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In this week’s totally awesome app round up: Splodes, sploded; nearby lightning strikes, pinpointed; the apocalypse, rendered in adorable 8-bit style; free turn by turn navigation, improved; Xvid files, played on your iPad; and so much more! iPhone To view these on one page, click here https://gizmodo.com/iphone-apps-august-13-5612614 iPad To view these on one page, click…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Mailbox-Housed Drone Delivers Adorably Secured Perimeters

Would I rather a security drone that blasts laser rockets? Who wouldn’t! But one that makes its home in a little mailbox-shaped house ain’t half bad either. That’s the joy of the Scandicraft, which automatically leaves its station when there’s a perimeter breach to shoot live video (and just air out a little bit, you…

Privacy & Security Brian Barrett

NASA Launches Unprecedented Drone Mission to Study the Mysteries of Hurricane Formation

An unmanned Global Hawk recon drone will join a team of aircraft—all equipped with advanced weather instrumentation—to observe the 2010 storm season closer than ever before. So far this hurricane season, the Atlantic has been quiet. That’s good news for Gulf oil spill cleanup efforts, but a team of NASA and NOAA scientists are hoping…

Tech News Rebecca Boyle - PopSci

Science fiction fans rejoice! McG is directing a romantic comedy

Terminator Salvation director McG was in the running to direct the zombie cop film R.I.P.D., an adaptation of the Dark Horse graphic novel. But the L.A. Times reports he’s going to be too busy directing his romantic comedy project, This Means War, which means R.I.P.D. could fall to director Robert Schwentke (who’s directed Flightplan and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

iPad Apps August 13

Slate: Web magazine Slate has rolled out their official iPad app (I heard you like slates so I put Slate on your slate, etc), featuring the publication’s blogs, videos, and articles and focusing on readability in lieu of bells and whistles. The app, which is free and currently sponsored by Marriott (as you’ll be reminded,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Toilets, Toilets, Everywhere, Nor Any Place to Poop

“As a cartoonist-inventor, I sometimes cannot resist the temptation to illustrate a concept even while knowing it is crazy, stupid or at least poorly conceived” says Steven M. Johnson. Looking at these toilet concepts, I’m happy his will is weak. OK, now let’s destroy these before someone actually thinks they are a good idea. [Neatorama]…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The io9 guide to selling your collectibles online in a bad economy

Chances are, your rare toys, comics and other collectibles aren’t just awesome — they’re worth serious cash. But how can you get what they’re worth in such a lousy economy? Don’t panic: We’ve collected surefire shwag-selling tips from top sellers. It’s not the best time to be selling your stuff online, says Ray Heikes, who…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Runaway Subway Blows Through Six Stations with No Driver

Passengers on the London Tube barely escaped with their lives when a defective train with no driver broke away and sped through six stations without stopping. Circle round and hear the harrowing tale of London’s ghost train of death. The runaway train was an engineering vehicle that carried supplies for Tube workers, and its rolling…

Tech News Maureen O'Connor

How Ankle Monitors Could Replace Prisons

“Traditional prison,” writes Graeme Wood in this month’s Atlantic, “has become more or less synonymous with failed prison.” One radical solution: scale back traditional prisons in favor of sophisticated monitoring devices. And it’s actually not as radical as it sounds. The problem is that traditional incarceration is increasingly expensive and exceedingly inefficient. But monitoring devices—like…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Android Apps August 13th

Retro Camera: It’s another app that transforms your Android camera into one of those hipstamatic/FX Camera-type deals. Why? Because turning modern day pictures into vintage, artsy shots never gets old! Kat says: https://gizmodo.com/retro-camera-android-app-has-yet-more-grainy-effects-to-5609945 It’s got four film cameras to “shoot” with, that in turn produce four different lomo-esque effects. It does, however, take almost 15…

Tech News Casey Chan

Say Hello to the Periscope Cam

Living on a submarine would probably get pretty miserable pretty quickly. But this wacky camera concept brings the best part of submarine life—the periscope!—to all your landlocked photographic adventures. https://gizmodo.com/submarine-powerboat-hybrid-soon-to-be-on-sale-for-3-5-5525038 Well, the periscope look anyway. The Digital Reflex Camera, designed by Yaniv Berg, drew inspiration from old school reflex cameras, which had the eyepiece on…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Your tips: Steampunk gets a little bit musical, robots help with self-esteem, and toy cars explode

