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PLEN Is One Neat Little Android Android

You might think this 9" PLEN hobby robot a little on the pricey side, but that’s before you’ve seen him dance. Or skateboard! Better yet, you can control him with and Android app from your phone, via Bluetooth. The $3,000 robot from Akazawa is part of a limited edition of 50, so if you do…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 26

Mathematician Uses SETI Formula To Determine He Has A 0.00034% Chance Of Getting Laid

An economics graduate student in the UK has used the well-known Drake Equation – used to figure out how many advanced civilizations might reside in our galaxy – to determine why he hasn’t had a girlfriend in three years. The Drake Equation was created by astronomer Frank Drake at the first SETI conference in the…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jan 26

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: All Tablet’s Eve Edition

In today’s Remainders, the tablet-confirming Tweet from a German retailer that wasn’t really from a German retailer, a video of the Air Force smushing faces with seven Gs, an iPhone app that keeps track of all those rumors, and more! Markt Up This morning, technology websites were buzzing with news that the Apple tablet’s price…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 26

What If the iPhone Cheated on AT&T?

It’s rumored by some that Apple will announce that the iPhone is becoming available from carriers other than AT&T on Wednesday. That would mean you could leave AT&T while staying with Apple, among other interesting things. Price War If you want an iPhone in the US, you’re stuck with AT&T. If the iPhone becomes available…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jan 26

Meet Miranda Lawson, a Mysterious, Deadly Operative from Mass Effect 2

Say hello to Miranda Lawson, another potential teammate in your fight for the lost. Check out her full personality profile after the jump. Seems like quite a catch. Bonus: near-perfect grammar. Name: Miranda Lawson Species: Human Gender: Female Age: 35 She’s beautiful. She’s brainy. And she will stop at nothing to achieve Cerberus’ goals. As…

io9 Gawkercreative Jan 26

Even On a Tablet, iTunes Can’t Compete with Red Vinyl

This candy apple Sophie Madeleine limited edition LP is just oozing with style that no one can digitize. [Sophie Madeleine via boingboing]

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 26

Scary Card-Playing Clowns, Lady Gaga Monsters, And Saran-Wrap Savages: Has Fashion Gone Insane?

Fashion has finally proved we’re living in the future — and not a utopian streamlined future, but a demented, decadent future where people do psychotic memory drugs, have head-rush upside-down sex and eat their babies. Just check out the evidence. Here’s our collection of the scariest, weirdest and most over-the-top fashion pics from the past…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 26

Do the Bill Gates Boogie

Check your watch. Fist pump. Clap. Raise the roof. Release mosquitoes. Fist bop. Wave your lighter. Repeat as necessary. That’s the Bill Gates Boogie. [Guest of a Guest and CrunchGear]

Tech News Mark Wilson Jan 26

McGraw-Hill CEO Confirms Apple Tablet With iPhone-Style OS

Well, this had to happen eventually: someone from an Apple tablet partner—McGraw-Hill’s Harold McGraw III—has confirmed the tablet’s coming tomorrow, that it’ll run an iPhone-style OS, that it’s “terrific”, and that he’ll probably never work with Apple again. MacRumors caught the slip during a CNBC segment, in which the anchor lobs a softball closer question…

Tech News John Herrman Jan 26

Grey-Haired Man Fondly Remembers The Bigtrak, Which Is Relaunching This Year

Most of Gizmodo is comprised of whippersnappers who can only just remember the Bigtrak from the ’80s, so we asked an actual, genuine, grey-haired old man* to tell us his thoughts upon hearing it’s to make a comeback this year. Back in 1980, Bigtrak’s chunky all-terrain monster truck looked like the most exciting toy on…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 26

10 Shows For Marvel To Conquer TV With

As of this month, Marvel Comics belongs to the Walt Disney Corporation, which also owns the ABC television network. So when are we going to see some corporate synergy happening? Here’re 10 Marvel comics we need to see on television. You may remember that we have previously proven through the use of both science and…

Television Graeme McMillan Jan 26

An Idea Whose Time Has Come: The Artificial Eyelid

Have trouble blinking? Your troubles may soon be over. Researchers at the University of California at Davis Medical Center have been working on an artificial eyelid muscle, using research from Palo Alto’s SRI International. Electronic impulses coming from a tiny battery driving an artificial muscle would allow stroke victims and others to restore their blinking.…

io9 Scott Timberg Jan 26

Dell Tech Support Remotely Turns Woman’s Webcam On Without Permission

Dianne Annunziato is accusing a Dell technician of becoming a virtual peeping Tom during a support call by remotely turning on her webcam. “First, the technician started asking me what time of day it was,” she said. When she looked at her screen a minute later, Annunziato said she could see herself in a little…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jan 26

