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Pollution is Mutating Your Sperm at an Alarming Rate

People living in areas with airborne toxins and pollution are likely to develop 60 percent more mutations in their sperm than people living in areas with relatively clean air. Sperm mutations could lead to infertility for the man, or might make his children suffer any number of birth defects. Will this quickly lead to a…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Analysts Say Ring the Bell, Verizon Set to Win 700MHz Auction

It’s been our hunch all along that Verizon would take all in the 700MHz spectrum auction, but analysts are now confirming our suspicions from the other day: Verizon is set to win the most hotly desired slice of airwaves in the country, which can be used for anything from an entirely new mobile broadband service…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Corgi H2GO RC Car Turns and Runs on Water

The Corgi H2GO is a RC card powered by a fuel cell that gets refilled with hydrogen extracted from water. Like the previous model, the H-Racer, it uses solar-powered electrolysis to do it. Unlike the straight-line-only H-Racer, however, the H2GO is a real RC car that can actually turn left and right. Playing Dr. Manhattan…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

How To Fix a Mysteriously Ruptured Undersea Cable

Not a week after two massive undersea telecom cables were snapped—according to BBC News, most likely due not to Godzilla but a single tanker “dragging its anchor along the sea bed”—and the repairs are well underway. But how in the hell do you repair a nine-layer steel-reinforced cable located deep beneath the surface of the…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Wearing and Drinking Fluorescent Protein

This masked reveler at last year’s Bio Taiwan Exhibition was enjoying two kinds of fluorescent protein: one on her lips, and one in her drink. At last, synthetic biology that isn’t designed to improve the human condition, cure disease, or revolutionize anything. Nope, it’s just there to look cool. Want to see an even cooler…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Navisurfer II Car PC, Surprisingly Affordable

The Navisurfer II is a pretty interesting little in-dash PC. Featuring a 7-inch flip-out touchscreen display, you can run Windows or Linux driven by a 1.3 Ghz processor in respectable 800 x 480 resolution. Built-in GPS along with a 2.5-inch hard drive (ranging from 40GB to 120GB) mean that you won’t require an additional stereo…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Mars Busts Out In 3-D

Here’s an orthoimage of the famous Olympus Mons on Mars, with the different colors representing different elevations. It’s just a taste of the 3-D goodness to come. The European Space Agency is getting ready to release a new high-resolution Digital Terrain Model dataset that will let researchers build their own 3-D models of Mars’ topography.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Cate Blanchett Wants An Indiana Jones-Kebab

Cate Blanchett has totally evil hair as a Russian agent in the new Indiana Jones movie. Can Indy hold his own against Queen Elizabeth? Will her vicious wig block her peripheral vision and give him an advantage? Find out for yourself, below the fold. We also have the first details about season five of Stargate:…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Angelina Jolie Can’t Turn On a Computer

Anglina Jolie recently revealed to the world that despite portraying both a mega hacker and PC gaming heroine Lara Croft on the big screen, such experience doesn’t help her with technology one bit. She explains quite clearly: …I don’t really know how to turn on a computer. Apparently, my penis is not a computer. [metro…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Keynetik: a Motion Interface for One-Handed Play on Your Portable

As an alternative to touchscreen control, Keynetik has designed a prototype motion-interface for portable devices that requires just a single hand to operate. Using multiple accelerometers, it can cleverly distinguish the user’s gestures from mere accidental "interference" motions, and even works whether you’re left- or right-handed. With control buttons resting under your fingertips on its…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Giant HTC is Just a Joke, Just Like We Thought

So it turns out that the huge HTC Magnum actually is, of course, a prank cooked up by the guys at Pocketpt in Portugal as a Carnival stunt. Built from an HTC X7500 and a boring old HP monitor, it seems it got a lot more attention on the intertubes than originally intended. [Pocketlint] https://gizmodo.com/gigantic-windows-mobile-phone-leaves-us-scratching-our-352873

Tech News Kit Eaton

Iron Man Uses Dell Servers, Tony Stark Drinks Too Much Bourbon

Here’s a batch of 13 new images from the movie about the greatest gadget tinkerer and playboy of all time: Tony Stark, aka Iron Man. And while all of them are great and make our legs shake in anticipation, there’s something wrong going on in there. Let’s review: • Same amazing armors as before, check.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Intempo BTA-01 Adapter Makes Your iPod Speakers Bluetooth-able

