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Chuck Norris Would Use a Titanium Straw, How ‘Bout You?

Are you man (or woman) enough to handle a titanium drinking straw? It takes some compromises. You can’t bend it and you have to wash it after every use. But you would look very herculean sipping that frozen margarita. Besides its metallic good looks, the titanium straw has some decided advantages over a plastic straw.…

Gadgets Kelly Jul 20

Someday We’ll Eliminate The Dreaded “Are We There Yet?”

How cool would it be if you could draw on your window and have the drawings move along with the car? Cool enough to keep the kids quiet for a few hours, don’t you think? This type of interactive automobile window technology isn’t science fiction. It’s actually being developed by Toyota and the Copenhagen Institute…

Tech News Kelly Jul 20

io9 Roundup: July 20, 2011

Welcome to Comic-Con https://gizmodo.com/welcome-to-comic-con-5822046 Today the annual pilgrimage to Comic-Con begins, bringing with it a new year of fantastic movies, TV, books, comics and games. Though this convention began as a humble gathering of comic book fans in the early 1970s, it has grown to attract over 100 thousand attendees as well as major Hollywood…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 20

Go Green With The Sprout Biodegradable Watch

Watches are one accessory that’s crying out for some green love. They’re worn daily, changed often and killed frequently with an accidental bump. Sprout understands and has developed a line of fashionable timepieces that can be tossed away without remorse. These watches are great. They are good-looking, colorful and 80-93% biodegradable. They are made of…

Tech News Kelly Jul 20

Make Beautiful Music By Outfitting Your Guitar With Lasers

M3i Industries has a new product that merges two of our favorite things: guitars and lasers. And this new pickup system has the ability to record the pitch of string before your pick has even hit it. What more could your want? This way this Laser Pitch Detection (LPD) Pickup system works is ingenious. A…

Tech News Kelly Jul 20

It’s tough to be a good Communist revolutionary if you can remember your past life 1000 years ago

China’s Cultural Revolution would have been a terrible time to be a child — but just imagine growing up during the Cultural Revolution and remembering your past life in Imperial China. That’s the premise of The Reincarnation of Golden Lotus. Also known as Pan Jin Lian Zhi Qian Shi Jin Sheng, 1989’s Reincarnation is one…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 20

Old Nokia Phones Don’t Die, They Live Inside Mobile Man

Did you know that over 100 million cell phones are discarded each year in the US and only 13% of this e-waste is disposed of properly? Keep that staggering statistic in mind when you gaze on Nokia’s crazy-looking Mobile Man. Mobile Man stands six feet tall, weighs 44 pounds and is made entirely of discarded…

Tech News Kelly Jul 20

Everybody’s Got Problems, Even Netflix

Here’s a cute comic that summarizes our love-hate relationship with Netflix’s movie streaming and rental service. We love the convenience of quick and easy Netflix movies, but we really hate the B movies that dominate your catalog. We don’t blame you Netflix, we see from this comic that the movie studios have a gun to…

Tech News Kelly Jul 20

The “Blackfish” Is a Robotic Jetski That Scares Terrorists

We already have flying robots. Robotic UAVs already dot the skies in considerable numbers for the military. But what about swimming ones? The Blackfish, a 10-foot long remote-controlled jet ski, is being tested by the Navy to defend wartime waters. Designed by British defense contractor Qinetiq, the Blackfish was developed to respond to small watercraft…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 20

Zombie slingshot will defend your house, Dennis The Menace style

When it comes to anti-undead defense, slingshots probably aren’t the first thing to come to mind. But if you’re slingshot aficionado Jörg Sprave, they’re the only way to go. Watch him enthusiastically discuss decapitating a roamer with this gruesome homemade rig Hat tip to Boris!

