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This Awesome Credit Card-Sized iPhone Tripod Blew Me Away

Sometimes the simplest things are the most useful, but rarely something makes me shake my head at how clever and cool it is like the Pocket Tripod 360º has. I keep thinking “why didn’t someone do this before” and “what a great idea that I wish I’d thought of.” I’m still blown away that the…

25 Sun-Powered Charging Spots Will Ensure No New Yorker Goes Tweetless

There’s nothing worse than being stranded at the beach with a dead battery. But this summer, thanks to a pilot program sponsored by AT&T, no New Yorker will go without Snapchat again. The program will install 25 charging stations across the city, including parks and beaches, in a Parks Department-approved strategy to improve public infrastructure…

Who the hell are the Justice League 3000?

This fall, DC is going beyond, er, Batman Beyond to reveal the Justice League of the year 3000. Veteren JL team Keith Giffen, JM DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire will write and draw the books, but for the moment, the real excitement comes from artist Howard Porter’s redesigns of the heroes. Check ’em out! Batman and…

These Teched-Out Catamarans Will Guard the Great Barrier Reef

Simply naming an area like Australia’s Great Barrier Reef as a World Heritage Site isn’t going to protect its delicate ecosystem. To prevent poachers, fisheries, and inconsiderate tourists from damaging the reefs and disturbing its residents, Australia is building a fleet of solar-powered shepherd ships. The Catamaran Patrol Vessel (CPV), designed by a collaborative team…

Artists Are 3D-Printing a Room That Looks Like An Alien Cathedral

Who cares about plastic 3D-printed models of your head when an amazing, ornate room is being 3D printed out of sandstone? Digital Grotesque, as the project is called, looks like it was ripped from the frames of a sci-fi film. Designers Benjamin Dillenburger and Michael Hansmeyer recently previewed a 1:3 scale model of the room…

When tornados strike, which way do they travel?

These gorgeous maps have the answer. Created by datavisualization expert John Nelson, these “Tornado Travel Maps” depict the relative proportion of more than 60 years of U.S. tornadoes by their direction of travel. Notice a pattern? The maps are the latest in Nelson’s growing ouvre of gorgeous, natural-disaster-themed cartography. To date, he’s produced maps depicting…

Small Soldiers Is a Much Better Movie Without the Visual Effects

Remember Small Soldiers? It was a movie where action figures were enhanced with military technology to make them more interactive, but ultimately resulted in them coming to life. Even though it cast both Spinal Tap and actors from The Dirty Dozen as voice talent, the film was remarkably forgettable. To the point where watching this…

Hidden iOS 7 Settings Reveal What Apple Is Working On

Buried deep within the first beta release of iOS 7 are a handful of neat and potentially useful features. The hidden enhancements were dug up by Hamza Sood and offer a tad bit of insight into what we might expect in later versions of iOS or even when the latest version ships to the public…

Simple Now Lets iPhone Users Save More Money With Goals

While nearly everything is moving over to a mobile experience, banking remains one of the last vestiges of the old world. But even that is slowly changing with the likes of Simple, a bank-less mobile service that mashes up the best bits of your existing bank and services like Mint. One of Simple’s greatest features,…

Huawei Ascend P6: The World’s Skinniest Phone Is a Metal-Clad Beauty

Huawei has just unveiled the Ascend P6 Android smartphone at a crowded event in London. At 6.1mm thick, it’s the slimmest smartphone in the world. It’s also a looker. https://es.gizmodo.com/huawei-planta-batalla-con-el-ascend-p6-el-movil-mas-fi-514010595 The Ascend P6 has 4.7-inch, 720p display and metal body, and will be available in 19 countries at the end of July for $600. With…

It looks like PayPal is making a move to be the first bank in space

Forgot to bring your wallet to the Red Planet Gift Shop? Not to worry. If a recent rumor is true, you may be able to pay for that Martian trinket by using PayPal. Speculation is going around that PayPal, in cooperation with NASA, the Space Tourism Society, and the SETI Institute, will be announcing a…

This Is How You School a Rude Host Live on TV

British comedian Russell Brand—who is generally quite obnoxious and rude himself—got rudely mistreated by the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe yesterday during an interview about his new American comedy tour. By the middle of it he had enough of their unpleasant manners and turned the tables. Worth watching.

Our ability to pay close attention is both a blessing and a curse

Sometimes paying close attention can cause us to overlook the seemingly obvious. Then again, if we couldn’t focus our minds on a single task, we’d never get anything done. https://gizmodo.com/think-you-can-multitask-congratulations-youre-probabl-5977798 Consider, for example, that most radiologists fail miserably at the Gorilla Test when perusing a brain scan for signs of cancer. On one hand: Hey!…

No Star Wars Fan Could Resist Photos of You on This Tauntaun Skin Rug

Your standard alluring, boudoir-style photos usually sees someone stretched out on a bear skin rug. But if the only thing you’re looking for in a partner is an obsession with Star Wars, perhaps a photo of yourself sprawled across this life-size tauntaun skin rug would serve as a better dating site profile pic. Made by…

Rihanna to Get Into Sex and Love Addiction Recovery Program

Singer and actress Rihanna is leaving her world tour to check into a sex and love addiction program at the Center for Relationships and Sexual Recovery at the Ranch, Tennessee. According to a source, she’s still obsessively in love with Chris Brown,” the ex who mistreated her. https://jezebel.com/rihanna-heading-to-love-rehab-to-finally-get-over-you-k-513987725

Plague comes to Defiance town and someone’s gonna die

When an often fatal illness nicknamed the Irath Flu — because the Irathients carry it, although they aren’t affected by it — breaks out, secrets are revealed, some great character moments are had, and a lot of people make tremendously stupid decisions. Let’s start with the stupid decisions. Because the sense of community and equality…

Exactly How Much Cheaper Airbnb Is Than a Hotel in Every Major US City

You’ve probably grappled with this question when you’ve traveled, and the answer is yes, renting a room or an apartment on Airbnb is going to be cheaper most of the time. But what does that savings look like? Priceonomics has broken the data extensively. Renting an entire apartment? You’ll save, on average 21.2 percent. Renting…

Amazon Birthday Gifts is a new “social” way to give somebody a present on Facebook. Basically, you kick in some money for an Amazon gift card and then encourage all your friends to contribute. On your friend’s date of birth, the card arrives along with all your personalized messages. Sooo either this is a genius…

Ryan Reynolds flees the Highlander remake

There can be only… none? Ryan Reynolds has exited the long-in gestation/development hell remake of Highlander, in which he was going to play immortal Scotsman Connor MacLeod, leaving the project without a lead actor or a director. If you thought remaking the 1986 classic was a bad idea and think this news is good, think…

The FBI May Be About to Solve One of America’s Greatest Murder Mysteries

The FBI is now digging in a field in Detroit in an attempt to unearth Jimmy Hoffa‘s body after four decades of his mysterious disappearance. According to old mobster Tony Zerilli, a Mafia soldier “picked up a shovel and cracked Hoffa over the head with it” then “they threw him into the hole, and buried…