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HTC: Don’t Carry Your Nexus One In Your Pocket

This isn’t a Nexus One celebrating Gay Pride month—it’s CNET Crave UK’s broken Google phone. According to HTC’s technical support, “they don’t go in pockets,” lest the screen gets cracked. Only thing is, Crave UK swears up and down the Nexus One suffered the damages while charging on a desk—with no tampering by vicious iPhone…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 5 '10

Hexagon Watch From Tokyo Flash Isn’t For Busy Bees With Only Seconds To Spare

Tokyo Flash watches are outlandish enough as is—so you can imagine how badass their concept design would be. This Hexagonal watch isn’t real, but Tokyo Flash could make it so—with the method of telling the time surprisingly simple. For Tokyo Flash, at least. The colored LEDS represent hours (in blue), five minute increments (in purple)…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 5 '10

enTourage eDGe Dualbook Reviewed: Half eReader, Half Netbook Not Quite There Yet

The innovative, if slightly bonkers, enTourage eDGe has been reviewed by Laptop, and as I suspected they had a few issues with the design. They found the half ereader, half netbook too heavy, with the number of options overwhelming. https://gizmodo.com/entourage-edge-on-sale-next-month-comfortable-reading-5481031 Part of the lure to a dualbook like the eDGe is that it’s got so…

Reviews Kat Hannaford Mar 5 '10

HTC Incredible Photos Appear On Twitter, Showing…Not Much, Actually

Waking up to fresh photos of an unofficial phone is always welcome, but I do wish all these spyshots of the HTC Incredible would be accompanied with a bit of meat. Some bacon for my breakfast, you could say. https://gizmodo.com/htc-incredible-turns-up-on-verizon-wireless-system-imp-5479895 It’s already shown up in Verizon Wireless’ inventory system, and we’ve heard a few details…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 5 '10

Make Poker More Challenging By Playing With A Rock Band Drum Kit

Ever spiced up Internet poker by busting out a webcam and turning it into a strip game? Yeah? Well, have you ever done it while using a Rock Band drum kit to control the game? Here’s how. Poker Listings’ Sean Lind figured out a fairly simple way of turning your Rock Band drum kit into…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Mar 4 '10

Electro-hypersensitivity: The Gadget Allergy

A man hassled a neighbor over his Wi-Fi allergies, and we dismissed him as a member of the tin-foil hat brigade. Now we’re reading PopSci’s look at the Electro-hypersensitivity—the real deal gadget allergy—and we’re feeling sorta like assholes. https://gizmodo.com/man-sues-neighbor-becomes-homeless-over-wifi-allergie-5445632 The article opens with an anecdote of Per Segerbäck, a serious electro-hypersensitive who lives in a…

Health Kyle VanHemert Mar 4 '10

Please Don’t Let Laser-Based Instruments Catch On

Last night here in NYC, British pop singer Little Boots used a huge laser harp on stage. We’ve seen these things before and I just don’t get it. Let’s just stick with the normal instruments, shall we? [BrooklynVegan] https://gizmodo.com/laser-harp-officially-the-best-thing-weve-seen-all-mor-356955

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 4 '10

How To: Heroically Salvage a Scratched-Up iPhone

One drop. Five minutes in a pocket with your keys. Three months of regular use. This is all it takes for an iPhone’s backplate to go from a mirror-like shine to a scratched-to-hell eyesore. Here’s how to fix it. MacRumors forum member Shenaniganz08 salvaged an iPhone 3G from eBay, sanding, buffing and polishing it back…

Tech News John Herrman Mar 4 '10

Thodio A-Box Bulletproof Speakers Are Perfect For Your Bunker

Back in 2007, Thodio made the lovingly hand-crafted iBox speakers. But you know what? That was then. In today’s rough and tumble world, your iPod needs speakers wrought with freakin kevlar. Welcome, survivalists, to the Thodio A-Box. https://gizmodo.com/wood-hand-crafted-ibox-classes-up-your-ipod-329166 The innards are the same as the iBox, with your choice between two 25 watt amplifier or…

Tech News Brian Barrett Mar 4 '10

Genetically Engineered Terror Blooms In The Middle Of Summer

This summer’s movie slate just got a lot more interesting: Warner Bros. is releasing Vincenzo Natali’s Splice on June 4. We’ve been dying to see this gene-splicing horror for ages, since we saw the NSFW concept art. [BoxOfficeMojo via Collider] https://gizmodo.com/see-tony-starks-house-wolverines-new-claws-and-adrien-380772

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 4 '10

Jalalabad’s Fab Fi: How Junk Was Turned Into a High-Speed Wireless Network

Members of MIT’s Bits and Atoms lab visited Afghanistan some time ago. While there, they showed locals how to turn pieces of board, wire, a plastic tub and some cans into reflectors for a wireless network. The result? Fab Fi. The project resulted in 25 simultaneous live nodes being up in the city of Jalalabad…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Mar 4 '10

