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Panasonic to Have 37-Inch OLED Panels on Sale By 2011?

Adding to the rumors we brought you a few months ago, the Sankei Shimbun daily newspaper is reporting that Panasonic is planning on having 37-inch OLED screens on sale within three years. And there’s more: they’ll be setting up a production line in the IPS Alpha Technology factory in Chiba Prefecture, intend to overtake their…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 24 '08

Readybot is a Robot Maid for Cleaning Your Stuff, Version 0.1

It’s hard not to watch this video of DIY robot Readybot and think "sweet… what’s the next version like?" Looking like everyone’s favorite trashcan-shaped sci-fi droid has collided with a dishwasher, Readybot’s intended to be a home-assistant ‘bot doing a maid’s job, cleaning your house. It may be slow and primitive now, but it looks…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 24 '08

Nuclear Rocketship (1959)

I take a lot of pride in providing material you can’t find anywhere else on the internet. But there’s an easy way to tell when I’m having a busy week: I steal images from the website Plan59. Still beautiful though, ain’t it? This illustration is by Frank Tinsley from 1959. The image appeared as part…

Tech News Matt Novak Jun 24 '08

This secret underground facility guards all Lego sets ever made

I have to confess that life hasn’t been very good lately. Work around the clock, not enough free time, trying to have kids and crashing badly… all while moving to a country I don’t particularly like, away from my best friends and family. Maybe that’s why visiting Lego’s Memory Lane—the secret vault guarding almost every…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 23 '08

The Breast Motion Power Generator is a Genius Idea

Adrienne So over at Slate has used her natural gifts to come up with the most genius idea yet: an energy-generating bra. Instead of just holding her boobs in place and dispelling that excess kinetic energy into, I don’t know, heat, why not use it to power a gadget? According to a breast specialist, a…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 23 '08

Gay Robot Will Not Be Silenced

If you’re one of those people who somehow missed the internet phenomenon known as The Gay Robot, now is your chance to brush up. Adam Sandler developed the character of a robot who goes gay when the professor who builds him accidentally spills a wine cooler on his creation. After doing a skit about Gay…

Television Annalee Newitz Jun 23 '08

Portable Gaming Solutions Will Cram Your 360 Into a Suitcase for $550

Sometimes it’s nice to just sit and consider exactly why you don’t do so many of the things that you don’t do. (That’s why I don’t tie my nipples to doorknobs! Of course!) This is a useful exercise that the guy behind Portable Gaming Solutions has apparently never tried. As a result, he is offering…

Tech News John Herrman Jun 23 '08

Cillian Murphy Will Be The Last Thing HD DVD Sees Before It Dies

HD DVD was declared dead a long time ago, and the last film to be released to the US on the format will hit (roughly three to five) shelves tomorrow. Disco Pigs was originally released in 2001 and very appropriately stars Cillian Murphy and Elaine Cassidy as friends who were born in the same hospital,…

Tech News John Herrman Jun 23 '08

Doctor Who’s Year (And A Half) Of Hell

I’m a total sucker for the alternate universe, everything goes Sprang! kind of story. I was addicted to Marvel’s What If comics, even the ones with the nonsense titles like What If Civil War?. (What indeed?) So I was pretty much the target audience for the latest Doctor Who episode, and it still exceeded my…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 23 '08

One Step Closer to Tricorders, with Handheld Device that Identifies Life Forms

Using nothing more than a battery-powered device that emits a beam of ultraviolet light, future robotic explorers will be able to identify the building blocks of life on other planets and moons. A group of scientists in the U.S. and the U.K. have developed a small device which uses a low-power laser beam to sweep…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 23 '08

McCain Proposes $300 Million Prize to Develop Next-Gen Battery for Cars, Cybernetic Cryo-Suits

It’s well known that the biggest bump in the road to developing an awesome all-electric car is the battery. The only ones juicy enough are a) big b) expensive and c) not so durable. Not easy. But science is no match for the American spirit! If elected, John McCain is promising $300 million to whoever…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 23 '08

Spaniards Take the Movie Office Space Very Seriously

Destruction therapy has been around for a while now, but is only just starting to hit its stride. On June 21st, a large group of variously frustrated individuals converged on Castejon, Spain to launch the town fiestas with the coordinated destruction of an entire field of appliances and cars. Mainstream medicine has yet to recognize…

