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Computers
Nvidia’s Tegra-Based Netbook Christened “Firefly”
2:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Nvidia seems to be shopping around a teeny netbook running the company’s Tegra ARM chipset and, of all things, Windows CE. It looks very barebones, since Tegra is really meant for smartphones, and nobody seems too thrilled with it. More »
Random Stuff
NASA May Name Chunk of the ISS After Stephen Colbert Instead of Firefly
6:40AM Adam Frucci | Remember when it looked like a chunk of the International Space Station would be named Serenity, thanks to an online poll by NASA? That was before Stephen Colbert caught wind of it. More »
Entertainment
A Chunk of the ISS to Be Named After Firefly
5:40AM Mark Wilson | NASA is allowing the public to vote on the name for “Node 3″ of the International Space Station. So what did we do? We named it after a cult science fiction show, of course! More »
Computers
HP Firefly Laptop: 5.9 Kilos of Dual-Screen Lovin’
6:22AM Wilson Rothman | We may have written up HP’s Firefly before, but there’s nothing like seeing this big ole concept laptop up close. Today at breakfast, HP’s Personal Systems CTO Phil McKinney showed it off: More »
Computers
HP Firefly Has Two Screens, Multitouch, Big Huge Butt
9:18PM John Herrman | HP is finally joining this weird, new multiple display party with the Voodoo DNA-ed Firefly, which carries a secondary screen, an oddly-placed multitouch trackpad and guts comparable to its powerful desktop counterpart. More »
Entertainment
Serenity Bounces Onto Blu-ray With Actually Awesome Cover and a Ton of New Features
7:00AM Matt Buchanan | Give me Malcolm Reynolds over any other bucket-o-bolts captain ever. Joss Whedon is a national treasure and Nathan Fillion is his greatest muse. Yes, I’m such a fanboy I totally won’t mind buying Serenity for the third time, finally on Blu-ray, since it comes packed with a Firefly class ship’s worth of new features (like a bonus four hours of Whedon weeping on camera, says Mark), BD-Live content, and a bump to lossless 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio. Perhaps the best feature though, is that the cover finally doesn’t suck. Worth the $US30 MSRP, though I’m sad it won’t arrive until Dec. 30, weeks after the Firefly boxset. More »
Entertainment
Firefly Series Comes to Blu-ray November 11
10:00AM Jason Chen | Firefly might have been the best thing Joss Whedon has ever done in our opinion, but it’s also one of the shortest things he’s ever done. In just 14 episodes, the space western was able to surpass both Buffy and Angel (and all of his smaller creations) in our minds as his work, which is why we cannot wait to get this thing on Blu-ray. If you’re rating this box set on an purely dollar-to-hour ratio, the US$90 price tag (US$62 on Amazon) would be absurd. But you know you’re going to watch and re-watch this thing many times over, if only for the scenes with Inara and the other companion. We’ll be in our bunk. [Amazon] More »
Gadgets
Brando’s Firefly Lamp: For Those Romantic Digital Insect-Light Moments
10:00PM Gizmodo US Edition | A non-USB product from Brando, and one that’s surprisingly cute? Good grief, I nearly fell off my keyboard. These Firefly jars are solar-powered, charging up during the day and adding a simulated bioluminescent insect-arse glow to wherever you pop them at night. The kitchen worktop, perhaps—perfect for lighting your way to that midnight snack. Standing 15.2 cms high, they glow in orange, but are they more eco-friendly than trapping a real firefly in a jar? Probably not… but at least its kinder to animals. Available now for US$45. [Brando] More »
Weapons
Resistance Isn’t Futile: Explosive Edible Flour, Cigarette Guns and Other WWII OSS Tricks
4:20AM Wilson Rothman | To kick off our CIA gadget series, I’m starting with something from the beginning, well, before the beginning: covert weaponry sent to resistance fighters behind enemy lines during WWII. They thought of all kinds of disruptive technologies, including exploding edible flour, cigarette-shaped single-use guns and other discrete but explodey gadgets. More »
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