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Elite Portable Floor-Rising Screen is Pure Magic

Good lord, look at this Elite Portable Floor-Rising Screen that’s motorized. Carry it around with you, make it rise with its magic motors, and impress all those superficial suits on your next presentation road trip. Or, keep it right at home, take off that easily-removed handle, and it looks like it’s a permanent installation. Available…

Tech News Charlie White

The CES 50-Babe Battle: Booth Babes vs. Regular Babes

Click to viewI am not a fan of Booth Babes. That’s not to say that I’m not a fan of the female form, but I find being tricked into liking some mediocre gadget because a girl in a bikini top is standing next to it pretty insulting. I do like pretty girls who have more…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Holy Crap: Did Bill Gates Just Say Windows Sucks?

Click to viewWe asked a simple question: what Microsoft product could have used a little more polish before release? The answer astounded us. We would just like to thank Bill Gates for his honesty and his openness. Gizmodo’s Bill Gates CES 2008 Interview: Part 1 – On the difference between Microsoft and Apple Part 2…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Blu-ray-to-PSP Movie Transfers: How It’s Gonna Work

When we heard about Blu-ray-to-PSP movie transfers getting all official we got pretty excited, even though the announcement was a little skimpy on the details: How big are the files? How long will it take to download a movie? How odious is the DRM? Most importantly, when? Well, we’ve got ’em all right here. https://gizmodo.com/sony-blu-ray-to-psp-movie-transfer-gets-official-341938…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Justify Your Gadget: Car Bumper TV

RCA was nice enough to sit down with us and justify one of our favorite pointless car modifications of all time: an LCD screen on the lower trim/bumper of a car. I mean, seriously? Shooting/Editing by Eric Sheline. https://gizmodo.com/whats-the-worst-place-in-a-car-to-put-an-lcd-we-report-341939

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Hands-On Proposal Part II: The Ring Mouse

Things didn’t go so well yesterday, but today is a new day! And while perusing the International Pavilion, I came across the Ring Mouse. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-proposal-euricase-multimedia-ring-box-342480 Impressions: Even on one knee, the Ring Mouse is both surprisingly comfortable and convenient (it’s more than a novelty, for sure). The trackball is extremely sensitive, but we’d love to…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Eyes On the Mitsubishi HC4900U, Cheapest 1080p Projector in the World

How much 1080p projector can you get for $1995? We took a close look at the Mitsubishi HC4900U, selling for $2495 with a $500 rebate until the end of this month (but company reps whisper that might go on indefinitely), and are happy to report that you get your money’s worth with the lowest-priced 1080p…

Tech News Charlie White

Attempted Wanton Destruction of a Panasonic Plasma Screen

Back in Panasonic’s secret demo room at CES 2008, they’re showing off a stress test where they slam a metal ball into a plasma with one joule of energy, and see if the screen will smash up. (Guess what? They’ve also run the test on LCDs.) Videography by Curtis Walker

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Just Like Invisible Wii: Reactrix WAVEscape

In Samsung’s booth there’s a 57″ display with a Star Trek-like visor above it. The visor, called WAVEscape by Reactrix, contains a camera that can track your motion and distinguish it from the person next to you and all of the other people in the room, allowing you to use natural motions to interact with…

Gadgets Wilson Rothman

Rumor Smashed: Microsoft Is NOT Considering Blu-ray Support

With the HD DVD ship sinking fast in the fickle minds of press and public, the assumption is that everyone left on board is lining up to jump. Reuters had a story that played like Microsoft—one of HD DVD’s biggest backers—is on the verge of doing so, based on a quote from Albert Pennello, marketing…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Bionic Woman Fans Take What They Can Get, Even Mistakes

The incredibly optimistic Bionic Woman forum on the official NBC website celebrates the fact that the show still hasn’t been cancelled – it was officially announced as not cancelled in December, in an unusual PR move – with the only new footage they’ll see of Michelle Ryan anytime soon: fan-shot bloopers. The fan goodwill goes…

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A Transluscent Addition to the Hong Kong Skyline

Hong Kong Polytechnic University needed a major image boost. So administrators hired hot shot London-based architect Zaha Hadid to create a brand new building, the Innovation Tower, which will house its design school. Starting in 2011, students will disappear into the spaceship-like main lobby via escalator and continue up to four stories of translucent workspaces…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

