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Never Miss a Message, Chat, or Call with the Nokia N900

No one wants to carry a phone, camera, mp3 player, and a BlackBerry. The new Nokia N900 is a 5 megapixel camera, a portable media player, and a Maemo mobile Internet device all in one. Full specs after the jump. The Nokia N900 has up to 32 GB internal storage, a touch screen and side-slide…

Tech News Gawkercreative Jan 21

Xbox 360 Transforms Into the All Spark

An All Spark Xbox 360 seems like a clever idea, that is, until your TV turns into a robot during a Golden Girls marathon and your head is decapitated by a very strange amalgamation of pop culture motifs. Though this mod looks impressive, its construction was relatively simple. A plywood box was coated with self-hardening…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 21

Tim Minear Producing An Android Journey Of Self-Discovery? Yes Please!

Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are developing a new TV show based on Gene Roddenberry‘s scrapped android-angst show The Questor Tapes. Bland, preachy and insipid, Questor doesn’t seem like a good template… unless it’s true Tim Minear is on board. Imagine the most boring “Data questions his humanity” episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 21

Sneak Peek of New BBC Documentary ‘The Virtual Revolution’

On January 30th, the BBC will begin airing a multi-part documentary about the internet. And they’ve been so kind as to offer us the first few minutes to air here. This clip is little more than a teaser to the interviews contained within, but that series of interviews is indeed incredible—including Tim Berners-Lee (the MIT…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 21

Motorola Working Around Google For Android Phones In China

Google’s war with the Chinese government could end up hurting Motorola, one of its Android mobile handset partners that plans to sell phones in China. So how can Motorola continue with its plans to sell Android phones in China — the world’s biggest mobile market — without Google’s help? By working AROUND Google, by establishing…

Tech News The Business Insider Jan 21

Paranoid Cyberpunk Religious Thriller Gets A Movie Deal

Is Trevor Sands the new go-to guy for science-fiction movie adapations? He’s written the screenplay for Dan Simmons‘ Hyperion Cantos and the Six Million Dollar Man movie. And now he’s taking on Jeff Somers‘ The Electric Church. Somers’ The Electric Church, the first volume in a series, seems like a slam-dunk cool concept for a…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jan 21

Giz Explains: SSDs and Why You Wish You Had One

Speed. Toughness. Efficiency. Silence. That’s why we want solid-state drives in our computers. But we worry about the zoom-zoom performance degrading over time, and the fact that SSDs might eventually wear out. Here’s what you need to know about ’em. Why Solid-State Drives Are Awesome (Or At Least, Better Than Hard Drives) To understand what’s…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Jan 21

Potato Chip Hand Solves the Chip/Keyboard Problem the Japanese Way

The age old conundrum of how to eat chips at a keyboard without making a giant mess has finally been solved. So how do you keep your hands clean? By using another hand. A robotic hand. https://gizmodo.com/question-how-to-eat-potato-chips-at-a-keyboard-218797 As this lady demonstrates, you push the button on the shaft to clamp the hand around the chip,…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 21

YouTube Redesign Cuts the Chaff, Keeps the Ads

You may have already noticed YouTube looking a little different this week, but now it’s official: the site’s undergone a major redesign that aims to clear out the clutter. YouTube’s new pared-down look is opt-in at the moment, and up and running internationally. It’s a little spartan, but it does make it easier to focus…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 21

What Slime Molds And Subways Have In Common, According to Scientists

Slime molds have evolved to produce some of the most efficient networks seen in nature, but just how good are they? As good as the notoriously complex Tokyo rail system. The slime mold Physarum polycephalum forms networks between food sources that are as efficient and fault tolerant as anything we can design. In order to…

io9 Tim Barribeau Jan 21

Physicst Proves That R2D2 Is Lighter Than Styrofoam

A physicist carefully examined the way R2D2 flies in Attack of the Clones, and has come to a startling discovery. Examining the thrust of R2’s flight, then adding in gravity and resistance, he discerned that R2’s mass is 100 grams. Rhett Alain, a physicist at Southeastern Louisiana University, first turns R2’s flight into a free…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 21

Winduino II Instrument Updates The Humble Aeloian Harp To New Octaves

For all four minutes and 34 seconds of the video below, I just zoned out listening to the relaxing noise of wind passing through the Winduino II‘s Bluetooth board. I fell into a kind of blogger coma. The Winduino II is made from an Adruino BT Bluetooth board, and is inspired by the Aeolian harp…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 21

