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Fraudsters Now Targeting MobileMe Subscribers

Mails pretending to be banks or any other institution, asking you to log into a fake site are not new, but this one targeting MobileMe users is strange, since MobileMe is not very popular. A reader, who is a MobileMe subscriber, received this fake email today. It says: Welcome, Your annual subscription is set to…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 11

Lamborghini Shoes Are Not Made for Walking

As a women’s shoes fetishist, I’m glad these Lamborghini Gallardo stilettos are just a concept. Unless they come with a voluptuous Swede in a tiny bikini so my eyes automagically look in another direction. [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/lamborghini-heels-give-new-meaning-to-term-hot-shoe-5148838

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 11

Authors Guild Claims Kindle 2 Text-to-Speech Somehow Violates Copyright

The notoriously litigious ink-lovers at the Writers Guild are mad at Amazon again—this time for the Kindle 2‘s text-to-speech feature. Apparently, Amazon is effectively stealing and giving away audiobooks, or something. The Guild claim, as printed in the WSJ: They don’t have the right to read a book out loud,” said Paul Aiken, executive director…

Commerce John Herrman Feb 11

Eco-Neighbuzz Apartment Buzzer Converts Your Building Into a Local Facebook Directory

Door buzzers/intercoms are one of those fugly things in your house that nobody pays attention to. Which is precisely the contrary of this Eco-Neighbuzz, a beautiful intercom that allows you to exchange messages with neighbours. You can think about the Eco-Neighbuzz as a way to build a local Facebook in your own building. Neighbours would…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 11

Firefox Mobile Pre-Alpha Now Available for VGA Windows Mobile Phones

Just as Mozilla’s developer wiki cryptically promised last week, a pre-alpha build of Firefox Mobile ‘Fennec’ has been made available for the HTC Touch Pro, though it’ll work on many other VGA (480×640) WinMo phones. https://gizmodo.com/firefox-mobile-headed-for-windows-mobile-as-early-as-ne-5140839 The build is very rough and probably not usable for day-to-day browsing—early reports suggest that the loading time is…

Tech News John Herrman Feb 11

Turn-By-Turn Voice Navigation Comes to Jailbroken iPhones

Six months after the App Store was launched, the iPhone app gray market lives on: turn-by-turn navigation has come to jailbroken iPhones in the form of xGPS. UPDATED xGPS uses Google’s map data and driving directions, adding a real-time navigation readout and a voice engine. You can also select a map area to download ahead…

Tech News John Herrman Feb 11

Motion Comics, Half-Animated Comic Books, Coming to iTunes

Hankering to read the next Ultimate Spiderman issue on your iPhone? Motion comics, those semi-animated slide shows of conventional comic books, will be hitting Apple’s iTunes store soon. Marvel’s Joe Quesada said the project would be “not quite comics… not quite animation.” The first Motion Comic to be offered, “Astonishing X-Men #1-10″ will be directed…

Tech News Elaine Chow Feb 11

Valentine’s Day Magnets Favor the Strongly Sensitive Type

Looking for something to decorate your fridge with this V-Day, here’s magnets of men weeping. Maybe it’s just me, but if I really wanted to see grown ass men cry, I’d just start dating again. $11 at BlueQ[Nerd Approved]

Tech News Elaine Chow Feb 11

Space Battleship Yamato Cruises into Lego Form

Fans of that 70s-era anime Space Battleship Yamato (or Star Blazers, if you saw it in the U.S.), here’s an amazing LEGO replica of the cruiser by Vincent Cheung. [Brickshelf via Akihabara News]

Tech News Elaine Chow Feb 11

SMART Educational Multitouch Table Will Learn Yer Kids Real Good

The SMART Table, that Microsoft Surface-esque multitouch table specifically made for kids, is now out and making its way into classrooms. Each table comes with six applications out of the box and costs $8000. https://gizmodo.com/smart-table-for-kids-is-like-a-cheaper-funner-er-micro-5066962 Teachers can customize activities on the tablet by using the SMART Table Toolkit on their PC or Mac. The new…

Tech News Elaine Chow Feb 11

Snowmodo: The Secret To Making Great Snow Gadgets

When I moved to SF, all the seasons melted together. But at Lake Tahoe, in this Winter-wonderland, what makes a good gadget is an entirely different thing. Here’s my list or requirements. (I am strictly speaking about electronic gadgets, although many pieces of camping and ski and snowboard gear also carry these attributes.) 1. Buttons…

Tech News Brian Lam Feb 11

Sony Ericsson C903 Cybershot Phone Comes Complete With Geotagging, Flickr

The Sony Ericsson C903 Cybershot comes in a slider form factor and has a 2.4-inch screen, 5-megapixel camera, face detection and geotagging. The phone also comes with a full suite of photo-specific features, such as Flickr Uploadr, ShutterSmile (snaps when it detects a smile) and BestPic (takes 9 rapid-fire photos, keeps the best) enhancements, as…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 10

