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HyperMac External Battery Gives MacBooks a 32 Hour Boost

A battery that provides 32 hours of continuous MacBook use? Now we’re talkin’. Sound’s great until you find out that the 222Wh Hypermac external charger costs a whopping $500. On the plus side, Hypermac is offering some smaller capacities at more affordable prices: like a 60Wh version for $200, a 100Wh for $300 and a…

Tech News Sean Fallon May 4

A Wheelchair Controlled By Man’s Mighty Will

We’ve seen a few instances of mind-controlled wheel chairs, and now researchers from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, offer us yet another amazing prototype. The chair displays a realtime 3D HUD while the user concentrates on basic functions, such as rotating the chair left or right. That information is read by the chair via EEG…

Tech News Mark Wilson May 4

BlackBerry Apps Get Push Powers for Instant Alerts and News

Expect a few BlackBerry announcements this week from the Wireless Enterprise Symposium, but here’s the first: BlackBerry app developers now have access to push, meaning apps will have the same push powers as email. [RIM]

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 4

Nimoy: I Am Not Spock, I Am A Fringe Blank Canvas

Leonard Nimoy has started to spill the beans about what kind of man his new Fringe character, William Bell, will be… Or perhaps that should be, Leonard Nimoy has started spilling purposefully misleading beans. Talking to Entertainment Weekly, the veteran Star Trek actor explained what he finds intriguing about the mysterious – but often mentioned…

Television Graeme McMillan May 4

The View From a Celebrity’s Perspective is All Cameras

Barry Silver was standing next to Lindsay Lohan in a Tokyo nightclub and took this photo. That’s a lot of digital cameras! And almost no dudes! What the hell nightclub was this?? [TokyoMango]

Tech News Adam Frucci May 4

Bob Dylan Makes The True Blood Vamps’ Clothes Fall Off

The latest True Blood promo spot is out, with all our favorite characters doing what they do best: getting naked and rolling around in blood. Watch the cast jump and jive to Bob Dylan. Check it out: Eric got a hair cut. He’s looking good with that short hairdo. I’m very antsy to see what…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 4

Steven Soderbergh’s Girlfriend Experience Released to Amazon Before Theaters

Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh’s new movie breaks some major Hollywood rules, and not just because it stars porn actress Sasha Grey. It’s also available now on Amazon a full 3 weeks before it hits theaters. It’s not the first time Soderbergh has experimented with different ways of releasing his films. His 2006 film Bubble was…

Commerce Adam Frucci May 4

Take Wired’s 3G Smartphone Speed Survey

The sequel to their iPhone 3G speedtest, Wired’s doing a nationwide speedtest for every 3G smartphone. It takes 5 minutes, and we’re interested to see how it compares to our own nationwide 3G test. [Wired] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3gs-download-speed-woes-get-surveyed-by-wired-5036882

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 4

Can Lost Undo Last Week’s Damage? And What’s Alpha’s Deal?

After last weeks colossally upsetting Lost , let’s hope that this week’s episode attempts to repair some of the damage. Too bad it’s all Jack and Kate. Also, get to know Dollhouse’s Alpha a lot better. Monday: Movies: So now that many of you have seen Wolverine, tell me, which one was better? The new…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 4

Sheep-Shearing Robot Is Tough to Watch in Action

Now I’m no PETA member, and I consider a nice lamb chop to be one of life’s great pleasures, but even I get uncomfortable watching this robot do its thing to a racked-up sheep. Despite how unsettling this contraption is, the inventor, James Trevely, claims that the sheep don’t mind it all that much. In…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 4

Myst Comes to the iPhone/iPod Touch

Myst is now on the iPhone. It’s a $6, 730MB download that requires 1.5GB of free space to install. Yowzah! [App Store via 9to5Mac via bbGadgets and MacRumors]

Tech News Mark Wilson May 4

Navigon No Longer Selling Personal GPSs in US

Navigon will no longer be selling PNDs (personal navigation devices) in the US. In a statement released today, the company explains, “Due to the difficult economic environment and the aggressive pricing we have decided to withdraw from the PND business in North America for the time being. We are however not closing down our Chicago…

Tech News Mark Wilson May 4

Gizmodo Jobs: Asia/AU/EU Writers, Freelancers and Super Spies

Hey there. Gizmodo is hiring, and I thought I’d put another feeler out for applicants, along with more detail on what we’re looking for. Maybe you can help me take Gizmodo to the next level. Asia/AU/EU Writers: -Must have tech journalism (not manuals for xerox machines) experience on blogs, newspapers or magazines and a body…

