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This involves a meticulous combination of dots plus a mini-leap of faith but a LG phone with the name D820 just cleared the ranks of the FCC. Usually this wouldn’t mean much to us but it does sort of, kind of look like the mysterious Nexus phone that popped up in the Android Kit Kat…
You already know what’s going to happen. Tim Cook will get on stage next week, Jony Ive will wax poetic about chamfered edges, Phil Schiller will be his jolly self and a new iPhone will be announced to the world. It’ll look a lot like the iPhone we already know but Apple will find some…
Most folks pick up the pace or seek cover when the skies open up and it starts to pour, but that’s precisely when Gustavo Sousa takes to the streets to collect some creative inspiration. The Brazil-born, NY-based art director uses h20 sent straight from the heavens for his Rain Paintings, a series of small watercolor…
Does this video remind you of being drunk, dizzy, or in some woozy dream-state? Whatever feeling it conjers, you’ve definitely never seen animated photos like this before. Dancing Ghosts is a wonderful flight of fancy made up of sequential long-exposure photographs by Micaël Reynaud that were interpolated—essentially blended together with editing software—to create the weird…
Time may just be a social construct, but it’s one of the rare bits of humanity that will more or less always remain constant. However, the same cannot be said for our timepieces that no longer tell time—our ever-evolving watches. As convenient and functional as they might be, smartwatches lack the romanticism of traditional watches.…
Every other startup out there is trying to become the new big thing in email, but what we get more often than not is a bunch of half-baked tweaks that sound nice on paper but don’t really do all that much to change the experience. Ping, however, actually is probably unlike any other email client…
The ARPANET made its first host-to-host connection on October 29, 1969 and from there slowly grew into a behemoth, laying the groundwork for our modern internet. The good folks over at Smithsonian magazine recently GIF’d the growth of the ARPANET from 1969 to 1977. But why stop there? Inspired by their wonderful GIFferings we made…
Not too long ago, real-life Tony Stark Elon Musk was talking on Twitter about wanting to design rocket parts using something awfully like the 3D hologram interface we’ve seen in Iron Man. Well here it is—complete with Leap Motion. It’s not quite there, but it’s still freakin’ awesome. https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-wants-to-build-the-iron-man-hologram-ui-for-r-1195302990 When the Leap Motion first came…
Laugh if you will at the absurdity of a dock that can charge and store ten different devices, but if you stop and actually count how many things you need to plug in every night, it stops being so absurd. By now most households have at least a few smartphones, gaming devices, and a couple…
According to a report for the Wall Street Journal, Apple is currently testing iPhone screen sizes as big as six inches. But don’t get too freaked out; they won’t be coming at the event next week. Six inches is reportedly the upper limit of Apple’s iPhone ambitions, but it’s not the only option Apple’s allegedly…
Your 11-year-old self appears at your office. He or she takes a look at what you’ve become—some desk-jockey with yesterday’s Panera Bread crumbs on their cheek, some dystopian deformity of the 11-year-old who built their own time machine just to come see you. He or she doesn’t cry, but you can tell, they’re quite disappointed.…
If you come across a globe these days, chances are it was probably found at a flea market or antique store. But there is one studio in London that continues the tradition of building spherical maps of the world. And here’s a look at how it all goes down. Before you write this off as…
A team of 20 researchers from University of Alberta proudly announced a commendable achievement on Thursday. Using no fewer than five different experimental methods, they’ve discovered over 3,000 different chemical compounds in human urine. And it only took them seven years. Urine analysis sounds pretty gross at first. When you really think about it, though,…
Up until now, Chrome’s Web Apps have been trapped in your browser, living with the rest of your internet like glorified tabs. Well, Google’s putting an end to that today. A new breed of Chrome Apps is here, and they live on your desktop. Like old-school Chrome Apps, these new ones can sync between devices,…
Welcome to the future! a Samsung rep proclaimed during the company’s new product presentation in Berlin yesterday. Yes, something out of sci-fi! he beamed. The rep was wearing the new Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch, proudly showing it off for the journalists in the room and the tech geeks watching along at home. The future has…
Bad news, America. All that effort you and your favorite companies have put into encrypting data was for nothing. After spending billions on research and supercomputers, the NSA can now get around almost any type of encryption according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Nothing is safe. Against the government’s wishes, The New York Times,…
“The cure for Ryan Leaf is, unfortunately, not being Ryan Leaf,” says John Cagney Nash on Playboy Safe for Work. Read the fascinating and saddening confession of former NFL player Ryan Leaf as written by his cell mate. https://playboysfw.kinja.com/ryan-leafs-jailhouse-confessions-written-by-his-cell-1254883817
It makes sense that the superheroes (and supervillains) with the best toys also happen to have access to billions of dollars to fund their exploits. The fact of the matter is, you’re probably never going to own a life-size flying Iron Man suit. And instead of sulking about it, you should be happy that this…
The biggest volcano ever found on Earth—one of the biggest we know of in the solar system—has been hidden for ages. But now scientists have found it, just chillin’ beneath the sea. It’s a monster. Tamu Massif sits on the floor of the Pacific off the east coast of Japan and occupies 119,000 square miles…
Since 2006, there have been 60,000 people killed in drug-related violence in Mexico. That’s actually a conservative estimate. Some think it’s closer to 70,000. And that may not include the missing, up to 10,000 more Mexicans who have simply vanished. In fact, if the new Memorial of the Victims of the Violence in Mexico listed…
