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The Motherlode Of Chuck Spoilers, Plus A New Outlander Trailer

We managed to score a ton of script pages from the upcoming season of nerd-spy show Chuck, and we’re summarizing them in depth, all in the name of spoiler pride. We also have new spoilers about the ending of The Dark Knight, and a second trailer for Viking/alien throwdown movie Outlander. And there are new…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Cheese Wheel PC, Because…We Actually Don’t Know

We’re not sure what drives one to put a PC in a cheese wheel, but we’re glad that such outlets exist for those who are so inclined. For what would man have done, say, 100 years ago if he wanted to run TurboTax from a pile of aging dairy product? He would have lived a…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Fairground Shooting Gallery Gets Flamethrower Makeover for Burning Man

Created for this year’s Burning Man festival, the Flamethrower Shooting Gallery looks like one hell of a stress-relieving sideshow amusement. It was created by Matisse and Roxie and recently debuted at the Oakland The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival… presumably to a warm reception. Check out the short video to see it in action—though you might…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Brando’s USB Fidget Sports Toy is Designed to Waste Your Time

In the world of USB gizmos there’s the useful, the strange and now the totally and utterly useless. Brando’s “Fidget” toys are designed to replace doodling as a time-wasting activity in the office, or something like that anyway. They’re mini USB devices in the shape of different sports balls, that come with a desktop mini-game…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Samsung D980 Dual-SIM Touchscreen Phone Hits Intertubes

Samsung has kept developing its LG Prada knock-off F480 full-touchscreen phone and turned it into the D980. This is a dual-SIM version of the phone, hitting China first in a D988 version and then apparently the rest of the world as the D980 DuoS. It’s a tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE device, with 2.6-inch QVGA screen and 5-megapixel…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Buy Your Own V22, Kinda: Bell 609 Civilian Tiltrotor Gets Rolled-Out

Forget the improbable promises of the Falx tiltrotor: Bell aircraft has rolled out its 609 civilian tiltrotor for real. Looking and flying like a smaller cousin of the military V22 Osprey, also a Bell vehicle, the 609 will undoubtedly please millionaire business people since it can perform all the rooftop-landing duties of a normal helicopter,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Sony and Others Form TransferJet Consortium to Make Short-Range Wireless Tech

Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Toshiba JVC, Kodak, Hitachi and a bunch more companies have today announced that they’re forming the Transferjet consortium to develop an “interoperable wireless transfer technology.” Sounding like a challenge to Bluetooth, Transferjet will apparently operate at a theoretical 560 Mbps rate. Plus it could allow pairing as simply as touching two devices…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Japanese Scientists Extend Flash Memory Lifespan to Hundreds of Years

Scientists in Japan have worked out a new technique for improving the lifespan of flash memory devices from around a decade currently to hundreds of years. The new ferroelectric NAND flash technology can do rewrites 100 million times, versus the 10,000 or so of existing tech, and can be scaled down to 10nm—one third the…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Fisker Karma Hybrid Sports Car Gets Production Plans

Once we learned that the Fisker Karma hybrid sports car would produce fake engine sounds we knew plans to produce the beast had to be underway. And Fisker today has announced a letter of intent with producer Valmet Automotive to actually build the luxury hybrid sports car. First vehicle roll-off the production line will be…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

AT&T-Branded Sony-Ericsson W350a Mysteriously Appears On eBay

It looks like the Sony-Ericsson W350a is coming to AT&T later this year. One of the handsets has appeared mysteriously on eBay with AT&T branding. It’s not a super-new phone, but the fact that it’s got the AT&T logo is something interesting. Was this a demo phone? A loaner from SE? Will AT&T carry the…

Tech News Matt Hickey

TiVo Getting YouTube Streaming TODAY

TiVo’s YouTube player that was announced back in March is finally going live today and will allow streaming, yes streaming, of all H.264 YouTube videos. It’s a major part of the 9.4 Summer Update that is hitting all boxes by the end of this month. Even though all boxes are receiving this update only Series…

Tech News Christopher Mascari

Ent Vs. Bot — Who Wins?

