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Get Tentacular Summer Beach Reading With “Mall of Cthulhu”

Nothing epitomizes the fun summer geek read more than Seamus Cooper’s Mall of Cthulhu (Night Shade). A charming buddy team – lesbian FBI agent Laura and loser barista Ted – fight monsters and white supremacists in a Providence mall. When the novel opens, Ted and Laura are still trying to get over a trauma they…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Robotic Bride Combines My Fears of Robots and Commitment

Here’s something I hoped I’d never see: a freakish, slack-jawed humanoid robot marching down the aisle in a wedding dress. But that’s just what happened in Japan today. The HRP-4C humanoid robot showed up at a fashion show in Osaka, walking down the runway in a wedding dress, “casting casual sidelong glances at the delighted…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Use Your Cell Phone To Diagnose Blood Diseases

The medical tricorder is now closer than ever to reality. A group of Berkeley engineers have invented a mobile phone microscope that can photograph microbes in your blood, and analyze them for disease. The research group, who published an article about their CellScope in today’s edition of PLoS One, wanted to figure out a way…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Cellphone Microscope Gets Power Boost, No Parasite Is Safe

UC Berkeley’s CellScope microscope transforms an ordinary cellphone camera into a powerful high-mag microscope. And now it has been given an upgrade that makes it possible to take color shots of parasites and bacteria labeled with fluorescent markers. To achieve this, the researchers used filters to block out background light and convert the light source—a…

Health Sean Fallon

An Alien Invasion You Can Write Home About

Artist Franco Brambilla combines combines vintage postcards with computer-generated images of aliens, flying saucers, and giant robots, to give your next alien invasion the same quaint, cozy feeling as your grandpa’s Alpine vacation. A frequent science fiction novel cover artist, Brambilla’s Invading the Vintage series uses actual postcards from Switzerland, Santa Barbara, Milan, and a…

io9 Lauren Davis

Navigon MobileNavigator for North America Hits the App Store, $70 For Now

There were shades of greatness in Navigon’s crippled free MobileNavigator trial, and high expectations for the full version. Now it’s here, and for the first couple weeks, priced at a reasonable (no, really) $70. https://gizmodo.com/the-week-in-iphone-apps-navigation-inebriation-multi-5312021 Even at the eventual full price of $100 it’s still a solid deal, since most big-name navigation apps charge a…

Tech News John Herrman

Legion’s Shirtless Tatooed Angel Wields Both A Gun And A Knife

Paul Bettany‘s shirtless chest and wings greets Comic Con visitors from the rafters. Seriously, forget Avatar, the the end of the world truck stop second coming of Christ movie Legion may be Comic Con’s big winner. https://gizmodo.com/how-a-truck-stop-can-become-noahs-ark-amidst-a-war-betw-5292095 In a bunch of early floor stills that MaximumPC put out from the day before, the day before…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Ultimate Peeping Tom Device Disguises Itself as Digital Camera, Media Player

21-friggin’-times optical zoom, MPEG4 video recording, digital camera, night mode, and digital music player to play the James Bond theme on repeat. That’s what the Avatar Digital Binocular Sports and Spy Camera will get you for just $129. The Avatar Digital Binocular Sports and Spy Camera has a 2.5 LCD screen, USB connectivity, video out,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Memo Clock Has a Built-In Re-Writable Surface

This memo clock has a re-writable ceramic surface, allowing you to leave notes on it. It doesn’t have an alarm function, however, but maybe you can just leave a note for yourself to wake up by 8. [TheHaki via DesignBoom]

Tech News Adam Frucci

Bow Before The Transformer Space Probe

Apparently, Transformers’ Allspark is more powerful than we’d ever imagined. How else to explain a new satellite that will be able to change itself into different probes, depending on what it deems necessary at the time? The new probe – which has the unusual nickname of “the flying laptop” – is a product of the…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Canon Hybrid Stabilization Technology Corrects Bad Photography On More Axes

Canon will include a new Hybrid Image Stabilizer in a forthcoming mystery (!) lens, which corrects both rotational and shift movement. I’ve always been partial to the elegant in-body, floating-sensor stabilization systems like those in the Sony Alpha line, but this tech, like all of Canon’s IS, will be in-lens, and therefore based, at least…

Tech News John Herrman

Love Keeps Her In The Air, But You Can Keep Serenity On Your Shelf

Serenity is a damn fine boat, in this 19-inch replica from Quantum Mechanix. On sale today for Comic Con, the Firefly model includes 30 lighting effects, hand-painted insignia, Inara’s shuttle, and our Big Damn Heroes on the bridge. Gallery below. The model will be here at Comic Con all weekend, but you can sign up…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

