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Phones

We Get It, The Phone Is Clear. That Doesn’t Make It A Fish Tank.

3:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Remember how Disco Stu has those shoes with a clear platform that he bought with fish in them? And then they died, and he couldn’t get them out? Imagine that, but with the clear LG Crystal phone, and, um…for real. More »
Robots

Hacked Big Mouth Billy Bass Fish Also Tweets

8:40AM Joanna Stern | Just when I thought that singing Big Mouth Billy Bass fish couldn’t get more annoying some guy hacks it to say Twitter updates. An ARM microcontroller was implanted in his head so that he now can read tweets. More »
Science

Inside A Fish Hospital. Yes, A Fish Hospital

2:20AM Adam Frucci | Patit Paban Halder runs a hospital solely for fish in Chandannagore, India. Basically, he has 32 aquariums in his home, and he treats ailing fish with his wife and son. More »
Science

MacGyver Chef: Dishwasher-Steamed Salmon With Cilantro Sauce

10:00AM Dan Nosowitz | This second MacGyver Chef recipe, fish in a dishwasher, is a true classic, yet I had no great luck. I tried on two machines, and though edible, the resulting dish was either sashimi or cat food. More »
Robots

Robot Fish: Because Android Children Deserve Unsatisfying Pets Too

11:40AM John Herrman | So it’s not expressly intended to provide baby Asimos with unfulfilling relationships, but that would be adorable, no? In reality, it fancies itself an industrial tool, for monitoring “pipelines, sunken ships, and pollution”. Where’s your whimsy, robofish? More »
Science

Dolphin Translator Is Sure to Uncover Valuable Insight On Fish

2:45PM Dan Nosowitz | A British scientist is working on a device to represent dolphin communication as a sort of hieroglyph, but we can save him the suspense: They’re just thanking us for all the fish. More »
Robots

Robotic Carp Unleashed Into the Sea to Sniff Out Pollution

5:30PM Elaine Chow | Those crazy looking robotic carp now have a job-a whole school of them are going to be released into the sea off northern Spain to help detect hazardous pollutants in the water. More »
Phones

Fish-Devoured Phone Still Works After Retrieval by Fishermen

7:00AM Adam Frucci | Andrew Cheatle was hanging out on a boat when he dropped his phone in the water. He thought it was gone for good, but a week later, his old phone called his girlfriend. More »
Design

Duplex Bird Cage/Fish Tank Blows Your Pets’ Tiny Minds

4:10AM Wilson Rothman | People who have birds and fish probably set the cage near the tank, but the Duplex stacks the two—cage on bottom, tank on top—in a genius move that everyone except the pets themselves will enjoy. More »
Random Stuff

The Sashimi Tabernacle Choir, aka the Fish Volvo, aka The Most Annoying Thing Ever

7:00AM Sean Fallon | Meet crazy inventor Richard Carter. Where most people look at singing novelty fish and say “get that damn thing away from me,” Carter saw something magnificent—and the Sashimi Tabernacle Choir was born. More »