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Sony PSP 3000 Review

Sony’s recent PSP-3000 upgrade had one major feature change among its other small updates: the brighter, increased contrast and wider color gamut screen (above: old top, new bottom). The more vivid display takes more power overall, but the rest of the PSP’s components are now using less power, giving battery life a net change of…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 23

Saucer CD Player With Dockable Cup, It Could Happen!

There are concepts that could, and probably will happen. And then there are those that just make us smile. The Drip with Song falls definitely into the latter category. Essentially a portable CD player and speakers squeezed into a saucer, the best part is that you can “dock” your cup and twist it to control…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 23

Gadget Deals of the Day

Our road to Black Friday bargain hunting continues, following yesterday’s huge cheap deals listing (still hot) and the kick-off list on Monday. Today we bring you more unlocked cellphones, including a special deal on the HTC Touch Diamond to shave $200 of its list price, cameras, GPS, and more stocking stuffers: Unlocked cellphones: • HTC…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 23

Marvel Attempts To Torpedo Their Own Success

With their comic book division controlling more than half of the comic market and their movie studio one of the most successful start-ups in industry history, you’d think that Marvel would be very protective of their characters and keep them away from anything that could dilute their strength. Apparently, you’d be wrong. Meet the Super…

io9 Graeme McMillan Oct 23

Is It a Bird or a UFO Over Uruguay?

There’s some spooky/hilarious new footage of a UFO hovering over Montevideo in Uruguay. It’s fun to watch, though it’s hard not to think it’s fake given that the UFO seems to have brought its own new age chill music with it. Check out the video — I think that UFO is broadcasting the Myst soundtrack.…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 23

Series End For Ben 10: Alien Force?

Newsarama sat down with Dwayne McDuffie, the wonderful writer of animated series Ben 10: Alien Force and the Justice League to talk all things alien, the Doctor Who influences in Ben and what happened to Max Tennyson. But more interesting was the cat-and-mouse game McDuffie played with Newsarama, when they asked if this would be…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 23

Bruce Coville Interview, Part II

While in part one of our interview with My Teacher Is an Alien author Bruce Coville we focused on the gadgets of the series, we had to ask a few questions more specific to the literary aspects of the book. We didn’t want to stick this in part one for our more general readership, but…

Books & Comics Mark Wilson Oct 23

My Favorite Childhood Sci-Fi Author Fries My Brain

As a kid, I raised my hand too often in class and looked forward to science projects. I drew pictures of space ships and aliens on my notebooks before rushing home after school to play on my IBM 386. As for many young nerds, school could make for a solitary life. I related to a…

Books & Comics Mark Wilson Oct 23

Note to Woz: You Are Rich, Stop Making an Ass of Yourself in Commercials

Someone explain to me why Woz is participating in these beyond-retarded Scottevest commercials. Seriously, Ed McMahon selling out his dignity and rapping in FreeCreditReport.com ads makes sense, as he’s bankrupt, but Woz? Aren’t you a billionaire? Be happy with that, because crap like this makes me embarrassed for you. Go play Segway Polo or something.…

Tech News Adam Frucci Oct 23

iPhone Tethering Delayed Because AT&T Is Afraid?

A few months ago we ran a rumor in which Steve Jobs had written a reader promising that Apple was working on iPhone tethering for 3G laptop browsing. Now, according to a MacBlogz, a reliable source from inside AT&T has informed them that iPhone tethering is being delayed because AT&T isn’t prepared to meet the…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 23

A Ride Aboard the Pleasurecraft Turns Any Geek Into Captain Stubing

According to the designers, the Pleasurecraft “is a vehicular kit that choreographs gesture and landscape to produce an outing full of splendor and romance.” This little love boat comes equipped with everything the awkward nerd needs to transform into a cool Casanova : luxurious pillows, a champagne cooler, instruction manuals, a mustache comb, tic-tacs and a…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 23

Seoul’s Banpo Bridge Turns into Gigantic Fountain, Puts NYC’s Waterfalls to Shame

The Banpo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea just got a major facelift in the form of a 10,000-nozzle fountain that runs all the way along both its sides. They were just installed last month, but already the bridge has turned into a major tourist attraction. Which is understandable, as I’ve certainly never driven over a…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Oct 23

