Friday, October 16, 2009 - Page 2
Science

Poison Gas Can Induce Suspended Animation, And Save Your Life

A small dose of hydrogen sulphide gas put this little guy into a state of suspended animation for six hours. If the technique can scale up to humans, it could buy doctors valuable time in emergency situations.


Who Should We Blame For The Anticlimactic Balloon Boy Saga?

After a thrilling chase sequence, Balloon Boy was found…to have never been in the balloon in the first place. We’re glad he’s safe, but now the question comes: Who’s to blame for this whole catastrophe?


Cars

Chinese Knockoff UAV Better Than The Real Thing

The Chinese military has apparently been copying American UAV designs for a while now. After they got bored simply rebuilding Uncle Sam’s models, they decided to design a few of their own. And they blow ours out of the water.


Photosketchers Of The Giz: You Disgust Me

I asked for sketches to feed into the magic Photosketch image compositing program. You delivered just a few weirdustrations, but enough to show that there’s one little pack of sick individuals reading Gizmodo.


Geek Out

Balloon Boy Admits They Did It For The Show

Wolf Blitzer got an exclusive interview with Balloon Boy and his family, and not surprisingly, BB himself (aka Falcon Heene) fails to shed much light on his motivations. Check out the video (with bonus fart) post-jump.


Panny Offering A Year’s Worth Of BD Rentals With Home Theatre Purchase

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Panasonic’s got a pretty decent bonus add-on promotion running for their Blu-ray home theatre systems – a year’s subscription to Quickflix for either DVD or Blu-ray rentals.


Clue Gets A Necessary Update That Involves Text Messages

You are undoubtedly familiar with the classic board game Clue. But did you know you’ve been enjoying the sissy luddite version for all these years? Because you are. The new version uses texting! Texting!


Gadgets

Learn How To Tell Time And Waste Money With A Manual Digital Clock

According to the manufacturers of the Digits Clock, kids don’t need to learn how to tell time the old fashioned way. Instead, parents should spend over $US100 on a board that requires kids to manually construct the time every minute.


Entertainment

Channel 7′s Second Digital Channel To Be Called ‘Mate’?

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If this trademark application from Channel 7 is actually the name of their upcoming second SD digital channel, then I weep for free-to-air TV. Mediaspy has uncovered a heap of trademark applications from the network, which includes a number of images which all contain the words ‘Mate’ or ‘Channel Mate’.


Geek Out

Witness Ron “Typewriter” Mingo In Action

This video has it all folks. The fastest typist in the world circa the late ’70s, music, pimp suits and the hardships of a man too damn good at what he does.