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7 Bizarre Apple Products That Were Just Too Weird to Exist

You can’t always be at the top your game, and Apple is no exception. As we eagerly await today’s WWDC reveals, it’s fun to remember that for every hit there’s a handful of slightly more questionable ideas that just never quite clicked. Here are the seven of weirdest Apple gadgets that just weren’t good enough…

J.J. Abrams confirms likely Star Wars: Episode VII filming plans!

Joss Whedon may have found a kick-ass Quicksilver for The Avengers 2. A new rumor suggests Spider-Man will be fighting a whole crew of villains in Amazing Spider-Man 3. TV spots show off Pacific Rim and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Plus more videos and interviews for Man of Steel! Spoilers are on the way! Top image…

On the run up to Father’s Day, you can snag a Nook HD for $130 or a Nook HD+ for $150. Not too shabby, especially now they place nice with Google.

Google’s Doodle Is a Lovely Maurice Sendak Birthday Tribute

When Maurice Sendak died in 2012, there were plenty of moving tributes—both written and crafted—celebrating his legacy. But today, which would have been his 85th birthday, Google has added another wonderful tribute to the list: a Google Doodle that leads us through his most-loved stories. The doodle begins with a 360-degree tour of Where the…

iRobot Makes It Easier To Show Up To Work While At Home In Your PJs

Email, the internet, and a host of other advancements in office technology have finally made the dream of working from home a reality. But sometimes you just need to be in the office, and thanks to a collaboration between iRobot and Cisco, you still don’t need to change out of your pajamas to get chewed…

Sustainable Wooden Speakers For Ethical Audiophiles

If you’re just as concerned by the origins of your technology as their quality, then these speakers could be just the thing you’re after. Designed by Neue Werkstatt, the NW3 speaker series combines audio hardware from danish audio company Peerless with cases handmade n a small German carpenters’ workshop using sustainably harvested pine wood. The…

Apple’s WWDC keynote will be streamed on Apple TV at 1PM ET. Head to the new “Apple Events” channel on the set-top box, grab some popcorn, and see what Cook and co have to offer up. You can also watch it through a browser—but you’ll need to use Opera.

Rumor: This Is What iOS 7 Will Look Like

9to5mac has had been given the chance to look at beta version of iOS 7—which Apple is set to announce later today—and this is what it apparently looks like. The image above is actually a mock-up created by 9to5mac after they saw a phone running the new OS; the source of the leak wouldn’t provide…

You Can Get Photoshop Lightroom 5 Now

The latest instalment of Photoshop’s younger and less-loved cousin, Lightroom, isup for grabs from Adobe’s website. It’s $150 to buy outright, or $80 if you’ve got a previous version of Lightroom. A photo organiser rather than editor, Lightroom still has some pretty sweet photo-retouching capabilities, especially if you want to do something like fix the…

The Butterfly Nebula Sure Looks Pretty

There’s nothing gentle or delicate about this butterfly. Despite its pleasant appearance, the Butterfly Nebula has a dying star at its center that has a temperature of 250,000 degrees C. The image, captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3, shows the bright cavity of ionized gas that surrounds the central star. Situated…

You Have to Wait a Full Two Years to Upgrade on AT&T Now

AT&T has announced that it’s extending its standard upgrade interval from 20 months to 24—the full stretch of most contracts. Anyone signing up for a new contract, or existing customers with contracts which wrap up in March or later, will have to deal with the full two year gap between phones, reports Engadget. The news…

After no small amount of speculation, it seems Goggle will finally acquire Waze for $1.3 billion.

A hacker blows up the government in Roland Emmerich’s latest trailer

We’ve been keeping our fingers crossed that Roland Emmerich’s new movie White House Down would contain some science-fictional insanity, given his over-the-top track record. And now, this new four-minute trailer reveals all. Basically, a hacker blows up the United States Capitol and Air Force One, using the power of computers. Look at how many screens…

Real Estate: All The Same

Real Estate is a New Jersey-based band that formed in 2008. Their big thing is cyclical riffs, which you can really hear in “All The Same.” I heard this song almost a year ago and it stuck with me, but I had no idea what it was. It would surface in my head every once…

WWDC 2013 Predictions: Here Comes iOS 7, But What Else? (Updated)

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) doesn’t kick off until tomorrow, but the internet’s been wildly speculating about the company’s plans for months. Some of it is almost definite (hello, flat design) and some of it’s absurd (stop it with this). Here are all the goodies we actually expect Tim Cook and his funky bunch throw…

This “comet factory” reveals first secrets of planetary formation

Planets have to start out somewhere, and the leading theory is that they begin as dust particles clumping together to form larger and larger building blocks, before finally emerging eons later as full-blown planets. But the exact physics that would allow such clumps to form has long been frustratingly unclear. That’s why new research of…

An Upbeat Take On Brain Imaging

Your brain is pretty important. If something’s wrong you want a doctor to be able to peer in and see what’s going on. But noninvasive scans are probably preferable to letting the spirits out of a little hole in your skull. Still, those scans usually have negative connotations, and Dutch painter Joris Kuipers is using…

Edward Snowden, the NSA Whistleblower, Explains Why He Did It

In an interview from Hong Kong with journalist Glenn Greenwald, 29-year-old NSA technologist Ed Snowden says that he leaked documents revealing that the NSA was wiretapping millions of innocent US citizens. If you want to understand the future of government, you must watch this video. Articulate and thoughtful, but obviously scared for his life, Snowden…

So wait, why don’t birds have penises?

Although all birds rely on internal fertilization for reproduction, the males of just 3% of bird species actually possess penises —instead, males and females alike invert and bring together their cloacas, a basic opening through which all the birds’ various bodily emissions pass. That’s particularly strange, because male birds do have the genetic coding necessary…

A Window Into Google’s Governing Design Principles

We all know Google design aesthetic from the products we consume, but it’s rare to get a look at the unifying themes and intentions from Google’s perspective. Usually insight about those things can only come from attempting to reverse engineer the design direction. And that’s probably not something that keeps you up nights. But now…