The Secret Armory Of General Knoxx Opens This Week

MORE GUNSSSSS!!!!

Kotaku-Tan, The T-Shirt For The Kotaku Fan

Nice work by Meatbun.

Super Mario Galaxy 2: Yoshi’s Back… and He Brought a Drill!

I like that Yoshi. He’s a good guy.

Heavy Rain Explores Player Depression With Freezes And Glitches

I had one crash during Heavy Rain, but two of my characters died because the SIXAXIS motion controls are so horrid.

The Stalling Of An Anti-Bush Video Game

This is exactly why I don’t vote except when I do.

Don’t Worry, DSi XL Fits In My Rear Left Pocket

Thank. God.

Kirsten Dunst Is Your Magical Nerd Princess

I’m not sure what this has to do with gaming, but it was on Kotaku and I found it appropriately strange, so there.

Resident Evil 5: Lost In Nightmares Micro-Review: Less Fighting, More Frightening

I played a lot of RE5, but I still preferred the earlier, fixed camera games in the series.

Warner Buys Batman: Arkham Asylum Devs

Smart move.

Hands-On, Sword Out With Red Steel 2

Finally, we’re getting some decent swordplay on the Wii.

Starcraft II: Some Thoughts On The Beta

The most important news? It runs well without a top of the line machine.

New Starcraft II Screens, With That Beta-Fresh Smell

OK, so I’m kind of craving Starcraft all of the sudden.

Aliens Vs. Predator Review: Too Human

We know it’s not going to be a great game, but everyone loves a throwback.

What’s The Father of the PlayStation Doing These Days?

Playing Xbox?

All The Super Street Fighter IV Dudley, Makoto, And Ibuki You Can Stand

Blasphemy, I know. But I loathe one-off Street Fighter characters.

Activision Chief Regrets Not Making Guitar Hero With Harmonix

A rare moment of honesty.

Civilization V Hexes PCs This Fall

Somehow, Civ just got even geekier.

Alan Wake Preview: The First Full Episode

I confess: I didn’t even read it. I don’t want the slightest spoiler.

First Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Screens, Gameplay Videos Leak

2010: A Video Gamer’s Guide

Every big trade show of the year, charted.

I’m surprised anyone under 20 even knows who Sonic is.

Red Dead Redemption: Hands On
Impressions on Rockstar’s ‘open world’ Western.

WA Dev Interzone Games Close To Liquidation
The Perth-based studio is in deep shit.

Nintendo Wins $1.5m Aussie Piracy Settlement
Details on the actions Nintendo took to find and sue 24-year-old James Burt.

Alienware Issues An Australian Clan Challenge
The gaming PC people are hosting an online 5v5 CoD4 tournament next month here in Australia.

Heavy Rain Review: No Wrong Conclusion
In 10-20 years, it’s my guess that you’ll see a lot more games like Heavy Rain.

Frankenreview: Heavy Rain
For a second opinion.

Your First Look At Fable III In Action
We all knew Fable III was coming, but official news just broke yesterday.

New Crackdown 2 Screens Show Off Shiny Pre-order Armour
If you haven’t played Crackdown, it’s like co-op GTA for superheroes.

More Alan Wake Footage, More Torches In The Dark
A lot of people are comparing adventure game Alan Wake to adventure game Heavy Rain. Really, Alan Wake looks like survival horror with a narrator. That’s not a bad thing, but the title doesn’t feel quite as ambitious as an interactive movie.

City Of Heroes Gets A Visual Makeover
It’s always kind of neat when an MMO gets reskinned, like a whole world has been made better.

Frankenreview: BioShock 2
I’ve got Bioshock 2 sitting about a metres away. But I think I’m playing through Mass Effect 2 again before cracking the case.

Star Trek Online Couldn’t Resist The Borg
And we couldn’t resist the Borg either.

EB Games Joins Campaign For R18+ Rating For Videogames

Australia’s largest video game retailer wants it just as much as we do.

AVP Multiplayer Impressions: Dancing On The Ceiling

The verdict? Not so impressed.

