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Nexi, The Social Robot From MIT Goes For the Emo Look

She may look miles away from crossing uncanny valley, but Nexi from MIT’s Personal Robots Group is at least on the way. She’s designed to be a “Mobile Social Dextrous” machine that moves like we do when we express emotions. So, she’s got fully articulated arms and a head with features that can be motored…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

XCM Chrome Xbox 360, From Drab to Fab(ricated)

We can’t speak for everyone here, but our home theater just isn’t looking tacky enough lately. Luckily there’s this XCM-branded chrome Xbox 360 case replacement for HDMI-enabled models to help us reach our geek quota. Running about $60, a set of four will only set you back $240—a nominal cost to have the most unique,…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Bill And Ted’s Completely Unnecessary Remake

Click to viewAnother classic science fiction franchise is getting the “reboot” treatment, but its biggest star could be even harder to recast than William Shatner’s Captain Kirk. A new Bill And Ted movie finally got the green light — probably from the same people at MGM who thought that War Games sequel was a good…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

This week at Uncrate: We hit the skies Batman-style in the Air Suit, retrieve our balls from the drink with the Callaway Golf Ball Retriever, and prepare for Springtime showers with Swims. We also outfit out bar with some Tiki Room 45th Anniversary Collectibles, sport the Helvetica Cap out on the town, and take out…

Tech News Jason Chen

Verizon Promises In-Home Cell Boosters This Year, But For How Much?

Femtocell, femtocell, femtocell. Get used to it, because it’s a word you’ll be hearing a lot of from now on. Yesterday, Verizon Wireless promised to offer broadband-connected mini cell towers (yep, femtocells) to customers in 2008. We’re told that products such as the EV-Do model just introduced by Motorola and Airvana are intended for home…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Dvorak: Appendix Removed Through Vagina

We wish you a speedy recovery, John. [Dvorak Uncensored]

Tech News AddyDugdale

Red Hot New Pics From Dark Knight And Iron Man!

The two most anticipated summer superhero films (sorry, Hulk) put out their most eye-grabbing images yet — and then the studio tried to withdraw them, in the case of Iron Man. We also have some new details about Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who and Smallville. Plus you’ll never guess which Lost character we’re going to see…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Free Flight of the Conchords MP3 Today

Scary factoid: on my recent vacation, I combed my hair funny as a joke. My wife freaked out a bit, saying that I looked like Murray Hewitt. She was right, so I called her “Brit” for the remainder of the trip. (Unfortunately, she looks nothing like Bret McClegnie.) On the plus side, today you can…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Latest TiVo Firmware Brings Needed Speed Boost

TiVo HD is pretty awesome, but there’s still a nagging issue of lag, particularly when doing more complicated things like changing Season Pass priorities. Our source at TiVo tells us that the latest firmware update, 9.3, has seriously juiced the system in terms of response time. Compared to the last significant upgrade, 9.1, here’s a…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Find Nemo Floating in a Four-Way USB Hub. Verdict: Fishy!

Someone, somewhere, gets to design these weird and wonderful USB hubs: and this one is perhaps the craziest we’ve seen. It’s a four-way hub with a fishbowl. With a plastic fish, a couple of shells, a splash of greenery and real water. And it illuminates, cycling through four different colors. It’s fantastic, fishtastic plastic. And…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Home-Made Daisy MP3 Player Takes Us (London) Underground

Using a $115 Daisy open-source player, and a tin with a London tube map on it, Mchaceortiz made himself an MP3 player with a difference. The six way-retro switches on the tin control the volume, track selection and play and pause, and you can see another shot of it opened up after the jump. [MAKE…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Pioneer Sneakers Light Your Way With Built-In Headlights

Designers Feijun Chen & Bin Zhao clearly were reading Skymall when they dreamed up these “Pioneer” sneakers with built-in recharging headlights. They’ve got a battery inside which charges on each step, using some mysterious tech that doesn’t look piezoelectric. Apparently this can power the LEDs in the front for a full 12 hours. So you…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Swiss Swimming Pool Warmed by Surplus Server Heat and Alliteration

