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Snow Leopard’s 35 New Desktop Pictures Feature Nature, Fine Art and… Graffiti?

Here are the 35 new desktop images Snow Leopard is shipping with next month, as found by CreativeBits. There are the expected plants and nature images, but there’s also new fine art and graffiti shots. Graffiti? There’s definitely some new/different stuff here, such as the photos of an actual Snow Leopard, high-res scans of famous…

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There’s Nothing Dangerous About a Fireplace in a Chest

If you’re stuck in a home without a built-in fireplace, you can now buy a $5,400 chest that opens up to reveal a self-contained fireplace. If you manage to not burn your place down, it’ll be a great substitute. The “Mall Fire” by Atria is a fire trunk that uses bio ethanol to create flames…

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Gross Virtual Girlfriend App Is One-Upped by its Gross Fox News Coverage

Click to viewWhen you combine two horrible things, you get something even worse. Proof: Fox News covering some skeezy Japanese virtual girlfriend iPhone App. “If she talks back, just put her in your pocket,” indeed. [The Awl]

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What Is This?

Seriously, what is this? I have no fucking idea. [Dezeen]

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Montreal’s New LED Wall Reacts to Passerby

This new LED installation in Montreal reacts to the movements of passerby in a really cool way. It features 35,000 LEDs and is permanently installed on Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest. Check it out from 7-11pm every night. [Urban Prankster]

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Meh: Epic Water Slide Video Is Fake and Promoting Microsoft Office

Click to viewRemember that insane water slide jump video? Unsurprisingly, it was a fake viral video. Surprisingly, it was made to promote…Microsoft Office? https://gizmodo.com/seriously-incredible-water-slide-jump-please-be-real-5330885 The site is still in German, but now it’s covered in Microsoft Office Project 2007 branding. I don’t get it as I don’t speak German, but I can only imagine how…

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Apple Yanks Sex Offender Locator From App Store to the Relief of Perverts Everywhere

Remember the Sex Offender Locator in the App Store? Because America kind of sucks sometimes, it was one of Apple’s top 10 paid apps for a while. Until Apple yanked it, that is. https://gizmodo.com/offender-locator-tracks-sex-offenders-on-your-iphone-5325395 The makers are apparently planning on suing Apple over this, but I don’t think they have a leg to stand on:…

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12 Years Ago Today, Bill Gates Showed Up at a Stevenote

Remember this? When Steve Jobs had Bill Gates appear like the Wizard of Oz in a MacWorld keynote? Bill appeared to assure the world that Microsoft was going to keep developing Office for the Mac. It happened back on August 6, 1997. The video is pretty amazing to watch when we’ve got more recent and…

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Death Star Costume Doesn’t Take Into Account The Use of Arms

“That’s no moon… that’s a guy standing by himself in the corner at a party.” [HolyTaco via Make]

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WildCharge PowerDisc Lets You Charge Wirelessly With an Extra Wire

How do you know that wireless charging isn’t quite ready for primetime yet? When you need to plug something into your gadget in order to get it to charge “wirelessly.” The WildCharge PowerDisc plugs into a gadget that doesn’t have a WildCharge “skin” available for it and lets it charge without plugging it into the…

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Seriously Incredible Water Slide Jump: Please Be Real

Click to viewThis video shows a crazy man launching himself off an epically-large water slide and landing perfectly in a kiddie pool very far away from it. Is it fake? I suspect so, but I really want it to be real. The site that explains the stunt is all in German, save one vague video…

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iPhone Gets Live Streaming TV in Japan

Watching live TV on your phone is something that everyone does in Japan, unlike America, so naturally they want to be able to do it on their iPhones. This USB antenna lets them do just that. The SEG Clip works by plugging into your laptop’s USB port and then broadcasting TV to your iPhone via…

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Cassette Nano Case Is Absolutely Wonderful

These 45 Nano Cases are made from gutted cassette tapes and fit 4th gen iPod nanos. They’re pretty much perfect; I want an iPod Nano just so I can get one of these. So awesome. [Contexture via HolyCool via TDW]

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iPhone Steering Wheel, For Those With a Singular Focus

Hey, it worked for the Wii, so why not the iPhone? CTA Digital is now selling a rubber steering wheel to stick your iPhone into to make driving games more "realistic." I’m sure it does improve the control, but how do you touch the screen if you need to brake or hit a nitro booster?…

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Sanyo’s Fate Rests In the Hands of One Man and a Rebate Form

The Onion delivers again, this time reporting on how badly Sanyo doesn’t want a guy to mail in the rebate that came with his cordless phone. Executives at Sanyo-which employs more than 85,000 people worldwide-said they were initially overjoyed that someone had actually purchased one of their products. The celebration was short-lived, however, as it…

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23 New Gadgets That Would Make Summer Even More Fun

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to design some summer gadgets that we’ve never seen before. And they all make me want to go outside. First Place—Thai Bui Second Place—Manu Raivio Third Place—Daniel M.