Screw June 12: 40 Percent of TV Stations Will Abandon Analog Next Week Anyway

Even though the mandatory switchover date from analog to digital will be June 12 soon, about 681 (or 40 percent of) television stations will stop broadcasting analog by the end of next week. https://gizmodo.com/digital-tv-change-over-date-moved-to-june-12-5146593 Yup, everything’s going to plan. [Reuters]

Television Erica Ho Feb 10

Just Call It The Booty-Call Effect

The Butterfly Effect 2 is pretty much a waste, except for this insanely sleazy moment. Can Nick travel backwards in time to his own bathroom sex, in time to stop his ex-girlfriend from bleeding out? Sadly, the answer is no. Nick has the power to alter the timelines – and travel backwards in time, on…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Feb 10

Secondrun.tv Will Bring Hulu to Windows Media Center Soon

Ok, so it might not be an official Hulu-Microsoft partnership, but Secondrun.tv, an upcoming third-party plugin for Windows Media Center will allow you to watch Hulu videos, along with others, from within the app. News of the Secondrun.tv first appeared on The Green Button forums, and is being developed by a forum poster calling himself…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 10

A Beautiful Portrait Of Rorschach’s Biggest Fan

Cigar-chomping Danny Woodburn as Big Figure stars in an exclusive up-close-and-personal portrait, from Clay Enos’ Watchmen Portraits book. It’s so good, if we were vigilante Walter Kovacs, we’d hang it on our wall. Enos was the on set photographer for Zack Snyder‘s Watchmen. Not only did Enos create all of the gorgeous old timey newspaper…

Movies Meredith Woerner Feb 10

The Twirly Danish Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010

Bjarke Ingels Group‘s (BIG) Danish Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010 will be a perpetual loop—if you won’t be dizzy from the design, you’ll be dizzy from how breathtaking it is. Visitors will get a little taste of Danish culture with the BIG’s Danish Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010. In their proposed pavilion, BIG…

Tech News Erica Ho Feb 10

Kindle 2 Book Jackets Add $30 Worth of Class

M-Edge’s $30 Kindle 2 book jackets are designed to do what real book jackets do—provide a protective cover and a fancy exterior to better present your reading materials to the outside world. https://gizmodo.com/kindle-2-359-thinner-more-storage-and-it-reads-to-y-5149552 They’re designed for the Kindle 1 and the Kindle 2, and are made out of “genuine leather”. It’s even compatible with their…

Commerce Erica Ho Feb 10

NBS E. V. A. and Butterfly Speakers Look Like They’ll Kill You

NBS’ E. V. A. and Butterfly speaker systems are freakishly awesome and horrifying all at the same time, especially with those pointed edges. Cause, really, I thought it was a bench. The speakers aren’t obvious: the woofer faces the floor, and the apertures are on the side. All the sound reaches the listener indirectly. The…

Tech News Erica Ho Feb 10

Machinery With Organizational Fetishes Come to Life in Stop Motion Short

Since CGI has rendered stop-motion filmmaking all but obsolete, it’s nice to see someone doing something fresh with the format. In this case, John Douglas Powers has created a mini-masterpiece using various machinery. In the short, entitled “The Collector,” a helping hand, in a very wall-e-esque manner, roams the landscape in search of various objects…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 10

Fraudsters Now Targeting MobileMe Subscribers

Lamborghini Shoes Are Not Made for Walking

Authors Guild Claims Kindle 2 Text-to-Speech Somehow Violates Copyright

Eco-Neighbuzz Apartment Buzzer Converts Your Building Into a Local Facebook Directory

Firefox Mobile Pre-Alpha Now Available for VGA Windows Mobile Phones

Turn-By-Turn Voice Navigation Comes to Jailbroken iPhones

Motion Comics, Half-Animated Comic Books, Coming to iTunes

Valentine’s Day Magnets Favor the Strongly Sensitive Type

Space Battleship Yamato Cruises into Lego Form

SMART Educational Multitouch Table Will Learn Yer Kids Real Good

Snowmodo: The Secret To Making Great Snow Gadgets

Sony Ericsson C903 Cybershot Phone Comes Complete With Geotagging, Flickr

Screw June 12: 40 Percent of TV Stations Will Abandon Analog Next Week Anyway

Just Call It The Booty-Call Effect

Secondrun.tv Will Bring Hulu to Windows Media Center Soon

A Beautiful Portrait Of Rorschach’s Biggest Fan

The Twirly Danish Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010

Kindle 2 Book Jackets Add $30 Worth of Class

NBS E. V. A. and Butterfly Speakers Look Like They’ll Kill You

Machinery With Organizational Fetishes Come to Life in Stop Motion Short

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