Every week, we round up the best tips that you post in io9’s tips forum. This week, we’ve got a mash-up of Steampunk: the Musical!, toy car explosions, stem cells, Star Wars, fat-battling robots, and much more! If you want to post a tip, just click on the #tips link on our navigation bar, or…

io9 Krista Fulton

Humankind Reaches New Low With Auto Channel Changer

Granting us a view of our dystopian future, tinkerer Randy Sarafan combined engineering ingenuity and what looks like extreme depression to make “The Most Useful Machine,” an automated channel surfing aid. One step closer to being completely immobile! The humorous device pairs an extra large universal remote with a timer-rigged clicking finger that will flip…

Television Sam Biddle

iPhone Apps August 13

Splode: A beautiful chain-reaction game from the dudes who made Dr. Awesome and Doom Resurrection. Though the game play’s pretty simple right now—just tap a cluster of Splodes and hope they splode enough other Splodes—the developers are promising updates with more music and game modes. It takes some swag to obscure a decent amount of…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

White dwarf nova explosion emits “shocking” burst of gamma rays

Novas are explosions on the surface of white dwarf stars. They’re the little siblings of supernovas, lasting mere days and emitting far less energy — but apparently still enough energy to emit gamma rays, in a development that’s baffled astrophysicists. White dwarfs are the degenerate remains of a star that was too small to explode…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Add a Bit of Gizmodo to Your Facebook

Did you know that you can easily add a bit of Gizmodo to your Facebook? You’ll get all the best stories and discussions right in your Facebook feed. All you need to click that “like” button on our Facebook page. Actually, we’re making it even easier for you. You can just click the like button…

Social Media Rosa Golijan

Photoshop Express for iPad Quick Review: Avoid for Now

Like the iPhone version, the new Photoshop Express for iPad is a basic image editing program that can publish your photos in your own Adobe-based online gallery or through Facebook. It’s nice and fast. Unfortunately, it has problems. https://gizmodo.com/now-theres-a-free-photoshop-app-for-your-ipad-5611777 Photoshop Express has two main functions: Editing your photos and publish them in the web. The…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Aaron Eckhart assembles his dream team of alien-killing actors

When aliens actually do attack Los Angeles and the extra-terrestrial shit hits the fan, Aaron Eckhart knows exactly what actors he’d round up to fight them off. He told us his alien-killing dream-squad…and why Battle: L.A.’s better than The Core. We sat down with Aaron Eckhart in an exclusive interview while he was promoting his…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Omega Is Already Using Apple’s Liquid Metal

When we shared with you Apple’s acquisition of Liquid Technologies’ supermaterial, we noted that liquid metal is already in use across a variety of industries, from sports to aerospace. Or, you might find it on the wristwatch you have now. https://gizmodo.com/is-apple-working-on-liquid-metal-terminators-or-what-5608322 An interesting guided video through Omega’s manufacturing process illustrates how the company fuses Apple’s…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Soldiers Try To Trade Tech Support For Intel

Captain Christian Balan shows holding a spool of Cat-5 cable, eager to play tech support. If he can get the computers running in this relatively-prosperous town of 4000 people, maybe the platoon will get some tips about local insurgent activity. Captain Christian Balan shows up to the computer lab holding a spool of Cat-5 cable,…

Tech News Spencer Ackerman - Wired

This Week’s Best Apps

Mailbox-Housed Drone Delivers Adorably Secured Perimeters

NASA Launches Unprecedented Drone Mission to Study the Mysteries of Hurricane Formation

Science fiction fans rejoice! McG is directing a romantic comedy

iPad Apps August 13

Toilets, Toilets, Everywhere, Nor Any Place to Poop

The io9 guide to selling your collectibles online in a bad economy

Runaway Subway Blows Through Six Stations with No Driver

How Ankle Monitors Could Replace Prisons

Android Apps August 13th

Say Hello to the Periscope Cam

Your tips: Steampunk gets a little bit musical, robots help with self-esteem, and toy cars explode

Humankind Reaches New Low With Auto Channel Changer

iPhone Apps August 13

White dwarf nova explosion emits “shocking” burst of gamma rays

Add a Bit of Gizmodo to Your Facebook

Photoshop Express for iPad Quick Review: Avoid for Now

Aaron Eckhart assembles his dream team of alien-killing actors

Omega Is Already Using Apple’s Liquid Metal

Soldiers Try To Trade Tech Support For Intel

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