GE is envisioning gadget-covered, net-zero energy homes. A battery rechargeable via shaking might fit in there, but a cigarette lighter cell phone won’t. Chuck it, though, and MIT will track it with trashy new devices. If you’re off grid but still needing to use AA-style batteries, wouldn’t it be great to be able to add…

Tech News Jason Chen

Inline Skater Races Down 2,800-Foot Roller Coaster in 60 Seconds

Leave it to crazy German sportsman Dirk Auer to race down a huge roller coaster at a Stuttgart theme park. 2,821 feet in just 60 seconds. Doesn’t sound impressive enough? He was using inline skates, as the video shows. Only armed with retrofitted inline skates—especially developed for the stunt—and a helmet, the 36-year-old man reached…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Iron Man Videogame Takes Synergy To New Level

For fans of Marvel’s tin-plated superhero Iron Man, Sega’s tie-in to next year’s Iron Man 2 movie may be the best videogame tie-in ever. The reason? It’s being written by comic writer Matt Fraction… who also worked on the movie. Although the screenplay for Jon Favreau’s much-anticipated sequel was written by Justin Theroux, Fraction –…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Report: Project Natal Coming In 2010, Just Like Ballmer Said

In case early rumors, Ballmer’s indications, and Microsoft’s subsequent non-denial didn’t turn you into a believer, Digitimes has called upon their component supply industry muckraking militia to tell us again that Project Natal will land in H2, 2010. [Digitimes] https://gizmodo.com/rumor-microsoft-to-release-new-project-natal-centric-5289378

Tech News John Herrman

ScarJo Is Smoking In New Iron Man 2 Stills, While Doctor Who’s Fires Rage On

ScarJo brings the full-on bombshell as the Black Widow, in a new Iron Man still. A G.I. Joe poster features Storm Shadow unmasked. Doctor Who set pics include an emotional moment. Plus Gamer, Book Of Eli, Kick-Ass and Fringe spoilers. Iron Man 2: Yahoo! Movies posted a new still featuring ScarJo as Natasha Romanoff, plus…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Synaptics ClearPad 3000 Means 10 Fingers Multitouching Your Phone, Crazy New Gestures

The iPhone probably doesn’t use Synaptics’ original ClearPad capacitive screen multitouch technology, but maybe Apple will use the ClearPad 3000, since it registers ten fingers simultaneously. I hope they steal this three-finger crumple gesture at least, it’s so cool: The ClearPad 3000 is Synaptics’ new top-of-the-line capacitive touchscreen, designed for high-end phones, gaming systems (PSP…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

HTC Firestone Has Snapdragon and a Capacitive Screen, Prefers to Go by “Leo”

It’s easy to forget nowadays, but Android is only a small part of HTC’s product line, and the much larger Windows Mobile portion could be about to get a new flagship device: the 4.3-inch, capacitive-screened, Snapdragon-powered Leo. A new spec list has been passed down from Ai.rs, and subjected to piecemeal corroboration down the blog…

Tech News John Herrman

Prankster Gets Verizon’s CEO Private Address, Visits Him to Discuss Privacy

John Hargrave tracked down Verizon CEO’s private address and cellphone number. Then he went to his home—megaphone in hand—to ask him to stop Verizon’s lousy privacy policies. The video is quite funny and his message is clear: When we don’t have privacy, then freaks with bullhorns start showing up. Keep our phone numbers unlisted. Keep…

Privacy & Security Jesus Diaz

Get Tentacular Summer Beach Reading With “Mall of Cthulhu”

Robotic Bride Combines My Fears of Robots and Commitment

Use Your Cell Phone To Diagnose Blood Diseases

Cellphone Microscope Gets Power Boost, No Parasite Is Safe

An Alien Invasion You Can Write Home About

Navigon MobileNavigator for North America Hits the App Store, $70 For Now

Legion’s Shirtless Tatooed Angel Wields Both A Gun And A Knife

Ultimate Peeping Tom Device Disguises Itself as Digital Camera, Media Player

Memo Clock Has a Built-In Re-Writable Surface

Bow Before The Transformer Space Probe

Canon Hybrid Stabilization Technology Corrects Bad Photography On More Axes

Love Keeps Her In The Air, But You Can Keep Serenity On Your Shelf

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

Inline Skater Races Down 2,800-Foot Roller Coaster in 60 Seconds

Iron Man Videogame Takes Synergy To New Level

Report: Project Natal Coming In 2010, Just Like Ballmer Said

ScarJo Is Smoking In New Iron Man 2 Stills, While Doctor Who’s Fires Rage On

Synaptics ClearPad 3000 Means 10 Fingers Multitouching Your Phone, Crazy New Gestures

HTC Firestone Has Snapdragon and a Capacitive Screen, Prefers to Go by “Leo”

Prankster Gets Verizon’s CEO Private Address, Visits Him to Discuss Privacy

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