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Considering a Home Theater Projector? 10 Points to Ponder

What makes home theater projectors so sexy, so compelling and so different from a regular old TV set with its LCD or plasma screen? We’re going to break it down for you, and let you know why it just might be worth it to consider putting together a dedicated home theater room—a temple devoted to…

Spy Satellite Diagnoses Cancer

Satellites will soon capture ultrasound images of unborn children in rural Nunavut and beam them all the way to Ontario. It’s just part of a new pilot program which uses technology developed for diagnosing astronauts from Earth. Already, doctors in Calgary can look at real-time ultrasounds of patients in Banff and figure out what ails…

Video of Astronauts Goofing Around in Space Makes Blogging Seem Really Boring

There’s a good reason that being an astronaut is one of the top jobs that little kids say they want to be when they grow up: it looks so, so fun. Just check out this video of astronauts goofin’ around in space and tell me it doesn’t make you wish you were a genius scientist/pilot…

The Master Of Robot Slave Women Is Dead

The father of fembot slaves is dead. Ira Levin’s novel The Stepford Wives touched on the gender anxieties of a generation — the men who felt their wives were reneging on their traditional domestic role, and the women who feared their husbands wanted them to be machines. But the most shocking thing about The Stepford…

Mossberg on Zune 2: ‘Still No iPod’

Walt Mossberg, the Wall Street Journal’s tech gnome, got a chance to play with Microsoft’s new line of Zunes, and he was pretty ambivalent about them. While he thinks they’re a noticeable improvement over the first generation, that’s not really saying much seeing how unimpressed he was with those. And he hates the Pink. But…

Teen Steals Over $5K in Virtual Furniture, Gets Busted By Very Real Cops

Police arrested a Dutch 17-year old and questioned five other 15-year-olds for the alleged theft of over $5,000 worth of furniture from Habbo Hotel, a virtual hangout with more than 6 million visitors from 30 countries. “The six teenagers are suspected of moving the stolen furniture into their own Habbo rooms,” says the BBC story.…

Steampunk-ify Your iPod With Gelaskins

We usually just skip over skins and cases for iPods, but this one by Colin Thompson for Gelaskins is different. Look at the depth and realism achieved by this pair of stickers that you place on almost any iPod including the latest touch. It’s $14.95, but the steampunkatude points you’ll score after adorning your said…

Tomorrow’s Diamonds Are Fake, Expensive And Car-Sized

A fake diamond sold for $10.5 million yesterday at Christies in New York. Artist Jeff Koons says Diamond (Blue) is all about sex — both sexiness and the “spirituality” of reproduction. But really, the jacuzzi-sized rock is all about our love for industrial art. Says Artnowonline: The highly polished chromium surface of this steel object…

The gorgeous 3G Nokia N82 with 5MP camera and GPS that we showed you last night found itself a price tag: available first overseas, it will cost 450 euros (about $650). [Reuters] https://gizmodo.com/official-nokia-n82-product-photos-leaked-322392

3D Is Yesterday’s Tech All Tarted Up With Nowhere to Go

Anglo Saxon epic Beowulf hits theaters Friday in a haze of speculation. Can cutting-edge motion-capture CGI animation, combined with 3D, turn a 1000-year-old alliterative poem about a monster-slaying warrior into the awesome? The answer is no. Studios rolling out 3D stuff for 2009 like James Cameron’s Avatar, and the animated Monsters vs. Aliens are hoping…

Monster Cable Founder Noel Lee Explains How He Got Started

In this exclusive GizVid, take a look at Monster Cable founder Noel Lee as he tells us the story of his beginnings. He studied finance and engineering, learned how electricity flows through wires, and then founded Monster, his company that sells expensive cables to unsuspecting consumers. He must have taken quite a few classes in…

Hummer with Roof-Mounted Laser Canon is Pure Intimidation

If you really want to intimidate people and blow some stuff up real good, you can’t go wrong with a Hummer that happens to have a gigantic laser cannon mounted on top of it. The Laser Avenger, which we first reported on back in October, is designed to take out roadside bombs from afar, and…

Southland Tales Devolves Into Artistic Apocalypse

Southland Tales was eagerly anticpated by fans who loved director Richard Kelly’s cult hit Donnie Darko, but. But the weird movie that blended musical comedy with post-apocalyptic LA is getting raked across the coals by reviewers. Kelly was able to sign up talent like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott and…

Vestalife Ladybug iPod/iPhone Dock Makes Entomologists Drool (Video)

At first glance, the Vestalife Ladybug iPod dock didn’t look much like an insect at all, but when its “wings” flapped open we totally got it. The Ladybug is an attractive system compatible with the iPhone as well as older iPod models. It operates on batteries or AC, but only charges your iPod when it’s…

Who Says Oil Has No Future?

In the vast, untapped oil sands of Alberta, Canada, Syncrude’s upgrader looks like an industrial Martian base as it sucks oil out of the shale. There’s are no spouts of black gold here — just bitumen, a viscous substance that has to be heated or diluted before it becomes liquid. The upgrader sits in an…

Bionic Woman Doesn’t Know How to Use An iPhone

Given the central role technology plays on the show, you’d think the Bionic Woman’s prop master would pay special attention to detail when it comes to gadgetry handled by its characters. Alas, eagle-eyed iPhone owners noticed last week’s bad guy using the sleek new toy upside down. No wonder Sarah Corvus’s circuitry is falling apart.…

Heroes Season Two Sucks So Bad, They Want You To Fix It

NBC’s superpowered phenom show Heroes has been so bad this season that series creator Tim Kring talked to Entertainment Weekly from the WGA strike (where he was picketing his own show!) to apologize for the mess they’ve made. He cited poor character introductions (the oily black-eyed Wonder Twins), a romance that isn’t working (Claire and…

LG’s Zenith DTT900 Converter Competes with RCA for Grandma’s $40 Coupon

Last night we showed you the finished look of the RCA DTA800, one of the “digital switchover” converter boxes your stubborn granny can buy early next year with her $40 coupon from the government, in lieu of getting a new goddamn TV. The CES folks have praised the other box too, a Zenith-branded DTT900 digital-to-analog…

Taipei 101 Elevator, Fastest in the World

We thought that elevator zipping us to the 103rd floor of the Sears Tower was fast, but this one in the Taipei 101 building has been named the world’s fastest by the Guinness Book of World Records. This one moves so quickly, it needs to be aerodynamically designed, roaring from the fifth floor to the…

Hot Alien Boys Do Backflips For The Future Of Humanity

An alien living among humans realizes he was sent to destroy us. But instead he decides to protect the human race from the alien attacks that are on their way. That’s the premise of Dragonball Z, the mega-popular anime series which will spawn a live-action movie next summer. Will the film be a searing look…