From Poetry To Playability: How Visceral Games Reimagined Dante’s Inferno

The story behind EA’s upcoming action-adventure game.

Gamers 4 Croydon Vow To “Haunt” Atkinson

Kat Nicholson vs Michael Atkinson.

Why There Hasn’t Been A Truly Great Star Trek Game

My opinion? Because games don’t nail diplomacy in a realistic, dynamic manner.

Want The Heavy Rain Demo Right Now? Here’s How…

Heavy Rain looks like one of the few things that Sony is doing really right.

Project Needlemouse Is… Sonic 4, Episode I

It’s taken a decade and a half, but I just may care about Sonic again.

Sega Offers Reasons Iron Man 2 Won’t Be Dreadful

Oh, the sellout studios ALWAYS say this stuff. (And we so often believe them.)

Star Trek Online: One Million Served

I need a ship name, if anyone has any ideas.

Mario & Sonic’s Relationship Isn’t Quite What It Used To Be

It’s funny because it’s true.

Mass Effect 2 And The Curse Of The Tiny Text

I feel for people with tiny, SD TVs for more reasons than just this one.

So, How Did Mass Effect 2 End For You? SPOILERS

Let’s just say my character was going through a bit of a dry spell.

What’s Happened To Nintendo’s “New Play Control”?

Lame, Nintendo. Lame.

“Mass Affect” – BioWare’s Upcoming Hipster RPG

I know some people who’ve played this.

The iPad. Oh the iPad. Here, all wrapped up in one post, is everything you need to know about the device itself. We played with it and were blown away with its speed. Adam, however, was not impressed, and the internet went crazy over his list of eight things that suck about the iPad. Wilson explained why the iPad is the gadget we never knew we needed. Joel alleged that with the iPad, Apple is trying to assassinate the computer.

We had hoped Apple’s tablet would offer an inventive input solution. It did no such thing. We checked out a video of all the gestures it involves. We looked at how it is going to change the app store. That was after we pondered how we are going to hold the damn thing. People reacted to it. Stephen Fry, who got a hands on at the event, wrote at length on why he loved the new gadget.

Fujitsu had some piece of crap called the iPad back in 2002. They’re not going down without a fight. Before it was unveiled, McGraw from McGraw Hill confirmed the tablet. After it was unveiled, they denied their confirmation.

Dan put together a handy chart of how the iPad stacks up with all the other tablets floating around, including the JooJoo, the HP Slate, and the new Archos.

Steve Jobs and Walt Mossberg chatted about the new device, where Steve went off script about ebook prices and battery life. This was after Walt Mosspuppet reviewed the device itself. The iPad doesn’t have Flash. Adobe was quick to respond. Later, they tried to win our hearts by playing the porn card. Google’s Eric Schmidt wondered what differentiated a tablet from a really big phone. Some funny people made light of it all. To the delight of some, a kickstand appeared.

Jason reviewed Microsoft’s compact Arc keyboard.

Mark valiantly continued his defective yellow-screened iMac crusade and showed off the internal Apple memo someone leaked him.

John interviewed the Panera Bread iMac Man.

Joel reminded us that manufacturing isn’t making and took Chris Anderson to task for his cover story in this month’s Wired.

A noted astrophysicist answered the question on everyone’s mind. What would happen to your body if you fell into a black hole?

HP has a slate of their own and we got some more info on it.

The PS3 exploit announced last weekend was released.

What do you get when a talented special effects artist just happens to have an interest in hoaxes? These crazy clips showing UFOs and shuttles destroyed in orbit.

Monopoly’s getting a circular facelift for the new decade, and its bank is going paperless.

There’s a shiny new gun with a unique safety feature: it won’t fire unless the shooter is wearing a special watch.

In the form of an HTML5 web app, Google Voice makes its way to the iPhone and the Palm Pre.

You guys took some incredible motion blur photographs for this week’s shooting challenge. It was on purpose, you swore!

Alienware’s M11x gaming netbook got the laptop-like price tag of $US800.

A brave soul ventured into the heart of SkyMall and lived to tell the tale.

Mark said, “tablet? What tablet?” He was too busy playing Mass Effect 2.

