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Entrench Gender Norms While Breaking Them With Pink Guitar Hero Controllers

As a chick who’s incredibly into both gaming and tech stuff, one of my biggest pet peeves EVER is the pinkification of girl stuff. Want to make me automatically hate something? Make it a shade of dusted coral. So despite these Aly & AJ-designed Rock Band and Guitar Hero-compatible controllers being in somewhat interesting shapes…

Tech News Elaine Chow Nov 7

EWA System Sucks Drinkable Water Out of Thin Air

While energy issues tend to get a lot more media play, a perhaps even bigger challenge we’ll need to collectively deal with soon is the problem of potable water. Israeli company EWA is hoping to help nations with less fresh water resources get it inexpensively by turning humidity in the air into drinkable fluids. EWA,…

Tech News Elaine Chow Nov 7

Catching Up: Our Readers Are the Best

Hey Jason, I have this ongoing irrational feeling that no one reads us. Which is why when I meet a geek who tells me they spend all day at work wasting time on Gizmodo, it makes me super happy. I had that happen last night at Lucky 13 hanging out with Xeni and the guy…

Tech News Brian Lam Nov 7

60 Minutes Reporter Investigates China’s E-Waste Pits, Gets Attacked

Click to view 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley went to Guiyi, China to document the lives of Chinese e-waste workers there. He was able to get footage of what these pits, which process much of the toxic electronic scrap we in the West throw away, look like—despite being jumped by angry e-waste lot owners and…

Tech News Elaine Chow Nov 7

Sanyo LP-XTC50 Projector Uses Lamp Switching Powers to Last 6000 Hours

In case you need a projector for your business, or just want the biggest, awesomest home theater on the block, Sanyo’s new offering is a pretty good bet. The LP-XTC50 uses dual lamps, which gives you a pretty impressive 6,000 hours in alternate lamp mode, and up to 3,000 hours in regular single-lamp mode. It…

Tech News Elaine Chow Nov 7

Statewide California Bullet Train Project Reduces Road Rage and Increases Happiness

Amongst all the election hoopla this past Tuesday, California voters passed a proposition giving the state $10 billion to begin building a high-speed rail between Northern and Southern California. The Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act, or Proposition 1A, opens up a possibility that Californians may see a bullet train traversing between the two…

Tech News Erica Ho Nov 6

Reserve the BlackBerry Storm At Best Buy With Fully Refundable $50

Can’t wait to get your greasy fingers all over the BlackBerry Storm, especially after the delays that have kept it from our gleaming, gadget-hungry shores? Best Buy is now offering an opportunity for you to make sure it falls into your hands on its release day. For a $50 refundable deposit, you can reserve yourself…

Tech News Elaine Chow Nov 6

Japan Makes First Brain Tissues From Stem Cells

Michael J. Fox and other sufferers of degenerative neurological diseases have new hope. Japanese scientists at the government-backed research institute Riken have created the first functioning human brain tissues from stem cells, a step in curing everything from strokes to multiple sclerosis to paralysis. Even better, there may be a chance that these tissues could…

Health Elaine Chow Nov 6

MacBook Air With Nvidia-Powered H.264 Video Playback Runs Less Toasty

Like the MacBook and MacBook Pro, the new Nvidia-powered MacBook Air also uses hardware-acceleration for H.264 video playback. Benefit: Performance is better (duh), but also important for people who toasted their kibbles ‘n’ bits playing video on the old Air, the new one runs dramatically cooler. One Mac Rumors forum member found that the new…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 6

Freaky 1980s Vampire Striptease Will Pop Your Vein [NSFW]

Imagine your standard 1980s sex comedy, with the dorky guys who want to get laid and the out-of-reach girls who eventually bed (some of) them. And then throw in over-the-top, awesome Grace Jones — she of the crazy androgynous pop performances and memorable Conan the Destroyer moment. Oh and then? Make her a vampire stripper…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 6

New Net Radio Royalty Compromise Sorta Finished, Sorta Sucks

After being saved by a near-miraculous act of Congress, net radio operators are busy negotiating new rates with royalty-collection mobsters SoundExchange that hopefully won’t put them out of business. Pandora CEO Tim Westergren says that while the final deal isn’t expected until next year, “the hard stuff has been done.” He won’t say what the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 6

Custom Metal Gear Solid PS3 Back on eBay, Still Blows Minds for Child’s Play Charity

The awesome custom Metal Gear Solid PS3 created by our supremely talented modder buddy Ramon is back on eBay after its previous buyer didn’t pay up, and it’s just as mind-blowing as it was then: Signed by Hideo Kojima, it’s painted with carbon fiber and midnight black using a digital camouflage technique and has laser-cut…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 6

