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Do you remember how your life was like without the Internet? Wondering and daydreams without Google confirmation, restaurant and bar picks without online reviews, working hard because there is no such thing as the Internet to goof off on, actually seeing friends in real life—it all sounds so awesome! But if you replaced your Internet…
Death Grips, the Sacramento-based Hardcore/Hip-Hop band, dropped their latest music video on an unsuspecting SXSW last week. The video was reportedly shot on-stage in SXSW by the band members’ ski-goggle cameras, then edited together into this seizure-inducing riot of light and sound. The group is no stranger to alternative cinematography—last year’s Double Helix was shot…
Apple won’t be accepting apps into the App Store that aren’t optimized for the 4″ iPhone 5 and other iOS Retina Displays
Verizon has its own Google Voice-like SMS/MMS messaging app now. You know, as long as you stick with Verizon.
Yeah, yeah, shut up and take your money. Well, it looks like HBO just might. CEO Richard Plepler told Reuters that he thinks HBO “has the right model”, but the popular HBO Go service could evolve to be paired with broadband internet subscriptions. HBO has been pretty dogged about saying it wasn’t interested in offering…
THX has contracted March Madness is giving away free copies of Tune-Up all this week (March 21-28).
Apple’s Podcasts app has long been a horrid example of Scott Forstall’s most epic crime as a software designer: Skeuomorphism. Why do I need a graphic of a reel-to-reel tape machine in my app? HOW CLEVER! Get it? Yes, radio used to be recorded and edited on reels of tape, but that design reference doesn’t…
Sometimes you just want to catch up on current events, plain and simple. In that case, Reuters is a pretty obvious source. What does it do? Gives you all the latest news in a clean, basic interface. Why do we like it? Reuters is frequently the first source for a lot of breaking news. There’s…
Given the right state of mind, enough time on your hands, and a can-do attitude, your casual Wikipedia browsing can quickly devolve into bizarre, horrifying, and very likely entirely fabricated black holes of information. Dark corners and seedy underbellies abound, making it virtually impossible to find all of the site’s most unsettling stores of knowledge.…
What this $200, three-megapixel digital camera lacks in features, functionality, and image quality; it more than makes up for in battery life. Because in theory, as long as you’ve got sunlight or at least one arm, you can keep it powered indefinitely. As its namesake implies, what really sets the Sun & Cloud digital camera…
Maybe you’re old fashioned and you just want to listen to the radio sometimes. Here’s Lexon Design’s Modern Titanium clock to satisfy your old school desires. The AM/FM radio is $130 on the Fancy right now. Made out of aluminum (even though it has titanium in the name for some reason), it comes in white…
Taking those electroluminescent wires to a whole new level, a company called Darkside Scientific has created a sprayable paint called LumiLor that casts a uniform fluorescent glow whenever a current is applied. So it can be used to cover irregularly shaped objects with ease, and as Boing Boing points out, it has the potential to…
The Architectural Digest Show—running from Friday through Sunday in NYC—will make you wish you had a huge house and unlimited funds with which to decorate it. From crazy range hoods to beautiful woodworking to outdoor showers, the show floor has just about everything you could imagine adorning your home with. Here are some of the…
If you travel with an iPad you really have no choice but to bring along its bulky wall wart for charging. But thanks to Scosche’s new CoverCharge, you can now at least leave your phone’s charging cube at home to save some space. The CoverCharge simply slides onto the iPad’s power adapter, connecting to its…
Today, 1 Sale a Day is selling a refurbished Nexus 7 tablet for $140 with free shipping. This is a solid deal, but there are some things you should consider before you buy: First, the Nexus 7 on sale is a refurb. And there’s no information as to who refurbished it. It will come in…
Apple just added two-factor authentication for iCloud and all your Apple accounts. It’s a huge deal for security, and are a welcome boon to a security process that had proven full of holes that were frustrating to fix. You can enable it at the Apple ID page. https://gizmodo.com/apples-hacker-fix-nuke-your-itunes-account-refuse-to-5942187 Two-step authentication sends a security code to…
Since Google launched Keep yesterday, the question on everyone’s mind has been, “how is will this measure up to Evernote?” Well don’t think the newcomer is going to suddenly oust the elephant in the room as the best service for interweb jotting. It’s just way too barebones. https://gizmodo.com/googles-note-taking-service-keep-is-live-and-its-wonde-5991578 Google Keep is lightweight-fast almost to a…
Google continues its CRAZY KILLING SPREE by putting down Frommers, which it bought last summer. Slide over, Reader.
If only it were so easy as unzipping the case off of a camera to see its amazing insides. It’s not, but Chinese art student Hu Shaoming reworked a bunch of old gadgets with zippers so you can peer at their innards. The antique devices are currently on display at Guangzhou Art Academy. It features…
If fiddling with a dimmer switch isn’t an exacting enough science for you when it comes to tweaking the lighting in a room, Junji Kawabe designed his light=weight lamp to be controlled by gravity. So the heavier an object you place on its scale, the brighter it shines. So with a set of calibrated weights,…
