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Apple Cuts the Price of Thunderbolt Cables

Apple has decided to cut the price of its exorbitantly priced Thunderbolt cables. Its 2-meter cable has fallen in price from a painful $50 to an only-slightly-more-palatable $40. It has also started selling a new, shorter Thunderbolt cable—measuring 0.5 meters—which costs $30. Less reason to buy those cheap knock-off cables, at least. [9to5mac]

Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile will all offer RIM’s new BB10 devices—the first of which will be announced January 30th.

Morrissey Being a Dick, Fun Facts about Sloths, and the Science of Color Vision

Slam Dunk Supertramp Style Who needs athletic ability when you’ve got a giant trampoline? True Facts About Sloths(es) You know you hate them, don’t lie. That Time Morrissey Was a Total Dick to John Cho To be fair, Morrissey obviously didn’t recognize John Cho at the time. [The Awesomer] The Hows and Whys of Our…

This Amazing Quick-Draw iPhone Sleeve Will Stop You from Ever Missing a Call

Inspired by Taxi Driver, no doubt, a Japanese man chose to make a quick-draw sleeve gun-type system for his iPhone. It guarantees quick access to his iPhone—phone calls would never ever be missed. Hell, phone calls might not even need to ring before he picks it up. I love how he had so many different…

Give Your iPhone 5 a Pro-Quality Mic with the Zoom iQ5

The iPhone 5’s capable of capturing really impressive video with its 8MP camera but the accompanying sound quality isn’t all that great. But with this new add-on mic from Zoom, your iPhone 5 videos will finally have the audio they deserve. The iQ5 is a Mid-Side stereo mic compatible with iOS 6.0 and above, connecting…

Here’s Your First Look At Monoprice’s Insanely Cheap Action Camera

So this is crazy. Monoprice is coming out with a $100 action camera next month. Yeah, the company best known for their ridiculously cheap and awesome HDMI cables sells a bunch of other super high quality gear, like the MHD Action Camera. The ruggedized barrel shaped camera shoots full HD (1920×1080) video at 30 fps…

Going Inside the DayGlo Factory Is a Mind Bending Colorful Trip

Byte Size Science took a tour inside the DayGlo Pigment Plant to show how DayGlo makes all of its fluorescent colors. It’s pretty fascinating—the color becomes taffy textured and then solidified by cooling and then ground up to be like sand and then ground up again to be between 3-5 microns in diamater. And it’s…

Apophis Asteroid May Destroy Some Satellites In 2029

The deadly asteroid Apophis is safely passing by Earth today, more than 9 million miles (14.5 million kilometers) from our home planet. Next time we won’t be so lucky. On April 13, 2029, Apophis will come so close that it may destroy satellites in orbit. The European Space Agency’s Herschel space observatory has acquired new…

It’s Okay To Lust After Hex’s Snakeskin Headphones

The invitation to CES could say “please join us to look at infinite stupid iPad cases and ugly headphones,” and it wouldn’t be misleading. But amidst all the crap are some beautiful things like Hex’s newest line of headphones. These snake skin cans have 40mm drivers, 20Hz – 20,000Hz frequency response, and all around they’re…

Microsoft Surface Pro Hands-On: This Is What It Should Have Been All Along

Surface RT was an enormous letdown—not because it was bad, but because it could have been so, so good. But Microsoft brought the Pro version to Vegas and let us play—and I couldn’t be happier. To be blunt, Surface Pro makes RT look like a mistake. Surface RT was a mistake—but fortunately for Microsoft (and…

This is how the primordial Earth looked — right after the mega-collision that formed the Moon

This stunning, lava-saturated painting by science artist Richard Bizley is a portrait of one of the most devastating disasters ever to befall planet Earth (click to enlarge). During the early days of our solar system, astronomers speculate that a protoplanet about the size of Mars smashed into the Earth, launching so much debris into space…

PornEdits Transforms Porn Scenes into Ridiculous Comics with MS Paint

I don’t know what it is about MS Paint but it instantly lightens up any picture. It works like magic! Just take a look at PornEdits, a website that takes porn scenes and transforms them into hilarious comics with the (lack of) power of MS Paint. I can’t get enough of it. Surprisingly, it’s not…

Big Bird Will Teach Your Kid To Read Using Qualcomm’s Augmented Reality Tech

Were American children just totally illiterate before Sesame Street? Because the creators of the children’s show have great tools for teaching kids how to read—like an upcoming augmented reality app called Big Bird’s Words. Our yellow feathered friend’s app is powered by a Qualcomm text recognition technology called Vuforia. It works like a game, challenges…

Celestron’s Virtuoso Telescope Mount Captures the Stars Above or Gigapixel Images Here On Earth

Celestron has taken its expertise in designing telescope mounts that can track and pan with the motion of the stars and created a cheaper, lightweight version called the Virtuoso that can also be used with a camera to capture massive multi-shot images. The company is basically muscling its way into GigaPan’s turf providing photographers who…

Toshiba’s OLED Computer Watch Concept Is Stuck In Dick Tracy Time

Smart gadgets you can wear are all the rage, but Toshiba’s Computer Graphics Watch prototype kind of misses the point. The hulking watch has a watch 320 x 100 OLED and is powered by an ARM processor and is designed to pair with your smartphone via Bluetooth. It’s huge, like fancy rich guy watch except…

How Science Fiction Book Covers Moved From Cheese to High Art… and Back Again

Over in The Atlantic, there’s a great quick-and-dirty history of the science fiction book cover, courtesy of the folks at SF bookstore Singularity & Co. Starting with the pulpy artwork of artists like Frank R. Paul and others, the covers progressed into some fairly cartoony images of aliens and rocketships in the 1950s, before embracing…

You want more female celebs as Avengers? Here are more female celebs as Avengers

It was only a couple of weeks ago that the photoshopped pic of Alison Brie in a Captain America uniform made the Internet explode with awesomeness. Happily, the Avengeresses (or whatever) don’t stop there — check out Amer Heard as a terrifyingly gorgeous Thor (or maybe Valkyrie if you want to get nitpicky about it),…

Never get too attached to a cute dog in a horror movie

Here’s your first clip from The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia, the movie they couldn’t just call The Haunting in Georgia for some reason. Two things are clear from this scene: 1) That dog is probably not going to make it to the end of the movie. 2) This film is really committing…

Watching Celebrities Read The Mean Tweets People Send Them Is Always Hilarious

Every celebrity gets made fun of, yelled at, threatened, prodded, dragged in mud and pretty much virtually smacked in the face by people on Twitter. The tweets can be brutal! So Jimmy Kimmel got a bunch of celebrities to read some of the hate tweets they get from random people. This is the third time…

RCA’s SoundFlow Dock Throws Off the Shackles of Wireless and Tethered Connections

Wouldn’t it be grand if you could just plop your smartphone down on a speaker dock and not have to worry about attaching an adapter cable, connecting to a wireless network, or firing up Bluetooth and pairing both devices? RCA has done away with all that hassle with its new SoundFlow alarm clock that simply…