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The Stoner Channel: George Carlin on The Man’s Game, Housewives on Acid, and San Francisco on High

Gov. Cuomo Wants to Legalize Weed to Fight Stop-n-Frisk NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg seems intent on making the Big Apple into a police state served in 16oz portions. The NYPD’s controversial Stop-and-Frisk policy—which just so happens to disproportionately target minority youths for random inspection—is another such example. See, New York law states that weed possession…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Sony RX100: This Is How You Cram a 1-Inch Sensor and Wide Aperture Lens Into a Point-and-Shoot Body

With DSLRs like the Canon T2I and Nikon D3200 becoming increasing accessible, and smartphone cameras becoming increasingly quality, fixed-lens point-and-shoot cameras have become something a forgotten breed. But with the introduction of the RX100—complete with its impressive 1-inch sensor, f/1.8 aperture, and compact body—Sony is trying to make the pocketable camera relevant again. When it…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Samsung Cloud Gaming to Stream Console-Quality Games Straight to Smart TVs

It was announced at E3 today that Samsung Cloud Gaming, developed in partnership with Gaikai, a leading cloud-based video game platform provider, will stream a mix of family-friendly and AAA video games directly to owners of 2012 Samsung LED 7000 series and up Smart TVs in the U.S. The cloud-based gaming service will be second…

Gadgets Molly Oswaks

Chinese Real Estate Developers Successfully Cloned Entire Austrian Village

China has long been known for its knock-offs and copy-cat merch, but this latest project is some next-level kind of counterfeit crazy. The Austrian village of Hallstat—a centuries-old village of 900 and a UNESCO heritage site that relies heavily on season tourism to survive—was recently cloned by Minmetals Land Inc., the real estate development arm…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Elderly Sex Expert Introduces Libido-Friendly Wine Line

Much to the delight of indiscriminate lightweights everywhere, 84-year-old sex expert Dr. Ruth Westheimer is coming out with her own label of wine—Vin D’Amour—specially formulated to have a alcohol content of only 6-percent by volume, as opposed to the typical 13-percent ABV. The reason: “If [the woman] drinks too much, she falls asleep,” says Dr.…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Nuance’s Dragon ID Understands the Unique Properties of Your Voice

Nuance already has some solutions for speech recognition—they’ve got a voice control app for both iOS and Android called Dragon Go! Now it’s taking that a step further with Dragon ID, an even smarter tool that actually can decipher the sound of your voice. You can talk to Dragon in a similar way you would…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Skateboards Make for Gnarly iPhone Backs

You don’t have to be a skater to like these iPhone backs. Made out of the extra materials from skateboard decks, they’re a tasty addition to your handset. They’re a collaboration between Grove and Maple XO, and they double as an attempt to limit the waste produced from building about 4,000 skateboards each week. To…

Tech News Leslie Horn

These Impossible Pool Trick Shots Defy Belief

You don’t have to be Paul Newman to appreciate the difficulty for these collection of insane pool trick shots. All thanks to skill and physics, although there is a couple which are so perfectly crazy that they have to be computer generated. [Thanks Karl!]

Physics & Chemistry Jesus Diaz

The Hot Rod of iPhone Speaker Docks Is Actually Made From Hot Rod Parts

Far too many speaker docks for Apple products are boring black boxes. These hand-built aluminum docks shaped like the exhaust pipes from hot rods are some of the most creative we’ve seen in awhile. Designed in Italy, iXoost docks come in three models: eight cylinders, 10 cylinders, and 12 cylinders. The eight- and 10-cylinder models…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The New Internet Starts Now

A whole new version of the Internet is about to take over. Internet Protocol version 6 is here to save us from the dwindling number of IPv4 addresses. If everything seems the same as before, rejoice!. That means everything went to plan. The IPv6 transition is necessary because we’ve nearly run out of the 4.3…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

When Living Room Furniture Is Also Workout Equipment, It’s Harder to Avoid Exercise

When your work-out equipment is all the way in the basement, or even just in another room, it’s easy to dodge exercising. But when your fitness gear is right under your ass while you’re lounging in the living room, you don’t have much of an excuse any more. And that was the thinking behind this…

Health Andrew Liszewski

Skifta Launches Engine to Sync Content Across Devices

Music fans, and everyone else with a smartphone in their pockets for that matter, face a big problem: We have lots of stuff; it’s all on different machines; and we want it to be on other machines. Oh, and we don’t want to get an engineering degree in order for that to happen. You might…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm

