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Mossberg Reviews Vista SP1: “Don’t Expect Much From It”

Today, Mossberg takes a look at the lukewarmly anticipated Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista. It’s an odd little beast of a review, its flat, monotonal surface covering a bed of barbs. (Most of ’em are true.) Here’s the sharpest one (bold is mine): SP1 doesn’t resolve some of the most annoying flaws in Vista,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Video: New Android UI Shows iPhone-like Animations

Click to viewThe first iteration of Android wasn’t the prettiest phone OS by a longshot. However, today’s release of the refreshed Android SDK shows a UI that has more than a bit of polish. We took screens, but you should also check out the details, like this video showing smooth, animated transitions. Good on them:…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Woman Sues Best Buy For $54 Million After They Lost Her Laptop

Stories like this pop up from time to time, but it never ceases to amaze how crazy ass lawsuits end up tying up our legal system. In this case, Best Buy customer Raelyn Campbell purchased a $1100 laptop from a DC area store along with the absurd $300 extended warranty. When her on/off switch broke…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Question of the Day: How Do You Get Your Movies?

The recent Apple TV 2.0 update got me thinking about the myriad of ways that consumers can get movies in their home these days. There are numerous companies out there vying for your entertainment dollar in both brick and mortar stores and online. So our question to you is: how do you get movies at…

Commerce Sean Fallon

Tongue-Shooting Action in Doom

Doom is one of those rare naratives that works both as a violent video game and a violent movie. Here, in the film version, you can see why. A weird virus/mutation/science whatsit has gotten loose in a research station on Mars. It’s turning everybody into angry monsters who shoot tongues. But that’s not all: apparently…

Movies Annalee Newitz

T-Mobile Cuts HotSpot @Home Subscription to $10 a Month, But You Have to Ask For It

Just after getting the boot from ‘Bucks, T-Mobile is trying pump some new life into their freshly amputated Wi-Fi services. They’ve chopped the price down to 10 bucks a month (from $20), retroactive to Feb. 6. But you have to ask for the new, cheaper price. Way to bury that selling point! https://gizmodo.com/at-t-bringing-free-wi-fi-to-starbucks-finally-354961 Also sort…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Become A Post-Human Tentacle Monster Today!

When the mutants rise up and start culling the inferior humans from the population, you’ll need some protective coloration to survive. So now is a perfect time to prepare, by shoving disc-shaped silicone implants under your skin to look like a half-octopus mutant. A post-human fashion statement is just a short trip to Sao Paulo,…

io9 Kevin Kelly

flipIT Multi-Monitor Desk System

If you are into multi-monitor setups, the flipIT Duo Desk may be right up your alley. The desk can accommodate dual 19″ monitors or one cinema widescreen display up to a 36″ case width. Screen angles can be adjusted to your liking,there are cable ports on both sides, and there is an option of having…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Another Bomb Drops On Jericho

The post-apocalyptic rebuilding may have begun on last night’s Jericho, but the CBS show’s own restoration after a cancellation scare looks like it’ll be short-lived. The season opener failed to beat a rerun of Law and Order, and an original Boston Legal. The episode’s 7.1 million viewers was much better than the tail end of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Racetrack Fishbowl For Goldfish Daredevils

Goldfish lead boring lives. Granted, they are probably not intelligent enough to realize what they are missing, but with the threat of a porcelain grave constantly looming—these little guys need to live for the moment. This “Speedfish” bowl allows them to do just that with a design that focuses on the exciting world of head…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Atlas Kinetic Cellphone Actually Powered by Tacky

Stripped down cellphone powered by everyday movement? Sounds good. Looks… ahhh…straight out of an overblown late 80s sci-fi novel mutilated by early 90s CGI. The description was even promising. “It’s all made of aluminum and glass…Power comes from kinetic energy similar to that found in watches that use oscillating weight to power a mainspring.” If…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Fire A Retro Rocket Into Your Living Room

If you want to snaz up your rumpus room with a retro-pop science fiction look, your options have been limited to old posters from The Day The Earth Stood Still or glow-in-the-dark stickers. But now you can have install actual vintage-looking rockets, from Cool Rockets. They obsess over details in their rocket designs, making sure…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Washing Machine Makes Your Assault Rifles Sparkle

