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First Footage: Same OLPC XO Boots Both Sugar and Windows XP

This is the first footage of the same XO OLPC doing a dual-boot of Sugar Linux and Windows XP—something skeptics have said wasn’t going to happen. Soon, XOs will ship with both Sugar and XP for Boot Camp-style dual-booting options. They will never come with only XP, though the team is working on adding more…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

What You Missed Last Weekend

Thanks for convincing the Saudis to up oil production. Really, the SUVs of the world thank you, but it meant missing the greatest weekend gadget news ever written. Bad oil tycoon. Read this: • Gizmodo’s own Mark Wilson got caught up in a dangerous tornado, but it was no match for the power of YouTube.…

Tech News Jack Loftus

A Virtual-Reality Racetrack Turns Into A Death Trap For Speed Racer Jr.

This week on TV, ummm… well, maybe we should all Netflix the same things and then discuss them as if they were newly televised. No, wait. Actually, it’s not that bad. Among the things that may keep you from killing your TV this week: Batman meets his inspiration, Doctor Who follows Steven Moffat into a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

First Warner Bros. BD-Live Discs to Arrive in Christmas Stockings

Warner, the studio that sunk HD DVD’s ship as it climbed aboard Blu-ray’s, will be one of the slowest to jump on BD-Live, Blu-ray’s online interactive content. Its BD-Live discs will arrive around Christmastime, with features like real-time viewing (?), a search engine, library access, and a recommendation tool-all pretty boring compared to Fox’s BD-Live…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Phantom Lapboard Is Finally Out

We weren’t sure that this day would ever come. Even when we spoke with John Landino (Phantom Development Consultant) at CES, he wasn’t sure the day would ever come. Today, I got an email from him. https://gizmodo.com/phantom-lapboard-keyboard-its-coming-maybe-342396 That’s right Mark; we have sold a product:) and booked a dollar…what is the world coming to? It’s…

Tech News Mark Wilson

An Apocalyptic Love Affair Between Blaster-Toting Robots

Forget the doe-eyed Disney characters of the past: in the new WALL-E trailer, his lady-bot kicks some serious nuts and bolts. It’s amazing what a change of music can do for this movie, all of a sudden we’ve got robots on the lam, shooting blaster-sounding guns and dodging danger around every corner. Plus they’re really…

Movies Meredith Woerner

AOL Blesses Windows Mobile With New AIM Client

After years of neglect, AOL has apparently remembered that Windows Mobile exists and just released a new official AIM client. Though still in beta, it’s supposedly compatible with all WinMo 5 and 6 devices. It looks pretty swank, at least as far as WinMo apps go, and more than satisfying for a mobile AIM client.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

This Might Just be the Helio Ocean 2

Is this the Helio Ocean 2? According to someone on the Helio City forums who grabbed this screenshot from a since-removed YouTube video, yes. Is Helio even going to be around long enough to release another version of the Ocean? We’ll see, but I’m not placing any bets one way or the other. But the…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Remix The Moaning Ladies Of The Spirit

Scariest movie marketing ever: Frank Miller brings together his gaggle of gals from The Spirit and has each of them give a little soundbite when you mouse over her poster. Eva Mendes, Scarlett Johansson, Jaime King and Sarah Paulson lay the verbal cheesecake on thick, moaning and purring a sexy innuendo or pick-up line. I…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Daft Punk’s Designer Shows DIY Glowing Outfit Tricks

Almost as famous as Daft Punk‘s electro-tunes are their glowing electro-outfits. And now, thanks to the chap who made clothes for their 2007 Alive tour, and an Instructables DIY page you too could don glowing gear. It looks fairly easy, as long as you’re nifty with a needle and thread: the hardest part seems to…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

WSJ: Android Is A Giant, Delayed Flustercuck, iPhone Easier to Develop For

Oh, Android delays, let us count the ways: T-Mobile will probably deliver an Android phone by the end of the year, but the WSJ says that working with T-Mo is sucking up so much Google juice that Sprint will have to wait until 2009 (and its Android phone might not play on EV-DO, but WiMax).…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Could You Shoot Bendy Bullets, Just Like in “Wanted”?

