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A Glimpse of the Multi-Touch DJing of the Future

This isn’t the first multi-touch DJing we’ve seen, but something about watching this guy navigate his transparent control station—a homebrew touchscreen running a Traktor Pro controller called Emulator—really makes me want to do the robot. [PabloMartin via Engadget]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Droid X Froyo Update Coming “Early September”

It was a shame that Droid X didn’t launch with Android 2.2, but owners won’t have long to wait for Froyo: a Motorola employee let slip that it’ll be deployed by early September. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-x-subtle-like-an-asteroid-5570931 The statement came in the company’s official message forum, where user Matt explained: Some Droid X users are experiencing an issue…

Tech News Brian Barrett

No Digital Camera Will Ever Top These

These stunning macro shots of eyes by Suren Manvelyan show detail that I didn’t even know existed. We’ve got some pretty complex machinery onboard, don’t we? [Photography Served via Boing Boing]

Tech News Adam Frucci

Automatic Chef Fills Wilderness With Smell of Delicious Meats

The great outdoors—an opportunity to enjoy the eternal bond between man and nature. And vast quantities of expertly grilled burgers. The Automatic Chef motorized grilling—I don’t even know what to call it, crane?—will complete your next camping trip. Invented by husband and wife duo Brian and Joni Begotka, dissatisfied with the hassle existing campfire grills,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

String theory and black holes show a possible path to practical superconductors

A leading candidate for room temperature superconductors is the copper compound cuprate, but no one knew how cuprates facilitated superconductivity…until some brave souls looked inside a black hole and broke out the string theory to explain how they work. Superconductors that can transmit massive amounts of electricity with zero resistance at room temperature are pretty…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

This is What $39k Worth of Recycled Lottery Tickets (and Dreams) Looks Like

The odd lottery ticket purchase when you’re feeling particularly lucky is fine, but when it becomes an addiction then it’s time for an intervention. Two artists did just that, showing what could’ve been bought with the money spent on tickets. Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom from the Rhode Island School of Design gathered together thousands…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Our favorite Star Wars comic will get a chance to end with a bang after all

Star Wars: Legacy ends this month. We’ve been dreading a rushed conclusion to our favorite Star Wars comic. But now creators Ostrander and Duursema promise a miniseries that’ll end the series in style… and maybe kill off tons of characters. The miniseries will be called Star Wars: Legacy — War, which is a somewhat clunky…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Create Your Own Completely Insane Patents

Yesterday, we saw a patent for a contraption designed to spin a pregnant woman around really fast so a baby would pop out. Surely, you can do just as well. https://gizmodo.com/heres-a-great-idea-spinning-a-pregnant-lady-around-rea-5605511 Create your own patent application drawings like the one in the baby-spinner post and send your best entries to me at [email protected] with Crazy…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Google Says There Are 129,864,880 Different Books In Existence

Google, who’s been determinedly digitizing the world’s books, thought it might be prudent to figure out just how many books are actually out there to begin with. They made a special algorithm, natch, and came up with 129,864,880. This post on Inside Google Books blog explains the whole process. First, you have to decide what…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Disney officially picks up Tron Legacy director’s futuristic cloud city movie

Tron director Joseph Kosinski finally got Disney to purchase the film rights to his comic book Oblivion, which is set in the future, when Earthlings live in the clouds, safe from the radiation and brutal alien scavengers on the surface.

Movies Meredith Woerner

Futurama reveals cats are out to destroy Earth!

Last night’s Futurama pitted Planet Express’s cutest intern and a benevolent cute alien against cute – but evil! – aliens in disguise. Maybe it was all just too cute: the Earth-threatening plot fell on the wrong side of silly. This may not be an entirely fair criticism, but I really wish “That Darn Katz!” was…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Kinect Will Read Sign Language, Paving Way For New Input Methods

It’s not just your clumsy leg-kicks that Kinect will understand, with a newly-discovered patent showing that it’s actually capable of understanding American Sign Language, or ASL. Is this another way to input text to the game? UPDATED. It could be, if you actually know ASL—it’s estimated that anywhere up to 2 million people in the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

China to Finally Sell Wi-Fi Equipped iPhones

After years of not being able to sell Wi-Fi-enabled iPhones in China, Apple will begin placing 8GB models on store shelves from this Monday. It was only last October that China Unicom Ltd. actually started selling the iPhone in China, but they weren’t able to include Wi-Fi support due to issues with the Chinese government…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Is the Runaways film copying Airbender’s whitewashed casting?

