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Will Jeff Katz Save Geek Entertainment… Or Ruin It?

He helped create Snakes On A Plane, get X-Men Origins: Wolverine made and write Booster Gold‘s comic for a year, but can Jeff Katz‘ nerd cred overcome doubts about his new production company, American Original? Katz’s new company is described by its creator as a “nerd machine,” and perhaps most usefully by the Hollywood Reporter,…

io9 Graeme McMillan May 8

Panasonic 103-Inch HDTV Reduced to a Mere $50,000

The $70,000 Panasonic 103-inch TH-103PF10UK Plasma has been slashed to a price we can all afford: $50,000. See? The recession is your friend. [Pana] https://gizmodo.com/at-giz-gallery-103-inch-plasma-5098715

Television Brian Lam May 8

Terminator Salvation In 4 Easy Minutes, Order Now!

Want to see Terminator Salvation, the abridged version? A new killer robots video is making the rounds, with just about the entire film in four minutes. Spoiler purists beware, there’s a few small plot reveals.

io9 Meredith Woerner May 8

Sony Releasing Bigger eReader This Year? No Color Until 2010?

PVI, the company thought to make the big sheet of e-paper found in the Kindle DX, has revealed two interesting pieces of intel to DigiTimes. https://gizmodo.com/kindle-dx-offers-9-7-inches-of-e-ink-for-489-5242310 First, they believe Sony will release a larger format eReader to compete with the Kindle DX by the end of the year. Second, and what’s honestly the bigger piece…

Tech News Mark Wilson May 8

Titan Maximum Will Prove That Children Shouldn’t Play With Giant Robots

Not content with Robot Chicken slaughtering any sacred nerd cows that it can imagine and then some, Seth Green, Tom Root and Matthew Senreich are planning a long-form assault on the cartoons of your youth. Cartoon Network has ordered nine episodes of Titan Maximum, a new series from the Robot Chicken creators as part of…

Television Graeme McMillan May 8

Microsoft Embracing Open Source Big Time with Kumo

Not only Microsoft is using open source technology for Kumo—their new search technology and Nth Google Killer—but they are giving back to the community: Instead of creating a proprietary copy of these pieces of infrastructure, Powerset decided instead to turn to Hadoop, a Lucene subproject that is a framework for running data-intensive applications on large…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 8

The First Terminator Salvation Reviews Are Out! Plus 3 Dollhouse Clips! And Lost Answers!

Director McG explains what got cut to get Terminator Salvation its PG-13 rating. And Damon Lindelof says what answers we won’t get on Lost. Plus three Dollhouse clips. Oh, and Star Trek! And Heroes. Spoilers! Terminator Salvation: The first screenings of this film have happened, which means it’s time for more spoilers. Marcus (Sam Worthington)…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 8

Star Trek vs Star Wars: The Empire Wins Again

I thought we already established this fact, but this cool video proves it again: It shows what would happen if the Enterprise arrived to an alternative San Francisco, occupied by the Evil Galactic Empire. https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-vs-star-wars-the-final-battle-5099748 Too bad the video gets ruined by the crappy explosion at the end. I’m sure JJ Abrams would approve, though.

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 8

RAPHaEL Hand Easily Grasps Heavy Cans or Fragile Light Bulbs

Not only is this artificial hand incredibly versatile, but it’s based upon extremely simple mechanics. The RAPHaEL (Robotic Air Powered Hand with Elastic Ligaments) is the brilliant tool from the minds of Virginia Tech. Like you see in the name, air drives the hand’s movement without costly or bulky motors/actuators. The system requires just 60…

Tech News Mark Wilson May 8

The Air Up There: What Space Stations Smell Like

In Leroy Chiao’s five-day stint as astronaut guest blogger, he’s striving to illuminate the everyday aspects of life aboard the International Space Station, stuff that isn’t in press releases. Today’s topic? The air they breathe. OK, so someone wanted to know what the International Space Station smells like. After we opened the hatch, I noticed…

Space & Spaceflight Wilson Rothman May 8

Selgas Cano Capsule Office Looks Great in the Forest, Would Look Better on the Moon

Ever wonder what kind of office a cutting-edge architect actually works in? If you’re employed at the Selgas Cano architectural firm near Madrid, it looks something like this. One edge of this long, tubular office is made entirely of glass, simultaneously helping workers feel closer to nature and a bit like they’re slaving away in…

Tech News John Herrman May 8

NYT: ‘Newspaper-Saving’ Redneck Kindle Can’t Pronounce President’s Name

Pointing out the clunkiness of the Kindle’s text-to-speech feature is tired, but with the new Kindle DX being lauded as a newspaper savior, the NYT has a point: “Bay-rack Oh-bamma” won’t cut it. https://gizmodo.com/the-kindle-2-and-ipod-shuffle-perform-blade-runner-5224690 The Kindle’s voice feature works like any other, so pronunciation foibles are expected, and even predictable. Says the developer Nuance, the…

