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ThinkPad X200 Tablet Revealed in Spec Sheet

Well, look at what’s hiding out in the spec sheet for the X200 UltraBase docking station: a listing for a ThinkPad X200 tablet. The X200 is a perfect size for a tablet, and it’d solve our slight anxiety over just having the nub as an input. If it had some capacitive multi-touch like Dell’s Latitude…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Aug 7 '08

Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse Is Even Creepier Than You Thought

Some script pages from Dollhouse, Joss Whedon’s new show about mind-wiped agents who can be programmed to become anyone, have turned up online. They show an even creepier side of Eliza Dushku’s brainwashed character Echo than you might have been expecting. And they simultaneously make me more excited for Dollhouse and more dubious that a…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 7 '08

Prospot Fusion Home Gym Combines the Tedium of Exercise With the Excitement Of Watching Things On a TV

As you can tell by our headshots, the only way most of the editors here at Giz would exercise is if you stuck a TV onto gym equipment. Good news! That’s exactly what Prospot did with their Fusion HG6. The base unit costs $4699 and looks quite sturdy and useful on its own, but coupled…

Television Jason Chen Aug 7 '08

Gaius Baltar Is The Teflon Scapegoat, James Callis Tells io9

We had two chances at Comic-Con to talk to James Callis about his cult following as Battlestar Galactica‘s Gaius Baltar. The first time, he told us about his amazingleadership secrets, and explained the difference between political and religious leadership. The second time, he talked to us more about the choices he makes in playing Baltar,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 7 '08

PIll Popping Prodigy Movie Gets A Leader

Baby-faced Max Thieriot has been cast in Chuck Russell’s upcoming thriller Prodigy as Kincaine, a supergenius youth who unravels an alien-backed government conspiracy inside his boarding school. The Exeter-wannabe prep school feeds pharmaceuticals to the young elites to try and turn them into leaders of the future. Kincaine stumbles on the alien conspiracy and gets…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 7 '08

Amazing DSI Brain Scanning Visualizes Your Mind’s Inner Workings In 3D

What’s that monkey thinking about when he’s mushing down that banana or tossing feces at you? Well, you’re looking at it-this is a map of where a macaque’s thoughts live. It’s made possible by new 3D visualization algorithms developed by neuroscientists at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston which render a brain’s billions of individual neuron…

Tech News John Mahoney Aug 7 '08

GoateeSaver Ensures Your Goatee Looks as Good as a Goatee is Ever Going to Look, Which is to Say Not That Good

Ah, goatees. The preferred facial hair of nerds, fat guys, bikers and Mark Wilson. If you’re looking to make sure your goatee is as neat and even as possible, you’re going to need a little assistance. Say hello to the GoateeSaver. The GoateeSaver is a little contraption you use by putting part of it in…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Aug 7 '08

Why There Will Never Be Another Aliens

Click to viewThe problem with movies that want to be the next Alien or Predator is that they’re movies that want to be the next Alien or Predator. That’s the verdict of Cecelia from FilmIndustryBloggers.com, and she should know; she’s the person who gets to read all the scripts before they get made into movies.…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 7 '08

Ultimate Cut-The-Crap In-Ear Headphone Battlemodo

Why do music lovers put up with cheap stock earbuds? You’ve spent hundreds of dollars on an MP3 player then effectively nullify your investment with headphones that suck the soul out of the music that you love. Choosing a higher-end set of earphones is almost impossible, since there are way too many, and they are…

Tech News John Herrman Aug 7 '08

Canon Vixia HF11, HG20 and HG21 Camcorders Priced For U.S., Getting Solid Early Reviews

Three new Canon cams including the successor to the HF10, one of last year’s best AVCHD ‘corders, are now officially bound for the U.S. after details hit in Japan a few weeks back. Camcorderinfo.com has already gotten their hands on an HF11 review unit, and liked what they saw-full HD capture at 1920×1080, dual flash…

Tech News John Mahoney Aug 7 '08

Use Photoshop to Insert Gadgets into Video Games

Last week, we took a quick breather from the weekly Photoshop Contests for an MS Paint contest. The results were awesome, to say the least, but this week it’s back to business. I want you to use your hot Photoshop skills to put gadgets into your favorite video games. There are loads of possibilities here,…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Aug 7 '08

Nite Owl’s Ship Has More Curves Than A Race Track

We admired Nite Owl’s ship at Comic-Con, and now the latest Watchmen video diary is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of it. The actual ship is a curvaceous wonder, and as with all things Zack Snyder, attention is being paid to every single set detail so we can have our very own living breathing…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 7 '08

