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Gambit: Cajun Thief By Day, 90s Go-Go Dancer By Night

Why is Gambit dressed like a 90s stripper? Empire Magazine released a bunch of new X-Men Origins: Wolverine stills, and we got a closer look at Taylor Kitsch as the card dealing, explosion-causing, mutant Gambit. While I agree with this casting, I can’t help but draw attention to the terrible wardrobe choice. Where does one…

io9 Meredith Woerner Dec 1

Samsung Omnia on Verizon Wireless Now $50 Cheaper at $200

Apparently we weren’t the only ones a little baffled by the pricing of VZW’s Omnia—after being available for only six days, the price has dropped down to $200 (with the same $70 rebate and two-year contract), bringing it even with the Blackberry Storm. We’re still only seeing the Omnia being a must-have for Windows Mobile…

Gadgets John Mahoney Dec 1

Harion Glass Speakers Look Like They’re Worth A Fortune, Because They Are

Japanese firm Hario just came up with this rather beautiful new speaker system, dubbed Harion. So far, so groovy. It’s made of heat-resistant glass (the first to be like it, according to Hario) and the woofer, two tweeters and two mid-range speakers proved so complex to create that it took a small army of companies—23…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Dec 1

A Giant Rubber Space Pillow Is Eating My French Villa

If you’ve ever wondered what your house would look like after the giant rubber space pillow invasion, French designer Paul Coudamy is here for you. Coudamy is the weird brain behind ideas like all-cardboard offices, and in his installation “Espace Gonflable” he inflated a giant black bag inside a house and climbed inside. It’s got…

io9 Annalee Newitz Dec 1

All the Best Cyber Monday Deals

While the deals might not be as OMG awesome as Black Friday, there’s a lot to be said for its nerdier brother Cyber Monday, when online retailers unleash their best bargains of the season. Mainly, it’s not as utterly horrible: You can do everything from your cozy house, completely naked if you want, totally skipping…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 1

Everything You Know About Tron 2 Is Wrong

It’s never a good sign when the name of your movie reads like a LOLcat. Rumors have it that TR2N (or Tron 2, as the rest of the world has been calling it) is renaming itself to the even more ghastly TRZ. And there are some new rumors about what happens in the Jeff Bridges-starring…

io9 Meredith Woerner Dec 1

Duck Huntin’ Shirt Protects Your Butt From Embarrassing, Painless Accident

Look, I’m for the right to bear arms as much as the next guy—I just don’t like ducks. While we were born a few generations too late for Wild West gun-slinging and a few generations too early for deadly, preteen laser pistol duels, the Duck Huntin’ t-shirt celebrates our place in the here and now,…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 1

Russia’s New Armor-Fooling Rocket Grenade Is An “Abrams Killer” Apparently

The new rocket-propelled grenade RPG-30 anti-armor weapon recently unveiled in Russia has a sneaky trick to help it get past active defenses—it fires a tiny decoy rocket flying ahead of the main warhead. This is to confuse defensive systems into attacking the decoy, meaning they’re too busy to successfully defeat the real weapon inbound just…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Dec 1

Ready Your Freeze Rays: Whedon On Dr Horrible DVD

In case you saw the pre-order appearance of Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog on Amazon over the weekend but haven’t quite decided whether or not it’s worth the $13.49 Amazon is asking for, then we’d like to introduce you to a man who can help with your decision. His name? Joss Whedon. Writing on the Whedonesque…

io9 Graeme McMillan Dec 1

When Life Gives You Lemons, Make A Nicely Designed Digital Clock

You probably remember the ol’ lemon/copper battery via electrolysis experiment from when Mr. Wizard blew your mind with it in 1958. But this “Citrus Clock” by French design troupe Anna Gram updates the concept with a touch of Ikea sensibilities, to the point where we might be cool with this sitting on the kitchen counter…

Tech News John Mahoney Dec 1

New Doctor Who And BSG Hints Will Make You Doubt Your Faculties

Monday’s bumper crop of spoilers includes a new clip from The Day The Earth Stood Still, and J.J. Abrams talking Trek. Russell T. Davies takes a sledgehammer to all your theories about the Doctor Who Christmas special. Plus, the Sci Fi Channel aired another batch of Battlestar Galactica teasers and clues — including a mysterious…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Dec 1

An Annotated Pictorial of Japanese Videogame Banks

Wired published an interesting look at the recent trend of Japanese videogame banks—essentially, a means for the thrifty gamer to save the quarters that could otherwise be lost forever to an arcade machine. The article, by Brian Ashcraft of Kotaku fame, gives us a walkthrough of three differently themed game banks, with styles that range…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 1

