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Zombie Rat vs. Zombie Penis — Who Wins? [NSFW]

Yesterday we talked about the battle of the genitals in science horror films, and today I’ve got the best example of a horror movie penis ever created. It’s the zombie rat vs. zombie penis moment from Beyond Re-Animator, the third in a series about a mad doctor (played with vigor by Jeffrey Combs) with a…

Torchwood Should Be Called “It’s All The Doctor’s Fault”

Is Torchwood’s Captain Jack the worst boss in the universe? He sexually harrasses the employees, he creates a hostile work environment, and he shoots you down when you show some initiative. And yet, even though I would never want to work for Jack in a billion years, this was easily the best episode of the…

Beating Heart in a Box Amuses, Horrifies Manhattan Elite

Billy Chasen, the artist who encased a still-working, exploded iPod in resin, put a new piece up at the American Heart Association’s 2008 Heart of New York Gala at the classy Waldorf Astoria hotel in NYC. Watch as a heart sprays blood all over the inside of a glass cube! Be made curious by the…

Apple Files Patent for Crazy 3D Projector Setup for Some Reason

Here’s an unexpected patent from Apple: a system for projecting 3D images. Sure, we’ve seen 3D panels from Sharp and 3D projectors that require glasses, but this is a projector setup that requires no glasses. And this makes sense for Apple why? https://gizmodo.com/sharp-ll-151-3d-reviewed-28519 Really, it makes zero sense for any consumer products. Apple doesn’t sell…

Consumer Scandals Of The Future: A Chronology

The next few decades will see miraculous improvements in consumer technology — and new and better rip-offs to go with them. No matter how advanced our science, corporations will still find ways to spam, scam and invade your privacy. Those shiny new toys will break down… or break your neck. Here’s our future history of…

Palm Bleeds $31.5 Million

Beleaguered smartphone maker Palm lost $31.5 million this quarter, despite the Centro’s success—no surprise, given that their living-in-the-past handsets are losing marketshare, not to mention the whole deader-than-dead Foleo. [NYT] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-greedily-eats-north-american-market-share-334516

Flame Off! Johnny Storm Says Fantastic Four 3 Is Dead

We may never get to see Sue Storm give birth to Franklin Richards, as actress Jessica Alba has promised. A third Fantastic Four movie is looking unlikely, says Johnny Storm actor Chris Evans, thanks to the negative feedback the first two movies have gotten. Fox has stayed mum about continuing the franchise, and Evans is…

What Do You Think About the New Afrofuturism?

Everybody is YouTubing Barack Obama’s March 18 speech about racial politics partly because it was one of the most nuanced political speeches in recent memory, but also because he played the futurist card. He talked about his own racially-mixed family, and speculated about how mixed-race community and people represent the future of the United States.…

G10IL Takes on the Eee PC: Is it Getting Crowded in Here?

If you were claustrophobic and sitting in a room filled with all of the competitors trying to step to Asustek’s Eee PC—you would be freaking out right now. This time, the wannable comes in the form of the G10IL PC from Taiwanese manufactuerer Elitegroup Computer Systems. Users can expect Intel’s new Atom processors, an 8.9…

This is How a High Tech Smart Toaster BBQ’s Your Bread

Breville is selling this $130 high tech toaster. For that price, you get a stainless steel case, an LED indicator and slider that is as smooth as a DJ mixer’s cross fader, motorized lifts and clamps that are capable of 7 pounds of lift (yes), and electrical elements that are rated to last 90 years.…

DSLR Sizemodo: Nikon D40x vs “World’s Smallest” Olympus E-420

We just got the Olympus E-420, and before we shoot a million test shots (rough approximation), we thought we’d take a look at it’s biggest claim to fame: it’s the smallest and lightest DSLR around. Here you see it with the relatively handy and lightweight Nikon D40x, which in body is almost totally identical to…

DARPA Wants Contact Lenses to Turn Real-Life Combat Into Call of Duty 4

The problem with cool strap-on heads-up displays a few lucky soldiers get to use on the battlefield today is that they’re bulky affairs that make them look like half-assed cyborgs. Plus, the interface is limited. The Pentagon wants to develop contact lenses that’ll put “first-person-shooter-type video game” graphics on top the soldiers’ vision. Yes, they…

Godzilla in the Mist

Over on Flickr there’s a great collection of Japanese toy robots who’ve been Photoshopped to look half-menacing, half-romantic by giant robot enthusiast Jeff Simmermon. Here’s his do-up of Godzilla (click to see full-size glory), who looks like he’s ready to pounce — or kiss. Check out the whole set.

Games, Anime, and all things nerdy. Big Pirates fan as well.

Games, Anime, and all things nerdy. Big pirates fan as well.

Dealzmodo: 500GB Western Digital Hard Drive for $100, a Sign of Things to Come?

Buy.com has the 500GB Western Digital Elements external hard drive for $100 shipped, marked down from $140. (Around the web, this drive sells for $115-$140.) Now that Time Machine is compatible with any hard drive networked to an Airport Extreme, some of you might be interested in picking up something. This is the best deal…

The Many Faces of the Tancher Transformer Concept Phone

Once again we dip into the bin of impressive but implausible concepts with this Tancher Transformer phone design from Shkinder Maxim. The device can be configured in countless ways to act as a multimedia player and projector with support for holographic image projection and 3-D scanning. If that wasn’t outrageous enough, there are also ideas…

Mozilla Says Firefox 3 Is Ready for Your Mom

I’ve actually been running Firefox 3 since it hit beta, and have been pushing it on people since beta 2, when the sweet new address bar hit. But Mozilla says that it’s now is ready for the ungeeky plebes to climb aboard, at beta number four. Previously, they considered the ride potentially too bumpy for…

Beware The Wrath Of Warlord Shank!

This clip shows off everything that was great about Space Cases, the kids-in-space show that ran on Nickelodeon for two seasons. It has George Takei chewing not just the scenery, but the actual walls, as the evil neck-gyrating Warlord Shank, whose ship has been hit with a computer virus by a demented computer. And then…

Everyone’s Favorite Background Extra Now Immortalized In Plastic!

Someone, somewhere at Hasbro, is regretting pretending to listen to fans in the wake of Star Wars fansite Rebel Scum announcing the final candidates in their action figure wishlist voting. I mean, I’m sure that knowing that you have an established fanbase for new toys is a reassuring thing, but how many random Target shoppers…