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Wanna Know What Apple Employees Are Eating?

Pull up Safari on your iDevice, punch in menu.apple.com, and you’ll get a beautiful web app explaining what’s cooking at the Caffè Macs at five different Apple campuses. Tonight at Infinite Loop: grilled snapper and pork carnitas, plus vegetarian pizza for the Jobs wannabes. [Thanks Tom!]

Tech News Wilson Rothman May 27

Our Favorite Lifehacker Posts of the Week

This week Lifehacker makes us hungry with steaks, shows us which movies have stuff after the credits, and tell us the best ways to grill those steaks. • Separate your data partition from your Windows partition. That way, when you have to reinstall Windows, you’ll keep your data intact. • MovieStinger tells you which movies…

Tech News Jason Chen May 27

Don’t Just Save A Baby, Save Six with the BabyScatt Evacuation Device

Intended for nurseries, hospitals and Angelina Jolie, the BabyScatt Evacuation Device is a cart that can safely hold six infants or four toddlers in case of an emergency. Metal bars surrounding all sides of the cart work to protect the babies as one adult maneuvers them down stairs, over rough terrain and out of harm’s…

Tech News Andi Wang May 27

Hand In Hand Clock Would Need Plenty of Wall Space

The Hand In Hand clock is a fully functional software creation, where the minute hand rotates on the end of the hour hand, and the second hand rotates on the end of the minute hand. It’s hard to read at first, but soon makes sense. The catch? If my careful calculations are correct, the thing…

Tech News Wilson Rothman May 27

Next-Generation iPhone 3G Parts Revealed by Chinese Wholesaler?

Wholesaler China Ontrade.com has posted parts from the next-generation iPhone 3G 2009: The LCD screen and the middle internal bezel. They even have pictures comparing the new parts to the old ones: The wholesaler says the following in their site: This is great honor for China Ontrade (HK) chinaontrade.com to be the 1st started to…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 27

Plastic Logic E Book Reader Video Tour and Hands On

Plastic Logic’s device is big, over 10 inches across the screen and 7mm thin. It’s touchscreen driven. What’s surprising is that they’ll have a store, 3G/WiFi and are coming out in Jan 2010. https://gizmodo.com/plastic-logics-e-reader-shown-on-video-more-details-em-5048316 The prototype I saw was definitely nice, but also sluggish to refresh its screen. (They have time to improve it as…

Tech News Brian Lam May 27

Zombie Mermaids Are The New Cyborg Unicorns

The brilliant Japanese wrestling movie Oh! My Zombie Mermaid is finally coming to the West in July, raising all kinds of intriguing questions that aren’t answered in the most bizarre way possible in the trailer. According to Nippon Cinema: Kouta (Shinya Hashimoto), the leader of a pro-wrestling organization called “Zero”, is planning an over-the-top housewarming…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 27

First Photographs Taken With a Palm Pre

Here is one of the first photos ever taken by a Palm Pre: a blonde coed riding a stallion. A coin-operated one. Zooming in, I’m not impressed. And the photo quality is not that good either. But there is a lot more. The 1520 x 2032 pixel image looks very videoish, just like the iPhone.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 27

Windows 7 Touch Pack Multitouch Apps Let You Fondle the Globe or Play Death Pong

Microsoft’s expanding Windows 7’s multitouch powers with the Touch Pack for Windows 7, a pretty sweet collection of multitouch apps. Three are Surface apps, like the Virtual Earth 3D Surface Globe (guess what it does?) and Surface Collage. The other three are awesome-looking games. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-surface-confirmed-touch-sensitive-10k-min-264338 The Touch Pack only works with multitouch Windows 7 PCs,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 27

Google Expects 18 Android Phones This Year: All the Flavors Explained

Google/Android’s Andy Rubin said at the Google I/O conference that Google expects 18-20 Android phones this year from 8 or 9 manufacturers—and those are just the devices they know about. But it’s gonna be slower going in the States because of the custom Android builds that carriers want. https://gizmodo.com/google-android-2-0-donut-has-universal-search-and-text-5271590 (The custom builds frighten us, on…

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 27

Elm Street Looks For “Special” Ladies For A “Special” Scene (Special Means Naked)

