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Dell to Sell XP after June 30, Microsoft to Pretend They’re Selling Vista to Save Face

While we’ve heard Microsoft hint at keeping XP on store shelves longer than they initially stated due to the, well, boatload of people who want nothing to do with Vista, Dell is the first retailer to confirm having plans to sell the faithful ol’ OS past the end of June. But it isn’t because Microsoft’s…

Tech News Adam Frucci

How to Equip Your Dreamliner (Including 23″ Displays for First Class Seats)

Probably trying to polish its current poor image, Boeing invited Fortune Magazine to get an inside look into the Dreamliner factory, secret orgy quarters, and the showroom, in which—after spending $150 million on an empty aircraft—you have to pick the seats, including their A/V entertainment equipment (like whopping 23″ LCD monitors in first class), and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

LG Prada II Cellphone Details Leaked

According to a leaked specifications list, LG has a Prada II handset in the works, and it sounds like it will be packing quite a punch. The details that have been leaked suggest the cellphone will have a 3-inch (400×240) WQVGA touchscreen, 5MP camera, front mounted camera for video calling, Wi-Fi connectivity, 7.2 Mbps HSDPA,…

Tech News Haroon Malik

Glossy Black iPhone 3G is Just a Third-Party Case

The first allegedly-leaked shots of the 3G iPhone arrived earlier this month. Yesterday, Engadget claimed that the iPhone was going to look all black and shiny, like in the photo. (Although they didn’t say that was a photo of the said unit.) Today, what we know for sure is that the thing in the photo…

Tech News Haroon Malik

Robot Lawn Mower Can Lacerate, Probably Eat Humans

LawnBott, the $2,750 robot which announced itself as your loyal automated lawn mower—capable of cutting 33,000 square feet of grass in a single charge—has revealed its true face: it wants to cut humans to pieces. Actually, just stupid humans, but the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Kyodo America have decided to “recall them immediately.”…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Vegans Kill to Drive Cars and Have Sex in a Dystopian Future

The aptly-named Blood Car is a near-future tale about peak oil and bloodthirsty vegans. Gasoline is so expensive that it takes almost 500 bucks to fill your tank, and most cars have been abandoned in vast “car graveyards.” Archie is a nice vegan guy who wants to help the world by creating the first engine…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Desk Set (1957)

The 1957 movie Desk Set, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, explores fears of automation and computerization. When Tracy’s character, Richard Sumner, introduces an “electronic brain” into the workplace it sets off a chaotic chain of events. Katharine Hepburn plays Bunny Watson, the head of a research department for a fictional television network and reluctant…

Tech News Matt Novak

Creepy 80-Year-Old Japanese Robot Brought Back to Life

Gakutensoku is Asia’s oldest modern robot, built in 1928 for the ascension of the Emperor Showa (aka Hirohito). Twice as tall as the emperor at 10 feet, 6 inches, it could tilt its head, blink, smile and puff up its chest and cheeks with a system of inflatable rubber tubes. Long lost in Germany before…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

What If We Met Aliens Who Had Accepted Death?

One defining feature of humans is our inability to accept our own mortality. Our culture, our religions, our big buildings and our fancy toys, are all designed to distract us from catching a glimpse of the fact that we’ll all, individually and collectively, turn into poop. But what if we met an alien race that…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Sprint Phones Now Come With Nude Photos of Employees (Free!)

Daryl J. Roy isn’t your average Sprint sales drone. Service doesn’t stop just because you’ve got the receipt and walked out the door. Have you ever checked out Sprint’s picture mail? He wanted to make sure Nicole McElveen did after she purchased some new phones from him. So he sent her a few picture messages,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Nanogauze Uses Ancient Tech to Staunch Blood

One of the main reasons why people with deep wounds die is blood loss. But now a company is marketing an amazing new form of gauze, made with nanotech, that can induce fast blood-clotting in a wound to stop bleeding and save lives. The truly weird part? The nanotech involved is actually an ancient technology:…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Improbable Blu Jacket Custom Made For Attention Seekers

