Keyboard

First Designer Baby to Be Born in UK

Metropia’s Gorgeous CG Cast Remind Me To Get Back Into The Sun But Avoid The Zombie Samurais

The Unofficial Theory Of Sci-Fi Connectivity

Evernote

Play In a College Football Bowl Game, Get Piles of Free Gear

Roku Player Gets Update for Netflix HD, Future Service Expansion

“What is the name of a movie where two boys find a monster in their school toilet?”

Sony Declares Death to Clamshell Packaging by Way of Campy Video

Dev-Team Shows Live iPhone 3G Unlock ‘Yellowsn0w’ Demo

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