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Today’s comment of the day came to us while browsing the comments for the Turbo Toaster; and although we anticipated to read jokes criticizing the Queen lovin’ Redcoat’s inability to make tasty food, this comment was sadly not one of them. Dustybutt’s (wish that wasn’t his name) comment proved to be very entertaining by not…

Tech News Christopher Mascari

DIY Bristlebot: You Might as Well Use That Toothbrush For Something

As long as your toothbrush is sitting around unused and unloved, you might as well put it to good use with this DIY Bristlebot courtesy of the folks at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. All you need is a brush with angled bristles, a pager motor and a watch battery. Minutes of fun and tooth decay…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Polar Phone Concept For Winter Gloves and Fat Fingers

The Polar mobile phone is a concept piece from Yuta Watanabe that is intended for cold weather climates where thick gloves are obstacles to effective communication. The phone looks to be a bit bulkier than usual, with bigger buttons arranged in an easy-to-press vertical layout. There are already plenty of phones on the market targeted…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Unborn Babies on Our iPod Creep Us the Hells Out

This is just weird, even for the giddy parents-to-be types who like to run around showing off copies of their ultrasound at work. A hospital in England is one (two?)-upping old-school 2D ultrasounds with 4D scans of your in utero spawn. The scanner (which is apparently not so new itself, per the comments) produces a…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

15 Below: A Transfoming All-Weather Jacket For the Homeless

Being homeless would suck, but being homeless in Canada during the winter would suck even harder. A Toronto ad firm called Taxi aims to help around 3,000 of these unfortunate souls (and drum up a little business while they are at it) using their new 15 Below jacket.The lightweight jacket was designed to be waterproof,…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Question of the day: Do You Use a Mac or PC?

In an effort to get to know our readers better, we’re kicking off a series of polls that will figure out just where you guys stand on certain technologies. We’ll start it with a big one: which do you use, Macs or PCs? We’ll round all these answers up into a big something-or-other that you…

Tech News Jason Chen

Forget the $2500 Latitude XT, Get a Touchscreen Asus Eee PC for $465

Half the reason we like the Eee PC is that mods to it just keep getting further out there. The latest, and greatest, is a touchscreen. Jkkmobile’s 4G is loaded up with Windows XP, but not the tablet version, so it’s admittedly more of an interesting way to browse the web and play around with…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Flying Saucer Surge Protector Keeps All Plugs Separate

There have been many solutions to the problem of fat AC adapters clogging up your surge protectors (like this), but this ezSpace UFO flying saucer protector from ezGear looks like it can actually be filled with all AC adapters without colliding. The secret is that it’s pretty huge and shaped like an flipped-over bowl, but…

Gadgets Jason Chen

The Deaf Hacker Pilot From Venus Talks To io9

Julia Howe plays Aeriana, the deaf hacker and pilot on Venus Rises, the new Mars/Venus class war series that’s appearing on IllusionTV and on the Web. When she’s not looking awesome in a hoodie and cyber-hand-rig, she’s also the show’s production manager. She talked to io9 about learning to say “flux capacitor” in sign language.…

io9 Charliejane

The 10 Steps to Dealing With a Broken Light Bulb According to the UK Government

A detailed 10 step guide to dealing with broken light bulbs has been drawn up by the UK House of Commons Commission—an organization responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Parliamentary estate. Naturally, this had many taxpayers in an uproar. In fact, a spokesman for the Taxpayers’ Alliance referred to the list as “ridiculous.” He…

Tech News Sean Fallon

SF Authors Tag-Team On Blog

A science fiction group blog at SFNovelists.com includes stars like Charles Stross, Tanya Huff, Kate Elliott, Sean Williams, Tobias Buckell, Karen Miller and Karin Lowachee. [OrbitBooks]

Books & Comics Charliejane

Android SDK Not Ready For Prime Time?

