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Eee PC 900 Gets Unboxed

With the release of Eee PC 900 imminent, the folks at XEPC have managed to get their grubby little mitts on a final production model. Not only that, but they’ve posted the glorious unboxing pictures all over the tubes for you to see. Features that are now definitely definite, include: 8.9-inch display (1024 x 600),…

3D-Sensing Cameras Bring Second Life One Step Closer To The Metaverse

Those of you who have always wanted to move around Second Life while actually moving around may be in luck. Linden Lab Chair Mitchell Kapor has teamed up with 3DV Systems to show the Zcam, an inexpensive video camera that can judge when you’re leaning forward and backwards. No news yet on whether it can…

“John Mayer Here” Works, Gets Direct Apple Reply to Anyone

Hey Guys, John Mayer here. I just wanted to tell you that if you mention my name in your Mac OS X software crash report, it seems that there are real chances of you getting a direct reply from Apple Support, just like it happened to me. A Gizmodo reader did it and he got…

Boeing Dreamliner Turns Into Nightmareliner After New Delay

We have been following the Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner for a long time. It’s a beautiful aircraft, which allegedly provides with a much-better flying experience—less noise, bigger windows, more space, and better fuel efficiency—thanks to its new construction processes and technologies. However, a new delay in its LEGO-like manufacturing process shows that Boeing is having very…

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Getting a Spinal Implant in a Gas Station Just to Play a Videogame

The movie eXistenZ is many things: a commentary on videogame madness, a chance to see Jennifer Jason Leigh caress a nipple-covered biological game controller, and a seriously weird “what is real” tale that doesn’t always work. It’s one of David “The Fly” Cronenberg’s lesser films for a good reason. And yet there are moments in…

The Last, Best and Bloodiest Reason to Have a Landline Phone

After a long week, there’s nothing like dipping our toes in the schadenfreude of watching people beat the shit out of each other with an obsolete gadget. What old and busted gadget would you use to go all American Gladiator on your office? [College Humor]

Star Wars Action Figures Stoke the Steampunk Fire

You would think that steampunk would have gotten old by now, but when masterful artists like Sillof work their magic on products like Star Wars or Iron Man figures, we just can’t help but get swept up in all the nerdiness. Peruse the gallery to see what I mean. [Sillof’s Workshop via Slashfilm] https://gizmodo.com/steampunk-iron-man-our-unhealthy-obsession-continues-357896

Sci-Fi Movie Inspired Gadgets That Have Become a “Reality”

PC Mag has put together a list of 10 movie inspired gadgets that may or may not have been the inspiration for some modern day devices. While some of the associations may be thin at best, there are definitely some plausible connections there. Still, a flashlight ain’t no lightsaber and an all-terrain skateboard ain’t no…

Samsung Developing Full-Frame Pro DSLR

The new horserace for DSLR cameramakers is in full-frame (equivalent to 35mm) pro cameras, formerly a Canon-dominated market. Nikon’s stunning D3 was its first full-frame DSLR (after years of saying it’s unnecessary) and Sony unveiled its own 25MP whopper in January (they’re trying to quickly build technical prestige). Now Samsung has let on it’s cooking…

Unlimited Voice and Data Plans Forcing Carriers to Make Networks Better, Faster, Stronger

Carriers are finding out that a side effect of offering unlimited voice and data plans is that people tend to use them more. Great, right? Not if their backend can’t handle the new flood of traffic. One of Sprint’s VPs told a panel at CTIA that “the increase in unlimited data and voice plans exponentially…

World’s First Dual-SIM WIndows Mobile Phone Keeps Girlfriends and Wives Separate

Dual-SIM phones that let you have your phone be simultaneously on two GSM networks are nothing new, but until now they’ve been on regular phones. This makes no sense. Who needs two phones? Businessmen. And businessmen need phones that scream “I AM A BUSINESSMAN!” Few do that better than Windows Mobile, and these W1000 and…

Shuttle $99 PC Reviewed (Verdict: Great Value, But the Linux OS Is Bleh)

A $99 PC obviously isn’t going to deliver a blockbuster experience, but Shuttle’s toaster-sized KPC actually has the hardware to get the lightweight job done: 1.8GHz Celeron processor, 512MB RAM and an 80GB hard drive, all of which is expandable. Overall, Tom’s Hardware thought the cheap-o box delivered “surprisingly good” performance and value, except for…

Will Efficient Social Software Take Your Job Away?

Social software sites like Flickr and Digg aren’t just distracting you from your job — they could actually make your job disappear in the next high tech economic revolution. Get ready to retrain yourself right now. A new book by NYU interactive telecommunications professor Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations,…

Cthulhu In Love: The Fetish Art Of Richard Kadrey [NSFW]

We’ve been huge fans of Richard Kadrey’s writing ever since we read his seminal cyberpunk novel Metrophage, and we’ve been lucky enough to hear him read several times from his stories of the bizarre sex lives of mutant assassins. So we were thrilled when we found out he also creates gorgeous, disturbing fetish art under…

Cat Desktop Bed Is a Good Idea, But Cats Will Never Go For It

Our resident cat expert, Mark Wilson, tells me that cats will never go for this desktop cat bed. It’s not that it’s a bad idea—a clamp-on bed so your cat can sit close to your hands, but not close enough to mash keys on your keyboard—but it’s just impractical. Mark claims his cat loves jumping…

Sinestro Will Sleep With Men, Women In Times Square For Victory

We’ve been wondering for a while about Sinestro’s sexuality. The fascistic alien conqueror, from DC Comics’ Green Lantern series, sports a neat little mustache and a costume that’s skin-tight and unusually heavy on the gold lamé, even by superhero/supervillain standards. And then we discovered a page from an old Green Lantern comic that made our…

Question of the Day: How Lazy are You With Mail-In Gadget Rebates?

Rebate sales are everywhere when it comes to consumer electronics. Some of them are shady for sure, but even for the legit ones, you still have to go though a bunch of bs to get your money back. For that reason, I would be willing to bet many of the consumers out there forfeit the…

Pwnage New Version Imminent via Automatic Update

Click to viewWith Apple allegedly gearing up to battle the iPhone Dev Team in the incoming iPhone 1.2.0 firmware, the other side keeps refining and updating their iPhone firmware unlocking and hacking tool, Pwnage. According to the usual suspects, the new version pictured in this screenshot will be hitting your computers soon via automatic update.…

It’s Finally L.A.’s Turn To Get Crushed

We were wondering what would replace plague movies and dystopian futures as the next trend in movies, and it’s looking like we have our answer: alien invasions and space battles. On the heels of Universal greenlighting Earth vs. Moon, Columbia Pictures is making Battle: Los Angeles, based on a spec script from Chris Bertolini (The…