Windows 7 Will Run Fully Accelerated Graphics From Your CPU

Adding to the already impressive pile of Vista-deflating features we’re expecting to see in Windows 7 is WARP, a tech which will allow your PC’s CPU to act as a graphics accelerator, possibly doing away with the need for integrated graphics hardware to render user interfaces and low-end games. Not-so-seductively described as a ‘fully conformant…

Tech News John Herrman Dec 1

Blockbuster OnDemand Download Service Coming to Blu-ray Players, Soon

Netflix streaming has been making waves with its wide, fast integration into just about anything that’ll have it, and the reception has been generally positive. As has been the pattern for the last decade, Blockbuster is slightly but embarrassingly behind: according to company Chairman Jim Keyes, we’ll be seeing Blockbuster’s download-to-rent service in a Blu-ray…

Tech News John Herrman Dec 1

MSI U110, U115 Netbooks To Pack Draft-N Wi-Fi, Faster Processors

We’ve only just been getting excited about MSI’s U120 3G-packing netbook, but now it looks like MSI has even more interesting machines just around the corner. Apparently due sometime in January, the U110 and U115 will run Atom Z530 chips, drawing less power than the “typical” N270 netbook processor. And they’ll pack a hybrid drive…

Tech News Kit Eaton Dec 1

InVision Case Makes the iPhone Blind-Friendly, Defiantly Screenless

The screen-based controls and rich visuals that make a device like the iPhone an attractive option for deaf users aren’t of much use to the visually impaired. By employing a combination of an embossed “Moon Type” alphabet casing, a custom home screen and a screenreading app, the InVision solution could (awkardly) provide most of the…

Tech News John Herrman Dec 1

Duo Wireless Penmouse Adds Touchscreen Tablet Tech to Laptops Cheaply

Modding your laptop to add a touchscreen is certainly possible, though you’ll need to be pretty competent with tools: with the Duo gizmo all you need to be able to do is clip it to your screen. The two-piece device has a sensor you pop on top of your monitor or laptop screen and a…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Dec 1

Landport Cubes Squeeze Powered Speakers In Just 1-Inch

Portable speakers for MP3 players are two a penny, but not many are not far off a penny in size: Landport’s Cubes are though. They’re just an inch cube, but fit in stereo speakers, 3.5-mm jack plug, rechargeable batteries and a mini-USB port. They’ll run for 4-5 hours on a charge, too. Just don’t go…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Dec 1

The Simpsons Gets 20 Years of Apple Jokes Out of the Way at Once

Though The Simpsons has a history of satirizing tech culture, and even Apple specifically, last night’s episode felt like it was making up for a bit of lost time. It’s not just iPods and iMacs getting reprefixed and animated: it’s Apple Stores, the G4 Cube, past and present fanboys, vintage advertising and even Steve Jobs…

Tech News John Herrman Dec 1

Nikon’s D3X Masterpiece DSLR Goes Official With An $8,000 Price Tag

The rumors pointed pretty firmly to it, and then some leaked specs detailed what it’d be like, but now Nikon’s new pro-level D3X DSLR has arrived officially. Touting it as a 24-megapixel “Digital Masterpiece,” with exceptionally low noise sensor, 5fps full-frame shooting speed and with file sizes of 138MB, Nikon’s saying the camera’s available now…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Dec 1

Gambit: Cajun Thief By Day, 90s Go-Go Dancer By Night

Samsung Omnia on Verizon Wireless Now $50 Cheaper at $200

Harion Glass Speakers Look Like They’re Worth A Fortune, Because They Are

A Giant Rubber Space Pillow Is Eating My French Villa

All the Best Cyber Monday Deals

Everything You Know About Tron 2 Is Wrong

Duck Huntin’ Shirt Protects Your Butt From Embarrassing, Painless Accident

Russia’s New Armor-Fooling Rocket Grenade Is An “Abrams Killer” Apparently

Ready Your Freeze Rays: Whedon On Dr Horrible DVD

When Life Gives You Lemons, Make A Nicely Designed Digital Clock

New Doctor Who And BSG Hints Will Make You Doubt Your Faculties

An Annotated Pictorial of Japanese Videogame Banks

Windows 7 Will Run Fully Accelerated Graphics From Your CPU

Blockbuster OnDemand Download Service Coming to Blu-ray Players, Soon

MSI U110, U115 Netbooks To Pack Draft-N Wi-Fi, Faster Processors

InVision Case Makes the iPhone Blind-Friendly, Defiantly Screenless

Duo Wireless Penmouse Adds Touchscreen Tablet Tech to Laptops Cheaply

Landport Cubes Squeeze Powered Speakers In Just 1-Inch

The Simpsons Gets 20 Years of Apple Jokes Out of the Way at Once

Nikon’s D3X Masterpiece DSLR Goes Official With An $8,000 Price Tag

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