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First Official Description Of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse!

We have a new official plot description for Joss Whedon’s fledgling show Dollhouse, which gives way more concrete details about the hows and whys of his dystopian future of brainwashed slaves. That’s just one of the as-yet-untold stories which we unravel in this morning’s dose of spoilers. We also have new clips from Lost and…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Doctor Who Outed as Secret Ikea Shopper, as Tardis Brought to Set Flat-Packed

Fans of the revivified British TV series Doctor Who are, apparently, reeling, after the shock discovery that the Tardis, the Time Lords’ equivalent to a Toyota Prius, comes in a flatpack. “I expected the Tardis to beam down from some far-off galaxy,” said one shocked onlooker, “but it looked more like some flatpack furniture when…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Sony Announces PSP Cradle

In retrospect, it’s surprising this didn’t happen sooner—Sony has announced the PSP Cradle for Japan. Meant to take full advantage of their 1seg tuning abilities, the cradle allows users to do the normal cradle shtick (charging the unit while outputting to the television, plus getting an IR remote). Arriving April 24th, the cradle with A/V…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Bike Cuffs Bring Security, Kinkiness, to Your Cycle

Made of hardened, laminated steel, and based on the design for police-issue manacles, the bike cuff is all kinds of wonderful. You can lock up to three bikes at the same time, and the ring is big enough to secure to signposts to deter would-be tea-leaves. The heat-treated lock is pick-proof and there’s a hardened…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

T303 Is Sony Ericsson’s Latest Petite Slider

The new Sony Ericsson T303 may not be the Xperia X1, but it looks like a tiny, simple slider phone that will fit in any pocket. Sony Ericsson says that it combines “premium finish and materials with a good feature-set to deliver style with substance,” which is probably their own stylish but insubstantial way of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

iBird R/C Toy Looks Like Flapping Good Fun

The new iBird comes from the same makers as our favourite R/C microcopters, but this time takes a leaf from Mother Nature’s design book. Controlled with the same kind of infrared remote and charging system as the Picoo Z’s, the flapping wonder is supposed to look and fly like a real bird. Real, hey? I’d…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Anti-Bacterial, Superheated Steam Cleaner Resembles Bird, Cleans to OCD Standard

This 1200-watt anti-bacterial steam cleaner cleans anything, apparently. Toilets, engine parts of 50-year-old Ferraris, tile grouting—even dirty minds come away purer than a nun’s chuff* after a blast from this. Plug it in, fill the reservoir with water and anti-bacterial solution, wait three minutes and then spray away. The handheld model comes with 10 accessories…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

R2-D2 PC Case Mod Warps Us Into Hyperspace

Our obsession with everyone’s (except Porkins’) favorite astromech is well known, but this R2-D2 case is probably the best designed PC ever on its own. In fact, it looks like the only thing that could replace a steampunked Mac mini on my watch. More pics after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/porkins-b3-3r-astrokeg-lego-droid-mixes-our-three-favo-337252 Up close and personal it has…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Multimedia Watch Makes Wrist Mounted Accessories Useful (Almost)

The day when the watch is once again a useful piece of technology is looming over us. For proof, check out Chinavasion’s Multimedia Watch, which packs in a 1.8-inch LCD (160 x 128), voice recorder, in-built loudspeaker, 8GB flash, as well as support for pretty much every media codec ever conceived. (AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV,…

Gadgets Haroon Malik

Nokia to Support Microsoft Silverlight Web Video

Nokia has committed to bring Microsoft Silverlight video services to its S60 devices. Further, Nokia will also add support for the video content to its S40-based handsets at later stages. Given the immense market penetration of Nokia’s Symbian- based cellphones, this partnering will have a large effect on mobile content support, and you can bet…

Tech News Haroon Malik

PSP Spends Time in the Sun, Gets Bronze Skin

From late April, it looks like Sony’s PSP Lite will be getting a matte bronze skin color as part of a new Value Pack. This pack will include a 32MB Memory Stick Duo and an AV cable along with the newly tanned PSP. Available for around $200, the new pack is scheduled for release in…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Design and Make Your Own OpenMoko Phone

OpenMoko is taking its open philosophy a step beyond its Linux soul and has released the CAD (computer-aided design) files for the Neo1973, allowing you to design and create your own body for the phone. The catch for selfish bastards is that it’s under a ShareAlike Creative Commons license, so you’ve gotta make w/ the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Asus’s First Gaming Desktop ARES CG6150 Looks Like a Decepticon