Historians are searching for a 90 year old frozen camera that could rewrite the history books on Everest’s first climbers.

If Steve Jobs just had one wish, this would be it.

Soon the BBC is airing Chimpcam Project, a documentary about chimps, filmed by chimps, for the viewing pleasure of slightly more evolved chimps.

Prisons refuse to let inmates play Dungeons and Dragons because it promotes gang activity. There are still dungeons, just no dragons.

We came across a funny website that emulates Windows 3.1 right in your browser.

Air New Zealand is getting high tech and commmmffffyyyyyy.

For tea drinkers who are also submarine lovers, there’s no better infuser than this one.

We deemed this tiny, tiny radio a choking hazard.

Speaking of FM radio, Belkin showed off their new radio transmitter that leaves the controlling to your iPhone.

192 lasers came together to bring us one megajoule closer to nuclear fusion.

We beheld a board with 80 USB ports. Yes, 80.

Finally, it was confirmed that those magic wand bomb detectors were a complete fraud.

Apple’s January 27th event was confirmed with a splatter of paint.

And oh were there rumours. One report said it was an iPhone flattened with a rolling pin. The WSJ said that we’d share our Tablets with our families (yeah right). One even suggested it could cure lupus (not really).

Jesus reflected on the Apple Tablet interface and sorted out what makes sense and what just plain doesn’t.

John rounded up some of the dumbest tablet rumours of all time.

Adam rounded up all the iPhone 4 rumours he could find, the dumb along with the not so dumb.

Brian added up all those subscriptions you’re paying for and it’s a serious chunk of change.

Mark is still fighting the good fight on the yellow iMac front.

Joel revealed the secret of Apple’s magic: they show off products that you can actually buy.

We reviewed the Palm Pre Plus. Turns out it’s not “plus” a whole lot.

Last week we brought you customers’ Genius Bar horror stories. This week we came back with tales from the extensive montage of tablets and futuristic interfaces in film and TV.

We explained solid-state drives and why you should want one.

If you thought Sexting was embarrassing, wait until you read Brian Barrett’s hard-hitting report on the seedy subcultures of Becksting, Hexting and more.

Rockers OK Go wrote in and explained that whole business about non-embeddable YouTube videos.

Speaking of rockers, the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne was chilling in a bathtub on his front lawn when the Google Street View van rolled by.

Jason got to live out some lifelong fantasies with the Star Trek Online Open Beta. The verdict: pew pew and pppptththhhbbffffooooo.

With YouTube and Vimeo jumping in bed with HTML5, we wonder if the end of Flash video is drawing near.

A guy did a text input speed test with a laptop, an iPhone, a Palm, a Newton, a pen and pad, and a Magnadoodle. OK, OK, all except for one of those.

We read the incredible story of a man whose iPhone saved his life when he was trapped under the rubble in Haiti.

Amazon opened up the Kindle for development! That exclamation point is all the enthusiasm I can muster.

We checked out an electromagnetic cannon that can stop cars dead in their tracks. Unless your car was made before the era of computerised engines (before the drastic change in production when cars were metal instead of plastic).

Sega Genesis is coming to the iPhone, official-style.

Mark shared a pretty good tip for snagging a free phone charger: hit up a hotel’s lost and found.

Steve Ballmer signed a MacBook Pro. Somewhere in the boreal forest, an endangered snow leopard dropped dead.

We found an iPhone app that catches cheating spouses, but if you read the news these days it seems like they’re doing pretty OK on their own.

I couldn’t spot this super-sophisticated ATM card skimmer. Could you?

US Airways misinterpreted “red ring of death” and destroyed a kid’s XBox 360.

A Photoshop user traced his mouse movement during a three-hour session. The result probably looks neater than whatever he was working on.

That wild picture of the wolf that won that National Geographic photo contest? It’s deadly acoustic weapon, as not to upset it.

There are tree houses. And then there are tree houses.

Twelve South released the BookBook, a MacBook casecase that lookslooks really goodgood.