Slot Intempo’s little dongle into your speaker’s iPod dock, and you can stream music to it from your Bluetooth-ready phone, PC or non-iPod MP3 player. The 2.4 x 2.0 x 0.4 inch BTA01 is compatible with any Bluetooth v1.2 device and speakers with standard iPod dock, and has a range of up to 10 meters.…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Is This the Ultimate Outdoor Home Theater? Answer: Yes

Nestled in the hills above Hollywood is a glass house that boasts one of the coolest open-air home theaters I’ve ever seen. You can flop on one of the sofas and watch a movie on an enormous screen, one of the outer walls of the guesthouse of the Hagy Belzberg-designed Skyline residence. A couple more…

Tech News AddyDugdale

Early Morning Intern Needed

We are looking for an early morning intern, which means someone from Europe or Asia. This is not a writer’s job, although super-interns may eventually become Giz writers, if they are good. Read on for the job description and the requirements: Job description • Spot stories. Get up in your morning time and start going…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Garmin nuvifone Scenario Video Shows Fabulousness of Phone, Creative Fatigue of Nuvi Marketing Team

The nuvifone won’t be available until the third quarter of 2008, but Garmin has already dropped a couple videos showing its product off. One of them is a bit dull, you know the sort of stuff, portentious voiceovers talking about "putting more power in the hands of the people." The other one, however, is marketing…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

JB7 Digital Jukebox Lets You Rip Your Tunes Without a PC

3ga has just announced the JB7 digital jukebox, which allows the user to directly rip CDs to its internal HDD, negating the use for a PC. Standard rip time is less than five minutes, and the JB7 is available in either 40GB ($586) or 80GB ($625) flavors. Other features include alarm clock mode, USB connectivity,…

Tech News Haroon Malik

G-Cell Communication Glove Uses Bluetooth, Talk-To-The-Hand Technology

Billed as the first communications glove, the G-Cell glove is a collaboration between glove manufacturer Swany and experimental development company Texsys GmbH. The design, with its integrated microphone, speaker and a couple of buttons to make calls, is clearly aimed at winter sports enthusiasts. Here’s what the G-Cell has got: Bluetooth 2.0-compatible, there’s a voice…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Hasbro Room Tech Clock Wirelessly Wakes the Lamps in Your Room

Hasbro’s Room Tech Clock, which looks like a mix between an iPod and a Goomba, is an alarm clock with a wireless link to the shroom-shaped Room Tech Lamp. When the alarm goes off, two things happen; the alarm clock will either stomp its fists on the table making an awful racket, play back the…

Tech News Haroon Malik

Sony Makes Tiny 3-Inch Bravia TV XDV-D500, Won’t Allow It to Travel Outside Japan

Sony’s latest, smallest member of the Bravia LCD TV family is, sadly for fans of multicolored rabbits, destined only for Japan. Shame, as the XDV-D500 sounds good. Find out just how good under the gallery. With its Bravia Mobile Engine, the 3-inch, 432 × 240 pixel TV supports 1seg broadcasts and has a 500:1 contrast…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Pollution is Mutating Your Sperm at an Alarming Rate

Analysts Say Ring the Bell, Verizon Set to Win 700MHz Auction

Corgi H2GO RC Car Turns and Runs on Water

How To Fix a Mysteriously Ruptured Undersea Cable

Wearing and Drinking Fluorescent Protein

Navisurfer II Car PC, Surprisingly Affordable

Mars Busts Out In 3-D

Cate Blanchett Wants An Indiana Jones-Kebab

Angelina Jolie Can’t Turn On a Computer

Keynetik: a Motion Interface for One-Handed Play on Your Portable

Giant HTC is Just a Joke, Just Like We Thought

Iron Man Uses Dell Servers, Tony Stark Drinks Too Much Bourbon

Intempo BTA-01 Adapter Makes Your iPod Speakers Bluetooth-able

Is This the Ultimate Outdoor Home Theater? Answer: Yes

Early Morning Intern Needed

Garmin nuvifone Scenario Video Shows Fabulousness of Phone, Creative Fatigue of Nuvi Marketing Team

JB7 Digital Jukebox Lets You Rip Your Tunes Without a PC

G-Cell Communication Glove Uses Bluetooth, Talk-To-The-Hand Technology

Hasbro Room Tech Clock Wirelessly Wakes the Lamps in Your Room

Sony Makes Tiny 3-Inch Bravia TV XDV-D500, Won’t Allow It to Travel Outside Japan

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