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Watchmen’s Day Of Reckoning Now Two Weeks Later

Waiting for March’s release of the Watchmen movie? Get ready to wait a little while longer – The lawsuit over who owns the movie has hit a couple of roadblocks en route to early settlement. The legal action brought by Fox against Warner Bros. claims that the former studio was the true owner of the…

Movies Graeme McMillan

NASA Explores Possibility of Selling Shuttles for $42 Million

NASA has put out an RFI gauging interest in the sale of the three current Space Shuttle orbiters to museums and schools with an asking price of $42 million—$6 million shipping and handling included! NASA has never sold its de-commisioned vehicles to museums before, but when times are tough, you do what you have to…

Space & Spaceflight John Mahoney

Robot Rinses Dishes, Puts them In Dishwasher

Panasonic and the University of Tokyo have developed a robot capable of rinsing any dish and put it into the dishwasher. If you’re lazy enough to rejoice, you are probably too lazy to click The dishwashing robot has three joints and enough sensitivity not to break your china. It moves on a rail, guided by…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Dealzmodo: All PS3 Gold Box Today

I’ll be honest. More than once, these all day Gold Boxes have let me down. But I’m shamelessly addicted to the format. And today, it’s all PS3, all day. A few of the deals are obvious games, like Brothers in Arms Hell’s Highway and Tomb Raider Evolution Underworld, but it looks like at least a…

Commerce Mark Wilson

Torchwood Revelations, And Spider-Man’s Musical Foe

Spoilers are the fastest moving kind of news. Today: the Spider-Man musical gets a villain. Torchwood gets a synopsis, of sorts. Lost set pics! Plus spoilers for Dollhouse, Fringe, BSG, Doctor Who and Smallville. Spider-Man: The Musical: Are you pumped up for this U2-scored, Lion King-flavored, budget-busting spectacular? Then let star Evan Rachel Wood tell…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Swarm-bots Converge On Child, Rescue Her From Freaky Parents

The collective power of many little robots could do a lot of good for the world. But for now, it just pulls little children across the floor in a freaky way. Still, I find myself transfixed as the robots self-organize, connecting to one another like a giant train to stack their power for a greater…

Artificial Intelligence Mark Wilson

Rand McNally Releases Atlases for Kindle, Has Odd Vision for the Future of Maps

Rand McNally can’t be happy with everyone dropping their bulky atlases for GPS units and nav-enabled phones, so they’re fighting back. But they seem a little confused. The company is releasing a series of atlases for the Kindle, which will be purchased, delivered and consumed like any other ebook on the platform. The first maps,…

Commerce John Herrman

‘Cupcake’ Roadmap Hints at What’ll Be In the Next Android Update

Hidden among a slew of bugfixes and refinements announced in a posting on the Android project site are a few serious feature upgrades, which could make their way to your G1 fairly soon. The most practical update may be to the camera functions, which have finally expanded to include video recording. The browser gets a…

Tech News John Herrman

First Smartphones, Now Feature Phones: Motorola Leaks More 2009 Handsets

Yesterday’s purported renders of Motorola’s 2009 smartphone line seemed plausible, but these less adventurous feature phone renders are almost too safe to be fake. Behold, the Son of Razr! https://gizmodo.com/motorola-2009-smartphones-leaked-looking-sharp-5112131 Obviously this slider, codenamed Niagra, is a pretty large departure from the Razr tradition—it’s a slider, after all. But its lineage would appear to be…

Tech News John Herrman

SlingPlayer For BlackBerry Launching in Public Beta Before Next Year, Just

SlingPlayer for BlackBerry, which was previewed in a usable state nearly a year ago, is finally coming to BlackBerry in a public beta. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-slingplayer-mobile-blackberry-version-340349 The player will run on most BlackBerry phones, with the notable exception of the Storm, which it seems would be best suited for such purposes. According to the company, the app…

Tech News John Herrman

Lighters Will Blend, But Also Ultimately Pwn “Will It Blend” Blender

Will lighters blend? Yes, they will. And the explosive results, filmed in slo-mo, have finally warmed me up to this otherwise inscrutable internet meme. Good thing we didn’t try this at the Giz Gallery! [Kotaro269] https://gizmodo.com/today-at-giz-gallery-live-gadget-blending-at-3pm-5103439

