Star Trek Creator's Widow Left $4 Million To Her Dogs [Star Trek] Using money she earned through her voice over work on the Star Trek light dimmer, Majel Roddenberry was able to set up a trust for her dogs to the tune of $4 million. A domestic em

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How Not To Launch a Rocket: The Nedelin Disaster [Space] History's worst rocket tragedy actually occurred on the ground, in 1960, when the Soviets were experimenting with a dangerous new fuel. Piers Bizony chronicles it in his upcoming b

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Our Very Own Martian Landscape Here On Earth [Space] This is the Mars Desert Research Station in the Utah desert. Photographer Vincent Fournier went there to make beautiful photographs that capture the loneliness and desolation of hu

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53 Foods So Disgusting You May Not Want to Eat Again For a Week [Photoshop Contest] I should have known what I was in for when I asked you to come up with disgusting processed foods for this week's Photoshop Contest. But man, you guys are even grosser than I thoug

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The Challenge of Brushing Your Teeth In Space [Astroblogger] Contributing astronaut guest blogger Leroy Chiao continues his five-day mission to enlighten us with life in orbit, this time dealing with the troublesome business of the morning r

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Griffin Charge Converter Review [Lightning Review] The Gadget: The Griffin Charge Converter, which converts older Firewire-charging iPod docks and adapters to the newer USB charging iPhones and iPods. The Price: $30 The Verdict: Fo

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Benjamin Button Special Effects Guru On Creating a Human Face [Movies] "It was really hard, it was really slow, it was really tedious, it was really expensive. And then next time we do it it's going to be less difficult, and less slow and less expensi

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8-bit FM - chiptune and video game music, 24/7 Do you like old-skool videogame music and chiptune acts like Pixelh8, Neotericz and Receptors? Then you'll be pleased as punch about the launch of 8-bit FM, an internet radio stati

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EA Sports Moves Tiger Woods Game Launch Date By Shane McGlaun After being on the market for a long time the Nintendo Wii is finally reaching the level of availability where you can walk into a retail store and find the conso

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DLO Jam Jacket Game For The iPod Touch By Andrew Liszewski Try as they might, Im just not convinced that my iPhone is ever going to replace my DS as my portable gaming device of choice. But given a good chunk of those

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Star Trek Communicator VoIP handset With the Star Trek film out on Friday, it's high time everyone started cashing in on Kirkmania and, after Toshiba's protective plastic, it's now the turn of the Star Trek Communica

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Storm in a twos up as RIM plans next-gen touchscreen handset Hands up if you use a BlackBerry Storm? Yeah, I don't see too many of you out there. I, personally, have no professional opinion on RIM's version of an iPhone killer but a certain

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Sap Cap Has A Little Something Extra Hidden Inside By Chris Scott Barr There are definitely times when one really doesnt feel safe. Like when youre walking down a dark street on the wrong side of town, or when you find that you

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Dyson Applies For Patent On Kitchen Squareness [Patents] James Dyson wants everything in your kitchen to be square because it saves space. In fact, this eureka moment was so profound that he wants to patent the idea of kitchen squareness

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Uplift Floaty Mirror: It's Like a DeLorean in Your Bathroom [Bathroom] Swinging bathroom mirrors can bash your face in and spray blood everywhere, making the morning cleanup worse than just whiskers. The Uplift floats upward and has six powered outlet

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It's Star Wars Day! [Star Wars] Well, well, what would you know. Not only today we have blasted off into our space week—Get Me Off This Rock—but it is also Star Wars Day. What is Star Wars Day, you as

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Gadget Deals of the Day [Dealzmodo] I've got the Monday blues, so I'm going to veg out as I shop for gadgets, dunk my food in free salsa and BBQ sauce, then wipe my face off with a free Aerie towel. Computers/Laptop

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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Meet Leroy Chiao, This Week's Contributing Astronaut [Astroblogger] Leroy Chiao has flown on the Space Shuttle three times, spent six months commanding the ISS, and logged over 36 hours walking in space. This week he's blogging for Giz. We're excit

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The View From a Celebrity's Perspective is All Cameras [Digital Cameras] Barry Silver was standing next to Lindsay Lohan in a Tokyo nightclub and took this photo. That's a lot of digital cameras! And almost no dudes! What the hell nightclub was this?? [