Lost’s Fallen Star Will Shine On Chuck

Island castaway show Lost disappointed many of its die-hard fans when its super-cute rock-star character Charlie bit the dust. Actor Dominic Monaghan still doesn’t know when, or if, you’ll glimpse Charlie on Lost again. But he will be back playing another charismatic rock star character… on Chuck, NBC’s show about a nerd with the entire…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Oct 23

Android Is Getting a Touchscreen Keyboard Next Year

While the G1 has an excellent keyboard, that’s not stopping many users from complaining that they cannot type in landscape mode (notably, the decision to omit the virtual keyboard was to coax users to use the QWERTY hardware). Luckily, the Android development roadmap reveals that we’ll be getting a touchscreen keyboard in Q1 2009 featuring…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 23

Giant Crystals Create an Alien Landscape

This photo looks like it could have been taken on another planet – miners harvesting dilithium, perhaps. But this cave full of monstrous crystals is located in Mexico, and the crystals themselves are a form of gypsum, one of the most common elements on Earth. What geologic processes caused the crystals to get so freaking…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Oct 23

HookupMaps Should be Called HookerMaps or SerialKillerMaps (NSFW)

I never got into the whole love/sex personal ads thing, but for some reason, the people at HookupMaps think that putting them on a map will actually help people looking to urgently scratch that itch. HookupMaps mixes Google Maps and Craiglist to place the ads in the areas in which they are located, so you…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 23

Limited-Edition Mimobot RayD8gig Glows in Dark For Halloween

Fans of the undeniably geek-chic Mimobot flash drives will be pleased to hear there’s a new edition out for this year’s fast-approaching All Hallow’s Even… the RayD8gig. It’s an 8-gigabyte inverse color version of RayD8, and it glows in the dark, ohoho yes. But if you’re tempted you need to move fast: there’s a strictly…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 23

First G1 Commercial Hits: So Many Questions, So Few Answers

Here’s the first ad for the T-Mobile G1, and it revolves around people asking a bunch of questions that could be answered if only they had a G1. Or any other phone with web access, really. It’s not like the G1 is the only phone with Google search. I wonder what would happen if one…

Tech News Adam Frucci Oct 23

The Spirit’s Unholy Flash Game From Hell

In what I can imagine will only be the first of a long line of abusive franchising of Will Eisner’s Spirit, big business has decided to create a small widget for the new movie with a quickie flash game. Run, jump and glide across cables as Spirit himself. There are three chapters (two and three…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 23

How To Choose the Best Network Storage for a Mac/PC Home

Network-attached storage options are more abundant than ever, but jumping into the copious bush of NAS can be quite a task, especially if you want a system that plays nice with both PC and Mac. Macs have historically been an unreasonably complex challenge for many networking products, and NAS was no exception. Here I’ve assessed…

Tech News John Mahoney Oct 23

Sony PSP 3000 Review

Saucer CD Player With Dockable Cup, It Could Happen!

Gadget Deals of the Day

Marvel Attempts To Torpedo Their Own Success

Is It a Bird or a UFO Over Uruguay?

Series End For Ben 10: Alien Force?

Bruce Coville Interview, Part II

My Favorite Childhood Sci-Fi Author Fries My Brain

Note to Woz: You Are Rich, Stop Making an Ass of Yourself in Commercials

iPhone Tethering Delayed Because AT&T Is Afraid?

A Ride Aboard the Pleasurecraft Turns Any Geek Into Captain Stubing

Seoul’s Banpo Bridge Turns into Gigantic Fountain, Puts NYC’s Waterfalls to Shame

Lost’s Fallen Star Will Shine On Chuck

Android Is Getting a Touchscreen Keyboard Next Year

Giant Crystals Create an Alien Landscape

HookupMaps Should be Called HookerMaps or SerialKillerMaps (NSFW)

Limited-Edition Mimobot RayD8gig Glows in Dark For Halloween

First G1 Commercial Hits: So Many Questions, So Few Answers

The Spirit’s Unholy Flash Game From Hell

How To Choose the Best Network Storage for a Mac/PC Home

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