Leslie Horn

This Folding Chair Collapses Into an AT-AT

Here’s a new twist on the folding chair—why not fold it down the middle rather on the back? That’s exactly what Canadian designers Solveig Johannessen and Krystin Clarke did with OSSA, a wooden indoor/outdoor seat. And when you fold it up, as an added bonus, it looks like a vanquished AT-AT. OSSA is the Latin…

A Coffee Brewer-Turned-Coffee Pot Is a Tasty, Lovely Way to Caffeinate

The Kone Brewing System is as good excuse as any to ditch your crappy drip coffee maker—it’s quite fetching, and it should give you a cup with a richer, fuller taste. It’s available for $160 on preorder, but word has it that it already started to popping up in specialty shops. Hand brew up to…

Vapp: Snap Pics With Your Voice

For whatever reason, sometimes you need to be able to take a picture hands-free. In those cases, you can try Vapp. What does it do? Responds to sounds to take pictures automatically, without the press of any buttons. Why do we like it? Because sometimes your hands are shaky. And sometimes you stand close to…

19 Amazing Massive Stereos

Giant stereos are everywhere—on the shoulders of cool 90s teens, in the living rooms of finance fat cats, and on the stages of face-melting electronic shows. Even though we have iPods and discreet speakers now, awesome huge systems haven’t gone anywhere. About 140 years before everyone became a DJ, Thomas Edison accidentally invented the phonograph.…

Would You Pay Facebook Money For More People To See Your Status Updates?

Today Facebook began testing Promoted Posts. You’re familiar with these advertisements from brands, but now civilians can get in on the game too. If you want more of your friends to see your funny one-liners or important life announcements, you can pony up a little cash money and Facebook would give these posts more visibility.…

Birdcage Vases Make Your Plants Even Prettier

These cage planters are utterly gorgeous. Made out of a combination of concrete and wire, each with a walnut base, the pretty pots were just shown at the London Design Festival. The designer, Seung-Yong Song of South Korea, describes them better than anyone else can: Lightness and heaviness, lines and lumps, smoothness and roughness, coldness…

Moleskine and Milk’s Personalized Photo Books Are Unsurprisingly Sleek

Our love for Moleskin is very well documented. And now that adulation extends to a line of photo albums comprised of your own snapshots, thanks to a joint effort between Moleskine and picture book publisher Milk. https://gizmodo.com/cassette-themed-moleskines-are-a-lovely-obituary-for-a-5941021 It’s the same classic, clean aesthetic you know with features like the expandable inner pocket and the outer…

FixYa: DIY Solutions for All Your Electronics

Calling tech support is generally just about the worst thing you could put yourself through. Since you’re not a masochist, you can avoid the pain with FixYa, an app tells you how to repair your broken belongings. What does it do? Gadget on the fritz? It will give you short, easy solutions for fixing the…

Motorola Renegs on Patent Complaint Against Apple

Without any explanation Motorola has withdrawn its complaint with the International Trade Commission that Apple is infringing on seven of its patents. Just a guess, but maybe it has something to do with the $1.05 billion dollars Samsung was recently ordered to pay Apple for copying the designs of the iPhone and iPad. https://gizmodo.com/here-are-the-damages-samsung-has-to-pay-apple-scrawled-5937808 In…

Mad Magazine Takes a Jab at Apple Maps With a Fake New Yorker Cover

Apple Maps is so horrifying, even Mad Magazine is making fun of the disaster with a parody of an iconic 1976 New Yorker cover. And it would be even funnier if it weren’t so close to the truth. In the 2012 Mad Magazine parody of Saul Steinberg’s cover, Kuala Lampur is New Jersey, the Champs…

Tumblr Will Live-GIF the Presidential Debates (!!!)

Tumblr will be covering tomorrow’s presidential debate in the best way possible—by live-GIFfing it. And suddenly, the election became almost tolerable. Use this as an excuse to post a bunch of Obama and Romney GIFs? Don’t mind if I do! A dream team of GIF masters—Topherchris, Bobby Finger, Lacey Micallef, and Mr. GIF—will be creating…

Why Fat People Can’t Help Getting Even Fatter

Put down those bear claws. No, both of them! Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have found that once you’re fat, you’re probably just going to get fatter. They found that the body has invariant natural killer T-cells (iNKT) that help fight obesity and can prevent metabolic syndrome, which in some cases leads to diabetes and…

How Not To Suck at Instagram

Cool it with the hashtags, don’t post obsessively, and follow the rapper Rick Ross—according to a new short movie from filmmaker Casey Neistat, these are the rules of the road on the old Instagram highway. Neistat gushes over Instagram. It reminds him of those old yellowing photo albums that documented his life as a child,…

High Tech Smartwool Socks for Your Barking Dogs

Winter sports are a lot of fun, but if you don’t have the right clothing, it can be utterly miserable. SmartWool literally has your feet covered with its new PhD socks. Smartwool in a lot of R&D work to make sure the fit and the material are the most comfortable and the best fit to…

Early Detection Plan: Know Your Risk For Breast Cancer

PSA: October is breast cancer awareness month, so it’s a good opportunity to make sure you’re up to date on your exams. Early Detection plan is a free iPhone app that will help you do just that. What does it do? Reminds you to do self-exams and tips you when it’s time to for your…

Before Sexting, There Was Polaroid

Long before cell phones gave us the ability to share pictures with the tap of a button, Polaroid was synonymous with instant photography. In his new book Instant: The Story of Polaroid, Christopher Bonanos explains how that little one step camera paved the way for sexting as we know it: There are plenty of naughty…

This House Is Not Actually Made Out of Marshmallows

This building looks like it could be home to the Stay Puft marshmallow man. In reality, it’s the recently remodeled visitors’ center of the Synagogue de Delme Contemporary Art Centre, a gallery in France. Dubbed Gue(ho)st House as a nod to the Marcel Duchamp-invented phrase, “A Guest + a host = a ghost,” it served…

Amazon is now giving sellers loans now with interest rates as high as 13 percent. What happened to going to the bank?

A Serious Security Flaw Lets Hackers Steal Your Twitter Account

Do you have a highly coveted Twitter handle? You should probably change your password. One user, Daniel Dennis Jones,—who formerly went by @blanket—has uncovered a very serious flaw that lets hackers crack your account and put it up for sale. On Saturday, Twitter customer service notified Jones that his password had been changed. Alarming, because…

No, You’re Not Getting 25GB Free iCloud Storage Until 2050

Were you notified over the weekend that Apple had upgraded your iCloud plan to 25GB, good through… 2050? Don’t get too excited; it’s almost certainly just a glitch. Some users noticed that their plans had been bumped for no reason. While Apple had been offering up an additional 20GB for people switching over from MobileMe,…