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Presenting the Remote Controlled Super Doggie

Dogs are smart—they deftly navigate obstacles and help us locate contraband like weapons and drugs—but they’re easily distracted. This new GPS- and radio-equipped harness allows computers to keep trained pups on task remotely with sounds and vibrations. The harness, developed at Auburn University, solves the foremost shortcoming of trained canines: they must remain in close…

Biology Kyle VanHemert

Philip K. Dick Award shortlist: 7 daring stories of zombies, generation ships and terraforming

The Philip K. Dick Award, for science fiction books originally published in paperback instead of hardcover, put out its shortlist for the year, and chances are a few books on the list haven’t been on your radar. (The list does include Project Itoh’s Harmony, which was one of our favorite books of 2010.) Since these…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

This Beautiful Antique Box Is Just a Soda Can

Inside every soda can you’ve slurped from lurks a gorgeously embossed box, yearning to come alive. This isn’t just recycling; it’s reinventing. And here’s how to make your own in under four minutes. Bonus: you get to hear the narrator say “aluminium” multiple times. British people! [Atomic Shrimp via Core77]

Tech News Brian Barrett

January Jones talks X-Men: First Class, plus an awesome new Green Lantern photo!

Mad Men’s January Jones talks about the plot, characters, costumes, and possible sequels for the X-Men prequel. A new Green Lantern photo unites hero and villain. We’ll know the star of The Dark Tower very soon. Wake up to spoilers! X-Men: First Class Emma Frost actress January Jones offers her thoughts on the breakneck fast…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Small Backyard? Betcha Ak47’s Thor Fireplace Could Squeeze Right In

When the Norse god Thor rains down lightning and thunder over your abode, make yourself a hot chocolate and stoke the fire—or in Ak47’s Thor fireplace’s case, feed chunks of wood into the vertical tract. [Deconiche via BornRich]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

How Is Knokkers Not an Olympic Sport?

Knokkers is one of those rare athletic endeavors that’s greater than the sum of its parts. And when the parts in question are jumbo-sized billiards and bowling, that’s really saying something. Invented by former cage fighter Steve Wienecke, Knokkers couldn’t be more simple; the rules are the same as 8-ball pool, except you roll the…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Shake the Baby! Jawbone’s Newest Headset Likes It Physical

Wanna answer that call? Shake Jawbone’s latest headset, the Era, twice. Want the thing to pair with your phone? Shake it four times and yell “pull yourself together, man!” Yelling’s optional—the built-in accelerometer is what gets the message. Why make a headset that responds to motions instead of just good ol’ fashioned buttons (the Era,…

Tech News Joe Brown

Ping Goes the iPhone! You’ve Got Mail—Snail Mail

Living in the digital-world definitely has its downsides, often resulting in you losing patience with delivery men when they fail to deliver mail within the allocated window. Here’s how to rig your mailbox for sending iPhone alerts. [Make via BB]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Rumor: HTC Flyer Tablet Launching March, Resembling Large Desire Smartphone?

According to the always-rumormongering, often-incorrect Taiwanese publication Digitimes, HTC’s got three tablets for the first half of 2011, with the first launching in the US in March. It’ll be called the Flyer allegedly, and will resemble the Desire phone—plus run Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), as we heard before. The two other tablets will supposedly launch in…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

When Is a DSLR Smaller Than a Micro Four-Thirds? When It’s a Tiny Spy Camcorder, That’s When

If you thought those micro four-thirds cameras were pricey for their size, get a load of this Japanese spy camera. Considering it costs $120 and weighs just 12g, it might just be the most expensive camera per millimeter ever. The actual size is 2.5cm x 2.5cm x 2.6cm, and it shoots video at 640 x…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Never Have That Sinking Feeling Again Once You’re Packing Mintronics’ Hackers’ Survival Kit

Some people (hello, hypochondriacs!) feel safer carrying around a first aid kit. Others—like many of you reading this right now—can only feel truly prepared if they’re packing a few resistors, transistors and capacitors. Me, it’s a miniUSB cable. Maker Shed’s Mintronics Survival Pack has over 60 components for on-the-road hacking. Just check out what goodies…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Chinese Motorists Are Actually Paying People to Sit in Traffic Jams For Them

I don’t know about you, but I kinda relish getting stuck in a traffic jam. Scoping people out, playing some Angry Birds, finding that perfect Phil Collins drum-solo…but not for 10hours. Figures, then, that Chinese companies are renting jam-stooges out. So what does the driver of the car do, once they’ve hired someone to sit…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

