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There’s A Dating Site For Ghosts . . . So Yeah We Can All Go Home Now

Welp it’s been a good run. Nice work humanity, you produced a lot of cool stuff on the internet. But now that ghostsingles.com is live there isn’t much else to do. Time to learn how to rock climb or read War and Peace. When you join Ghost Single you enter important personal details like standing…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Are Lurking In Warm Florida Waters

This is just rough. A man who was setting crab traps in the saltwater Halifax River last week is the latest victim in a string of Florida deaths caused by the flesh-eating Vibrio Vulnificus bacteria. Vibrio Vulnificus is not new to Florida or the Gulf Coast region, and is garnering attention precisely because of a…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

What’s Your Most Positive Tech Support Experience?

One time I called Time Warner customer service because the internet was out in my apartment. The man I spoke to was friendly. He had information about an outage in my area. He had an estimate of how long it would be before service was restored. And he was allowed to tell me that estimate.…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Pencils Are Even More Deadly When They’re Actually Steel Nails

The thing I appreciate about The Slingshot Channel is that it always brings projects two or three iterations past what I would ever think to pursue. The pencil shooter Joerg made last week was more of a curiosity. Not the most deadly thing we’ve seen by a long shot. See what I did there? Anyway,…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Weirdly, A Reverse To-Do List Makes A Lot of Sense

It’s fun to check things off of a to-do list, but often what’s more important is remembering when you last did something. Is it time to change the water filter? Get a new toothbrush? Go to the doctor? If you had something in your calendar the last time you did it, it’s fairly easy to…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

A Robotic Petting Zoo Is Just as Creepy-Awesome as it Sounds

Petting zoos are fun, but they can also be kind of sketchy. Is that rabbit being attacked by too many five-year-olds? Is that goat depressed? It’s awkward. But if the tactile experience were coming from robots and AI you might really be able to enjoy yourself. Conveniently the London-based architecture and design studio Minimaforms, known…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Is There A 12-Inch Retina MacBook in the Pipeline?

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities has released predictions about Apple’s future laptop plans. Most notably he is forecasting that a 12-inch MacBook with a retina display will be announced in mid-2014, and that it will have a redesigned clamshell that is thinner and lighter than the current MacBook Airs. This is still definitely in…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Hanson: MMMBop

This song. This. Song. I mean really. But consider the video, too. There are gems in here, people. First of all, boy can these kids fit in the backseat of a car. Note also their ability to all ride simultaneously in what appears to be an Army Jeep. They also have fun on public buses.…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Make Kids Type-A From the Start With This Intense Toy Organizer

Childhood is about carefree play, but even kids have to move their crap out of the way sometime. Perhaps looking to lay down the law in a stylish way, Torafu Architects designed the koloro-wagon, which converts three stackable wooden baskets into a multi-tiered cart. The koloro-wagon is really cleverly designed so the hinged handles of…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Optical Illusions Make A Boring Desk Unexpectedly Amazing

Never Hide Films has been working with Ray Ban since 2007 to put out weird videos that make you think about the world differently. And ideally make you want to go buy sunglasses. This one, titled “Super Clever Sunglass Illusion,” has enough twists to keep the momentum going. And I don’t think it’s a spoiler,…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

What’s the Best Way to Find New Music on the Internet?

So obviously the internet is a super useful tool for finding new music. It’s a super useful tool for finding new anything. But there are so many music discovery things out there between Pandora, iTunes Radio, and like 30 different features in Spotify alone. So what’s your personal favorite way to find new tunes on…

Tech News Eric Limer

The Government Shutdown Has Created a Science Ghost Town at NIH

With days of the shutdown dragging on, projects and services across almost all government agencies are, you know, stalled. And the situation at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, MD is unstable, according to a report in Nature. Hundreds of experiments with animals and cell lines are in jeopardy because researchers can’t go to…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

The Weirdest Sites on the Web, Fox News’ Crazy Tablets, and More

It’s been a busy week, and even though you might not have an army of gargantuan tablets surrounding you with ridiculously upscaled information, you can still catch up on the news. Dive into our best stories of the week! Sneak Peek of SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow Last night, Gizmodo got a sneak peek at the…

