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Is Google Glass Bad for Your Eyes?

Google Glass is capable of some amazing things. Just look at this first crop of videos shot wearing a them. But given how much damage you do to your eyes staring at screens in the first place, will Google Glass harm your eyes in the long run? Google has a pretty strongly-worded warning for potential…

Inspired By Coca-Cola, Instagram Reveals a Subtle Logotype Revamp

Today, when Instagram announced its new people-tagging feature, it focused on the new UI changes within the app. But if you look closely, you’ll also see another change: a new script, designed by Denver typographer Mackey Saturday. Saturday is a friend of Instagram co-founderKevin Systrom, who tapped him to rethink the script in 2012. What’s…

Take note! Google just announced a new Chrome app for Google Keep, so now you can easily jot down your thoughts while you’re surfing the web.

Four Cool Things You Can Do With Your Computer Now That It’s Watching You

Microsoft’s Kinect proved that real people are actually interested in moving their bodies to motion-control stuff on a screen. Leap Motion, whose $70 motion detector is decoupled from a gaming console, could end up having a wider impact. It’s not just for gamers, and desktop and laptop manufacturers are reportedly looking at integrating Leap into…

Bioshock Infinite Is Your Deal of the Day

Bioshock Infinite, which came out 38 days ago, is both a critical darling and a commercial success. Our bleep bloop brethren at Kotaku love it. Dealzmodo receives requests for a Bioshock Infinite deal on a regular basis. Usually, a top-tier game this new doesn’t go on sale, but Best Buy is running a weekly sale…

In case you were wondering, Apple just pushed out an update for iOS (v 6.1.4) with an “Updated audio profile for speakerphone”.

Watch the World Trade Center’s Spire Rise 104 Stories into the Air

The spire that will make the One World Trade Center the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere was raised to the top of the structure today like a giant candle on a towering cake. We were at the construction site to watch the magic unfold. The last piece of the spire is 408-feet-tall, weighs 12…

An Incredibly Tiny Sofa Bed For Your Skinniest Houseguests

If you need a place for guests to sleep but don’t even have room in your tiny apartment for an air mattress, you’ll love what designer Jesper Ståhl has cooked up for Swedish brand Ire Mobel. By day the Collar is a compact arm chair with a high back cushioned corner and a pop-out desk…

Predictions for Privacy in the Age of Facebook (from 1985!)

“The ubiquity and power of the computer blur the distinction between public and private information. Our revolution will not be in gathering data — don’t look for TV cameras in your bedroom — but in analyzing information that is already willingly shared.” Are these the words of a 21st century media critic warning us about…

Rare High-Speed Footage Of the Earth Exploding

Hollywood visual effects artists are still the masters of making entire planets explode in an awesome fashion, but that doesn’t make this high-speed footage of a desk globe detonating any less fun to watch. As far as simulations go this doesn’t accurately represent how our planet will probably meet its demise at the hands of…

Breitling Emergency II: A Satellite Distress Signal On Your Wrist

Breitling’s original Emergency watch first launched back in 1995 and was able to broadcast a distress signal on the 121.5 MHz analog band allowing ships, planes, and other vehicles to track it. But if your approximate location wasn’t already known, it made locating the signal a bit tricky. So Breitling is introducing an upgraded version…

POV Hockey With Google Glass Is Better Than Rinkside Seats

Watching hockey and playing hockey are two entirely different experiences. Or at least they were until Joseph Lallouz got his hands on a pair of Google’s new wearable computer system and took it to his local skating rink. The result—awesome first person hockey. Hint, hint NHL.

Instagram Finally Adds a Real People-Tagging Feature (Updated)

The Facebookification of Instagram continues today as the photo sharing service just added an official feature for tagging people photos. And of course, these photos will all be grouped together on your profile page in a “Photos of You” section. Before today tagging people in Instagram posts worked in the @reply style of Twitter. You…

Wood, Salt, and Wonder: The Renewable Future of 3D Printing

Weapons. Toys. Entire skulls. There’s no limit to the objects we can 3D print these days, but the materials themselves haven’t evolved as quickly—we’re still stuck in a world of plastic, steel, and ceramic. That’s all about to change, thanks to the work of a small Oakland fabrication studio called Emerging Objects. Emerging Objects is…

This Neural Implant Knows When Your Next Seizure Will Strike

Epilepsy affects some 60 million people worldwide, and for 40 percent of them, the drugs don’t work—conventional treatments show no effect against their disease. And while the seizures themselves are generally brief, the constant gnaw of not knowing when the next one will strike severely impacts patients’ quality of life. This prototype early warning implant…

Locked Out of Your Facebook Account? Trusted Contacts Will Save You

Starting today, Facebook is rolling out a new Trusted Contacts feature under your account security settings. Here, you can pick three to five folks who will have the power to help you when you lock yourself out of your account like a dummy. It’s pretty unlikely that you’ll get accidentally locked out of your account…

Some Disassembly Required: Exquisite Teardowns of Everyday Machines

There’s an art to a good teardown. Todd McLellan, a Toronto photographer who’s disassembled everything from pianos to iPads, has perfected it. McLellan is the son of a carpenter and an electrical technician, so he was born into a world of assembly drawings and spec diagrams. In his career as a commercial photographer, he works…

GM’s Vibrating Seats Might Be More Startling Than Accidental Drifts

It’s designed to make driving safer, particularly after a long day at work or a tiring road trip, but GM’s haptic seat technology that lets you know when you start unintentionally changing lanes might be even scarier than the drift. The system uses a windshield mounted camera to monitor the lines on the road when…

The conman and all-around terrible human being who sold fake bomb detectors to Iraq is getting 10 years in jail, the maximum sentence that the judge could give. Good.

This 3D-Printed Cyborg Ear Comes With a Built-In Antenna

While still not entirely commonplace, 3D-printed body parts made of actual, living tissue have started popping up at a wonderfully alarming rate. The most recent iteration, though, takes the concept one whole cyborg-tinged step further. Researchers at Princeton successfully created a prototype, artificial ear that rolls 3D-printed cells in with an antenna for one terrifyingly…