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Griffin Adds Microphone and Controls to TuneBuds For the iPhone, iPods

Griffin has announced updated versions of their TuneBuds Mobile and SmartTalk products for both versions of the iPhone, the iPod nano 4G, iPod touch 2G, and iPod classic (120 GB). TuneBuds are intended to be an alternative to Apple’s upcoming premium in-ear headphones—both offer a built-in microphone and remote for answering calls and controlling playback,…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 11

Gadget Deals of the Day

Want a Guitar Hero III Les Paul Bundle for $39.99? We got it. Want a Gateway 17″ Widescreen LCD monitor for $99? That too. A bigger Optiquest 22″ Widescreen display for $150? Yes. Maybe a 4GB SD HC card with adapter for just $9 (nine dollars)? Totally. Hit the jump for today’s gadget deals, with…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 11

Pushing Daisies Isn’t Dead – Yet

Click to viewMany Heroes fans are now actively hoping for the end of ABC’s Pushing Daisies so that show creator Bryan Fuller can return to NBC’s troubled superpowered soap. That’s why it’s worth taking a quick look at just how the show is actually performing, and just how likely it is that Heroes showrunner Tim…

Television Graeme McMillan Nov 11

Gmail Now With Voice Chat and Video

Google just added voice and video chat capabilities to Gmail, the perennially in beta web mail program. It uses a special web browser plug-in available for PC and Mac, which requires Firefox, IE, Chrome, and a camera. The plug-in only weights 2MB. For now there’s no video support in Google Chat, but you will be…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 11

Will The Surrogates Be The Next Blade Runner?

Surrogates, the Bruce Willis cyber-avatar movie coming next fall, is “cool and sort of Blade Runner-ish,” says producer Elizabeth Banks, star of Zack and Miri Make A Porno. And the tale of a future where people stay home and their robot “surrogates” go out into the world could actually turn into a trilogy. Graphic novel…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Nov 11

Push Will Actually Be Better Than Jumper

Your next favorite angsty teen superpower movie, Push, features more weird powers than you might have realized. Sci Fi Wire got to see a batch of new scenes from the movie about superkids on the run, starring Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning, and they include new signs of just how freakrageous this movie will be.…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Nov 11

Gizmodo Gallery: Our Wonderful World of Gadgets On Display in NYC

This holiday season we’re taking a break from our usual schedule of eating candy canes to throw an event called Gizmodo Gallery. “Gizmodo Gallery?” you ask, “What’s that?” It’s basically the best of Gizmodo come to life, in NYC meatspace from the 4th to the 7th of December. UPDATE: I’m rolling a few device details,…

Tech News Brian Lam Nov 11

Techie Visa Card Features Buttons and Screen to Generate CCV Dynamically

In the interest of thwarting credit card theft, Visa is testing some pretty interesting card technology with a handful of European banks. Using what appears to be Visa’s mutant hybrid of a credit card and a pocket calculator, users can enter their PIN into the card itself and have a security code generated on the…

Privacy & Security Mark Wilson Nov 11

Circuit City Gets a New Lease on Life (Literally)

Circuit City might yet outdo Best Buy on Black Friday deals for another year. Bank of America has given Circuit City a $1.1 billion loan that’ll help cover its operating expenses until it’s expected to come out of bankruptcy next year, giving it a second chance. Still, I don’t see how even a billion dollars…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 11

Don’t Support Illicit Christmas Light Cartels

The next time some tough guy on the street tries to pressure you into buying cheap Christmas bulbs JUST SAY NO! Apparently, the market for counterfeit holiday decorations is increasing at an alarming pace—and these lights can pose serious safety hazards. They may try and sucker you in by saying things like “this is the…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 11

Fictional Companies That Destroy the World

Click to viewWALL*E, Pixar’s tale of a future Earth destroyed by corporate greed, seems prescient now in a world of bank bailouts, undulating stock markets, and a global credit crisis. The end of the world could come from an alien invasion or a natural disaster, but it could also come from the companies we interact…