Tech News Eric Limer

This Extra Button for Your Android Will Let You Program Secret Codes

We were super excited when we heard about Pressy—the extra button for your Android phone—a few months ago. Now its Kickstarter is hella funded, and it’s getting one more cool new feature: it can give your phone secret cheat codes. Thanks to some collaboration with the AutomateIt app, Pressy won’t just let you pick from…

Tech News Eric Limer

A Really Enormous Cyclone Is About To Hit India’s Eastern Coast

A huge storm, cyclone Phailin (pronounced: phie-lin), is approaching the states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh on the eastern coast of India and will probably also cause heavy rain in neighboring states. Indian authorities evacuated half a million people over the past few days as predictions about the storm grew more dire. Mother Jones reports…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Build Your Own LEGO Easy Rider

If you’re just getting started in the world of LEGO, it’s quite easy to be overwhelmed by the medium’s near limitless potential. That’s why you start small, with easy projects like this bricked-out motorbike from The LEGO Build It Book, Volume 2 by Nathanael Kuipers. All that’s missing is a minifig-sized Star Spangled helmet. Build…

Tech News Nathanael Kuipers

There Are 480GB-Worth Of Photos In This Epic Time Lapse Of Barcelona

There are tons of great city time lapses. When you combine beautiful, weird or iconic architecture with changing light at different times of day, and people speeding by you almost always get a winner. But its not easy to make these shorts. This time lapse of Barcelona, shot in the past few months from August…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Obamacare Customer Service Told Everyone To Reset Their Passwords

We’ve all done tech support for family members and it tends to start basic. Did you restart? Have you ever downloaded updates ever? Why are you trying to buy WD-40 from Amazon Japan? And often it’s as simple as resetting a password. But service reps for Healthcare.gov relied a little too heavily on that trick…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Sleeping In Public Just Keeps Getting Easier

Like ostriches themselves, the Ostrich Pillow is enigmatic and generally fascinating. Who would use it? Is it appropriate for children? Is it a sex toy? Hard to say! But it looks downright comfortable for napping. The only issue is carrying it. With that thing hanging out of your bag it’s pretty obvious that you’re getting…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

TWTIT: Smokie and Lady Chronus (NSFW)

When they said “sleep with the fishes,” I’m pretty sure they didn’t mean it in the biblical sense. This animated short of love, abandonment, revenge, and cannibalism was written and directed by Geoffrey Lillemon. It features “Smokies Tangle” by the Lumerians as its soundtrack, available on their 2013 album, The High Frontier.

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

There’s A Dating Site For Ghosts . . . So Yeah We Can All Go Home Now

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Are Lurking In Warm Florida Waters

What’s Your Most Positive Tech Support Experience?

Pencils Are Even More Deadly When They’re Actually Steel Nails

Weirdly, A Reverse To-Do List Makes A Lot of Sense

A Robotic Petting Zoo Is Just as Creepy-Awesome as it Sounds

Is There A 12-Inch Retina MacBook in the Pipeline?

Hanson: MMMBop

Make Kids Type-A From the Start With This Intense Toy Organizer

Optical Illusions Make A Boring Desk Unexpectedly Amazing

What’s the Best Way to Find New Music on the Internet?

The Government Shutdown Has Created a Science Ghost Town at NIH

The Weirdest Sites on the Web, Fox News’ Crazy Tablets, and More

This Extra Button for Your Android Will Let You Program Secret Codes

A Really Enormous Cyclone Is About To Hit India’s Eastern Coast

Build Your Own LEGO Easy Rider

There Are 480GB-Worth Of Photos In This Epic Time Lapse Of Barcelona

Obamacare Customer Service Told Everyone To Reset Their Passwords

Sleeping In Public Just Keeps Getting Easier

TWTIT: Smokie and Lady Chronus (NSFW)

Beats Solo 4 at 40% Off Is Now Apple’s Lowest-Cost Headphone Pick During Amazon’s Spring Sale

Now the Oscars Aren’t Just Moving to YouTube, They’re Moving Out of Hollywood

Fitbit Versa 4 Drops to a Record Low as Google Makes Another Push into Fitness Smartwatches Following the Pixel Watch

JBL Boombox 4 Speaker Didn’t Stay at Full Price for Long as Amazon’s Spring Sale Pushes It Close to Used Pricing

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C-3PO’s Head From ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Sold for a Cool Million

T-Mobile 5G Home Internet Delivers Fast Speeds, Low Monthly Prices and Cash Back

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

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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

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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