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On Sale Later This Year, Luna the Robot Can Walk Dogs and Do Other *Wink* Things https://gizmodo.com/on-sale-later-this-year-luna-the-robot-can-walk-dogs-a-5800778 Human-sized with soft curves and silky skin, Luna the robot runs on Linux and even has her very own app store. With a touchscreen and cameras and microphones, she can react and respond, and take commands over Wi-Fi…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola May 11

New Panasonic G3 Micro Four Thirds Camera Leaked?

According to 4/3 Rumors, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3 is going to be announced tomorrow. The G3 is Micro Four Thirds camera that’s a successor to the pretty sweet G2 and is supposed to be 25% smaller than the original. https://gizmodo.com/panasonic-lumix-dmc-g2-and-g10-micro-four-thirds-camera-5487406 Also, 4/3 Rumors is saying that the camera is expected to pack a 15.8 megapixel…

Tech News Casey Chan May 11

Mind games and mysteries abound in Isaac Asimov’s Second Foundation

The Mule has disrupted Hari Seldon’s plan, and nothing can save the Foundation. Unless — yes! There’s another Foundation, hidden away at Star’s End. Or is there? Let’s find out, as we dig into Second Foundation, by Isaac Asimov. Welcome to day three of Foundation Week, brought to you by Blogging the Hugos. On Monday,…

io9 Josh Wimmer and Alasdair Wilkins May 11

Verbs for iPhone

You probably have an Instant Messaging app you use already. Beejive, Meebo, eBuddy, Trillian, IM+, etc are all decently serviceable but none of them are as pretty as Verbs. Verbs is the only IM app that looks and feels like it was made for iOS. What is it? Verbs, $3, iPhone. It’s an IM app.…

Tech News Casey Chan May 11

Casio TRYX: Why Do You Exist?

Were it an animal, the Casio TRYX would be enough to singlehandedly refute intelligent design. It’s pretty. It’s fun! It works well. But there’s really no way to explain the strange, strange way it is. Plusses The TRYX is a decent camera. It shoots 1080p with decently bright colors, and decently fine detail. I wouldn’t…

Reviews Sam Biddle May 11

Weta Workshop’s Lord of the Rings art brings Gandalf to your doorstep

Hobbiton is an idyllic scene… except for the untimely arrival of the wizard Gandalf, in this gorgeous art print called “Disturber of the Peace,” by Weta Workshop concept artist Ben Wootten, who worked on the Lord of the Rings films. (Click “Expand” in the bottom right-hand corner to see the full image.) This print, hand-signed…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 11

Former FCC Commissioner Who Voted for Comcast’s NBC Takeover Is Joining Comcast as an Exec

Not four months after voting to approve Comcast’s takeover of NBC, FCC Commissioner Meredith Baker will soon be employed by Comcast as an executive of Governmental Affairs. Wait, what? Shady? Absolutely. While she technically committed no ethical violations by doing this, you have to question her getting hired so soon after lording over this huge…

Television Adrian Covert May 11

Tomorrow’s Movie Theaters, Powered by Your Smartphone

Smartphone-powered movie theaters in public spaces? Want. It’s like a park barbecue. Stake your claim, dock your phone, load up some footage and enjoy. But hopefully they don’t all lop off part of the screen like this one. [Design Boom]

Tech News Adrian Covert May 11

Locus Award Finalists Announced

The Locus Awards announced their 2011 finalists, and the slate is pretty similar to the Hugo Awards finalists — except noticeably a bit less female-dominated. In particular, the “best novel” nominees are the same except that Mira Grant and N.K. Jemisin are replaced by William Gibson and Iain M. Banks. Here’s the full list: https://gizmodo.com/the-nominees-for-the-2011-hugo-awards-are-up-5795183…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 11

Shanghai’s robotic lightsaber battles are very lovely this time of year

Japan’s Yaskawa Corporation is a firm whose starry-eyed goal is to arm robots with laser swords. After teaching their Motoman robots to dance with lightsabers, Yaskawa has now taught two robotic arms to duel Jedi-style. This video comes was shot at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation currently going on in Shanghai (where you…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 11

The Perfect Music Service

Google Music is here, promising the magic of the cloud. Is it the perfect way to consume music digitally? Well, that’s what they want us to believe. Google Music isn’t perfect. You’re limited by what you already have (and plan to purchase in the future). If your library is big, it could cost a small…

Tech News Adrian Covert May 11

Which character from Hostess Fruit Pie ads made it into comic book canon?

