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Dark Knight DVD Psychoanalyzes Itself for You

Click to viewVirals, bat-suit extras and behind-the-scenes snippets are packed onto the 2-disc Dark Knight DVD. Spanish site PlanetaHD is reporting on all the DVD goodies that you’ll find when Dark Knight comes out, including a documentary that psychoanalyzes the man behind the mask himself. We’ve got the rundown of what to expect, plus a…

Movies Meredith Woerner Sep 23 '08

T-Mobile G1: Full Details of the HTC Dream Android Phone

The long-awaited HTC Dream, the first commercial handset running Google’s Android operating system, will be coming to T-Mobile as the G1 for $179 on October 22nd. Featuring a 3-inch touchscreen, internet navigation buttons and a full QWERTY keypad, the smartphone market has finally broken free of Symbian, Windows Mobile and the sweet clutches of fruit…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 23 '08

Nokia’s “Point and Find” Head-Up Display For Life is Launching in Beta

Nokia’s Point and Find system is similar to the Sekai iPhone app we mentioned: you point your cellphone’s camera at an object (such as a cinema) and it’ll automagically respond with the film times, and connect you to online bookings. It’s basically clever location-based services, like a head-up display for the world, and it obviously…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 23 '08

Is the Internet Ready for a Pandemic?

Last week the U.S. Federal Communications Commission met to discuss how internet service providers and telcos would deal with a pandemic. No, they aren’t worried about worms unleashed by naughty hackers. They’re concerned about a 28 Days Later style situation. During such an event, speculated one official, “many workers would either work exclusively from home…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 23 '08

GSM Touchscreen BlackBerry Storm Specs Leaked, Thunder Name Ditched

Although Verizon definitely has dibs on the touchscreen BlackBerry Storm when it launches in the US, AT&T and T-Mo customers are watching the European rollout of the GSM version to see what’s up for their future. Today BlackBerry News published a leaked spec sheet that confirms iPhone-elbowing performance: 3.2MP camera, video recording, 1GB internal memory…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Sep 23 '08

Leaked Shots of Android on T-Mobile G1?

Our Android liveblog is just revving its engines, but it looks like a few shots of the T-Mobile G1, the first Android phone, have leaked a little early on Boy Genius Report. The pictures reveal, not only some fundamentals behind the OS, but small details like MyFaves support and the slew of Google Apps we…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 23 '08

Doctor Who’s Davies Says No To George Lucas

He may have made the revived Doctor Who into Britain’s favorite television show, managed to put Cardiff on the science fiction map with Torchwood and struck a blow for unexpected MILFery with Sarah Jane Adventures, but that doesn’t mean that Russell T. Davies is up for any kind of television challenge. One gig that he…

io9 Graeme McMillan Sep 23 '08

Wristwatch With Tiny R/C R2-D2 May Be Best Office Distraction Toy Ever

This toy wristwatch is Star Warsishly perfect: it’s a digital blue and white Artoo-themed digital watch with a mini detachable infra-red remote control R2-D2. I’d be sending this trundling down the desks in my office to put a smile on my colleagues faces in a pew-pewing instant! (Well, I would if I worked in an…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 23 '08

T-Mobile Android Event Live Coverage Starts Now

We’re here underneath the picturesque Queensboro bridge at T-Mobile’s official G1 launch event. We’re the first ones on the scene, and the liveblog’s kicking off over at live.gizmodo.com. Be sure to pop over there—it’ll do all of the auto-refresh clicky-clicky for you, so sit back, we’ve got everything covered. Hit us up with all of…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Sep 23 '08

Windows Mobile 7 Delayed Half a Year

Microsoft has informed their investors that Windows Mobile 7, formerly slated for early 2009, would be pushed back for a release sometime in late (second half) 2009. Microsoft did not comment as to any specific reasons for the setback, but it’s hard to see the Android launch timing as a complete coincidence (though maybe it…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 23 '08

WTF Pics From Transformers 2, Life On Mars And Doctor Who!

