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What You Missed Last Weekend

Happy belated 4th of July everyone. While you were off blowing things up and jamming down hot dogs, we, the Gizmodo weekend editors, were hammering out gadget posts of exceptional value. They are: • Don’t hit those snakes with a rake! They’re the power-generating kind! • A slightly more successful balloon man made a safe…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jul 7 '08

LG Chocolate 3 Arriving July 14th

The new LG Chocolate has finally gotten a firm release date-it will go on sale July 14th to Verizon Wireless customers. Remember, this Chocolate is a lot different from LG’s candybars of old. It’s actually a clamshell with a small, 1.76″ touchscreen on the outside and larger 2.22″ normal screen on the inside. It features…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 7 '08

Nicholas Cage Faces Apocalypse By Numbers

A time capsule turns out to have eerily accurate predictions of future catastophes, in Knowing, which opens next March. It’s up to grade school teacher Ted Myles (Nicolas Cage) to convince the nation of our next huge tragedy. Judging from this teaser trailer, the scariest thing in Knowing is a bunch of circling numbers. Let’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 7 '08

Ear Force X4 Headphones: Surround Sound Cussing on Xbox 360

While we enjoyed gaming with the wireless surround sound headphones we tested in our Battlemodo, the major inherent flaw with the systems were their lack of voice-chat capabilities. Now Turtle Beach has announced the Ear Force X4 wireless headphones that combine Dolby 5.1 decoding and voice chat in a package that’s compatible with the Xbox…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 7 '08

Would You Watch Alien 5?

Sigourney Weaver says she’s still considering suiting up for another Alien movie. She even hints that original director Ridley Scott might come back: “I would definitely do another if I had a director like Ridley Scott and we had a good idea…Ridley is enthusiastic about it.” I’m all for more gooey alien action, as long…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 7 '08

Busted iPod Modded Into a Mouse; Could Be So Much More

If your old iPod is suddenly about to become useless when you acquire an iPhone 3G, why not repurpose it as something else? One enterprising modder took an iPod that had been accidentally run over by a car (yeah, I hate it when that happens) and turned it into a fully-functioning mouse, with the buttons…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jul 7 '08

Neal Stephenson Explains Who Should Play Spock

In a tone of deep seriousness that sounds practically professorial, scifi author Neal Stephenson shared some grave thoughts a couple of months ago about science fiction actors. In this clip, the author of The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon tells a London audience how SF actors’ careers are “bifurcated” — they’re famous among scifi fans, but…

Movies Annalee Newitz Jul 7 '08

Behold, the iPhone 3G Display

Those visiting Apple stores later today won’t be able to buy the iPhone 3G, but at least they’ll be able to check it out in Jumbotron form. Here’s the iPhone 3G in its official capacity as an unusable giant Apple store display, which according to our sources will be on show floors today. And if…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 7 '08

iPhone 3G Pre-Orders Sold Out in the UK in One Morning

If anyone doubted that this is going to be a weekend of worldwide mass hysteria, here’s a clue: after a few hours there are no more iPhones 3G available for pre-order in the UK. O2’s pre-ordering site was activated this morning and-after being down for a few hours under the massive demand-it now says that…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 7 '08

Previously Unseen Invisibles Available To View

Writing the ultimate supernatural SF comic The Invisibles may have almost killed Grant Morrison, but that didn’t dissuade him from attempting to adapt it into a television show for the BBC. While the show itself never made it to air for multiple reasons, that doesn’t mean that you can’t read the completed scripts and dream…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jul 7 '08

The GMC Van Makes a Comeback on eBay, Baby

Some of my best childhood memories are napping-away in the back bed-seat of our old van. But this four-axle GMC is going to make me need some therapy. Because aside from stylish oak kitchen cabinets and a comfortable La-Z-Boy recliner, the van makes room for a sauna (and they don’t just mean that the A/C…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 7 '08

T-Mobile 3G Nationwide Launch Oct. 1st?

