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Deals: $70 Mouse with $50 in Steam Credit, Tri-Clad Skillet, $830 iMac

Pick up your your choice for best gaming mouse, the Razer DeathAdder 2013 today, and Best Buy will pack in $50 of Steam credit with your purchase. For comparison’s sake, the DeathAdder currently goes for $50 on Amazon, so this is an excellent deal, and you won’t have any trouble spending that credit in the…

Tech News Shep McAllister

A Fridge That Gives You Retro Style Without the Giant Energy Bill

You might love the retro curves and contours of the old fridge you inherited from your grandmother, but that ancient appliance isn’t doing your monthly electric bill any favors. With GE’s new Artistry fridges you get the best of both worlds, though—modern and efficient refrigeration technology, plus subtle retro styling that isn’t overly hip. As…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

New Ninja Turtles trailer shows Shredder in action for the first time

Okay, these realistic teen turtles are way more badass than their cartoon forebears, as you can see in the second trailer for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. You also see a little bit of the villainous Shredder in action for the first time. I can’t wait for this movie, no matter how weird-looking…

Sploid Leslie Horn

What’s the Weirdest Computer Mouse You’ve Ever Seen?

Touchpads suck. They are obviously and infinitely inferior to the glory of the mouse. But that doesn’t mean there’s not any room for innovation in mouse-world. Plenty of folks have tried to improve on perfection with ergonomic-y joystick-like tricks and other strange tweaks. What’s the weirdest one you’ve ever come across? Some of them turn…

Gadgets Eric Limer

Why has Curiosity slowed down its course during its first Mars year?

The Mars Curiosity Rover has completed its first Mars year in the Red Planet—687 Earth days exploring and drilling on its way to its first destination—Murray Buttes. Overall, it’s been a Mars year full of successes, even if we haven’t found proof of life in Mars yet. But the rover has slowed down significantly. Why?…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

These Mesmerizing GIFs Are Visual Proof That Math Can Be Cool

Teachers looking for ways to convince their students that math isn’t a boring slog have a convincing new set of visuals: GIF makers are using mathematics to craft hypnotic moving images. Even outside a classroom, they’re fascinating. Physics student David Whyte posts his geometric GIFs to a Tumblr called Bees & Bombs. Whyte uses an…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

This Super Simple Tourniquet Will Save a Soldier’s Life in 25 Seconds

Throughout both the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, IEDs have been the leading cause of death and dismemberment for US servicemen and women—mostly because the pelvic and upper leg injuries that they generate can’t easily be treated with conventional tourniquets. That’s why a former combat medic went ahead and redesigned the device for 21st century combat.…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Robotic Forklift Valet Doesn’t Even Need To See Inside Your Messy Car

Travellers flying out of Duesseldorf airport in Germany no longer have to worry about valets taking their cars for a joyride before they’re parked. A robot valet nicknamed Ray starts work today, and he’ll automatically deliver cars to a set of designated spots without even having to start them. Ray doesn’t even need to enter…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Clever Reason Flag Emoji Count as Two Characters in Twitter

With World Cup fever in full swing, people have finally found a use for the flags tucked in the far corners of emoji keyboards. But patriotic tweeters can only fit at most 70 little flag icons in a 140-character tweet. What gives? Turns out, each flag emoji counts as two characters—and there’s a clever reason…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

ABC News Hits Apple TV With Live Streams and Exclusive Content

Today, ABC News is getting a standalone app for Apple TV. All of the content will be free to everybody. The new app lets you watch live streams as well as archived programming and even some exclusive content. The overall look fits within the standard Apple TV template interface, but the company says that it’s…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Create Gmail Filters As You Go For Inbox Nirvana

If you use Gmail as your day-to-day email system, chances are it’s a little disorganized. Although Google provides some powerful filtering tools, does anyone have time to make use of them? Just keeping up with the tide of incoming emails is difficult enough, but there are ways to filter and categorize messages as they arrive.…

Gadgets David Nield

The Best Tablet Display Isn’t On an iPad

The key element for a great tablet has always been a truly innovative and top performing display, and the best leading edge tablets have always flaunted their beautiful high tech displays. But Tablet displays are more challenging to produce because their large screens are three to four times the size of a smartphone. Up until…

