Leslie Horn

Did Amazon Just Trademark a Name For a TV Product?

9to5Google reports that Amazon has just trademarked the name Firetube in the U.S. and Canada. Is it a TV product? Seems to make the most sense. It’s not out of the realm of possibility; we’ve heard rumors of an Amazon streaming box before. Plus, Amazon already has plenty of content on Amazon Instant Video, and…

Samsung Shape M7 Wireless Speaker: A Sonos by Any Other Name…

This is the Samsung Shape M7 wireless speaker, a $400 streaming device that lets you play music all over your home or office. It looks like a Sonos, smells like a Sonos, is priced like a Sonos. All that’s left is to find out if it sounds like one, too. The Shape—which features a foam-core…

Oakley’s Heads-Up Display Ski Goggles Get a Better Battery

Last year Oakley wowed us with Airwave, its heads-up display ski goggles. And just as we’re starting to think about ski season, Oakley’s got a new version of the fancy mountain gear that has the same look and some essential internal tweaks. For the uninitiated, Airwave track your stats like speed, height, and altitude. It…

You don’t have to open Instapaper for the read-it-later app to update anymore—the iOS version of the app now automatically adds your saved articles in the background.

The State of Cheating in Android Benchmarks: Everybody’s Doing It

Samsung has been blamed before for fudging the Galaxy S4 and the Galaxy S3 in order to make the phones perform faster than it does naturally in benchmarks. But Anandtech has run the numbers and found that pretty much every smartphone maker is cheating. Based off of extensive research, Anandtech concludes: We started piecing this…

The Galaxy Note 3 Has a Hidden Tiny Screen Mode For Your Tiny Hands

If, like many of us, your hands are too small to to comfortably use the Galaxy Note 3’s giant 5.7-inch display, you’re in luck. Android Central has uncovered a hidden tiny screen mode for your tiny baby dwarf hands. It may look a little silly, but tiny screen mode is actually pretty darn useful. To…

Report: The Next Fitbit Will Also Be a Watch

The Verge has obtained some purported information on the next Fitbit fitness tracker. The follow-up to the Flex supposedly called the Force, and it will apparently work as an actual watch this time around. Additionally, the arm band will be partially water-resistant, have a physical button that lets you scroll through features, and have an…

Jimmy Kimmel Found the Perfect Cure for iOS 7 Motion Sickness

iOS 7 is allegedly making some people sick to the point of puking. But Jimmy Kimmel has come to the rescue with the perfect cure: stop looking at your phone all the damn time. But seriously, maybe it’s a good idea to put your iPhone down and stop and smell the roses every once in…

My Cloud Is A New Option For Storing Your Stuff From Anywhere

Chances are you have files stored all over the internet—some in Dropbox, a few in Google Drive, and so forth. Western Digital has new cloud storage system out today called My Cloud that can help you consolidate your photos, videos, and other documents. My Cloud is basically what we’ve come to expect from these type…

A Crazy 3D-Printed Mouthpiece That Brushes Your Teeth For You

We can always get behind a 3D-printed object that does something practical. So we’re intrigued by the Blizzident 3D-printed toothbrush, because this insane thing basically does all the brushing for you. When you brush your teeth, you probably miss the plaque hidden in the nooks and crannies of your chompers. But that’s because your toothbrush…

This Giant Lego Calendar Syncs Automatically With Your Smartphone

Even though your schedule is constantly at your fingertips via smartphone, everyone gets a little off track every once in a while. So the creative studio Vitamins dreamt up a solution that bridges real-life and online schedules: A giant Lego calendar that syncs up with smartphones. Their calendar looks just like your iCal, except it’s…

This Wall of Paper Pinwheels Turns Air Into Art

Thousands of paper windmills seem to spin effortlessly in The Wind Portal, an installation by Lebanese artist Najla El Zein at London’s V&A Museum this month. However, the production process wasn’t exactly effortless. In fact, extreme accuracy was required to build this massive wall of wind, because it relies on air—and air is volatile. Each…

Most Beautiful Items: September 21 – 27, 2013

Want to know Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia will look like when it’s done in 2026? Know what kind of software can enable a disabled artist to paint hands-free? Ever heard of clothes that decompose with you when you die? The answers to all of these questions and more lie within stories we found from the worlds…

Why I Never Untag Facebook Photos

There are some very bad pictures of me on Facebook. This one is awful. This one‘s downright horrendous. This one, I don’t know, am I sweating? Yet I never, ever, ever untag. Why? Because life is far more fun this way. https://gizmodo.com/whats-the-worst-picture-of-you-on-facebook-5922441 Most people untag. I don’t. It began as an accident—Ah, whatever, this picture…

Trent Reznor Explains Just How Far Electronic Music Has Come

Nine Inch Nails frontman and music genius Trent Reznor gave a fantastic interview to the Fader, and it sums up just about everything about the state of electronic music and how we listen to it. Reznor says when iPods first came out, he was resistant to the take-your-music-everywhere tech. What with music being more prevalent…

Here’s How Sagrada Familia Will Look When It’s Finally Done In 2026

When Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí was tragically killed by a train in 1926, he was in the middle of building of his masterpiece—the Barcelona basilica, Sagrada Familia. Eighty-six years later, the church still isn’t complete. But according to Jordi Faulí, the current architect on the magnificent life-sized sand castle, it’ll be done by 2026. This…

How Software Enables an Artist With Cerebral Palsy to Paint Hands-Free

Astro Saulter is an incredibly talented artist from Jamaica. He was also born with cerebral palsy, which has confined him to a wheelchair for his entire life. But thanks to some special software, he can exercise his uncanny ability to create art. Saulter paints using a computer that’s operated through software called EZ-Keys, the same…

This Amazing Chinese Mansion Is Abandoned Because It’s Haunted

This expansive stone mansion—known Chaonei No. 81—is an architectural anomaly in Beijing. Once a church, then a home, today the building stands out for its ornate Baroque style, yet it lies in decay. Why? Because it’s probably haunted, and no one wants to go near it. The New York Times has the scary story of…

iPhone 5C Review: A Fresh Coat of Paint Only Goes So Far

In a way, we already reviewed this phone a year ago. In fact, iPhone 5C is in every important way the iPhone 5 in different clothing. That’s not to say it’s bad phone. In fact, after spending a weekend with the iPhone 5C, I can say with certainty it’s a very good phone, in the…

21 Muppets Find a Much-Deserved Home at the Smithsonian

Thanks to a donation from the Henson Foundation, on Tuesday, Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, and 19 other Muppets and well-loved characters gained their rightful place in history, entering into the collection of the Smithsonian Museum. As Kermit would say—hi-ho! There was a special ceremony to mark the Muppet’s induction yesterday, which would have been…