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Fantasy sports! Fantastic photography! A radio fantasia! All of these and more, in this week’s best iPhone apps. Yahoo Fantasy Sports: If you’re already a fantasy sports fan, chances are you’ve used Yahoo’s Fantasy Sports app before. The most notable change is the ability to take care of Draft Day entirely on your phone. You’ll…
Everybody lies to their doctors. We say that we drink less than we do. We tell her we quit smoking when we didn’t. But what if the doctor knew more about what goes into your mouth than you do? That’s the idea behind a new Bluetooth-ready fake tooth that works as an oral sensory system.…
Despite the strong feelings Don Draper harbors for them, projectors have never been particularly moving pieces of technology. LG’s new portable projector, though, has charisma. This elegant little device looks more like a 1950s camera than a gadget from 2013. But first, the specs. The PG65U is a portable LED projector with an external battery,…
“They celebrated the first successful cryogenic freezing. He had no way of letting them know he was still conscious.” —from a series of two-sentence horror tales.
This week’s time capsule round-up includes an arson investigation that turned up a Jazz Age time capsule, a beer keg filled with kids’ predictions for the future, and a town of retirees that must be worried paperweights could become extinct. The one thing that I was expecting to find this week but didn’t? A royal…
It’s known by many names. White whiskey, new make, white lightning, unaged whiskey, “straight from the still.” Some even call it moonshine. To us, it’s white dog, a unique spirit with a lot of diversity and character. It’s time we got to know it and talked about what you can do with it. It’s Friday…
Foldable boats were invented to be convenient — a boat when you want one, a strangely-shaped lump in your garage when you don’t. But the convenience is lost when you have to spend the best part of a perfect fishing day trying to assemble the dumb thing. Enter the aptly named Quickboat, which goes from…
The newest installment in the saga ofthe Southwest 737 airplane that skidded to a fiery halt as its nose gear collapsed during landing gives us markedly different perspective than we’ve seen thus far. This time, personal footage has been released from one of the passengers onboard who just happened to be filming as things went…
At some point, the world of 3D printing had to fold back onto itself, leaving us all slack-jawed and wondering when 3D printers will start printing things for printers themselves? That moment is now. InkFactory, a British printing supplies company, recently showed off the capability to 3D print inkjet printer cartridges. It was as easy…
If you ordered Google Chromecast—that delightful yet limited media dongle announced on Wednesday—for the three months of free Netflix it came with, you might be disappointed to find out that the cutoff for the promotion was even earlier than you thought. Especially if you bought from Amazon. According to Amazon’s Chromecast product page, only orders…
The latest craze for cruel, privileged youth is to viciously slap their friends in the face, preferably with handfuls of stinging chemicals. Unlike earlier methods of popular cruelty, the new fad must be captured on video and posted to an increasingly popular new back alley of the Internet.
Ugh, sweat: Why does it stain our white shirts and ruin so much of our lives? The problem, it turns out, isn’t even the sweating. Sweat all you want and it won’t stain your white T-shirts! The secret actually has nothing to do with sweating and everything to do with your poor choices at the…
Considering we live in an era where the possession of too much hand sanitizer is enough to strike fear in the heart of airport security, you’d think passengers would exercise a little caution when it comes to carry on items—you know, like leaving the gun-shaped paraphernalia at home. You’d be wrong. This past week, one…
What does it take to build a habitable structure at the bottom of the world? Quite a bit of technology, for starters. The climate of the extreme south and north poles is unlike any other. Unstable ice, immense snowfall and incredibly low temperatures can—literally, in at least one case—chew up and spit out entire buildings.…
So you’re thinking about sending a dick pic. Congratulations! There comes a time in every man’s life when this thought crosses his mind. This very website has even implied that it’s ok to send a sex organ selfie to any asshole in your phone book. But before you hit send on this message of your…
The best point and shoot camera for under $1000 can be yours today for $554. The Sony RX100 received a stellar review from Gizmodo and was placed at the top of its category by The Wirecutter. The successor to this shooter is also available for $200 more. [Amazon] If you’re not looking for a new…
Without any apparent way to make it actually happen, a new company claims to be developing giant hologram people for your living room entertainment. Naturally, the company would also like you to pay for the development of this technology, using an existing technology that separates you from your money.
Gosh! I wonder which emoji is trending on Twitter right now! I wish there was some sort of online tool that tracked such a thing! Oh, there is! Praise jeebus for emojitracker.com! Why anyone would want to know which emoji is trending in real-time on Twitter is beyond any normal human being’s comprehension. But here…
Holograms have always been a quick, easy way for movies to tell us they’re taking place in the future. As soon as you see someone talking with a human-sized hologram, you realize there’s no way you’ll ever be able to do that, and a part of you dies. Now, a company on Kickstarter promises to…
We wished the new superhero movie The Wolverine—full of ninjas and samurais—to be an outstanding movie but alas, it’s a bad one. As Charlie Jane Anders tells in her io9 review, it’s not much better than the first Wolverine, which was really bad. Mr. Jackman, life needs more cheerful musicals, less raging fury.