Antarctica’s Blood Falls Are An Extremophile’s Paradise

From a crack in the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica flows an iron-rich water the color of blood. Scientists believe it comes from a lake frozen beneath the glacier 2 million years ago. And it’s packed with microbes. First discovered in 1911, the so-called Blood Falls also contain extremophile microbes from the trapped lake, which have…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 4 '10

World War Z’s Max Brooks To Write “Dark” G.I. Joe Comic

After hitting it big with the undead, World War Z author Max Brooks is penning a miniseries about everyone’s favorite paramilitary action figures. And his comic promises to be a much grittier interpretation of the Joe mythos. From IDW Publishing: The award-winning Max Brooks crafts a G.I. JOE series for an America at war, starkly…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Mar 4 '10

The Loch Ness Monster Isn’t In Scotland, She’s Lighting Up My Living Room

Alright, so maybe Nessie isn’t lighting up my living room just yet, but you can bet that if this concept lamp design ever gets produced, she will. The big question though: Shall I put her on a wall or ceiling? Nessie the Lamp was designed by 2-B-2 Architecture and is everything I want in a…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Mar 4 '10

A New Way to Search for Alien Life

What would modern life be without lasers? They entertain our cats, shape our corneas, destroy our missiles, and distract from the terrible music at B-grade rock concerts. Now they could help us find aliens. The problem with looking for aliens, other than bothersome probes and anxiety about head size, is balancing the depth and breadth…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 4 '10

Mayor of Duluth, Minnesota Wants All Firstborns To Be Named ‘Google Fiber’

Hey, Topeka, Kansas! Duluth, Minnesota is calling you out for changing your name to Google in an attempt to get Google’s Gigabit fiber Internet. They’re announcing that all firstborn children shall be named Google Fiber. https://gizmodo.com/topeka-kansas-changes-name-in-attempt-to-get-googles-g-5483255 Ah, thank goodness for that lengthy disclaimer at the beginning of the video or I’d have thought they were…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Mar 4 '10

The Sony Timeline: Birth, Rise and Decadence

At the beginning there were Ibuka and Morita, the founders of Sony. At the end, a clusterfuckassery of blah models. And in the middle, a Big Bang of brilliant electronic gadgets, full of firsts and smallests. Here’s the whole timeline. https://gizmodo.com/sonys-engineer-brothers-5475940 It’s sad to see a company that used to create so many never-before-seen gadgets…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 4 '10

A Spoiler-Free Peek At Tomorrow Night’s Caprica

I just saw a rough cut of tomorrow night’s Caprica episode, “Know Thy Enemy,” and you aren’t going to want to miss it. Here’s why. 1. The STO is finally getting interesting The “Soldiers of the One” recruited Zoe and convinced her boyfriend to suicide-bomb a train with her in it. That crime set the…

Television Annalee Newitz Mar 4 '10

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Multi-Edition

In today’s Remainders: the many. A new multitouch test app shows that multiple fingers confuse the Nexus One; Windows 7 has sold multiple copies (roughly 90 million); Chrome and its numerous extensions are catching up to Firefox, and more MultiSlouch Nexus One users have been reporting some multitouch wonkery for a while now, and to…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert Mar 4 '10

5 Reasons Lost’s Parallel Universe Is A Waste Of Time

Dissatisfied with the final season of Lost so far? Finding yourself wondering “who is the baseball,” and not “what are the numbers” any more? We understand your pain — and we blame it all on the parallel universe. Spoilers ahead… If you’ve been unhappily struggling through Lost’s final season of parallel-universe craziness, apparently you’re not…

Television Meredith Woerner Mar 4 '10

HTC: Don’t Carry Your Nexus One In Your Pocket

Hexagon Watch From Tokyo Flash Isn’t For Busy Bees With Only Seconds To Spare

enTourage eDGe Dualbook Reviewed: Half eReader, Half Netbook Not Quite There Yet

HTC Incredible Photos Appear On Twitter, Showing…Not Much, Actually

Make Poker More Challenging By Playing With A Rock Band Drum Kit

Electro-hypersensitivity: The Gadget Allergy

Please Don’t Let Laser-Based Instruments Catch On

How To: Heroically Salvage a Scratched-Up iPhone

Thodio A-Box Bulletproof Speakers Are Perfect For Your Bunker

Genetically Engineered Terror Blooms In The Middle Of Summer

Jalalabad’s Fab Fi: How Junk Was Turned Into a High-Speed Wireless Network

Antarctica’s Blood Falls Are An Extremophile’s Paradise

World War Z’s Max Brooks To Write “Dark” G.I. Joe Comic

The Loch Ness Monster Isn’t In Scotland, She’s Lighting Up My Living Room

A New Way to Search for Alien Life

Mayor of Duluth, Minnesota Wants All Firstborns To Be Named ‘Google Fiber’

The Sony Timeline: Birth, Rise and Decadence

A Spoiler-Free Peek At Tomorrow Night’s Caprica

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Multi-Edition

5 Reasons Lost’s Parallel Universe Is A Waste Of Time

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