Ah it’s good to see that those who are rebooting the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise are staying in its classic horror genre wheelhouse, looking for naked ladies to fill up a “tasteful” pool party scene. Fleshbot has the goods on the casting call from the reboot stating: Joan Philo casting is searching for a…

io9 Meredith Woerner May 27

Cool.con Reflexology Remote Massages Your Hand While You Channel Surf

This spiny little contraption has the unique ability to simultaneously control your TV and your chronic kidney, uterus or testicle-related ailments. This is truly a magical medical breakthrough product. The Cool.con universal remote employs reflexology to stimulate pressure points on the hand that are said to correspond to various areas of the body to promote…

Health Sean Fallon May 27

DVD Store Seeks To Have Delinquent Customers Arrested For Theft

A locally owned DVD store named Video Hits in Wylie Texas has successfully sought to heavily fine and/or arrest customers that are delinquent in their returns. According to the Video Hits rental agreement, if a movie is not returned within seven days of the due date, the customer will be charged the full retail price…

Tech News Sean Fallon May 27

We’re Giving Away a Kindle

To enter, answer these questions and email [email protected] the last question. One of you gets a pre-ordered Kindle DX. Yes, that’s the big one. Standard Rules Apply

io9 Chrissie Lamond May 27

Rape-Free Cellphones

There’s a rare material used in cellphones that is mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The material, columbite tantalite, is mined by workers under inhumane conditions, including rape. Now, activists are calling for phones to be “rape-free.” [AllThingsD]

Tech News Brian Lam May 27

Fracking Is Destroying the Earth – And Not in the Fun Way

Apparently the word “fracking” isn’t just a Battlestar Galactica curse that means sexytime. It’s also a term that comes from mining, and refers to an unregulated (in the US) practice of pumping chemical-laced liquids underground at high pressure to help bring gasses to the surface. Sounds scary. Apparently people living in the vicinity of frack…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 27

Woz Says Jobs “Doesn’t Sound Like He’s Sick”

Steve Wozniak recently talked to his ole buddy and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, apparently on the phone. Woz told reporters that though he didn’t ask specifically about Jobs’ condition, Jobs sounded “healthy, energetic”—not sick. That’s good news, as Jobs’ scheduled return to Apple is imminent. [WSJ]

Tech News Wilson Rothman May 27

Google Ion Android Phone Already on eBay

Those Google I/O Conference attendees apparently went straight home and placed the Google Ion phones directly on eBay. It makes no real difference to Google, since they spent their money on these already. [eBay -Thanks Zain!]

Tech News Jason Chen May 27

Nokia’s CEO: Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo at All Things D

“Nokia has about 35-40% of the total phone market. 1.1 billion users…I would have said that Motorola was our number one competitor a few years ago. Now, RIM, Microsoft, Apple.” Walt says, “Software is a crucial element in hand held computers. How are you going to deal with this?” Olli spoke for awhile, about Symbian…

Tech News Brian Lam May 27

Terminator Salvation ‘Wacky Wobbler Bobble-Head’ Officially Kills the Franchise

Terminator Salvation is a terrible movie, one rightfully beaten at the box office by a Ben Stiller kids movie. And now you can remember it forever with this T-600 bobblehead. Never again will you see Terminators as terrifying. Thanks, McG! [Entertainment Earth via Technabob]

Movies Adam Frucci May 27

Wanna Know What Apple Employees Are Eating?

Our Favorite Lifehacker Posts of the Week

Don’t Just Save A Baby, Save Six with the BabyScatt Evacuation Device

Hand In Hand Clock Would Need Plenty of Wall Space

Next-Generation iPhone 3G Parts Revealed by Chinese Wholesaler?

Plastic Logic E Book Reader Video Tour and Hands On

Zombie Mermaids Are The New Cyborg Unicorns

First Photographs Taken With a Palm Pre

Windows 7 Touch Pack Multitouch Apps Let You Fondle the Globe or Play Death Pong

Google Expects 18 Android Phones This Year: All the Flavors Explained

Elm Street Looks For “Special” Ladies For A “Special” Scene (Special Means Naked)

Cool.con Reflexology Remote Massages Your Hand While You Channel Surf

DVD Store Seeks To Have Delinquent Customers Arrested For Theft

We’re Giving Away a Kindle

Rape-Free Cellphones

Fracking Is Destroying the Earth – And Not in the Fun Way

Woz Says Jobs “Doesn’t Sound Like He’s Sick”

Google Ion Android Phone Already on eBay

Nokia’s CEO: Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo at All Things D

Terminator Salvation ‘Wacky Wobbler Bobble-Head’ Officially Kills the Franchise

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