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PlayStation 3 External Hard Drive Mod Is Great Work For the Blind

The Super Mario Galaxy Wii Mod is a good mod. This PlayStation 3 external hard drive mod is not. We’re not against adding more hard drive space to the PS3—Sony actually puts instructions on how to replace the internal one in the manual—but this? This stove vent addition to the top of an already too…

Tech News Jason Chen

Ben Heck’s PS3 Laptop Charity Auction Starts, Already Tops $3700

The charity auction for Ben Heck‘s magically modded PS3 laptop is up and running on eBay. Proceeds go to the National Cancer Coalition. If you want in, be prepared to open your wallet up pretty wide for the good cause: With six days and 22 hours left, it’s already zoomed past $3700. [eBay via Engadget]…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Drugs in 2000 A.D. (1970)

Stanley F. Yolles, M.D., Director of the National Institute of Mental Health wrote a piece which was published in the March 4, 1970 New Castle News (New Castle, PA) titled, “Drugs in 2000 A.D.” An excerpt appears below. At the turn of the century then, which is only 30 years from now, a nurse visiting…

Tech News Matt Novak

Dixie Chopper Excalibur 3874: Smoke Your Neighbor in a Lawnmower Drag Race

With words like “Chopper” and “Excalibur” in the title, you know that this lawnmower can haul some ass and cut some grass. In fact, the manufacturer is touting it as the world’s fastest lawnmower with a top speed of 15 mph on 38 hp. It may not seem all that fast, but you could tear…

Tech News Sean Fallon

The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It

The London Science Museum finally completed work on the Victorian era’s greatest supercomputer, the Difference Engine No. 2, 120 years after the death of inventor Charles Babbage. This five-ton machine is currently traveling across the pond to San Francisco, and will go on display in America for the first time starting May 10th at the…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Secret History of Infocom’s Never-Released “Restaurant at the End of the Universe” Game

One of the coolest text adventure games of the 1980s was Infocom’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, based on Douglas Adams’ bestselling novel of the same name. Though the game was wildly popular, and a sequel to it was rumored repeatedly, nobody has ever known exactly what happened to that sequel. Until now. Andy Baio,…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

DSLR Battlemodo Follow-Up

By now you’ve probably seen our Battlemodo between the four hottest entry-level DSLRs on the market—the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi, the Sony Alpha a350, the Nikon D60 and the Olympus E-420. With 91 good-sized comments (and counting), there were obviously some issues raised that merited further investigation. Here are some new details, discussed by…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Vertical Patio Transforms To Save Precious Outdoor Space

There is no doubt that the big trend right now in home design is about saving space. However, many of the designs we have seen in the past focus on the interior. The Vertical Patio from Pique Architecture takes the concept outdoors with a design that gets the most out of a small backyard using…

Tech News Sean Fallon

The Massive Solar-Orbiting Electro-Mechanical Analytic Engine, Mark 6

In some circles of the steampunk Star Wars universe this is known as the “Death Star,” and it generates billions of calculations all day long in an effort to work with Arcane Mathematics and find a “Unified Force Theory” that can destroy entire planets. Artist Eric Poulton has put together a series of pieces that…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Rudy Rucker’s Math Orgy Classic “Sex Sphere” Gets Reissued

We’ve written about scifi author Rudy “Postsingular” Rucker’s forgotten 1980s classic The Sex Sphere before — it’s the novel where a bunch of hypermatter creatures take the forms of blobs with breasts and genitals and try to conquer Earth. It almost works, too. Everybody gets so into having sex with the blobs that they become…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Review: Lasonic i931 iPod Ghetto Blaster (Verdict: Awesome)

Click to viewWe’ve covered a handful of new and modded Lasonic gear here at Giz, but I finally got up close with their fabled i931 iPod Ghetto Blaster. If you’re unfamiliar, Lasonic made some classic boomboxes during the 80s, and now they’ve updated their TRC-931 boombox with a built-in iPod dock, SD card reader and…

Reviews Adrian Covert

Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Places

Life doesn’t need water. In fact, all kinds of weird liquids could be solvents for life like water is here on Earth. Scientists say the list of alien water-substitutes is long, from frigid nitrogen to supercritical CO2 to methane to formamide. Whatever inhabits these other liquids would have to take on some truly odd forms,…

io9 Michael Reilly

Your Digital Camera Is Obsolete: Japanese Image Sensor 100x More Sensitive Than Current Chips

