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Tech News Oobject.com Mar 4

Chocolate-Dispensing Machine Drops a Bar Every Time Someone Drops a Swearword

Click to view Using a Cadbury’s chocolate dispenser you can pick up for around $10, a loving boyfriend hacked it so it’d only release a bar when the recipient girlfriend’s Twitter friends tweeted a swearword. Before her friends cottoned on and spammed her feed with rude words, she could flick and switch to reveal the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 4

Muslim Student Suing the FBI for Secretly Tracking Him

Late last year, Yasir Afifi, 20, a Muslim-American college student in California discovered a GPS device the FBI attached to his car in order to track him and his activities. Now, Afifi is suing the FBI for placing the device without a warrant. Wouldn’t you? [Boing Boing]

Tech News Kwame Opam Mar 4

Barbara Corcoran: Here’s How I Turned $1,000 Into $70 Million

Barbara Corcoran held 22 different jobs before she got fed up with taking orders. So, she decided to be her own boss and started a real estate business called The Corcoran Group. Even though Corcoran had no experience whatsoever in real estate, she really did not want to work under anyone else’s reign. “I didn’t…

Tech News Sponsored post Mar 4

MTV Might Actually Help You Discover New Music Again With the Music Meter App

Would you believe me if I told you MTV might actually help you find some new music to listen to? Not by playing videos on their TV station, of course, but with their free new Music Meter app for iOS and Android. Basically you can browse a chart of new trending artists (or hunt around…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Mar 4

This iPad App Lets You Manipulate Real Microscopic Particles—With Lasers

The iPad has been steadily becoming more entrenched in the medical community, but maybe in no more fun way than this new app from researchers at the Universities of Glasgow and Bristol. The app links your iPad to “optical tweezers” that use lasers to manipulate microscopic particles. The interface is familiar—pinch to zoom, tilt to…

Tech News Brian Barrett Mar 4

Research proves online gaming at work is good for you – and for your boss

Are you in danger of getting fired because of too much gaming at work? If so, here’s a scientific study you need to know about (and perhaps slip into the “to-read” pile on your boss’s desk): “Games at work: the recreational use of computer games during working hours.” In this study, the European author (+1…

io9 Meredith Carpenter and Lillian Fritz-Laylin Mar 4

First full-length trailer for Super: Rainn Wilson’s DIY superhero is like Kick-Ass, only twice as cracked-out

The first theatrical trailer for Super is out, and it’s looking like this year’s Kick-Ass is twice as demented and messed up. Partly because Rainn Wilson is just so preposterous as a DIY superhero, and the catchphrase, “Shut up, crime!” is total inspired lunacy. And Ellen Page is pure win as his kid sidekick. Also,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 4

Ubisoft’s Kinky Swinger Sex Game Gets a 12+ Age Rating

Man, we were kind of excited to invite all our friends over to play We Dare and spank/sleep with their girlfriends and wives, but now that the European game rating agency PEGI has slapped a 12 years and up rating on the game, why bother? The rationale behind the kid-friendly label is that you don’t…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 4

Morena Baccarin: I studied lizard sex videos on Youtube to prepare to play Anna

Morena Baccarin was our favorite Companion on Firefly, and now she’s an inscrutable lizard queen on V. How does she manage to play a character who ostensibly has no human emotion, but grapples with tons of family drama? And more to the point, how does all of that lizard mating and reproduction actually work? We…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 4

Samsung Chief Calls Galaxy Tab 10.1 ‘Inadequate’

Samsung’s mobile VP Lee Don-Joo has taken a look at the iPad 2 and decided that his own Galaxy Tab 10.1 isn’t up to scratch. Speaking to the Korean Yonhap news agency, he said that “We will have to improve the parts that are inadequate.” Further, Samsung was planning on selling the ten-inch Tab for…

Gadgets Charlie Sorrel - Wired Mar 4

Computer parts will soon be clad in diamond and silver armor. Really.

