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Polaroid Bringing Back Classic 4×3 Insta-Prints With Forthcoming Digital Zink Cam

While the tears spilled mourning the death of Polaroid’s instant film division are still somewhat damp, the company has a little spark of an announcement that could make hardcore ‘roiders (of the best kind) happy-the company looks like it’s finally getting serious about building its Zink instant digital printing tech into a camera. And it…

Tech News John Mahoney Aug 12 '08

iPhone 3G Coming to Best Buy Next Month, Samsung Instinct Reportedly Bummed

AppleInsider reports that the iPhone 3G will almost certainly be coming to Best Buy as soon as September 7th, giving the the retailer the distinction of being the first outlet to sell the device that isn’t part of its immediate family. The announcement, expected tomorrow, would bring the iPhone to 970 Best Buys around the…

Tech News John Herrman Aug 12 '08

Doppler Weather Radar Picks Up Car Blazing Down Highway at 130 MPH

Atmospheric conditions were just right early this morning in the Chicago area for the weather service to pick up motorists driving down Interstate 55 and 57 using Doppler radar. Apparently, one of these motorists was late for an important meeting because a car was clocked doing around 130 mph. It’s hard to see, but the…

Tech News Sean Fallon Aug 12 '08

Dell Offering 128GB SSD Upgrade on Laptops for $450

Dell’s offering up a 128GB SSD for their XPS M1330 and M1530 laptops and even with the dwindling prices of SSDs, $450 doesn’t sound like a half-bad deal. [Dell via Engadget]

Tech News Adrian Covert Aug 12 '08

Curvy Follo Washbasin Prevents Unsightly Crotch Splashes

It’s not quite as cool looking as the Fossil Washbasin, but the Follo does have some unique features of its own. Instead of a standard drain, the Follo utilizes drainage grooves to reduce standing water. Plus, the curvy appearance is more than just eye candy-it is designed to reduce the embarrassing splashback that always seems…

Tech News Sean Fallon Aug 12 '08

Cuntblocker 5000, If Ron Popeil Were a Total Prude

Click to viewThank goodness the brightest television inventors of our generation aren’t the prudish sorts who will pull words like “cunt” from our morning weather report. Because then even the sunniest days would be filled with the subfusc clouds of rain. * If the repetition of the word “cunt” didn’t give it away, this video…

Television Mark Wilson Aug 12 '08

This Material Does Not Conform to the Laws of Gravity

Click to viewSachiko Kodama is a physics geek turned artist whose intimacy with the laws of magnetism has led her to create art out of magnets and oils filled with magnetic particles. As the magnets interact with the magnetized water, she’s able to create amazingly weird, oily shapes that mutate and flow seemingly without reference…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 12 '08

Ohio Sues E-Voting Machine Maker But Keeps Same Crappy E-Voting Machines

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is suing e-voting machine maker Diebold, now known as Premier Election Solutions, seeking damages for the mess the malfunctioning machines caused in the super swing state in 2004 and 2006—the same machines which will, frighteningly enough, still be used to gather and/or misplace Ohio votes in the upcoming McCain-Obama…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Aug 12 '08

iPhone 3G + Rain = Disaster

In case you needed any extra warning, do not leave your iPhone 3G in the rain. It’s not waterproof. According to routine testing by the Fédération Romande des Consommateurs: After a few minutes in the rain the device showed a whole array of technical problems: The battery drained rapidly, the iPhone overheated, the touchscreen and…

Tech News Mark Wilson Aug 12 '08

Fox And Apple Selling Special Edition X-Files: I Want To Believe iPods

To celebrate the not-so-bad-but-really-not-great film The X-Files: I Want To Believe, Fox has partnered with Apple to release these special edition iPod classics and iPod nanos. The pair consist of a regular 80GB classic and 8GB nano but with nice portraits of Mulder and Sculley looking very serious and mysterious etched on the back. You…

Tech News Matt Hickey Aug 12 '08

Giant Inflatable Turd Terrorizes Swiss Town

Flash! An inflatable catastrophe second only to the Hindenburg disaster has occurred in Bern Switzerland at the Paul Klee Center art museum. A house-sized inflatable turd designed by American artist Paul McCarthy broke free from its moorings in high winds after the security system designed to deflate the installation failed. Townspeople fled in terror as…

Tech News Sean Fallon Aug 12 '08

Fish Boy Resurfaces In The Movies

Move over bat boy, the kid with gills is taking over. Stone Village Pictures has bought the rights to Alexander Belyaev’s scifi novel Amphibian Man. In this 1920s novel, a scientist saves his young son’s life by transplanting shark gills onto his little body. Of course, now the child spends most of his days in…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 12 '08