T-Mobile’s 2008 BlackBerry Roadmap Leaked – Javelin and 8220

T-Mobile might not have the widest selection of phones, but they do have a certain love for BlackBerry that you can’t deny. BlackBerryNews has the leaked roadmap of the BlackBerries T-Mobile is carrying for the rest of the year, which includes new colors for the Pearl, the 8220 and the Javelin. BBNews notes that all…

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 7 '08

California’s Fastrak Toll System Tags Are Easily Hackable

Bad news for California drivers (me) that use Fastrak (me) to get past toll roads and bridges fast (me). Hackaday reports that a security researcher named Nate Lawson presented information at the Black Hat conference in Vegas that demonstrated that the tags perform no authentication whatsoever, meaning a dude with a reader can go around…

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 7 '08

Rumor: The Dark Knight Could Coax Warner into BD-Live Release

Warner Bros, along with plenty others, has been skeptical about BD-Live. WTF is BD-Live, you ask? It’s that feature in the Blu-ray spec allowing, among other internet-based functionality, people seated on couches across the US to watch movies simultaneously and chat about them. Now rumor has it that the company is considering The Dark Knight…

Tech News Mark Wilson Aug 7 '08

Charles Stross Explains Why UK Scifi Is More Hopeful Than US Scifi

I recently cornered scifi writer Charles Stross because I had a lot of burning questions after reading his most recent novel Saturn’s Children, about a sexbot who becomes a smuggler. But after a bit of cursory bonding over our love of internet porn, and a few excellent tales about his previous life working at a…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 7 '08

Forthcoming Nokia N85 Slider Looks Like It’s Getting U.S. 3G

Nokia loves to tempt U.S. folks with hot 3G N-Series phones that only work in Europe, before releasing a U.S. version several months later like they did with the N95. But according to FCC clearances, it looks like a version of the forthcoming N85 slider (N96’s little cousin that isn’t $1,200) with full tri-band WCDMA…

Tech News John Mahoney Aug 7 '08

Let Interior Design Remind You We’re All Hurling Towards An Inevitable Apocalypse

Nothing says, “we’re all gonna die horrible Day After Tomorrow deaths” like the global warming rug from NEL. With this cuddly rug, you can keep in mind the plight of the polar bear, and hopefully be reminded to recycle before the world goes all wonky “The Happening” style on you. [Dezeen]

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 7 '08

NY Times Profiles Power Saw Drag Racing; Look Out, Baseball!

Today, the New York Times took a close look at the fast-paced world of power tool drag racing. The inherent fun of placing lightly modified power tools on the ground and watching them tear off down the street was not lost on them, apparently. Will attention from such a big publication make power tool drag…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Aug 7 '08

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

This week at Uncrate: We do some small-scale gaming with Mini Table Games, take a ride in the open-top Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport, and become the Batman of beer with the Beer Belt. We also get gangster with The Godfather – Coppola Restoration Set, go green with Recycled Windshield Beer & Wine Glasses, and…

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 7 '08

ThinkPad X200 Tablet Revealed in Spec Sheet

Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse Is Even Creepier Than You Thought

Prospot Fusion Home Gym Combines the Tedium of Exercise With the Excitement Of Watching Things On a TV

Gaius Baltar Is The Teflon Scapegoat, James Callis Tells io9

PIll Popping Prodigy Movie Gets A Leader

Amazing DSI Brain Scanning Visualizes Your Mind’s Inner Workings In 3D

GoateeSaver Ensures Your Goatee Looks as Good as a Goatee is Ever Going to Look, Which is to Say Not That Good

Why There Will Never Be Another Aliens

Ultimate Cut-The-Crap In-Ear Headphone Battlemodo

Canon Vixia HF11, HG20 and HG21 Camcorders Priced For U.S., Getting Solid Early Reviews

Use Photoshop to Insert Gadgets into Video Games

Nite Owl’s Ship Has More Curves Than A Race Track

T-Mobile’s 2008 BlackBerry Roadmap Leaked – Javelin and 8220

California’s Fastrak Toll System Tags Are Easily Hackable

Rumor: The Dark Knight Could Coax Warner into BD-Live Release

Charles Stross Explains Why UK Scifi Is More Hopeful Than US Scifi

Forthcoming Nokia N85 Slider Looks Like It’s Getting U.S. 3G

Let Interior Design Remind You We’re All Hurling Towards An Inevitable Apocalypse

NY Times Profiles Power Saw Drag Racing; Look Out, Baseball!

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

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