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Doughboys become “iron boys” to fight wars of the future (1926)

Between 1918 end of World War I and the 1939 start of World War II, American newspapers sometimes ran stories about how robots would battle in wars of the future. Still shaken from the incredible death toll of World War I, people hoped for a time when robots would fight in the place of humans.…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 3

A Pen That Tries To Forget It’s Really a Stylus

The Jot is a bastardized iPad stylus that seems to think it’s some kind of high-born pen. It wears all the trappings of a simple yet elegant ballpoint pen, but it can’t deny what it is. The stylus is a Kickstarter project created by designer Adonit. Its ball point rests inside what Adonit calls a…

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 3

Kanex SnapX Lets You Connect Two Macs to One Cinema Display

Got an Apple Cinema display and a couple of Macs lying around? Want them to all work together? No problem, Kanex’s latest accessory, the SnapX two-port switcher has got you covered. The SnapX has two of everything — two mini DisplayPort connectors, two USB connectors and two integrated cables that’ll let you connect two Macs…

Tech News Kelly Aug 3

Naked and Famous’ Glow in the Dark Jeans Look Rad…ioactive

Naked and Famous, the Canadian jeans company, has remixed their standard pair of selvedge denim by coating it in glow in the dark resin. Wear it and you’ll look like you work at a nuclear plant gone awry…or Kanye West. The jeans are charged up by light (and look great in it too) to become…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 3

Ultimate Sharks for iPad: Play With and Learn About Sharks Without Getting Your Arm Chomped Off

Everyone is afraid of sharks but who doesn’t think they’re wicked cool? Come on! The beasts of the sea, the killers of the ocean, the king of the water. Don’t you want to know what they’re like? This wonderful iPad app tells you (without any chance of getting bit). What’s it do? SHARKS! It’s Shark…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 3

Finally, a Cure for Just Generally Feeling Like Shit

I used to attribute that feeling of slight aching, fatigue, and general awfulness to life being terrible. But it turns out there’s a cure for common malaise. Hypochondriacs, this is your vindication! You’re just missing a brain chemical called orexin. Oregon Health and Science University’s pinpointed the cutoff of orexin while ill as the root…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 3

Google Please Don’t Hire This Guy

When you put yourself out there with a single serving site dedicated to getting yourself hired, you have to be prepared for blowback. Matthew Epstein created Google Please Hire Me to score a job. Google, please, don’t hire this guy. The site’s conceptually clever. He’s ripped off enough of Google’s branding elements that you might…

Tech News Mat Honan Aug 3

How To Defuse a Bomb

This morning a young Australian woman had a bomb strapped to her freaking neck in what seems to have been an extortion attempt. Terrifying. Luckily the bomb squad saved the day. But how exactly do they safely kill bombs dead? According to Lt. Mike Jackson, Bomb Squad Commander of the Oklahoma City Police Department, 10%…

Tech News Brent Rose Aug 3

Diver of Course Gets Bitten After Trying to French Kiss a Shark

Dave Marcel is an experienced deep-sea diver and shark lover. On routine diving tours, he likes to attract the generally-docile nurse shark over, and invites people to give them hugs and kisses. Aww. Only this time he went for the lips. And then the obvious happens. Once again, Marcel is a pretty experienced diver and…

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 3

Clearwire Joins Team LTE, Effectively Abandoning WiMax

Clearwire, the biggest cheerleaders for WiMax mobile broadband, revealed their intent to support the competing LTE standard as well. Did the 4G wars just end? [Engadget]

Tech News Adrian Covert Aug 3

Even What You Think Is Real In Game of Thrones Is Actually Fake

Perhaps it’s because I’m used to TV series with blatantly obvious special effects but, after seeing this behind-the-scenes video of HBO’s Game of Thrones, I’m amazed at the number of architectural structures and elements that aren’t real. It’s simply awesome. Sure, there are fantastic castles and structures that obviously don’t exist anywhere on Earth, but…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 3

io9 Roundup: August 3, 2011

LONELY SURVIVOR | A piece of debris near Lake Nacogdoches in Texas has turned out to be a fragment from the Space Shuttle Columbia, which burned up on re-entry in 2003. The tank was part of the orbiter’s electrical system. Via BBC. Did Earth once have two Moons? The two sides of the Moon look…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 3