Gadgets Dr. Raymond Soneira - DisplayMate Technologies

The 8 Coolest New Tricks Your Nest Can Do

Late last night, Nest announced its Developer Program: An initiative that’s going to allow more than 5,000 developers to tinker and build new Nest functionality. To kick things off, it’s launching with a handful of partner-enabled features, from your Benz telling your thermostat when you get close to home to your LIFX bulbs flashing red…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

I never thought that a pipe making machine could be so relaxing to watch

These perfect looping gifs by the great Orbo, show a machine making corrugated pipes hard at work. I’m all for gorgeous sunsets over the sea and stunning views from the top of a mountain but there is something with the never-ending movement of these mechanisms that gives peace t0 my heart. Here’s the original video,…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Get inside the weird mind of the X-Men garage gadget inventor

Colin Furze, the British garage inventor who develops real-life X-Men gadgets, got his own short documentary for the BBC explaining what goes on inside his mind. And it is pretty weird as you might expect considering he spends his spare time creating things like the world’s fastest toilet. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

Strangers slap each other’s faces in hilariously awkward video

Rememeber the complete strangers kissing video? This is the anti-strangers-kiss video—and it’s real, not a viral using actors. Screenwriter Max Landis gathered friends and acquaintances, paired them randomly and then asked them to hit each other in the face in this awkwardly fun video. Landis says his work is more than parody and is intended…

Sploid James Baker

iOS 7.1.1 Jailbreak Gets an Easy Video Tutorial

If you were excited by yesterday’s news of a jailbreak for iOS 7.1.1 but left a little nervous at the prospect of going through the ordeal alone, help is at hand: this video guides you through the whole process, start to finish. https://gizmodo.com/theres-finally-a-jailbreak-for-ios-7-1-1-1594893633 The instructions by Mac Mixing show you how to use the new…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How the Aged Vacuum Tube Could Save Moore’s Law

Moore’s Law is under threat. In the battle between chip designers and the laws of physics, it’s beginning to look like it won’t be long before it’s impossible to double the number of transistors on integrated circuits every two years. But there could be a solution, and it involves—of all things—good old vacuum tubes. We’re…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Soundhawk’s Smart Listening System Aims to Make Hearing Aids Cool

Here’s how hearing aids work today: Oh you can’t hear well? Stick this ugly thing inside your earhole. But in the view of a new company called Soundhawk, that’s all wrong. Better hearing can be cool. Soundhawk’s new Smart Listening System wants to change the way we experience hearing devices, and hopefully, open them up…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Where the Dollar Sign Comes From

This symbol first showed up in the 1770s, appearing in documents of English-Americans who had business dealings with Spanish-Americans. However, it wasn’t until the very early 1800s that it became popularized, around the same time as the first official U.S. dollars were being minted. Previous to this, the symbol had already been in use as…

Tech News Daven Hiskey - TodayIFoundOut.com.

Deals: $70 Mouse with $50 in Steam Credit, Tri-Clad Skillet, $830 iMac

A Fridge That Gives You Retro Style Without the Giant Energy Bill

New Ninja Turtles trailer shows Shredder in action for the first time

What’s the Weirdest Computer Mouse You’ve Ever Seen?

Why has Curiosity slowed down its course during its first Mars year?

These Mesmerizing GIFs Are Visual Proof That Math Can Be Cool

This Super Simple Tourniquet Will Save a Soldier’s Life in 25 Seconds

Robotic Forklift Valet Doesn’t Even Need To See Inside Your Messy Car

The Clever Reason Flag Emoji Count as Two Characters in Twitter

ABC News Hits Apple TV With Live Streams and Exclusive Content

Create Gmail Filters As You Go For Inbox Nirvana

The Best Tablet Display Isn’t On an iPad

The 8 Coolest New Tricks Your Nest Can Do

I never thought that a pipe making machine could be so relaxing to watch

Get inside the weird mind of the X-Men garage gadget inventor

Strangers slap each other’s faces in hilariously awkward video

iOS 7.1.1 Jailbreak Gets an Easy Video Tutorial

How the Aged Vacuum Tube Could Save Moore’s Law

Soundhawk’s Smart Listening System Aims to Make Hearing Aids Cool

Where the Dollar Sign Comes From

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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