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Dry Yourself Out With The Complete Collection of Apple’s ‘Get A Mac’ Adverts

If you’ve got nothing better to do between now and the 27th of January, head over to AdWeek where all 66 TV adverts starring John Hodgman and Justin Long have been saved for posterity’s sake. [AdWeek] https://gizmodo.com/apple-january-27th-come-see-our-latest-creation-event-5451005

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 19

Rumor: Sony to Call its Motion Controller Arc?

Sony’s hard at work on its new motion controller for the PS3, and a new report claims that it’ll be called Arc. Arc vs Natal! Get excited! [VG247 via Electronista] https://kotaku.com/sonys-motion-controller-patent-goes-attachment-crazy-5420698

Tech News Adam Frucci Jan 19

When The Foot Soldiers Of Hell Flood London, Jim Sturgess Will Save Us

It’s been 14 years since Philip Ridley‘s acclaimed The Passion of Darkly Noon. Now he’s back and directing Jim Sturgess, from Across The Universe, through demon street fights in London in Heartless. Behold new footage, featuring Doctor Who’s Mickey Smith. The film, which has only been screened at a few film festival’s last year stars…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jan 19

Rethink Hangers Drape Clothing From Water Bottles

Why are so many lovely ideas absolutely destroyed by greed? Take Rethink’s extremely clever clothing hangers. They save manufacturing plastic by allowing you to beef up their structure by screwing in always-plentiful used water bottles—plus, these small hangers are portable to boot. Simple, right? Kinda awkward in practice, sure, but A for eco-Utopian effort. Each…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 19

The Doctor Horrible Sequel We Hope To See

Is it so wrong to hope that Zack Whedon isn’t joking when he said that the name of the second Doctor Horrible was “Carnal Indulgences”? at the end of this interview? If so, we don’t want to be right.

io9 Graeme McMillan Jan 19

Guess The Apple Tablet Features, Win One For Yourself

Everyone is trying to guess what the features are of the tablet that Apple may announce on Wednesday 27. What’s its name? What’s the OS? How big? Tell us what you think and win an Apple tablet. Click to viewRules Apart from the usual Gawker legalese, here’s it how it works: • You fill out…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 19

Lost Creators Admit Their Fans Are Unbearable

The Onion has a hilarious news piece about just how obsessed Lost fans can get. We’d poke fun too, if we didn’t spend every holiday dinner in our “Drive Shaft” T-shirts, trying to explaining the black-and-white Lost symbolism. Final Season Of ‘Lost’ Promises To Make Fans More Annoying Than Ever

Television Meredith Woerner Jan 19

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

This week on TreeHugger, the newest electric cars, solar powered dogs, cardboard computers, self-assembling solar cells, and how Apple will control your energy in the near future. LG Unveils New Flexible e-Ink Newspaper, No One Gets Excited LG, for reasons no one has been able to really guess yet, decided to wait until after CES…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch Jan 19

The Easiest, Cleverest Way to Download Any YouTube Video

Want to have your mind blown, slightly? Try this: • Open any YouTube video • In the video’s URL, switch out the “Y” in “Youtube” for a 3 • Ask yourself why you didn’t think of this first. KickYouTube handles video downloads in an equally clever way, and with even more options. [Lifehacker] https://lifehacker.com/kickyoutube-lets-you-download-videos-without-extra-soft-5109597

Tech News John Herrman Jan 19

Microsoft Improves Consumer Search Privacy; Google and Yahoo Stay Terrible

Microsoft has agreed only to hold your personal information (read: darkest secrets] for six months, while Google and Yahoo will continue to keep them much longer to “improve search quality.” By which, of course, they mean “ad revenue.” Granted, the Bing move comes after pressure from the European Union, who’s fined Microsoft so many billions…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 19

Apple Ruins Nerf Basketball for PC Fanboys Everywhere

Is nothing sacred? Could fanboys just leave some small section of Earth unexposed to their partisan antics? Apparently not, as even this innocent Nerf basketball hoop has been reconfigured with a PowerMac G5 case backboard. [Cult of Mac via TUAW]

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 19

Green Lantern’s Director Speaks! Plus A Weird Mad Max Rumor, And An Iron Man Character Joins Thor

Green Lantern director Martin Campbell explains how his movie will be different. Plus Mad Max‘s surprising star, an Iron Man/Thor crossover, and find out which rocker supplied The Wolfman’s howl. Plus Ghostbusters, Lost, Doctor Who, Caprica and True Blood spoilers. Green Lantern: Director Martin Campbell was doing interviews for his new film Edge Of Darkness,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jan 19

