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Acer Aspire easyStore Expandable 1TB Windows Home Server Cube Is $400

Acer’s Aspire easyStore is on the cheaper and smaller side of pre-built Windows Home Server configs at $400, but unlike some at that price, this little cube actually has three hot-swappable HDD bays to expand its 1TB of storage. Full specs: https://gizmodo.com/windows-home-server-review-317502 New Acer® Aspire easyStore Home Server Provides Access to Family’s Digital Data From…

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 21

What is the Deadliest Machine of All-Time? (Heavyweight Division, Round 3)

Not surprisingly, Megatron easily took another heavyweight round over Marvel’s Sentinel. So we are upping the ante in Round 3 with a robot so horrifying, just thinking about it will give you nightmares for weeks. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-the-deadliest-machine-of-all-time-heavyweight-5262592 Oh yes…it’s Mega Maid from Spaceballs. Which Robot is Deadlier?(polls) Stay tuned for the fourth and final rounds of…

Movies Sean Fallon May 21

Surprise: Hayden Panettiere Knows How to Read

Also, that’s a Kindle DX she has in her hand, not a Kindle 2. Everyone else on the Heroes set needs to stand on apple boxes to hide the fact that she’s six-foot seven. Of course, she doesn’t actually use this to memorize her lines. For that, she has a little midget inside her ear…

Commerce Jason Chen May 21

In Which Heather Thomas Defeats Evil With a Laser Motorcycle

Starring 80s pinup Heather Thomas and scfi’s favorite mad scientist Jeffrey Combs, Cyclone (1986) is the best futuristic motorcycle movie you’ve never seen. After secret military scientist Combs is killed by punks with ice picks in a nightclub, it falls to his motorcycle-lovin’ girlfriend to save the titular Cyclone motorcycle. I love this early scene…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 20

LEGO Micro-Scales Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater House

I love Lego’s Frank Lloyd Wright Collection has a mini model of the Guggenheim Museum in NYC, but I’m more in love with the model of the Fallingwater house built over a waterfall. The real house sits 50 miles from Pittsburgh, and although it looks as if it belongs in the future, it was constructed…

Tech News Brian Lam May 20

Nexus’s Velvety Laptop Cooler Has No Fans

Another gadget to keep your laptop from burning you silly, Nexus’s TDD-9000 liquid cooling pad is a soft, velvety cloth filled with a patented, gel-like substance that needs no plugs, wiring or electricity to quietly, yet actively, cool your laptop. https://gizmodo.com/little-ionic-winds-stop-laptops-from-burning-body-parts-5261843 Apparently, resting your laptop on Nexus’s cooling pad for 40 minutes will keep your…

Tech News Andi Wang May 20

Our Favorite Lifehacker Posts of the Week

This week Lifehacker shows you how to shoot better photos, how to hang your Mac upside-down, how to close apps in Windows 7 fast and how to blow your nose to great effect. • Take better photos by shooting your digital stills as if it’s a video camera • Use Middle Click to close your…

Tech News Jason Chen May 20

Komodo’s Retro Adapter Makes Old School Nintendo Gaming Easier on Your Wii

Playing old school Nintendo games on the Wii can be a pain if you can’t get accustomed to their controls using Wiimotes. With Komodo’s Retro Adapter, you can plug in any NES, SNES and N64 controllers to your Wii and play instantly. The adapter, which is shaped like a mini N64 console, fits into a…

Tech News Andi Wang May 20

Survival Research Labs’ Most Dangerous Machine

Survival Research Labs has been repurposing hardware into giant, deadly displays of machine power since 1978. They say the plank hurling Pitching Machine is their most dangerous made during all that time. It’s basically a machine that uses the power from a 500 cubic inch El Dorado engine power wheels, which launch six foot long…

Tech News Brian Lam May 20

Stick This Wiener in Your Ear

If you want to be quirky and different—or you’re just a wiener lover—these $13 headphones make it look like you’ve got a really long wiener running through your head. [Product Page via NerdApproved]

Tech News Andi Wang May 20

Microsoft’s Ballmer on His Brain

Steve Ballmer talks about how fast his brain works and how he needs to do a better job of showing that he’s hearing you. Audio clip courtesy NYT.

