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Details of North American MGS4 PS3 Bundle Come to Light

Get your wallets ready, fanboys: the details for the upcoming Metal Gear Solid 4 Limited Edition PS3 have been announced. What do you get for your $600? Well, first and foremost you get a gunmetal 40GB PS3 with a new Dualshock 3 controller. You get the limited edition version of the game as well, and…

Tech News Adam Frucci

New Heroes Promo May Reveal Who Shot Nathan

Another new promo video for season three of angsty mutants showHeroes went online recently, and it includes at least one character that you might have thought was dead after season two. But it also may contain the key to finding out one of the biggest mysteries from the last season: who shot flying politician Nathan…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

IBM Boosts Solar Cell Efficiency Using Magnifying Trick

IBM’s researchers have been busily beavering away trying to improve solar power technology, and they’ve just come up with a neat solution that uses a surprisingly simple technique: concentrator photovoltaics. In much the same way as kids use magnifying glasses to focus the sun on things to burn them (we all did that, didn’t we?)…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Charles Darwin Mourns for His Slain Monkey in “The Fall”

It’s 1915, and an injured stuntman passes time in the hospital by telling steampunky superhero stories to a little girl with a broken arm. The heroes of his stories include Charles Darwin (in search of elusive butterfly), as well as an ex-slave and an explosives expert. As Tarsem Singh’s new film The Fall weaves in…

Movies Annalee Newitz

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Tech News Jason Chen

50 Years of DARPA: 5 Good Inventions, 5 Lousy Ones

To commemorate the golden jubilee of America’s Defense Advance Research Projects Agency—formed these 50 years ago in response to a little traveler called Sputnik—New Scientist has come up with a short list of 10 DARPA inventions: five that changed the world, and five that fell flat: Five Big Wins The internet – You know, ARPANET,…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

More Frak Than You Could Ever Want

It’s the censorship-evading word that stands as proof at how involved Battlestar Galactica has become in modern popular culture. Frak has even shown up in non-Cylon-friendly shows like Veronica Mars and Gilmore Girls. But did you know that many households the world over are more familiar with frakking than you’d expect? More on that, and…

io9 Graeme McMillan

I’m No Doctor, But The Health Benefits of Caffeinated Chips Seem Questionable

Pardon me while I pander to a stereotype and assume that you, dear reader, are interested in these caffeinated chips by Engobi. Coming in Xtreme flavors like “Cinnamon Surge” and “Lemon Lift,” each bag of this snack has 70% more caffeine than the average energy drink. Using Red Bull as a metric, that puts Enobi…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Atom-Based Asus Eee PC 901 Ships June 3 With Bluetooth

Digitimes is reporting that the Atom-based Asus Eee PC 901 that we got a peek at the other day is set to ship on June 3. And it looks like the cosmetic enhancements (like the metal accents) aren’t the only bit of newness on board: Apparently, it’s got Bluetooth, and the Linux version will come…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

New Dollhouse Clip Makes Us More Confused

We’re trying to help you get over your spoiler addiction by force-feeding you spoilers. It makes perfect sense! Today’s dose: a new clip from Dollhouse showing Tahmoh Penikett (Helo!) and Eliza Dushku in action. An intriguing casting call for Transformers 2. Yet another batch of completely weird Doctor Who rumors. An interesting Lost tidbit, and…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

LED Gloves Demonstrate the Future of Tacky Manicures

We don’t know what the future holds…(OK, we totally do because Gizmodo owns a time machine on review loan that’s embargoed for, somewhat ironically, after the world has ended). But anyway, in the future before the world has ended, expect to see something like these LED gloves that will add a touch of hooker to…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

EPA Dress Wrinkles Up to Show it’s a Bad Air Day

Currently showing at the 2nd Skin Exhibition at San Francisco’s Exploratorium is this piece of smart clothing by designer Stephanie Sandstrom. Inside it hide a bunch of sensors that measure the nearby air quality, along with drivers that can adjust the fabric. The idea is that on bad air days the dress detects the problem,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Mimique Cellphone Concept