The Palm Pre Plus Can Run 50 (50!) Apps at Once

As mentioned in our review, the added RAM in the Palm Pre Plus means you can run "a LOT" of apps. You know, like 10! Absurdist logic site PreCentral asks the obvious question: why not 50? Anyway, I’m stuck on the third mission of GTA: Chinatown Wars on my iPhone, because I keep getting calls…

Tech News John Herrman Jan 21

The Apple Tablet: ‘A First-Generation iPhone That’s Met Its Match With a Rolling Pin’

According to AppleInsider’s sources, this flickr image is the closest mockup of the Apple Tablet that anyone has seen to date. And yes, it’s essentially a big, first-gen iPhone that’s “met its match with a rolling pin.” Rather than a plastic back, AI claims the Tablet will have the same, two-tone aluminum look of the…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 21

Just How Miraculous Could an Apple Tablet Be?

According to this tale by Fake Steve Jobs, the Apple tablet isn’t just great—it actually cures lupus. In other words, Dr. House’s entire diagnostic team is pretty much out of a job as of next week. [FakeSteve]

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 21

The Last Avatar Porn Video We’ll Ever Post — Maybe [NSFW]

People are obsessed with how the Na’Vi people do it. What with SNL’s video, Hustler’s Avatar XXX parody and others. We swore we’d back off, then we saw this NSFW Na’vi cartoon. We’re pretty ashamed, but we laughed. https://gizmodo.com/james-camerons-laser-cats-plus-snls-avatar-sex-scene-5450294 https://gizmodo.com/help-come-up-with-a-better-name-for-hustlers-avatar-por-5452051 Alright now, do we all have this blue people having sex with each other fetish…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jan 21

New (Possibly) Touchscreen BlackBerry Bold Spotted

RIM has already been moving away from the trackball to the trackpad, but this new image of a yet to be released device shows neither. All signs point to the first touchscreen BlackBerry Bold. https://gizmodo.com/first-3g-blackberry-pearl-9100-pics-leak-5409104 There’s not much more information available beyond the picture, but it’s certainly a relief to see an improvement over earlier…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 21

Create Your Own Faked iPhone 4.0 Screenshots

People love trying to trick us with fake shots of unreleased Apple products. We recently received the shot above of the supposed iPhone 4.0 firmware, which we know for a fact is a fake. Can you do better? It’s really easy to fake a screenshot on the iPhone. Simply make what you want in Photoshop,…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jan 21

Archos Wheels Out Android 1.6 Update For Archos 5 Tablet Yet Again

After giving Archos 5 owners the Android 1.6 update and then taking it back again cruelly, Archos has rereleased Donut (with new Quick Search feature) for the masses. [Engadget]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 21

Nebulas And Neighboring Galaxies, Photographed From A Garden Shed

Office worker Peter Shah took this picture by sticking an eight-inch telescope through the roof of his garden shed. He tells the Mirror, “It just goes to show that a window to the universe is there for all of us.” The above image of the NGC6960, the Veil Nebula, was taken using an ORION OPTICS…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 21

Never Miss a Message, Chat, or Call with the Nokia N900

Xbox 360 Transforms Into the All Spark

Tim Minear Producing An Android Journey Of Self-Discovery? Yes Please!

Sneak Peek of New BBC Documentary ‘The Virtual Revolution’

Motorola Working Around Google For Android Phones In China

Paranoid Cyberpunk Religious Thriller Gets A Movie Deal

Giz Explains: SSDs and Why You Wish You Had One

Potato Chip Hand Solves the Chip/Keyboard Problem the Japanese Way

YouTube Redesign Cuts the Chaff, Keeps the Ads

What Slime Molds And Subways Have In Common, According to Scientists

Physicst Proves That R2D2 Is Lighter Than Styrofoam

Winduino II Instrument Updates The Humble Aeloian Harp To New Octaves

The Palm Pre Plus Can Run 50 (50!) Apps at Once

The Apple Tablet: ‘A First-Generation iPhone That’s Met Its Match With a Rolling Pin’

Just How Miraculous Could an Apple Tablet Be?

The Last Avatar Porn Video We’ll Ever Post — Maybe [NSFW]

New (Possibly) Touchscreen BlackBerry Bold Spotted

Create Your Own Faked iPhone 4.0 Screenshots

Archos Wheels Out Android 1.6 Update For Archos 5 Tablet Yet Again

Nebulas And Neighboring Galaxies, Photographed From A Garden Shed

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