O Beloved Local Scifi Bookstore

Every town has one. It’s the local scifi or comic book store that’s much more than a place to buy books. It’s a meeting spot, a salon, and a cruising joint for people who want to hang out and talk scifi with other bookish types. The store proprietors should be legendary — Crabby Heinlein Guy…

io9 Annalee Newitz

“Just Imagine” Pictures Life and Love 50 Years From Today (1930)

The September 14, 1930 Syracuse Herald (Syracuse, NY) ran a piece about the people of 1980 who may stumble upon the 1930 film Just Imagine. At the time this article was published the film had not yet been released. The entire article appears below. Hollywood, Sept. 13. – New Yorkers of 50 years hence may…

Tech News Matt Novak

Torchwood Snogging, Synopses, And More

Season two of Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood will start airing in about two weeks here in the States, and we’ve got a few new details about the show. Watch Captain Jack and Captain John (James Marsters) snog and beat each other up in our two exclusive clips, then read quotes from Marsters and synopses of…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Tiptree Award Needs Your Help!

The James Tiptree Award has hit a bit of a snag. The award, which recognizes science fiction stories and books which “explore and expand gender,” hasn’t gotten as many books as usual from publishers this year. So the jury hasn’t been able to read as many possibilities as usual. (Disclaimer: io9’s Charlie Jane is on…

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Concept Samsung 82-Inch LCD World’s Largest Ultra High-Definition

Samsung has just popped out a ridiculously large 82″ LCD TV, boasting ultra high-definition resolution of 3840 x 2160. That is a four-times increase on conventional LCD standards, and word on the street is Japan has already begun testing video broadcast in ultra high-definition. We are sure that’ll eat bandwidth faster than the cookie monster…

Gadgets Haroon Malik

Father of Plasma Saves Middle Earth, Predicts Plasma-Screen Laptops

We bumped into Larry Weber, the shaggy professor mainly responsible for the invention of the plasma TV in the 1960s. He’s got a lot to say about his latest project, mostly too technical for our hurting little brains. Here’s the skinny: He wants to improve notoriously inefficient plasma energy use to a point that it…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Exploding Space Gas Gets A Makeover

The discs of hot gas around binary stars and black holes are much, much bigger than scientists had previously thought. This new illustration shows the disc around a super-dense white dwarf star. The disc sends off asteroid-sized eruptions of space dust, which are drawn towards the dwarf star’s bigger companion star. It’s a far cry…

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To Test Waterproof Cameras, Sometimes You Need to Bring Your Own Water

The guy from yesterday’s CES rap is back, this time testing waterproof cameras… in a fishtank… on the CES show floor. Good news: they really are waterproof! If all CES coverage was this awesome, maybe I wouldn’t hate CES so much. [Digitalcamerainfo.com]

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Elite Portable Floor-Rising Screen is Pure Magic

The CES 50-Babe Battle: Booth Babes vs. Regular Babes

Holy Crap: Did Bill Gates Just Say Windows Sucks?

Blu-ray-to-PSP Movie Transfers: How It’s Gonna Work

Justify Your Gadget: Car Bumper TV

Hands-On Proposal Part II: The Ring Mouse

Eyes On the Mitsubishi HC4900U, Cheapest 1080p Projector in the World

Attempted Wanton Destruction of a Panasonic Plasma Screen

Just Like Invisible Wii: Reactrix WAVEscape

Rumor Smashed: Microsoft Is NOT Considering Blu-ray Support

Bionic Woman Fans Take What They Can Get, Even Mistakes

A Transluscent Addition to the Hong Kong Skyline

O Beloved Local Scifi Bookstore

“Just Imagine” Pictures Life and Love 50 Years From Today (1930)

Torchwood Snogging, Synopses, And More

Tiptree Award Needs Your Help!

Concept Samsung 82-Inch LCD World’s Largest Ultra High-Definition

Father of Plasma Saves Middle Earth, Predicts Plasma-Screen Laptops

Exploding Space Gas Gets A Makeover

To Test Waterproof Cameras, Sometimes You Need to Bring Your Own Water

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