If anyone ever brings out a phone that looks like this, I’ll have 10 of them, thangyewverymuch. A proposal of Californian design studio RKS, the Mimique is all about skins and downloads—a customizable phone with bells on, basically—using, as it does, open source software. I just love that old-school antenna bump and the analog clock.…

Tech News AddyDugdale

Toyota One-Ups ASIMO’s Conducting Performance with Robot Orchestra

Honda’s ASIMO may have picked up the baton to conduct an entire orchestra, but Toyota has just outperformed the little guy with its suite of robo-musicians. Dubbed Chuck, Harry, Dave and Ritchie (honestly!) the part-wheeled, part-bipedal quartet recently performed a concert where they actually played a trumpet, tuba, drums, violin and trombone. Their song repertoire…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Samsung’s Display Division Shows Just What it Can Do With AMOLED Notebook

Samsung SDI, the Korean manufacturer’s display arm, has been showing off a 12.1-inch laptop with an AMOLED display. With 1280 x 768 resolution, and a weird-ass keyboard, the prototype is being displayed at SID 2008. And what’s going on with on the backside of the screen? I can’t for the life of me figure it…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Wii Chewing Gum Comes in Rabbit, Zelda and Fit Flavors—Okay, Mint

Better than chewing on your Wii controller, or have the dog chew on your face (which ours has just done to Jesús, so guess who’s off to see her husband in ER in a minute?) this official Wii chewing gum is a snip at four bucks. Normally, this is where I type something stupid, but…

Tech News AddyDugdale

iPhone Keeps Invading the World

Orange, which already has the iPhone in France, has issued a press release announcing it’ll also be on sale in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and its African markets, sometime “later this year.” Swisscom has also announced they’ll be selling the iPhone in Switzerland. [Orange and Pocket-Lint]

Tech News Kit Eaton

Bristlebots + Paint = Robo-Pollocks?

At the spring arts ITP show the other day, designer Christian Cerrito had a demonstration which will have had bristlebot designers everywhere smacking their foreheads in a "My god, that’s obvious!" manner. He used a big tray, a bunch of the simple and strangely lovable DIY bristlebots and a few gobs of paint and voilà:…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

When Headlines Reveal What’s on a Tech Writer’s Mind

It is a truth universally acknowledged that girls are good at multi-tasking, but one has to wonder what Aving USA’s Grace Won was thinking about when she wrote about DZone’s SATA hard-disk-drive cradle. [Aving USA]

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Sony Releases Limited-Edition A350 in Japan

With its yellow-gold body and webbing camera strap, Sony’s limited-edition A350 is available in Japan and will cost you the equivalent of $850. The camera, which came second in Wilson’s entry-level DSLR Battlemodo last month, looks pretty spanky in champagne, doncha think? Check it out in the extensive and gorgeous gallery below. [Impress] https://gizmodo.com/entry-level-dslr-battlemodo-canon-rebel-xsi-vs-sony-a-379634

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Details of North American MGS4 PS3 Bundle Come to Light

New Heroes Promo May Reveal Who Shot Nathan

IBM Boosts Solar Cell Efficiency Using Magnifying Trick

Charles Darwin Mourns for His Slain Monkey in “The Fall”

Sponsors Thanks

50 Years of DARPA: 5 Good Inventions, 5 Lousy Ones

More Frak Than You Could Ever Want

I’m No Doctor, But The Health Benefits of Caffeinated Chips Seem Questionable

Atom-Based Asus Eee PC 901 Ships June 3 With Bluetooth

New Dollhouse Clip Makes Us More Confused

LED Gloves Demonstrate the Future of Tacky Manicures

EPA Dress Wrinkles Up to Show it’s a Bad Air Day

Mimique Cellphone Concept

Toyota One-Ups ASIMO’s Conducting Performance with Robot Orchestra

Samsung’s Display Division Shows Just What it Can Do With AMOLED Notebook

Wii Chewing Gum Comes in Rabbit, Zelda and Fit Flavors—Okay, Mint

iPhone Keeps Invading the World

Bristlebots + Paint = Robo-Pollocks?

When Headlines Reveal What’s on a Tech Writer’s Mind

Sony Releases Limited-Edition A350 in Japan

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