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This Awesome Credit Card-Sized iPhone Tripod Blew Me Away

Sometimes the simplest things are the most useful, but rarely something makes me shake my head at how clever and cool it is like the Pocket Tripod 360º has. I keep thinking “why didn’t someone do this before” and “what a great idea that I wish I’d thought of.” I’m still blown away that the…

25 Sun-Powered Charging Spots Will Ensure No New Yorker Goes Tweetless

There’s nothing worse than being stranded at the beach with a dead battery. But this summer, thanks to a pilot program sponsored by AT&T, no New Yorker will go without Snapchat again. The program will install 25 charging stations across the city, including parks and beaches, in a Parks Department-approved strategy to improve public infrastructure…

These Teched-Out Catamarans Will Guard the Great Barrier Reef

Simply naming an area like Australia’s Great Barrier Reef as a World Heritage Site isn’t going to protect its delicate ecosystem. To prevent poachers, fisheries, and inconsiderate tourists from damaging the reefs and disturbing its residents, Australia is building a fleet of solar-powered shepherd ships. The Catamaran Patrol Vessel (CPV), designed by a collaborative team…

Artists Are 3D-Printing a Room That Looks Like An Alien Cathedral

Who cares about plastic 3D-printed models of your head when an amazing, ornate room is being 3D printed out of sandstone? Digital Grotesque, as the project is called, looks like it was ripped from the frames of a sci-fi film. Designers Benjamin Dillenburger and Michael Hansmeyer recently previewed a 1:3 scale model of the room…

Hidden iOS 7 Settings Reveal What Apple Is Working On

Buried deep within the first beta release of iOS 7 are a handful of neat and potentially useful features. The hidden enhancements were dug up by Hamza Sood and offer a tad bit of insight into what we might expect in later versions of iOS or even when the latest version ships to the public…

Simple Now Lets iPhone Users Save More Money With Goals

While nearly everything is moving over to a mobile experience, banking remains one of the last vestiges of the old world. But even that is slowly changing with the likes of Simple, a bank-less mobile service that mashes up the best bits of your existing bank and services like Mint. One of Simple’s greatest features,…

Huawei Ascend P6: The World’s Skinniest Phone Is a Metal-Clad Beauty

Huawei has just unveiled the Ascend P6 Android smartphone at a crowded event in London. At 6.1mm thick, it’s the slimmest smartphone in the world. It’s also a looker. https://es.gizmodo.com/huawei-planta-batalla-con-el-ascend-p6-el-movil-mas-fi-514010595 The Ascend P6 has 4.7-inch, 720p display and metal body, and will be available in 19 countries at the end of July for $600. With…

This Is How You School a Rude Host Live on TV

British comedian Russell Brand—who is generally quite obnoxious and rude himself—got rudely mistreated by the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe yesterday during an interview about his new American comedy tour. By the middle of it he had enough of their unpleasant manners and turned the tables. Worth watching.

No Star Wars Fan Could Resist Photos of You on This Tauntaun Skin Rug

Your standard alluring, boudoir-style photos usually sees someone stretched out on a bear skin rug. But if the only thing you’re looking for in a partner is an obsession with Star Wars, perhaps a photo of yourself sprawled across this life-size tauntaun skin rug would serve as a better dating site profile pic. Made by…

Rihanna to Get Into Sex and Love Addiction Recovery Program

Singer and actress Rihanna is leaving her world tour to check into a sex and love addiction program at the Center for Relationships and Sexual Recovery at the Ranch, Tennessee. According to a source, she’s still obsessively in love with Chris Brown,” the ex who mistreated her. https://jezebel.com/rihanna-heading-to-love-rehab-to-finally-get-over-you-k-513987725

Exactly How Much Cheaper Airbnb Is Than a Hotel in Every Major US City

You’ve probably grappled with this question when you’ve traveled, and the answer is yes, renting a room or an apartment on Airbnb is going to be cheaper most of the time. But what does that savings look like? Priceonomics has broken the data extensively. Renting an entire apartment? You’ll save, on average 21.2 percent. Renting…

Amazon Birthday Gifts is a new “social” way to give somebody a present on Facebook. Basically, you kick in some money for an Amazon gift card and then encourage all your friends to contribute. On your friend’s date of birth, the card arrives along with all your personalized messages. Sooo either this is a genius…

The FBI May Be About to Solve One of America’s Greatest Murder Mysteries

The FBI is now digging in a field in Detroit in an attempt to unearth Jimmy Hoffa‘s body after four decades of his mysterious disappearance. According to old mobster Tony Zerilli, a Mafia soldier “picked up a shovel and cracked Hoffa over the head with it” then “they threw him into the hole, and buried…

Four Insane 60s Military Prototypes That Crashed and Burned

If the music‘s anything to go by, pretty much everyone was on something in the ’60s — and that includes the engineers. BAE Systems has recently dug up some totally batshit-crazy ideas that were seriously being kicked around by its ‘crack’ team of engineers, and they’re both totally ridiculous and dangerously awesome. The designs were…

This High-Speed Tracking Camera Could Snap the Flash’s Family Portrait

Convincing kids to sit still long enough to take their picture either takes a small army of distracting stuffed animals, or the University of Tokyo’s new high-speed camera tracking system which guarantees your subject is always in frame. Instead of moving the glass elements in a lens, or the camera’s sensor which can only compensate…

Views Don’t Get Any Better Than This

Some people claim to have a great view from their bedroom window or work desk. Their claims are worth nothing compared to the view the astronauts in the ISS get. This image shows the view from the Cupola on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station, timed so that our planet entirely fills the…

This Could Maybe Possibly Be the Next iPhone’s Screen and Guts

It’s that time of the year again, where Apple’s next iPhone is probably being built in factories all over China, resulting in random parts being spat out onto the Internets. Today we have both a screen and logic board supposedly from the incoming iPhone 5S or whatever it ends up being called. If real, what…

You Can Download Adobe’s Creative Cloud Right Now

Adobe pulled the covers off its shiny new Creative Cloud earlier this month, but it’s now finally available for you to get your grubby little hands on. https://gizmodo.com/say-goodbye-to-creative-suite-adobe-rebrands-cs-as-cre-493155052 Head to the Creative Cloud website and you’ll be able to download what you need. From now on, you won’t buy be able to buy CS6 or…

Yahoo’s revealed that it received a staggering 12,000 US government data requests between December 1st 2012 and May 31st 2013—way more than Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and co.

Report: AMD Is Making Its First Ever ARM Chip

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AMD is taking a leap into unknown waters, as it readies its first ever ARM chip. The new chip—codenamed ‘Seattle’ and previously hinted at—is apparently based on the architecture designed by ARM which is now prolific in smartphones and tablets. Interestingly though, according to the Wall Street Journal,…