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Transformers

Life-Sized Autobot Assembles in French Parking Lot, Doesn't Really Roll Out

French performance art troupe "Not So Noisy" have spent the last month "assembling" giant, life-sized Autobots from normal cars, and shooting the action from overhead. Of course, they're not really building anything. They're really arranging cars (or people) in an empty parking lot so that it looks like Optimus Prime knocked back a few too many quarts of oil and passed out. But it's awesome. More »

9:30 PM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Adrian Covert
283 views, Comment

Joost

Joost Flash Player Launches Tonight, Has Serious Hulu Envy

The poor kids at Joost—and their partners at Viacom—thought the future of TV on the computer would be a discrete app that blended a slick TV emulator with internets! power. They were wrong, Hulu and Google were right: It's all about the browser. So that's where Joost is going. Its Flash-based player officially launches full-throttle tonight. The early word from paidContent is that it's still no Hulu—the best place for CBS content, maybe, but it's got a lot of catching up to do. Though really, it's not clear that it ever can. There's a reason our internet TV remote is heavy on the Hulu. [Joost via paidContent]

9:00 PM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By matt buchanan
423 views, 6 comments

Latest by Metron4: Hulu + PlayOn + Xbox 360 + HDTV + Comfy couch = :) more »

blackberry bold

BlackBerry Bold Squirms Closer to AT&T Release

Whatever hellish limbo the BlackBerry Bold is trapped in keeping it off of AT&T, it's poking out its head just a little bit. If you've got an unlocked Bold running on AT&T, you might notice a few new icons and service books for YellowPages.com Mobile and AT&T Navigator just got pushed to it. So it is actually moving forward in some way, even if it's definitely stretching into the full range of the "year's end" promise from AT&T and RIM. [BGR]

8:30 PM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By matt buchanan
845 views, 3 comments

Latest by unkpku is: So stuff got pushed to a phone that's not supposed to exist? more »

Tsa

TSA Airport Screener Steals Over $200,000 in Gadgets, Almost Gets Away With It

Transportation Security Administration baggage screener Pythias Brown is the reason you hate flying with expensive gear in your bag, especially if you ever flew out of Newark airport. Over the last few years, he stole at least $200,000 worth of electronics. Not just a camcorder here, a laptop there, or an Xbox 360 or two, either. No, this guy had balls. Among his biggest hauls—literally—was an HBO employee's $47,900 camera. And the TSA was totally clueless about it. He was finally caught after CNN found a camera he had stolen from them up for sale on eBay. More »

8:10 PM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By matt buchanan
5,662 views, 39 comments

Latest by yikz: That's what happens when big government steps in with their solution. Who watches TSA? No one. Who can question more »

Gloves

Aevex Gloves Self-Heat Using Hidden Lithium Batteries

Surprise, the reason your ski jacket doesn't have a heater in it is because nobody likes lugging around the car battery required to keep it running. But like many portable electronics, Aevex harnessed the stored energy of lithium-polymer batteries, form shaping them to fit snugly inside a glove. You get 4-6 hours of hand baking, allocated only where it's needed along your palm and fingers. More »

7:53 PM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Wilson Rothman
1,263 views, 10 comments

Latest by Ike_Skelton: For $300 I'll just keep making a fist inside the palm of my glove while I'm riding the lifts if more »

Desktops

Acer Releases AX3200 Blu-Ray Desktop PC and P244W 1080p LCD Display

WIth their Blu-ray-playing AX3200 desktop PC and accompanying 24-inch, 1080p monitor, Acer just released two affordable, HD-friendly products at a combined price that sits just over $1000. With the compact dimensions of around 10"x4"x14", the AX3200 desktop has 2.1 GHZ AMD Phenom X3 8450 processor, HDMI-out, Dolby Home Theater 5.1 sound and nine USB ports. A 640 GB HDD, multi-card reader and 4 GB RAM round out the internal specs for the Windows Vista machine. More »

7:40 PM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Adrian Covert
1,634 views, 15 comments

Latest by Charging_Mooses: i just bought a quad core AMD computer off of ebay for $440 no screen, but 4 gigs of ram more »

lightning review

Epson Artisan 800 All-In-One Lightning Review

The Gadget: The Epson Artisan 800 All-In-One with Wi-Fi and fax. On paper, it has all the signs of being the best AIO ever made, especially for people who want versatility but care deeply about fine photographic prints. More »

7:10 PM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Wilson Rothman
3,515 views, 13 comments

Latest by judacris: Wow. That's a nice all-in-one. But I've been brainwashed by HP's efficient ink propaganda to ever switch to Epson again. more »

Not just a code name

Microsoft Settles on "Windows 7" For Official Name of Next OS

Here we were, thinking Windows 7 was simply a codename (and a fairly boring one at that—where's Longhorn? Whistler?). Now, on the official Windows Vista Blog, MS has came out and declared "Windows 7" the official name of Vista's successor, dev-only pre-betas of which will be released at the upcoming WinHEC and PDC developer conferences over the next few weeks. The reason why probably makes sense, to someone, somewhere... More »

6:27 PM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By John Mahoney
5,266 views, 88 comments

Latest by justrick: How long before the onslaught of "Unlucky 7" headlines? Or, if they're lucky, "Lucky 7." more »

Question of the Day

Question of the Day: Do You Prefer Self-Checkout Lines?