It has been about a month since Google launched the Android SDK, and opinions are starting to trickle in—not all of them positive. According to Ars Technica’s Ryan Paul, a hands-on with the SDK revealed “many bugs, some of which are impeding development”—a statement that was echoed by developer Adam McBeth, speaking with the WSJ.…

Tech News Sean Fallon

i-Sobot Gets Wiimote and Nunchuck Controls

The i-Sobot may be the smallest humanoid robot that you can control, but actually controlling it requires you to enter in more difficult keypress combos than it takes to do a Babaility in Mortal Kombat. However, if you load up the i-Sobot with the Robodance 4 software, you can hook up a Wiimote and Nunchucks…

Tech News Jason Chen

Please Terminate Terminator 4 Now

The plot details for Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins (or T4 if you’re into the whole brevity thing) have been leaking like a torn artery all over the web today, and reading about it is like watching a horrendous car wreck happening in extreme slow motion. In fact, since Christian Bale is involved, it’s like…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Intel Delays 45nm Quad-Core CPUs to Give AMD a Breather

Rather than continue hammering on AMD while they’re down, Intel is apparently taking AMD’s troubles as a little break of their own, delaying the launch of three 45nm quad-core Core 2 processors (Yorkfields) until Feb. or March, depending on AMD’s release schedule for its upcoming tri-core and Phenom processors. This kind of reminds us of…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Samsung F700 (U940) Touchscreen Phone FCC Approved

The Samsung F700, or U940, has just been FCC-approved, meaning that it’s going to make its way to Verizon really really soon. We don’t have full specs yet, but it seems that the 5-megapixel camera has been cut down to 2-megapixels, but the 150MB of internal memory and microSD slot remains. It doesn’t look like…

Gadgets Jason Chen

First Look at the Future of the New Orleans Waterfront

A team of architecture firms has released the first sketches of plans to rebuild the New Orleans waterfront. (Final plans will be announced in February.) They include developing trails and buildings a four mile stretch along the Mississippi River, giving people more access to the water and views of its serpentine banks. At the center…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Dell Year-End Report Card: B

Following an utterly abysmal 2006—exploding battery, anyone?—Dell‘s 2007 was more of a mixed bag. Its products were sharper than ever: gorgeous new notebooks, formidable gaming desktops and great values in large monitors (often found on sale). But at the same time, production issues and lingering organizational problems brought the company down from its comfortable perch…

Gadgets Charlie White

Afternoon News: Boffins Galore, Spectrum Auction, Rock, Paper, Scissors and More

• Joining the other boffins we’ve discussed today is this Indian boffin, who invented a flying carpet by attaching a powerful motor to a thin sheet of fabric. By the way, we have not used the word “boffin” on this site since 2004. Boffin! [Wired] • The FCC announced the participants in the 700MHz spectrum…

Tech News Benny Goldman

Nokia Magnetic Cellphone Port Concept Mimics Apple’s MagSafe Ports

Nokia is thinking about making its charging and headset ports magnetic, just like Apple’s MagSafe ports on its laptops. Nokia users are well aware that the headset and charging ports on their phones are quite similar. The beauty of this idea is that there is a negative magnetic polarity on one of the ports and…

Tech News Charlie White

Comment Of The Day

DIY Bristlebot: You Might as Well Use That Toothbrush For Something

Polar Phone Concept For Winter Gloves and Fat Fingers

Unborn Babies on Our iPod Creep Us the Hells Out

15 Below: A Transfoming All-Weather Jacket For the Homeless

Question of the day: Do You Use a Mac or PC?

Forget the $2500 Latitude XT, Get a Touchscreen Asus Eee PC for $465

Flying Saucer Surge Protector Keeps All Plugs Separate

The Deaf Hacker Pilot From Venus Talks To io9

The 10 Steps to Dealing With a Broken Light Bulb According to the UK Government

SF Authors Tag-Team On Blog

Android SDK Not Ready For Prime Time?

i-Sobot Gets Wiimote and Nunchuck Controls

Please Terminate Terminator 4 Now

Intel Delays 45nm Quad-Core CPUs to Give AMD a Breather

Samsung F700 (U940) Touchscreen Phone FCC Approved

First Look at the Future of the New Orleans Waterfront

Dell Year-End Report Card: B

Afternoon News: Boffins Galore, Spectrum Auction, Rock, Paper, Scissors and More

Nokia Magnetic Cellphone Port Concept Mimics Apple’s MagSafe Ports

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