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What have we here? A 32″ Sharp Aquos for $600 shipped, a Shure I2C-M headset for $36 and IHOP Pankcakes for nothing? Oh my! Audio • Shure I2C-M Stereo Mobile Headset for $36.01 (normally $119.00). Cameras • Canon Powershot SD790 10MP Digital Camera for $149.99 plus free shipping (normally $199). Computing • Lenovo 15.4″ Y530-3231U…

Tech News Sean Fallon Feb 24

Disco Ball Hat Makes the Top of Your Head a Party Zone

HELLO, LADIES. [Urban Trend via Fashionably Geek]

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 24

Caption This Classic Wally Wood Illustration

What in space is this guy saying to this woman? What are they doing out in space without helmets? And what are those guys saying from behind their space-doorway? Post your thoughts below. This is a classic science fiction illustration by Golden Age great Wally Wood, which just went online at the Hooray For Wally…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 24

Office 14 Won’t Ship in 2009 Says Ballmer

The Ballmeister told analysts that Office 14 won’t ship in 2k9, leaving spreadsheet enthusiasts going back to Office 2007 for their chart generating shenanigans. [ZDNet]

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 24

Dell is Having a 4-Hour Laptop Sale Starting…NOW

If you’re looking for a Dell laptop, they’re having a 4-hour laptop sale online right now. No idea what they’ll have, but it’s a sale, and we love those. Updated. It looks like Dell is offering three computers here: The 14-inch Inspiron 1420 for $500, the 13.3-inch XPS M1330 for $800 and the 15-inch Inspiron…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 24

Microsoft’s Interactive Omnidirectional Projector Puts You in the God Seat

An omnidirectional projector with a camera inside watches your hand movements and reacts fast, like a planetarium-wide Surface table. Does it give you a Zaphod-sized ego? Hell yes it does. Check out this vid: As you can, see from the photo above, the computer is tracking hand gestures using a basic gesture language: pinching to…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Feb 24

Pirate Bay Trial Watch Day 7: We Pirated All These Movies For Evidence Gathering Purposes, Honest

Today the prosecution brought a few anti-piracy watchdogs to the stand who had “investigated” the Pirate Bay by downloading music, movies and games from the site. And then they reduced their evidence to shreds. • The court heard from Magnus Mårtensson, a lawyer for the IFPI, and policeman Magnus Nilsson of the Swedish Anti-Piracy Office,…

Tech News John Mahoney Feb 24

Happy Birthday Steve Jobs

Happy Birthday! I hope this year will be the year you bring back your mustachio’ed look. The ladies demand it.

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 24

An Intimate Moment Inside The Mind Of Rorschach

Take a peek inside the twisted mind of beloved anti-hero Walter Kovacs, with an extended clip from Zack Snyder‘s Watchmen – and decide for yourself, is this the demented vigilante Rorschach I’ve been dreaming of? There’s a lot of tension in the air over whether or not actor Jackie Earle Haley can master the guttural…

Movies Meredith Woerner Feb 24

We Have Found Our Perfect SF Love Story… Or Maybe Not

Ignore the title; My Fair Clone has nothing to do with a test-tube Eliza Doolittle learning to act like aristocracy, but that doesn’t stop it sounding just like our goofy SF romantic dream project. It was only last week that I was bemoaning the lack of SF love stories, and now, like a press release…

io9 Graeme McMillan Feb 24

28 Items You Won’t Find at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch Auction

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you for some items that you imagine Michael Jackson selling at his “I’m desperate” auction. The results, as I predicted, are awesome. First Place — Bniel Jun Second Place — Con Seannery Third Place — Aaron Langeland

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 24

New Bravia Ad Features World’s Largest Zoetrope

We saw them building it, and now here’s the finished product. It’s a neat ad, but I feel like seeing the zoetrope in person would be way cooler. [YouTube via Didn’t You Hear?]

