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Dell First to Offer 7200rpm 320GB Notebook Hard Drives

While a flood of 7200rpm 320GB notebook-sized hard drives dropped not too long ago from pretty much all the majors, Dell is actually the first notebook maker to ante up and offer them (from Seagate) in their 17-inch XPS notebooks. The ballyhoo is ’cause most notebook drives spin at a pokey 5400rpm, and if you…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Wanted Brings Crazy Comic-Book Violence To Life

This new featurette about June 27’s Wanted praises how true to the Mark Millar comic the super-assassin movie will be. But watching the bit where James McAvoy’s character hits his boss with a computer keyboard so hard, the man’s teeth and the computer’s keys fly through the air and spell “FUCK YOU,” it feels more…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Fly Through the Biggest Valley in the Solar System

Ever want to take a flying car trip on Mars? Well, now you can. A couple of years ago, some geo geeks worked with NASA to produce an amazing video of what it would look like to fly over the biggest canyon on Mars (and indeed in the solar system): Mariner Valley. The CGI is…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Bill Gates Gifts South Korean President a Beautiful Xbox 360

When Bill Gates met South Korea President Lee Myung-bak earlier this month, he didn’t come with a free copy of Vista in hand. Instead, he gifted Lee Myung-bak with 1 of 100 similar hand-crafted Xbox 360s entitled “Peace.” The work of the head of a Korean company named Gookbo, each Xbox is decorated with mother-of-pearl…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Digital Picture Frames Meet Pet Urns

Digital Picture frames have been gaining in popularity lately, marrying convenience of having multiple pictures in one frame with the inconvenience of teaching old people how to use them. What’s even better about this version is that it’s for your pets. Your dead pets. The urn can handle up to 75 pounds of pet remains—if…

Tech News Jason Chen

Hellboy II’s Dog Rears All Three Of His Heads At Last

At New York Comic-Con Guillermo del Toro promised to post a sketch of the three-headed dog he’d been forced to drop from his monster-filled flick Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Good to his word, check out the puppy from hell pictures dedicated to NYCC’s fan and young filmmaker to-be Nick. It was originally going to…

io9 Meredith Woerner

iPhone Windows Vista Skin Makes Steve Jobs Cry Tears of Blood

Best, worst or most hilarious iPhone skin ever? VistaPerfection 2.0 is a complete Windows Vista skin for the iPhone with over 90 icons, wallpapers, a dock, sound effects and everything else Vista like the Sidebar and Start menu. I’m not sure why anyone would do this to their iPhone, but be warned, since it’s not…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Force Is No Longer With This Particular Jedi

Apparently, real life Jedis don’t really have the staying power of their fictional counterparts. While Obi Wan Kenobi has it in him to fight in the Clone Wars, then battle his apprentice before going into hiding for decades in order to wait for the chosen one to bring balance to the Force, the head of…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Best Buy Gives FCC the Finger After Selling Analog TVs

Back in October, the FCC slapped a bunch of electronics retailers with (small) fines for selling analog TVs without the appropriate warning stickers of doom that the sets will officially be antiques on Feb. 17, 2009, when the digital switchover apocalypse happens. Best Buy is on the hook for $280,000. But their lawyers are telling…

Television Matt Buchanan

Learn How Watchmen Changes The Graphic Novel’s Ending

Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen is one of the greatest graphic novels of all time — but it’s also tied to its Cold War origins in a huge way. So one of the biggest questions about the movie adaptation has been how fetishistic director Zack Snyder (300) will update the movie for a post-Cold…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

New Sidekick Confirmed by FCC

Are you sitting? There’s a new Sidekick coming. I know, you absolutely never saw this coming. The FCC has approved the new Sidekick model (Sharp PV210) for sale in the US and even included this fancy barcode label. We’re still not sure if this model is the Aspen or Gekko—or how that whole mess is…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Samsung Announcing 82-inch Ultra-Definition LCD With Multi-Touch

We may have a new dream TV. Samsung is set to unveil an 82-inch LCD with ultra-definition resolution (3,840 by 2,160) that refreshes at 120Hz sometime this week. But equally as exciting, the display will also come in a multi-touch flavor for education purposes. That version will run at just 60Hz. Unfortunately, we have no…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Hype Buster: Sony XEL-1 OLED Not the Perfect TV (We’re Not Talking ‘Bout Size, Either)

Sony’s first OLED TV, the XEL-1, has gotten loads of favorable reviews and hype (from us too). It does put out a hell of a picture, one that made our Wilson proclaim: “you’re essentially staring into what could very well be the perfect TV.” But Gary over at HDGuru isn’t so swoony, and his more…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Steve Ballmer Egged in Hungary!

