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NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back

We have seen many spectacular demolitions, but the destruction of the Mobile Service Structure at NASA/USAF’s Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, is perhaps the most striking of them all: instead of imploding down, the whole ultra-strong metal structure falls to it side and actually seems to bounce on the ground—shattering cameras a mile…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Yahoo Still Yanging Onto Microsoft Deal

Yahoo founder and beleaguered CEO Jerry Yang decided yesterday that it was Microsoft’s fault that the merger talks fell apart, even though Microsoft upped its bid from $31 to $33 in order to keep negotiations going. Yang wanted $37 per share—a far cry from the $24.37 it dropped to when Microsoft walked. Bottom line: Jerry…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Doctor Who’s New Girlfriend GIves Good Phone

Here’s the moment where I decided I was actually getting to like brassy comedian Catherine Tate as the new traveling companion for Doctor Who’s quirky time-traveler. Yes, she’s not nearly as clever as Martha Jones, my number one hero, but that makes her heroics, when they happen, more exciting and suspenseful. I actually felt a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

NBC Coming To Zune After Ditching iTunes

While NBC decided that Apple’s $1.99/episode mandate was not for them, the company has opted to give Microsoft’s Zune store a shot to host their content. Apparently the decision comes because Microsoft is more flexible in their pricing. And while Microsoft still retains the right to set a show’s ultimate price, they claim to be…

Tech News Mark Wilson

We Ruin The Endings Of Lost, Doctor Who And Smallville

Greetings, spoiler-freaks! We’ve trawled through the Internet and found out details about Iron Man 2 and Batman 3, and we’ve found an Indiana Jones TV spot with some new footage. And there are a bunch of new details (and some rumors) about the future of British time-traveling soap-com Doctor Who. We also dredged up more…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Tim Burton Batmobile Is For Sale

While most of us enjoyed yesterday’s Dark Night trailer—though we found typing on lopsided laptops for the remainder of the day a bit inconvenient—watching Batman on the silver screen has and will always be a vicarious experience. It’s a humbling reminder that we weren’t separated from our parents by tragedy and that we don’t live…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

HTC Touch Diamond: the Blurb, Specs and Official Pics

We came, we saw, we blogged, or Venimus, Vidimus, Blogimus, as they used to say in Roman times. HTC’s press release for the Touch Diamond is after the gallery. https://gizmodo.com/live-from-the-htc-launch-in-london-387480 A NEW AGE FOR MOBILE PHONES BEGINS; HTC UNVEILS ‘TOUCH DIAMOND’ Debut brings breakthroughs in size, style connectivity and overall user experience, leaves compromise at…

Tech News AddyDugdale

HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque

So, this is the Touch Diamond. It’s small, slim, “a holistic experience,” according to Horace Luke, HTC’s Chief Innovations Officer, and “just like your life.” Out in Europe and Asia next month, we should get our hands on it later on this year, and it’s the closest thing so far to an iPhone that hasn’t…

Tech News AddyDugdale

Modded Violin adds Steampunk-esque Styling, One Extra String

Steampunk modding, love it or hate it, has caught on and led to everything from LCD monitors to Nerf rifles getting the treatment. And now we have this steampunk-ish modded violin, that’s seriously cut-down and gutted, and packs in tubes and wires and faux valves. Plus one extra string. https://gizmodo.com/datamancers-steampunk-lcd-monitor-is-another-stunner-383428 Made by modder Molly “Porkshanks”…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Live From the HTC Launch in London

Well, we’re here. This is the Soho Hotel in, er, Soho, where HTC is launching something (although I think we all know it’s going to be the Diamond.) Come back in a bit for the juicy stuff. UPDATE: Check our our coverage and the official specs and pics. https://gizmodo.com/htc-diamond-has-ultra-high-density-display-386880

Tech News AddyDugdale

The Best Way To Cook Hot Dogs: by Tesla Coil

The most exiting way to cook hot dogs: connect a chain of 12 of them up and send bolts of multi-thousand-volt electricity through them. Awesome, and all thanks to the Nevada Lightning Lab and their 10-foot Tesla coil at Maker Faire ’08. And amazingly, the coil they used is just a prototype for a 122-foot…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

