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The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever

The summer movie season now officially begins in early May, thanks to last year’s blockbuster May releases: Spider-Man 3, Shrek The Third and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. This May, there are no fewer than 23 movies coming out, including “tentpole” films Iron Man, Speed Racer, Narnia and Indiana Jones. And the schedule…

French Maid Skirt PC Case is Otaku Heaven

We’re no stranger to maid-inspired casemods and PC accessories, but this Maid PC computer case? It’s the perfect PC case for the kind of guy who wants his PC to look like the belly button to upper thigh area of a maid, but doesn’t want to spend the time and effort it takes to build…

SNES Emulator Running on a Cowon Q5W

This is a Cowon Q5W PMP that’s been rigged to hook up to an original Playstation controller and run a SNES emulator. On the one hand, it’s sweet to see SNES games being played on a PMP. On the other hand, this is a honking $550+ PMP, so you’d probably be pretty pissed if it…

Matroshka Living Concept: 43 Square Feet of Furniture is All You Need

During my last move I took great pleasure in purging my home of items that were doing nothing but taking up space. There is something very liberating about a style that is minimalist and compact—which is why this Matroshka living concept is so interesting. Taking a page from the Casuo apartment in a box, the…

Will A Computer-Generated Anakin Be Less Robotic?

A new poster for Star Wars: Clone Wars just came out, and it gives a good look at how Obi-Wan and Anakin will bring their game faces to that long stretch of battles between the second and third Star Wars prequels. Click through to see the full poster — and to find out why Hayden…

Missing Macbook Air Thrown Out With Stacks of Newspapers?

When I reviewed the Airbook, I noticed that I’d catch myself almost tossing the thing around like a magazine, which it resembled in size. Now Stephen Levy of Newsweek, one of the big four reviewers, has lost his. And he’s theorizing that he might have thrown it out with a stack of old newspapers he…

Seven Alarm Clock Won’t Take “No” For an Answer

There are plenty of alarm clocks out there that attempt to “shock” you awake with loud noises or groggily impossible feats of hand-eye coordination—but I think we can all agree that waking up to that would suck really hard. The Seven Alarm clock concept takes a different approach by playing your favorite MP3 (like Shatner’s…

When Computers Become Gods

Ever since the 1950s, when business environments were slowly being populated by giant, mainframe computers and their minicomputer progeny (which were not so mini in size), science fiction writers have toyed with the idea that computers are about to become gods. You see this in David Gerrold’s 1970s novel When HARLIE Was One, as well…

This piece of analog DIY Belt-bucking flies in the face of decades months of geeky digital belt buckle dominance [swongled.com]

Venture Vehicles is developing a road car using tilting technology first explored by Carver Engineering [swongled.com]

iPhone 2.0 Firmware Update to Include Search Feature?

Some sharp-eyed folks over at blargKaboom analyzed last week’s SDK event and noticed a search icon in Contacts. Interestingly enough, the icon appears in a screenshot about 9 min and 30 sec in, but not in the actual demo. Hopefully, this feature will be ready by the time the final version rolls out in June,…

Office Of The Future Will Have Even Less Privacy

Japanese design team Nendo created this crazy-looking office space in Tokyo by putting giant U-shaped cut-out partitions all throughout the room. It kinda looks like a giant unknown entity was draping a sheet between his hands — and it totally re-imagines the traditional office space structures of cubicles and conference rooms. You have to step…

OLPC’s Negroponte Not Exactly Looking For a Successor (Plus XO Getting Windows in 60 Days)

Reports of OLPC’s Negroponte looking for a replacement to fill his CEO role were a bit unfounded, as the man himself just claimed that the organization HAS no CEO, and that whatever the replacement does, it won’t be what Negroponte is doing. Negroponte says: https://gizmodo.com/olpc-founder-negroponte-is-getting-the-hell-out-of-dodg-364643 Replacement is not the right word. We have no CEO.…

Greet Your New Lesbian Overlords!

With Y: The Last Man wrapping up and turning into a movie, the science fiction cliche of the female-dominated planet is red-hot once again. The cosmos is safe for our red-blooded spacemen to venture to worlds where there are no men, or where men are subjugated and the women wear funny headgear. But what about…

ScanEagle Sniffs Biological Threats, Tells When You Have to Start Running

Boeing Phantom Works, the guys who get to do all the awesome planes and play with the alien ships at Area 51, have modified and successfully tested ScanEagle unmanned air vehicles to “intercept, detect and fly through simulated biological plumes or clouds to collect airborne agents.” This means that the aircraft above will allow troops…

Wal-Mart Stops Selling $199 gPCs In Store

Everex’s gPC run on Wal-Mart store shelves has come to an end as the retailer decided that online-only sales made more sense for the $199 budget PC. Everex seems to agree. [Yahoo News] https://gizmodo.com/everex-200-linux-gpc-hits-wal-mart-bowls-rednecks-ove-317284

Harvey Dent Wants Your Vote, Half Your Suit

Forget Hilary or Barack. The one politician that you’re waiting to get a pre-recorded phone call from, asking for your support, is Gotham City’s Assistant District Attorney, Harvey Dent. And as of last Friday, he’s making those calls. That’s right; the viral marketing campaign for this summer’s The Dark Knight movie has abandoned the Joker…

The iPhone Virtual Reality Goggles, They Do Nothing

Oh man. Apparently somebody just saw The Lawnmower Man and got inspired. This virtual reality head mount for the iPhone is designed to let you strap your favorite expensive phone to your face, blocking out everything else so there’s nothing to distract you from the glow of your precious. This entirely garbage idea was created…

Fallout Meters Sniff Radiation “Better Than a Hound Scents Quail”

From the Cold War vantage point of the early 1960s, the immediate future appeared to be one of impending nuclear annihilation. The savvy homeowner built a bomb shelter for family safety, but how to know when to come out after the big one fell? You couldn’t see, feel, hear, taste or smell radiation. That’s where…

Razorba War Hammer Improves Back Hair Shaving, Is Called the War Hammer

How thick of a hair sweater do you need to have to need something called a War Hammer to shave off your back hair? Pretty thick, which is why Razorba improved their previous release with this War Hammer version, which holds more types of razors (Gillette Fusions are the most notable) than the predecessor. It’s…