Click to viewSteve Ballmer finally gets to join his buddy Bill Gates in the “food target club” after a visit to the Hungarian University of Economy. A guy (grad student? just some dude?) stood up, yelled “Give back the money of the taxpayers” in an accent Ballmer probably couldn’t understand, and started throwing eggs at…

Tech News Jason Chen

BSG TV Movies Won’t Change The Show’s Ending

More Battlestar Galactica TV movies seem to be on the dradis. Chicago Tribune columnist Maureen Ryan, who’s connected with the BSG producers, has confirmed the rumors from last week that BSG will be making more TV movies. But Ryan’s insider sources only have “cautious optimism” about whether the films will happen. Thankfully none of these…

Television Meredith Woerner

Samsung OLED Passport Is Perfect for Secret Agents, Plastic Surgery Junkies

For some reason, Samsung SDI and German company Bundesdruckerei think that their new passport with a 700µm (tiny) polycarbonate data page, which contains an active matrix bendable 300µm (really tiny) OLED display—capable of displaying video or text regarding the passport holder—is the next thing in border security. The only problem is that they forgot that…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

Nanoskin Buildings Covered in Tiny Turbines are Self-Powering

Agustin Otegu thinks the future of green buildings lies not in the giant wind turbines we’ve seen in so many other projects, nor in huge solar panels. Instead his new design proposal, called Nano-vent Skin, would incorporate tiny, biological self-repairing wind turbines into the outer layer of a building. As wind played over the building’s…

io9 Annalee Newitz

DIY Intel Atom Computer

While we’re pleased to see Intel Atom processors making their way into mobile PCs, we’re just as excited to see the upcoming Atom-based creations of the PC-building community. Now Trainquil PC is selling ready-to-run motherboards with a bundled 1.6GHz Atom processor and supporting up to 2GB of memory. They promise benchmarks of 3-4x those of…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Don’t Worry: The Government Will Not Implant Surveillance Organs Inside You

One of the most common fantasies in science fiction is that some evil government will start stealing people’s organs for important politicians — or, worse, implanting organs into people that control them somehow (think mind-control implants or the heart plugs in Dune). Luckily for people in the United States, the government is unlikely to get…

io9 Annalee Newitz

3G iPhone Case Shows Thicker, Curvier Backside (and Front-Facing Camera Too?)

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard that iPhone case manufacturers have gotten an early peek at the 3G iPhone, but this rendering on XSKN’s site for the EXO mask iPhone 3G is obviously a bit more detailed than the rough sketches from a couple weeks ago. It lines up with them though, as well…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Dell First to Offer 7200rpm 320GB Notebook Hard Drives

Wanted Brings Crazy Comic-Book Violence To Life

Fly Through the Biggest Valley in the Solar System

Bill Gates Gifts South Korean President a Beautiful Xbox 360

Digital Picture Frames Meet Pet Urns

Hellboy II’s Dog Rears All Three Of His Heads At Last

iPhone Windows Vista Skin Makes Steve Jobs Cry Tears of Blood

The Force Is No Longer With This Particular Jedi

Best Buy Gives FCC the Finger After Selling Analog TVs

Learn How Watchmen Changes The Graphic Novel’s Ending

New Sidekick Confirmed by FCC

Samsung Announcing 82-inch Ultra-Definition LCD With Multi-Touch

Hype Buster: Sony XEL-1 OLED Not the Perfect TV (We’re Not Talking ‘Bout Size, Either)

Steve Ballmer Egged in Hungary!

BSG TV Movies Won’t Change The Show’s Ending

Samsung OLED Passport Is Perfect for Secret Agents, Plastic Surgery Junkies

Nanoskin Buildings Covered in Tiny Turbines are Self-Powering

DIY Intel Atom Computer

Don’t Worry: The Government Will Not Implant Surveillance Organs Inside You

3G iPhone Case Shows Thicker, Curvier Backside (and Front-Facing Camera Too?)

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