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Spaceball: Like Basketball, but More Expensive and Ridiculous

Spaceball is a sport that combines volleyball, basketball, jumping a lot and spending $700 on a fancy trampoline. It’s apparently a great workout for potential astronauts, too. You play the game by trying to throw the ball past your opponent through a netted hole while you both jump around. It certainly looks fun, at least…

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Homemade Nuka-Cola Machine Makes You Feel Like You’re In the Wasteland

Some enterprising gamers took an old vending machine and turned it into a Nuka-Cola machine, and it looks awesome. The soda probably won’t heal you, and the bottlecaps won’t work as currency, but it’s still pretty badass. [Project via Kotaku] https://kotaku.com/the-pause-that-irradiates-5327976

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Logitech Unifying Receiver Pairs With Multiple Keyboards and Mice at Once

Logitech’s new Unifying receiver is a tiny USB nubbin that can wirelessly connect to one or more keyboards and mice, freeing up ports and space on your computer. The new peripherals that work with the receiver are the Wireless Keyboard K350, Wireless Keyboard K340, Marathon Mouse M705 and the Wireless Mouse M505. Those first two…

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Scummy WipEout HD Patch Delivers Ads That Slow Down Gameplay

In-game ads in a game you paid for that you play on a console that you also paid for are sleazy. But when those same ads actually slow down the game you’re trying to play? That is absolutely inexcusable. The latest WipEout HD patch, when downloaded on the PS3, adds in ad content courtesy of…

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Snow Leopard’s 35 New Desktop Pictures Feature Nature, Fine Art and… Graffiti?

There’s Nothing Dangerous About a Fireplace in a Chest

Gross Virtual Girlfriend App Is One-Upped by its Gross Fox News Coverage

What Is This?

Montreal’s New LED Wall Reacts to Passerby

Meh: Epic Water Slide Video Is Fake and Promoting Microsoft Office

Apple Yanks Sex Offender Locator From App Store to the Relief of Perverts Everywhere

12 Years Ago Today, Bill Gates Showed Up at a Stevenote

Death Star Costume Doesn’t Take Into Account The Use of Arms

WildCharge PowerDisc Lets You Charge Wirelessly With an Extra Wire

Seriously Incredible Water Slide Jump: Please Be Real

iPhone Gets Live Streaming TV in Japan

Cassette Nano Case Is Absolutely Wonderful

iPhone Steering Wheel, For Those With a Singular Focus

Sanyo’s Fate Rests In the Hands of One Man and a Rebate Form

23 New Gadgets That Would Make Summer Even More Fun

Spaceball: Like Basketball, but More Expensive and Ridiculous

Homemade Nuka-Cola Machine Makes You Feel Like You’re In the Wasteland

Logitech Unifying Receiver Pairs With Multiple Keyboards and Mice at Once

Scummy WipEout HD Patch Delivers Ads That Slow Down Gameplay

30 Unpublished Poems From Iconic Greek Philosopher Discovered in Cairo

Lucid Recalls 4,000 Gravity SUVs for Faulty Seat Belts That May Not Actually Work During a Collision

Ninja Blast Max Hits Its Lowest Price and Now One of the Cheapest Portable Blenders Worth Buying

The ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Sequel Is a Beautifully Executed Dystopian Nightmare

Antibiotics Turned This Woman’s Limbs Into an Unsettling Horrorshow

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 Bundle at 97% Off With Premium Coding Certification Included, a Complete Learn-to-Code Package

Shark PowerPro Reveal Plus Cordless Vacuum Drops to an All-Time Low, Selling Faster Than Dyson at a Fraction of the Price

The First Trailer for ‘Widow’s Bay’ Welcomes You to a Creepy Horror Comedy

What the New Starbucks ‘Widely Recyclable’ Label Really Means

LEGO Star Wars R2-D2 Quietly Hits a Record Low, Expanding Beyond the Millennium Falcon Deals for a Limited Time

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