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Living Out of a Shipping Container in Style

This house in Wellington, New Zealand, is built from the housing material of the future: Shipping containers. Perhaps because there’s been a global shipping container shortage, the containers have gone from low-rent to completely glamorous. Check out your future home, made entirely of recycled materials secreted away from docks. This housing development in London, England…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 28

Goodbye, Productivity: MTV Music Site Posts Every Music Video Ever

Click to view I hope you’ve got some time to kill, because the new MTV Music website is pretty much the coolest thing ever for music fans. At long last, the MTV name is being associated with music videos again, because the “music” channel has gone and put its entire archive of music videos online,…

Tech News Adam Frucci Oct 28

R/C License Plate Covers Are a Tempting But Unwise Purchase

All of us have considered it at one time or another. What if we just didn’t have a license plate? The cops could spot us speeding, we’d ditch out on a side street and then we’d drive the same car to work the next day without a hitch (or tasering). It was a fun daydream,…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 28

NEC Tiles E-Ink Displays Into Massive A3-Size Sheet

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: e-ink and e-paper displays are getting pretty darn funky…especially when you look at NEC’s nifty solution that actually tiles multiple units. In fact, NEC can now tile up to eight microcapsule electrophoresis e-ink displays into one large screen, up to a maximum A3 size (that’s 11.7…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 28

Sweaty Goku Grabs His Dragonball Clip – And Turns in a Good Performance

Proof that hero Goku’s freaky anime hair will always look ridiculous comes in this tiny clip from the upcoming live-action Dragonball movie. This is the scene where Goku (Justin Chatwin) palms his ball and discovers his yellow duds. It all seems a lot more magical thanks to the high tension music. Still, why’s Goku all…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 28

Lenovo’s IdeaPad S10 Ultra-Portable Gets Splashtop Instant-Bootup

Back in August we brought you official news, specs and pricing for Lenovo’s IdeaPad S10 ultraportable, and now one month after its launch you might be interested to learn that it’s getting a Splashtop instant-on pre-bootup option. In the Lenovo incarnation, the system is being called “QuickStart” and it’ll let you connect to the web,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 28

The Most Important Appliance In a Depression

I’m not surprised that in the middle of a deep recession, while people have basically stopped buying appliances, standalone freezers have an exceptional growth of 13 percent. One of my grandmas, who lives alone, has the most massive freezer I have ever seen in a home. It is bursting with food that will likely never…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Oct 28

Nolan On Dark Knight Sequel: “If The Story Is There”

After almost everyone other than Christopher Nolan has given an interview about potential sequels to The Dark Knight, and now, finally, director Nolan has broken his silence. But while he’s talking about dangling plots and the potential of the Joker for 10 movies, he’s still keeping his cards close to his chest about his involvement…

io9 Graeme McMillan Oct 28

Radioshack Offers Gift Cards for Old, Broken Gadgets

Similar to offers we’ve seen from companies like Costco, the RadioShack Online Trade-In Program will swap your old gadgets for gift cards. You search their database for your gadget and offer the best quality assessment that you can, and they provide a mail-in sticker that you print. If all goes well, they’ll send you a…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 28

Battlestar Season 4.5 Includes A Surprising Comeback

Gird your loins with spoilers! We’ve got the full low-down on James Cameron’s Avatar, and a major hint for the future of the Hulk movies. Also, one of the writers of Battlestar Galactica answered all your questions about what to expect in the show’s final half season — including a startling return. And I got…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Oct 28

BlackBerry Bold Selling for $660 at Best Buy, Costs $169 to Build

Two hilariously complementary news items have hit at about the same time regarding the BlackBerry Bold: first, iSuppli’s $169 price estimate for the cost to build the handset, and second, Best Buy’s announcement that they are selling the unlocked version for $660. iSuppli’s cost analysis reveals a handset that costs the same amount to build…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 28

Now Even the PS3 Surfs Faster than Explorer

It’s a sad day, Microsoft, when Sony goes on record that their PS3 browser is faster than IE7. Firmware 2.5 is not only bringing the PlayStation 3 internet browser Flash 9, but its Javascript update promises to speed up the browser by an impressive 2.8X. Sony admits that they’re still slower than Google Chrome, but…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 28

Dealzmodo: Dash Express Just $200 in Amazon One-Day Sale

Dash express got a “permanent” price drop to $300 just back in June, but for today only an Amazon Gold Box deal means it’ll have $100 shaved off that. Yup: it’s just $200. That price has been available for Trafficgauge.com subscribers previously, but not on Amazon. Freakishly good deal, given that we labeled the GPS…

