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Welcome back to the Toy Aisle , io9 ’s fresh weekly collection of the best toys around . This week , we ’ve get cosmic Marvel monopoly , adorable Power Rangers toys for toddlers , a gorgeous Blade Runner collectible , and more Star Wars goodness than you could escape from a doubled - bladed lightsaber at . Hot Toys Death Star Gunner Hot Toys is back with more Star Wars figures , and this time , they ’re desperate to put out as many faceless , helmeted minions as they can ....

technical school - Report roundup of LCD monitors from Hercules , KDS , Philips , Samsung , and Solarism . Their pick for the best of the crew is the Samsung 152 T ( pictured at right ) , which is the same one that Tom ’s Hardware Guide pick in theirroundupof LCD displays last week . ReadAmazon – Samsung 152T[ViaSlashdot ] Daily Newsletter Get the good tech , science , and culture news in your inbox daily ....

In monastic order to monitor his kid ’s former linguistic process evolution , investigator Deb Roy has wired his planetary house with 11 cameras and 14 microphones . The sister will be supervise for 14 hours per day in rescript to watch his development over time . Roy and his married woman can erase recording or turn off the cameras if they require to get intimate or cuss each other out , but at the closing of the day the video is sent to MIT for computerized processing ....

On November 19 , the California Public Utilities Commission ( CPUC ) announced it would now allow autonomous taxi companies to charge for their services across the Department of State . California already had the most stringent rule in the country for AV wheeler dealer , and the newly created Drivered Autonomous Vehicle Deployment Program and the Driverless Autonomous Vehicle Deployment Program will require more paperwork from these companies if they require to operate in whatever cities they require — but you could herald your own driverless taxi in Los Angeles and coast down Hollywood Blvd ....

Courtesy of DC Comics , here ’s an exclusive first flavor at next week ’s take of Superman , which watch the Man of Steel squaring off against an inaccessible opponent . This issue hits stands Wednesday , June 27 — here ’s the synopsis : SUPERMAN # 10 SUPERMAN ’S new foeman – the one that ca n’t be touched – has found a manner hurt both The Man of Steel AND Clark Kent !...

It ’s like someone really thought the grownup - sized vehicle in Wall - E were a good idea . gratefully , like with most things on Yanko Design , this single child confinement torture - gadget is just a concept , but it ’s also a scary brainwave into someone ’s nous . That someone being fashion designer Pouyan Mokhtarani , whose baby buggy contains a LED screen so you may gurgle and tattle aside at your sister from a length , lest you pick up diseases from it , and the melodic line purification unit ensures your baby breathes nothing but the cleanest oxygen ....

Astronomers fromOhio State Universityhave reckon the odds that a supernova occurring within our galaxy will be visible from Earth sometime within the next 50 years . The odds are nearly 100 percent that such a supernova would be visible to telescopes , in the form of infrared radiation . However , the odds plunge to 20 pct or less that the supernova would be seeable to the naked eye in the Nox sky ....

Taking a cue from the Batmobile , some peculiarly fast - to - the - shot firefighters ( or just some crazy gearheads ) have stuck a 27 - foot Russian MiiG fighter jet engine into a firetruck . To accomplish this effort , the ( water and gas ? ) tanks had to be all removed . So yeah , ironically the firetruck may get to a scene faster , but at the cost of receive no way to fight the fire ....

Artificial intelligence ( AI ) has been used to key a handful of " Nazca Line " geoglyphs that were carved in the deserts of southern Peru thousand of days ago . The assemblage of stupendous ancient carvings – pictured below – portray a duo of leg measuring 78 meters ( 256 infantry ) in size , a fish measure 19 meter ( 62 foot ) , and a 17 - time ( 56 - groundwork ) bird ....

Today ’s other mental_floss blog column , the delightfulTuesday Turnip , inspired this honey oil - lagged and sleep - deprive entry . You get laid the estimation : type a tidings into a hunting engine and see what " turns up . " Well , as you might expect , this conduct to some rather strange outcome in YouTube Land . citizenry be nuts , like Almond Joy . ( That was my attempt to write a doorknocker - corresponding simile ....

miserable Adobe . Along with everyonepre - eulogise Flash , the only other holding of theirs you could name — Photoshop — is in danger . rational prop danger . What Adobe ’s been apprehensive about for years is “ genericization , ” which is when the brand name becomes a equivalent word for a product . Which is how the Bayer - trademarked “ St. Joseph ” took over for the real name for the drug , “ acetylsalicylic acid ....

When you buy through links on our web site , we may pull in an affiliate direction . Here ’s how it shape . The universe is permeated by a Brobdingnagian , invisible web , its tendrils weaving through blank space . But despite unionise the thing we see in space , this benighted web is inconspicuous . That ’s because it is made up ofdark matter , which exerts a gravitational pull but emits no light ....

Watch this video — and then watch it again . Take some notes , too . The video demonstrate you how one guy managed to enamour and seduce a girl on the Internet over the course of one very over the top Chatroulette session . Yes , I pronounce seduce . Because even though they might be international nautical mile apart in the clip , we can all envisage what would fall out if that giggling girl ever met this mystic singing stranger in person — take that this is really just a random meeting and that the girl is n’t the guy ’s baby or something , of course ....