A crazy, crazy dude with some serious, serious cajones is going to attempt to break the sound barrier by free-falling from 120,000 feet (36,576 metres).

MacGruber is coming to the big screen.

We looked at some instances in which sci-fi movies became blowing up the flight you’re on. Just don’t.

Microsoft finally got around to fixing a seventeen year old bug.

Oh, and those naked airport scanners everyone’s always up in arms about? They might not be so good at actually detecting bombs.

• ShellMenuNew cleans up that “new” menu in Windows (About time)

• Add Chrome-like incognito mode to Firefox

• Keeping your muscles inactive for too long hurts your health, regardless if you exercise (Nooooo!!)

• Circle dock gives you shortcuts centred around your mouse

• Believing you can be smarter makes you smarter

• The best tech tools to keep in touch

• The world’s most boring video teaches you how to tie your shoes correctly

• Make a minimalist desktop for productivity

• Make a PDF from any URL

G1 Transformers Awaken On The iPhone

Now if we only knew anything about the game.

LittleBigPlanet Is Also Playable… In 3D!!!

A cute game, but I don’t play it much in 2D.

Borderlands Level Cap Raise Confirmed by Gearbox

And with that one, solitary headline, weeks of my life are sacrificed to the gaming gods.

Link has Trouble Staying on Task (Comic)

It’s funny because it’s true.

A Closer Look At NieR

This game looks gross. So you have to see it.

Get A Little Depressed With The Heavy Rain Demo

Once again, if you have a PS3, Heavy Rain should be on your must-play list.

Frankenreview: Dark Void

Every new year comes with a new gimmick that comes with a mediocre shooter attached. Looks like Dark Void fills that role… but that jetpack looks so fun!

How Cover Shaped Gaming’s Last Decade

An excellent retrospective on the gaming industry’s new jump button.

2009 Game of the Year Finalist Debate: Demon’s Souls

Quite simply, this is my favourite Kotaku post in some time. Check it out.

Will it be announced on January 27?
While the original iPhone was announced in January 2007, a full six months before it was released, the most recent version, the 3GS, was announced a mere month before its release. There’s no real reason for Apple to announce a new version of the iPhone months before its release at this point, and if they really are announcing the tablet on the 27th, there’s no reason to overdo it by announcing both. The only way they’d announce it next week is if it was being released much sooner than anticipated. Probability: 20 per cent.

When is it coming out?
Yes, a new iPhone will be released this year. Foxconn, Apple’s main manufacturer, is rumoured to have already received the order. But when, exactly, should we expect to see it?

If Apple continues along the schedule they’ve stuck to for the past three iterations, look for the iPhone 4 to drop between May and July. The original iPhone dropped on June 29, 2007, the 3G came on July 11, 2008 and the 3GS arrived on June 19, 2009. While there have been rumours about a new iPhone showing up in April, those are sketchy at best. The good money is on late June/Early July. Probability: 95 per cent

Will it run on a 4G wireless network in the US?
The 3G and 3GS both run on AT&T’s 3G network, with the 3GS supporting the speedier 7.2Mbps HDSPA network. AT&T is also working on its 4G LTE network, and some people think the next-gen iPhone could run on that.

It’s unlikely. 3G networks were technically available when the first iPhone was released, but Apple held off until the network was robust enough to handle a good number of people before releasing the 3G. And LTE phones are probably a good six months off still, so expect the new iPhone to continue running on the 7.2Mbps HDSPA network.

The good news is that the network is far from running at full capacity, so as AT&T beefs it up we should see speeds increase until the v5 LTE iPhone shows up in 2011. Probability: 10 per cent

OMG is it coming to Verizon?!
One analyst seems to think so, and he also claims Apple and Verizon are disagreeing on pricing. Unfortunately, these claims are just his assumptions and aren’t based on any solid information, as is analyst’s wont.

The real motivation for Apple to bring the phone to Verizon is that AT&T’s serious network limitations in NYC and SF have given the iPhone’s once-sterling reputation a black eye. Add to that the fact that Android is starting to encroach on Apple’s hype train, and you’ve got the makings of a good time to expand to other networks.

