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Fennec Alpha Released For Android And Nokia N900

An early, pre-alpha version of Mozilla’s Fennec mobile browser has been around for months, but the Firefox developer has today released an official full alpha for download. And it’s not just Android that’s benefitting—the mobile browser has also been released for Nokia’s N900 smartphone. https://gizmodo.com/download-firefox-fennec-for-android-5525975 You’ll need an Android OS tagged 2.x for it to…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

What Spaced-Out Burning Man Revelers All Need: an iPhone App

While I’ve never done the dropped-acid-and-burnt-wicker-men-alive thing (at least, not at Burning Man festival), from my understanding the event is meant to be somewhat of an escape from the humdrum of daily life. Meaning, you leave the iPhone at home. That hasn’t stopped a Burning Man iPhone (and iPad!) app from hitting the store in…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Zombiepocalypse skills: How to siphon gas

Gas pumps don’t work when the people who run electric power grids have been consumed by the living dead. Learn the principles behind siphons and how to siphon gas out of abandoned cars by the side of the road. Siphoning is one of the neater physics visuals that one can create with simple supplies. All…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Summermodo: See What You Can See In the Sea

This Sanyo VPC-CA102YL waterproof HD camcorder is head and shoulders (or head and snorkel) above the rest. With a full HD Xacti, 12x double-range zoom and 2.7-inch LCD screen, it’s safe to use in up to 10 feet of water! Summermodo 2010 is packed with tons more underwater gadgetry. Summermodo is a constantly-updated feed of…

Tech News Gawkercreative

New Tron: Legacy footage makes Flynn Jr. look a bit more bad-ass

Some new Tron: Legacy footage shows the younger Flynn zooming around in the real world on his bad-boy motorcycle. Who knew all those lessons in hard leather jacket-wearing would come in handy in Tron City? The video is from the Nokia Connection 2010 convention in Singapore. A lot of the digitized scenes we’ve seen already…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Why Failure Is an Option When It Comes to Inventing

Nathan Myhrvold explains why failure is an option at Intellectual Ventures—and it has to be for any inventor, really. [Eureka on Gizmodo] Eureka is our week-long meditation on the wonders of invention, inventors and genius. Videos by Mike Short.

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Every Asteroid Discovered In the Last 30 Years

Asteroids! No not the video game—I’m talking about all those old rocks floating around up in space. Here’s a mesmerizing video that tracks every single one of them that’s visited our solar system since 1980. Space: busy place! The video’s description notes: As the video moves into the mid 1990’s we see much higher discovery…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

H.264 Will Be Royalty Free For Internet Video Forever, Kinda, Mozilla Still Doesn’t Care

MPEG LA, the group that licenses the h.264 video codec, has extended its royalty-free use (for free internet video) from 2016 until, well, forever. Update: Kinda. But Mozilla thinks the better part of forever could belong to Google’s WebM format. https://gizmodo.com/h-264-will-stay-royalty-free-for-free-internet-video-th-5463728 The announcement serves as MPEG LA’s not-so-indirect response to Google’s announcement of their own…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

A former James Bond will be a major player on Chuck, plus our first look at Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page’s superhero team

An X-Men producer explains what they’re learning from the other Marvel franchise. There’s another crazy Batman 3 rumor. See Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page fight crime in Super. Plus everything you want to know about Syfy’s superhero comedy Three Inches. X-Men – First Class: Producer Lauren Shuler Donner explained that parts of the X-Men Origins:…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Put Your Feet Up on Vintage Circuit Board Furniture

Theo Kamecke sees beauty in the common circuit board, and thinks they deserve a place in homes and galleries. He’s created a series of dazzling boxes and chests made from salvaged circuitry—though they may not be for everyone. “Either you get it or you don’t, either you like it or you don’t,” Kamecke explains. The…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Apple Wants to Remake the Audio Jack

Simply put, Apple wants fewer holes in its devices. Headphone jack—that’s a hole. Microphone—that’s a hole. According to a recent patent filing, Apple is looking to consolidate by combining the functionality of the two into one unified jack. The patent argues that “in addition to using housing real estate, sound input apertures and electrical connectors…

Tech News Sam Biddle

September 29th Penciled In For HTC Vision/Vanguard Release Date?