TmoNews has an anony-tip that they’ll be firing up their 3G network in those 20+ top markets on Oct. 1. The rumor’s fairly squishy, but it’s not totally whack—T-mo promised to roll out 3G in major markets throughout the year, plus we’d heard those top markets would be balling along by the end of it.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 7 '08

All the Ways We Can Mess Up Your Brain

Yesterday we told you all about a recent study where a group of researchers identified the genes responsible for brain development in the womb. We pointed out, in our usual excitable way, that this discovery is the first step on the road to tinkering with those genes to produce mega-geniuses and mindless drones. The researchers…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 7 '08

Casio’s Magic Slo-Mo EX-F1 Getting a Little More Magical with New Update

One of our favorite cameras, the Casio EX-F1, is getting a new firmware update that adds yet another awesome feature: prerecord movies. This allows you to capture video starting a full five seconds before you fully press down the movie button, letting you catch stuff that your beer-slowed reflexes would have missed with any other…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jul 7 '08

E-Ball: the Power-Brick-Friendly Power Strip, From Space

Who’d have thought that the humble power strip would warrant so much creative design attention? Not me. But I like this e-Ball power strip design from Mashallah design: it’s kind of like the UFO one, designed to deconflict many chunky power bricks, but taken into an extra dimension. In fact, the first thing it reminded…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jul 7 '08

Mobile-Suit Gundam 00 To Air On Sci Fi

If you were worried that the upcoming end of Battlestar Galactica would mean an end to religious undercurrents and dystopic quests in your science fiction, then the Sci Fi Channel has good news for you: They’re bringing critically-acclaimed anime Mobile Suit Gundam 00 to your screens this winter to meet all of your needs. The…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jul 7 '08

Could This Be a New MacBook Pro?

This may or may not be a redesigned MacBook Pro case-we’re calling it a hefty rumor like the Chinese blog that sourced it. The only major difference from current designs that we can honestly see is a series of unexplained circular indentations (possibly just from prototyping) along the Apple logo (which, incidentally, is said to…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 7 '08

Samsung M3510 Music Cellphone to Have Shake, Tilt Control

Some information has leaked out about Samsung’s upcoming M3510 music-player cellphone, and it looks like it’ll have some accelerometer-driven control built-in. A bit like the ShakeSMS app for Nokia phones and the Sansa Shake MP3 player, the M3510 will let you shake it in different directions and turn it around to control the music player…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jul 7 '08

More New Joker-Isms From The Dark Knight

A three-day weekend means an extra huge batch of spoilers – including a plot synopsis of the new animated Star Wars movie. There’s also some new info on the Dark Knight, including new videos and new Joker-isms. The X-Files 2 soundtrack listing hints at some plot points, plus there’s a new detail about G.I. Joe…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 7 '08

PlayStation 3 Firmware 2.41 Coming “Midweek”

Sony’s firmware 2.40 for the PS3 was pulled from servers after bricking several systems. Now at least one customer support service is reporting that firmware 2.41 will be released later this week. While Sony has yet to send out an official press release on the topic, it’s looking like those who didn’t download their in-game…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 7 '08

What You Missed Last Weekend

LG Chocolate 3 Arriving July 14th

Nicholas Cage Faces Apocalypse By Numbers

Ear Force X4 Headphones: Surround Sound Cussing on Xbox 360

Would You Watch Alien 5?

Busted iPod Modded Into a Mouse; Could Be So Much More

Neal Stephenson Explains Who Should Play Spock

Behold, the iPhone 3G Display

iPhone 3G Pre-Orders Sold Out in the UK in One Morning

Previously Unseen Invisibles Available To View

The GMC Van Makes a Comeback on eBay, Baby

T-Mobile 3G Nationwide Launch Oct. 1st?

All the Ways We Can Mess Up Your Brain

Casio’s Magic Slo-Mo EX-F1 Getting a Little More Magical with New Update

E-Ball: the Power-Brick-Friendly Power Strip, From Space

Mobile-Suit Gundam 00 To Air On Sci Fi

Could This Be a New MacBook Pro?

Samsung M3510 Music Cellphone to Have Shake, Tilt Control

More New Joker-Isms From The Dark Knight

PlayStation 3 Firmware 2.41 Coming “Midweek”

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