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Hermaphrodite insects fertilise daughters with parasitic sperm

The life of the cottony cushion scale insect reads like something from the most ridiculous of tabloid newspapers. Dad leaves parasitic body parts in his own daughter, which produce sperm that fertilise her eggs. He is both father and grandfather to his own grandchildren. On top of that, these insects are mostly hermaphrodites. With the…

io9 Ed Yong - Discovery Jul 16 '11

Watch This Badass Calmly Survive the NYC Blackout of ’77

The Blackout of 1977 is one of the grimmer chapters of New York City’s history. And you can tell by soccer star Carlos Alberto Torres’ account. But the quality of the animation here gives his story real power and beauty. Not to mention Torres is the man. Even as fires and looters brought the city…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 16 '11

The Wonder Woman TV show would’ve looked like a really awesome antiperspirant commercial

If these handsome storyboards by Cesar Lemus are any indicator, the axed Wonder Woman TV show was chock full of scenes of Wonder Woman hoofing it through glades and dells and arenas and Hollywood Boulevard, filled with slack-jawed onlookers. [Spotted on Comics Alliance]

Television Cyriaque Lamar Jul 16 '11

Watch a short film about Japan’s 300-year-old handmade robots

Filmmaker Matthew Allard has made this lovely little interview with craftsman Hideki Higashino, who specializes in the creation of Karakuri, or automata dating back to Japan’s Edo period. Don’t worry, they’re a helluva lot less freaky than medieval European automata. https://gizmodo.com/in-the-15th-century-satanic-automata-wigged-out-church-5795086 [Via MAKE]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 16 '11

The gScreen SpaceBook Is Too Big and Tired to Launch You Anywhere

I can understand needing the extra screen real estate to accomplish more visually-intensive work, but I can’t understand anyone who’d lug this behemoth anywhere. Because the gScreen SpaceBook is too much size and not enough Space Age to do you any good. The SpaceBook’s claim to glory is its massive dual 17.3-inch screen setup, which…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 16 '11

New synthetic vocal cord gel gives voice to the voiceless

Call it a silent killer: some 6 percent of the U.S. population has some kind of voice disorder, most of those resulting from scarring of the vocal cords that can lead to diminishing or even total loss of the ability to speak. Giving voice to the voiceless, a team of Harvard and MIT researchers have…

io9 Clay Dillow - Popular Science Jul 16 '11

Watch Gizmodo’s Joe Brown On CBS’s “The Early Show”

Gizmodo editor-in-chief Joe Brown joined CBS’s The Early Show on Saturday July 16, 2011 to talk “Carmageddon.” Watch the clip above. For media requests, please contact Kevin Prince.

Tech News Scott Kidder Jul 16 '11

80 years ago, the best headline ever about owls was written

It’s been a big week for owls, what with the last Harry Potter film hitting theaters and an unfortunate British owl hitting a bedroom window. So it’s rather fortuitous that this fantastic article from a 1930 issue of Modern Mechanics was brought to my attention. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-happens-when-an-owl-crashes-into-your-wind-5820125 This is my second favorite orthinological headline I’ve ever…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 16 '11

The cutest killer kaiju are no match for the “Battlepug”

Battlepug is a revenge webcomic with an adorable twist. A barbarian warrior sees his entire village destroy by a deadly (but super cute) baby seal and sets off on a quest to find his true destiny: rider of the Battlepug. Battlepug started life as a goofy t-shirt design. The comic site iFanboy asked comic book…

io9 Lauren Davis Jul 16 '11

Could the iPod Be On Its Deathbed?