Tech News John Herrman May 8

Samsung Alias 2 Flips Its Keypad For Any Occasion, Arrives May 11th

The Samsung Alias 2 may be a dumbphone, but it’s got one feature that (kinda!) sets it apart: It unfolds into landscape and portrait configurations, and uses the same keypad in both. How? Witchcraft! E-ink! We heard about this flip-flopping followup to the uninspiring Alias 1 back in March, but without video or any kind…

Tech News John Herrman May 8

Miniaturized HDMI Connector Is As Small As Micro USB, Still Drives Your HDTV

Molex has prototyped a new miniature HDMI connector called Type D, which boasts the whole range of regular HDMI specs—19 pins, 10.2 Gbit/s bandwidth, HDCP, etc.—in a package the size of a Micro USB cable. A compact HDMI plug, called Type C, already exists, but this version is less than half the size of even…

Tech News John Herrman May 8

Oregon Man Used an Electric Dog Collar to Shock His Kids “Because He Thought It Was Funny”

Salem, Oregon resident Todd Marcum, whose name we will use repeatedly because of the nature of his crime, has been arrested for maliciously abusing his four young children with an electric dog collar. According to police lieutenant Dave Okada, Marcum admitted that Marcum shocked his children, aged 3, 6, 8, and 9, “because he thought…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz May 8

Sony Product Timeline Is a Glorious Gadget History Lesson

They have been in coma lately but, through 53 years of history, Sony has created some of the most amazing gadget in history. Some of them changed the world forever. Here you have them all. https://gizmodo.com/happy-53rd-birthday-sony-5244981 Click on the image above to access the full timeline in 2800 x 1188 pixels. I look back in…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 8

Sony’s OLED, Wi-Fi Walkman Gets Priced to Go Head-to-Head With the iPod Touch

Sony’s X1000-series Walkman PMP, which packs a gorgeous OLED screen and Wi-Fi, is likely to be priced to directly compete with Apple’s iPod touch, according to an early appearance on Sony’s site. On Sony’s “SonyRewards” site, the X1000-series unexpectedly popped up with a price, albeit in Sony’s “points” currency. But if we convert from Sony…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz May 8

New Hipster Affectation: Urban Oil Prospecting (Cardigan Not Included)

This DIY oil detector, essentially a modified metal detector, is the hottest new accessory for city-dwelling hipsters worldwide. Plus, it matches terrifically with a beard. The metal detector is outfitted with a relatively inexpensive “combustible gas sensor” that can detect pockets of oil, and the creator notes that the entire mod can be completed for…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz May 8

The Most Useful iPhone App That Might Never Exist

Just try to tell me you don’t need that phone app at least once a day. Click to view [Slate V via 9to5Mac]

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 7

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Here’s the stuff that we didn’t post today. (Until now, obviously.) • The next iPhone’s getting a Magnetometer. This means a compass. Probably a Google Streetview compass. Not all that useful for current iPhone users though, which make up the entirety of the iPhone user audience right now. [Boy Genius Report] • The iPhone developers…

Tech News Jason Chen May 7

Will Jeff Katz Save Geek Entertainment… Or Ruin It?

Panasonic 103-Inch HDTV Reduced to a Mere $50,000

Terminator Salvation In 4 Easy Minutes, Order Now!

Sony Releasing Bigger eReader This Year? No Color Until 2010?

Titan Maximum Will Prove That Children Shouldn’t Play With Giant Robots

Microsoft Embracing Open Source Big Time with Kumo

The First Terminator Salvation Reviews Are Out! Plus 3 Dollhouse Clips! And Lost Answers!

Star Trek vs Star Wars: The Empire Wins Again

RAPHaEL Hand Easily Grasps Heavy Cans or Fragile Light Bulbs

The Air Up There: What Space Stations Smell Like

Selgas Cano Capsule Office Looks Great in the Forest, Would Look Better on the Moon

NYT: ‘Newspaper-Saving’ Redneck Kindle Can’t Pronounce President’s Name

Samsung Alias 2 Flips Its Keypad For Any Occasion, Arrives May 11th

Miniaturized HDMI Connector Is As Small As Micro USB, Still Drives Your HDTV

Oregon Man Used an Electric Dog Collar to Shock His Kids “Because He Thought It Was Funny”

Sony Product Timeline Is a Glorious Gadget History Lesson

Sony’s OLED, Wi-Fi Walkman Gets Priced to Go Head-to-Head With the iPod Touch

New Hipster Affectation: Urban Oil Prospecting (Cardigan Not Included)

The Most Useful iPhone App That Might Never Exist

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

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