There’s clearly something going on with the Swiss and hot water: first “extreme jacuzzi-ing” on top of Mont Blanc, and now they’re going to use waste energy kicked out by servers to warm a swimming pool. It’s a simple concept: take the heat from the server room air-conditioners at a new data center, and direct…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Olive OPUS Nº4, MELODY Nº2 Music Streaming Combo Pack Style With Expense

The Olive OPUS Nº4 has quite a striking design and boasts either a 320GB or 1TB HDD, internal CD burner, 802.11g WiFi support and a 480 x 272 touchscreen display. The unit supports MP3, FLAC and WAV files, as well as having a bevy of output ports, the OPUS Nº4 also pairs up wirelessly with…

Tech News Haroon Malik

Apple Attacks NYC Over GreeNYC Logo, Steve Jobzilla to Destroy Central Park Next

Apple has filed a formal opposition to NYC’s GreeNYC campaign over its new logo, saying that the city’s looped apple infringes its own trademark. While Steve’s mob says the eco-logo will “seriously injure the reputation with which [Apple] has established for its goods and services.” New York’s response? “The city believes that Apple’s claims have…

Tech News AddyDugdale

Pwnage iPhone Unlocking and Hacking Tool Now Available, Works Great

Click to viewAfter some delays, the iPhone Pwnage tool—which is used to flash your iPhone with hacked firmware that will allow you to run any application, use it unlocked in any compatible cellphone network, and basically do whatever you want do to with it, is now available for download. I have been testing this and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Jabra BT4010 Bluetooth Headset Has LCD Info Screen

Jabra’s new BT4010 Bluetooth headset has one feature that sets it apart from all the others: a teeny, tiny LCD screen. With that one addition, decoding what your headset is up to is no longer a game of flashing lights or R2D2-like beeps: it’ll show you when it’s connected, when there’s a call, and how…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Refurb Blue and Black iPod Nano 8GB for $135

Woot! has the Apple iPod nano 8GB available for $134.99 refurbished, which is a whopping $34.01 cheaper than the Apple Store refurbished model, which sells for $169 (and $64.01 cheaper than the $199 for a factory-new one). [Woot!]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Intel Classmate 2 Gets Official, Available for Individual Consumer Purchase

We spotted what we expected to be Intel’s Classmate successor sometime ago, but now things have become official. The Classmate 2 PC was announced at Intel’s Developer Forum in Shanghai, and the spec improves on the original machine’s capabilities little by little. https://gizmodo.com/intel-classmate-reviewed-verdict-olpc-killer-334261 The Classmate 2 will tote a 9-inch LCD display, six-cell battery, 512MB…

Tech News Haroon Malik

SpaceNavigator 3D Mouse Gives Full Range of Motion to Second Life Avatars

3Dconnexion’s SpaceNavigator, a rubber-capped multi-axis metal dial meant mainly for 3D design, has been put to even better use as a pan-dimensional controller for Second Life. The video says it all: watch as Beast, one of the “Lindens” who works at Second Life’s founder company, demos movement of his avatar on both land and in…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Nexi, The Social Robot From MIT Goes For the Emo Look

XCM Chrome Xbox 360, From Drab to Fab(ricated)

Bill And Ted’s Completely Unnecessary Remake

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

Verizon Promises In-Home Cell Boosters This Year, But For How Much?

Dvorak: Appendix Removed Through Vagina

Red Hot New Pics From Dark Knight And Iron Man!

Free Flight of the Conchords MP3 Today

Latest TiVo Firmware Brings Needed Speed Boost

Find Nemo Floating in a Four-Way USB Hub. Verdict: Fishy!

Home-Made Daisy MP3 Player Takes Us (London) Underground

Pioneer Sneakers Light Your Way With Built-In Headlights

Swiss Swimming Pool Warmed by Surplus Server Heat and Alliteration

Olive OPUS Nº4, MELODY Nº2 Music Streaming Combo Pack Style With Expense

Apple Attacks NYC Over GreeNYC Logo, Steve Jobzilla to Destroy Central Park Next

Pwnage iPhone Unlocking and Hacking Tool Now Available, Works Great

Jabra BT4010 Bluetooth Headset Has LCD Info Screen

Refurb Blue and Black iPod Nano 8GB for $135

Intel Classmate 2 Gets Official, Available for Individual Consumer Purchase

SpaceNavigator 3D Mouse Gives Full Range of Motion to Second Life Avatars

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