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SwiftKey Is Embedding Itself in Your Dash

Popular Android predictive keyboard SwiftKey is about to pop up in a whole different series of devices, with the text entry system set to appear in the Clarion AX1 Android-based car entertainment system. It’ll allow passengers and distracted drivers to access the web and send messages in usual SwiftKey style. The Clarion AX1 is a…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - Gizmodo UK

How Many Humans Would a T-Rex Need to Eat Every Day to Survive?

If Jurassic Park taught us anything, it’s that humans are easy prey for T-Rex. But just how many human beings would such a dino need to chow down on every day just to survive? Some math by Randall Munroe reveals that it’s not as many as you might think. Tyrannosaurus rex weighed about as much…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Valve Wants to Create Standardized, Affordable VR Controllers

Virtual Reality can be great, but it’s expensive and highly proprietary. That might soon change, though, because Valve apparently wants to create an affordable and standardized systemfor in-game VR control. The BBC reports that Valve will unveil a software development kit at Steam Dev Days which starts on January 15th. According to Valve designer Brian…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Bloomberg: Samsung Galaxy S5 Due April, Maybe With Eye-Scan Security

If you’re holding out for the next Android superphone, you may only have a few months to wait. Samsung has spoken out about its upcoming devices in a long interview with Bloomberg, and it plans to have the S5 out by April. Speaking to Bloomberg, Lee Young Hee, executive vice president of Samsung’s mobile business,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Roppongi Street Noise

Corruption is out of control. Not the phenomenon of fraudulent conduct among the powerful, but Corruption the prolific and acquisitive sound recorder based in Funabashi, Japan. With no additional contact or web-presence information made available, Corruption’s SoundCloud account (avatar: the compacted “corrption“) is a steady stream of daily noises and lo-fi electronic music, 324 tracks…

Tech News Marc Weidenbaum

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: The Dangers of Flossing

Remember kids, if your gums are bleeding when you finish flossing, you’re either pushing too hard or not hard enough.

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

WWE Has Its Own Network Now, And It’s an All You Can Suplex Buffet

At an event at CES, WWE Chairman and frequent in-ring bad guy Vince McMahon announced that his cadre of professional wrestlers were getting their very own digital network. And it’s only (no really, only) 10 bucks a month. The network will feature exclusive content and the usual expected range of live options, but it’ll also…

Tech News Brian Barrett

This Toothbrush Is a Vibrator You Stick In Your Mouth

Swedish company Foreo’s got a silicone toothbrush called Issa. It vibrates like your Sonicare, and comes in woozy pastel colors. Let’s not kid ourselves: this is a sex toy disguised as a dental revolution. Look at this thing. If somebody handed you this rod and told you to stick it into one of your bodily…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Happy Birthday David Bowie, Let’s Watch Some Labyrinth

A veritable Odin among rock gods, mightier than mere Rolling Stones, more talented than any formerly known Princes, the incomparable David Bowie turns 67 today. To celebrate, sit on down, shave off your eyebrows and watch Ziggy himself steal a baby (and our hearts) as the Goblin King in Jim Henson’s 1986 classic Labyrinth. [Google…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Giant ice balls in Lake Michigan look like dirty alien eggs hatching

It’s cold out there, guys. So cold that lakes are so frozen that they look like they’re from the Moon. So cold that freaking grounds explode. But now that it’s a little less cold, the ice is melting from our frigid Earth and forming giant ice balls in our lakes. Here is the balls on…

Sploid Casey Chan

Hands On the MOSS Robotic Building Toy: A Kickstarter That Delivers

If the phrase ‘caveat emptor’ (aka buyer beware) applies to anything, it’s Kickstarter and other crowdfunded products. Wonderful things are promised by optimistic designers, inventors, and marketers, but rarely are they delivered. That’s not the case with Modular Robotics’ new MOSS robotic building toy, however. Having already successfully brought its Cubelets to market, the company…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

This tingly cold pair of underwear will make your sperm swim better

Your underwear can save your sperm. Or at least that’s what Snowballs believes. What’s Snowballs? A type of cooling underwear that basically uses ice packs for “scrotal cooling”. Ball air conditioning, basically. It’s for the kids. The idea behind the underwear is that tests of men with fertility problems tend to “be naturally warmer by…

Sploid Casey Chan

Sleep Number’s IQ Bed Can Silence a Snoring Bedmate

Devices that collect all kinds of fitness and health metrics populated the halls of CES this year, but Sleep Number revealed one of the more intriguing options with its new x12 bed featuring the company’s SleepIQ technology. In addition to providing as comfy a night’s sleep as possible through a series of inflatable cushions and…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Visiting the Downtown Project’s New Vegas Parks: Pretty, But Private

