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SlingPlayer For BlackBerry Launching in Public Beta Before Next Year, Just

SlingPlayer for BlackBerry, which was previewed in a usable state nearly a year ago, is finally coming to BlackBerry in a public beta. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-slingplayer-mobile-blackberry-version-340349 The player will run on most BlackBerry phones, with the notable exception of the Storm, which it seems would be best suited for such purposes. According to the company, the app…

Tech News John Herrman

Lighters Will Blend, But Also Ultimately Pwn “Will It Blend” Blender

Will lighters blend? Yes, they will. And the explosive results, filmed in slo-mo, have finally warmed me up to this otherwise inscrutable internet meme. Good thing we didn’t try this at the Giz Gallery! [Kotaro269] https://gizmodo.com/today-at-giz-gallery-live-gadget-blending-at-3pm-5103439

Tech News Elaine Chow

Mobile Spy Can Now Secretly Record Your iPhone SMS, Calling Data

Mobile Spy, that terrible piece of technology that silently monitors smartphones without the user knowing, has come to the iPhone. Goodbye safe haven of SMS and calling privacy, it was nice knowing you. https://gizmodo.com/retina-x-mobile-spy-for-smartphones-keeps-tabs-on-that-256519 The app, created by Retina-X Studios, runs in total stealth mode so that users don’t know its even on their phones.…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Phillipe Starck Zikmu Speakers Belong in the Living Rooms of Those With Inscrutable Accents

On some level, I know that these minimalistic wireless speakers by Phillipe Starck are classy works of art. But when I look at them, all I can think about is Nuni and Nooni Schoener. Zikmu, a collaboration between speaker company Parrot and noted super designer Phillipe Starck, is a set of 2.5 feet tall speakers…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Art: Ohm

It looks as if Tomas Schneider’s piece, Ohm, is of electric demigods bowing to each other a moment before the telsa coils on their heads toss off arcing streams of electrons. It might be how they’d converse. [behance]

Tech News Brian Lam

BigDog Quadruped Robot, Or Something Like It, Spooks Tokyo Streets

The Land of Godzilla now has another monster terrorizing its streets-Boston Dynamic’s BigDog robot! Only… aren’t those feet? This isn’t BigDog Beta, is it? No wonder the Japanese look more puzzled than scared. [JapanProbe] https://gizmodo.com/new-video-of-bigdog-quadruped-robot-is-so-stunning-its-368651

Tech News Elaine Chow

Weather Rocket Causes a Wang to Explode During Cremation

A Chinese man, killed by a weather rocket, was thought to have died from getting struck by lightning until his body exploded at his own funeral. Wang Diange was attending a wake in his home when an explosion took off half of his roof and left him dead in the wreckage. Because it had been…

Tech News Andi Wang

Boing Boing Gadgets’ Hackintosh-Netbook Compatibility Chart

Spoiler: If you’re going to buy a netbook for Hackintoshing, try the MSI Wind or a Dell Mini 9. Rob explains more at BBG. [Boing Boing Gadgets]

Tech News Brian Lam

iLuv i9500 iPod Dock Has 4 CD Drives Too Many

This iPod dock by iLuv is not really an iPod dock, but a full fledged stereo with subwoofer. And four CD players. Is that right? I mean, I make fun of gadgets with just ONE CD player and this has four CD players. FOUR. [Gadgetreview]

Tech News Brian Lam

Toshiba 512GB Solid State Laptop Drive: Come to Papa

256GB SSDs were a possibility in my mind as storage in a fantasy rig. But a 512GB 2.5-inch laptop drive is big enough to dream about from the depths of my storage fanboy heart-of-hearts. TOSHIBA LAUNCHES INDUSTRY’S FIRST 512GB SOLID STATE DRIVE and NEXT- GENERATION SSD FAMILY USING 43nm MLC NAND New SSD Family Achieves…

Tech News Brian Lam

Samuel L. Jackson Did His Own Makeup In The Spirit

Director Frank Miller rewrote the Spirit script to accommodate ScarJo and let Samuel Jackson improvise — and even reinvent his character’s look. We met the director and cast, and learned just how much they collaborated. Letting Frank Miller gallop across The Spirit film set unedited opened the doors for the actors to do so as…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Time Travel Tales Go Mainstream – Sort Of

