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    cletar: So, this was the very machine owned by Roddenberry, but NOT the actual machine seen in ST:IV? Or is it both? more »
    burlybax: Judging from the color of the plastic casing, I'd say Roddenberry was a smoker. more »
    ManchuCandidate: Isn't there something cheaper for the Trekkie/Trekker on a budget? You know, like say a used kleenex with Gene's snot on it? A ticket stub? A credi... more »
    Lassus: "It has an estimated sale price of $800-$1200." Yeah, not in this universe. If it goes for less than $5000 I'd be shocked. more »
  • #startrek

    You Could Own Gene Roddenberry's 1980s Apple Mac

    Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry owned one of the first Mac-Pluses Apple built, back in 1986, and this led to him featuring the computer in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Now you can own Gene's Mac, model number 0001. More »
  • #doctorwho

    An Apple A Day Makes The Doctor... Available, Apparently

  • #mangobot

    Mac Funamizu's Gadget Designs of the Future

    Welcome back to MangoBot, a biweekly column about Asian futurism by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama. Mac Funamizu is a tech geek, designer, and futurist who has created quite a lot of buzz among design circles for his innovative gadgets from the future. The 38-year old Tokyo native has always loved Apple, Google, and Starbucks, but he always felt inconvenienced by the extra steps involved in using them. (Why mouth off a complex multi-conditional order of coffee when you could just customize your cup of joe online? Why doesn't Google Maps give you more than just a topographic image of what you're looking at?) At first, his ideas were just rough sketches in his Moleskine. But then he started posting his neat, provocative ideas online, and now developers are contacting him to try and make some of them a reality. More »
  • #walle

    Wall-E's Android Friend Eve Is Based On An iPod

  • #triviagasm

    A Brief History of Reality Distortion Fields, Starring Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs is the first non-science fiction character to possess a reality distortion field (RDF). Apple's MacWorld 2008 conference kicks off tomorrow with a keynote from Jobs, which leaves gadget lovers and iPod fiends white-knuckled on Tuesday morning as news of the next "insanely great" thing trickles out of Moscone Center in San Francisco. Why does this speech cause such furor (and fury) every year? RDF, of course. We've got the scoop on how Jobs came to posses the RDF, and we've got four other famous RDFs from science fiction for you to contemplate as you await the mind-control ray that will emanate from MacWorld tomorrow. More »
  • #heroes

    NBC's 'Heroes' Tops List Of Most Pirated Shows

    NBC earns the distinction of having their show Heroes being the most pirated television show across the Web. Good for them, because it means people really want to see this thing. It's not like sites are putting together pirate DVDs of Heroes episodes and selling them willy-nilly on street corners. Well, at least here in Los Angeles they're not. I checked. One of the reasons that Heroes (and other NBC shows) shot to the top of this list is that NBC decided to sever their relationship with iTunes last year, meaning you couldn't zap these over to your iPod at $1.99 a pop. More »