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The Sprint CEO troubles have come to a head as CEO, Chairman and President Gary Forsee resigns. Too bad he didn’t forsee some better business decisions. [PC World] https://gizmodo.com/apparently-things-arent-so-dandy-over-in-sprint-nextel-307694

640GB Flash Hard Drive For a Paltry $19,000

Sure, it costs $30 a GB, but Fusion-io’s new ioDrive flash card promises ridiculous 800MB/sec (Read) and 600MB/sec (Write) sustained data transfer rates. That would mean performance on par with DRAM, which would be about a thousand times faster than any existing disk drive. Basically, it’s like packing an enterprise SAN into a PCI express…

Canadian Gang Members Love Blackberries, Maple Syrup, Hockey

Blackberries aren’t just the communications tool of choice for dudes that wear suits to work, but apparently are also the favorite device of Canadian gang-bangers. Yeah, I’m as surprised as you are that there are gangs in Canada, but doesn’t it make sense that Canadian gangs would be tech-savvy and polite enough to communicate via…

CastGrabber Snags Podcasts Without a PC

If you have an iPod or any portable media player that uses the media transfer protocol, or MTP), you might be interested in the CastGrabber, a charger that can download podcasts and place them directly on the player without using a PC. It even works with iTunes. As long as there’s a network into which…

Punch the !ighting Turns Frustration Into Illumination

Here’s a design concept by Jin-Sook Kim lets you take out your frustrations while attempting to illuminate your environment. That’s because this Punch the !ighting device makes you beat the shit out of it before it’ll give up even the slightest bit of light. It must be a satisfying feeling, though, to see an actual positive…

Lindsay Wagner, I Miss You!

If the new Bionic Woman is making you long for the old one—I sure am—I have some bad news: neither the original show or its counterpart, The Six Million Dollar Man, will be released on DVD in the U.S. anytime soon. It’s a matter of licensing, according to David Lambert at TVGuide.com. Apparently the only…

Nike+ Sport Kit Coming to iPhone

According to Erica at TUAW, the 1.1.1 iPhone Firmware has references to com.apple.mobile.nike, which leads us to assume that the iPhone and Nike+ Sport Kit is going to work together soon. https://gizmodo.com/hackers-break-into-the-latest-iphone-firmware-again-308235 In fact, this Nike reference was found in LingoToAccessoryMap.plist, so according to Erica, it’s “definitely going to be a supported accessory”. Looks like…

Hitachi CP-A100 Projector Tosses Up a Big Image from Really Close

If you find yourself giving presentations in closet-sized rooms, this Hitachi CP-A100 short-throw projector might be just the one you’re looking for. We’ve seen short-throw projectors before, but none have been capable of tossing a 60-inch image on a wall when you’re only 1.4 feet away. Its image is probably not too bad-looking, either, because…

Optimus Maximus Keyboard Passes FCC Level Without Cheat Codes

In case any of you still thought the Optimus Maximus was all a big alien autopsy-esque hoax, the fact that the preliminary version of the keyboard just passed FCC testing should be enough to put your doubts on hold. The current status, non FCC-wise, has their OLEDs approved for mass production back in September and…

Colorware Paints iMac, iPod touch, iPod nano, and iPod classic

Continuing their trend of painting up gadgets you love, Colorware has extended their painting expertise to the iPod touch/nano/cassic as well as the iMac, ensuring your drapes always match the carpet. And if you want to see close-up shots to illustrate why their work warrants a somewhat premium price and is better than a crappy…

Star Trek and MLB Urns Will Make You a Superfan in this Life and the Next

Would you like to be remembered as a pathetic geek who based his entire life around a piece of pop-culture sci-fi entertainment that you didn’t even have a hand in creating, filling a unique role of someone who’s completely passive yet also obsessive compulsive? Great! This Star Trek urn is for you. It’s shiny, futuristic-looking…

Seagate Momentus Laptop Hard Drives Have 256MB On-Board Flash

Seagate’s latest Momentus notebook hard drives feature 256MB of flash memory and come in sizes of 80, 120 and 160GB. The point of the on-board NAND flash? To speed up performance by caching frequently used data in the NAND instead of reaching onto the hard drive every time. By storing boot information in there, it…

Lockheed Martin One Shot Sniper System: One Shot, One Kill

Lockheed Martin’s scored a $2 million DARPA contract to develop the One Shot System, which will crunch data on and compensate for wind conditions so snipers can peg targets from further away, even during typhoon season. A prototype’s at least 9 months away, but Kotaku will be getting an eyeful of our own One Shot…

Make Mountain Dew Glow in the Dark Like a Lightning Bug

This video tries to make you think that all you have to do is mix a bit of Mountain Dew with a few innocent household chemicals, and you get yourself the equivalent of a lightning bug, or maybe even a neon light. Is this real? We can’t tell how bright this really is, but it’s…

Woman Coats iPhones in Gold For Your Pleasure

Remember this woman? The one that was going to coat your iPods and cellphones in gold? She’s taken it to the next step and is now offering to coat both an iPod and a cellphone in gold—that’s right, an iPhone. For an as-of-yet undecided price, you too can have the rims of your iPhone be…

For those seeking to be strong with the Dark Side of the Force on the go, the Darth Vader PSP drops tomorrow as part of the $199 Star Wars Battlefront Entertainment Pack. [Game Life] https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-the-darth-vader-star-wars-psp-278443

Skull MP3 Player is Classy, Scary

Halloween may only last for a day (not counting November 1 cleanup efforts), but with the MP4 Skull Buckle with Line In Control player, goths can experience their favorite day of the year all year long. Not only is this thing shaped like a skull, it’s got an FM tuner, MP3/WMA audio support, MTV/DMV/AMV video…

Nicole Kidman Killed Wonder Woman, Says Warner Bros.

Wonder Woman could be on hold forever — thanks to Jodie Foster and Hilary Swank. Actually, blame the sexist stumblebums at Warner Bros. The last three Warner movies with female leads bombed: Nicole Kidman’s The Invasion, Swank’s The Reaping, and Foster’s The Brave One. So Warner Bros. president of production Jeff Robinov says he won’t…

New Heroes Vixen Was A Slayer AND An X-Woman

The creepy-ass tarry-eyed mass-murderer girl from Heroes turns out to have a science-fiction pedigree. Dania Ramirez played Callisto in X-Men 3. AND she was a potential slayer who flirted with Xander in the final few episodes of Buffy. Ramirez says those roles helped prepare her for all the physical action involving Maya, who’s trying to…

Jammie Thomas Appealing RIAA Trial Judgment, Keeping Up Her MySpace Blog

Last week, a jury that we are not a fan of awarded the RIAA $222,000 for 24 songs shared via Kazaa. The first RIAA lawsuit brought to trial, it sets a pretty lousy precedent and it’s seen as a big ol’ victory for the freedom-haters that rep the major labels. Jammie Thomas, the woman who…