With Spanish time travel mindbender Timecrimes getting rave reviews, and the arty Primer becoming a new cult classic, it seems that the time travel story has gone from pulp mainstay to high art. https://gizmodo.com/time-travel-is-like-heroin-in-primer-321829 Perhaps the only precursor to today’s arty time-leaping flicks is Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys, a tough story about a man adrift…

Movies Annalee Newitz

GPS Homing Device Remembers Where You Stashed All Those Dead Bodies

Another piece of brilliance you never knew you needed from the venerable Hammacher Schlemmer: A simple GPS device that points the way back to a single spot. That’s it, for $80. [Hammacher-Schlemmer via Chip Chick]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

X-Touch Mixer Faucet Is Precise and Informative

The X-Touch Mixer faucet trades analog knobs or levers for buttons so you can regulate exactly what temperature the water is. Better, it has a digital readout to show you exactly what temp it is. X-Touch is a product of Newform Italy, and looks to be either a sink faucet or a bath faucet. Either…

Tech News Jason Chen

Turkish Star Trek Is Actually Trying Quite Hard

Here’s the Turkish version of Star Trek, which attempts to copy a large chunk of the “Man Trap” episode almost word for word. Click through for more, plus Turkish E.T. and Turkish Superman. We paid homage to Turkish Star Wars the other day in our post about remakes, and people brought up the topic of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Robot Porn Film Is Industrialpunkish Kama Sutra (NSFW)

Underwire’s Annaliza Savage has published an intriguing video on The Sex Life of Robots, which shows animated bots made out of modified Barbie dolls and G.I. Joes doing naughty naughty things in gritty robot land. Note: I know that many won’t consider dolls having sex NSFW-I don’t-but in case you are a prude version of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Spirit of St. Louis Aerial Clock Radio Is Beautiful 1920s Nostalgia

It really is stunning. The time is displayed across four separate digital windows, like an altometer. I wish they stripped out the radio to make it even more essential. [Verdict via Chipchick via BBG]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

ASCII Art, Since 1948

Before there were ASCII portraits of Dwight [PDF], there was this: “Keyboard Art,” from Popular Mechanics, October 1948.

Tech News John Mahoney

Beware, Sentients – This World Is Not Yours

It’s a poddish alien landscape from MMO Tabula Rasa, by designer Chris J. Anderson. He’s left NCsoft, and the gamemaker’s loss is our gain, because he’s posting never-before-seen images from his time there. I love this image, above, of a totally industrial landscape. And below, you’ve got organic, firey goo. The premise of Tabula Rasa,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Sony Slowly Backing Away from UMD, Snuggling With Digital Distribution

The rumors Sony is working on a PSP2? Pure confusion, says Sony exec John Koller. Rumormongers are somehow mistaking its push to digital distribution, away from UMD, as work on PSP2. Uh huh. [SAI] https://gizmodo.com/sony-claims-theyre-not-working-on-psp2-5108377

Tech News Matt Buchanan

SlingPlayer For BlackBerry Launching in Public Beta Before Next Year, Just

Lighters Will Blend, But Also Ultimately Pwn “Will It Blend” Blender

Mobile Spy Can Now Secretly Record Your iPhone SMS, Calling Data

Phillipe Starck Zikmu Speakers Belong in the Living Rooms of Those With Inscrutable Accents

Art: Ohm

BigDog Quadruped Robot, Or Something Like It, Spooks Tokyo Streets

Weather Rocket Causes a Wang to Explode During Cremation

Boing Boing Gadgets’ Hackintosh-Netbook Compatibility Chart

iLuv i9500 iPod Dock Has 4 CD Drives Too Many

Toshiba 512GB Solid State Laptop Drive: Come to Papa

Samuel L. Jackson Did His Own Makeup In The Spirit

Time Travel Tales Go Mainstream – Sort Of

GPS Homing Device Remembers Where You Stashed All Those Dead Bodies

X-Touch Mixer Faucet Is Precise and Informative

Turkish Star Trek Is Actually Trying Quite Hard

Robot Porn Film Is Industrialpunkish Kama Sutra (NSFW)

Spirit of St. Louis Aerial Clock Radio Is Beautiful 1920s Nostalgia

ASCII Art, Since 1948

Beware, Sentients – This World Is Not Yours

Sony Slowly Backing Away from UMD, Snuggling With Digital Distribution

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