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Pentax K20D Titanium Edition Charges $500 Extra For a Fancy Finish [Digital Cameras] The Pentax K20D DSLR will set you back about $700, which isn't too bad for a DLSR. But the Titanum version? Oh, that one's $1,200. It's got titanium on it, people! Yes, the only di

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Hydroglass Allows You To Shower While Lying Down On a Fish Tank [Hygiene] Showering standing up? That's for savages. I want to lie down when I bathe—and I want it to be on a bed of colorful fish. I want a Hydroglass. In addition to the fish tank ba

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How Much Do You Know About Space Exploration? Take These Quizzes To Find Out [Question Of The Day] Think you know a lot about space exploration? Maybe you are just bored at work. Either way, you can test your knowledge about the space shuttle and the space program with the follo

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Rumor: Ex-Palm Director Working to Revive Smartphone Business at HP [Smartphones] Ex-Palm Senior Director Johnathan Oakes's LinkedIn profile reveals that he has joined HP's Emerging Business Unit, sparking rumors that HP may be using Google's Android as the new

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T-Mobile Roadmap Reveals Visual Voicemail, Dash 3G Release Dates [T-Mobile] If this image obtained by TmoNews contains correct information, T-Mobile customers will be able to enjoy visual voicemail on July 16th. The roadmap also lists the release dates of

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These Are the Beatles' Rock Band Guitars [Rumor] Apparently these are the two guitars included in The Beatles: Rock Band, the Rickenbacker 325 played by Lennon and a Gretsch Duo Jet, played by Harrison—although I always rem

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Virgin Galactic's Boss Says Space Travel Will Never Be Cheap [Space] Warning, middle-class Earthmen. By the end of this post, your dreams of low-cost space travel will be delayed. Above: WhiteKnightTwo Eve's Maiden Flight. Photo Credit Schereer Sche

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Spewer - a vom-o-rific flash game If you're eating, you might not want to read this. In the flash game I'm about to link you to, you control a little creature that looks a bit like Kirby who uses vomit as a project

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MSI Shows Off Slick Looking GX633 By Shane McGlaun A few years ago most computer users had probably never heard of MSI. After the netbook revolution began the MSI Wind surfaced as one of the better netbooks on the

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EagleTec USB NanoSac Micro SD Card Reader By Andrew Liszewski A week or so ago Evan brought news of the EagleTec USB flash drive which managed to cram as much as 8GBs into a drive that was barely larger than a USB connect

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BlackBerry Curve 8520 aka 'Gemini' (again) - leaked photos Now, either RIM has codenamed this latest leaked BlackBerry "Gemini" because they're supposed to come as a pair or there's something slightly fishy and more than a little confusin

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RUMOUR: Apple to buy Twitter for $700m First Facebook had a go, then the word was that Google made an offer and now the rumour is that Apple plans to buy Twitter and announce it in time for WWDC on 9th June. The mooted

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Pixar?s Up: Dug The Talking Dog By Evan Ackerman We saw a preview of the first 45 minutes of Pixars newest animated feature, Up, back in March at WonderCon. Boy, were we ever impressed. One of the most enjoyabl

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McDonalds Menu Features NASA Lunar Footage, Chicken-Scented Tape Player [Space] Inside an abandoned McDonalds on the old Moffet Naval Airfield, one can find a group of dedicated digital archaeologists attempting to restore some 48000 lbs of 70mm tape featuring

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Get Ready Humanity, Because Space Is a Freak Show [Space] In October, NASA discovered the universe was sliding inexplicably toward, well, something massive. They called the phenomenon "dark flow," and it's but one example of the creepy, u

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World's Smartest Prison Officer Fired After Using a Stun Gun on Visiting Children [Bad Ideas] Bad idea: using a taser on someone who's done nothing wrong. Very, very bad idea: using a taser on a bunch of kids visiting a prison for Take Your Son or Daughter to Work Day. You'

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Kaleido R7

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All the Lego Star Wars Minifigs in History [Star Wars] If you liked our exclusive Lego minifig graphic timeline and you are a Star Wars fan, you will love this gallery with all the Lego Star Wars minifigs manufactured since 1999. These

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HyperMac External Battery Gives MacBooks a 32 Hour Boost [MacBook] A battery that provides 32 hours of continuous MacBook use? Now we're talkin'. Sound's great until you find out that the 222Wh Hypermac external charger costs a whopping $500. On

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Steven Soderbergh's Girlfriend Experience Released to Amazon Before Theaters [Movies] Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh's new movie breaks some major Hollywood rules, and not just because it stars porn actress Sasha Grey. It's also available now on Amazon a f