Every NES Game Now Up for Grabs on eBay

Every so often, another OCD nerd realizes they’ve wasted their life collecting things and/or meets a girl who refuses to cohabitate with someone who dedicates an entire room to 20-year-old video games. At that point, we see epic eBay auctions with complete system collections. Now is one such time. This particular auction contains every single…

Tech News Adam Frucci Aug 12 '08

Huge California Porn Tax Proposal Goes Limp

Digital dowloads taxes might be breathing hot and steamy down our necks, but we apparently dodged at least one taxation bullet today: A Ron Jeremy-sized 25 percent tax on adult entertainment in California that would’ve extended to streamed and downloaded internet porn (you know, if you actually paid for it). https://gizmodo.com/get-ready-for-itunes-taxes-5036071 Assemblyman Charles Calderon argued…

Movies Matt Buchanan Aug 12 '08

Heroes Embrace, Cast Comic Book Fans

It’s taken them three seasons, but Heroes is finally embracing its heritage with the announcement that Seth Green and Breckin Meyer are to join the cast of NBC’s superhuman drama, playing two massive comic book nerds. Does this mean that we’re going to see more of 9th Wonders, the show’s deus ex comic book plot…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 12 '08

Secrets of the Metamaterials that Will Make You Invisible

Invisibility used to be the stuff of comic books and Harry Potter novels. But this week, scientists from UC Berkeley have emerged with two new invisibility-producing “metamaterials,” engineered substances that bend electromagnetic waves in ways they’ve never bent before. They call it “negative refraction.” But you and I can just call it the first step…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel Aug 12 '08

MotionX Dice Contains Realistic Dice Physics, Is Free

Fullpower’s just released a free version of their MotionX Poker iPhone app containing just the dice-rolling part of the gameplay. You roll dice by shaking the phone, which is then rendered quite well in 3D. Hell, even Walt “Goatberg” Mossberg loves this thing, and he doesn’t seem like a guy who likes gaming. Our only…

Physics & Chemistry Jason Chen Aug 12 '08

Frog Deaths Are A Harbinger of “Sixth Mass Extinction” on Earth

Frogs and other amphibians lived through several mass extinctions on Earth over the past 250 million years, surviving the dinosaur wipeout and the most recent Ice Age. But now, say scientists this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, all that is changing. Amphibians are going extinct in such huge numbers that…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 12 '08

Question of the Day: Do You Consider Yourself a Fanboy?

The word fanboy gets thrown around a lot these days-so much so that Webster’s decided to officially incorporate the term into the English language. Generally speaking, when referring to someone as a fanboy it is intended to be derogatory-but the bottom line is that Fanboyism is the root of all great nerdy debates. So, it…

Gadgets Sean Fallon Aug 12 '08

A World in Which Cars are Invisible Looks Pretty Cool to Me

Click to viewIt seems like invisibility is on everybody’s mind these days, what with the potential for it to jump out of science fiction and into reality a few steps closer thanks to the hard work of a bunch of egghead scientists. But in the world created by this cool nes Peugeot ad, all cars…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Aug 12 '08

Polaroid Bringing Back Classic 4×3 Insta-Prints With Forthcoming Digital Zink Cam

iPhone 3G Coming to Best Buy Next Month, Samsung Instinct Reportedly Bummed

Doppler Weather Radar Picks Up Car Blazing Down Highway at 130 MPH

Dell Offering 128GB SSD Upgrade on Laptops for $450

Curvy Follo Washbasin Prevents Unsightly Crotch Splashes

Cuntblocker 5000, If Ron Popeil Were a Total Prude

This Material Does Not Conform to the Laws of Gravity

Ohio Sues E-Voting Machine Maker But Keeps Same Crappy E-Voting Machines

iPhone 3G + Rain = Disaster

Fox And Apple Selling Special Edition X-Files: I Want To Believe iPods

Giant Inflatable Turd Terrorizes Swiss Town

Fish Boy Resurfaces In The Movies

Every NES Game Now Up for Grabs on eBay

Huge California Porn Tax Proposal Goes Limp

Heroes Embrace, Cast Comic Book Fans

Secrets of the Metamaterials that Will Make You Invisible

MotionX Dice Contains Realistic Dice Physics, Is Free

Frog Deaths Are A Harbinger of “Sixth Mass Extinction” on Earth

Question of the Day: Do You Consider Yourself a Fanboy?

A World in Which Cars are Invisible Looks Pretty Cool to Me

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