HTC Census Device Revealed in New FCC Filing

HTC’s Census device first hit the FCC over a year ago, but it’s just appeared there for approval again. The data-only device, complete with touchscreen and fingerprint reader, but lacking voice-calling capabilities and a camera, was going to be used in the 2010 census before technical issues led to it being ditched. But here it…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Ten More Countries to be Blessed With iPhone

All those who’re desperate for the JesusPhone to bless your shores need to read this list: Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey. Vodafone’s just announced that its customers in these ten lucky countries will be able to buy iPhones for use on its network “later this…

Tech News Kit Eaton

Newton the Household Robot (1989)

Ablestmage.com (via Waxy.org) points us to terrific video of a personal household robot named Newton. “He” was marketed by the company SynPet in 1989 with this VHS promotional video. If you do nothing else, (in the short time we have here on Earth), at least skip ahead to minute 6:20 in the video. The Newton…

Privacy & Security Matt Novak

HP MediaSmart TVs and Connect Receiver Will Tune In YouTube

At some date in the not too far future, HP’s MediaSmart TVs and its soon-to-be- released MediaSmart Connect receiver will get the ability to play YouTube videos stretched to full-screen HD. We’ve shown you the MediaSmart Connect in the past under its more formal name x280n. The Connect and the sl4278n and sl4778n MediaSmart LCD…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Zune 2.5 Update Brings TV Shows, More Social Networking, Improved Software Features

The Zune 2.5 Spring update launches tomorrow, and with it comes purchasable TV shows and even more social networking functions. The big part is more tightly-integrated social stuff—like being able to see your friends’ Zune cards inside of the Zune software instead of heading to your browser—the upside of which is automatically getting the full…

Tech News Jason Chen

What the future didn’t bring

Paleo-Future readers in the Twin Cities may have noticed a certain blogger on the front page of today’s St. Paul Pioneer Press. No, it wasn’t my idea to pose, fake-blogging on my bed. We have a small apartment. The living room is filled with books and there’s no place to sit. The photographer didn’t have…

Tech News Matt Novak

Hamster Wheel Powered Toy Car

Here’s a old but good idea in honor of Fuzzywuzzymodo: power a toy car by hamster. The Flintstones would approve. I personally think its a better use of hamster power to rig a traditional gerbil wheel with a generator capable of charging a battery which in turn can charge a USB device. I mean, how…

Tech News Brian Lam

Flip + Waterproof Casing = Rugged Cam You Won’t Fear Losing

Click to viewYou don’t give a shit if you lose or destroy it. Blam’s fingers turn into sprouts of butter while frolicking in the ocean, especially if they’re gripping expensive, ruggedized cameras that can otherwise withstand brutal acts of man and nature. Buttons are also hard to press. The Flip only has one you need,…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

CompUSA: It Lives!

After it died, CompUSA was bought by Tigerdirect, and here are some of the first pictures of the freshly awakened PC retailer. Even better, the zombified store is reported by reader Martin B. to be better than its pre-undead version: It’s a much better store than it used to be, full of components, motherboards, and…

Tech News Brian Lam

NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back

Yahoo Still Yanging Onto Microsoft Deal

Doctor Who’s New Girlfriend GIves Good Phone

NBC Coming To Zune After Ditching iTunes

We Ruin The Endings Of Lost, Doctor Who And Smallville

The Tim Burton Batmobile Is For Sale

HTC Touch Diamond: the Blurb, Specs and Official Pics

HTC Launches the Diamond—Small and Very iPhone-esque

Modded Violin adds Steampunk-esque Styling, One Extra String

Live From the HTC Launch in London

The Best Way To Cook Hot Dogs: by Tesla Coil

HTC Census Device Revealed in New FCC Filing

Ten More Countries to be Blessed With iPhone

Newton the Household Robot (1989)

HP MediaSmart TVs and Connect Receiver Will Tune In YouTube

Zune 2.5 Update Brings TV Shows, More Social Networking, Improved Software Features

What the future didn’t bring

Hamster Wheel Powered Toy Car

Flip + Waterproof Casing = Rugged Cam You Won’t Fear Losing

CompUSA: It Lives!

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