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 20

The Millennium Bug delivers the evil hillbilly kaiju mashup you never knew you wanted

Need a new crazy indie exploitation film in your life? Then look no further than The Millennium Bug, a seriously gory flick that answers the age-old question of what would happen if Godzilla rampaged through a Rob Zombie movie. Though bits of the movie feel like warmed-over hillbilly stereotypes, there’s a deranged imaginativeness at its…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 20

Scare Children With This Ownable Animatronic Triceratops

Because who doesn’t want to own a dinosaur? Hammacher Schlemmer is offering you this gargantuan, 20 foot Triceramonster that looks like it stepped out of Jurassic Park. The first one. The other two don’t count. This dinobot and its brethren have been featured in museums across the country. Packing motion-activated cameras in each eye, it…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 20

Sony’s 24-Megapixel Monster Reveals Itself

Sony’s A77 is a big boy, in and out. Shooting (rumored) 24 megapixels of photo and unspecified “HD video,” (we’re guessing 1080), details are sparse beyond that. But all that jelly is only expected to cost a grand or less. The A77 isn’t technically a DSLR, as it uses light-splitting prisms instead of a mirror…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 20

Apple Bans Many In-Store Software Boxes

Apple’s stacking its chips with the new App Store and declaring many popular boxed program families in its retail outlets “end of life,” according to a notice circulated Wednesday. AppleInsider has a full list of the affected programs here. [AppleInsider]

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jul 20

A report from the front line of cancer treatment

Want to know about cutting-edge cancer research that could impact you this year, instead of twenty years from now? Physician Michael Soble, a cancer specialist, recently attended the American Society of Oncology’s annual conference. He wrote us this report on where cancer treatment is headed in the very near future. Soble practices medicine at North…

io9 Michael Soble Jul 20

Songify for iPhone: I’m Going to Win a Freaking Grammy For This One

What if I told you that you could be a singer if you just spoke into an app. Seriously, that’s all you have to do with Songify. The app autotunes your voice and stitches it against a song. YOU SOUND AWESOME. What’s it do? It turns basic speech into awesome songs. You don’t even have…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 20

7 Ways Google Labs Changed the Internet Forever

Google closed the doors on Google Labs today. The ongoing projects aren’t disappearing; they’ll be absorbed into other departments, and many have already “graduated” into full-fledged products. The spirit and mission of the initiative will live on, just in a decidedly less centralized way. Here are some of the coolest and most genuinely world-changing things…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jul 20

Angina Rub Could Keep You Alive After Being Fanged by a Cobra

If you find yourself in a Samuel L. Jackson movie involving airplanes but not sharks or Royales with Cheese, good news! You’ll only really need to avoid the Pythons and Boas— so long as you have some Nitric oxide lotion on you. The rub was originally developed to help with angina, chest pains caused by…

Health Andrew Tarantola Jul 20

The Wild Bird Feeder Is the Bane of Squirrelkind

You almost feel sorry for it. Off it goes for some seeds, only to wind up on the ground. Crestfallen and alone. This bird feeder will make squirrels, like this one, learn their place while you feed your avian friends. What the Wild Bird Feeder’s got is four flexible perches and plenty of spaces for…

Biology Kwame Opam Jul 20

Chuck Norris Would Use a Titanium Straw, How ‘Bout You?

Someday We’ll Eliminate The Dreaded “Are We There Yet?”

io9 Roundup: July 20, 2011

Go Green With The Sprout Biodegradable Watch

Make Beautiful Music By Outfitting Your Guitar With Lasers

It’s tough to be a good Communist revolutionary if you can remember your past life 1000 years ago

Old Nokia Phones Don’t Die, They Live Inside Mobile Man

Top Stories: Wednesday July 20, 2011

Everybody’s Got Problems, Even Netflix

The “Blackfish” Is a Robotic Jetski That Scares Terrorists

Zombie slingshot will defend your house, Dennis The Menace style

The Millennium Bug delivers the evil hillbilly kaiju mashup you never knew you wanted

Scare Children With This Ownable Animatronic Triceratops

Sony’s 24-Megapixel Monster Reveals Itself

Apple Bans Many In-Store Software Boxes

A report from the front line of cancer treatment

Songify for iPhone: I’m Going to Win a Freaking Grammy For This One

7 Ways Google Labs Changed the Internet Forever

Angina Rub Could Keep You Alive After Being Fanged by a Cobra

The Wild Bird Feeder Is the Bane of Squirrelkind

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