Most characters in Hostess pastry comic advertisements never hit the big time (hello, Ding-A-Ling Gang), but one villain slipped on through. That dubious honor would go to Icemaster, an Iceman knockoff who sports a goatee to denote how evil he is. Even though he debuted in 1979, Icemaster was totally unused until Kurt Busiek resurrected…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 11

Your spine keeps a record of all your body’s pain

You slam your hand in a door, and the experience becomes etched into your brain. You remember the swinging panel, the sound as it crushes your flesh, and the pain as your skin gives way. Your body remembers it too. For days afterwards, the neurons in your spine carry pain signals more easily form your…

io9 Ed Yong - Discover May 11

The Brontës invented imaginary realms, and created some of the first fan-fiction

The Brontë sisters are best known as the authors of literary gothic tales like Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, but in their childhood, they worked with their brother to invent the made-up realm of the Glass Town Federation. According to the British Library, which is featuring the Brontë’s hand-written Glass Town sagas as part of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 11

How Did This Boat Get On Top of a House? (Video)

This sightseeing boat, Hama Yuri, was pulled 1300 feet from the coast and somehow balanced itself on a two story house during the tsunami in Japan. Two months later, they finally pulled the boat off and have begun to dismantle it. The image of the boat balancing itself in the aftermath became one of the…

Tech News Casey Chan May 11

“Most Useless Machine” Duels Mankind and Is Metaphor for All Interactions with Technology

The Most Useless Machine is a box with a switch. You flick the switch, and the box opens, flipping back the switch to close itself. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Over, and over again. That is, until the box flips out. The back and forth struggle between man and machine is consummated by the machine’s conniption fit.…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 11

The End of the Road for BeamItDown and iFlowReader App

BeamItDown, the makers of iFlowReader, one of the App Store’s most popular e-reading apps, are pretty mad at Apple over their new policy to take 30% for any e-book sold. Mad enough that they’re shutting down on May 31st: https://gizmodo.com/apples-new-subscription-model-is-evil-5761383 The crux of the matter is that Apple is now requiring us, as well as…

Tech News Max Behrman May 11

Quite possibly the most squirm-inducing paper on diamond heists ever published

Some of you are undoubtedly considering a sexy, lucrative career in the rarified world of cat burglary. For all you would-be dapper scoundrels, here’s a recent medical paper that’ll be of interest. It’s about the dangers of swallowing your prizes. In “An Unusual Digestive Foreign Body” (which deserves some sort of academic prize for pithy…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 11

The Best Deal of the Day

I’m not much of a TV junkie, though I do love my Monday through Thursday nights with Jon Stewart. But I do stream Netflix movies like there’s no tomorrow. And so the deal on this 46-inch Sony Bravia definitely strikes my fancy. I’m pretty sure the ideal weekend for me would be vegging out in…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals May 11

Bug Fixes on io9: Now It’s Easier To Share Stories, and Our Blog View Looks Rad

Yesterday our awesome tech team fixed several bugs on the site that will make things easeir for readers who like sharing links on sites like Facebook and who prefer old the blog layout. We’ve tweaked our URL structure by eliminating the “hashbang” (#!). This means that thumbs and excerpts will now show up when you’ve…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 11

Today’s Best Gadgets

New Panasonic G3 Micro Four Thirds Camera Leaked?

Mind games and mysteries abound in Isaac Asimov’s Second Foundation

Verbs for iPhone

Casio TRYX: Why Do You Exist?

Weta Workshop’s Lord of the Rings art brings Gandalf to your doorstep

Former FCC Commissioner Who Voted for Comcast’s NBC Takeover Is Joining Comcast as an Exec

Tomorrow’s Movie Theaters, Powered by Your Smartphone

Locus Award Finalists Announced

Shanghai’s robotic lightsaber battles are very lovely this time of year

The Perfect Music Service

Which character from Hostess Fruit Pie ads made it into comic book canon?

Your spine keeps a record of all your body’s pain

The Brontës invented imaginary realms, and created some of the first fan-fiction

How Did This Boat Get On Top of a House? (Video)

“Most Useless Machine” Duels Mankind and Is Metaphor for All Interactions with Technology

The End of the Road for BeamItDown and iFlowReader App

Quite possibly the most squirm-inducing paper on diamond heists ever published

The Best Deal of the Day

Bug Fixes on io9: Now It’s Easier To Share Stories, and Our Blog View Looks Rad

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