However, the fact that Apple would need to make a totally new iPhone to run on Verizon’s (and Sprint’s, for that matter) CDMA network is a big roadblock here. It’s not insurmountable, however. Verizon would have to be willing to play ball (although they’ve given hints of that lately), and a lot would have to be worked out.

Our guess is that this is still another year away. After all, both Verizon and AT&T are turning to LTE for their 4G networks, which would make it easier to release one LTE iPhone for both networks. And we all know how Apple likes to keep its product lines simple. Probability: 30 per cent that it happens this year, 60 per cent next year

What processor will it have?
The sketchy source that claimed the new iPhone would be out in April also claimed that it will feature a multi-core ARM Cortex-A9, capable of speeds over 2GHz. While the source isn’t great, this part of the rumour isn’t out of the realm of possibility.

Another option is Apple using chips designed by PA Semi, their in-house chip foundry. There are rumours of PA Semi chips running the forthcoming tablet, and it would make sense that Apple would go a similar route for the next iPhone. Specs are unclear, but it’s safe to say that it would be a bump up from the 3GS.

How much storage will it have?
64GB, probably. Both Samsung and Toshiba have some new 64GB NAND chips that are exactly what Apple would put in an updated iPhone. And the 3GS already has 32GB, so doubling that number is a pretty obvious upgrade. Probability: 95 per cent

What about the graphics chip?
Imagination Technologies, the company behind the iPhone 3GS’s PowerVR SGX535 GPU, recently announced the next version in that line, the SGX545. It has OpenGL 3.2 and Open CL 1.0 support, runs at 200MHz, supports DirectX 10.1 and can do HD output. It seems like a natural next step for the guts of the iPhone, unless Apple wanted to keep the product line simpler by continuing to use the 3GS GPU for another year. Another GPU upgrade would allow for more visually impressive games, just not on older models. Probability: 85 per cent

Will it have video chat?
This was strongly rumoured for the 3GS, but didn’t happen: a second camera on the front of the phone, allowing for mobile video chat. Jesus wants it very badly.

The main argument against this happening is that AT&T’s network just couldn’t handle it, which is probably true. But it could be done with a Wi-Fi-only implementation. Then again, maybe it’s just one of those features that just sounds better than it actually is; the idea of holding your phone up in front of your face at arm’s length seems pretty stupid to me. Probability: 30 per cent

Potential New Features

A High-Res AMOLED Screen:
The iPhone’s screen is starting to look a little dated when compared to the beauties found on the Motorola Droid and the Nexus One. The Droid’s screen is 3.7 inches with a 480×854 resolution, while the Nexus One sports a particularly lovely 3.7-inch AMOLED screen with a 480×800 resolution. Compare these numbers to the iPhone, which sports a 3.5-inch LCD screen with a resolution of 320×480, and it becomes clear that a screen upgrade is inevitable.

Furthermore, Apple filed a patent for a slimmer, lighter dual-function touchscreen back in 2008. The new touchscreens feature capacitors included in the pixels of the screen, able to operate individually, eliminating the need for a touch sensor panel overlaid on the display. This would allow the screens to be manufactured more cheaply and easily while also allowing for a thinner profile.

Whether or not the new screens are AMOLEDs or Apple’s new LCD technology, the chances are good that the resolution will get a bump. The trouble is that all of the apps in the App Store have been coded for a native resolution of 320×480, so a lot of work will have to be done to get those upscaled for a higher-resolution screen. That’s no reason to keep a last-gen screen on a new product, however, so we think a resolution upgrade is highly likely. Probability: 90 per cent

A Stylus:
A recently-unearthed Apple patent shows an iPhone being used with a stylus with a conductive tip. The patent was filed back in July of 2008, however, so this seems like more of an ass-covering patent than a product-defining patent. After all, Steve famously said “yuck” to styluses at the first iPhone keynote. So the chances of the new iPhone coming with a stylus are slim to none. Probability: 5 per cent

Removable Battery:
The same flimsy source that claimed that the new iPhone will be released in April also said we should expect a removable battery. This is highly doubtful. Apple has just revamped all of its laptops to have non-user-removable batteries, why would it suddenly do an about-face with the new iPhone? Don’t count on it. Probability: 5 per cent