Sony Memory Sticks Upgraded With Wireless, TransferJet Tech

“TransferJet Technology”—does marketing speak get any more pseudo-tech-epic than that? Sony’s latest 8GB Memory Stick, now debuting in Japan, works just like any old overpriced Memory Stick. But, from 3cm away from a supported device, RF-based TransferJet can transfer the stored data at speeds of 560 Mbps (or, as Wikipedia reports, 375 Mbps in real…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 19

Apple Dominated With Nearly 100% of Mobile App Sales in 2009

Say what you will about platforms, but in 2009, Apple’s App Store absolutely pwnd the paid mobile app space—selling 99.4% of the $4.2 billion market single-handedly, according to ars technica. All this data is based upon research by Gartner, who claims that, should sale trends continue, Apple could retain 2/3 of the paid mobile app…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 19

Thermo-Sensitive ‘Love Handles’ Sofa Shows Your Thigh Imprints in Beautiful Oily Colors

Remember those Thermochromatic t-shirts from the early ’90s? Unsurprisingly, American Apparel started selling them last year. Now there’s a sofa version from NunoErin, which is coated in a thermo-sensitive finish that changes color where your body touches it. It’s the “Love Handles” chair, and for obvious reasons—each oversized thigh will be imprinted on the chair…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 19

Google Delaying Launch of Two Android Phones in China Due To Censorship Row

Whoa, the dispute between China and Google just got even more messy, with Google being forced to delay the launch of two Android phones from Motorola and Samsung on the China Unicom carrier. https://gizmodo.com/google-refuses-to-continue-censoring-results-in-china-5446712 The launch was initially slated for tomorrow, but with Google announcing last week they’d no longer be censoring search results in…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 19

Suck Up Your Desk Debris With The Zamboni Vacuum

It’s been so snowy in both the UK and US in recent weeks, making this Zamboni ice resurfacer truck vacuum the perfect desk accompaniment for sucking up all the crisp crumbs. On sale soon. [UrbanTrendHK]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 19

Sony’s VAIO Z Laptops On Sale in March, Will Bring Quad SSDs To The Table

We’ve got some more details on Sony’s beefed-up VAIO Z series of laptops which were announced at CES, namely the addition of Quad SSD drives, Intel Core i7-620M processors and NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M chips. https://gizmodo.com/sonys-f-y-and-z-series-notebooks-boast-multimedia-g-5442082 We already knew the two models would have a 13.1-inch LED backlit screen, an optical Blu-ray drive and HDMI-out,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 19

Lumpy Motorola MOTOROI Will Be Released Worldwide In March

That lumpy Android MOTOROI phone from Motorola that was only supposed to launch in Korea WILL actually be released worldwide, according to executives. And very soon too, we hear, with March being the proposed month. [Korea Herald – Thanks Cliff_Dangers!] https://gizmodo.com/lumpy-motorola-motoroi-gets-official-not-much-use-to-y-5450693

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 19

VIA EPIA-T700 Is Smallest Computer-On-Module Money Can Buy

Measuring 6cm x 6cm, VIA’s EPIA-T700 is the first chip launched in the new Mobile-ITX series which is actually the smallest computer-on-module available, even 50 per cent smaller than VIA’s small-sounding Pico-ITX. That sounds, err, small. https://gizmodo.com/via-mobile-itx-platform-is-half-the-size-of-the-pico-it-5416418 VP of VIA Embedded Platform Division, Daniel Wu, claims: “The VIA EPIA-T700 takes advantage of the modular design…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 19

Dry Yourself Out With The Complete Collection of Apple’s ‘Get A Mac’ Adverts

Rumor: Sony to Call its Motion Controller Arc?

When The Foot Soldiers Of Hell Flood London, Jim Sturgess Will Save Us

Rethink Hangers Drape Clothing From Water Bottles

The Doctor Horrible Sequel We Hope To See

Guess The Apple Tablet Features, Win One For Yourself

Lost Creators Admit Their Fans Are Unbearable

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

The Easiest, Cleverest Way to Download Any YouTube Video

Microsoft Improves Consumer Search Privacy; Google and Yahoo Stay Terrible

Apple Ruins Nerf Basketball for PC Fanboys Everywhere

Green Lantern’s Director Speaks! Plus A Weird Mad Max Rumor, And An Iron Man Character Joins Thor

Sony Memory Sticks Upgraded With Wireless, TransferJet Tech

Apple Dominated With Nearly 100% of Mobile App Sales in 2009

Thermo-Sensitive ‘Love Handles’ Sofa Shows Your Thigh Imprints in Beautiful Oily Colors

Google Delaying Launch of Two Android Phones in China Due To Censorship Row

Suck Up Your Desk Debris With The Zamboni Vacuum

Sony’s VAIO Z Laptops On Sale in March, Will Bring Quad SSDs To The Table

Lumpy Motorola MOTOROI Will Be Released Worldwide In March

VIA EPIA-T700 Is Smallest Computer-On-Module Money Can Buy

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