For an impatient geek there is nothing...NOTHING more annoying than standing behind someone in a grocery store that has the audacity to write a check in the 21st century. That is why I head for the self-checkout lines. Generally, only those brave enough to tackle the machine and handle the pressure of nerds staring them down choose this option (athough I have seen people use checks in self-checkout—the ultimate horror). Even when I have quite a few purchases, I would rather scan it myself and avoid any unnecessary human interaction. But what about you? Do you prefer self-checkout over manned registers? More »

6:00 PM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Sean Fallon
8,454 views, 142 comments

Latest by AlfredaAleus: They have about 2x as many self checkout lanes than regular ones. This means almost no wait on those, more »

Sony ericcson w760a

Sony Ericcson W760a Picked Up by AT&T

It has been a couple of months since we first heard the rumor that the 3G-enabled Sony Ericcson W760a and its updated Walkman interface would arrive on AT&T, but it appears that the day has finally arrived. Features include a 3.2 megapixel camera, GPS and full-HTML web browsing for $129.99 after a two-year agreement and a $50 mail-in rebate. [Yahoo via IntoMobile]

5:55 PM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Sean Fallon
1,450 views, 7 comments

Latest by superduperm: YES! Finally a replacement for my w600i. I NEED that phone. more »

Science

Are Our Cushy, Tech-Filled Lifestyles Halting Evolution?

Back in the good old days, the weak, slow and stupid would be eaten by lions, leaving the quick and the smart to live on and breed quick and smart babies. But these days, any moron can wheel themselves around a Wal-mart on a motorized scooter, buying Hot Pockets with food stamps while talking on their prepaid cellphones, going home to have 15 other fat, stupid babies. This isn't evolution! It's de-evolution! And we have technology to thank for it. More »

5:30 PM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Adam Frucci
4,688 views, 75 comments

Latest by banmojo: No, it's the fact that raw matter, raw energy, and their random interaction throughout finite time will never amount to more »

Apple

A Brief History of MacBook Redesigns and Upgrades

Tomorrow we'll see the first fresh MacBooks in almost a year, and likely the first all-new case designs since the arrival of the MacBooks—or before that if you're a stickler, since the MacBook Pro is basically the same as the PowerBook G4, and the MacBook ain't so different from the iBook G4. Check out our timeline of every MacBook update since the lines were introduced to see just how much (or little) has changed since the beginning.

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5:00 PM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By matt buchanan
19,536 views, 57 comments

Latest by Charging_Mooses: wrong post sorry guys more »

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5:00 PM on Mon Oct 13 2008

telescopes

New Technology Helps Ground Telescopes Outdo Hubble

A new technology called nulling interferometry will give some of the world's biggest telescopes the power to detect Earth-like planets outside our solar system—something even the Hubble has not accomplished. Basically, nulling interferometry chains together the light captured by several large telescopes to create a single "super telescope" that has enough power to detect a quarter lying on the surface of the moon. Currently, an array of telescopes in Chile's Atacama Desert known as the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) is being outfitted with a nulling device called PRIMA. More »

4:40 PM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Sean Fallon
2,459 views, 25 comments

Latest by ypctx: "enough power to detect a quarter lying on the surface of the moon" -- finally we can settle the moon-landings more »

Epic gadgets

10 Gadgets With Mind-Boggling Moving Parts

At their best, gadgets transcend the world of technology and become "living" works of art. The following ten gadgets are awe-inspiring in their complexity, mind boggling in their motion and beautiful enough to stand alongside the work of any old master. Naturally, there is a clock or two, but there are also calculators, a Rube Goldberg machine and a crazy moving building rounding out the list.

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Feature

4:00 PM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Sean Fallon
27,051 views, 28 comments

Latest by jkr's bold comment: Sorry, but until they actually build the dynamic tower, I say fail. As a civil engineer, I can tell more »

Piracy

President Bush Signs Bill To Create Cabinet-Level Intellectual Property Czar

President Bush signed into law today a bill that will create a centralized position in the executive branch, appointed by the president, to head up the fight against piracy and intellectual property violations. The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act (PRO-IP) is backed strongly by the usuals—MPAA, RIAA, etc.—and yet faced some pushback from the Justice Department and the Bush administration itself as it made its way through the House and Senate. So what does it all mean? More »

3:47 PM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By John Mahoney
6,380 views, 72 comments

Latest by endless: There should be this positions. he should be in charge of making fair use fair, eliminate patent squatting, and make more »

GPS

Long Overdue GPS Upgrade Could Save Airlines $10 Billion a Year

Technically speaking, you have better navigational capability in your car than the entire airline industry. Why? Because they are still relying on an antiquated WWII era traffic network that often takes aircraft on zigzagging routes towards radar beacons—costing carriers billions of dollars in wasted fuel each year. To make matters worse, the plan to upgrade the system has been stuck in the planning stages for more than a decade thanks to funding issues an the complexity of such a switchover. More »

3:10 PM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Sean Fallon
8,589 views, 28 comments

Latest by rudolphdude: If we are going to be socialists why can't we get a "Department Of Infastructure"? Federal power coordinated with state's logistics more »

Retromodo

Remember This? Looking Back at the First PowerBook

With new Macbooks seemingly imminent, I thought it'd be a good time to look back in time to the first Apple laptop that changed portable computing forever: the original PowerBook.

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Feature

2:40 PM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By Adam Frucci
11,656 views, 88 comments

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