The First Video of Earth Bombarded by Meteors From Orbit

See those explosions of light against the backdrop of our ever-spinning Earth? They are meteors burning through our planet’s mesosphere, captured from the International Space Station in a time lapse made of 316 still frames by astronaut Don Pettit. The meteors are the Lyrids, a meteor shower that happens each year, when Earth crosses material…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

This Dual-Action Dress Flips from Wookie to Ewok in Under 12 Parsecs

Can’t decide which furry character from Star Wars lore you want to attend Comicon as this year? Fear not ladies (and creepy cross-dressing cos-play dudes), here’s your answer. The Wookie-Ewok dress from Etsy artist Crissy Baker is a handmade piece, cut and sewn to order, that includes both a faux-leather bandolier for taller wearers as…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Google Now Warns You About State-Sponsored Attacks

At some point or another Google has probably given you some helpful security prompt at the top of your Gmail or in its Chrome browser, but we’ve never seen one quite like this: the new notification will be shown when it looks like the attempted intruder isn’t just a hacker but a whole goddamn country.…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Delight of Smashing Food Items to Music

Were you the type of kid who loved smashing, spreading, and soiling all food placed in front of you? In this short film, that impulse has been refined for your now refined tastes. Flatten, by Hugo de Kok & Kay van Vree, with music by Ivo van Dijk and Sophie Ansems, is a brief yet…

Tech News Michael Hession

Flickd Movies: Never Forget About Must-See Movies Again

Someone recommended a film to you last week but you just can’t remember which one it was. You could probably benefit from downloading Flickd Movies, an app that won’t let you lose track of something that has piqued your interest. What does it do? It lets you search through movies and add the ones you…

Tech News Leslie Horn

HTC One X Available Online Now and in Stores June 10 for $200

It’s been a long strange trip, with a delay at the docks over a patent scuffle with Apple, but the HTC One X is finally up for sale. It’s $200 on contract from AT&T, and available online now, and will be in stores on Sunday June 10, well before the June 21 date set for…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Introducing Mars One, the reality television program that will broadcast live from Mars

The MarsOne Project wants to send astronauts on a one-way trip to Mars, and they want to do it by 2023. How do they plan to pull it off? Simple: by creating “the biggest media event ever.” “Big brother will pale in comparison,” explains theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Gerard ‘t Hooft, who has expressed…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

This Augmented Reality App Is the Final Nail in the QR Code’s Hideous Coffin

Just about everyone except for inept marketers can agree that QR codes are terrible and useless. That being said, there’s not really a better alternative if you’re looking to implement augmented-reality on the cheap. Until now, thanks to Layar’s new page-scanning smartphone app. Layar’s software lets readers experience augmented-reality magazines simply by pointing their phone…

Tech News Michael Zhao

The Stoner Channel: George Carlin on The Man’s Game, Housewives on Acid, and San Francisco on High

Sony RX100: This Is How You Cram a 1-Inch Sensor and Wide Aperture Lens Into a Point-and-Shoot Body

Samsung Cloud Gaming to Stream Console-Quality Games Straight to Smart TVs

Chinese Real Estate Developers Successfully Cloned Entire Austrian Village

Elderly Sex Expert Introduces Libido-Friendly Wine Line

Nuance’s Dragon ID Understands the Unique Properties of Your Voice

Skateboards Make for Gnarly iPhone Backs

These Impossible Pool Trick Shots Defy Belief

The Hot Rod of iPhone Speaker Docks Is Actually Made From Hot Rod Parts

The New Internet Starts Now

When Living Room Furniture Is Also Workout Equipment, It’s Harder to Avoid Exercise

Skifta Launches Engine to Sync Content Across Devices

The First Video of Earth Bombarded by Meteors From Orbit

This Dual-Action Dress Flips from Wookie to Ewok in Under 12 Parsecs

Google Now Warns You About State-Sponsored Attacks

The Delight of Smashing Food Items to Music

Flickd Movies: Never Forget About Must-See Movies Again

HTC One X Available Online Now and in Stores June 10 for $200

Introducing Mars One, the reality television program that will broadcast live from Mars

This Augmented Reality App Is the Final Nail in the QR Code’s Hideous Coffin

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