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 11

Your Neighborhood Nuke Reactor

The Hyperion Power Module Neighborhood Nuclear Reactor is the size of a hot tub and could provide power for your whole neighborhood! At least, that’s what their website claims. Bill Christensen over at Technovelgy points out that other companies have claimed this before, and it came to nothing. But the desire for neighborhood nukes keeps…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 11

Tritton AX Pro Puts Eight Speakers In Your Gaming Headset

The Tritton AX Pro is not a bad looking wired surround sound headset that happens to be compatible with PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 audio and chatting. It features full Dolby Digital 5.1 hardware decoding, along with inline adjustments to independent front, center, rear and subwoofer channels—comprised of eight speakers in all.The catch is, of…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 11

iTunes Store Gets a $5 Movie Bin

Apple might be sailing skippy amidst the flood of financial doom, but it doesn’t mean they aren’t sensitive to the shrinking disposable income of their customers. Or you know, they just want to take the movie store metaphor a bit further. Either way, the iTunes Store now has a bargain bin for movies—a weekly selection…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 11

Baby Ogopogo Found in Canadian Lake?

A team of indie filmmakers just wrapped The Beast of Bottomless Lake, their pseudo-documentary on the legendary Ogopogo monster, a massive creature said to live in British Columbia’s Lake Okanagan. And now, a real-life documentary crew from the History Channel claims to have found a “baby Ogopogo” in an underwater cave at the lake. They’ve…

Television Annalee Newitz Nov 11

Science Fiction’s Oscar Domination Has Begun

Whatever happens in other categories this year, science fiction is going to own the best feature animation category at the Oscars, mark my words. Fourteen films have been submitted “for your consideration” to get on the Academy Awards ballot, and the biggest stand outs out of the lot are all science fiction films. Could the…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 11

Bond on Blu-ray Contest Winner

Congratulations to Dave McCall for winning our 007 on Blu-ray contest. He will be enjoying a Bond fix a little earlier than the rest of us now that he has 6 Bond titles on Blu-ray and a shiny new PS3 to play them on.

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 11

You Aren’t the Only One Who Never Watches the Serious Movies You Netflix

Click to viewIt’s a common practice: you put a bunch of movies in your Netflix queue that are classics. You know, long, serious, depressing movies that you feel like you should have seen by now but haven’t. Then they arrive and sit untouched for weeks while you watch Wayne’s World 2 for the fifth time.…

Tech News Adam Frucci Nov 11

Britain Goes Fannish Over New Trek Footage

JJ Abrams and Paramount screened four brand new, entirely completed scenes from next year’s Star Trek to British journalists yesterday, and the first reports are already online. According to those lucky enough to see what the rest of us have in store for us next May, the footage was “absolutely amazing;” Empire Magazine loving them…

Movies Graeme McMillan Nov 11

Electronic Wristlet Helps You Nag Your Children From Afar

With all of the dangers lurking out there these days, you probably shouldn’t let your toddler out of your sight for any length of time. However, should they escape your clutches this electronic wristlet concept could deliver text and graphic symbol messages to the child via a solar-powered display. My thought on this is that…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 11

Griffin Adds Microphone and Controls to TuneBuds For the iPhone, iPods

Gadget Deals of the Day

Pushing Daisies Isn’t Dead – Yet

Gmail Now With Voice Chat and Video

Will The Surrogates Be The Next Blade Runner?

Push Will Actually Be Better Than Jumper

Gizmodo Gallery: Our Wonderful World of Gadgets On Display in NYC

Techie Visa Card Features Buttons and Screen to Generate CCV Dynamically

Circuit City Gets a New Lease on Life (Literally)

Don’t Support Illicit Christmas Light Cartels

Fictional Companies That Destroy the World

Your Neighborhood Nuke Reactor

Tritton AX Pro Puts Eight Speakers In Your Gaming Headset

iTunes Store Gets a $5 Movie Bin

Baby Ogopogo Found in Canadian Lake?

Science Fiction’s Oscar Domination Has Begun

Bond on Blu-ray Contest Winner

You Aren’t the Only One Who Never Watches the Serious Movies You Netflix

Britain Goes Fannish Over New Trek Footage

Electronic Wristlet Helps You Nag Your Children From Afar

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