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Actually, Barack Obama Doesn’t Use a Zune

After A Philadelphia City Paper blogger lit the Internet on fire with a hot scoop on our president elect’s shockingly unorthodox choice of digital music player, the Obama PR machine, obviously in full damage-control mode, has swooped in to set the record straight. https://gizmodo.com/barack-obama-uses-a-zune-5101522 “The President-elect uses an iPod,” a spokeskman told the Wall Street…

Tech News John Mahoney

Contest Reminder: Last Chance to Win a Toshiba X305 Gaming Laptop

Haven’t come up with your ultimate laptop design yet? Better hurry, today is your last chance to score a X305 laptop. Check out the contest page for all the details on how to enter. https://gizmodo.com/toshiba-qosmio-x305-powerhouse-gaming-laptop-leaked-5016263

Tech News Sean Fallon

Takumi Crash Calculator Is Life in a Plastic Box

This Takumi calculator is a perfect metaphor of life: Its layout looks like a puzzle and when you try to solve any problem, it crashes at random. Can’t get any better than that for $60. Unless it spontaneously bursts in flames. [Idea Frames via Technabob]

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

Dollhouse A Show Of Two Halves

Time Magazine’s James Poniewozik has seen the first episode of Joss Whedon’s troubled Dollhouse and – appropriately for a show about characters with multiple personalities – he can’t quite make up his mind about how good it is. Poniewozik’s review is cautiously optimistic about the show’s potential – It was both better and worse than…

Television Graeme McMillan

OCZ CrossOver Flash Drive Features microSD Expansion

If we looked between the couch cushions, we could probably find 20GB or so in various roaming flash media. Yet it all goes unused whenever we pull out the trusty USB stick. The CrossOver by OCZ is a simple but clever design for a flash dongle. Coming in 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB sizes, the aluminum-constructed…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Happiness is a Contagion

A twenty-year study of nearly 5000 people in the United States has revealed that happiness is such a contagious emotion that your sense of well-being could affect strangers who are three degrees of separation from you. Two researchers reported in the British Medical Journal yesterday that they learned a number of other surprising things about…

io9 Annalee Newitz

A Master List of Holiday Online Ordering Deadlines For Last Minute Shoppers

Dealhack has compiled a list of major online retailers’ ordering deadlines for shipments that need to arrive before Santa does. If you suffer from terminal-illness-grade procrastination like me, this is your list. All of the majors (Amazon, Best Buy, New Egg) are covered, as well as tons of others from flowers, shoes-even mail-order dry-aged steaks,…

Tech News John Mahoney

Every Sighting of the “Observer” from Fringe

Mad science series Fringe may not be back until January, but the mysterious “Observer” who pops up in nearly every episode will no doubt continue to prey upon your OCD imaginations. He’s the guy we see in one episode eating a sandwich comprised almost entirely of chili peppers and hot sauce – a perfect snack…

Television Annalee Newitz

Fuller To Finish Heroes’ Season In Style

With Pushing Daisies pushing up daisies over at ABC, show creator Bryan Fuller is heading back to NBC’s Heroes. He’s expected to be in place in time to bring the “Fugitives” arc to a close in April next year. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Fuller is in talks for a two-year deal with Universal Media…

Television Graeme McMillan

NASA’s Next Mars Mission Gets Delayed Until 2011

Looks like Mars Phoenix (or Mars Phoenix’s ghost) will have to wait another two years for a new companion—the Mars Science Laboratory, originally planned for a launch next year, has been delayed until 2011. https://gizmodo.com/nasa-scientists-give-up-on-phoenix-resurrection-5102255 It goes to show that the economy’s bad in space, too. But aside from budgetary overages, the MSL is one…

Space & Spaceflight John Mahoney

Keanu Reeves Gives Away Earth Stood Still’s Ending

We tried hard to abstain from toy spoilers, but some new G.I. Joe toy pics are just too good not to post. But we also have rock star spoilers, as Gerard Way talks Watchmen. Meanwhile, Keanu Reeves may have given away the ending of The Day The Earth Stood Still. And there are big changes…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

iPhone Barf Bag Mod is Perfect for Airsick MacGyver

Anyone can fashion a piece of cardboard to hold their iPhone at home, but who has a pile of old boxes and a spare sharpened implement on a plane? (Not you, hopefully.) https://gizmodo.com/the-100-iphone-ipod-touch-stand-made-from-a-piece-of-p-331800 This iPhone/iPod touch mod uses a readily-available airsickness bag to hold your video player hands-free. Amazing, we know, but things only get…

