Leslie Horn

Deko: These iPhone Wallpapers Didn’t Come From a Gallery

A photo of your dog? A generic picture of a sunset? Get the hell out of here. The wallpaper of your iOS device can be much more beautiful, and the reason is a wonderful little app called Deko. What does it do? Creates lovely, abstract designs for your wallpaper with a simple swipe of your…

Forget Your Throwback Jersey—Show City Pride With Latitude Longitude Posters

If you’re a sucker for maps, or you just like repping your city in a cool way, you’re going to go bananas for Mr. City Printing’s Latitude Longitude Maps. Ever seen anything like them? The simple black and white posters are 11 inches by 14 inches and they’ll run you $25. Find the usual suspect…

What Happens When You Run the Fresh Prince Theme Song Through Google Translate 64 Times

Sometimes Google translate doesn’t get it quite right. To illustrate that point in the most outlandish way possible, CDZA took the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme, crunched it through Google Translate for all 64 supported languages, then took it back to English. The results are rather hilarious. Just one question—what exactly in the song…

The Birth and Life of Shaun White’s Snowboard: From Tree to Slopes

The Burton snowboard Shaun White expertly uses to make a McTwist look like a cakewalk? Oh, that old thing? It started its life as a tree. Check out how it came to be strapped to the Olympic champion’s feet in this GoPro-shot video. Burton gear travels from the Snowboard company’s factory in Burlington, Vermont, all…

Rezhound Will Fetch You a Table at [Insert Exclusive Restaurant] Anytime

Have you been trying to get a table a Babbo since the beginning of time? Stop calling that snooty hostess incessantly a month in advance. Instead, try Rezhound, a new site that will alert you when a spot opens up on OpenTable. Pick your region, then pick the restaurant you want to go to, the…

Once You Hit 75, Eat All the Donuts You Want, Says Science

When you’re old, screw it—you might as well hit up the 4:45pm Country Kitchen buffet to load up on Jello salad every day of the week. Your nearly eight decades of life have earned you the right to eat what you want. But seriously, science now says that once you hit 75, the benefits of…

This House Is Beyond Incredible

The X House is not the name of a popular rave venue, it’s an awesome X-shaped home hanging off a cliff outside Barcelona. https://gizmodo.com/amazing-cliff-houses-literally-living-on-the-edge-5969119 Designed by Spanish architecture firm Cadaval & Solà-Morales, the awe-inspiring pad is basically two intersecting rectangular structures with four triangular recesses. One on the side avoids a tree, the other gives…

OKCupid’s New Blind Date App Aims to Find You Love (Or Random Sex) on the Fly

It’s 3PM on a Tuesday, and your friend bails on dinner. What are you going to do? Try this: Fire up OKCupid’s new app, CrazyBlindDate, and make yourself some romantical plans for the evening. Maybe you’ll find love. Maybe you’ll get laid. Maybe you’ll meet an insane person. Adventure! The app, which launches today in…

The First Prison-Issued Polygraph Test on YouTube Could Prove a Man’s Innocence

Convicted killer Luke Miller has spent the last 10 years in a Scottish prison for the 2003 murder of his 14-year-old girlfriend Jodi Jones, a crime he insists he didn’t commit. So his supporters have been lobbying that a polygraph test indicating his innocence be made public to draw attention to his case, in hopes…

Fly Delta for iPad: Know Exactly What You’re Flying Over

Ever ridden in a glass bottom boat? Awesome. But what about a glass bottom plane? Nope, sorry, not going to happen unless you’re a Richard Branson type. But next time you fly Delta, you can at least imagine what that would be like with the airline’s new iPad app. What does it do? Gives you…

Clear your schedule for a Breaking Bad marathon—Amazon Instant Video is now available on Nintendo Wii.

Coffee or Tea? Don’t Choose Because This Cup Is Two-Faced

If you didn’t get your flu shot, you might fall victim to what has now actually turned into an epidemic. And that means you’ll temporarily trade your morning coffee in for a steady drip of tea. But fear not, this reversible cup suffers from multiple personality disorder, meaning it’s appropriate for whichever hot beverage you…

Can’t Go to D.C. Next Week? Follow The Inauguration From Your Phone

You want to go to the presidential inauguration so badly. But it’s going to be crowded, cold, and you just can’t afford that vacation day. Good news—you can follow along with the new official inauguration app for Android and iOS. Watching from a distance? Watch a live stream and find events near you. Lucky enough…

The NRA’s New Shooting App Is for Kids of the Same Age of Sandy Hook Victims (and Up)

Here is some free PR advice for the National Rifle Association: Now is not the time to release a target practice iOS app—especially one intended for kids. According to the NRA, the app is intended for children as young as age four. In Target Practice you can choose to test your skills in an indoor…

WWF Together, Fridge Words, and More

This time around, the best iPad apps of the week are all about exercising the old brain muscle. From a word game, to a calculator app, you’ll be boosting your mental faculties. MyScript Calculator: You might be horrible at math, but that’s quite alright. This is the buttonless calculator you never knew you wanted but…

Rise, Directr, and More

Just because we were in Vegas for CES this week, doesn’t mean we were sleeping on this round of the best iPhone apps of the week. In this edition, you’ll find a better alarm clock, a video making tool, and much more. Rise: Waking up in the morning doesn’t have to be the worst thing…

The Great Fushion, Fitocracy, and More

Want to just spend the weekend melting your brain, playing games on your Android device? Great, so do we. We’ll help you play to your heart’s content with a classic futuristic game, one where Lego people fight fires, and much more. Fitocracy: It’s January, meaning you and everyone you know has resolved to get in…

This Is a Metaphor For CES

We have no faces. We have no names. Please take these free buy these headphones from an unremarkable company you’ve never heard of and won’t remember tomorrow. Someone is paying us to be here. The body suit-clad humans you see above are the sheer embodiment of CES: faceless human billboards using their bodies to draw…

Really? That’s How You’re Going to Lure People Into Your Booth?

The enticing plate of stale gummy bears is supposed to interest you in visiting a booth that sells Chinese iPhone cases. Or something. Twenty-five gummy bears just sitting on a paper plate at a booth in a back corner of CES. Seriously, count ’em.

Do Not Visit This Booth if You Have a Hangover

Don’t go into the Audi booth without sunglasses. It’s an entire squint-inducing tunnel of light. The light represents the future laser headlights Audi is hawking. The insufferable pounding dubstep represents current trends in Youth Culture™. Audi, you have cool cars, but do you realize that every journalist here is suffering from a hangover? Your entire…