Here’s the final battle between machine and plant, with a world’s future in the balance. A “harvester” robot is invading a habitat, attempting to consume all of its resources, but it’s found itself fighting an organic Ent-like creature, in this concept art called “Worlds Collide,” from Bulgarian game artist Ognian Bonev. Bonev’s page, on the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

BoingBoing Interviews Syd Mead

Joel Johnson over at BoingBoing Gadgets/BoingBoing TV has a great interview with futurist/artist/genius, Syd Mead. See also:Syd Mead Art for U.S. Steel (1960s)Syd Mead

Tech News Matt Novak

Sidekick 2008/Gekko Coming July 30th

Boy Genius has word that T-Mobile’s Sidekick 2008 is coming out on July 30th. The phone has Sidekick like features, and a 2.6-inch WQVGA screen, A2DP stereo Bluetooth streaming and those interchangeable faceplates we’ve been hearing about. The phone’s OS should feel appropriately aged but at the right price, as the Sidekick’s always been a…

Tech News Brian Lam

AMD Roadmap Points To Twelve-Core Procs In Two Years

Much like those involving shaving razors and social networks, the Processor Wars are escalating. That’s good for us, especially gamers, but maybe things are getting ridiculous considering how hard multicore programming still is. Take, for example, the recently unveiled 12-core processor (code-named Mangy-Cours) AMD’s got planned for 2010. Not only that is it updating its…

Tech News Matt Hickey

iPhone 3G vs. BlackBerry Bold: First Head to Head

There are basically two camps on the year’s most anticipated phone: iPhone 3G or BlackBerry Bold. They are different phones with different core audiences, which largely comes down to keyboard preferences. But Boy Genius gives us a lot to chew on anyway in the first live head-to-head (and not just the photos). The shockers are…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Terminator Teaser Trailer is Seizure-inducing Robot Carnage

This flash-happy Terminator 4 — ahem, Terminator Salvation — teaser trailer posted on io9 teaches us the film will have skull crushing, robots running around everywhere, explosions and Christian Bale looking really, really confused. Then it pulls a “One More Thing…” and breaks out the AQUA KILL-BOT, which looked pretty epic for the half second…

Movies Adrian Covert

iPhone Apps We Like: Mocha VNC Lite

Mocha is a VNC client that supports full QWERTY and Safari-like zooming as well as landscape mode. Double click works, but right click doesn’t, but there is no official App store equivalent so this is your desktop remote client of choice. [iPhone App Marathon via LH] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-app-review-marathon-liveblog-5023924

Tech News Brian Lam

Sega Says the iPhone Is As Powerful As the Dreamcast

Developers are just getting their heads around the concepts introduced by the iPhone, but so far they like what they see. EA said it’s more powerful than the DS, and now Sega-the guys who made Super Monkey Ball for the platform-is saying that it’s just as powerful as the Dreamcast. The Dreamcast! Do you remember…

Tech News Jason Chen

NASA Engineers Team Up With Retirees to Secretly Develop Alternative Moon Rocket

A handful of rogue NASA engineers have gone underground and spent their spare time from the Constellation program working on a rocket dubbed “Jupiter”-an alternative that they believe will be “safer, cheaper and easier to build than the two Ares spacecraft that will replace the space shuttle.” Jupiter is being developed with the help of…

Space & Spaceflight Sean Fallon

The Motherlode Of Chuck Spoilers, Plus A New Outlander Trailer

Cheese Wheel PC, Because…We Actually Don’t Know

Fairground Shooting Gallery Gets Flamethrower Makeover for Burning Man

Brando’s USB Fidget Sports Toy is Designed to Waste Your Time

Samsung D980 Dual-SIM Touchscreen Phone Hits Intertubes

Buy Your Own V22, Kinda: Bell 609 Civilian Tiltrotor Gets Rolled-Out

Sony and Others Form TransferJet Consortium to Make Short-Range Wireless Tech

Japanese Scientists Extend Flash Memory Lifespan to Hundreds of Years

Fisker Karma Hybrid Sports Car Gets Production Plans

AT&T-Branded Sony-Ericsson W350a Mysteriously Appears On eBay

TiVo Getting YouTube Streaming TODAY

Ent Vs. Bot — Who Wins?

BoingBoing Interviews Syd Mead

Sidekick 2008/Gekko Coming July 30th

AMD Roadmap Points To Twelve-Core Procs In Two Years

iPhone 3G vs. BlackBerry Bold: First Head to Head

Terminator Teaser Trailer is Seizure-inducing Robot Carnage

iPhone Apps We Like: Mocha VNC Lite

Sega Says the iPhone Is As Powerful As the Dreamcast

NASA Engineers Team Up With Retirees to Secretly Develop Alternative Moon Rocket

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