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Which Summer Movie Will Be The Biggest Flop?

This summer movie season will be like a traffic jam of Transformers wannabes, with more sequels and potential franchises coming out than ever before. And it’s just barely possible that every single one of these films will be a mega-smash hit. It just doesn’t seem very likely somehow. Click through to vote for the biggest…

Do Virtual Worlds Have to Make You a Psycho Loser?

A new documentary about virtual worlds called Second Skin debuted at the South by Southwest Festival over the weekend, and it’s already causing controversy for portraying gamers as social defectives. Though the filmmakers clearly want to offer a positive view of massive multiplayer games like World of Warcraft, they nevertheless managed to focus the documentary…

InFocus IN83 DLP Plays Slightly Bigger Than Its Older Sibling

InFocus’s new IN83 DLP projector may look the same as the previous IN82 model but it does pack some slight upgrades. Displaying full 1080p HD, the IN83 features the latest DarkChip4 DLP chipset and HDMI 1.3. The IN83 specs appear to be just a step above the IN82, and this slight upgrade wouldn’t be complete…

IOGEAR PCPortal Lets You Remotely Control Your Parents’ Computer via Hardware KVM

Remotely connecting to your parents’ computer to show them how to send email or file their taxes is fine if everything’s working correctly, but how about when there’s some sort of hardware or operating system error? IOGear’s PCPortal actually bypasses the issue entirely by being a hardware solution that hooks directly up to an Ethernet…

DualShock 3 costing Americans a fat $55 retail [kotaku.com] http://kotaku.com/366406/dualshock-3-50-pre+order-on-amazon

You Can Only Delay, Never Stop, The Space Invaders

It’s been 30 years since Space Invaders started, but the game is making a huge comeback. This year we’ll see both Space Invaders Extreme for the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable, as well as Space Invaders Get Even on the Wii, which lets you take control of the invading aliens and have them smash up…

Futronic’s FS88 Fingerprint Scanner Detects Difference Between Live, Dead Fingers

Say goodbye to those lousy movie plots where some girl that looks like Jennifer Garner cuts off a high-ranking execs’ finger in order to gain access to some room. Futronic’s latest FS88 fingerprint scanner is not only FBI approved, but it can detect the difference between live and dead fingers. As an added bonus, it…

Charlize Theron’s Demon Pregnancy Terminates Johnny Depp

Here’s the final showdown betwen Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron, from 1999’s The Astronaut’s Wife, when the slow-boiling thriller suddenly turns into a bodacious monster movie. I love Johnny Depp’s weird slurred-voice alien-monster acting. It’s actually a super disturbing scene, as Depp’s ownership of Theron’s body suddenly goes from subtle creepitude to full-on monster creepitude.…

5 Things to Know: T-Mobile’s Hotspot @Home Landline VOIP Service

A few weeks back, T-Mobile rolled out a new broadband-based landline-replacement service in Dallas and Seattle test markets, allowing customers to port their landlines to their T-Mobile account then pay $10 per month for unlimited calling via a special router. Here’s a glimpse of the router, a modified Linksys, with Ethernet jacks and two phone…

Seven One-Terabyte Hard Drives Enter, Seven Leave (But Only One is the Best)

ExtremeTech just compared seven one-terabyte hard drives with varying platter sizes and architectures and discovered that the drives are actually all quite similar, but with minor variations in power, noise and speed. If you’re looking for a low power, low noise drive that’s lightly slower than the rest—perhaps for a media center box— Western Digital’s…

Nobody Can Foresee Doomsday

We may have absolute certainty, in every fibre of our souls, that Friday’s Mad-Max-in-quarantined-Scotland movie Doomsday is an instant classic in the making. Sadly, Rogue Pictures, which is releasing the film, doesn’t seem to agree with us. We just got final confirmation that Doomsday will not be screened for critics. We’ll see it, and review…

LG’s Glimmer Phone Has Touchscreen + Keypad, Heading to Alltel

LG’s previously leaked Glimmer phone does something interesting that we haven’t seen much of before—combine a touchscreen with a slide-out keypad underneath. The 2.8-inch touchscreen lets you control the 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and AGPS (assisted GPS), but if you’ve got ham hands and feel like touch-dialing is a bit of a chore, you can slide…

50 Foot Tall Alien Kicks Monster Ass

Dreamworks Animation is pitting monsters against aliens in its cleverly titled film Monsters Vs. Aliens, due out next year. Why didn’t they stick with the original title of the comic it’s based on? Rex Havoc and the Ass-Kickers of the Fantastic is a much cooler sounding movie. Reese Witherspoon will be voicing one of the…

Sandisk Sansa Fuze Now Official

The much-rumored Sandisk Sansa Fuze has finally been brought out of the shadows, coming in 2, 4 and 8 GB sizes for $79, $99 and $129, respectively.[Gearlog] https://gizmodo.com/sandisk-prepping-sansa-fuze-363751 SANDISK INTRODUCES THE STYLISH SANSA(R) FUZE™ MP3 PLAYER Multi-Faceted Music Player Rounds out the Sansa Product Line MILPITAS, Calif., March 11, 2008- SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a leading…

Helios Odyssey Media Hub Gets BitTorrent, Emule Downloading

The Helios Odyssey, a 1TB, $169 storage center for your media files, just got an update for BitTorrent and Emule downloading capability. BitTorrent isn’t anything brand new in Network Attached Storage devices such as the Planex and Procare and Jack In The Box, but Emule (something we used before BitTorrent became popular) seems like an…

Space Probe Will Have Near-Collision With Saturn Moon

The Cassini Space Probe will fly dangerously close to Saturn’s moon Enceladus tomorrow, skirting along the edge of the moon’s huge geysers to sample water-ice, dust and gas from their plumes. Cassini’s particle analyzers will study the composition of the plumes in the hope of settling, once and for all, whether they may come from…

Secret Revelations from the Future in Terminator Alternate Reality Game

We’ve written before about the Sarah Connor Chronicles alternate reality game (ARG), where players film themselves acting out the roles of workers at a corporation called Einitech Labs. Enitech has discovered a way to photograph pictures of the future using "tachyons." At first they just see newspapers that are several months in the future, but…

Single Person Cooker Makes Cooking For One Tidy, If Not Fun

The space-saving “Single Person Cooker” may be of interest to you if you live in an apartment small enough that you need a retracting ceiling bed or a staircase bookshelf. A concept by designer Alex Bradley, it stores pretty much everything you need to cook— hob, utensils and a chopping board— in one small case.…

Monsters, Browncoats Invade This Week’s Comic Stories

Okay, so this week’s comics don’t have Sarah Michelle Gellar doing the [SPOILER] with a hot young [SPOILER], but that doesn’t mean Joss Whedon fans need to be sad. In fact, it’s time for River Tam fans to rejoice. Plus, the decline and fall of Frankenstein’s Monster is something, right…? Yeah, I know. You’d rather…

Panasonic Kills Rear Projection, Promises 2-Way CableCard By Summer

Today in New York, Panasonic showed off the Viera flat-panel TVs it launched at CES, including its badass flagship PZ800 and PZ850 plasma sets and its premiere LZ800 LCD, all coming this summer at prices to be announced. During the meeting, Panasonic also confirmed officially that it was no longer in the rear-projection business, owing…