How 25 Tons of Bombs Made an Afghan Town Disappear

This is Tarok Kolache, a small village in Afghanistan’s Arghandab River Valley. Or at least, it used to be, until the Taliban and the U.S. military got to it. What happened to Tarok Kolache, and why? In a post on pundit Tom Rick’s Foreign Policy blog, military writer and West Point graduate Pamela Broadwell writes…

Tech News Max Read

Segways Are Basically Banned in the UK

A UK magistrate ruled this week to outlaw Segway vehicles on sidewalks through out the country. This follows a previous decision to ban the machines on roads as well. Essentially, Segways are not allowed in the UK. I suppose Brits could ride around in their front yards or the hallways of their apartment buildings, but…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Who Said Ceiling Lights Had to Be Boring?

Know what these ceiling light fixtures remind me of? The old pipes screensaver from Windows 95/98/XP, except, you know, IRL. And that’s awesome. According to the designers, the possibilities for arranging and configuring these lights are endless. [Ontwerpduo via MocoLoco]

Tech News Adrian Covert

Hey Bro, Foursquare Will Totally Show You the Best Spots to Pick Up Desperate Chicks

Dude…it’s like 1am and that chick you bought 5 drinks for totally bailed with her cockblocking grenade friend. SUCKS BRO! Luckily there’s this new Foursquare utility, which’ll lead us to the promised land of drunk-ass breezies down to hook up! So this thing, called Ratio Finder or something, will make maps using stuff that Foursquare,…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Buy a Vacuum Cleaner, Get a Giant Bag of Meth for FREE (a $280,000 Value!!!)

A woman in Green Bay, Wisconsin was opening her new Christmas present from her kids—a vacuum cleaner!—when she discovered more than four pounds of cocaine and crystal meth inside. Now that’s what I call a bargain! The drugs likely came from Juarez, Mexico, where the vacuum had been refurbished and shipped back to the U.S.…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The Watch Winder That Does Everything Else

For the watch-lover with the wealth of a Rockefeller, the Buben & Zorweg V12 Python doesn’t just wind your watch. It’s really a bar, weather station, and humidor that turns your watches into works of art. Housed in fine Italian leather and walnut and lit with LED lighting, your dozen or so watches are guarded…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Behold: The One Letter Username Twitter Aristocracy

You see this guy? Andrei? You see his smug face? Wanna know why he’s so smug, aside from being a “beer lover and brewer”? His Twitter username is A. Just A. He is one Twitter’s 26 alphabetical superstars. I’ve always been proud of my number-free email address (as opposed to my middle school AOL screen…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Space Farmer of the Year 2012 (1982)

The 1982 Kids’ Whole Future Catalog is just bursting at the seams with amazing advancements from the world of yestermorrow. From space hotels and universal language translators to factories in space and schools in the sky, this catalog fed the imaginations of countless rugrats in the 1980s. Today we have an excerpt from the catalog…

Tech News Matt Novak

Presenting the Remote Controlled Super Doggie

Philip K. Dick Award shortlist: 7 daring stories of zombies, generation ships and terraforming

This Beautiful Antique Box Is Just a Soda Can

January Jones talks X-Men: First Class, plus an awesome new Green Lantern photo!

Small Backyard? Betcha Ak47’s Thor Fireplace Could Squeeze Right In

How Is Knokkers Not an Olympic Sport?

Shake the Baby! Jawbone’s Newest Headset Likes It Physical

Ping Goes the iPhone! You’ve Got Mail—Snail Mail

Rumor: HTC Flyer Tablet Launching March, Resembling Large Desire Smartphone?

When Is a DSLR Smaller Than a Micro Four-Thirds? When It’s a Tiny Spy Camcorder, That’s When

Never Have That Sinking Feeling Again Once You’re Packing Mintronics’ Hackers’ Survival Kit

Chinese Motorists Are Actually Paying People to Sit in Traffic Jams For Them

How 25 Tons of Bombs Made an Afghan Town Disappear

Segways Are Basically Banned in the UK

Who Said Ceiling Lights Had to Be Boring?

Hey Bro, Foursquare Will Totally Show You the Best Spots to Pick Up Desperate Chicks

Buy a Vacuum Cleaner, Get a Giant Bag of Meth for FREE (a $280,000 Value!!!)

The Watch Winder That Does Everything Else

Behold: The One Letter Username Twitter Aristocracy

Space Farmer of the Year 2012 (1982)

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