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Your Last Opportunity to Go to the Moon

Remember when you were three and thought “I want to be an astronaut” but then you left home to became a waiter then a mackerel fisherman in the middle of the Atlantic then a male stripper/occasional porn actor then a surfer instructor then an art teacher onboard a Swedish ship school, and then became a…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Jun 26 '08

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lego

Do you want to know how many bricks are produced per minute? How many bricks have been produced in history? What’s the best-selling set ever? What has been the worst? Do they recycle? How did they survive the crisis that almost killed them? How successful is Mindstorms? What are the actual names of each of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 26 '08

Official Star Wars USB Hubs May be Best USB Products Ever

Forget Dr Who’s TARDIS, sci-fi USB hub fans (come on… you know who you are) are going to go bonkers over these official R2D2 and Vader USB hubs. R2’s head moves, he lights up and emits genuine Star Wars sound effects every three minutes, while Vader just seems to have the sound effects and glowing…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 26 '08

Orbino Aria MackBook Air Case: Was Rumorware, Now Real, Luxurious

Remember the MacBook Air case that was announced even before we knew for sure that the Air was real? Well, the Aria from Orbino is now a real product (meaning the 50% of you who voted it to be rumorware were wrong!) and it’s pretty darn luxurious. Aircraft-grade aluminum, hand-folded calfskin leather… and that’s just…

Tech News Kit Eaton Jun 26 '08

Sony’s Playstation 3 Movie Download Service to Launch this Summer

We had a rumor about this news back in April but as part of a new corporate Strategy Update, Sony has just confirmed it: video downloads will come to the PS3 “this summer”. That’s first in the US, with a Europe and Japan roll-out later in the year. Plus, Sony will expand the service across…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 26 '08

T-Mobile’s Motorola Rokr E8 Gets Official Launch Date, Price

We’ve been keeping you updated about the morphing-screen Rokr E8, and now T-mobile has officially announced its version. Available from July 7, it’ll cost $199.99 and that’s on a two-year service plan. [PCMag] https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-gets-the-motorola-rokr-e8-356814

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 26 '08

The Greatest Art Featuring 6 Iconic Scifi Villains

Click to viewDarth Vader rocks out with the rest of the original Star Wars cast in this awesome painting by Hugh Fleming. Vader has starred in more than his fair share of offbeat and arresting artworks, but he’s not alone — other classic science fiction villains have also inspired some provocative and clever art, from…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 26 '08

Review: HP Touchsmart IQ506 PC is NOT Just an Imitation iMac

The Gadget: The Touchsmart IQ506 is HP’s second gen, touch-sensitive computer. In addition to its all-in-one design, built-in webcam, TV tuner and wireless keyboard and mouse, the selling point here is the custom touch interface created by frog design. Here’s why this is not just an imitation iMac. Price: $1500 (The IQ504, sans TV-tuner, sells…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 26 '08

Dell Studio Notebooks Officially Bring Decent Design to Mid-Range

Studio is Dell’s new line of notebooks that’ll sit in between Inspiron (low end) and XPS (high end), taking design cues from the latter-like its tapered lines, hinge design and slot-loading optical drive-and bringing ’em to a more value-oriented set, with a Skittles seven color palette (and some cool artist designs coming later). Yes, Dell…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 26 '08

Linksys (Finally) Builds Mac-Friendly Setup Wizard

Linksys today announced EasyLink Advisor setup wizard for Mac OSX 10.4 and up, available for download in support of WRT310N, WRT160N, WRT110 and WRT54G2. New routers will ship with a disc containing both Mac and Windows setups. The other good news is that Linksys will now support Mac users when they call for tech support.…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Jun 26 '08

Dell Dock Puts a Little Mac OS X Into Vista Studio Laptops

Dell’s Studio Laptops will be getting a little touch of the Mac OS when they ship, thanks to the Dell Dock, a launcher that cleans up the Vista desktop in the most charming, albeit derivative, way. Below you can see “Before” and “After” images of the cleanup: https://gizmodo.com/dell-studio-notebooks-officially-bring-decent-design-to-5019703 Here’s the standard Vista desktop: And here…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Jun 26 '08

BlackBerry Bold Hands On (It’s Great)

