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Latest in Psystar Saga: Mac Clones Supposedly Shipping Right Now + New Facility Up Close

When we last checked in on super shady Mac cloner Psystar‘s gridskipping ways, they’d supposedly somehow managed to land a $6 million pad—a little fishy, given their brief history. A ZDNet reader on the ground got up close, reporting that there’s definite activity at the location, though no hard confirmation it’s Psystar that’s the busy…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 19 '08

Experience the Joys of Constant Lag With Xbox Live on Dial-Up

For you poor, poor souls who own an Xbox 360 but still rely on dial-up for your internet, an intrepid Instructables member has written up a great “How To” on using your phone line to log onto Xbox Live. All you need is a PC running Windows with a working dial-up connection, an ethernet cable…

Tech News Elaine Chow Apr 19 '08

Sigourney Weaver Becomes The Thing She Once Fought

Science fiction legend Sigourney Weaver lends her vocal talents to next month’s animated cute-bot movie Wall-E, producers confirmed at New York Comic-Con. Weaver plays the computer for one of robot-building supercorporation Buy’n’Large‘s spaceships. Producer Jim Morris joked that her new role is a reversal of her iconic moment from Aliens: “Instead of fighting ‘mother,’ Sigourney…

io9 Meredith Woerner Apr 19 '08

Sungevity Web App Makes Installing Solar Panels a Piece of Cake

Eco start-up company Sungevity is launching a new web application on Earth Day (three days away, people!) that will take the guess work out of solar panel installations. Enter your address on Sungevity’s website and satellite-imaging software will zoom in on your home, calculate your roof’s dimensions, select the right sized solar arrays and calculate…

Tech News Elaine Chow Apr 19 '08

Canon 5D Mark II Supposedly Surfaces Online, Due in June

A screencap supposedly snagged from Canon’s German site spilled some details on Canon’s way anticipated 5D Mark II before it slipped back into the ether. June release, and it rocks a 16-megapixel DIGIC III processor that can fire at 6.5FPS. The blurb calls the Mark II “small, light, robust and weatherproof.” A bit different than…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 19 '08

DC Universe Will Give Us “Manazons” and Anatomically Correct Supergirls

A new Secret Six series, evil math and ‘Manazons’ for Wonder Woman to face, and a Supergirl without T&A were only a few of the announcements made by DC Comics uber-editor Dan DiDio (flanked by cosplayers as Good and Bad Mary Marvel) and the panel of DC writers and artists at New York Comic-Con. They…

io9 Kaila Hale-Stern Apr 19 '08

Roll Out Of Air France’s In-Flight Cellphone Service Experiences Turbulence

Air France’s in-flight cellphone trial has finally taken off, but with bumpy results. The New York Times hitched a ride on the French carrier recently and found several bugs in the system: https://gizmodo.com/air-france-makes-in-flight-calling-possible-gallic-shr-336602 • The quality is patchy and keeps most in-flight calls short and tinny-sounding. One receiver of an OnAir call complained that it…

Tech News Elaine Chow Apr 19 '08

Bond With Your Family, Build Your Own Arcade Machine

Want to become the coolest parent ever? Turn off the computers, put down the television remote, and do a little DIY with your kids this weekend by building your own arcade machine. While you assemble the pieces, regale little Tommy or Gina with the tales of your Space Invaders past. And when they look up…

Tech News Elaine Chow Apr 19 '08

io9 Asks Chris Carter Your Most Urgent Question About X-Files 2

At yesterday’s X-Files 2 panel at New York Comic-Con, creators Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz were customarily tight-lipped about the movie’s storyline. But they did drop a few new hints — and io9 managed to ask them the one question you told us was burning in your minds: have Mulder and Scully been in touch…

io9 Kaila Hale-Stern Apr 19 '08

Buy the Crappiest, Rustiest MacBook Pro Ever for Only $1300

Macs tend to have a high resale value that outpaces PCs with similar specs and age. But this MacBook Pro on eBay looks like it was literally beaten with an ugly stick before being left to rot in a vat of orc piss, and the dude’s still asking $1295 (more than a brand new MacBook).…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 19 '08

AT&T: The Internet Will Explode in 2010

South Park already showed us how to fix the internet, but what really struck me was Randy’s speech at the end—he totally sounded like an AT&T or Comcast executive when he said, “It’s easy for us to think we can just use up all the internet we want but…it could one day be gone forever.”…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 19 '08

Cylon Civil War and Rough Sex with Starbuck

Things are getting awesomely ugly on Battlestar Galactica, with the humans squabbling over sex and the justice system while their arch-enemies the Cylons march towards all-out bot-on-bot civil war. One of the more stylized, surreal episodes of BSG, last night’s “The Ties that Bind” was full of weird camera angles and blurred-out backgrounds that perfectly…

