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MapQuest’s Free iPhone App Now Does Turn-By-Turn Voice Directions

Google scared the balls off of turn-by-turn navigation companies when it released its free nav app for Android, largely because an iPhone version seemed inevitable. Well, it’s still not here. But MapQuest’s free voice navigation is! https://gizmodo.com/google-navigator-for-android-review-good-for-free-but-5393935 To be clear, this is an update to the MapQuest 4 Mobile app, not a price slash on…

Tech News John Herrman

My Breakfast Could’ve Been So Much Less Disgusting

Milk jugs, useless. Milk comes in containers, sillies! But this jug is different: Using science—a pH sensor—it detects if the milk inside is sour. Which would’ve saved my granola this morning, truth. [Cravendale via OhGizmo via Wired]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

NASA Finds Pac-Man On The Death Star

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft collected the clearest images of Saturn’s icy moon Mimas, whose resemblance to the Death Star is often remarked upon. And when Cassini mapped Mimas’ temperatures, they found… Pac Man? It’s the pop-culture crossover you never expected. Writes NASA: Scientists working with the composite infrared spectrometer, which mapped Mimas’ temperatures, expected smoothly varying…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

How a Real-Life Dr. Frankenstein Reanimated The Dead With Electricity

Before scientists figured out electric motors, batteries were first used in chemistry experiments and primitive medical research. From his enjoyable book, The Battery, Henry Schlesinger describes the real-life Dr. Frankenstein who inspired Mary Shelley’s classic horror story: At the dawn of the 19th century, electricity was still mysterious and experimentation took some strange turns indeed.…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

In Comic-Land, All Zombies Must Re-Die!

What’s hot on the shelves this Wednesday? DC and Marvel wrapping up their big undead crossovers, Zack Whedon from Dr. Horrible penning the adventures of Kyle Reese, and Spidey vs. the Juggernaut. It’s Comics We Crave! Aim for the head! First things first: Marvel and DC are both interring two zombie-themed mega-events. Blackest Night 8…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

BlackBerry and LinkedIn Consummate the Most Obvious Marriage Ever

If you own a BlackBerry, you probably have a LinkedIn account. Wait, sorry, that’s not quite right. If you have a LinkedIn account, you almost definitely have a BlackBerry, somewhere. And now you have this lovely app, for both! [LinkedIn] https://gizmodo.com/the-year-apple-and-rim-ate-everyone-elses-lunch-5404274

Tech News John Herrman

DIY Lamp Requires No Glue, Nails or Screws

You can build this lamp yourself with no glue, nails or screws…but there’s a small catch. You’ll need access to a CNC machine. Still game? Of course you are! Constructed of 547 polypropylene pieces pumped through a 3-axis CNC (for fabrication), the Strømg Lump Leaks lamp weaves together as an homage to the original Holger…

Tech News Mark Wilson

From The Crappy Scifi Vault: Space Rangers

Can you imagine a TV show with Clint Howard, Linda Hunt, and a crusty dude with a metal hand, all in a barely-rendered deep-space fort? Imagine no further! I want to swallow all six episodes of this series — created by Pen Densham (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), and which featured Gregory Widen (Highlander) and…

Television Marc Bernardin

Oh Hey, the Official Xbox 360 Flash Drive Is a Ripoff

Sure, you’ll be able to use any USB storage you want with the Xbox 360, like this fine selection of 8GB sticks for ~$20 from NewEgg. Or you could buy the OFFICIAL 8GB flash drive for $40 from GameStop. Wait. https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360-to-accept-any-and-all-usb-storage-starting-apr-5502860 Okay, GameStop says the drive is “pre-configured,” though all it takes is a few…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

This week on TreeHugger, apps to help you park ASAP, geeky gadgets for plant lovers, electric boats and lawn mowers, buses that double as hotels, and more! Eco Electric ATV: Can It Actually Be Green? the Eco Electric ATV is described as “dream come true for farmers and property owners, its direct drive electric motor…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch

Scientists Disrupt Moral Reasoning With Magnets To The Skull

Want to make somebody lose her belief that harming somebody else is wrong? All you have to do is hold a special magnet up to her head in the right place. Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation – in which magnets are used to disrupt neural activity in specific parts of the brain –…

io9 Annalee Newitz

This Living Human Bone Was Grown In Lab

Scientists have grown real, living human bones in the lab for the first time, completely from scratch, and ready to be inserted inside human flesh. Or given to my dog, as a delicious treat. Dr. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic—Columbia University professor of biomedical engineering—achieved the feat for the first time using stem cells and molds generated from…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Will Smith Already Locked Down For Independence Day 2 & 3?