Tech News John Herrman Jun 23 '08

Our Future Galactic Overlords Glow Red With Power Lust

Do you notice anything funny about this picture of NGC 6946, the “Fireworks Galaxy”? Like that lurid wealth of red splotches, for example? The bright red areas represent regions in the galaxy that are actively forming new stars, and there do seem to be an awful lot of them. Could we be facing a star-formation…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 23 '08

Radioactive Sperm From Space Somehow Not Funny After All

The new Disaster Movie poster and trailer make us wish the world actually was ending before this film’s release date. Spoofing Iron Man by dropping a cow on him? Zing. We guess. Though I will give them one tiny grain of credit for making fun of the Hulk and his magic shorts. Click through to…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 23 '08

22-Year-Old Set To Sail The Mississippi On a Boat Made From Juice Cartons

A 22-year-old British adventurer by the name of Rhys Jones may have made a name for himself as the youngest person to climb the world’s seven highest summits, but he may end up being known as the youngest lunatic to ever drown in a juice-carton boat on the Mississippi if his plans for this weekend…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jun 23 '08

EFiX Instant, No-Mess Hackintosh USB Dongle Details Emerge

EFix has updated their site with some more details on its voodoo USB dongle that’ll supposedly boot, install and run OS X “unmodified,” straight from the DVD on any PC (Intel processors only though). Among the freshly listed goods are “official Apple Updates,” an interactive system boot selector and power management features. https://gizmodo.com/efix-usb-dongle-will-boot-and-install-os-x-on-any-pc-s-5016227 Under the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 23 '08

Bill Gates Retirement Party

The time has come. On June 27th, Bill Gates will stop commuting to Microsoft’s Redmond campus on a daily basis, and begin full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. You probably know that for Bill, retirement doesn’t mean what it meant for your dear old granddad. He will still visit his Redmond office…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Jun 23 '08

The Sharper Image Lives, Says “There’s Something Big Coming”: What Is It?

The Sharper Image is supposed to be dead. No more overpriced Ionic Breezes or contraptions that simultaneously polishes your shoes and balls to a luxurious, silky shine. Dead. Yet it’s alive. Their site is up with a mysterious new message: “SORRY TO KEEP YOU IN THE DARK. BUT THERE’S SOMETHING BIG COMING. SOON.” Dear readers,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 23 '08

Treo 800W Heading to Sprint on July 13th for $600

We already know plenty about the upcoming WM 6.1 powered Treo 800W, but if a leak obtained by Phone Arena is correct, the device will be available to corporate customers starting on July 9th, with the general public following four days later. It will also be priced at $599 without commitments. [Phone Arena via Electronista]…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jun 23 '08

Eric Stoltz Will Implant The Memories Of Dead People Into Your Brain

New scifi thriller Blank Slate delves into the minds of the undead. The TNT miniseries follows a team of FBI agents as they attempt to solve crimes by putting the memories of the deceased into the minds of the living. Actress Lisa Brenner (The Pledge) plays Anne, a young woman with amnesia who works with…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 23 '08

Panasonic to Have 37-Inch OLED Panels on Sale By 2011?

Readybot is a Robot Maid for Cleaning Your Stuff, Version 0.1

Nuclear Rocketship (1959)

This secret underground facility guards all Lego sets ever made

The Breast Motion Power Generator is a Genius Idea

Gay Robot Will Not Be Silenced

Portable Gaming Solutions Will Cram Your 360 Into a Suitcase for $550

Cillian Murphy Will Be The Last Thing HD DVD Sees Before It Dies

Doctor Who’s Year (And A Half) Of Hell

One Step Closer to Tricorders, with Handheld Device that Identifies Life Forms

McCain Proposes $300 Million Prize to Develop Next-Gen Battery for Cars, Cybernetic Cryo-Suits

Spaniards Take the Movie Office Space Very Seriously

Our Future Galactic Overlords Glow Red With Power Lust

Radioactive Sperm From Space Somehow Not Funny After All

22-Year-Old Set To Sail The Mississippi On a Boat Made From Juice Cartons

EFiX Instant, No-Mess Hackintosh USB Dongle Details Emerge

Bill Gates Retirement Party

The Sharper Image Lives, Says “There’s Something Big Coming”: What Is It?

Treo 800W Heading to Sprint on July 13th for $600

Eric Stoltz Will Implant The Memories Of Dead People Into Your Brain

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