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When You’re Convinced Your Loved Ones Are Imposters

You’re looking at a woman who resembles your mother. She moves and talks like your mother, and she’s even dressed the same as your mother. In fact, she is your mother. But you’re absolutely certain that she’s an imposter. This is the experience of someone suffering from a Capgras delusion, a rare medical disorder in…

Health Kyle VanHemert

TV and Internet Are Turning Teenagers Into Loners

A new study found a direct link between the time teenagers spent staring at screens and their inability to have meaningful relationships with their parents and peers. This study obviously was conducted before that Russian kid blessed us with Chatroulette. You’ve likely been at one end of this debate—either you were a teenage TV zombie…

Health Kyle VanHemert

Futuristic And Genetically-Engineered Families That Already Exist

We all know that IVF and other innovations can help infertile couples have children. But can science also help family structures emerge that have never existed before, like kids with three parents? It already has. Here are four examples. On the TV series Caprica, the pagan culture on an alien planet produces very unusual families.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Research Shows Two Gay Parents Are Better Than A Single Straight One

Anti-gay marriage activists have argued vigorously that children need a mother and father. Now a new research study shows that kids do need two parents — but that gender doesn’t matter. The research, which also speaks to the issue of gay adoption, is summarized in the lead article of the new Journal of Marriage and…

io9 Scott Timberg

Combo Gifts For People With Birthdays Near The Holidays

If only their parents had waited until summer to conceive! Still, they can’t change their birth date, but you can most definitely ensure they get the best two presents for their bi-celebration this December. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as much as they hate being Sagittarians, click here. https://gizmodo.com/combo-gifts-for-people-with-birthdays-near-the-holidays-5422548 ION USB portable turntable…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Japan Gadget Gifts for the Geek Who Wishes He Was Lost in Translation

Japan is a land of gadgets that are both marvelous and mystifying. If you can’t go to the home of weird gadgets, why not bring some of the weird gadgets home to you? Here is a list of Japanese gadget gifts that will give you culture shock worse than Bill Murray in a Tokyo karaoke…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Geek Gifts For Weird Relatives You Have To Buy Gifts For But Don’t Want To

Ah, weird relatives. The ones whose existence we ignore until there’s the realization that we’re obligated to get them some kind of gift. Here are a few safe ideas that are reasonable on cost and extra low on effort. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as much as the you hate your relatives, click…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Send Us Your Thanksgiving Tech Support Horror Stories

Happy Thanksgiving! If your holiday celebrations are anything like mine, they involve coming home to a large number of old people confused about how to use their tech gear, treating you like an actually competent member of the Geek Squad. Do you have any Thanksgiving tech support horror stories? Shoot them to me in email…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

The Expendables Trailer Looks Incredibly Silly, Explosion-y…Microsoft’s Nathan Myhrvold Wants to Dim the Sun With Sulfur Dioxide…Plants Know and Work With Relatives, Unlike Some People…Luxury Wine Vending Machine for Less-Wealthy Oenophiles… The Expendables is a kind of supergroup action movie, starring Sly Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Bruce…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

An Evil Steve Jobs Lords Over Robert Rodriguez’s “Shorts”

In seven new clips from Robert Rodriguez‘s family comedy Shorts, we see the chaos a wish-granting rock can bring: booger monsters, cognitively ascended infants, and super-strong miniature aliens. But they’re no match for James Spader as an evil Steve Jobs. In the first clip, we see Spader as Mr. Black motivating (and periodically firing) the…

io9 Lauren Davis

On Average, Children Get Cellphones at Age 8

According to a recent study by the charity Personal Finance Education Group, the average child gets a cellphone when they’re 8-years-old. To look at the stat differently, 35% of 8-year-olds have a mobile phone (obviously this stat is not applicable to the entire world, as we see in this heartbreakingly adorable shot). So is this…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Science Fiction’s Most Dysfunctional Families

As Thanksgiving approaches, families around the US are gathering to give thanks, eat food, and annoy the hell out of one another. When your family starts arguing about your uncle’s drinking, your sister’s convict boyfriend, or your cousin’s decision to drop out of college, be glad that you don’t have to contend with killer robots,…

io9 Lauren Davis

IBM Played the Sappy Family Guilt Card In Bid to Keep Papermaster

The legal snafu regarding former IBM employee Mark Papermaster’s departure for Apple took a hard right toward Lifetime TV town this week after some new information shed light on just how far IBM went to keep him on the payroll. Imploring Papermaster to remain in the Big Blue camp, an unnamed exec asked the new…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Science Fiction’s Most Surprising Family Ties

On last week’s Heroes premiere, one character learned the shocking truth about his parentage. And he’s hardly the first. When scifi’s heroes and villains start shaking the family tree, a few unexpected branches are sure to tumble down. We collected some of science fiction’s greatest genealogical curveballs. Be prepared for familial spoilers below.Kyle Reese is…

io9 Lauren Davis

T-Mobile’s Unlimited Family Plan Lets Families Annoy Each Other Unlimitedly

T-Mobile’s better-than-average rate plans continue with their new unlimited family plans, which costs $99 for the first line, and $49 for each additional plan after. You get up to four extra lines, but each line has unlimited calling, roaming, SMS, MMS and IMing. The more lines you get, the more cost effective each one becomes,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Personalized Rubik’s Cube: Family Photos + Arcane Game = Fun?

Who hasn’t wasted hours of their life trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube? An online service is now offering to put any picture (I see no rules against racy photos) on a Rubik’s Cube for your enjoyment. The pictures need to be at least 300 dpi in size with a recommended resolution of 900×1500 pixels.…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon

Homebot

The Internet Renaissance robot, or ITR, is the world’s first humanoid robot to be “integrated” into the family thanks to its unique communications systems. This little fella connects to a dedicated server via the Internet and downloads content which it presents to the user with its voice and movements. With an addon adaptor, the Wi-Fi…

Tech News Johnb

When You’re Convinced Your Loved Ones Are Imposters

TV and Internet Are Turning Teenagers Into Loners

Futuristic And Genetically-Engineered Families That Already Exist

Research Shows Two Gay Parents Are Better Than A Single Straight One

Combo Gifts For People With Birthdays Near The Holidays

Japan Gadget Gifts for the Geek Who Wishes He Was Lost in Translation

Geek Gifts For Weird Relatives You Have To Buy Gifts For But Don’t Want To

Send Us Your Thanksgiving Tech Support Horror Stories

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

An Evil Steve Jobs Lords Over Robert Rodriguez’s “Shorts”

On Average, Children Get Cellphones at Age 8

Science Fiction’s Most Dysfunctional Families

IBM Played the Sappy Family Guilt Card In Bid to Keep Papermaster

Science Fiction’s Most Surprising Family Ties

T-Mobile’s Unlimited Family Plan Lets Families Annoy Each Other Unlimitedly

Personalized Rubik’s Cube: Family Photos + Arcane Game = Fun?

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