Television Annalee Newitz Apr 19 '08

1930s Steam Cooker Uses Car Exhaust To Cook For, Poison Your Family

Before the advent of the drive-through, families on road trips were stumped by the dilemma of how to have a hot meal ready at any time during their travels. But never fear, 1930s road warrior — hook up this automatic food cooking contraption to your exhaust pipe and your car will prepare your dinners for…

Tech News Elaine Chow Apr 19 '08

New Motorola Actually Making Cellphone Software and Hardware People Work Together

One (sorta) promising tidbit about Motorola’s handset division being cut loose to fend for itself: It’s being restructured so that the software and hardware people actually work together. What a radical idea! New phones will come out faster, if not necessarily better. [Unwired View] https://gizmodo.com/motorola-chops-off-handset-division-372282

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Apr 19 '08

MSI Wind Notebook To Come In 8.9 and 10-Inch Flavors

MSI has dropped some new info on its contender to the Eee-PC throne, the Wind Notebook, which we first peeked at in March. The roughly 2.2 lb UMPC will come with either an 8.9 inch or 10 inch LCD display sporting a 1024 x 600 resolution. MSI says the Wind will feature a 2.5-inch HDD…

Tech News Elaine Chow Apr 19 '08

Asus Eee PC 900 Hits U.S. May 12 for $549

We’d heard that Asus’s bigger, badder Eee PC would be getting an early launch next month in Asia but it looks like the US won’t have to wait very long either. Crave’s Asus sources are telling them it’ll launch stateside on May 12 for $549. That’s definitely a bit more than the long-rumored $500 pricepoint.…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Apr 19 '08

Onkyo HT-S5100 Home Theater in a Box: 7.1 Surround and Acoustic Room Calibration For $579

Onkyo’s best new entry level HTiB setup has a 7.1 surround is notable for having room correction tech. I’m pretty sure its rare to find a low end system that can adjust gain and delay on all channels to calibrate itself to a room’s acoustics. The receiver included is the DTS/Dolby capable HT-R560, with 3…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 18 '08

Japanese Multi-Level Bicycle Parking

The Multi-level bicycle park at Tokyo’s Kasai Station might sound like a crazy overblown way to tidy up the streets, but the woeful lack of available parking spaces at most Japanese train stations is a real problem. In some places legal parks are impossible to find and private security guards are known for performing periodic…

Gadgets Chris Magor Apr 18 '08

Car Engine Meets NES Controller

I’m confused, but happy to see this Civic’s Corolla’s engine block get a cover that looks like a NES controller. When this baby redlines, it sounds like me mashing buttons in bionic commando. Hello! Just build the turbo function INTO THE GAME. Prediction: The urge to punch down on running temperature A,B, and cross pad…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 18 '08

AMD’s “Shanghai” Chips Revealed

The rat race continues: Shanghai will be 45nm, have up to 12 cores, include the long awaited Hypertransport 3.0 for socket-to-socket and southbridge communication, and can emulate quad channel memory. For more: [DailyTech]

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 18 '08

Latest in Psystar Saga: Mac Clones Supposedly Shipping Right Now + New Facility Up Close

Experience the Joys of Constant Lag With Xbox Live on Dial-Up

Sigourney Weaver Becomes The Thing She Once Fought

Sungevity Web App Makes Installing Solar Panels a Piece of Cake

Canon 5D Mark II Supposedly Surfaces Online, Due in June

DC Universe Will Give Us “Manazons” and Anatomically Correct Supergirls

Roll Out Of Air France’s In-Flight Cellphone Service Experiences Turbulence

Bond With Your Family, Build Your Own Arcade Machine

io9 Asks Chris Carter Your Most Urgent Question About X-Files 2

Buy the Crappiest, Rustiest MacBook Pro Ever for Only $1300

AT&T: The Internet Will Explode in 2010

Cylon Civil War and Rough Sex with Starbuck

1930s Steam Cooker Uses Car Exhaust To Cook For, Poison Your Family

New Motorola Actually Making Cellphone Software and Hardware People Work Together

MSI Wind Notebook To Come In 8.9 and 10-Inch Flavors

Asus Eee PC 900 Hits U.S. May 12 for $549

Onkyo HT-S5100 Home Theater in a Box: 7.1 Surround and Acoustic Room Calibration For $579

Japanese Multi-Level Bicycle Parking

Car Engine Meets NES Controller

AMD’s “Shanghai” Chips Revealed

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