This morning’s spoilers include an image from the first episode of Life On Mars that may give you Harvey Keitel-related nightmares. There’s also new video and pics from the set of Transformers 2, and more alleged Megatron concept art. A couple of new Doctor Who pics warn of a scary new development. Plus, the stars…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Sep 23 '08

Amazon MP3 Store is Preloaded On HTC G1, 6 Million DRM Free Songs

Amazon’s just officially announced that the Amazon MP3 Store will come pre-loaded on the HTC G1 Android phone. It’s a special optimized version of the store which lets T-Mobile G1 users “search, download, buy and play music from Amazon MP3.” That means six million DRM free songs from major and independent labels will be at…

Tech News Kit Eaton Sep 23 '08

Mom Finds Macabre Use for Useless Cellphone Straps, Kills Son

You only have to take one look at this spent piece of used trash to know that nothing good can come out of her petrol eyes and twisted gesture. Kaoru Tomiishi is her name, and she has admitted that she killed her 6-year-old son with a cellphone strap, probably the most inane and naff cheapo…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 23 '08

Sony Vaio TT Is Real, Definitely Has Blu-ray and Huge SSD

Pretty much everything you read in yesterday’s rumor posts about the Sony Vaio TT is true – the Blu-ray drive, 256 GB SSD, 2.87-pound weight and thickness under an inch. It also has an 11.1-inch, LED-backlit 16:9 LCD panel, Sprint EV-DO mobile broadband, and an HDMI port that outputs at 1080p resolution. https://gizmodo.com/sub-3-lb-sony-vaio-tt-rumored-to-have-blu-ray-burner-5053210 The TT…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 23 '08

Eye-Fi Doubles Speeds, Adds MobileMe

Eye-Fi just made a series of announcements that will please existing users. By October 5, their cards, new and old, will receive a firmware update to double photo upload speeds on all models. Also, MobileMe was added to the list of supported services and those interested in advanced functions like geotagging will be able to…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 23 '08

Android Rumors Rounded-Up Before Launch

Over at TmoNews they’ve gathered together as much leaked info as they know about the Android-powered HTC G1/Dream in one place, and it makes for interesting reading ahead of the launch event. The phone’s apparently due on sale “in all stores within 3G boundary area, regardless of whether or not store is in a 3G…

Tech News Kit Eaton Sep 23 '08

First Production VH71, Future Presidential Helicopter, Takes to the Air in England

That plain old yellowish-green helicopter is the really the first production version of the VH71… the future Presidential Marine One. It’s been a year since the prototype took flight, but apparently PP-1 (the first of five in phase one) performed “exceptionally during its 40-minute flight.”That was yesterday at the AugustaWestland facility in Yeovil, UK. It’ll…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 23 '08

Sound Wave-Driven Liquid Lenses Good For Lightweight Future Phones, UAVs

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have come up with this freaky adaptive liquid-lens that can capture 250 in-focus images per second. It’s essentially droplets of water in a pair, trapped in chamber and driven by a high-frequency sound wave to oscillate.As the drops wiggle back and forth, surface tension changes the droplet’s shapes, and thus…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 23 '08

Rubik’s Mirror Blocks: The Cube Taken to New Dimensions of Trickiness

Check out this new variation on Rubik’s Cube: instead of colors and symmetrical cubes, this beast has all-mirrored surfaces and a bizarre asymmetric rectangular block setup. As you twist it, the blocks poke out in different ways, and it’s these cues you’re supposed to use to solve the puzzle. Bloody hell, it looks hard…the box…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 23 '08

Woot is Wooting Off Again Today

You might not get as amazing a deal as the Olevia TVs from the other day, but since Woot is having another Woot off today you’ll see other bargain gadgets: a glow in the dark jumbo universal remote for $5 is tempting me currently. [Woot]

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 23 '08

Dark Knight DVD Psychoanalyzes Itself for You

T-Mobile G1: Full Details of the HTC Dream Android Phone

Nokia’s “Point and Find” Head-Up Display For Life is Launching in Beta

Is the Internet Ready for a Pandemic?

GSM Touchscreen BlackBerry Storm Specs Leaked, Thunder Name Ditched

Leaked Shots of Android on T-Mobile G1?

Doctor Who’s Davies Says No To George Lucas

Wristwatch With Tiny R/C R2-D2 May Be Best Office Distraction Toy Ever

T-Mobile Android Event Live Coverage Starts Now

Windows Mobile 7 Delayed Half a Year

WTF Pics From Transformers 2, Life On Mars And Doctor Who!

Amazon MP3 Store is Preloaded On HTC G1, 6 Million DRM Free Songs

Mom Finds Macabre Use for Useless Cellphone Straps, Kills Son

Sony Vaio TT Is Real, Definitely Has Blu-ray and Huge SSD

Eye-Fi Doubles Speeds, Adds MobileMe

Android Rumors Rounded-Up Before Launch

First Production VH71, Future Presidential Helicopter, Takes to the Air in England

Sound Wave-Driven Liquid Lenses Good For Lightweight Future Phones, UAVs

Rubik’s Mirror Blocks: The Cube Taken to New Dimensions of Trickiness

Woot is Wooting Off Again Today

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