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Microsoft E3 Liveblog

We’re here in LA and livebloging the Microsoft presser today at 10:30 PDT. Mark Wilson and I will be covering the hell out of the hardware announcements, but if you’re interested in the new game announcements, Kotaku will be the place to go. What announcements will there be? A motion-controlled interface? A karaoke controller? We’ll…

Tech News Jason Chen

Floor-by-Floor Demolition Blows Minds, Saves Environment

Kajima’s floor-by-floor slow demolition is one of those rare things in life that leaves you truly speechless, mouth wide-open, and pinching yourself to be sure this is real while you mutter “what the frak.” After all, seeing the video of a 20-floor building submerging into the asphalt as if it was liquid is something that…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Russian Ravers Blinded By Best (and Last) Laser Show They’ll Ever See

Another reason I’m glad I was never a rave kiddie whenever it was trendy in the US: Trippy lasers beamed into your eyes will blind you. A gaggle of Russian ravers at the July 5 Aquamarine Open Air Festival discovered this after tents erected to deflect heavy rains partially refracted lasers intended for skyward illumination…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Humpback Whales Teach Humans to Build Better Wind Turbines

Whales have given us a reliable source of energy for centuries: oil for our lamps, wax for our candles, and of course margarine. All that’s required to harvest these lovely fuels is wholesale slaughter of the harmless creatures, and that’s starting to go out of fashion, mostly because the whales were starting to go out…

io9 Michael Reilly

What You Missed Last Weekend

I met three little pigs this weekend. One had made a house of straw, and the second a house of sticks. The last pig, from Cupertino, made his sturdy house out of bricked iPhone 3G’s. Here’s the rest of what happened here on Gizmodo over the weekend, in a convenient “best of” format: • DIY…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Macally PowerLink is Flash drive, Sync Cable, Emergency Juice for iPod, iPhone

You know how it is: you’re camping in the wild, and your iPhone suddenly runs out of juice, just as you get bored stiff with the music selection you’ve got aboard it. Previously you’d’ve had to carry a bunch of stuff around to sort this out, but Macally’s PowerLink has come to the rescue. With…

Tech News Kit Eaton

You Fools! Why Are You Not Watching The Middleman?

Two or three years from now, you’ll be thrusting the DVDs of trainee-superhero show The Middleman at your friends and telling them they must check out this awesome show. It has everything: wit, subversiveness, charm, audacious scifi concepts, and the perfect blend of the spy, superhero and X-Files-y genres. “I was one of the first…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

MSI Wind Review (Verdict: At Last!)

While the rest of the world has been enjoying the MSI Wind, the US release has suffered multiple delays due to battery shortages. Finally, after months of waiting, the little Asus-killer laptops are shipping. So while some of you may already have a Wind in your hands, I thought I’d take this chance to share…

Reviews Mark Wilson

Wii MotionPlus Brings More Accurate Motion-Sensing to the Wii

Nintendo just announced the Wii MotionPlus, a small peripheral that plugs on to the bottom of the Wiimote to give greatly improved motion sensing, allowing for games to truly use your motion on screen for, say, a lightsaber game. Nintendo’s upcoming Wii MotionPlus accessory for the revolutionary Wii Remote controller again redefines game control, by…

Tech News Adam Frucci

iPhone 3G Cursed by Demonic Steve Jobs Up For Sale on eBay, if You Dare

If you thought the activation servers being down on launch day made for a lousy unboxing of your shiny new iPhone 3G, you have nothing on this person. When they opened their iPhone, the screen was already on with a menacing picture of Steve Jobs on it, and the screen was scorchingly hot to the…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Batman Tumbler Transformer Eats Jokers and Decepticons for Breakfast

The Tumbler is the most badass Batmobile ever (it’s a freakin’ tank), but what if it was a Transformer? This is definitely what it would look like: A Decepticon-shredder. Bat-ingenuity, Transformer tech and sheer badassery definitely make this the beastliest ‘bot out of Cybertron. Optimus Prime had better watch his back. I want one. [Jester…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Kingdom Of New York Will Never Bow To Its Ice-Age Foes, London And Neo Tokyo