Touch-Sensitive Casing:
This is an interesting one. A Goldman Sachs analyst seems to think that the back of the new iPhone will be touch-sensitive, like the Magic Mouse. This would allow for gesture-based control, like scrolling, without your fat fingers blocking the screen. This one’s purely speculative, but makes a certain amount of sense. Probability: 35 per cent

Wireless N Support:
This one is pretty obvious. The newest iPod Touch already has a Broadcom BCM4329 chip inside that supports 802.11n and FM transmission, so it’s natural that the next iPhone would get the same thing. A recent job posting by Apple for a Wi-Fi software engineer just adds credence to the rumour. Probability: 95 per cent

5-megapixel Camera:
Digitimes claims that OmniVision Technologies, the company behind the iPhone 3GS’s 3.2-megapixel CMOS image sensor, has won a new contract with Apple to produce millions of 5-megapixel sensors this year. This one makes sense, as the megapixel count (as well as storage size) is one of the most basic ways to show that the phone’s been upgraded. Probability: 95 per cent

LED Flash:
On the one hand, the iPhone’s camera could be better, especially in low light, and a flash could help with that. On the other hand, mobile phone flashes are almost universally terrible and useless. Nevertheless, there’s a rumour out there that Apple has ordered “tens of millions” of Philips’ LumiLEDs. Probability: 60 per cent

Push-Button Antenna:
Apple filed a patent for an antenna that pops out like a button. This looks to pretty clearly them covering their asses rather than leaking new product designs, so don’t count on seeing a big, ugly antenna button popping out of the top of the new iPhone. Probability: 5 per cent

Spongey Dock:
This is another weirdo patent, one that in all likelihood will never actually be made. Probability: 5 per cent

A Bumpy Screen:
Yet another patent that could be for a tablet or a phone, this shows a touchscreen device with a screen that “create[s] physical bumps or dots for the user to feel when it is in keyboard mode”. Interesting! But also, merely a patent, and a left-field patent at that. Probability: 5 per cent

The devastation in Haiti was tough to take in, even via satellite or seismograph. Text messages proved to be a useful technology there and elsewhere as they started down the long road to recovery.

Joel and Rosa put together a video entitled Booth Babe Confessions, looking at what life is really like for the non-gadget eye-candy of CES.

We wrote the Ultimate Guide To Ebook Readers We Care About. Read it quick before it becomes the ultimate guide to ebook readers we don’t care about

Mark reviewed the Tefal oil-less fryer. Its mediocre performance could not lessen his love of sweet potato fries.

In addition to sweet potato fries, Mark also likes 3D. He describes the experience of watching it as viewing a digital diorama.

Jesus, upset about Apple’s removal of the forChan image browser from the App Store, used their logic to demand the removal of Bing and Safari.

How will we type on the Apple Tablet? John teamed up with a world-famous hand model to explore some of the possibilities.

Sean, the wizard of weird news, found this tale of this jilted wife who got revenge by rewiring her husband’s power tools.

Wilson explained how Blu-ray players are cannibalising set-top boxes, and why it’s a tasty prospect for consumers.

We ran a list of the 53 best iPhone games out there.

John scolded Microsoft for continuing to charge Xbox users for Netflix.

Whoa. Our friends at ValleyWag offered up big, big bucks for evidence of the Apple Tablet. A few other publications pointed out that this may or may not be illegal, but as far as I’m concerned, all is fair in love and slate.

Mark’s campaign to get Apple to own up to its faulty, yellow-screend iMacs got its first official installment.

Jesus gave the Lenovo Lephone some serious style points.

As if you needed any more reason to distrust Facebook, a former employee dished some very worrisome information, like the existence of a master password.

Most people have already forgotten about Avatar. One guy has spent the last few weeks perfecting his ability to Photoshop himself into a Na’vi.

Matt collected and compiled customers’ Genius Bar horror stories.

Speaking of geniuses, their true fear will be realised. Roaming Apple “Experts” will outrank them.

