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MacBook Air Tear Down: Sexy On the Inside Too

Click to viewAh, shit. The Air technically belongs to Apple, so we’re not supposed to open it up. For the time being, we’re pulling the photos, but nothing is gonna stop us from running em later. We’ll repost when we get our own units. UPDATE: Now that Macbooks are shipping, we’ve posted the second set…

Tech News Christopher Mascari

Giant Tree-Powered Machine Supplies Energy, Air to Madrid

This industrial environmentalist building/machine in Madrid is packed with solar cells and trees, and will apparently generate enough energy to sell to local electric companies. Called an “Air Tree,” and created by Urban Ecosystems, the mega-device is supposed to have a significantly beneficial impact on the climate. Plus it just looks seriously badass, as you…

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A Chair That Walks For You: Supreme Laziness Doesn’t Come Cheap

Chairs that can walk are nothing new, but this is the first version that I have seen that you can actually buy. The mechanics in this eight-legged chair are sophisticated enough to move a “passenger” around the room, but there is no information available about how one would actually steer this thing, how fast it…

Tech News Sean Fallon

MacBook Air Review

The MacBook Air is driving me insane. I want it like no other hardware. It’s thin, yea, ok, we know this. And many power users have been bitching for more: 3G, bigger storage, more USB ports, and an internal drive. If you feel that way, this computer isn’t for you. I’ll go ahead and call…

Reviews Brian Lam

Violating Your Civil Rights Makes Torchwood Crew Horny

An alien infiltrator stabs a random guy in the chest seven times, in front of his wife and kids, then stabs him in the head so hard his blood spatters on the wife’s face, in last night’s Torchwood. It was easily the most brutal episode of the Doctor Who spin-off so far, notwithstanding last season’s…

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Rock Band Standalone Instruments Get Ship Dates, Price

The days of only being able to buy Rock Band instruments in a gigantic pack are about to come to an end as the creators just announced dates and pricing on their instruments. The drums will be $79 on February 12 and the guitar will be $59 on April 1. The PlayStation 3 version of…

Tech News Jason Chen

Move Over Godzilla, The Loch Ness Monster Terrorizes Tokyo

The upcoming movie “The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep” has prompted one hell of a publicity stunt in Tokyo Bay. The extremely cool effect illustrated above is achieved using a large water screen and some very well timed water fountains. In order to get the full effect, check out the video after the break.…

Tech News Sean Fallon

NASA Wants To Slice Your Brain With Nanoknife

Carbon nano-tubes aren’t just gorgeous, they might also save your brain one day. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is teaming up with a cancer center, City Of Hope, to develop a new minimally invasive type of brain surgery using carbon nanotubes. Researchers hope that these sharp-tipped tubes, 50,000 times narrower than a human hair, can deliver…

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Earnings Report: Go Ahead, Call Microsoft “M$”

Apple wasn’t the only one balling this quarter on the back of new computer sales. Microsoft’s profits were up a huge 79 percent against last year to hit $6.48 billion (on record revenues of $16.37 billion), mostly thanks to people snapping up Vista-loaded computers (whether they want the OS or not). https://gizmodo.com/holy-crap-did-bill-gates-just-say-windows-sucks-342920 Almost unbelievably, Vista…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

First Synthetic Genome Ready to “Boot Up”

At last, a gang of gene nerds have engineered a genome from scratch. The group, who work at Craig Venter’s institute, call the bacterium they built “synthetic life,” because they modded (rather than duplicating) the materials that grew into strands of DNA. Once they had enough strands, researchers linked them together and got a fully-fledged…

io9 Annalee Newitz

First MacBook Air Benchmarks

Click to viewObviously, the Air is not about speed, and from the chips, we can tell its among the slowest macs you can buy right now. But we ran some real world benchmarks on the MacBook Air against an aging MacBook and MacBook Pro to see how it held up comparatively. Predictably, the MacBook Pro…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Question of the Day: Cable or DSL

A lot of you read us at work, which is fantastic, but we want to know what kind of pipe you use to read us at home. Are you on some kind of package deal with your cable provider, or are you sucking down bits through your telephone jack. We’re assuming that none of our…

Tech News Jason Chen

iPhone 1.1.3 Jailbreak is Here!