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 24

Speck SeeThru Hard Cases Add a Bit of Color to Your MacBook

The latest offering from Speck comes in the form of these colorful hard shell cases for the new unibody MacBooks. Oooh…sassy. https://lifehacker.com/recycle-old-electronics-to-any-best-buy-5159371 A dash of color is a good thing and so is the added protection from a hard case—but there are a few drawbacks. Heat buildup might be a major concern, there are no…

Tech News Sean Fallon Feb 24

Surveillance Cameras Capture the Elusive, Endangered Saharan Cheetah

Using motion-triggered cameras developed for surveillance, a team of researchers in Algeria has captured the first photographs of a nearly-legendary variety of cheetah, believed to be one of only 250 Saharan cheetahs left on Earth. Sarah Durant, a zoologist based in London, worked with the Office du Parc National de l’Ahaggar (OPNA) to track the…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 24

Best Buy Expands Gadget Recycling Program To All Stores

Best Buy has gone nationwide with the gadget recycling program they began testing back in June. It isn’t the best recycling program out there—no TVs over 32-inches, no “appliances”, and a $10 fee for recycling laptops and TV monitors that is converted into a Best Buy gift card. Still, it ranks high on convenience. [Best…

Gadgets Sean Fallon Feb 24

You’ll Never Guess Who’s Naked In Dollhouse

The identity of Dollhouse’s mysterious figure, who sits around stark naked while watching yearbook videos of Eliza Dushku in college, has been revealed. And it’s a familiar face from the Whedonverse. Warning: spoilers! Yes, Alan “Wash” Tudyk is reported to be playing Alpha, the “rogue doll” who slaughtered a ton of the Dollhouse’s people and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 24

PlayStation Skin Disorder Is a Real Disease

Rubbing your hands over a PlayStation controller for too long has now become a disease: PlayStation palmar hidradenitis. The first instance comes from a 12-year-old Swiss girl who had sores on her hand from playing way too much. The doctor first thought she had “idiopathic eccrine hidradenitis”, a condition that affects both the hands and…

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 24

Spilt Milk Cereal Bowl Is Designed “Like An Accident In Progress”

It’s not quite as cool as the Eatmecrunchy bowl, but the Spilt Milk cereal bowl does have one advantage—it is made out of flexible silicone. https://gizmodo.com/eatmecrunchy-cereal-bowl-keeps-cereal-more-like-arnold-312154 So even though it looks like a disaster in progress, the Spilt Milk bowl is safe to use with even the clumsiest and unruliest kids. Expect it to arrive…

Tech News Sean Fallon Feb 24

First Of Three Eastwick Witches Found

The first witch descends upon the pilot in the new ABC Witches Of Eastwick series, based on John Updike’s novel and the Jack Nicholson-starring movie. Jaime Ray Newman has appeared in Supernatural and Stargate: Atlantis, and fingers crossed the other witches will be as good lookin’ as her. But who are they going to get…

io9 Meredith Woerner Feb 24

Mad Catz Street Fighter IV FightPad Review: I’m Going to Kill You So, So Bad

Let’s get this much out of the way: Shoryuken for shoryuken, the Mad Catz Street Fighter IV FightPad is a vastly superior instrument of destruction compared to the standard Xbox 360 controller. Price: $40 Verdict: In one sense, the verdict is that straightforward—the fantastic floating D-Pad and arcade-style six-button layout crush the regular Xbox 360…

Reviews Matt Buchanan Feb 24

Gadget Deals of the Day

Disco Ball Hat Makes the Top of Your Head a Party Zone

Caption This Classic Wally Wood Illustration

Office 14 Won’t Ship in 2009 Says Ballmer

Dell is Having a 4-Hour Laptop Sale Starting…NOW

Microsoft’s Interactive Omnidirectional Projector Puts You in the God Seat

Pirate Bay Trial Watch Day 7: We Pirated All These Movies For Evidence Gathering Purposes, Honest

Happy Birthday Steve Jobs

An Intimate Moment Inside The Mind Of Rorschach

We Have Found Our Perfect SF Love Story… Or Maybe Not

28 Items You Won’t Find at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch Auction

New Bravia Ad Features World’s Largest Zoetrope

Speck SeeThru Hard Cases Add a Bit of Color to Your MacBook

Surveillance Cameras Capture the Elusive, Endangered Saharan Cheetah

Best Buy Expands Gadget Recycling Program To All Stores

You’ll Never Guess Who’s Naked In Dollhouse

PlayStation Skin Disorder Is a Real Disease

Spilt Milk Cereal Bowl Is Designed “Like An Accident In Progress”

First Of Three Eastwick Witches Found

Mad Catz Street Fighter IV FightPad Review: I’m Going to Kill You So, So Bad

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