Avatar Sparks New Interest In The Strange Visions That Inspired It

Now that we know Avatar’s floating mountains were based on China’s rugged geography, the Chinese have decided to rename a mountain in Hunan province “Avatar Hallelujah Mountain.” And artists are posting their favorite images by Yes cover artist Roger Dean. The newly dubbed Avatar Hallelujah Mountain is in Wulingyan National Park, already a major tourist…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 26

Name That Syfy Original Movie

You know the Syfy movie formula by now. Scientists and/or knights and/or smart rural sheriffs discover a giant monster/magic item/ancient whatsit. Now you can make your mark on one of these flicks forever by entering Syfy’s “name that movie” contest. Having met several of the producers over at Syfy Channel, I can attest that they…

Movies Annalee Newitz Jan 26

26 Interesting (But Fake) Interfaces for iPhone 4.0

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to design some new interfaces for iPhone 4.0. And you know what? Some of these look pretty damned cool. First Place— Juan Ozuna Second Place—Katrina Laffey Third Place—Torsten Wulff

Tech News Adam Frucci Jan 26

Please Don’t Let Sam Worthington Play A Bad-Ass, Australian-Accented Dracula

God we can see it now: Van Helsing meets Wild Wild West, but with longer hair, vampires and Sam Worthington. Rumor has it the Avatar star is Universal’s pick to play Dracula in their period-piece Dracula: Year Zero. This has “terrible idea” written in blood all over the walls. Universal needs to decide today whether…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 26

New 16GB Nokia X6: Half the Storage, But At What Price?

The 32GB Nokia X6 just got a complementary 16GB counterpart. It lacks the awkwardly named “Comes With Music” feature of its big brother, but keeps the 3.2-inch capacitive screen and is compatible with (newly free) Ovi maps navigation. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-is-nok-nok-nokking-on-tomtoms-door-with-free-turn-5453520 Other specs? Why, of course! The 16GB X6 has pretty sick battery life, with 18 hours…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 26

Atoms Are Not Bits; Wired Is Not A Business Magazine

Chris Anderson has an important message from the future: Did you know you can outsource manufacturing? In the cover story of the latest issue of WIRED, Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson makes a claim that at first, soaked as we are in the “maker” DIY culture of the internet and science fiction, doesn’t seem completely preposterous: “micro-factories”…

Tech News Joel Johnson Jan 26

Oh God, Please Turn Off the Apple Tablet Coverage (Here’s How)

Already sick of hearing about the Apple tablet? Just click here to view Gizmodo, Apple tablet free. Here’s how it works. We tag posts with keywords (see the illustration), so anything you DON’T want to read about, just whip up a URL it like this, sticking in the tag for the thing you don’t want…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jan 26

PLEN Is One Neat Little Android Android

Mathematician Uses SETI Formula To Determine He Has A 0.00034% Chance Of Getting Laid

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: All Tablet’s Eve Edition

What If the iPhone Cheated on AT&T?

Meet Miranda Lawson, a Mysterious, Deadly Operative from Mass Effect 2

Even On a Tablet, iTunes Can’t Compete with Red Vinyl

Scary Card-Playing Clowns, Lady Gaga Monsters, And Saran-Wrap Savages: Has Fashion Gone Insane?

Do the Bill Gates Boogie

McGraw-Hill CEO Confirms Apple Tablet With iPhone-Style OS

Grey-Haired Man Fondly Remembers The Bigtrak, Which Is Relaunching This Year

10 Shows For Marvel To Conquer TV With

An Idea Whose Time Has Come: The Artificial Eyelid

Dell Tech Support Remotely Turns Woman’s Webcam On Without Permission

Avatar Sparks New Interest In The Strange Visions That Inspired It

Name That Syfy Original Movie

26 Interesting (But Fake) Interfaces for iPhone 4.0

Please Don’t Let Sam Worthington Play A Bad-Ass, Australian-Accented Dracula

New 16GB Nokia X6: Half the Storage, But At What Price?

Atoms Are Not Bits; Wired Is Not A Business Magazine

Oh God, Please Turn Off the Apple Tablet Coverage (Here’s How)

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