On the Downtown Project’s website, among several lofty goals—such as adding ground-level density and creating passionate communities for downtown Las Vegas—one goal sticks out as a bit different, if not simply odd: “Create the shipping container capital of the world.” I am not sure that title is something any other city or neighborhood has laid…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Hoover Dam Is a Super-Gadget That Keeps the Lights in Vegas Burning

One of the ironies of CES, hosted here in Las Vegas, is that the largest and perhaps most spectacular gadget we could all be covering is nearly 80 years old, weighs 6.6 million tons, and supplies much of the electricity fueling the devices on display at the trade show. It’s Hoover Dam, and it’s been…

Tech News Geoff Manaugh

Screw Your Murphy Bed, This One Flips Over Into a Desk

Would you ever walk into a stranger’s home and ask to buy the necklace draped on their side table? Or offer to give them cash for some of their cutlery? No? Well, meet Mira Schröder. She lives in an apartment that functions as a part-time showroom, where everything—including the amazing flippable bed above—is available for…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

Nikon Just Put Me in a Video Game and It Was Totally Insane

I finally fulfilled my childhood dream and it made me feel like a kid again: I played a video game as myself in the freaking game. It was beyond incredible and so weird, but oodles of fun. This is the best thing. Alexx Henry teamed up with Nikon to create this xxArray camera system that…

Tech News Casey Chan

This New Worm-Inspired Surgical Glue Can Mend Wet, Squishy Heart Tissue

The great irony of trying to fix ruptured blood vessels is that you have to suture or staple, basically poking holes in the very thing you’re trying to mend. But now, scientists have developed a light-activated glue for mending internal wounds that is pretty darn incredible. Just how incredible? Let’s count the ways in which…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

These Are the Brains of the Next Bitcoin Mining Monster

In just a few short years, bitcoin mining has come a long way, from CPUs, to GPUs, to specialized, single purpose, system-on-a-chip beasts. There’s still progress to be made, though, more efficient mining marvels to build. This is that progress. Meet the (prototype) brains of an insane digital drill. What you see above is part…

Tech News Eric Limer

Reddit Has a Burgeoning Gun Market and Its Sales Numbers Are Shocking

Reddit’s great for many things: funny pictures, interesting factoids, revealing crowd-sourced interviews. Also, assault rifles. Mother Jones just published an unnerving investigation into the little known gun market tucked into the GunsForSale subreddit, and the numbers are disturbing. According to the magazine’s research, the site has hosted at least 159 transactions since last June, nearly…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

SwiftKey Is Embedding Itself in Your Dash

How Many Humans Would a T-Rex Need to Eat Every Day to Survive?

Valve Wants to Create Standardized, Affordable VR Controllers

Bloomberg: Samsung Galaxy S5 Due April, Maybe With Eye-Scan Security

Roppongi Street Noise

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: The Dangers of Flossing

WWE Has Its Own Network Now, And It’s an All You Can Suplex Buffet

This Toothbrush Is a Vibrator You Stick In Your Mouth

Happy Birthday David Bowie, Let’s Watch Some Labyrinth

Giant ice balls in Lake Michigan look like dirty alien eggs hatching

Hands On the MOSS Robotic Building Toy: A Kickstarter That Delivers

This tingly cold pair of underwear will make your sperm swim better

Sleep Number’s IQ Bed Can Silence a Snoring Bedmate

Visiting the Downtown Project’s New Vegas Parks: Pretty, But Private

Hoover Dam Is a Super-Gadget That Keeps the Lights in Vegas Burning

Screw Your Murphy Bed, This One Flips Over Into a Desk

Nikon Just Put Me in a Video Game and It Was Totally Insane

This New Worm-Inspired Surgical Glue Can Mend Wet, Squishy Heart Tissue

These Are the Brains of the Next Bitcoin Mining Monster

Reddit Has a Burgeoning Gun Market and Its Sales Numbers Are Shocking

Logitech Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo Falls Under $25, a Budget Bundle Deal in the Final Hours of Spring Sale

Liquids Crack With an Audible Snap, Study Finds

Dyson V15 Detect Plus Cordless Vacuum Is a Late Spring Sale Deal at a Record Low on Amazon

The New ‘Supergirl’ Trailer Is Filled With Krypto, Lobo, and ’60s Soul

Vaping Comes With a Cancer Risk, Review Finds

ASUS Eye Care Monitor Hits an All-Time Low, Only Hours Left to Grab a 27″ Screen at a 15.6″ Budget Price on Amazon

How to Watch Artemis 2, NASA’s First Crewed Mission to the Moon in 54 Years

KitchenAid 4.5-Quart Stand Mixer Is Back at Its Lowest Price, a Last-Minute Spring Sale Deal Outside Amazon Prime Day

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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

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