Will Smith is ready to make Independence Day 2 and 3, back to back? Roland Emmerich always wanted to make an additional two films, with a connecting story arc. And now it sounds like Smith is on board. https://gizmodo.com/roland-emmerich-planning-not-one-but-two-independence-5403591 IESB is reporting that Fox is ready and willing to bring back the Independence Day franchise:…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Ricky Gervais Show Takes on Sex Robots

HBO’s Ricky Gervais Show puts the podcasts recorded by Gervais and writing partner Stephen Merchant to animation with hilarious results. Here’s a quick clip from a recent episode that deals with everyone’s favorite type of robots: sex robots.

Television Adam Frucci

WD Scorpio 750GB Notebook Hard Drives, the Densest on the Planet

WD’s latest Scorpio drive stuffs 750GB in a 2.5-inch notebook drive—without resorting to the taller 12.5mm form factor—by cramming in 375GB per platter, giving it the tightest areal density of any notebook drive around. And, it’s only $150. WD(R) Leads in 2.5-Inch Areal Density With New 750 GB Notebook Hard Drives WD Mobile Hard Drives…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

What Prematurely Canceled Genre Show Do You Want Back?

It happens all the time — terrific TV show gets cut down in its prime because They just don’t get It. But if you could have just one back for just one season, which would it be? Right off the bat, I’m pulling Firefly from contention. We all know its full of awesome and would,…

Television Marc Bernardin

Masdar City Will Be The World’s First Carbon Neutral Land

Dubai’s supposedly doomed, with half-finished buildings littering the skyline as their wealth trickles away like sand through a timer. Before I get more poetic, Abu Dhabi looks to be faring better, if this eco-city is anything to go by. We first saw Masdar HQ a couple of years ago, when it was aiming to be…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

io9 Book Club Meeting Is In Session: Kage Baker’s “Sky Coyote”

In the seventeenth century, immortal cyborgs try to rescue the New World from Europeans. This week we’ll be discussing the book Sky Coyote, by Kage Baker, in io9’s book club meeting. Going on right now in comments! I think the thing that struck me about this book, like many of Baker’s books, is her penchant…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Is Eli Stone Starring In The Walking Dead?

Hot on the heels of the announcement that AMC will be making six episodes of Frank Darabont’s Walking Dead TV series is the rumor that Johnny Lee Miller might be playing the main character, undead-slayer Rick Grimes. According to a press release from AMC, the monthly black and white written comic penned by Robert Kirkman…

Television Meredith Woerner

Mario Kart and Tetris on the Nintendo 3DS (Concept)

We’ve all heard about the upcoming Nintendo 3DS, but how will the actual 3D gaming experience work? We can only hope the setup will look exactly like this. [nicovideo via TinyCartridge via Kotaku] https://kotaku.com/this-isnt-how-the-nintendo-3ds-will-work-5505112

Tech News Mark Wilson

MapQuest’s Free iPhone App Now Does Turn-By-Turn Voice Directions

My Breakfast Could’ve Been So Much Less Disgusting

NASA Finds Pac-Man On The Death Star

How a Real-Life Dr. Frankenstein Reanimated The Dead With Electricity

In Comic-Land, All Zombies Must Re-Die!

BlackBerry and LinkedIn Consummate the Most Obvious Marriage Ever

DIY Lamp Requires No Glue, Nails or Screws

From The Crappy Scifi Vault: Space Rangers

Oh Hey, the Official Xbox 360 Flash Drive Is a Ripoff

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

Scientists Disrupt Moral Reasoning With Magnets To The Skull

This Living Human Bone Was Grown In Lab

Will Smith Already Locked Down For Independence Day 2 & 3?

The Ricky Gervais Show Takes on Sex Robots

WD Scorpio 750GB Notebook Hard Drives, the Densest on the Planet

What Prematurely Canceled Genre Show Do You Want Back?

Masdar City Will Be The World’s First Carbon Neutral Land

io9 Book Club Meeting Is In Session: Kage Baker’s “Sky Coyote”

Is Eli Stone Starring In The Walking Dead?

Mario Kart and Tetris on the Nintendo 3DS (Concept)

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