Tonight, we finally got our hands on the BlackBerry Bold, and it was worth the wait. You’ve already seen the UI, which yes, it’s that snappy and smooth. The screen is nice ‘n’ crispy, if a lil’ tiny for extended cinematic pursuits. But the real q: How’s the browser? Damn skippy. It not only renders…

Tech News Benny Goldman Jun 25 '08

RIM Spending Hard to Develop Hot New BlackBerrys

In the numbers soup of RIM’s quarterly earnings today, there is a one bit that stood out to us: RIM is pushing hard on R&D and marketing next quarter, to the tune of an expected 26-28 percent increase in expenses. In other words, it’s going to spend serious cash to promote the hell out of…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 25 '08

The Victorian Internet

It is easy to forget (for my generation, anyways) that attempts to make language more efficient did not start with text-messaging. In a piece for the December 1900 Ladies’ Home Journal, John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. predicted that the letters C, X and Q would be deemed unnecessary in the 20th century: There will be no…

Tech News Matt Novak Jun 25 '08

Time for a Max Headroom Movie

I’m feeling that wave of Max Headroom nostalgia again. Those British commercials with an aged Max Headroom in them just didn’t quench my thirst for a full revival of the cult TV series that popularized the faux-virtual British icon in the U.S. What I love about the mid-1980s U.S. show Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into…

Television Annalee Newitz Jun 25 '08

Lego Blade Runner Spinner Car Limited Edition One of One

Joel spent all day with Syd Mead of Aliens, Blade Runner, 2010, Tron vehicle design fame and the first thing he’s posted is this Lego Blade Runner Spinner Car replica that Lego made for him. It’s the only one in the world. More photos at [BoingBoing Gadgets.]

Tech News Brian Lam Jun 25 '08

Why I Still Use Windows Despite the Peer Pressure

There are over a dozen people working at our fair Gizmodo, but as a Windows user, I’m in a definite minority. I still rock XP, and I’m pretty happy with that. Why haven’t I switched to Macs? Plenty of reasons, not least of which being that I’m just too smart to switch to a Mac.…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 25 '08

Military-Grade Hummer Replacement Has Remote-Controlled Gun Turret

I’m sure military enthusiasts will geek out about this IMI Wildcat — A Hummer-replacing 4×4 MPC vehicle that can hold 12 soldiers, protect against 14.5 mm fire and RPGs, cross 900mm trenches, is C-130 transportable, yada yada yada, whoopdie freakin doo. But what makes this thing truly awesome is that it has a gun turret…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 25 '08

Spray on Skin Gun Shoots Stem Cells To Heal Your Open Wounds

Because of its use of stem cells, a skin regenerating gun would certainly cause a stir among conservative types-but if you were caught out on a battlefield with a gaping wound, you would be begging for technology like this. That is why the Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine invested $250 million in a project…

Health Sean Fallon Jun 25 '08

8 Rules For Surviving The Apocalypse

Everything I’ve ever wanted to know, I’ve learned from scifi movies — especially when it comes to surviving the end of days. Be it a vengeful Mother Nature, plague, monsters, animal packs or the undead, any kind of doomsday , I’ll be ready for. The key is to follow the steps of past scifi characters…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 25 '08

Your Last Opportunity to Go to the Moon

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lego

Official Star Wars USB Hubs May be Best USB Products Ever

Orbino Aria MackBook Air Case: Was Rumorware, Now Real, Luxurious

Sony’s Playstation 3 Movie Download Service to Launch this Summer

T-Mobile’s Motorola Rokr E8 Gets Official Launch Date, Price

The Greatest Art Featuring 6 Iconic Scifi Villains

Review: HP Touchsmart IQ506 PC is NOT Just an Imitation iMac

Dell Studio Notebooks Officially Bring Decent Design to Mid-Range

Linksys (Finally) Builds Mac-Friendly Setup Wizard

Dell Dock Puts a Little Mac OS X Into Vista Studio Laptops

BlackBerry Bold Hands On (It’s Great)

RIM Spending Hard to Develop Hot New BlackBerrys

The Victorian Internet

Time for a Max Headroom Movie

Lego Blade Runner Spinner Car Limited Edition One of One

Why I Still Use Windows Despite the Peer Pressure

Military-Grade Hummer Replacement Has Remote-Controlled Gun Turret

Spray on Skin Gun Shoots Stem Cells To Heal Your Open Wounds

8 Rules For Surviving The Apocalypse

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