The upcoming post-apocalyptic war movie Wynter Dark has released a few concept designs of New York city 800 years in the future, during our next ice age. Looks like Lady Liberty is still standing (as usual in post-apocalyptic movies), but everything else is frozen and desolate. It also appears that the citizens of NYC have…

io9 Meredith Woerner

LED Anti-Glare Light is for Safer Night Driving, Not Doing Your Makeup

LEDs sure get put to some creative uses: here they’re built into the “world’s first anti-glare LED panel for night-drivers.” The idea is that at night your pupils naturally dilate to let more light in, but while driving this can result in dazzle and glare from other cars’ head- and tail-lights. So you just strap…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Watch The Flash Burn Alive In MK vs. DC Trailer

At last we have video proof that Mortal Kombat’s fatalities will lay the smackdown over DC’s weak “brutalities” in the Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe game. All the giant-breasted Catwoman can do is straddle Sonya and claw at her. Meanwhile, the poor Flash gets lit ablaze and roasted to death. I’ve been pretty upset about…

io9 Meredith Woerner

iPhone 3G Shortcuts

Here’s our Gizmodo iPhone 3G Review, iPhone Firmware 2.0 Review, our iPhone App Review Marathon (90 apps total), and a list of our favorite apps. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3g-review-5024412

Tech News Brian Lam

Genetically Engineered Tomatoes that Carry an Alzheimers Vaccine

Korean researchers are developing an edible vaccine for Alzheimers that is carried in genetically-engineered tomatoes. As long as you eat the tomatoes raw, the vaccine should work (heating destroys it). [The Biotech Weblog]

io9 Annalee Newitz

Das Ultimate Keyboard is Too Cool for Key Legends

We all laughed at that key legend-less leather keyboard the other day, didn’t we? Metadot, the makers of the new Ultimate Keyboard didn’t: it also skips all that troublesome bother of having labeled keys. Presumably it’s in the name of coolness, since the whole thing looks pretty slick and has precision-engineered, gold-plated switches that click…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Top-End Nvidia GeForce GTX 280, 260 Graphics Cards Get Huge Price Cut

Nvidia’s top end GeForce GTX 260 and 280 graphics cards-whose power borders on sorcery-launched for $399 and $650, respectively, less than a month ago. But pressure from ATI has driven Nvidia to already cut the price, hard. The GTX 280 is now only $399, while the GTX 260 is $299, the same price as ATI’s…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Ask The Questions You Don’t Even Know To Ask About Dollhouse

Sure, the premiere of new Joss Whedon show Dollhouse is still months away at this point, but that doesn’t mean that you don’t have any questions about it already. Luckily for you, the writers of the series are already waiting to answer whatever you want to know online. Fansite Dollhouse Forums – Just one of…

Television Graeme McMillan

Phase One P65+ is First Full-Frame Medium Format Photo Sensor, Packs a Gaudy 65 Megapixels

Last week Hasselblad was holding down the largest-sensor-available title with its 50MP H3DII-50, but now Phase One’s P65+ digital back matches the size of a standard piece of 645 film at 40.4 X 54.9mm-a first for digital sensors-for a final resolution of 65 megapixels. But if you’re guessing it’ll cost you, you guessed right. https://gizmodo.com/hasselblad-h3dii-50-has-50-megapixel-sensor-double-the-5022867…

Tech News John Mahoney

Microsoft E3 Liveblog

Floor-by-Floor Demolition Blows Minds, Saves Environment

Russian Ravers Blinded By Best (and Last) Laser Show They’ll Ever See

Humpback Whales Teach Humans to Build Better Wind Turbines

What You Missed Last Weekend

Macally PowerLink is Flash drive, Sync Cable, Emergency Juice for iPod, iPhone

You Fools! Why Are You Not Watching The Middleman?

MSI Wind Review (Verdict: At Last!)

Wii MotionPlus Brings More Accurate Motion-Sensing to the Wii

iPhone 3G Cursed by Demonic Steve Jobs Up For Sale on eBay, if You Dare

Batman Tumbler Transformer Eats Jokers and Decepticons for Breakfast

The Kingdom Of New York Will Never Bow To Its Ice-Age Foes, London And Neo Tokyo

LED Anti-Glare Light is for Safer Night Driving, Not Doing Your Makeup

Watch The Flash Burn Alive In MK vs. DC Trailer

iPhone 3G Shortcuts

Genetically Engineered Tomatoes that Carry an Alzheimers Vaccine

Das Ultimate Keyboard is Too Cool for Key Legends

Top-End Nvidia GeForce GTX 280, 260 Graphics Cards Get Huge Price Cut

Ask The Questions You Don’t Even Know To Ask About Dollhouse

Phase One P65+ is First Full-Frame Medium Format Photo Sensor, Packs a Gaudy 65 Megapixels

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