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Camcorder of the Future Shoots 360-Degrees of High Definition

This is kind of an astounding pixel catching setup, pulling in 360-degrees of 1080i video within a vertical plane of 50 degrees. BTW, 1080i is not that impressive, and maybe even necessary when doing a wrap-around picture. In the not-close future, expect a Gizmodo post on a version that does 4k pixel count in a…

I Spy With My Bionic Eye

Which of Jaime Sommers’s bionic body parts are available to today’s consumers? The December 2007 of Laptop magazine compares and contrasts. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty.

Nikon Steadies Up 18-55mm Kit Lens With Image Stabilization

Feature trickle—the movement of bells and whistles from high-end to low-end gear—is great. As Crave points out, image stabilization is one that’s been falling down the line pretty steadily, now landing in Nikon’s standard kit 18-55mm lens. The new, tricked out AF-S DX Nikkor 18-55mm f3.5-5.6G VR lens— VR standing for vibration reduction—is only $200,…

Four Theories About Creatures from High-Gravity Worlds

Don’t support crappy science fiction where every planet has the same gravity as Earth. Astronomers say the planets most likely to support life are ten times the size of Earth. When we finally meet aliens, they’ll envy the spring in our step. Movies and other media are squandering the awesome story potential of creatures from…

Target Selling Pre-Owned iPods, TVs and Game Consoles for Sorta Cheaper

After realizing lots of customers bring back perfectly good electronics, Target’s deciding to resell the unloved-but-working wares at (slightly) discounted rates online. Up for sale in the pre-owned aisle are TVs, iPods and game consoles that have been checked and refurbed by a third party. Only problem is that so far it looks like Black…

Zune 80 Inventory Tracker

Zune 80 has been out of stock, for lack of supply or over-demand. If you’re interested in the big lug, nestled snuggly between the iPod Touch and the classic in capacity and screen size, Nowinstock.com will email you when they show up on shelves. [Now In Stock] https://gizmodo.com/zune-80-nowhere-to-be-found-322842

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Asus Eee Amazon’s Best-Selling Computer

The Asus Eee is both Amazon’s best-selling notebook and No. 1 in computers and hardware overall. But it’s also temporarily out of stock. [Amazon via EeeUser]

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

This week at TreeHugger: One answer to the question “What can Brown do for you?” is this: deliver your small packages in 100% electric cars in California. Intel’s Penryn chip is sleek, small, and now, green (kinda). Is that good enough to make Penryn now the greenest computer chip in the world? Epson proudly announced…

Air Hockey for iPhone Sadly Doesn’t Use Air

Today’s iApp-a-Day brought iPhone users a surprisingly fun game, Air Hockey. This 2-player game takes advantage of the multi-touch display by having the player’s finger control their air hockey mallet. The game can be a bit buggy at times, especially when your mallet goes out of control and hits the puck into a million different…

Best Buy Black Friday Bonus Doorbusters: Toshiba Laptop for $229

Just as we suspected, Best Buy has been holding out on us with the Black Friday dealios. Top of the list of these Bonus Doorbuster deals is a notebook, a Toshiba A135-7404 for $229 that will also include a Canon all-in-one printer. While all 20 at each Best Buy store are sure to sell out…

Leaks From Starbuck’s Mouth For Season Four

Katee “Starbuck” Sackhoff was in Burbank for a Battlestar Galactica convention over the weekend, and her tongue was loose enough to let slip a few rumors and spoilers during some Q&A sessions. Find out if Starbuck is a Cylon, and why we’ll be seeing Colonel Tigh’s wife again in Season Four. According to http://roadrunnerdm.livejournal.com/84288.html”>Ro…: Starbuck…

Soldier Uses Wii to Catch Wife Doing Up, Down, Left, Right, A-B-A-B With Another Man

Tony, a soldier returning from Iraq after a year of active duty, found out that his wife couldn’t wait for some lovin’ while he was gone by checking his Wii. When he confronted her with his friends’ accusations, she claimed that she only kissed another man once. However, after checking his Mii channel for war…

Comparing Amazon Kindle to E-Book Readers of Yesterday and Tomorrow

Click to viewSo Amazon unveiled its Kindle yesterday. The fancy eBook with “free” EV-DO got a lot of attention and has a lot of people talking about whether or not digital books have a chance of taking on the paper kind. But the Kindle is far from the only eBook out there, naturally, and it’s…

Watchmen Comic-Within-A-Comic Becomes Its Own Movie

The movie version of Alan Moore’s classic dysfunctional superhero comic book Watchmen continues to move forward, although one key element might be coming to your DVD player before the film comes out. In the 12-issue series, occasional panels are devoted to a young boy sitting next to a newstand, reading a comic book about pirates…

Time Travel Soap Journeyman Is the Best SF Show On TV

The past is a freaky monster zoo on Journeyman. Last week, we went to a swinger “key party” and hung out with psycho hippies in the 1970s. This week, it’s a disturbing rave in the 1990s, where Dan meets his fellow time-traveler Livia — only to find she hasn’t met him yet and is being…

TV on Your PC: Hulu, Joost and Miro Reviewed

The Writers Guild strike already stripped us of our Daily Show and Colbert Report, and now it may take away Heroes and House as well. Looking to escape Reality TV hell? We’ve painstakingly reviewed three free (and mostly legal) video services—Joost, Miro and Hulu—for your faux-TV enjoyment during these dark times. https://gizmodo.com/the-wga-strike-and-the-death-of-television-322068 The Contenders: Hulu:…

Instructables: Copy a Key Using a Coke Can

Instructables has a neat if dangerous tutorial on how to quickly make a key copy by tracing the metal from a Coke can. It’s pretty obvious, and with that seed planted in your mind, there’s probably no need to read the instructions. Let me go one step further and remind you that you can copy…

Home Genome Kits Create Online Eugenics Networks

Everybody is buzzing about 23andme, one of many startups aiming to hit the consumer market with “read your own genome at home” kits. Most of these companies want to cross the happy-personalization language of the iPod with barely-there biotech to bring in millions of customers. People are desperate to understand themselves and looking to their…

Rumor: Apple Planning a 3G iPhone for May Release

The Register is reporting that according to a manager at Spain’s Telefonica cell carrier, Apple has plans to drop a sexy 3G iPhone on the world in May. Translated from the Spanish, the exact quote from the manager is: “OMG OMG iPhone OMG 3G OMG Apple May Rumors OMG!!!” OK, not really. Here’s the real…