Tech News Elaine Chow

Mobile Spy Can Now Secretly Record Your iPhone SMS, Calling Data

Mobile Spy, that terrible piece of technology that silently monitors smartphones without the user knowing, has come to the iPhone. Goodbye safe haven of SMS and calling privacy, it was nice knowing you. https://gizmodo.com/retina-x-mobile-spy-for-smartphones-keeps-tabs-on-that-256519 The app, created by Retina-X Studios, runs in total stealth mode so that users don’t know its even on their phones.…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Phillipe Starck Zikmu Speakers Belong in the Living Rooms of Those With Inscrutable Accents

On some level, I know that these minimalistic wireless speakers by Phillipe Starck are classy works of art. But when I look at them, all I can think about is Nuni and Nooni Schoener. Zikmu, a collaboration between speaker company Parrot and noted super designer Phillipe Starck, is a set of 2.5 feet tall speakers…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Art: Ohm

It looks as if Tomas Schneider’s piece, Ohm, is of electric demigods bowing to each other a moment before the telsa coils on their heads toss off arcing streams of electrons. It might be how they’d converse. [behance]

Tech News Brian Lam

BigDog Quadruped Robot, Or Something Like It, Spooks Tokyo Streets

The Land of Godzilla now has another monster terrorizing its streets-Boston Dynamic’s BigDog robot! Only… aren’t those feet? This isn’t BigDog Beta, is it? No wonder the Japanese look more puzzled than scared. [JapanProbe] https://gizmodo.com/new-video-of-bigdog-quadruped-robot-is-so-stunning-its-368651

Tech News Elaine Chow

Weather Rocket Causes a Wang to Explode During Cremation

A Chinese man, killed by a weather rocket, was thought to have died from getting struck by lightning until his body exploded at his own funeral. Wang Diange was attending a wake in his home when an explosion took off half of his roof and left him dead in the wreckage. Because it had been…

Tech News Andi Wang

Boing Boing Gadgets’ Hackintosh-Netbook Compatibility Chart

Spoiler: If you’re going to buy a netbook for Hackintoshing, try the MSI Wind or a Dell Mini 9. Rob explains more at BBG. [Boing Boing Gadgets]

Tech News Brian Lam

iLuv i9500 iPod Dock Has 4 CD Drives Too Many

This iPod dock by iLuv is not really an iPod dock, but a full fledged stereo with subwoofer. And four CD players. Is that right? I mean, I make fun of gadgets with just ONE CD player and this has four CD players. FOUR. [Gadgetreview]

Tech News Brian Lam

Toshiba 512GB Solid State Laptop Drive: Come to Papa

256GB SSDs were a possibility in my mind as storage in a fantasy rig. But a 512GB 2.5-inch laptop drive is big enough to dream about from the depths of my storage fanboy heart-of-hearts. TOSHIBA LAUNCHES INDUSTRY’S FIRST 512GB SOLID STATE DRIVE and NEXT- GENERATION SSD FAMILY USING 43nm MLC NAND New SSD Family Achieves…

Tech News Brian Lam

Samuel L. Jackson Did His Own Makeup In The Spirit

Director Frank Miller rewrote the Spirit script to accommodate ScarJo and let Samuel Jackson improvise — and even reinvent his character’s look. We met the director and cast, and learned just how much they collaborated. Letting Frank Miller gallop across The Spirit film set unedited opened the doors for the actors to do so as…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Watchmen’s Day Of Reckoning Now Two Weeks Later

NASA Explores Possibility of Selling Shuttles for $42 Million

Robot Rinses Dishes, Puts them In Dishwasher

Dealzmodo: All PS3 Gold Box Today

Torchwood Revelations, And Spider-Man’s Musical Foe

Swarm-bots Converge On Child, Rescue Her From Freaky Parents

Rand McNally Releases Atlases for Kindle, Has Odd Vision for the Future of Maps

‘Cupcake’ Roadmap Hints at What’ll Be In the Next Android Update

First Smartphones, Now Feature Phones: Motorola Leaks More 2009 Handsets

SlingPlayer For BlackBerry Launching in Public Beta Before Next Year, Just

Lighters Will Blend, But Also Ultimately Pwn “Will It Blend” Blender

Mobile Spy Can Now Secretly Record Your iPhone SMS, Calling Data

Phillipe Starck Zikmu Speakers Belong in the Living Rooms of Those With Inscrutable Accents

Art: Ohm

BigDog Quadruped Robot, Or Something Like It, Spooks Tokyo Streets

Weather Rocket Causes a Wang to Explode During Cremation

Boing Boing Gadgets’ Hackintosh-Netbook Compatibility Chart

iLuv i9500 iPod Dock Has 4 CD Drives Too Many

Toshiba 512GB Solid State Laptop Drive: Come to Papa

Samuel L. Jackson Did His Own Makeup In The Spirit

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