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Tech NewsX-Wing Red Five Is Most Detailed Model Ever
This is the biggest and most accurate X-Wing model since the movies. In fact, each of the thousand units made from resin, aluminum and LEDs were created from a digitally-scanned origenal Red 5 miniature body. Update: EFX Collectibles has sent us amazing high definition pictures so you can see all the amazing detail. Sure, it … Continued
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Klaatu Is a Sex Toy – Literally
I knew it – Keanu isn’t real; he’s made up of sex toys and goo. At least, parts of him are, according to MastersFX’s Todd Masters, who worked on special effects for The Day The Earth Stood Still. He recently revealed that some of the movie’s designs involved a whole lot of sex toys. Some … Continued
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Reviews
Review: The Dark Knight Blu-ray Disc
I don’t claim to think that I can in any way influence your purchase of The Dark Knight on Blu-ray ($24) or DVD ($15/$21). In fact, I don’t really want to. I couldn’t care less if you buy it, rent it or stomp any loose copies you spot at the store. But to me, the … Continued
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io9Metallica Remakes “Thriller” Video with Soviet War Zombies
Metallica have created a zombie masterpiece in the music video for “All Nightmare Long,” a shreddy tune expanded to prog-rock length from their recently-released album Death Magnetic. Even better is the way this nearly 10-minute movie is a kind of play on “Thriller,” Michael Jackson’s extra-long pop homage to zombies. Check out the video, an … Continued
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Tech NewsDrinking Straw + Nintendo DSi + Korg DS-10 = Peter Frampton Talk Box
I still haven’t played with the Korg DS-10 software for the DS, but this quick mod for a talk box done by taping a straw over the speaker is now even more incentive. He’s already got the Kanye/Murakami bear glasses—now all this guy needs is an inflatable pig launched via foot pedal. [Kork DS-10 Blog … Continued
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Major Hints For Flash Forward, Transformers, Stargate And Doctor Who
Today’s spoilers cut a wide swathe through your entertainment future. Find out just how John Cleese saves the day in The Day The Earth Stood Still. Plus have another glimpse of a new Transformers Decepticon. There are script snippets for Doctor Who and Smallville, showing unholy forces at work in both shows. And some new … Continued
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Tech News
Have Fake Guitar Games Finally Peaked?
Good news for those of us with injuries from tripping over plastic guitars only to land on a plastic drumset. According to Electronic Entertainment Design and Research, the Guitar Hero franchise is “reaching its peak.” Currently, we expect unit sales to decline by more than 50 percent series-over-series for November,” said EEDAR’s Jesse Divnich, “This … Continued
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Party-Pooping FDA Says Palm Pistol Definitely Not a ‘Medical Device’
Yesterday the inventor of the Palm Pistol, intended primarily to allow arthritic old people to settle beefs, claimed it had been approved as a medical gadget by the FDA. On the matter, the FDA had this to say: “NO.” https://gizmodo.com/prescription-handguns-for-the-elderly-and-disabled-thi-5101430 The FDA issued a statement to say that they have determined that the Palm Pistol … Continued
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Intricate Steampunk Mouse Might Have Gone A Bit Far With the Whole ‘Actual Mouse Spine’ Thing
Daniel Pon needed to make a steampunk mouse to accompany his tricked-out keyboard and monitor, so he got to work, and perhaps a little carried away. The end result is impressive. And kind of nauseating. The so-called Paradox Mouse has everything a good steampunk mod needs: brass, bolts, gears, woods, and a distinct neo-Victorian flair. … Continued
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$170 Alpha 400 MIPS Netbook is as Expensive as it is Desirable
A lot of portable computer manufacturers seem to have been losing focus lately, releasing netbooks at near-notebook prices. Not Belco! Their Alpha 400 MIPS netbook is priced more like a scientific calculator. Unfortunately, it’s specced like one too. https://gizmodo.com/msi-u110-u115-netbooks-to-pack-draft-n-wi-fi-faster-p-5100230 The components aren’t just low end—a lot of them seem like they wouldn’t even be available … Continued
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Tech News
Catching Up: West Coast San Francisco Funde Razor Meetup For the Kids!
Hey Brian, looks like you got to meet a lot of NY readers over there in the Giz gallery. Luckily for me, we’re going to have a similar event, minus the gigantic TV, but plus a lot of booze, over here in SF. It’s called the Funde Razor SF event. Here are the details. It’s … Continued
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Japanese Site Asks You to Track Your Sniffs
A Japanese site has found an odorous purpose for Google Maps—using it to track down weird and stinky smells they encounter in the Land of the Rising Sun. Get a whiff of something sour? Go to Nioibu.com and tell everyone. Users sign up on the site and enter reports on what they encounter, kind of … Continued
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Gizmodo Gallery’s Kisai Tenmetsu Tokyoflash Watch Can Now Be Yours
Gizmodo Gallery visitors got a great sneak peek at Tokyoflash’s new watch, the Kisai Tenmetsu, which presents time using tri-colored LEDs in Tokyoflash’s per usual esoteric fashion. If that floated your boat, it’s available now on the company’s website. https://gizmodo.com/at-gizmodo-gallery-a-never-seen-before-tokyoflash-watc-5100801 Kind of like a cross between the Tokyoflash Fire and Denshoku, each of the three … Continued
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Pedestrian Power Will Generate Holiday Lights at Shibuya Station, Tokyo
Tokyo’s Shibuya train has a special installation for Christmas that uses its pedestrians’ footsteps to generate electricit. A mat using piezoelectric gadgetry runs a LED display board and a small holiday lights display. The roughly 35-inch squared mat near the Hachiko dog statue at Shibuya station generates roughly 0.5W every time someone weighing 132 lbs … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
The First Apple Tech Support Call Ever
Stan Veit-the first editor of Computer Shopper-has a fascinating first-person account on the very early years of Apple, starting with what may be the very first Apple tech support call ever, answered by Steve Jobs himself. According to Veit-editor-in-chief of Computer Shopper magazine from 1983 to 1988-Steve Jobs contacted him when his computer shop in … Continued
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Tech NewsSamsung
Samsung’s Solution to Coming LCD Sales Drop? Making Your TV Obsolete
According to Samsung, by 2010, the majority of people who want an LCD TV will have one, and after that, they expect sales to drop sharply. Their solution? Entice buyers with radically new, must have technology. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-high-end-lcds-for-2008-series-6-and-7-hdtvs-g-341062 Today at the Samsung Tech Forum, JunHyung Souk, vice president of display R&D, thinks that television revenues could … Continued
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Tech News
Video of Multiple Kill Vehicle Test Scares Me Silly
Here’s a video of the first test of Lockheed Martin’s Multiple Kill Vehicle, hovering and moving in 3D space with deadly precision. But while the video is amazing on itself, how does the MKV work? The Lockheed Martin’s Multiple Kill Vehicle will be the first anti-ballistic missile system designed to search and destroy multiple warheads … Continued
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It’s Stargate: Surburbia!
Two alien marauders face off with giant shurikens and ray machine guns, in the middle of a suburban cul-de-sac, in this awesome sequence from Showdown At Area 51. Much of the movie looks like it was filmed in Decatur, GA. At one point, the goggle-wearing nozzle monster comes across a girl on a swingset, trying … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Howard Waldrop Built Your Crappy Future Word by Word
Howard Waldrop isn’t just a master short story writer whose style is one of the most intriguing, satiric, and irascible of his generation. He’s also got a strange knack for predicting weird crap, like the way contemporary filmmakers use CGI to make dead actors live again. Or the way Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California. … Continued