So you have hoarded thousands of guns in a homemade bunker for that inevitable moment when WWIII comes knocking at your door. That’s all well and good, but how do you keep such an impressive arsenal clean? The answer is the F636HT Heavy Duty Long Gun & Handgun System. This bad boy clean up to…

Tech News Sean Fallon

300 Baby Stars In Our Nearest Star-Factory

Newborn stars are surrounded with dust in the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud, in this new image from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Only about 407 light years from Earth, Rho Oph is one of the closest star-forming regions to us. There are more than 300 young stellar objects within the central cloud, which contains the crucial…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Lightning Review: Cowon A3 PMP With Incredible Audio/Video Format Support

The Gadget: Cowon’s A3 portable music player, which supports about as many codecs as its bigger, beefier brother, the Q5W. The difference is the A3 can fit much easier into your pants. https://gizmodo.com/cowon-q5w-divx-gps-pmp-review-verdict-fantastic-330497 The Price: $319 for 30GB, $349 for 60GB on Amazon The Verdict: Just as great as the Q5W. The A3’s got a…

Reviews Jason Chen

The Strangest Story About The Matrix You’ll Ever Hear

Sometimes watching the climax of a movie can be a little more climactic than you might think. In this video, a hacker named Jake explains something very NSFW that is related to Agent Smith beating the crap out of Neo. After this story, you might want to take the blue pill. This is the second…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Biometric Social Security Cards Proposed to Combat ID Theft

Two Illinois congressmen are introducing legislation with the goal of upgrading that flimsy paper piece of crap we call a social security card to include a photo, fingerprint and computer ID chip. Recent data shows that nearly $45 billion is lost each year due to identity theft, which makes it increasingly necessary to safeguard our…

Tech News Sean Fallon

All Your Precious Little Moon Minerals Belong On This Carrier

Somewhere between the Eagle from Space: 1999 and the Resurrection Ship from Battlestar Galactica lies Oliver Scholl‘s conceptual design for a space carrier, from for the movie Moon 44. While it seems to be an unwritten rule that designers need to stick sharp spires on one end of a ship, and massive engines on the…

io9 Kevin Kelly

I’d Rather Live in the Old Disney “House of the Future” Than the New One

Here’s two visions of our future home. One has wall-sized TVs, lots of plastic wares and all-electric grooming tools. The other, touchscreens everywhere, smart kitchen counters and auto-thermostats. The first is Disney’s vision of now back in 1957, the second, its re-vision of the House of the Future with Lifeware, HP and Microsoft, which is…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Great Garloo Used To Smash Railroads And Destroy Cities, But Now He’ll Have a Tea Party With You

In 1961, Marx Toys advertised The Great Garloo as “an out of this world movie monster” for “every kid who has ever seen a science fiction movie” and showed him going on a rampage, destroying rail bridges and high tension wires. Click through for a video of Garloo’s wimpy friend. Combined with his evil looks,…

io9 Lynn Peril

Mossberg Reviews Vista SP1: “Don’t Expect Much From It”

Video: New Android UI Shows iPhone-like Animations

Woman Sues Best Buy For $54 Million After They Lost Her Laptop

Question of the Day: How Do You Get Your Movies?

Tongue-Shooting Action in Doom

T-Mobile Cuts HotSpot @Home Subscription to $10 a Month, But You Have to Ask For It

Become A Post-Human Tentacle Monster Today!

flipIT Multi-Monitor Desk System

Another Bomb Drops On Jericho

Racetrack Fishbowl For Goldfish Daredevils

Atlas Kinetic Cellphone Actually Powered by Tacky

Fire A Retro Rocket Into Your Living Room

Washing Machine Makes Your Assault Rifles Sparkle

300 Baby Stars In Our Nearest Star-Factory

Lightning Review: Cowon A3 PMP With Incredible Audio/Video Format Support

The Strangest Story About The Matrix You’ll Ever Hear

Biometric Social Security Cards Proposed to Combat ID Theft

All Your Precious Little Moon Minerals Belong On This Carrier

I’d Rather Live in the Old Disney “House of the Future” Than the New One

The Great Garloo Used To Smash Railroads And Destroy Cities, But Now He’ll Have a Tea Party With You

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