Tech News Jason Chen May 20

It Is a Good Day to Die a Robot Death

Joel@BoingBoing has put together a gallery of robots and humans cooperating to extinguish opposing force—human, cyborg or otherwise. This photo shows the towing capacity of a packbot QinetiQ TALON Robot, apparently capable of towing meatbags back to the hive to feed its young. [Army.mil Flickr via BBG]

Tech News Brian Lam May 20

Sam Raimi Was Listening To Your Outpourings Of Disappointment Over Spider-Man 3

Even though Spiderman 3 made a boatload of cash there were still many “issues” that irked fans to no end: The dancing, hair flips, or the omelet scene. Now we know director Raimi took the audience’s commentary to heart. In an interview with ComingSoon/SuperheroHype, the director talked about the criticism and how he’s dealing with…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 20

Corsair Cooling Ice Series T30 Chills Memory for More Overclocking Pew Pew

How nerdy are you? Oh really? Yea rly? Corsair’s Cooling Ice Series T30 “world’s first” sub-ambient PC memory cooler gives you 20 degrees of breathing room for overclocking your memory to make your computer more fasterer. [Fareastgizmos via Ubergizmo]

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 20

Wolfram|Alpha Is Making the Internet Sentient

A new web application called Wolfram|Alpha looks like Google but is far scarier in its implications for humanity’s future. Developers say it will “provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.” A single source of definitive answers? What could go wrong? Wolfram|Alpha is making geeks across…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 20

This Is Not Proper Computer Use Posture

What’s even worse is that she’s typing in Dvorak. [Girls With Flexibility (Slightly NSFW)]

Tech News Jason Chen May 20

Storm Synth Watch Tries To Throw You Off With Decoy Hands

The Storm Synth wristwatch conceals the current time by mixing in the real hands with six decoys (the time can be determined by locating the hands with pointed tips). Seriously, can’t we have watches that just tell us the time anymore? Indeed, there is no shortage of watches out there that make it as difficult…

Tech News Sean Fallon May 20

Microsoft’s Ballmer On Being Bubbly

Here, Ballmer talks about being bubbly, his energy and what type of personality it takes to lead a large organization. Audio clip courtesy NYT. First image courtesy Boing Boing Gadgets. https://gizmodo.com/ballmer-the-evil-cylon-finally-revealed-5181072 Check back soon for part 2.

Tech News Jason Chen May 20

12TB DVDs Could Be On The Way

A storage density of 51MB per square centimeter? Whatever, standard DVDs. Australian scientists developed a new multilayer optical storage medium that can house data at 1.1TB/cm3. Unlike existing DVD technology, the key to this data storage technique is the fact that multiple pieces of data can be stored in exactly the same location—up to ten…

Tech News Odelia Lee May 20

Special Agent Charlie Falls Victim To The Pattern: Fired From Fringe

Looks like we’ll never know what the unspoken connection was between Agent Charlie Francis and Vague Agent Olivia on Fringe. The actor has reportedly been let go, at least according to his Facebook status. Oh No They Didn’t is reporting that Kirk Acevedo has been cut from Abrams Scooby Gang on Fringe. Taking it to…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 20

Acer Aspire easyStore Expandable 1TB Windows Home Server Cube Is $400

What is the Deadliest Machine of All-Time? (Heavyweight Division, Round 3)

Surprise: Hayden Panettiere Knows How to Read

In Which Heather Thomas Defeats Evil With a Laser Motorcycle

LEGO Micro-Scales Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater House

Nexus’s Velvety Laptop Cooler Has No Fans

Our Favorite Lifehacker Posts of the Week

Komodo’s Retro Adapter Makes Old School Nintendo Gaming Easier on Your Wii

Survival Research Labs’ Most Dangerous Machine

Stick This Wiener in Your Ear

Microsoft’s Ballmer on His Brain

It Is a Good Day to Die a Robot Death

Sam Raimi Was Listening To Your Outpourings Of Disappointment Over Spider-Man 3

Corsair Cooling Ice Series T30 Chills Memory for More Overclocking Pew Pew

Wolfram|Alpha Is Making the Internet Sentient

This Is Not Proper Computer Use Posture

Storm Synth Watch Tries To Throw You Off With Decoy Hands

Microsoft’s Ballmer On Being Bubbly

12TB DVDs Could Be On The Way

Special Agent Charlie Falls Victim To The Pattern: Fired From Fringe

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