Right now, your camera either has a CCD (most point and shoots) or a CMOS image sensor (lots of DSLRs) inside, which converts pretty pictures into an electrical signal. Japan’s Research Center for Photovoltaics has developed a CIGS image sensor that’s 100 times more light-sensitive than the silicon chip inside your cam. It’s able to…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Japanese Men Perfect the Cloak of Invisibility Much to Japanese Women’s Dismay

Japan’s been tooling around with versions of invisibility cloaks for years now, but they seem to have finally perfected it. Theoretically. By using “left-handed metamaterials” to make electromagnetic control devices, researchers can generate lenses that either reflect no light or have a perfect focal point—the end result of which lets you create a perfect invisibility…

Tech News Jason Chen

A Trio of Futuristic Guitars from 1958

If you’re a music fan—or a fan of Guitar Hero—chances are good you’re familiar with the iconic look of Gibson’s Flying V guitar. What you might not know, however, is that the Flying V is only one of a trio of futuristic guitars designed in the late 1950s by Gibson president Ted McCarty. Click through…

io9 Lynn Peril

Sprint Hooks the Pope Up with Phones; Holiest Celebrity Endorsement Ever

Sprint is providing 600 phones to the Archdiocese of New York for the Pope’s visit. In addition, “the Pope’s caravan will be tracked through Actsoft’s Comet Tracker GPS solution loaded on Sprint phones, transmitting data over a secured network in near real-time for optimum security and accuracy.” That’s right: the Pope uses Sprint. I don’t…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Ashes Will Last Longer Than Expected

Now that they’ve finished the difficult first season, the creators of British time-travel series Ashes to Ashes are ready to get into murkier waters and the bigger picture behind why Alex Drake went from 2008 to 1981 as a result of being shot. Revealing that entire picture, of course, will require a third season to…

Television Graeme McMillan

10 Lazy Gadgets To Help You Automate Your Weekend

The end of the week is nigh. You have worked hard and now it’s time to relax. That is the spirit behind the new “Thank Giz It’s Friday” roundup. This week it is all about gadgets that will help you breeze through the weekend with as little physical effort as possible—a guide to the ultimate…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Microsoft Wants You to Pay Monthly Subscription for Office and Services You Won’t Use

Microsoft is testing a new bundle of fun codenamed “Albany” which rolls Office Home and Student, Windows Live OneCare, Office Live Workspace and some other Live services into a package that you’ll pay a monthly fee for. It’s this kind of thing, turning software into service you have to keep paying for and never actually…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Motorola’s 2008 Cellphones Leaked (Guess What They Look Like!)

If you were hoping Motorola’s 2008 cellphone lineup was going to turn around their “slump”, we’ve got good news and bad news for you. The bad news is most of their phones are pretty much retreads of old devices, and there aren’t any great new form factors—not even an iPhone clone—to speak of. The good…

Tech News Jason Chen

PlayStation 3 External Hard Drive Mod Is Great Work For the Blind

Ben Heck’s PS3 Laptop Charity Auction Starts, Already Tops $3700

Drugs in 2000 A.D. (1970)

Dixie Chopper Excalibur 3874: Smoke Your Neighbor in a Lawnmower Drag Race

The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It

Secret History of Infocom’s Never-Released “Restaurant at the End of the Universe” Game

DSLR Battlemodo Follow-Up

Vertical Patio Transforms To Save Precious Outdoor Space

The Massive Solar-Orbiting Electro-Mechanical Analytic Engine, Mark 6

Rudy Rucker’s Math Orgy Classic “Sex Sphere” Gets Reissued

Review: Lasonic i931 iPod Ghetto Blaster (Verdict: Awesome)

Looking for Aliens in all the Wrong Places

Your Digital Camera Is Obsolete: Japanese Image Sensor 100x More Sensitive Than Current Chips

Japanese Men Perfect the Cloak of Invisibility Much to Japanese Women’s Dismay

A Trio of Futuristic Guitars from 1958

Sprint Hooks the Pope Up with Phones; Holiest Celebrity Endorsement Ever

Ashes Will Last Longer Than Expected

10 Lazy Gadgets To Help You Automate Your Weekend

Microsoft Wants You to Pay Monthly Subscription for Office and Services You Won’t Use

Motorola’s 2008 Cellphones Leaked (Guess What They Look Like!)

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