Mario Aguilar

Waking Up Will Suck Less With This Ambient Light Alarm Clock

Waking up to a blaring horn sucks, which is why many people use ambient light alarm clocks that gradually get brighter to ease themselves into consciousness. Want to wake up to a calming light and the soothing voices of Morning Edition anchors? JBL’s Horizon Bluetooth Clock has you covered. The $100 clock is a lovely…

Beats Now Makes a Wireless Version of Its Wildly Popular Solo2 Cans

Beats just announced a wireless Bluetooth version of the revamped Solo2headphones it announced a few months ago. The Solo are the company’s bestselling headphones, largely because they’re fashionable. I would recommend other headphones for the price The V-Moda XS and Sennheisser Momentum on-ear are similar and far superior on both sound and comfort. The wireless…

AT&T Will Muddy Up Your Pristine Nexus 6 With Bloatware

Today, you’ll be able to pre-order the Nexus 6, which will be one of the year’s best phones. If you buy it from AT&T, it’ll come with the gift of a bunch of useless and annoying bloatware. Yesterday, SlashGear reported that if you buy the phone through your AT&T contract, you’ll actually get a clean…

Report: Key Indie Labels Sign On to YouTube’s Rumored Music Service

The Financial Times reports that YouTube’s rumored streaming music service has hit a crucial milestone this week by locking down a deal with Merlin, the network that represents the licensing rights for a huge swath of indie labels. Over the summer, negotiations between YouTube and many important indie labels broke down. The labels complained that…

Spotify To Taylor Swift: We’re Not Fucking You Over, Record Labels Are

When Taylor Swift pulled her music from Spotify, she was absolutely right that the whole streaming music system is screwing over artists. But that’s not Spotify’s fault. Last week, just after her hotly anticipated record 1989 was released, Taylor Swift abruptly pulled her back catalog off of the service, citing a respect for creative people…

Nexus 6 Will Cost $250 On AT&T

Nexus 6 pre-orders on AT&T will open tomorrow November 12th. It’ll cost $250 on-carrier. So much for that $50 rumor. The Nexus 6 is shaping up to be one of the best smartphones in the world, but until now, one of its most striking features has been its price. Specifically, that it’s actually a pricey…

Kids Today Barely Recognize Point-and-Shoot Cameras

Before cameras were a thing that was always in our pocket attached to our phones, human beings actually carried standalone gadgets for capturing casual photographs. Crazy, I know. Just ask these kids. In the latest installment of the Fine Bros’ Kids React series, they show a bunch of digital-era youngsters what looks like a 90’s…

Microsoft Band Review: Tracks Your Every Move, Then Breaks Your Heart

When I first strapped on the Microsoft Band a week ago, I felt like I’d been given new power over myself. The company’s first wrist-borne activity tracker packs 10 sensors into a discreet package, and to my hopeful eyes the wristable’s powerful specs added up to potential. I thought, this gadget might really get to…

A Bunch of People Wearing Oculus Rifts and Falling on Their Butts

Let’s talk about the physical realities of virtually blasting your brain into another world: People are falling on their faces and butts. The first time I saw the video below (which is GIFed above), I laughed and laughed and laughed. Haha! That poor schmuck! He was just innocently getting his senses rearranged in some mall…

Pixar Is Making Toy Story 4, Huzzah

Disney and Pixar just announced that John Lasseter will direct Toy Story 4, scheduled for release in June 2017. Yassssssssssss. Variety reports that the announcement was made by Disney CEO Bob Iger during the company’s fourth quarter earnings call. Director John Lasseter is the Chief Creative Officer at Pixar. He directed Toy Story and Toy…

Amazon Echo: An Intelligent Speaker That Listens to Your Commands

Amazon Echo is a speaker that has a voice assistant built in. If you ask it a question its got an answer. If you tell it to do stuff, it complies. Well, this is different. Echo is an always-on speaker that you plop into a corner of your house and turns it into the futuristic…

Silk Road 2.0 Shut Down By the FBI, Operator Charged In Federal Court

Silk Road 2.o, the illegal drug marketplace that cropped up to replace the original has been shutdown by the FBI and its alleged operator has been charged in Manhattan Federal Court. You’ll recall that the original Silk Road was seized October 2013, and its proprietor Ross William Ulbricht was charged with various crimes including money…

The Only Flying Car I Need Is This RC Version

RC cars come with the downside that they can’t fly. UAV are fun but they can only fly, not drive. The only natural evolution is that we must, in the spirit of hybridization, create a vehicle that can do both. Here is B, “the flying car.” B measures 18 inches long, and drives around on…

Tinder Is Finally Getting an Undo Button (For a Price)

Tinder is about to help you fix the biggest mistake you ever make on Tinder: Swiping left instead of swiping right. But if you want that magical power, you’re going to have to pay for it. TechCrunch reports that the undo button will be part of a suite of new features available to users as…

The First Porn Shot With a Drone Is Still Just People Boning (NSFW)

The explosion of unmanned aerial vehicles in recent years has created a revolution in videography, which is why it’s surprising that nobody bothered to make porn from the skies yet. Lo, here isDrone Boning. Produced by Ghost+Cow, Drone Boning is a paradox of sorts. The footage shot by Spark Aerial is undoubtedly beautiful. It’s got…

Why Amazon’s Unlimited Photo Storage Is Such a Big Deal

If you didn’t already have Amazon Prime, it’s hard to imagine why, but with the addition offree unlimited photo and videostorage, it’s become a no-brainer. More than just a Dropbox assassin, the latest addition illustrates the real core of Amazon’s plan to win: Making us all kings of infinite space. Today’s new photo storage plan…

Amazon Prime Gets Even Better With Unlimited Online Photo Storage

Amazon Prime, which we’ve often called the best deal in technology, just became even better thanks to a new cloud-based photo backup service called Amazon Prime Photos. The new service appears to work like many other online photo repositories: You’ve got the ability to add photos to you Amazon Cloud Drive from the web, your…

China Says It Has a Laser Gun For Blasting Drones Out of the Sky

Unlicensed drones spying on Chinabetter watch out because the People’s Republic reportedly has a super terrifying laser weapon designed to blast small aircraft out of the sky. The Guardian reports that China’s state-run media “unveiled” the new laser, which China says has a range of 1.2 miles and can take down a target within five…

How I Broke My Last Five Phones

I do not have an iPhone anymore. I don’t plan to buy another one. I adore Apple’s wonderful hunks of glass and aluminum, but I’m like Lennie with a bunny when I have one in my hands: I love it so much and so intensely that I kill it. I remember when I was about…

Samsung’s bizarre Galaxy Note Edge will be available on AT&T, Spring, T-Mobile, and Verizon beginning November 14th. Pricing is TBD. The huge 5.6-inch curved quad-HD display caught our eyewhen it was announced two months ago. Now we’ll finally know if all of that weird comes with any wow.