Tech News Brian Lam May 4

This Sparkling Galaxy Hides A Stellar Secret

This spiral galaxy, NGC 2841, is helping NASA solve a huge mystery: why do galaxies look so smooth, with such an even distribution of stars? According to NASA, studying NGC 2841 has helped an international team of astronomers discover that stars flow out of the “hot, dense nurseries” and then disperse to form the smooth…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 4

Sprint’s Sad State: 182,000 Customers, $594 Million Lost; May Outsource Network

Sprint is in a bad place. Another $594 million and 182,000 customers vanished this quarter, and it’s thinking about paying Ericsson $2 billion to maintain its network—yes, it’s turning to outsourcing its network. CORRECTED. https://gizmodo.com/sprint-loses-another-million-subscribers-1-6-billion-5156418 CORRECTION: Sprint lost 182,000 customers during the first quarter of this year, not 1.3 million. It lost 1.3 million customers…

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 4

Stake Chair Makes My Delicate Parts Quiver in Terror

The Judas Cradle was a popular form of torture in the middle ages, involving slowly lowering some poor, naked bastard onto a pyramid. Now you can bring that fun home with you in stool form! The Stake Chair by Russian designer Ton Guglya is one of the most horrifying pieces of furniture I’ve ever seen.…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 4

First Footage Of James Marsters As An Alien-Fighting Cowboy

Did Dragonball kill all of James Marsters‘ sex appeal for you? Don’t worry, we’ve got clips of him fighting an alien, as a cowboy. Throw in a unicorn and you’ve got last nights sex dream. Even though it’s getting a solid F for effort on title, the TV movie Alien Western actually looks pretty interesting.…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 4

How to Make Your Car Invisible on the Cheap

Want to make your car invisible? It’s an expensive and possibly impossible task, unless you want to get creative with it. https://jalopnik.com/drive-an-invisible-car-avoid-parking-tickets-5237582 Design student Sara Watson turned her old beater of a car invisible in a mere three weeks, and it didn’t even cost her that much. Of course, she can’t drive it now, and…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 4

The First Foxy Magazine Cover to Be Shot In Video

Last week we told you that Esquire had shot their June magazine cover in video. This week, we see that Megan Fox photo in all its…wait, there is no way “Fox” is her real name. https://gizmodo.com/megan-fox-esquire-cover-shot-in-video-not-stills-5229743 Captured on the 4K RedOne (that’s a frame resolution of 4096×2304, or 9.4 megapixels), the video-sourced cover image is…

Tech News Mark Wilson May 4

Space Telescopes To Reveal History Of The Universe

Planck and Herschel might sound like a particularly nerdy Vaudeville act, but they’re actually two new space telescopes that scientists are hoping to use to discover the origins of the universe as we know it. The two telescopes are due to go into space onboard the Arianne V rocket launch, from French Guyana, on May…

io9 Graeme McMillan May 4

HyperMac External Battery Gives MacBooks a 32 Hour Boost

A Wheelchair Controlled By Man’s Mighty Will

BlackBerry Apps Get Push Powers for Instant Alerts and News

Nimoy: I Am Not Spock, I Am A Fringe Blank Canvas

The View From a Celebrity’s Perspective is All Cameras

Bob Dylan Makes The True Blood Vamps’ Clothes Fall Off

Steven Soderbergh’s Girlfriend Experience Released to Amazon Before Theaters

Take Wired’s 3G Smartphone Speed Survey

Can Lost Undo Last Week’s Damage? And What’s Alpha’s Deal?

Sheep-Shearing Robot Is Tough to Watch in Action

Myst Comes to the iPhone/iPod Touch

Navigon No Longer Selling Personal GPSs in US

Gizmodo Jobs: Asia/AU/EU Writers, Freelancers and Super Spies

This Sparkling Galaxy Hides A Stellar Secret

Sprint’s Sad State: 182,000 Customers, $594 Million Lost; May Outsource Network

Stake Chair Makes My Delicate Parts Quiver in Terror

First Footage Of James Marsters As An Alien-Fighting Cowboy

How to Make Your Car Invisible on the Cheap

The First Foxy Magazine Cover to Be Shot In Video

Space Telescopes To Reveal History Of The Universe

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