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Maingear Prelude 2: 3D Vision Gaming PC in a Box

I still have serious doubts about 3D PC gaming actually taking off, but Maingear’s Nvidia-powered Prelude 2 3D gaming rig neatly bundles everything you need into a $2000 package. For two grand, I’d like the specs on the PC itself to be a little beefier—a step above the default GeForce 9800 GT, at least 320GB…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 19

Culture Is Rewriting Your Genetic Code

Anthropologist John Hawks is interviewed in the latest issue of Nature talking about how humans have been undergoing accelerated evolution over the past 40,000 years, largely due to cultural shifts affecting our genes. Nature’s Erica Check Hayden sums up Hawks’ position: [C]urrent human populations are much more genetically diverse than this hypothesis predicts, so Moyzis…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 19

Guitar Hero Coming to Android Phones

Guitar Hero has been available on other cellphones for a while now, but far be it from Activision to pass up an opportunity to cash in on a big platform like Android. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-gets-guitar-hero-proceeds-to-rock-for-first-ti-336444 The game will be a port of Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile with touchscreen gameplay and 15 tracks (mostly classic rock). An…

Tech News Sean Fallon Feb 19

iPhone Glove Battlemodo

The iPhone is great, until, one frosty day, you realize its capacitive touchscreen doesn’t work through gloves. So we tested three pairs of iPhone-friendly gloves to decide which were best. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-the-magic-behind-touchscreens-5036516 Freehands Stretch ($21) Gimmick: Finger tip flaps allow your real fingers to do the typing. Finger tip hinges allow actual finger to touch iPhone…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 19

Pirate Bay Trial Watch Day 4: Oh Snap: Windows Gets Dissed, IFPI Gets Hacked

Day four of the Pirate Bay trial was largely procedural, but with such a merry band of swashbuckling geeks involved, it wasn’t without some excitement. And some of it came at Windows users’ expense. When defendant Fredrik Neij was questioned regarding the relationship Oded Daniel, an advertiser, had with the technical aspects of the Pirate…

Tech News John Mahoney Feb 19

Your Chance To Join Silent Möbius’ Army Of Demon-Fighting Women

If you’ve never read Kia Asamiya‘s acclaimed Silent Möbius manga series, now’s your chance. UDON Entertainment is publishing the complete 12-volume saga, in restored editions, with unpublished material. In Silent Möbius, humanity uses a cyclotron to open a trans-dimensional portal, but it backfires and winds up letting extra-dimensional demons known as the Lucifer Hawks into…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 19

Internet Explorer 8’s Incompatability List Is Really Sad

Microsoft’s “compatibility list” of sites that don’t render correctly in Internet Exploder 8 RC1—requiring some non-standards mojo from the browser to look right—numbers some 2,400. They’re off-the-beaten-path sites like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and YouTube. Mary Jo Foley posted what looks like the entire list of broken sites, but here are some of the more ridiculous…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 19

Guy Loses a Chunk of His Finger In Neodymium Magnet Accident (NSFW)

What you are looking at is a hunk of finger from some poor bastard named Dirk caught between two large neodymium magnets. Good lord that is disgusting. Dirk had an accident. Below is the X-ray showing his totally crushed finger tip. It took 1 1/2 hours of surgery to remove the shattered bones and repair…

Tech News Sean Fallon Feb 19

Two Robots Named John Have Questions For God

Friday night’s television included two androids named John asking questions of God, notes religious blog Exploring Our Matrix. Terminator’s John Henry asked about “ball-and-socket joints,” and Battlestar’s John Cavil ranted about gelatinous eyeballs. The artificial intelligence John Henry’s question, on Terminator, came in the context of playing with Bionicle toys, and wondering why God didn’t…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Feb 19

Cross Battle Adapter Brings Xbox 360 Controller to PS3, With Rumble

It’s the Holy Grail of self-loathing DualShock gamers. Ditch Sony’s controller for Microsoft’s with the XCM’s latest, fully functional Cross Battle Adapter. The adapter plugs into your PS3’s USB port where it accepts wired Xbox 360 controllers. Beyond mere “it works!” functionality along with new rumble support, you can also toggle turbo on any button—which…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 19

Mannequin Lamps Make Our Sex Lives Feel Very Lame

These mannequin-inspired lamps, aptly named At Your Command, are the most awkwardly sexy lighting devices since Mr. Parker’s “major award” from The Christmas Story. From designers at Daniel Loves Objects, the At Your Command lamps evoke the intense imagery of a censored orgy filled with a mutant race of man in which skin is made…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 19

The Space Car Artist Who Will Make the Tron 2 Lightcycles Throb

Daniel Simon has designed cars for VW & Bugatti, but his real passion is vehicles like this one from beyond the galaxy. Now he’s relocated to Los Angeles to work on Tron 2. While he was designing cars for VW, Simon also designed cars for a fictional company located in another galaxy called Cosmic Motors.…

