Posted 07.16.2010 at 5:28 pm
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This Week in the Future, July 12-16
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This week, the iPhone -- preloaded with gay mice, nuclear waste, and killer robots -- flies too close to the sun.
Welcome to the future.
This week in the future on PopSci:
- Testing the Goods: iPhone 4, or Apple's Icarus Moment
- Boeing's Corpulent Hydrogen-Powered Spy Plane Will Fly at 65,000 Feet For Four Days
- MIT's New Multifunctional Fibers Combine Piezoelectric Sensitivity with Heat and Light Sensing
- After 3 Years of Data Crunching, NASA and Microsoft Release Stunning New Interactive Mars Tour
- Seven Big-Thinking Proposals For Dealing With Nuclear Waste
- South Korea Deploys Deadly Sentry Bots to Keep Watchful Eyes, Serious Weapons Trained on the Demilitarized Zone
- Running Short on Fuel, Europeans Turn to Smoke-Detector Tech for Deep-Space Power
- Has The "Gay Gene" Been Found in Female Mice?
Leave a comment (any comment) to put your name in the pile; we'll randomly choose and announce our winner right here. And, if you just can't wait that long, you can buy the shirt for yourself here. Good luck!
Until next time, enjoy our past weekly illustrated roundups here.
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kinda hard to see the apps.
iPods don't go to heaven.
EARTH!
Here, free t-shirt.
This is without a doubt the best one yet! Iphone Icarus all the way!
Definitely one of the best T-Shirts yet! (The other one being the Tased sheep-eating robots one)
Also, first comment since I ''triggered the spam filter'' and had to change account. I really don't like this one, Popsci.
It looks Like iPhone is mad at the sun and is going into liquid mode!
And sao517: that is an iPhone not an iPod k thanks.
I just now registered at Popsci, so enthralling was the image of a melting iphone!
This phone seems to definitley be, and I quote, a "Bad Apple," if you"ll pardon the pun.
Please pick me Popsci.. ill love you forever :]
Very *APP*licable!
oh-oh-oh! ME-ME-ME!
nice. how do you now who they picked to win it?
you have to buy an iphone to know
Daedalus is so much better than Icarus is. Just throwing that out there.
*dramtic conclusion music*
bum Bum BUUUUUUUUUM
best shirt yet.
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
I want it!
I want it!
I want it!
I want it!
I want it!
Very nice shirt
OMG BFF Best shirt ever! LOL
These shirts are getting better and better!
Awesome!
Gay mice? Wait, hold that thought. Here come the protesters.
this is a cool one, i want it!
More tee-shirt awesomeness by Popsci! There are so many fashion styles when this shirt would be a winner! I just hope that I am as well.
I would like this.
I would like to wear that in an apple store. pick meh!
want it!
Up to this point my chances of winnin are 1 in 35... The odds look good.
Nice design. I would like this shirt.
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is the iphone made of butter?