Last we heard about the movie adaptation of the amazing comic series, Runaways, was that director Peter Sollett would begin filming next January. But casting calls have raised a red flag with fans, who fear a repeat of Airbender’s whitewashing. https://gizmodo.com/brian-k-vaughans-runaways-to-start-filming-next-january-5586547 Racebending, the website that lead the charge against the casting decisions on The Last…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Is This the First Asus Windows Phone 7 Device?

What we know: Asus is making a Windows Phone 7 handset. This Asus-branded phone looks like it’s running Windows Phone 7. Ergo, this is an Asus Windows Phone 7 device. Right? Well… maybe. https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-7-handsets-coming-from-asus-dell-htc-a-5593889 There’s definitely enough oddness here to give pause: it originates from Pakistan, which isn’t especially known for its tech leaks, and…

Tech News Brian Barrett

A Secret TV Panel To Hide Your A/V Skeletons

Some people put safes behind paintings. Me, I just want to put my home entertainment accessories behind a secret wall panel. How hidden is it? Here’s what it looks like closed: Forget the Blu-ray player and cables, I’m stashing my valuables slightly less crappy possessions there as well. Architect Dan Herchenroether put together this sweet…

Television Brian Barrett

First 3-D view of a supernova in progress

Check out this artist’s impression of an super-violent supernova. The Very Large Telescope managed to obtain the first 3-D view of material after a star’s explosion, traveling 100 million kilometers per hour. And check out a video below. According to the European Southern Observatory: Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have for the first time…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Apple Should Enable 24-Hour Trials for All Paid Apps

Apple has a new App Store category called Try Before You Buy, which features free lite versions of popular paid apps. Nice idea, but not good enough. Apple, we want a full 24-hour trial period on all apps. https://gizmodo.com/apple-app-store-adds-try-before-you-buy-listing-of-ex-5605885 Instead of having lite flavors of paid apps to try, Apple should implement an App Store-wide…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

How Walking Dead made the lip-less zombie girl a reality

One of the most disturbing members of the undead in Robert Kirkman’s Walking Dead comic series is the “bicycle girl.” AMC has released video on how they made this nightmarish rib cage-wagging zombie a reality. It’s terrifying! Click to view Frank Darabont’s Walking Dead TV series airs in October on AMC.

Television Meredith Woerner

Triceratops controversy shakes paleontology to its bones

Paleontologists have discovered a shocking fact about the relationship between the celebrated Triceratops dinosaur (left) and its less-glamorous, holey-headed counterpart, Torosaurus (right). Turns out they’re not evolutionary cousins. In fact, Triceratops is just a younger version of Torosaurus. Paleontologists Jack Horner and John Scannella published a paper this week in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology that…

io9 Annalee Newitz

A Glimpse of the Multi-Touch DJing of the Future

Droid X Froyo Update Coming “Early September”

No Digital Camera Will Ever Top These

Automatic Chef Fills Wilderness With Smell of Delicious Meats

String theory and black holes show a possible path to practical superconductors

This is What $39k Worth of Recycled Lottery Tickets (and Dreams) Looks Like

Our favorite Star Wars comic will get a chance to end with a bang after all

Create Your Own Completely Insane Patents

Google Says There Are 129,864,880 Different Books In Existence

Disney officially picks up Tron Legacy director’s futuristic cloud city movie

Futurama reveals cats are out to destroy Earth!

Kinect Will Read Sign Language, Paving Way For New Input Methods

China to Finally Sell Wi-Fi Equipped iPhones

Is the Runaways film copying Airbender’s whitewashed casting?

Is This the First Asus Windows Phone 7 Device?

A Secret TV Panel To Hide Your A/V Skeletons

First 3-D view of a supernova in progress

Apple Should Enable 24-Hour Trials for All Paid Apps

How Walking Dead made the lip-less zombie girl a reality

Triceratops controversy shakes paleontology to its bones

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