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Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update May Hit This Friday [Rumor] According to some "super-secret Apple source"—who hopefully is not the Infinite Loop campus' building #5 janitor's brother in law who has a son working at the Minneapolis' Ap

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Mini MPC 2000XL Sampler and SP1200 Drum Machine USB Flash Drives [Memory] I'm tired of uninspired flash drive designs. So it's shaped like a donut huh? Meh. It's filled with beer eh? Not interested. These mini MPC 2000XL and SP1200 flash drives are reall

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iLamp Will Fight Luxo Jr. to the Death [Lighting] I love the iLamp, with its completely flexible body and electro-luminescent polymer screen. It's like a Terminator T1000 version of a Luxo desk lamp, one that won't kill your adopt

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Gadget Deals of the Day [Dealzmodo] Save some serious cash with these and other hot deals inside. Plus you could live like a hobo for a week with all the freebies found today. Computing and Peripherals: ? 8.9" Acer A

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DDRdrive's X1 SSD is Superfast and Superexpensive [Memory] It may not compare to the io-Drive, but DDrdrive's X1 still packs a punch in terms of speed and price. Unlike other SSDs, the X1 utilizes two types of memory—4GB DRAM and 4GB

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Rocket Launch to Be Watchable On the Entire U.S. Eastern Seaboard Tonight [Space] If you live in the East Coast—and the clouds leave on time—you will be able to see the launch of a Minotaur I rocket tonight, sometime between 8:00 to 11:00 pm. Expect

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Duncan is leaving! It is with great sadness that I announce that my deputy, esteemed colleague and friend, Duncan Geere, is leaving Tech Digest to further his career places where he doesn't have a bi

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iTunes' variable pricing coincides with plummeting sales Initial reports from major labels are suggesting that the switch to variable pricing on iTunes has been a failure. According to 'numerous sources' sales decreases have been seen ac

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Leaked: Image of the HTC Hero, aka the 'G3' An image has surfaced on the internet, on the 'Code Android Singapore' website, of the HTC Hero. This device is a followup to the HTC Magic, and is referred to by many as the G3 be

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OhGizmo Review: Eye-Fi Explore Video As weve mentioned to you before, the Eye-Fi card is really a pretty brilliant idea. Digital cameras are neat little gadgets, but getting all your awesome pics from your camera to

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VIDEO: Working Wolverine claws demonstration Real Working Homemade Wolverine Claws - X-Men - Click here for the funniest movie of the week Really tricky one, this. Yes, the claws are a mighty impressive piece of work. Yes, t

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NIN iPhone App Rejected Because Of Explicit Music By Chris Scott Barr One of the things I love the most about my iPhone is the access to all of the great (and not-so-great) programs in the App Store. Unfortunately there happen to

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?Slide To Unlock? Doormat Tells The Neighbors That Geeks Be Here By Andrew Liszewski For just $50 you can get this clever slide to unlock iPhone homage doormat from Meninos, even though I dont think Ive ever come across a door that can be un

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Star Wars vs Star Trek: Which Franchise Has Better Space Gadgets? [Question Of The Day] Given that it's space week here on Giz, I thought it might be a perfect opportunity to pose a question that brings up the age old battle between Star Wars and Star Trek. However, t

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The Soul of a Barbie, a PS3, and a Big Mac Caught on Video [Magic] Satre Stuelke seems to have three passions: McDonald's fast food, toys, and gadgets—specially the GE 4-slice medical research scanner he uses to create these stunning images

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The First Feelings of Space [Astroblogger] Contributing astronaut Leroy Chiao kicks off his Gizmodo guest blogging with the answer to that most frequently asked question, "So what's it like?" Here are his very first impress

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Meat Cards

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Laptop: It's What's for Dinner [Image Cache] In the upcoming IDEO design book, I Miss My Pencil, we learn that last generation MacBook Pro knockoffs should always be paired with a bold, earthy red. [IDEO]

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A Wheelchair Controlled By Man's Mighty Will [The Brain] We've seen a few instances of mind-controlled wheel chairs, and now researchers from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, offer us yet another amazing prototype. The chair displays a

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Take Wired's 3G Smartphone Speed Survey [3G] The sequel to their iPhone 3G speedtest, Wired's doing a nationwide speedtest for every 3G smartphone. It takes 5 minutes, and we're interested to see how it compares to our own na

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