How to Buy a Liquidation Sale HDTV at Circuit City and Not Get Screwed (Hint: It’s Hard)

We’d already warned you that your local dead Circuit City wouldn’t let a great liquidation deal go without a fight, but goddamn, they are not playing. Besides the standard trick of bumping the pre-sale price to eat into the paltry discount, HD Guru (who helped us buy an HDTV like a pro) runs down all…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 6

Kazakhstan Getting Futuristic Architectural Overhaul

Jak sie masz! My name-a Borat. You see building on top? That is where I pick up many prostitute in Kazakhstan. Building maker Eric Owen Moss take down this special place to put up his crazy space building. Now where do the prostitutes go? How my sister find job? What they think this is? Dubai?…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 6

“Beauty Machine” Makes Every Face a Pretty Face

Beauty is not the stuff of poetry anymore; it can be quantified and generated automatically via computer. At least, that’s the claim of a group of researchers in Israel who have built a new software tool that can convert any face into the face of a supermodel. Computer scientist Daniel Cohen-Or, lead researcher on the…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 6

Biogeek Novelist Explains How To Make Your Jargon Into A Beacon Of Awesomeness

Jennifer Rohn is a cell biologist at University College London, and the founder of biogeek webzine LabLit.com. She’s also the author of a new romantic science thriller, Experimental Heart. So if anybody would know how to present complex scientific topics in a comprehensible way to a lay audience, it would be she. She’s been writing…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Nov 6

Claw Bike Storage From ABC’s “American Inventor” Available For Pre-Order

If you caught ABC’s “American Inventor” last season you may remember “The Gladiator Claw” bicycle storage device as one of the finalists. Well, the folks behind the Claw have used the startup money earned from the show to turn their idea of a push-button catch and release storage hook into reality. Basically, it is a…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 6

Heroes’ Most Ridiculous Mutant Power So Far: The Deadly Splash

The first promo for NBC’s new Heroes webisodes is out and what wonders may cease we’ve got a whole new crop of ridiculous powers to challenge Postie’s magic scream. Santiago, the character who loves soccer so much he’s either playing the sport or in the uniform for the entire promo, has the ability to run…

Television Meredith Woerner Nov 6

Mgestyk Gesture Control System Will Make Your Mouse and Keyboard Obselete

We’ve seen gesture controls in gadgets before, but Mgestyk Technologies wants to bring them to your home PC. Using only a 3D camera and proprietary software, the Mgestyk gesture control system is able to capture small hand movements and translate them into commands. These commands can be applied to almost any windows application, including video…

Tech News Seung Lee Nov 6

Crab Nebula’s Got A Brand New Groove

After looking at the Chandra Observatory’s latest pictures of the Crab Nebula, I’m thinking the X-ray-emitting pulsar wind nebula needs a cooler name. Click to viewMaybe something like PulsaX, with the capital X, or Xoop!, with the exclamation mark. You can see the nebula’s inner X-ray ring, which is a shock wave that marks the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Nov 6

Entrench Gender Norms While Breaking Them With Pink Guitar Hero Controllers

EWA System Sucks Drinkable Water Out of Thin Air

Catching Up: Our Readers Are the Best

60 Minutes Reporter Investigates China’s E-Waste Pits, Gets Attacked

Sanyo LP-XTC50 Projector Uses Lamp Switching Powers to Last 6000 Hours

Statewide California Bullet Train Project Reduces Road Rage and Increases Happiness

Reserve the BlackBerry Storm At Best Buy With Fully Refundable $50

Japan Makes First Brain Tissues From Stem Cells

MacBook Air With Nvidia-Powered H.264 Video Playback Runs Less Toasty

Freaky 1980s Vampire Striptease Will Pop Your Vein [NSFW]

New Net Radio Royalty Compromise Sorta Finished, Sorta Sucks

Custom Metal Gear Solid PS3 Back on eBay, Still Blows Minds for Child’s Play Charity

How to Buy a Liquidation Sale HDTV at Circuit City and Not Get Screwed (Hint: It’s Hard)

Kazakhstan Getting Futuristic Architectural Overhaul

“Beauty Machine” Makes Every Face a Pretty Face

Biogeek Novelist Explains How To Make Your Jargon Into A Beacon Of Awesomeness

Claw Bike Storage From ABC’s “American Inventor” Available For Pre-Order

Heroes’ Most Ridiculous Mutant Power So Far: The Deadly Splash

Mgestyk Gesture Control System Will Make Your Mouse and Keyboard Obselete

Crab Nebula’s Got A Brand New Groove

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