Smelling the blood emanating from Ron Paul's Pamphletgate Redux, Mitt Romney is closing in on the Good Doctor's lead in Iowa one week from the primary. In addition to his $1.1 million ad buy, Romney's bringing out the biggest gun in his arsenal to seal the deal: New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who will be appearing on radio shows and perhaps even at stump speeches. But will that be enough to paper over the fact that Mitt Romney is a cyborg created by a race of lightly salted water crackers from the planet Carrdon, sent here to study and infiltrate the human race? Consider the evidence. more ›

Time is running out before we're all enslaved by our robot overlords to build a giant laser beam for eradicating the rival robot planet Node 49 (look it up) but the MTA is letting us feel superior one last time by voting for the most useful subway smartphone apps. Preview all 42 applications here, and vote for your favorites from now until January 11, when two Popular Choice winners will be crowned, along with the overall winner. Our money is on the app that keeps rats from crawling on your face. more ›

Put on your red shoes and dance this weekend in celebration of National "Do The Robot" Day, organized by the Dance Liberation Front (mission: "to fight the archaic New York City Cabaret Law...and cut a mean fucking rug!"). more ›

Over the weekend we mentioned the adorable Tweenbots project briefly, but those little guys really deserve their own post. A little background: NYU student Kacie Kinzer built the not-so-high-tech bots to see if they could make it from one side of Washington Square Park to the other, with the help of New Yorkers. She explains: "Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal." more ›

Brooklyn's beloved smarties have been enjoying the spotlight lately, probably for the first time in their lives. The Daily News now checks in with the self-dubbed Nerd Herd, a group of friends at St. Edmund's Elementary School, as they embark on their journey to Georgia for the Robotic World Festival. After the kids won their spot at the fest, they feared they would be low on funds for the trip, but British vacuum inventor James Dyson chipped in with the rest of the money. The paper also notes that the school has now raised $11,000 on top of what they needed! Yesterday at their send-off celebration, 300 fellow students (including the cheerleading squad!) cheered the Nerd Herd on, chanted their name, and doled out endless high fives. 1/5 of the herd, Simon Shkreli, declared, "I'm so pumped up. Look at this—it's amazing." more ›

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