With any luck T-Mobile customers still clutching an antiquated G1 won’t have to wait too long between the announcement and release of the HTC Vision/Vanguard/G2, with leaked T-Mobile documents showing a September 29th release date. https://gizmodo.com/new-htc-phone-htc-vision-to-be-unveiled-september-15-5611978 That’s only 14 days after the launch event, where HTC is expected to unveil whatever phone is behind the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Apple Ditches Design Company SurfaceInk for Copying Them With the Tablet Thing

It appears SurfaceInk got too close for comfort when it showed off a prototype tablet in June, because now Apple has parted ways with the design company after working with them for 10 years Despite SurfaceInk having designed products for Palm and HP, it seemingly wasn’t until they showed off their own tablet that Apple…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Inconvenient Truth Of Wind Turbine Radar Blackout Zones

The supposedly world-saving wind turbine has been singled out as a potential danger by the military, as the rise of wind farms threatens national security—by creating radar “blackout zones”. Spinning turbines are “indistinguishable” from airplanes on radar systems, according to the NYT, which is reporting a growing rift between those who want renewable energy sources…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

Porn Video Sneaks Into Nokia N8 Chinese Announcement Broadcast—UPDATED

Make this a lesson in how to drum up some much-needed interest in a should-be-obsolete phone: ensure your Chinese live-stream announcement gets hacked with a snippet of porn. Works a charm! UPDATED https://gizmodo.com/nokia-ditching-symbian-for-n-series-phones-5571633 On Wednesday, China introduced China to the N8 with a live-streaming video on several Chinese websites. So far, par the course. However,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Annual Return From the Dead of the Commodore Brand

The Commodore name still just about lives on, even though the original owners have long since left the factory. The latest product to carry the once-great computing name is the PC64—an all-in-one Atom PC in a C64 case. https://gizmodo.com/commodore-tries-its-hand-at-an-eee-keyboard-like-device-5552322 Inside the authentically beige case is (or hopefully will be) a standard collection of PC parts,…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

Rumor: Blockbuster Filing for Bankruptcy Next Month

The much-documented decline of Blockbuster is drawing to a halt earlier than expected, with key people involved in the movie business touting a bankruptcy notice for the big blue just next month. Supposedly meetings were held last week with six of the big movie studios, with Blockbuster alerting them to their soon-to-be bankruptcy move due…

Movies Kat Hannaford

Flexible 19-Inch E-Paper Will be Mass-Produced by LG

Samsung may’ve ditched the e-paper production business, but South Korean neighbor LG has throw its weight behind producing that 19-inch flexible e-paper we heard about a few months back. A 9.7-inch color e-paper screen is also in the works. LG’s going to be “mass producing” the two screens, according to an SEC filing dug up…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Even a Non-Gamer Would Struggle to Resist the Mag Gun Controller

Even as someone not very prone to gaming, I’m attracted to the idea of the Mag Gun controller. It works with multiple consoles, has logical controls, and looks like it’d make a first-person shooter the highlight of an afternoon. There aren’t too many details about how the Mag Gun works, but CrunchGear’s Devin Coldewey has…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

This Stove-Top Concept Lets You Cook 15 Things Instead of 4

“The William” stove-top concept isn’t bossy like most stove-tops. It doesn’t stipulate what size your pots and pans should be, or where and how many you can use. This is my dream stove. Check out the video and be amazed.

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Fennec Alpha Released For Android And Nokia N900

What Spaced-Out Burning Man Revelers All Need: an iPhone App

Zombiepocalypse skills: How to siphon gas

Summermodo: See What You Can See In the Sea

New Tron: Legacy footage makes Flynn Jr. look a bit more bad-ass

Why Failure Is an Option When It Comes to Inventing

Every Asteroid Discovered In the Last 30 Years

H.264 Will Be Royalty Free For Internet Video Forever, Kinda, Mozilla Still Doesn’t Care

A former James Bond will be a major player on Chuck, plus our first look at Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page’s superhero team

Put Your Feet Up on Vintage Circuit Board Furniture

Apple Wants to Remake the Audio Jack

September 29th Penciled In For HTC Vision/Vanguard Release Date?

Apple Ditches Design Company SurfaceInk for Copying Them With the Tablet Thing

The Inconvenient Truth Of Wind Turbine Radar Blackout Zones

Porn Video Sneaks Into Nokia N8 Chinese Announcement Broadcast—UPDATED

The Annual Return From the Dead of the Commodore Brand

Rumor: Blockbuster Filing for Bankruptcy Next Month

Flexible 19-Inch E-Paper Will be Mass-Produced by LG

Even a Non-Gamer Would Struggle to Resist the Mag Gun Controller

This Stove-Top Concept Lets You Cook 15 Things Instead of 4

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