Mario Aguilar

Watch the Samsung Galaxy Announcement Right Here

Samsung has been teasing the new Samsung Galaxy that’ll be shown off today for weeks now. Will it be the rumored Samsung Galaxy S III? Get excited! Click here to watch the Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012 event in London live. Or in the embed below! [Samsung]

Spirit Airlines Figures Out How To Screw You Even Harder With Bag Fees

Spirit Airlines introduced the ludicrous concept of charging you for carry-on luggage two years ago. Apparently that wasn’t terrible enough because now the airline says it wants to charge more than twice as much if you haven’t paid for your bag when you get to the gate. Jerks. Effective November 6th, Spirit Airlines is raising…

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$100 Pico Projector Beams Video at Full iPhone Resolution

We’ve always felt that Pico projectors are a little uninspiring, but the Pop Video iPhone projector from Micron Technology displays higher-resolution than the rest, and is small and cheap enough to be practical The 3.5-ounce projector connects to your iPhone via a retractable 30-pin dock connector and displays video at the iPhone’s full 960 x…

Recyclable Furniture Is What All Young Nomads Need

Fact: Every time you move, you’re going to throw a perfectly functional piece of furniture away. Maybe it’s laziness, maybe its the distance involved, or maybe you just can’t get rid of that ugly bookshelf. Either way, something inevitably ends up in the trash and you feel guilty. With SmartDeco Furnishing’s cardboard-ish offerings, the transient…

Sex.com Is Now—You Guessed It—Another Porn Pinterest

When the domain Sex.com sold for the ungodly sum of $13 million dollars, we assumed that the new owners had something special in mind. Something that would revolutionize the already enjoyable activity of watching porn. Behold! The future of porn is… another porn Pinterest? To be honest, we’re a little disappointed that Sex.com is just…

NBC’s “Free” Olympics Livestream Is Misleading and a Bummer

The ad for the NBC Olympics Live Extra service is so awesome it turns me on. 3500 live hours of sports online or on my tablet or smartphone? Incredible! But like a clever temptress, NBC neglects to mention one thing: Unlike primetime NBC, NBC Olympics Live Extra isn’t free. Remember how excited we got right…

Unedited: This Pool/Moat Sucks

Towards the end of a long day, we stumbled upon this unfathomably terrible pool, which adjoins Villa Roces by architects Govaert & Vanhoutte. Why is it so little? So narrow? So dumb? Here’s the conversation we just had trying to figure all that out and more: Adrian C. pretty wild Joe that pool is huge…

120-Pound Concrete Light Fixture Is An Ikea Designer’s Worst Nightmare

After years of hegemony, the design pendulum is finally starting to swing back from modern, efficient design to an unvarnished, industrial aesthetic. Take, for example, this huge, heavy concrete slab filled with energy-annihilating incandescent lights. Designed by Seth Ellsworth, this light bar is just about the exact opposite of the fluorescent, disposable design you pick…

Report: Facebook IPO Extravaganza Set For May 18th

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Facebook IPO is set to go May 18—Maybe. Earlier today, All Things Digital reported that Facebook’s SEC paperwork would clear this week. The WSJ says that Mark Zuckrberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and David Ebersman will hit the road next week to pitch the IPO to investors—another report from CNBC…

Sony Stalls Its Streaming TV Service Because Cable Controls Data

Sony finally confirmed that it’s working on a broadband TV service to compete with the reviled cable companies. Great! Except that the project is on hold over concerns about cable companies, data caps, and net neutrality. That means fewer choices for you and more power to big cable. Sony’s service was rumored to be a…

The New Website For John Peel’s Legendary Record Collection Is Incredible

Attention music nerds: You can now explore one of the best record collections ever assembled using a beautiful new interface. The late British radio host John Peel had monumentally good taste in music. It goes without saying that it should be catalogued and made available to the public, but we’re in love with the catalog’s…

Delusional Anarchists’ May Day Plot Foiled After Buying Fake Bombs From the FBI

Five “self-professed anarchists” were arrested outside Cleveland last night after buying a pair of fake bombs from the FBI. According to the local ABC affiliate, the plan was to use improvised explosive devices made of C4 to blow up the Route 82 bridge in Brecksville during today’s commute. Three of the five men have been…

Will Hulu Soon Require a Cable Contract?

The sun might be about to set on one of the best web-based video-on-demand services. According to the New York Post, Hulu will soon require that you prove you have a pay-tv subscription to watch shows on the streaming service. Is the golden age of cable cutting coming to an end? According to the report,…

Verizon’s 4G Jetpack Hotspot Gets Prepaid Treatment

Beginning May 1st Verizon will offer a new prepaid version of its Jetpack 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot MiFi 4510L with three different prepaid plans. For $15, you’ll get 250 MB of data a week. For $60 you’ll get a monthly allotment of 3 GB, and for $90 you’ll get 10 GB of data. Additionally, starting…

The Case For GeoHot

George Hotz—better known as GeoHot—might be the most famous hardware hacker in the world. He unlocked the iPhone so people could use it with any carrier and hacked the PS3 so it would play bootlegged games. Some of GeoHot’s hacks are clearly illegal, but are they wrong? You might recall, Sony didn’t take Hotz’s hack…

Delicious Stop-Motion Food Rap Satisfies Your Craving for Hot Jams

Forget what ya heard, and recognize the real food rappers. All of your favorite fruits and vegetables throw down hard in this stop-motion animation by BankShot with music by DJ Nick Castle. Warning: This video will both entertain you and make you hungry.. The music in “What’s Cookin?” is a mashup of classic hip hop…

Awesome Australian Billionaire To Build Full-Sized Replica Of the Titanic

Just a few weeks after the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s only voyage, Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has commissioned a Chinese shipyard to build a historically accurate replica of the colossal boat. https://gizmodo.com/smoking-drinking-gambling-and-long-repetitive-walks-5901766 In addition to the Chinese builder, Palmer has hired a historical research team to mind all the details of recreating the nine-deck,…

One World Trade Center Becomes the Tallest Building In New York Today

After six years of construction, One World Trade Center will surpass the 1250-foot Empire State Building as the tallest in New York this afternoon. When construction is finished, the final height of the building will be 1368 feet, with the antenna spire pushing the edifice to the patriotic height of 1776 feet. [NY Daily News]…

Airport Terminal Evacuated After TSA Boneheads Neglect to Screen a Baby

Authorities were forced to evacuate Terminal C at Newark International Airport today after TSA failed to screen a baby properly. Luckily nothing bad happened this time, but the oversight was more moronic than you might think—and potentially very dangerous. The Star Ledger reports: Farbstein said the breach occurred after a metal detector went off as…