Our good buddy The Oatmeal explained why printers are evil. In pictures.

A UK company was showing off an unbreakable phone. A reporter speed-dialled Mr Glass.

We found out that Motorola’s Droid isn’t the most secure little robot.

We wrote on the gear we used at CES.

If you asked Google, they’d say there’s about, hmm, half as many advertisements in the world as there should be. Their solution: resell ad space in Google Maps.

No one likes talking to their nosy neighbours, and why should you, when you can just communicate via your Wi-Fi network name.

Microsoft said Android is like a puppy. The internet went “awww”.

Not that it really needed confirming, but nudists aren’t too upset about the private parts-showing airport scanners.

This week’s update in a struggle as old as time itself: Duct tape: 1; bears: 0.

Thanks to semiconductor suppliers – who needs ‘em, I say – PC prices may be going up, up, up.

When I get mad at tech support, I curse under my breath. When musician M.I.A. gets mad at tech support, she writes a song.

A few months ago we ran a story about how Steve Jobs had a really awful name for the iMac. Turns out, it might’ve been Mac Man.

Adam posted a documentary on internet trolls.

A teenager got really frustrated about the prices at the Apple Store and threatened to blow the place up.

The criminal who was taunting police on Facebook was caught . He’ll now be sentenced to five years on MySpace.

Wi-Fi allergies continue to plague bozos across the nation.

Another from the dumb criminals file: a guy who stole an Android smartphone was revealed by an app that creates a remote back up for every photo the phone takes.

Jesus wanted to curl up for a nap in this ridiculous sleep suit.

A robot flower girl looked pretty in pink and behaved herself very well throughout the ceremony.

The Apple Tablet rumour mill kept a-churnin’. BGR got a tip that it was basically an iPhone on steroids. Those rumours got visual in a handy infographic. Also, we speculated on why just now Apple turned off the lights at Fingersworks.com

Feeling left out by all the tablet talk, the iPhone 4 wanted to hear some rumours about itself. The most intriguing: that it could have touch-sensitive casing.

A guy took a mind blowing picture with magnets. My words won’t do it justice.

Matt checked out the new MobileMe gallery app for the iPhone. And he liked it!

Google gave early Nexus One adopters a $US100 discount. It’s the least they could do after they forgot about, you know, that whole customer support thing.

First player Tetris is also the first Tetris to make you throw up your lunch.

Apple wiz Woz oogled Google’s Phone.

Sean showed us 10 gadgets that help you conquer the snow.

Pierre Petry gave a first hand account of the technical problems faced by relief workers in Haiti.

Sean loves Nerf guns, and he really loved this collection of 12 awesome Nerf mods.

We looked at this map of China, rendered with websites that are blocked there. Gizmodo is good to go. Gayromeo is not.

Long exposure film making got its masterpiece in the Magic Forest stop-motion video.

Paris partied really hard with a 7.5m disco ball, the world’s largest.

Jesus wants to ride his bike through the sky with the Kolelinia system. And in some parallel universe, he probably does.

In said universe, supplies are launched to the International Space Station via underwater canon.

A PS3 went up in a mysterious blaze. We got photos.

We found out that some people can’t even see 3D. Huh!

This DIY Star Trek Phaser is probably the closest you’ll ever get to wielding one of sci-fi’s most famous weapons. Borg may still be safe but balloons beware.

The bowline, the double carrick bend, the lariat loop: your favourite knots tied with earbuds.

We heard that Windows 7 is, for reals, coming in February. And it will have gestures!

It’s looking like Apple is going to overhaul mobile ads the same way they did digital music.

Google got hacked. And then they did some of their own hacking.

What lies beneath Las Vegas? A lot of dirt – literal and figurative – and these weirdos.

A composer took Nokia’s famous ringtone and made it into a bit of classical music that will quickly fade to obscurity.

How’d they make big arse zeppelins back in the day? If you said big arse ladders, you are correct!.

We learned about some of the technology behind the amazing shots in BBC’s Life.

This $US30 IKEA camera dolly hack is too cheap not to be useful.