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Science Fiction’s Greatest Love Potions And Devotion Rays

Are you facing the prospect of being alone on Valentine’s Day? It’s not too late to make someone fall in love with you. Science fiction’s full of handy ways to make someone swoon into your arms, and here’s a list. Love potions are a common theme in fiction generally. You can brew up a draught…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Modern Date: Flirting, Tweets, and Black Lace Panties

Last Wednesday I married the love of my life. This is the short story of some of the things I did before I met her, a guide on flirting using Twitter, Facebook, texting, and sexting face-to-face, in the real world. Since I came to New York, my romantic life has been a rollercoaster. A very…

Social Media Jesus Diaz

How to Say “I Love You More Than My iPhone”

Apologies to all the other brilliant Valentine’s e-greetings at someecards, but this is the only one you should need to truly prove your love. [someecards]

Tech News Brian Barrett

Wired Magazine Launching iPad Edition By This Summer

We knew it would come and we’ve seen demos, but at this year’s TED conference Wired Magazine Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson confirmed that the publication would hit the iPad this summer. Unfortunately there aren’t details regarding digital subscription costs yet.[Wired] https://gizmodo.com/apple-tablet-to-redefine-newspapers-textbooks-and-maga-5370252

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Here’s What Final Fantasy For iPhone Will Look Like

I’m more excited about Final Fantasy 1 + 2 coming to the iPhone than just about any upcoming iPhone game. It’s Final Fantasy! For iPhone! https://gizmodo.com/holy-crap-final-fantasy-is-coming-to-iphone-5453416 This is what it looks like in motion. You still have to use the traditional iPhone control scheme of putting your left thumb over 1/6 of the screen, and…

Tech News Jason Chen

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: That’s No Fun Edition

In today’s Remainders: the unfun. Wait! Don’t go. The items themselves are fun! They just involve unfun. We have a no fun WiFi school bus; a no fun eBook from the White House, an unspectacular Samsung smartphone reveal, and more. Boring Bus I recently took my first trip on a WiFi-enabled airplane. At first I…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

LooptWorks Wetsuit Sleeves Make Perfect Gift for Surfing Laptops

It’s not hard to find a neoprene laptop sleeve, but few are made from the discarded remnants of an actual wetsuit factory like LooptWorks’ cases (starting at $30). Authentic shark bites and pee stains not included. [LooptWorks via Treehugger]

Tech News Mark Wilson

What the Hell Is Going on Here?

Someone in our virtual bullpen said: “It’s a cockpit erection.” The truth is harder than that. The roof of one of the small jets hangars at Dulles International Airport collapsed, pushing the tails of the airplanes down and the cockpits up. Apparently because the structure wasn’t able to hold under the massive pressure of the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

An Anthology Of Cat Tales Designed To Provoke And Terrify

Legendary editor Ellen Datlow has whipped up something evil and fun for SF/fantasy fans who are drawn to cats. Her new anthology, Tails of Wonder And Imagination, is devoted entirely to felines, and they aren’t exactly your cutesy wufflemuffins. Out this month from Night Shade Books, Datlow’s anthology is simply packed with stories, and includes…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

The Week’s Best iPhone Apps

In this week’s romantical app roundup: Google, Buzzed! Phone trees, sheared! The Olympics, demystified! Doom II, taken down a notch! Your person, flailed around! Your visage, cartoonified! Sesame Street, Picasso’d! And more… https://gizmodo.com/a-love-story-as-told-by-iphone-apps-5469996/?skyline=true&s=i To view this post as a single page, click here. https://gizmodo.com/the-weeks-best-iphone-apps-5470900 Google Buzz: To be a geek is to enthusiastically try every…

Tech News John Herrman

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Get caught up with cutting out io9’s Valentines Day cards for your special cyborg? Never fear here’s a special round-up of our Romance 3000AD week, which includes screwtopia, Gremlins exclusives, epic science-fiction love stories, and Toyfair previews. To Get No Valentines . . . Would Be A Disaster!!! When io9 asked me if I could…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Talk About Whatever You Want In io9’s Commenter Forum

Need to ask about that book whose title you’ve forgotten, or what the best Valentine’s Day horror movie is? Try dropping by the Observation Deck, io9’s open commenter forum. You can visit it here, via the #observationdeck link in our navigation bar above, or just tag any comment with #observationdeck and that comment will automatically…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Is It Too Late To Save The Imperial Commandos?

Fans have launched a petition to get Karen Traviss to return and finish her masterful series of Star Wars novels featuring the Imperial Commandos. But she tells io9 it’s too late, and explains what happened to her Boba Fett novel. https://gizmodo.com/why-i-fell-in-love-with-karen-traviss-clones-5069022 The fans over at Imperial Shipyards launched a petition asking George Lucas to let…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Steam-Powered Vibrator and Other Terrifying Early Sex Machines NSFW

As long as humans have had genitals, we’ve found artificial ways to stimulate them. But it took the repressed Victorian era to create the vibrator, a device aimed at curing a disease that doesn’t exist. It’s Valentine’s Day weekend, a time where those without honeybears to take out to dinner are probably feeling a little…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Crowbot Puts An Army of Crows At Your Command

If this Crowbot, which can attract and repel crows by playing different recordings, isn’t quite weird enough for you, wait until you hear about Crowbot Jenny, the elusive superhero babe who uses it to command her crow army. What do you get when the worlds of superheroes, manga, technology and crows collide? Crowbot Jenny and…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Wolfman Is A Cheesy B-Movie Dressed In Furs

Strongly influenced by classic 1941 monster movie Wolf Man, the new Wolfman opening in theaters tonight is the epitome of an historical hair-and-hat movie. But recreating the Victorian mood of an old-fashioned flick isn’t enough. Like the iconic Lon Chaney, Jr.’s character in the 1941 Wolf Man, Benicio Tel Toro’s character Lawrence has returned to…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Now Available

Beauty, love, ingenuity, forgiveness, and duct tape. This week’s Now Available showcases some colorful cameras, a brilliant and simple home networking solution, a redeemed 27″ display, and a tripod that turns your iPod Touch into bizarro Spiderman. Panasonic GF1 (Colors!) In the micro-four-thirds class of cameras this sucker is hard to beat. While these new…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

Google Might Pull Buzz Out of Gmail—That’s Why ↓

Given the populist sentiment about the way it launched Buzz, by merging it with Gmail, resulting in a million-and-one privacy kerfluffles, Google’s now thinking about going beyond the tweaks it made the other day by cutting the cord between Buzz and Gmail entirely. People might get to claim completely different usernames for Buzz too. A…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

F*ck You, Google

I use my private Gmail account to email my boyfriend and my mother. There’s a BIG drop-off between them and my other “most frequent” contacts. You know who my third most frequent contact is. My abusive ex-husband. Which is why it’s SO EXCITING, Google, that you AUTOMATICALLY allowed all my most frequent contacts access to…

Tech News Harriet Jacobs

Donnie Darko And Tim Burton Are No Longer Lovable