Nvidia has been pretty tight with Via, the scrappy maker of low-power chips for tiny laptops and mobile internet devices, to the point of sparking rumors Nvidia wanted to buy 'em. But Taiwanese rag Digitimes says their buddy-buddy relationship is just leverage for Nvidia to muscle its way into Intel's Atom platform. Supposedly, if Nvidia's IGP chipsets is allowed to support Atom, then Nvidia is donezo with Via. It'd be a major blow for relativel
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Hey guys, you can still win a year's worth of free movies from Netflix or Blockbuster (your pick), but today is your last chance to enter. It's ridiculously easy. Here's how. Click here, answer some little questions. Then, email surveys@gawker.com and tell them what the last question was. Congrats, you're officially in the contest. (Which is subject to all the usual fine print.) That's it, good luck!

Apparently the Centro is going to be stupid cheap on AT&T starting July 11, and it'll come in "electric blue." Palm is being coy about exactly how much cheaper, but we figure it'll be a decent discount?maybe down to $49, like the BlackBerry Kickstart will be. We're sure it'll have people lining up at AT&T stores this Friday. [Palm]

Last week I asked you to send me napkin sketches of your brilliant gadget ideas. The sketches I received ranged from good ideas to bad ideas to flat-out horrible ideas. It's safe to say that no time machines or gadgets that'll make you attractive to ladies are suddenly feasible because you did a poor drawing of one on a napkin. Sorry! Hit the jump for the top three winners and check out the rest of the winners in our Gallery of Champions. Winner
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Why be tethered to your Wii when the rest of your controllers are free to swing about and fly around your living room? Logic 3's 32-key wireless keyboard lets you enter in names, messages and Wii Friend Codes like an expert, not a spastic ten-year-old swatting at invisible flies. It's £13.99 ($27) when it's released July 18 in the UK. [Twenga]

Named for microbiology pioneer Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Anton is currently being built with 512 highly specialized processors. These are clocked at just 400MHz, and the machine has modest memory, but its architecture lets it process problems in a massively-parallel way. Ultimately, that'll offer a performance boost of 1000x over current complex molecular simulations. And that's great news: these bits of math are how drug design works. It's differen
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Japanese Performance artist Momoyo Torimitsu built a crawling Japanese businessman robot and took it to the streets of Australia to creep out little kids and turn on weird dudes with camcorders. The bot is her critique on the Japanese salaryman lifestyle and the apparent upcoming Asian economic crash. All we know is that dressing up like a nurse and pulling down an old man's pants in the middle of the street is going to attract some lookey-loos.
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Asus just released their Eee 901 for sale in the US and all is well with the world...except for one thing. They built a bunch of Eee 900s that they have to get rid of. Remember the Eee 900? That was the original 8.9-inch Eee that used a Celeron processor instead of a shiny new Atom. Anyway, if you purchase a 900 between now and July 31st, Asus will give you $100 back. That brings the price to $450, or $150 less than a 901. So what's that Atom wor
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The idea of a compact, folding bicycle is nothing new, but designer Chang Ting Jen is hoping to take the concept even further with his Backpack bike. According to the specs, a production version would weigh around 12 pounds and fold into a backpack that measured just under 2 feet in length. Naturally, that means that you could pick up and carry your bike around just about anywhere. A bicycle as compact as this version promises to be would definit
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This specially-created one-off steampunk gas mask was made from leather, brass, and a Soviet-era gas mask. What's special about this isn't that it looks incredibly creepy and incredibly cool, it's that it looks kinda similar to that Nazi villain from the first Hellboy movie. Maybe it's just us and our excitement for Hellboy II that we're even thinking of buying this on eBay for $650 to use in our "LARPing". Yeah, that's the ticket. [ebay via Live
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Although you can pull out a pen and paper and do the math yourself, BillShrink is an easy web-based way to calculate how much that iPhone 3G family plan is going to cost you over two years. Just move the sliders around, choose how many lines you want and pick the amount of text messages you use and out pops a summary of which plans are right for you and how much they all cost. We've got a little comparison chart of the 3G vs. similar plans on oth
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I would be completely lost without my dear RSS reader. It's the second window I open every morning (after geeksugar, of course!) and it is solely responsible for keeping me in-the-know, on track and organized. This question goes out to the impressive 50 percent of geeksugar readers who use RSS readers ? how many feeds do you follow? How Many Sites Are in Your RSS Reader? More than 300 100 to 300 50 to 100 25 to 50
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While I find myself comparison shopping more often and only splurging on the really good stuff (you know, like the 3G iPhone!) I am certainly not immune to the many temptations out there in the gadget world. When Polaroid announced it is discontinuing its cameras and film, I scoured the web and stocked up. Do I really need 25 packs of Polaroid film? I guess only time will tell. I want you to share that device you thought you needed but never use
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A lucky Portuguese man got his hands on an iPhone 3G and has provided the world with its first unboxing. ? Engadget Blackberry's first touchscreen phone, the Thunder, has been revealed, pretty interface and all. ? Gizmodo Hey, you guys know Hans Reiser? One of the guys that helped invent Linux? He's a convicted murderer now. Quite the trajectory. ? Boing Boing Design company Hemingway has released some pretty gorgeous pixel wallpapers. ? Unplg
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Madonna has recruited Britney Spears for a virtual appearance on her upcoming tour. "There is footage being shot of Britney some time this week in conjunction with Madonna's upcoming (Sticky & Sweet) tour," Madonna's publicist, Liz Rosenberg, said in an e-mail Tuesday to The Associated Press. "That is all the information I have available. The rest is `a secret.'"

BillO must have missed the last eight years of BushCo because he says that all our economic problems are the fault of the dirty f*&king hippies. You see, O’Reilly asks: Is America a nation in decline? As if that’s a legitimate question. You know the answer he’s going to give. In his mind [...]

 Download | Play  Download | Play (h/t Heather) You knew it was going to happen. For all his big talk about being happy to talk to the House Judiciary Committee looking into the conviction and incarceration of Don Siegelman, when push came to shove, you had to know that Karl Rove would never, ever freely respond [...]

On Friday, to help honor Independence Day, the president appeared in Charlottesville, Virginia, and hosted a naturalization ceremony at Monticello. Bush had quite a bit to say about the president who called Monticello home. ?The principles that Thomas Jefferson enshrined in the Declaration became the guiding principles of the new nation. And at every generation, Americans [...]