The Blu Jacket concept from Lunar Design aims to turn our children’s children into walking billboards using an electronic fabric based on e-paper technology and space-age organic fabrics. It could display your mood throughout the day, pull up maps using a built-in GPS module, display photos, video and (gasp) even advertisements. Imagine a future filled…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Psystar Won’t Let You Reinstall Leopard By Yourself

A MacFixIt reader had a very interesting email exchange from Psystar’s support, who told him that they don’t want customers installing Leopard themselves. Here’s the quote from the support team: We absolutely do not support customers attempting to install the Leopard operating system on our Open Computer themselves. This is due to a difficult process…

Tech News Jason Chen

The Wacky Science Fiction Titles of LucasArts

LucasArts is best-known for its endless supply of Star Wars games, but the company really hit a peak in the adventure game genre from 1986 to 2002 when they combined elements of interactive fiction with graphics and a new interface. Check out LucasArts’ colorful past with games like Day of the Tentacle and Maniac Mansion,…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Audio Ping Pong is a Pain in the Neck…Literally

The arduino platform has been the basis for a lot of bizarre gadgetry over the years, and the audio ping pong project by Mike McCracken certainly stands up to the best of them. The game is essentially the classic Pong with one major alteration—instead of using your hands and eyes, the game is controlled with…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

First iPhone Video Recorder Software With Audio

Here’s some iPhone software that is supposedly the first to record audio on top of video, at 128kbps sound and 320 x 416 video res. That makes it good fix for the iPhone’s official lack. In 2 months, when official third party software goes live, will anyone be able to replicate such a feat and…

Tech News Brian Lam

Video Demo: Archos Sling-Like TVportation Video Streamer

We had a little peek of Archos’ new Sling-like TVportation service for their TV+ box and 605/705 media players when we messed around with their 605 GPS add-on, but didn’t get to really dive in cause they were having some network issues before we had to split. Anyways, here’s a video walk-through, completely with heavy…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Hubble’s Demolition Derby Of Galaxies

A smaller galaxy blasts through a larger one, like a mega-bullet, sowing disruption in its wake, in this image of Arp 148. The Hubble Space Telescope released 62 images of galaxies smashing into each other, to celebrate its 18th anniversary in space. Galactic collisions were more common in the early universe than they are today,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Touchscreen Linux Motorola A810 Smartphone Hits FCC

Linux smartphones from Moto aren’t new tricks, but they’ve mostly graced international markets while we get barraged with RAZRs, RKRS and Qs. That might change with the A810, a Linux-based touchscreener that zoomed through the FCC. Few hardware buttons, with onscreen keyboard and handwriting recognition, along with an FM radio. Usually FCC field trips indicate…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

iPhone SDK Beta 4 Hints at Support for Background Tasks

According to MacNN, support for the UI Application delegate class on the newly released iPhone SDK build could indicate that running background processes is possible. That would be cool, but nothing has been made official yet. [macNN] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-sdk-beta-4-now-available-comes-with-opengl-es-3-383430

Tech News Sean Fallon

Dell to Sell XP after June 30, Microsoft to Pretend They’re Selling Vista to Save Face

How to Equip Your Dreamliner (Including 23″ Displays for First Class Seats)

LG Prada II Cellphone Details Leaked

Glossy Black iPhone 3G is Just a Third-Party Case

Robot Lawn Mower Can Lacerate, Probably Eat Humans

Vegans Kill to Drive Cars and Have Sex in a Dystopian Future

Desk Set (1957)

Creepy 80-Year-Old Japanese Robot Brought Back to Life

What If We Met Aliens Who Had Accepted Death?

Sprint Phones Now Come With Nude Photos of Employees (Free!)

Nanogauze Uses Ancient Tech to Staunch Blood

Improbable Blu Jacket Custom Made For Attention Seekers

Psystar Won’t Let You Reinstall Leopard By Yourself

The Wacky Science Fiction Titles of LucasArts

Audio Ping Pong is a Pain in the Neck…Literally

First iPhone Video Recorder Software With Audio

Video Demo: Archos Sling-Like TVportation Video Streamer

Hubble’s Demolition Derby Of Galaxies

Touchscreen Linux Motorola A810 Smartphone Hits FCC

iPhone SDK Beta 4 Hints at Support for Background Tasks

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