Commerce Kit Eaton Oct 28

Sanyo ALBO Digital Picture Frame is Handsome, Like George Jetson

Sanyo knows that some of us are still upset that the futuristic fictional universe of The Jetsons doesn’t look like it’ll come to pass, so they’ve thrown us a bone: a Wi-Fi digital picture frame that looks like it came straight out of Jane Jetson’s foyer. The innards are pretty unexciting , with Windows CE…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 28

Artificial Diamonds Still Forever, Just Now Sparklier and Defect-Free

Artificial diamonds are forever, Sparkling on your little scalpel. Unlike before they are shiner, and better:And new Chemical Vapor Deposition method means they Are also more defect free-ee. OK…I’ll stop and explain properly. A team at the Carnegie Institution have come up with a way of improving the artificial diamonds that are used in numerous…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 28

Open Source GamePack Lets You Bake a Game Boy From Scratch

If you’re possessed of some serious disposable income, electrical engineering chops, mountains of free time and a passion for open source and vintage gaming, you might be the kind of person who would want to buy the GamePack. For about $250, Liquidware will send you a full build kit for his open source Game Boy…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 28

Ear Pressure Equalizer Sucks On Your Eardrum to Un-Pop It in Planes

Now that’s a headline you won’t see often, and yet that’s exactly what this gizmo does. You pop it in your ear, and squeeze it to create negative pressure outside your eardrum, thus compensating for the sometimes painful inward-flex caused as the aircraft you’re flying in descends from altitude. Or you climb back down a…

Health Kit Eaton Oct 28

Sonos Audio System Brings Controller App to iPhone, Firmware 2.7 Update With Last.fm and 15,000+ Radio Stations

The new Sonos Controller app for the iPhone and iPod touch is able to manage the same audio hardware and music libraries as the CR100 unit. Whether it’s controlling your music library, switching/linking zones on the fly, or adjusting the volume, the iPhone app can do everything it’s bigger brother can. If you want to…

Tech News Adrian Covert Oct 28

Stubborn, Old, Crotchety JVC Finally Ceases Standalone VCR Production

Formats never truly die, but their eras always have a few painful stages of decline. First, there’s the arrival of a promising new competitor, then its steady rise, which is invariably followed by a mourning period and the final purging of last-gen products from the market. The last stage of obsolescence for of the long-presumed-dead…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 28

Sony’s Rolly MP3 ‘Bot Gets To Do RC Bluetooth Jives With Your Cellphone

Sony’s Rolly is such a strange beast it either confuses, bemuses or amuses you…and now there’s a new version with Bluetooth remote control mode. So you can now steer around your confusing, bemusing, amusing little robot MP3 dancer—in fact you can control up to seven of the SEP-50BTs, from a cellphone or laptop. Still, there’s…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 28

Living Out of a Shipping Container in Style

Goodbye, Productivity: MTV Music Site Posts Every Music Video Ever

R/C License Plate Covers Are a Tempting But Unwise Purchase

NEC Tiles E-Ink Displays Into Massive A3-Size Sheet

Sweaty Goku Grabs His Dragonball Clip – And Turns in a Good Performance

Lenovo’s IdeaPad S10 Ultra-Portable Gets Splashtop Instant-Bootup

The Most Important Appliance In a Depression

Nolan On Dark Knight Sequel: “If The Story Is There”

Radioshack Offers Gift Cards for Old, Broken Gadgets

Battlestar Season 4.5 Includes A Surprising Comeback

BlackBerry Bold Selling for $660 at Best Buy, Costs $169 to Build

Now Even the PS3 Surfs Faster than Explorer

Dealzmodo: Dash Express Just $200 in Amazon One-Day Sale

Sanyo ALBO Digital Picture Frame is Handsome, Like George Jetson

Artificial Diamonds Still Forever, Just Now Sparklier and Defect-Free

Open Source GamePack Lets You Bake a Game Boy From Scratch

Ear Pressure Equalizer Sucks On Your Eardrum to Un-Pop It in Planes

Sonos Audio System Brings Controller App to iPhone, Firmware 2.7 Update With Last.fm and 15,000+ Radio Stations

Stubborn, Old, Crotchety JVC Finally Ceases Standalone VCR Production

Sony’s Rolly MP3 ‘Bot Gets To Do RC Bluetooth Jives With Your Cellphone

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