A collection of Star Wars t-shirts that can serve as your entire back-to-school wardrobe

Is that a bearded, lightsaber-wielding Han Solo?! You bet your ass it is. This t-shirt features early concept art drawn up by none other than legendary concept designer Ralph McQuarrie — the man behind much of the look and feel of the original Star Wars trilogy. This is just one of over 20 new Star…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 3

The AquaRam Out-Bombs Car Bombs With Water That Cuts Through Steel

Just because it isn’t strapped to your neck, doesn’t mean that IED is any less deadly. The AquaRam Disruptor defuses these home-made bombs by neutralizing the detonator with a blast of water strong enough to punch through steel. Problem solved. The AquaRam, developed by the MREL companies, is the latest advancement in the fight against…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 3

Stunning Shots of the Real-Life Hong Kong Locations Featured in Ghost in the Shell

When adapting the Ghost in the Shell manga into an anime film, director Mamoru Oshii chose to turn the real-life streets of Hong Kong into a hyper-stylized, dreamlike city of the future. What’s astonishing is that Oshii captured the real Hong Kong so well in his submerged metropolis. David at Randomwire went and found what…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 3

The best analysis of Comic-Con you’ll read this year

Amazon’s Kindle Singles has just published a long, fascinating essay about the cultural meaning of Comic-Con by Douglas Wolk, author of the Eisner-winning book Reading Comics. If you’re interested in a sympathetic but critical analysis of the Con that rules the world of genre writing, filmmaking, TV and art, this essay is a must-read. It’s…

io9 Annalee Newitz Aug 3

This Is the Most Stupid Conversation That Ever Took Place at NASA

Hillary Greenbaum has the story of the two NASA logos: The classic and current Meatball and the discarded Worm. It details the most absurd conversation between NASA Administrator Dr. James Fletcher and Deputy Administrator Dr. George Low: Fletcher: I’m simply not comfortable with those letters, something is missing. Low: Well, yes, the cross stroke is…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 3

Did Earth once have two Moons?

The two sides of the Moon look nothing like each other: the near side is flat and low, while the far side is incredibly mountainous. We may now be able to solve this topographical mystery…and it involves a second moon. The current best theory for the origin of the Moon is the “giant impact” model.…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 3

Hackers Defile Hershey’s Website by Changing a Single Recipe

Nothing is safe. Not even chocolate. As indicated by a recent letter sent to their customers, Hershey just suffered a security breach that resulted in a changed recipe. I really hope they didn’t change their chocolate chip banana bread. The Consumerist reports that someone broke into the Hershey’s server and messed with a recipe on…

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 3

Zachary Quinto on Star Trek 2: It’s time to repopulate the universe with Vulcans!

What’s next for Spock in Star Trek 2? We caught up with Zachary Quinto, and he told us that pon farr may be on Spock’s mind. How will Spock handle being in love with a human when the Vulcan race needs to be rebuilt? Quinto gave us some hints about what Spock may do next…

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 3

Doughboys become “iron boys” to fight wars of the future (1926)

A Pen That Tries To Forget It’s Really a Stylus

Kanex SnapX Lets You Connect Two Macs to One Cinema Display

Naked and Famous’ Glow in the Dark Jeans Look Rad…ioactive

Ultimate Sharks for iPad: Play With and Learn About Sharks Without Getting Your Arm Chomped Off

Finally, a Cure for Just Generally Feeling Like Shit

Google Please Don’t Hire This Guy

How To Defuse a Bomb

Diver of Course Gets Bitten After Trying to French Kiss a Shark

Clearwire Joins Team LTE, Effectively Abandoning WiMax

Even What You Think Is Real In Game of Thrones Is Actually Fake

io9 Roundup: August 3, 2011

A collection of Star Wars t-shirts that can serve as your entire back-to-school wardrobe

The AquaRam Out-Bombs Car Bombs With Water That Cuts Through Steel

Stunning Shots of the Real-Life Hong Kong Locations Featured in Ghost in the Shell

The best analysis of Comic-Con you’ll read this year

This Is the Most Stupid Conversation That Ever Took Place at NASA

Did Earth once have two Moons?

Hackers Defile Hershey’s Website by Changing a Single Recipe

Zachary Quinto on Star Trek 2: It’s time to repopulate the universe with Vulcans!

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