You may have thought that the all-seeing, future-predicting loom of life was the craziest thing about Wanted. As it turns out, however, Mark Millar and J.G. Jones’s graphic-novel-turned-film has even more implausible scenarios to feed your fantasies. For example, there’s the way Wesley (James McAvoy) can “bend” the trajectory of a bullet shot from his…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel

Consumer Reports’ Classic Reviews Could Fill Gizmodo for a Week

Sonic Blaster, 1966 The Mattel Agent Zero M Sonic Blaster 5530 fires compressed air with a deafening blast. Our measurements top out at 157 dB—above a level that can do permanent damage to the hearing of an adult. We rate the toy Not Acceptable. You can’t make up stuff this good and Consumer Reports has…

Tech News Mark Wilson

More Changes And Upset For DC Comics

It wasn’t the change that anyone was expecting. When Friday’s rumors of a resignation within DC Comics’ upper management hit the nets, everyone was thinking executive editor Dan DiDio. But instead, it was Senior VP of Business Development John Nee. Shockwaves felt around the industry tended to be of the confused, “Who is John Nee,…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Big Time Digital Wall Clock: You’ve Finally Made It, Timex Watch Guy

The Big Time Digital Wall Clock has no qualms about its place in your life. It’s giving you the time. And doing it the big way. At over three feet wide and a foot and a half long, the Big Time clock features an admittedly stylish circuit board backing. Maybe we’d consider the purchase if…

Tech News Mark Wilson

iPhone 3G Turns On Porn Industry

According to Time, porn producers are excited about the new iPhone 3G because it will quickly put content right on the hand of the users, without having to go through the carrier, which already have control over the $1.7-billion mobile porn market. Not only that: the porn industry sees its large touch screen, web browser,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Pale Beauty of a Martian Salt Mine

Vernor Vinge has said that he drew inspiration for the planet of the Tines from a visit to Norway, and Amy Thomson told me recently that she traveled to Mongolia to get a feel for the planet where her recently-finished novel is set. If the otherworldly photographs George Steinmetz recently took in Bolivia are any…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Girl Talk Meets the Macbook Air Commercial, Lends it Some Street Cred

Girl Talk, the manic mashup artist who combines hundreds and hundreds of samples to create his frenetic, ADD music, just released his new album, Feed the Animals last week (as a pay-what-you-want download, incidentally). It includes a song with "New Soul" by Yael Naim sampled, the song from the Macbook Air ad. Of course, now…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Who Is Wall-E’s Secret Robot Friend?

Looks like Wall-E isn’t the only robot that Pixar were thinking about over the last few months; with the release of Wall-E at the end of this week, fans are already wondering about the mysterious DVD-only bonus companion to the movie, which may or may not be called Burn-E. When /Film had spoken to Wall-E…

io9 Graeme McMillan

First Pics Of Starship Troopers’ Armor And Heroes’ Gun-Toting Ex-Blonde

There are a whole weekend’s worth of spoilers to catch up on this morning, including some new pics of the filming of Heroes season three that include that gunshot we’ve heard so much about. And some new Starship Troopers 3 pics include a gun-waving Jolene Blalock and some awesome new hardware. Two new Doctor Who…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

First Footage: Same OLPC XO Boots Both Sugar and Windows XP

What You Missed Last Weekend

A Virtual-Reality Racetrack Turns Into A Death Trap For Speed Racer Jr.

First Warner Bros. BD-Live Discs to Arrive in Christmas Stockings

The Phantom Lapboard Is Finally Out

An Apocalyptic Love Affair Between Blaster-Toting Robots

AOL Blesses Windows Mobile With New AIM Client

This Might Just be the Helio Ocean 2

Remix The Moaning Ladies Of The Spirit

Daft Punk’s Designer Shows DIY Glowing Outfit Tricks

WSJ: Android Is A Giant, Delayed Flustercuck, iPhone Easier to Develop For

Could You Shoot Bendy Bullets, Just Like in “Wanted”?

Consumer Reports’ Classic Reviews Could Fill Gizmodo for a Week

More Changes And Upset For DC Comics

Big Time Digital Wall Clock: You’ve Finally Made It, Timex Watch Guy

iPhone 3G Turns On Porn Industry

The Pale Beauty of a Martian Salt Mine

Girl Talk Meets the Macbook Air Commercial, Lends it Some Street Cred

Who Is Wall-E’s Secret Robot Friend?

First Pics Of Starship Troopers’ Armor And Heroes’ Gun-Toting Ex-Blonde

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