Tech News Mark Wilson

AT&T Wants All Its Smartphones Running the Same OS, Eventually

AT&T plans to run a single mobile OS on all of its branded smartphones, citing the “support nightmare” of maintaining multiple platforms at once. Curiously, this announcement was made at a Symbian conference. Updated 19:26 EST. It’s not entirely clear what AT&T means by this announcement, but one question was addressed right off the bat:…

Tech News John Herrman

Sony’s Enormous Bravia Zoetrope Caught Zoetroping

As reported yesterday, Sony’s new Bravia ad will feature the world’s largest zoetrope, a 10m tribute to those Olde-Tyme Rotational Animation Dee-vices displayed in local children’s museums. You know, with the horses? Here’s a video. Sony is using this 174-year-old technology to draw attention to the new Bravias’ MotionFlow interpolation technology, which guesstimates new frames…

Tech News John Herrman

Samsung Webcam Sensor Handles 720p, Fits Inside Your Laptop Bezel

It’s not the the advent of 720p webcamming that we’re seeing here—it’s just a change that means that it won’t have to look like this, and will probably come built into mainstream notebooks. https://gizmodo.com/hercules-dualpix-hd-high-definition-webcam-196501 Samsung’s new 1/4in CMOS sensor is claimed to produce a 720p images at a full 30FPS, and VGA (640×480) video at…

Gadgets John Herrman

Brain Surgeons Give Mute Man Second Chance to Speak

Brain surgeons at Boston University have enabled a mute man to speak again by implanting an electrode into his brain. The electrode senses when he’s thinking about vowels and reproduces them using a speech synthesizer. The man first lost his ability to speak after head trauma caused extensive bleeding into the pons area of his…

Tech News Elaine Chow

17-Month Trip In Solar Taxi Ends At UN Climate Change Talks in Poland

After 17 grueling months, Swiss adventurer Louis Palmer’s around-the-world trip in a solar-powered car is finally over. Altogether, he traveled 32,000 miles and across 40 countries. https://gizmodo.com/solar-powered-car-attempts-to-circle-globe-as-slowly-as-5046407 Palmer, who touched down at UN climate change talks in Poznan, Poland, said the feat proved that solar power was a viable alternative to carbon-based fuel sources. Though…

Tech News Elaine Chow

Homebrew iPhone App Lets You Reward Sparky From Afar

Wonder what your pets are doing when you’re not home? Here’s a simple homebrew iPhone app that’ll allow you to spy on your dog, and shower him with treats, no matter where you are! With a CD-R spindle, some cardboard and wood scraps, a giant syringe, a webcam, and some glue, Stephen Myer created the…

Tech News Andi Wang

NASA Scientists Give Up on Phoenix Resurrection

It may be extremely difficult, but even after its death, NASA scientists have been trying to resurrect the Phoenix Mars Lander at all costs. Sadly, they gave up last week. Happily, there’s still hope. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-my-farewell-transmission-from-mars-5082385 The Phoenix Lander’s Mission Manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory—Chris Lewicki—said that they “were hoping that another variation in weather…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

Sexually Frustrated Female Supremacists Turn To Lava Lamps [NSFW]

In the bleak future world of the year 2500, women have eliminated male aggression and taken over the world. Men’s only job is to look pretty and pleasure the womenfolk in harems, as you can see from this awesome clip from Last Exit To Earth. But then these too-pretty men become sterile, and suddenly all…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Actually, Barack Obama Doesn’t Use a Zune

Contest Reminder: Last Chance to Win a Toshiba X305 Gaming Laptop

Takumi Crash Calculator Is Life in a Plastic Box

Dollhouse A Show Of Two Halves

OCZ CrossOver Flash Drive Features microSD Expansion

Happiness is a Contagion

A Master List of Holiday Online Ordering Deadlines For Last Minute Shoppers

Every Sighting of the “Observer” from Fringe

Fuller To Finish Heroes’ Season In Style

NASA’s Next Mars Mission Gets Delayed Until 2011

Keanu Reeves Gives Away Earth Stood Still’s Ending

iPhone Barf Bag Mod is Perfect for Airsick MacGyver

AT&T Wants All Its Smartphones Running the Same OS, Eventually

Sony’s Enormous Bravia Zoetrope Caught Zoetroping

Samsung Webcam Sensor Handles 720p, Fits Inside Your Laptop Bezel

Brain Surgeons Give Mute Man Second Chance to Speak

17-Month Trip In Solar Taxi Ends At UN Climate Change Talks in Poland

Homebrew iPhone App Lets You Reward Sparky From Afar

NASA Scientists Give Up on Phoenix Resurrection

Sexually Frustrated Female Supremacists Turn To Lava Lamps [NSFW]

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