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A Widescreen Nintendo DS is “Purely Rumor and Speculation”

Here’s the deal. Yesterday an advertisement was floating around showing a Nintendo DS that had bigger, wider screens. They didn’t look quite 16×9 as the gaming blogs were claiming, and the whole ordeal could have been a pretty quick Photoshop blunder by a third party software designer. Anyway, a lot of people ended up running…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Fanboy Is Now a Real English Word, Says Merriam-Webster

Yes, it’s official: you now can be a fanboy by the power of Grayskull and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, which says the word is now part of the English language. They arrive a little late, because the Oxford American Dictionary in Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard running on my Apple iMac 24″ shows it, and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Elgato Shrinks EyeTV Digital TV Dongle, Now MacBook Air-Friendly

Elgato has shrunk the tech in their Mac-friendly USB TV tuner dongles so that the latest EyeTV DTT Deluxe is much smaller. And as a result, it’s now compatible with the MacBook Air’s low ground-clearance. It’s got a digital tuner inside that can do full HD, so it’s just for those of you who can…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

LHC Ignition Delayed Until August, Earth Spared Another Month

The scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland have decided to delay the ignition of the massive particle accelerator. The LHC countdown now shows 30 more days, so you can enjoy July to its full potential. In case you don’t know what a Large Hadron Collider is, it’s the thingamajig that is supposed to…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Nokia Haptikos Tactile Touchscreen Patent Is a Bit Like Apple’s

Among the rush of Apple patents relating to touchscreens over the last year came one on tactile feedback touchscreens, and Nokia seems to have been thinking along the same lines. Almost exactly the same lines, since Nokia’s Haptikos tech is a system of fluid-cells driven by piezoelectric actuators that push up through a flexible touchscreen.…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Hasselblad H3DII-50 has 50-Megapixel Sensor, Double the Largest 35mm Sensor

The new H3DII-50 from Hasselblad packs in Kodak’s 50-megapixel sensor. This measures 36mm x 48mm, and is thus double the size of the largest 35mm DSLR sensors, and even more than double the sensors used in low-mid range DSLRs. The sheer size of the sensor means it takes about 1.1 seconds per frame, but clearly…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Infrared Tracking R/C Car is Remote Control Toy for the Truly Lazy

This remote-control car has an infrared follower system built in, so you steer it simply by pointing the IR beam from the controller somewhere ahead of the car, and it works out where you want it to go. So yes, it’s a simple remote control for those who can’t be bothered to learn how to…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Bubblewrap Calendar Lets You Pop Your Life Away, One Day at a Time

I haven’t met a single soul who doesn’t like popping bubblewrap, and now there’s BubbleCalendar, a full printed calendar that uses the bigger, more satisfying bubbles. And that might all be very neat and stress-relieving… but I have misgivings. Doesn’t the expiry of another day of your life, disappearing into the past with a little…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

PlayStation 3 Firmware 2.41 Available Now

It’s not quite midweek, but according to readers at Sony’s PlayStation blog, the new firmware update 2.41 for PlayStation3 is now available for download. Hopefully when you fire up your update it’ll be a smoother process than for some 2.40 users. Update: the new, improved update has brought a nice new, improved platinum trophy with…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Apple Store is Down

As a large bunch of readers have noticed, the Apple store is down everywhere. If you consider the timing of the iPhone 3G’s and MobileMe’s launch (which has to hit New Zealand nearly a day ahead of the US) some preliminary setup kinda makes sense. We’ll keep you posted. Update: the store’s back up. No…

Tech News Kit Eaton

Lightning Review: LG Decoy with Snap-On Bluetooth Earpiece

The Gadget: The LG Decoy, now available at Verizon Wireless, is the first US phone to include a Bluetooth earpiece that rides piggyback—and charges up—on the handset itself when you’re not using it. https://gizmodo.com/lg-decoy-comes-with-removable-bluetooth-headphone-will-394425 The Price: $180 after $50 mail-in rebate and 2-year contract, but remember that includes the Bluetooth earpiece. The Verdict: The combo…

Reviews Wilson Rothman

Acer Aspire X1200 Series Mini-PCs Stuff HDMI Jack, 9 USB Ports and More in a Tiny Space

If you gotta go the desktop route, Acer’s got three mini-PCs packed heavy with ports that don’t take up a ton of space. Measuring 10.6″ x 4″ x 14.4″, about the same as a hardcover book, the X1200s have an HDMI port—like Dell’s leaked mini, aka the green PC, but unlike the smaller Asus Eee…

