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Comcast’s Free Wii Offer Gets Official

The free Wii offer from Comcast just got official, but is only for Preferred Plus or Premier Triple Play customers, not Double Play as we first thought. If you don’t need to get phone service from Comcast since you already have a cellphone, it’s probably not worth the money seeing as you have to sign…

Dealzmodo: PlayStation 3 Greatest Hits Start Today

Other than the obvious star Metal Gear Solid 4, the PlayStation 3 actually has some excellent, exclusive (and non-exclusive) games in their repertoire. Starting today, many of these titles are being rebranded as “Greatest Hits” and will feature a new, lower $30 price tag. For those of you who prefer to shop new rather than…

Brando’s iPhone Battery Gets a White Version

Brando’s cheapest iPhone supplemental battery just got a white version today. You obviously know if you’d want one, so there ya go. Still $25. [Brando] https://gizmodo.com/brandos-power-station-holds-1000mah-title-for-cheapest-5029154

Witness The Birth, Death Of The Autobots In New Comics

If you’ve ever wondered just how the original Transformers were created – If they’re robots, then surely someone built them, right? – then you have less than a year to wait for an answer, according to IDW’s Transformers panel at this weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con. And that’s not the only revelation you can expect about…

MPAA Creating Website to Tell You Which Service Offers Which Movie

In this brave new world of digital video on demand, there’s no single place that lets you watch every movie out there (other than, you know, BitTorrent). Instead, there’s a smattering of offerings that offer different slivers of the overall movie catalog, forcing you to switch from your Apple TV to your Vudu to your…

See How Stargate Crew Winds Up In The Arctic, In Exclusive Clip

The cast and crew of Stargate Continuum were most excited about the fact that the new Stargate DVD was filmed in the Arctic. Not only did they film freezing temperatures, but the Navy also loaned the crew an actual submarine. Director Martin Wood called it a “billion dollar prop,” at Con. In an exclusive clip…

Worker Accidentally Takes Pictures of iPhone Factory (On iPhone)

The covert nature of Apple’s production facilities is generally on par with those of military contractors, but according to one buyer’s report, an iPhone 3G recently came pre-packaged with three photos taken inside an iPhone production facility. While two were blurry, this particular photo came out very well…even if a mass of clear plastic isn’t…

Contest Reminder: Win an iPhone

Today’s almost the last day to enter our Made in Eureka contest. Lock up the kids and send the spouse over to their parents’, because tonight is your night to design your own entry. See our contest page for details. https://gizmodo.com/make-in-eureka-contest-win-an-iphone-5028208

Google Calendar Now Supports CalDAV, Syncs Natively With iCal (But Not iPhone)

One of my personal sticking points for keeping my online life totally synced is now one step closer to being easier-Google Calendar now supports CalDAV and can sync natively with OS X’s iCal without a third-party add-on. But there’s a huge hitch-as of now, I see no way to sync events created on my iPhone…

Five Reasons You Don’t Have a Personal Jet Pack Yet

Flying around with your own personal jet engine, strapped to your back, has been one of the hallmarks of futurism for decades. Which sucks, because futuristic stuff is supposed to eventually happen. So why the hell aren’t we all flying to work via rocket power? Because you’re about as aerodynamic as a potato, my friend.…

Dr. Ashen Reviews The Flip Ultra and Creative Vado

Benny may have reviewed a bunch of cheap camcorders for our cheap camcorder Battlemodo, but he’s much less British than we’d like. Good thing for us Dr. Ashen of Vii, PolyStation 3 and various other shitty gadget fame has decided to put two of them head-to-head. Spoiler alert: The Creative Vado sucks, even in the…

Dell Issues BIOS Update to Keep Nvidia GeForce Cards From Frying

Even after Nvidia downplayed their original report that GeForce 8400-8700 cards were failing in large numbers due to overheating, Dell has issued a BIOS update for all of its machines running the affected GPUs anyway. The update tweaks the fan settings to “regulate temperature fluctuations” to keep the maybe-faulty-maybe-not chips cooler. So who do we…

Interview: Virgin Galactic Pilot…Space Pilot

Rich Dancaster has flown commercial jets for a long time. He’s got 16,000 flight hours under his belt, which is more than some of us have in cars. When Virgin America and Galactic announced a plan to work together, he figured it was sheer marketing. Then he got the call that he’d be going through…

Innovative Microwave Material Helps Cook Food Twice As Fast So You Can Get Back To Being Lonely

Researchers in Japan and at Penn State have come up with a ceramic material that allows people to heat up their food twice as fast, allowing them to spend less time staring at the microwave and more time living their (read: our) rich, fulfilling lives. The new cookers are made up of 20% magnetite and…

Dushku: Dollhouse Reshoot Result Of Wardrobe Malfunction

Sure, we all may be worrying about the need for a second attempt at the pilot for Joss Whedon’s new Fox show Dollhouse, but series star Eliza Dushku has a perfectly reasonable explanation for why it’s necessary that will put all fears to rest. Basically, it’s all to do with wardrobe choices.Talking to Zap2It.com from…

Warner Bros. Delays Dark Knight Piracy for 38 Hours, Deems it Success

Warner Bros. didn’t want to lose one penny off of the precious early box office gross for The Dark Knight (one that traditionally favors Hollywood in the split over movie theaters), so they reportedly spent 6 months developing an anti-piracy plan to keep the film off filesharing sites for as long as possible. And through…

Jon Heder will play a USC student who wakes up in a tub full of water and then suspects that he might actually be dead, in Woke Up Dead, a new web-series from the people who are bringing you Rosario Dawson’s Blade Runner riff Gemini Division. Woke Up Dead will consist of 50 (!) three-minute…

Freecom Mobile Drive XXS Is the Smallest, Lightest 2.5-inch Hard Drive

Freecom’s just taken the portable hard drive crown with what they’re claiming to be the smallest and lightest 2.5-inch USB drive on the market now. Their Mobile Drive XXS comes in 160GB, 250GB and 320GB sizes, and is bus-powered for one less thing you have to carry around. It seems like the race to having…

AT&T Tries to Kill WiMax

Would you kick a crippled person just as they were standing on their feet, about to walk for the first time in years? AT&T would! Against all odds, WiMax just might make it, pending the merger of Sprint and Clearwire’s WiMax divisions. So AT&T filed with a petition with the FCC to block it. The…

Eureka’s New Mysteries, Doctor Who’s Grand Resolution

The Sci Fi Channel loves you! This week, for one week only, you can almost pretend it’s a real TV season, thanks to the final episode of Doctor Who overlapping with the first episode of Eureka and a new Stargate Atlantis. But that’s not all – you can enrich your seasonal delusions with a new…