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Happy Hot Dog Man Mutates Your Hot Dog into a Little Human Weiner

You, my friend, are eating a sad hot dog. Why? Cause if you’re not using the Happy Hot Dog Man to make the perfect cuts and slices to turns your dog into a little human character, you’re doing it wrong. It’s like a toy…that you can eat! Or a weiner to play dress up with.…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 14

io9 Roundup: June 14, 2011

What your favorite Alien movie says about you https://kotaku.com/what-your-favorite-alien-movie-says-about-you-5811814 With Ridley Scott’s suspected Alien prequel, Prometheus, in production it’s time to look back and ask: What does your favorite Alien movie say about you? The answers may surprise you! More » http://io9.com/5810487/first-set-pics-from-ridley-scotts-prometheus-is-this-your-new-gritty-alien-underworld https://gizmodo.com/angelic-squid-descends-over-argentina-bringing-tentacl-5811967 Angelic squid descends over Argentina, bringing tentacled confusion in its wake Here’s another…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 14

Zack Snyder’s Superman movie is looking for extras in Chicago

If you live in the greater Chicago area, you could be a background extra in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel. Maybe you’ll be forced to kneel before Zod, maybe you’ll just stare up in the sky like a slack-jawed Metropolite. Casting begins next weekend. They’re looking for all types: Saturday 6/18: DePaul University’s Naperville Campus…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 14

Where Do All the Forgotten PCs Go? In This Room.

Polish sculptor Marek Tomasik spent three years collecting junk PCs. And with those, he covered an entire 16’x14’x15 room from top to bottom with the guts of those PCs (it’s what any sane person would do, right?). Even better, it’s viewable as an interactive 3D map. The vast majority of the pieces have been mounted…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 14

Adobe Improves, Drops The Prices on Its Photoshop Apps For The iPad

Adobe recently released three touch-friendly imaging apps for the iPad including Adobe Eazel, Adobe Color Lava and Adobe Nav. One month after their debut, the trio have been updated with a handful of new features and a surprising price drop. The apps were already reasonably priced when they launched, but now they can be had…

Tech News Kelly Jun 14

Total artificial hearts may be nothing like what you expect

When we see total artificial hearts in science fiction, they are usually metal-and-plastic versions of what we have now, small pumps that magically attach to arteries. But two medical researchers have successfully created working artificial hearts — and they don’t beat. They hum. In fact, they don’t look or sound much like the hearts we…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 14

Angelic squid descends over Argentina, bringing tentacled confusion in its wake

Here’s another addition to the burgeoning Argentinian UFO files. An angel and/or space squid was recently unveiled by Argentinean news, and it unabashedly waggled its cosmic tendrils at a confused cameraman. Saucy cephalopod seraphim, taunting us Earthlings with your appendages! https://gizmodo.com/ufo-sightings-in-argentina-on-the-rise-5810591 [Via Real UFOs]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 14

A Robotic Hand So Quick It’s Scary

The above video demonstrates extremely precise robotic hand and finger manipulation. It was designed to make use of a high-speed camera and tactile sensors to enable throwing, catching, and even grasping. I hope it’s only used for good. [BoingBoing]

Tech News Kwame Opam Jun 14

Colorfly Pocket HiFi C4 Pro is a Media Player For The Steampunk Music Connoisseur

The Pocket HiFi C4 Pro media player from Colorfly has an engraved wood backing and retro brassy front that gives the player a distinctive look, but for the audiophile, it’s the quality under the hood that counts. The Colorfly is as beautiful on the inside as it is on the outside. The media player includes…

Gadgets Kelly Jun 14

Garco on Juke Box Jury (1954)

Garco the robot became Garco the music critic for the May 29, 1954 episode of Los Angeles TV’s Juke Box Jury. Hosted by Peter Potter, the show appeared on KNXT (now KCBS) and featured a panel of celebrity judges who would critique the latest music releases. On this particular episode Garco appeared with Ann Robinson,…

Tech News Matt Novak Jun 14

Is Microsoft Azure Powering Apple’s iCloud?