Tech News Benny Goldman

Movies Will Replace Textbooks (1922)

The 2006 book Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change by Bob Seidensticker is a fascinating read. From page 103: Schools have had a longstanding immunity against the introduction of new technologies. In 1922 Thomas Edison predicted that movies would replace textbooks. In 1945 one forecaster imagined radios as common as blackboards in classrooms. In…

Tech News Matt Novak

Curly-Winged UAV Will Leech From Power Lines, Fly Forever

The next version of the DevilRay unmanned aerial vehicle will feature the ability to dock to and recharge from power lines. Made by Defense Research Associates, the UAV uses down-curled wingtips to make such a low-speed maneuver possible. The four-foot wide, propeller-driven flying wing will use “inverse capped helix winglets” to take advantage of the…

Tech News John Herrman

Contacts With Coverflow Concept Kind Of Cool

Coverflow isn’t my favorite feature of OS X, but I have to admit it is neat, but that’s about it. There are more efficient ways to organize pretty much any data you can think of, but this idea of applying the technology to your iPhone’s Contacts list intrigues me. Nothing fancy here, it would likely…

Tech News Matt Hickey

Official: iPhone On Sale at 8AM on Friday in Apple Stores, Too

The 8AM times previously mentioned as the iPhone 3G sale time applied only to AT&T stores. Apple just updated their retail page to reflect the same time of sale within Apple retail spaces. I think we all assumed this was fact, but now it is. [Apple Thanks Patricio] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3g-launch-details-get-those-sleeping-bags-ready-5021064

Tech News Brian Lam

Molly Ringwald Trapped In A Robolympics Of Death

The towering post-apocalyptic cyborg Overdog likes to capture hot young rat pack actors like Molly Ringwald, drug them… and put them into a maze. A crazy robot maze, made out of swinging buzz-saws, knifey monster truck wannabes, and acid pools. Molly can depend only on her wits, her agility, and her 16 Candles charm, in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

LED Bath Tiles: Either a Very Good Or Very Bad Idea

The idea of LED illuminated tiles is a good one in theory, but I’m afraid it’ll end up like fiber optic lighting and Bluetooth headsets in that people with no taste will take it over, ruining it for the rest of us. The waterproof tiles snap together Lego style and have a repeating connectivity scheme,…

Tech News Matt Hickey

Back Up Your Windows Mobile Phone For Free With PIM Backup

Backing up your phone may not be as important as backing up your computer, but one day will come when you leave your cell in a cab and you’ll be really happy you’ve got all your info somewhere else for safekeeping. PIM Backup for Windows Mobile keeps a backup of your contacts, call logs, messages,…

Tech News Jason Chen

That Could Be Spider-Man Washing Your Windows

What if Spider-Man had been born in Guerrero, Mexico instead of New York City? What if he had to come to the United States surreptitiously, and was so busy working blue collar jobs to send money home to his family that he couldn’t find the time to fight crime and kiss gringas in the rain?…

io9 Annalee Newitz

A Widescreen Nintendo DS is “Purely Rumor and Speculation”

Fanboy Is Now a Real English Word, Says Merriam-Webster

Elgato Shrinks EyeTV Digital TV Dongle, Now MacBook Air-Friendly

LHC Ignition Delayed Until August, Earth Spared Another Month

Nokia Haptikos Tactile Touchscreen Patent Is a Bit Like Apple’s

Hasselblad H3DII-50 has 50-Megapixel Sensor, Double the Largest 35mm Sensor

Infrared Tracking R/C Car is Remote Control Toy for the Truly Lazy

Bubblewrap Calendar Lets You Pop Your Life Away, One Day at a Time

PlayStation 3 Firmware 2.41 Available Now

Apple Store is Down

Lightning Review: LG Decoy with Snap-On Bluetooth Earpiece

Acer Aspire X1200 Series Mini-PCs Stuff HDMI Jack, 9 USB Ports and More in a Tiny Space

Movies Will Replace Textbooks (1922)

Curly-Winged UAV Will Leech From Power Lines, Fly Forever

Contacts With Coverflow Concept Kind Of Cool

Official: iPhone On Sale at 8AM on Friday in Apple Stores, Too

Molly Ringwald Trapped In A Robolympics Of Death

LED Bath Tiles: Either a Very Good Or Very Bad Idea

Back Up Your Windows Mobile Phone For Free With PIM Backup

That Could Be Spider-Man Washing Your Windows

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