Alienware’s iconic cases might have the X-Files fanboy segment of the gaming desktop market still swooning, but Asus is refreshing it with a little more evil styling for its first gaming PC that looks more like a Decepticon’s head. It almost looks like it’ll open up and tell you in a booming robot voice how…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Reuters: Pioneer Ending ALL Plasma Production, Will Outsource Panels to Panasonic

About a week ago it was confirmed that Pioneer was killing off its 42-inch plasmas to focus on sets bigger than 50 inches. Now Japan’s Nikkei and Reuters are reporting that they’re going to cease making plasma panels entirely, and will buy them from Matsushita (Panasonic). This follows a similar consolidation trend in the LCD…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

D-Link DIR-855 Router Blasts Wireless N Over Dual Channels

If you are looking for a serious solution for your home media streaming needs, D-Link’s new DIR-855 Wireless N Router is offering simultaneous full-on dual 802.11n transmissions over both 2.4GHz and 5GHz channels. So, for those with heavy bandwith needs—this router will allow two people to go to town using their own independent high-speed channel.…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Everex gPC mini Hands On: Look Out Mac Mini?

The folks at Wired recently got their hands on Everex’s new gPC mini Linux based PC, and initial impressions indicate that it is a good value based on specs, but they note that gOS Linux is still not ready for prime time as a viable Windows alternative. That having been said, outside of some problems…

Tech News Sean Fallon

N-Gage to Incorporate GPS and Cellphone Camera Into Games?

According to NokNok, a meeting with Will Shen, N-Gage’s Head of Production in North America, revealed that Nokia is looking to use GPS and cellphone camera functionality as a utility in games. In fact, Shen noted that any functionality a phone may possess could be used to make a game more interactive. For example, users…

Tech News Sean Fallon

British Navy Working on Developing Invisible Ships Using Metamaterials

Scientists at the Britannia Royal Navy College are working hard to make the idea of an invisible ship a reality using metamaterials that refract light in such a way that it “bends” around an object, making it appear as if it were invisible. This would only account for viewing with the naked eye however—naturally radar…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Plants Rapidly Evolve New Reproductive Systems in Cities

A common French weed known as Crepis sancta underwent a form of superaccelerated evolution to cope with the difficulties of spreading their seeds in cities. Scientists studying C. sancta discovered that over a period of just twelve years, the plants went from mostly producing “dispersing” seeds that spread on the wind, to producing “nondispersing” seeds…

io9 Annalee Newitz

DIY Laser Security System Will Entrap Any Burglar Except Catherine Zeta Jones’ Ass

What do you do when you have a few transistors, some capacitors, a lot of mirrors, a bunch of HandiTak and one laser? If you are McGyver, probably a intercontinental ballistic missile interceptor. If you are Kipkay, you’ll do a laser-based home alarm system similar to the one used in Entrapment, the movie. And if…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

First Official Description Of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse!

Doctor Who Outed as Secret Ikea Shopper, as Tardis Brought to Set Flat-Packed

Sony Announces PSP Cradle

Bike Cuffs Bring Security, Kinkiness, to Your Cycle

T303 Is Sony Ericsson’s Latest Petite Slider

iBird R/C Toy Looks Like Flapping Good Fun

Anti-Bacterial, Superheated Steam Cleaner Resembles Bird, Cleans to OCD Standard

R2-D2 PC Case Mod Warps Us Into Hyperspace

Multimedia Watch Makes Wrist Mounted Accessories Useful (Almost)

Nokia to Support Microsoft Silverlight Web Video

PSP Spends Time in the Sun, Gets Bronze Skin

Design and Make Your Own OpenMoko Phone

Asus’s First Gaming Desktop ARES CG6150 Looks Like a Decepticon

Reuters: Pioneer Ending ALL Plasma Production, Will Outsource Panels to Panasonic

D-Link DIR-855 Router Blasts Wireless N Over Dual Channels

Everex gPC mini Hands On: Look Out Mac Mini?

N-Gage to Incorporate GPS and Cellphone Camera Into Games?

British Navy Working on Developing Invisible Ships Using Metamaterials

Plants Rapidly Evolve New Reproductive Systems in Cities

DIY Laser Security System Will Entrap Any Burglar Except Catherine Zeta Jones’ Ass

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