Click to viewThe iPhone 1.1.3 Jailbreak is here, courtesy of Nate True and the iPhone Dev team. It’s a Windows-only download right now, but Nate tells us that they’ve got a Mac version coming soon and it “should be quick”. Make sure you have more than 300MB free, otherwise Nate tells us that you might…

Tech News Jason Chen

New K.I.T.T. Is Solar-Powered and Goes Green

The old K.I.T.T. is apparently dead in the new Knight Rider television movie. He’ll be seen in glimpses by keen-eyed viewers, and referred to by the characters, but his motherboard is buried in the guts of the new K.I.T.T. That means he’s inside an entirely new body, which serves as a sort of morbid living,…

Television Kevin Kelly

Data Center Cabling Masterpieces

Having built many a PC in my day, I have a tremendous appreciation for cable organization done right. Generally, I think most data centers are organized halfway decently, but there are quite a few examples out there that are truly hideous. The gallery below should provide a little inspiration for anyone with a bag full…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Ramping Up for Wondercon

If you love science fiction and comic books, and you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, there’s nothing more pleasing than Wondercon. From February 22 to 24, San Francisco’s Moscone Center will be packed with cool artists, fat longboxes full of tasty comic treats, and panels about everything from the new season of Jericho to…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Toyota’s In-Car System Watches for Sleepy Eyes (What About Asians?!)

Toyota’s invention of sticking a camera in the dash of a car to monitor the eyelids for dozing off seems pretty smart, even if the concept isn’t entirely new. The system would look at your upper and lower eyelids and see whether it’s “properly open”, which Jalopnik guesses is about 60 to 100% of max.…

Tech News Jason Chen

Lost’s Greatest Hits: Five Fabulous Favorites

With one week to go until the season 4 premiere, here’s a short and subjective list of my five favorite moments from Lost. In retrospect, it’s heavy on the first two seasons. They’re in no particular order, except for the first: Desmond’s Day in the Hatch. These first few minutes of season 2, in my…

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A Third of iPhones are SIM Unlocked, Guesstimates Say

According to estimates based on carrier’s numbers, only 2/3 of iPhones are “legally” activated, which means 1/3 of all iPhones sold are SIM unlocked and being used sans carrier contract. Here’s how they arrived at this number. First, AT&T put out a press release saying that 2 million iPhones were subscribed on their service by…

Tech News Jason Chen

What Pressing Social Issues Do You Wish Scifi Would Tackle?

Now that an Omega Man remake has made it big, the time is ripe for some 1970s-style “message” science fiction. We need more ripped-from-the-headlines science fictional stories that deal with the issues we’re all freaking out about. But we need more than just parables about global warming and ebil corporations. Click through to vote for…

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MacBook Air Tear Down: Sexy On the Inside Too

Giant Tree-Powered Machine Supplies Energy, Air to Madrid

A Chair That Walks For You: Supreme Laziness Doesn’t Come Cheap

MacBook Air Review

Violating Your Civil Rights Makes Torchwood Crew Horny

Rock Band Standalone Instruments Get Ship Dates, Price

Move Over Godzilla, The Loch Ness Monster Terrorizes Tokyo

NASA Wants To Slice Your Brain With Nanoknife

Earnings Report: Go Ahead, Call Microsoft “M$”

First Synthetic Genome Ready to “Boot Up”

First MacBook Air Benchmarks

Question of the Day: Cable or DSL

iPhone 1.1.3 Jailbreak is Here!

New K.I.T.T. Is Solar-Powered and Goes Green

Data Center Cabling Masterpieces

Ramping Up for Wondercon

Toyota’s In-Car System Watches for Sleepy Eyes (What About Asians?!)

Lost’s Greatest Hits: Five Fabulous Favorites

A Third of iPhones are SIM Unlocked, Guesstimates Say

What Pressing Social Issues Do You Wish Scifi Would Tackle?

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