If sales of Apple’s iPod are any indication, the heyday of the MP3 player is over and done with. iPod sales have been steadily declining since their peak at 22.7 million in December 2008, and analysts estimate another 7.2 percent drop over the quarter that just ended. Apple still commands 70 percent of the MP3…

Tech News Christina Bonnington - Wired Jul 16 '11

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Mob Wives with Drea de Matteo

Sopranos alum Drea de Matteo and One Tree Hill’s Sophia Bush headline a roster of fake real housewives who hit because they love. And then try to make amends. And then fight again. And then make amends. And then… Well, and then you get to the tiny wine glasses and the world suddenly makes sense…

Tech News Splitsider Jul 15 '11

Turn Your Cubicle Into An Undersea World with Discovery Channel’s New Live Stream

As part of the run up to this year’s Shark Week, the Discovery channel’s teamed with the Georgia Aquarium and embedded a live webcam in the world’s largest shark tank. The 9.5 Olympic pool-sized (that’s 6.3 million gallons) tank was originally built to contain Whale Sharks and is currently hosting the Ocean Voyager exhibit. Aside…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 15 '11

Instadrop Automatically Syncs Your Instagram Photos to Your Dropbox

One of the great things about Instagram? It autosaves your Instagram photos to the cloud. The bad thing? They’re only saved to Instagram. Enter Instadrop. Instadrop backs up your Instagram photos to Dropbox. Genius and absolutely must have. It takes two seconds to set up. Do this now, thank Instadrop later. [Instadrop]

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 15 '11

3-D Scanning and Reconstruction of Crash Scenes Will Save Cops and Drivers Time and Money

Police in England will soon deploy 3-D laser scanners to the scene of car crashes, saving time and allowing wreckage to be cleared from roadways more quickly. The 3-D accident reconstruction will also be more accurate than human-generated reports. In the UK as in the US, a car wreck involving injuries or fatalities must be…

Tech News Rebecca Boyle - Popular Science Jul 15 '11

Sony’s Spidery Sound System Sticks to Your Wall (if You Want It to)

Getting a wall-mounted anything is an annoying commitment. I move crap around my apartment all the time, and it sucks when you buy your way into a corner with gear that has to take up specific spaces. Sony’s CMT-CX5 audio system is like a gadget amphibian, only if that word meant being able to hang…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 15 '11

We’ll always remember Harry Potter

EXPECTO AWESOME | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows fan art by Fiendfyre, via Fanpop. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-not-the-end-of-harry-potter-5821576 This is not the end of Harry Potter Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, out today, is the final movie in the Harry Potter series, and for many it marks the end of an era in pop…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 15 '11

Quite Possibly the Best “Earthling Teaches Alien Babes About Sex” Moment Ever [NSFW]

Back in the day, every science fiction movie or show had to have a scene where the Earthman teaches the aliens/future people how to have sex. Captain Kirk did it. So did Woody Allen. (Warning: This clip is definitely NSFW!) But few of them come close to this incredibly bizarre sequence from the 1978 Turkish…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jul 15 '11

Can you identify this fandom meme?

Sn0otchie created this cute drawing and posted it on DeviantArt, and from there it proceeded to rip Tumblr in half. This is basically double-layered slash, people. Can you identify all the references? We’ll still love you even if you can’t. (Thanks for the tip, Kaila Hale-Stern!)

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 15 '11

Hermaphrodite insects fertilise daughters with parasitic sperm

Watch This Badass Calmly Survive the NYC Blackout of ’77

The Wonder Woman TV show would’ve looked like a really awesome antiperspirant commercial

Watch a short film about Japan’s 300-year-old handmade robots

The gScreen SpaceBook Is Too Big and Tired to Launch You Anywhere

New synthetic vocal cord gel gives voice to the voiceless

Watch Gizmodo’s Joe Brown On CBS’s “The Early Show”

80 years ago, the best headline ever about owls was written

The cutest killer kaiju are no match for the “Battlepug”

Could the iPod Be On Its Deathbed?

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This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Mob Wives with Drea de Matteo

Turn Your Cubicle Into An Undersea World with Discovery Channel’s New Live Stream

Instadrop Automatically Syncs Your Instagram Photos to Your Dropbox

3-D Scanning and Reconstruction of Crash Scenes Will Save Cops and Drivers Time and Money

Sony’s Spidery Sound System Sticks to Your Wall (if You Want It to)

We’ll always remember Harry Potter

Quite Possibly the Best “Earthling Teaches Alien Babes About Sex” Moment Ever [NSFW]

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Can you identify this fandom meme?

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