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New Xperia Play Commercials Have Enslaved My Soul

Now listen, I don’t normally praise ads. They’re meant to sell us shit, and there’s nothing really noble about that. But. But. Kristen Schaal’s new promos for Sony Ericsson are some of the greatest things I’ve ever witnessed. Boob stab. Maybe it’s the fact that some marketing asshole with a PhD knew that her quirky…

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Magnify Your iPhone to be a Kindle Sized Tablet with This Lens Case

Big phones and small tablets are en vogue but the iPhone and iPad are still stuck with a 3.5-inch and 9.7-inch screen. Apple won’t make something in the middle for you so take it upon yourself and strap on a magnifying lens case to your iPhone. Nulogia’s Tarsier 2.0 is a flat lens that hangs…

Development of a Great App: Evernote

How often do you find yourself cruising through the apps on your smartphone and wondering: How did they do that? Welcome to the Great Apps series, inspired by the Intel AppUpSM developer program. Today, we give you the story of Evernote, that increbible, life-organizing app that aims to be your “outside brain.” Evernote started its…

In Wednesday’s comics, Spider-Man joins the Fantastic Four and Alan Moore wraps up his Cthulhu tale

In your friendly neighborhood comic shop this week, the Fantastic Four rebrand themselves and Alan Moore concludes his psychosexual Lovecraft tale — in short, comicdom’s first family and the diametric opposite of good, clean family fun. Read on! First Issues First off, Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting transform the Fantastic Four into the Future Foundation…

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Killed and Reborn As World’s Thinnest Tablet with 8.9-Inch Little Brother

Joining the original 7-inch Tab, Samsung’s today added an 8.9-inch Galaxy Tab and a slimmed-down 10.1-inch model that’s been radically altered since we first saw it last month at MWC. And you know what? Both are thinner than the iPad 2. The 10.1-inch tablet was sent off to fat camp between its initial announcement over…

A teenager goes in search of his dead girlfriend’s alternate-universe duplicate

I Am Number Four didn’t exactly light the box office on fire, but that hasn’t stopped Hollywood believing in the power of young adult science fiction adaptations. Now in development: Through To You, a parallel-universe love story. The team behind the Sundance fave Like Crazy, Drake Doremus, Jonathan Schwartz and Ben York Jones, will reunite…

A Chair That Lets Your Girlfriend Sit on Your Lap Without Smushing Your Lap

You know those cool guys who have their girlfriend sit on their lap? They’re in pain. Maybe not that instant and maybe not tomorrow but when they get a bit older, they’ll feel it. You can’t move as freely, you get hot, and your leg goes to sleep. Romantic? Sure why not. Comfortable? No effing…

The Fascistic, futuristic linoleum products of the 1930s

You can see the weird idea of what the future would look like in a handful of bizarre, forgotten images from a 1933 catalog advertising linoleum products in Italy. The cool, blue lines you see here are part of a school, or possibly an orphanage. The images get really interesting when you see how the…

Watch Heavy Artillery Create a Massive Avalanche… On Purpose

I’m sure the Russian military gave a perfectly good explanation for firing shells at this North Ossessia mountaintop, dislodging an awesome torrent of snow. Probably something to do with a controlled avalanche being preferable to nature’s own, etc. But let’s be honest; if you were in the Russian military, stationed out in the mountains, you’d…

Verizon 4G Will Take Over 59 More Cities By the End of 2011

Verizon’s steady march towards LTE dominance continues; the company announced today that they’ll have their supafast 4G network up and running in 145 markets by the end of the year. That’s 59 more than are either up already or previously planned. It’s mostly smaller cities that are getting love this time around—since the major metros…

Venture Brothers renewed for two more seasons, with an animated short coming this summer!

We live in an era in which genre TV shows are perpetually dancing on the razor’s edge, so it’s nice to know that one of our favorites is going to be around for a while. When we last heard from Team Venture, we learned that Brock and the boys would be back for a fifth…

How the Cloak-and-Dagger AT&T-Mobile Deal Went Down

A $39 billion deal that would create the biggest wireless carrier in the US. It’s hard to imagine keeping that kind of fiasco a secret. But AT&T had to, otherwise opposition would start before the ink was even dry—even for the biggest corporate donor in Washington. Here’s how it went down: [WSJ]

These Lightweight 3D Glasses From Dolby Will Still Make You Look Foolish, Trust Me

True, the bridge of your nose might appreciate the lessened weight, but to those around you, you’ll still look like a goggle-eyed bandit. Compatible with Dolby 3D Digital Cinema screens, they also have anti-theft RFID tags so cinemas can try and stop the blatant pilfering which still seems to be going on. You’d think people…

All American Phones Switching to Micro-USB by January ’12

Our virgin sacrifices to the bloody altar of cellular deities must have paid off, because Sprint CEO Dan Hesse just told a CTIA audience that all American phones will use Micro-USB for charging (and, presumably, transfers), by next year. [nexGadget]

Scientists invent 3D microscope lens

Ohio State engineers have made a single microscope lens that is capable of capturing enough angles to form a 3D picture of a object. Soon there could be an all-paramecium version of Avatar. For a long time, on screen, in pictures, and in a lab, two dimensional images were enough. One angle gave people all…

William Shatner Is 80 Today (!) and We Love Him

It’s hard to believe, but the man who ushered an entire generation (boldly) where no man had gone before is now about as old as your grandpa. But we love you, William Shatner, and wish you a very happy birthday. Shatner, still known best as the dashing James T. Kirk, is a legendarily good sport…

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

This week on TreeHugger, crazy cars, even crazier super homes, a work desk minimalist DIYers will fawn over, “pruned” microchips that run faster, and more. The Dymaxion Car, Possibly the craziest car project we’ve seen. In a fairly rare interview, the creator gives insight on what it took to build a bullet-shaped 11-seater car. Integrated…

21 stills and the Chemical Brothers soundtrack take you inside the lethal world of Hanna

We’ve got five of the best tracks from The Chemical Brothers’ score for Hanna, and a handful of violent stills. Hit play and get sucked into the mind of a child assassin for a few minutes of of your day. There isn’t much out there on Joe Wright’s mysterious project Hanna. So far, we’ve glimpsed…

American F-15 Crashes Over Libya

The first setback for Operation Odyssey Dawn hit last night, as a $30 million F-15 Strike Eagle fighter was destroyed after its pilots (safely, we’re happy to hear) ejected. The Pentagon is claiming “mechanical failure” as the crash’s cause. It appears the downed plane was stumbled upon by a British journalist, who, with an air…