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This week, Netflix is rolling out an update to its Xbox app that adds a brand new Netflix Originals landing page.

You Could Probably Spend Your Entire Life On Starck’s New Gadget-Friendly Sofa

Philippe Starck is known for designs that are as functional as they are beautiful. So it’s not surprising that when it came to designing a sofa, the results would include everything from privacy dividers, to accessible power outlets, to even a Powermat wireless induction charging pad. There’s probably a good reason it’s called the My…

How Inventor Paul Vo Created a Little Black Box That Could Change Guitars Forever

The Vo-96 Acoustic Synthesizer is one of the most innovative musical instrument products created in years. Strap one onto any acoustic guitar and you can transform the way it sounds by breaking—or at least manipulating—the laws of physics. Here’s the story of how inventor Paul Vo made a device that sounds like magic. Vo is…

The Big Jambox Is Your Deal of the Day

There have been a flood of new wireless Bluetooth speakers in the past two years, but Jawbone’s Jambox line remains one of the best-known. The Big Jambox is a three pound, take-anywhere speaker with a pretty attractive design. Plus, it continues to get better through software—last week, a firmware update added an unheard of two…

Self-Standing Butter Knife Keeps Condiments Off the Table

There’s probably rules and proper etiquette on where to place a condiment-covered knife once you’ve spread jams, jelly, or butter on your bread. But most of us just place it on the counter or table anyways, leaving an additional mess to be cleaned up. Is there a better way you ask? There is, this self-standing…

This Timelapse Turns the Moon into a Flaming Cannonball

With time-lapse videos often covering periods of several years or more, we’ve been trained to to assume that, translated into real time, their subject is barely moving at a snail’s pace. And this is what makes Dan Maker-Moore’s incredible, 15-second time lapse of the moon rising over Los Angeles all the more astounding—the whole thing…

Two Magnificent Magnified Shots

The magnifying glass. It’s good for more than burning ants, you classless juveniles. Because you can take funny photos with it, too! Hunting Bugs This challenge gave me a chance to be a better dad by taking my daughter out to “hunt bugs” and bring along her magnifying glass. She’s not nearly as afraid of…

A Quick Look at Google Play’s Android Overhaul

Today, Google started rolling out a beautiful redesign of the Google Play Android app. The new app isn’t just a dark-to-light transition—it’s faster and easier to use than ever. Move the slider in the image above back and forth to see a before and after comparison. The white interface is the new one. The new…

AT&T customers can now access Boingo hotspots overseas—in one of the applicable major international airports, that is.

You can now pay cash for Spotify Premium at your local 7-Eleven. No credit card, no problem.

Magic: The Gathering Lets Make-Believe Wizards Blast Make-Believe Fireballs

At this year’s Penny Arcade PAX convention, Wizards of the Coast, makers of the Magic: The Gathering Card game, set up an awesome interactive installation at their booth that let wannabe wizards live out one of their many, many fantasies: blasting imaginary fireballs. Created by a company called M1 Interactive, the setup relied on a…

A Modular, Fully Customizable Wine Rack For Every Type of Drinker

Regardless of whether you’re a sommelier-hopeful or just a dedicated lush, you’re going to need a wine rack to match your distinct, personal tastes and—er, volume. This is exactly what makes the completely customizable and optionally mountable Nucleus wine rack from Thijs Goossink so fantastic. Constructed of high-grade, scratch-proof anodized aluminum, the beautifully minimalist holders…

The Evolution of Outdoor Seating Brilliantly Visualized

The New York Times has an awesome retrospective graphic that shows how al fresco seating has evolved all the way from 1889 to the present. Can you tell we’re excited for spring? Check out the full graphic over at the Times. Because maybe you didn’t know the classic director’s chair first appeared all the way…

A Children’s Treasury of Reaction GIFs

They say a picture’s worth a thousand words, and by those calculations an animated GIF must instead be worth hundreds of thousands. So the next time you need the perfect reaction for an online conversation—whether it be excitement, disappointment, or downright confusion—turn to the Reaction Gifs Archive. It’s as wonderful as it sounds. [Reaction Gifs…

Botnet Warlord: Meet the Man Who Will Kill Your Computer

You can blow away any website in the world if you try hard. Throw enough traffic at a server on the internet—friendly or otherwise—and it’ll buckle. For most these attacks are a headache, but here’s one man who makes a sport (and money) out of swarming his enemies online. Julius goes by a few names,…

Watch Colbert Force Bill Clinton to Finally Join Twitter

There are way too many Bill Clinton parody accounts on Twitter, but believe it or not, the 42nd president hasn’t had his own handle. Until recently when Stephen Colbert made one for him. His username? @PrezBillyJeff because every other viable option was already taken. The clip of Clinton hamming it up with Colbert at the…

Microsoft accounts will soon have two-step authentication along with an Authenticator app for Windows Phone 8

The Navy’s Next Gen Fighter Jets Will Heal Themselves

The F-35 Lightning and F-22 Raptor fifth generation fighters are among the most technologically advanced aircraft in history but the fact that they’re barely out of testing (more than can be said about their Russian and Chinese counterparts) doesn’t mean the US military isn’t already designing an even better sixth generation. These next gen war-fighters…

The Google Play app for Android is getting a hot new redesign that’s rolling out to phones starting today.

Inside the All-New Legoland Hotel

After much anticipation, the all-new Legoland Hotel opened on Friday, April 5, 2013. Located right next to the theme park in Carlsbad, California, the three-story 250-room hotel does not disappoint, especially for those that can’t get enough of those colorful plastic bricks. We visited the hotel just two days after it opened to scope out…