Computers are always getting smaller and more powerful, but shrinking things down isn’t just a matter of developing better electronics. A great number of practical things need to be considered when cramming technology into a small space. For example, the simple need to keep things cool. More powerful stuff pushed closer together without just the…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 4

HarperCollins Forcing Libraries To Re-Buy Ebooks After 26 Checkouts

C’mon HarperCollins. C’mon. We know that books aren’t flying off shelves like they used to, but you’re not helping matters with policies like this—setting your ebooks to lock up after 26 rentals and forcing libraries to buy a new copy to keep them on shelves. Ugh. The publisher’s rationale is this: physical books wear out—HarperCollins…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Mar 4

New Dylan Dog trailer is saved by lovable zombie Sam Huntington

The Dylan Dog movie, otherwise known as Dead Of Night, has been hounded by negative press for years. But this latest trailer makes the supernatural thriller look kind of cute, mostly thanks to Being Human’s Sam Huntington. Watch it now. Brandon Routh is Dylan Dog supernatural detective and peacekeeper in the live action adaptation of…

Movies Meredith Woerner Mar 4

Watch Grapes Turn to Raisins in 30 Seconds

Filmmaker James Knott spent three full months patiently producing this thirty second time-lapse short of grapes turning into raisins. How did he do it? James used a Sony VX2100 Mini DV video camera on “interval record” mode and then set it to shoot a half second of video every 10 minutes. By the time the…

Television Richard Blakeley Mar 4

Newly Sold Verifone Credit Card Swipers Will All Work With Your NFC-Enabled Phone

Verifone, the company that makes credit card swipers, has said they’re going to put NFC into all their new models, so that you can use your phone to pay for things where you now use a credit card. Not impressed? Here’s fourteen reasons why you should be. [Gigaom]

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 4

Studio-Quality Guitar Input for GarageBand on iPad or Mac Costs Under $100

Apple showed everyone how GarageBand for iPad can teach non-players how to strum like a pro, but if you’ve already got a guitar (and the skills), this $99 Apogee JAM studio-quality input can connect the two together. It also works with Macs, iPhones and iPod Touches, via the dock connector or USB port, and the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 4

Limitless clip pits Bradley Cooper’s super brain against a blind man with a gun

How will the smart drug NZT change your life? It could send a crazy blind gunman after you. Watch as the mentally enhanced Bradley Cooper gets creative with a piano, in this exclusive fight scene from Limitless. That’s one point Cooper, two points piano. We didn’t know Limitless was going to get this violent, but…

Movies Meredith Woerner Mar 4

Watch Steve Jobs Take Advantage of Little Kids

I feel the recent in-app-purchase issue where kids are charging hundreds or thousands of dollars in fees by buying game items in real-world money can best be expressed in animated video form. Luckily, the Taiwanese are happy to oblige.

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 4

Captain Jack Sparrow becomes a lizard with an existential crisis, in Rango

You’ll see a lot of movies about heroes struggling to find their place in the world this year. But only Rango, the movie starring Johnny Depp as an existentially challenged chameleon, really delves to the bottom of the hero’s soul. Rango is a new stoner cult classic in the making. It’s expressly designed for you…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 4

Oobject Abandoned Hospitals Gallery

Chocolate-Dispensing Machine Drops a Bar Every Time Someone Drops a Swearword

Muslim Student Suing the FBI for Secretly Tracking Him

Barbara Corcoran: Here’s How I Turned $1,000 Into $70 Million

MTV Might Actually Help You Discover New Music Again With the Music Meter App

This iPad App Lets You Manipulate Real Microscopic Particles—With Lasers

Research proves online gaming at work is good for you – and for your boss

First full-length trailer for Super: Rainn Wilson’s DIY superhero is like Kick-Ass, only twice as cracked-out

Ubisoft’s Kinky Swinger Sex Game Gets a 12+ Age Rating

Morena Baccarin: I studied lizard sex videos on Youtube to prepare to play Anna

Samsung Chief Calls Galaxy Tab 10.1 ‘Inadequate’

Computer parts will soon be clad in diamond and silver armor. Really.

HarperCollins Forcing Libraries To Re-Buy Ebooks After 26 Checkouts

New Dylan Dog trailer is saved by lovable zombie Sam Huntington

Watch Grapes Turn to Raisins in 30 Seconds

Newly Sold Verifone Credit Card Swipers Will All Work With Your NFC-Enabled Phone

Studio-Quality Guitar Input for GarageBand on iPad or Mac Costs Under $100

Limitless clip pits Bradley Cooper’s super brain against a blind man with a gun

Watch Steve Jobs Take Advantage of Little Kids

Captain Jack Sparrow becomes a lizard with an existential crisis, in Rango

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