This is curious: InfiniteApple is saying they’ve confirmed that iCloud is powered by Microsoft’s Azure, at least for the moment. The folks at InfiniteApple sent files to and from iPhones with iOS 5 beta installed and monitored the traffic. They concluded that iCloud doesn’t actually store anything. Instead, it simply “manages links” to content stored…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jun 14

What If You Crammed The Entire Human Population Into a Single City?

Here’s food for thought: Some cities are considerably more densely populated than others. Imagine packing all 6.9 billion people in the world into a city you know. How much space would that megacity take up? Per Square Mile made these infographics to give you an idea of what you’d find. In the image above, they…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jun 14

Gene Roddenberry Wouldn’t Tolerate Prejudice Against Klingons

At the Hero Complex Film Festival, director Nicholas Meyer revealed a confrontation he’d had with Gene Roddenberry over Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Apparently, even before the movie started shooting, Roddenberry had problems with the script, according to Meyer: If I’m interpreting him correctly and if I’m believing what he said, Mr. Roddenberry really…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Jun 14

The world’s tiniest dinosaur was less than two feet long

A tiny neck bone fossil measuring just a quarter-inch long was recently discovered in southern England. Dating back between 145 and 100 million years ago, the dinosaur that this bone belonged to can’t have been more than 20 inches long. That would make this newly discovered dinosaur, which doesn’t yet have an official name, the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jun 14

The Man Who Created the Genius Bar Is Leaving for J.C. Penney

Ron Johnson, the current head of Apple’s retail stores, will be leaving Cupertino this November to head up J.C. Penney as their chief executive. Johnson is largely responsible for the look and feel of today’s Apple stores, and is credited with their success. Losing him is a blow to Apple, but analysts believe their retail…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jun 14

Fanhattan for iPad

Sure, you don’t get the big screen or banging sound system, but watching movies on an iPad feels more intimate. But where do you find movies to watch? Jump into the iTunes store, skip over to Netflix and dance with Hulu? Not exactly efficient. Fanhattan for iPad points you exactly where you need to go…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 14

Confirmed: No Full Season of Doctor Who in 2012

Last week a nasty Doctor Who rumor was circulating — that even though Matt Smith has signed on to do another 14 Doctor Who episodes, there wouldn’t be a full season next year. Sadly, these suspicions have been confirmed. Danny Cohen, Controller of BBC One, was speaking at an event where we got the first…

Television Meredith Woerner Jun 14

Our favorite “talking dogs versus eldritch horror” comic book is becoming a movie

One of our most beloved comic books in recent memory is Beasts of Burden by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson. It’s an adorably high concept series: a gang of plucky pets are paranormal investigators who battle unfathomably evil supernatural nasties. And according to a press release from Dark Horse Comics, Beasts of Burden is now…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 14

There Is Too Much Electricity in the Northwest

After this long winter, spring’s warmth has begun to melt all that pesky snow. In the Northwest, the resulting runoff helps power everyday life. Only this year there’s too much power for them to handle. The waters that came with spring went on to overwhelm the Federal Columbia River Power System, creating so much electricity…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jun 14

Happy Hot Dog Man Mutates Your Hot Dog into a Little Human Weiner

io9 Roundup: June 14, 2011

Zack Snyder’s Superman movie is looking for extras in Chicago

Where Do All the Forgotten PCs Go? In This Room.

Adobe Improves, Drops The Prices on Its Photoshop Apps For The iPad

Total artificial hearts may be nothing like what you expect

Top Stories: Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Angelic squid descends over Argentina, bringing tentacled confusion in its wake

A Robotic Hand So Quick It’s Scary

Colorfly Pocket HiFi C4 Pro is a Media Player For The Steampunk Music Connoisseur

Garco on Juke Box Jury (1954)

Is Microsoft Azure Powering Apple’s iCloud?

What If You Crammed The Entire Human Population Into a Single City?

Gene Roddenberry Wouldn’t Tolerate Prejudice Against Klingons

The world’s tiniest dinosaur was less than two feet long

The Man Who Created the Genius Bar Is Leaving for J.C. Penney

Fanhattan for iPad

Confirmed: No Full Season of Doctor Who in 2012

Our favorite “talking dogs versus eldritch horror” comic book is becoming a movie

There Is Too Much Electricity in the Northwest

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