Movies Annalee Newitz Feb 19

Mirrored Ping Pong Table is Great for Swinging Bachelors and Flashy Drug Dealers

Nothing says “I know how to party” like a ping pong table completely covered in mirrors. After all, you can’t do lines off a regular ping pong table, right? The table, titled “Reflection” (Oh, now I get it) is an art piece by Rirkrit Tiravanija, and it’s on display at NYEHaus on Gramercy Park in…

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 19

Science Fiction Publishing Has Gotten Way Bigger, And Yet Way Smaller

You’ve got all these smaller groups in the field that are no longer able to really talk to each other, so there’s less of a central conversation… You can’t just stick a rocketship on the cover of a book and expect it to sell. That’ll work for the Hard SF readership, but that’s not going…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Feb 19

Console Controller Soaps Wash Up Your Sweaty Gaming Hands

Brilliant soap maker (soapsmith? soapist?) Digitalsoaps sells bars molded as gaming controllers. The blue olive oil NES controllers are sold out, but you can still get one in orange glycerine, or go for PlayStation. Check out the Etsy shop here—they’re all around five bucks. [Digitalsoaps – Etsy via BBG]

Tech News John Mahoney Feb 19

Wachowskis Not Going Anywhere Near Superman Reboot

That rumor we reported the other day, about Warner Bros. talking to the Wachowskis about rebooting the Superman franchise with a new movie? Apparently, made of the same stuff as the fuel in Speed Racer’s gasoline-free cars. Slashfilm heard from two informed sources, who said there have been no Super-discussions with the Wachowskis at any…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Feb 19

Lightning Review: Duracell Powerpack 450 Talking Portable Power Unit

The Gadget: Duracell’s Powerpack 450 is a portable power source for AC, DC and USB-powered electronics. It also features a vehicle jump starter, air compressor, flashlight and a voice feature. https://gizmodo.com/the-duracell-powerpack-450-talks-you-through-a-jump-sta-5079783 The Price:$120-150 The Verdict: As a portable power source, the Powerpack 450 is outstanding. It cranks out 340W continuous (450W peak) of AC juice,…

Reviews Sean Fallon Feb 19

You Can Now Buy the Awesome SNES Gamepad for Wii

The SNES gamepad for Wii was formerly available exclusively through Club Nintendo Japan (a customer loyalty program), but now a third party exporter/retailer has gotten their hands on a few to sell. https://gizmodo.com/snes-controller-for-wii-unboxed-looks-incredibly-authe-380572 This SNES pad for Wii is pretty much just like the Classic Controller, but it’s identical in feel and style to the…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 19

Dragonball 2 Is Already In The Pipeline

Even before Dragonball Evolution comes out, there’s already a screenplay for Dragonball II, according to star Justin Chatwin. So what happens? “The second one goes more into the whole legacy and the genealogy of Dragonball. It goes more in-depth into a real Dragonball series, the kind of intergalactic world of Dragonball.” [DB The Movie]

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Feb 19

Ricoh CX1 Point and Shoot Does In-Camera High Dynamic Range, 120fps Slow-Mo

Even if most high dynamic range photos on Flickr make you want to barf, it’s still incredibly useful for creating images that match what the naked eye sees. The Ricoh CX1 does HDR images in-camera. It’s not the first (a few Pentax DSLRs do it, the K20 and K200) but it may very well be…

Tech News John Mahoney Feb 19

Maingear Prelude 2: 3D Vision Gaming PC in a Box

Culture Is Rewriting Your Genetic Code

Guitar Hero Coming to Android Phones

iPhone Glove Battlemodo

Pirate Bay Trial Watch Day 4: Oh Snap: Windows Gets Dissed, IFPI Gets Hacked

Your Chance To Join Silent Möbius’ Army Of Demon-Fighting Women

Internet Explorer 8’s Incompatability List Is Really Sad

Guy Loses a Chunk of His Finger In Neodymium Magnet Accident (NSFW)

Two Robots Named John Have Questions For God

Cross Battle Adapter Brings Xbox 360 Controller to PS3, With Rumble

Mannequin Lamps Make Our Sex Lives Feel Very Lame

The Space Car Artist Who Will Make the Tron 2 Lightcycles Throb

Mirrored Ping Pong Table is Great for Swinging Bachelors and Flashy Drug Dealers

Science Fiction Publishing Has Gotten Way Bigger, And Yet Way Smaller

Console Controller Soaps Wash Up Your Sweaty Gaming Hands

Wachowskis Not Going Anywhere Near Superman Reboot

Lightning Review: Duracell Powerpack 450 Talking Portable Power Unit

You Can Now Buy the Awesome SNES Gamepad for Wii

Dragonball 2 Is Already In The Pipeline

Ricoh CX1 Point and Shoot Does In-Camera High Dynamic Range, 120fps Slow-Mo

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