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Caption Contest: Got Multitasking?

“The New MacBook Pro. 3 hours on battery, or 15 minutes on breast milk.” [Macenstein]

Stop Blade Runner 2 Before It Starts!

When I first saw the words “Blade Runner 2,” I imagined it was somebody’s zany comedy pitch, along the lines of Hamlet 2. I pictured Steve Coogan running around, exploding in a creative frenzy as he figures out the space-time warp that could bring back Roy Batty — maybe there could be a whole half-hour…

HD Guru Tackles 125 TVs In One Review

HD Guru Gary Merson has outdone his own ambitious track record, reviewing 125 TVs for a single story. He doesn’t go into the aesthetic design of each model, or even measure contrast and color depth. Instead, he boils it down to some criteria you won’t find on corporate sites or press releases. He once again…

Green Lantern Movie Finally Takes Flight

Remember that Green Lantern big-screen project? You know, the one that will no longer be a comedy starring Jack Black, as scripted by Robert Smigel (Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, TV Funhouse)? The one that was stuffed out then resurrected again, once the Justice League movie fell apart? The one that won’t star David Boreanaz,…

I Played Portal on a 150-Inch Plasma HDTV and You Didn’t

On Friday, Mahoney and I went to Panasonic HQ to check out one of the first prototypes of their ludicrous 150-inch plasma TV. This thing puts the 103-incher that I checked out last year to shame, weighing a whopping 1700 pounds before the stand is attached and sucking up 7kW of power while it runs.…

Men In Black 3: Are There Any More Wacky Aliens Left?

Rumors are flying that Men In Black 3 is out there somewhere waiting for the right funding. But seriously, do we need another one of these? Because you know Tommy Lee Jones would do it if offered a paycheck, so the chances of this flick hitting big screens are about 50/50. My only concern is,…

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Earth: A Very Special Place In the Void

You know that “I’m an insignificant dot in the middle of this enormous universe” feeling you get when you stare up into the night sky a little too long? Well, some Oxford scientists think you might be a little more special than that – or at least, the planet you live on is. Their radical…

Put On Your Thinking Stetson And Write About Women Of The Space West

Got any thoughts on the portrayal of women in space Westerns? Post a blog post and then submit it to the 22nd Carnival Of Feminist Science Fiction, the latest in a series of collections of blog posts and essays on feminist SF topics. The latest version will be posted at the SpaceWesterns.com Sideshow, and editor…

Why Android Will Soon Kick Ass

When the T-Mobile G1 was shown off in NYC last week, it didn’t have the gusto of a Stevenote. There was no “boom!”—no “one more thing!” And as a result, many (including us) felt a bit underwhelmed, and were quick to interpret the device’s inconsistent GUI as an indicator that the lack of attention to…

True Blood Delivers Super Fem Vikings And Penile Eggplant

This week’s episode of the vampire-drama, True Blood, definitely made up for last weeks “johnson” moments. “Escape From The Dragon House” finally introduced the ancient vampire viking that I’ve been waiting weeks for, and apparently he’s a goldielocks-esque skinny owner and operator of an indoor goth-kids bar — sorry, vampire bar — Fangtasia. The vampire…

Are These Screens from the New Nintendo DS?

This allegedly leaked photo of new Nintendo DS screens has played a game of Google Translate telephone before making its way to Giz wearing red sox and green hair, but from what we can make out from the source, the big difference in the updated display is a shift in screen size from 3 inches…

iPod Touch Survives Brutal Pickup Truck Crushing

Believe it or not, this iPod touch is alive after being crushed by a pickup truck almost beyond the point of no return And I don’t mean “alive” as in a Connect-it-to-your-computer-and-see-if-it’s-still-functioning kind of way. I mean that it actually works, screen included: And it actually looks good below all that shattered glass. It will…

Branagh To Direct Thor? Plus, What Is Marvel’s Next Big Movie?

Maybe it’s the promise of faux Shakespearean dialogue, or perhaps just the lure of a truckload of money being backed up to his house, but arthouse Kenneth Branagh is in talks to take on the director’s chair for Marvel’s 2010 summer blockbuster Thor, in which the thunder-wielding Norseman is actually an alien. And that’s just…

Sprint’s Xohm WiMax Will Neuter Heavy Downloaders

For all the talk that Sprint’s freshly launched Xohm WiMax would be the openest internets ever and can totally replace your ISP, when it comes to bandwidth-sucking apps, that’s not the case. It’ll neuter file-sharing applications, or anything else—like VoIP—that uses a lot of bandwidth. To ensure a high-quality experience for its entire subscriber base,…

UFO Festival Lands in New Jersey

In two weeks, UFO enthusiasts will flock to Jersey City for the 2008 Culture of Contact Festival, a three-day conference on alien encounters and extraterrestrial life. But don’t expect any conspiracy-filled Powerpoint presentations or Roswell-style alien cosplay. Instead, the festival will focus on extraterrestrial-inspired arts, what an Obama presidency would mean for UFO disclosure policy,…

Sony’s BDP-S350 Blu-ray Player Officially $300 and BD-Live Capable

Not only did Sony’s mainstream BDP-S350 Blu-ray player finally get its firmware update to be fully compatible with the net-interactive BD-Live (BD 2.0) content already hitting stores, but it also got that $100 price reduction we told you about. Even on the MSRP-only Sony Style site, it’s $299.99, which means it could be found even…

Kodak Zi6 Pocket Camcorder Lightning Review

The Gadget: The Kodak Zi6, a cheap pocket camcorder that records 720p HD video, vying for title of best camcorder under $200. https://gizmodo.com/kodak-zi6-might-be-best-pocket-camcorder-yet-5023649 The Price: $180 The Verdict: When I got my first look at the Zi6, I had an inkling it could be the best “cheap” pocket camcorder yet, and I was right. I’ve…

Jason Stoddard was one of the originators of this whole “science fiction should be more happy” meme, and now he’s posted a manifesto about it. Twenty Epics co-editor David Moles summarizes it as “The problem with contemporary science fiction is that it doesn’t love capitalism enough.” (To quote Stoddard, “Why can’t we include characters who…

3D Maze Ball: A Worthy Waste of Five Minutes

We doubt that this “3D Balance Control Intellect Ball” will keep you occupied like a Rubik’s cube for hours on end, but its tactical, 3D maze should mush your mind in just the right way and forcibly limit your normally adept problem solving techniques to find the solution in a childlike manner. 7.5-inches in diameter,…