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Facebook’s New News Feed: The Biggest Change In Years

The last time Zuck overhauled the website you check all day every day was two years ago. Two! You’ve probably changed a decent amount since then, but Facebook hasn’t in a way that’s done anything but make us cringe—until today. Enter the clutter killer. Here’s how you’ll be stalking the universe now. The News Feed…

Leap Motion + Hologram = The Future of Awesomeness

Whether you like gesture control or not, Leap Motion’s fine-grain floating-finger input looks like pure future. And it only gets better when you’re controlling a pseudo-hologram with it. And that’s exactly what Robbie Tilton did with his Tony Stark-worthy setup. https://gizmodo.com/leap-motions-sick-3d-gesture-control-hardware-will-only-5987240 Using a four-sided prism and an illusion known as Pepper’s Ghost, Tilton was able…

Dita Von Teese Flaunts the First 3D-Printed Dress You Might Actually Own Someday

You’re looking at the first fully articulated 3D-printed dress. Printed off at Shapeways, the piece was designed by Michael Schmidt and Francis Bitoni specifically for burlesque star Dita Von Teese. In the future, this is the kind of clothing you might be able to get from a department store. Sprinkled with 13,0000 Swarovski crystals, the…

A Vacuum Turns This Flexible Fabric Into a Stiff Cast

Immobilizing a broken bone immediately after an accident is an important step to prevent further injury. So Spanish researchers have developed a new type of fabric that can instantly go from flexible to stiff, without putting uncomfortable pressure on the patient’s skin. Called Varstiff, the material can be wrapped around or molded to any part…

Win the Ultimate Survival Tool

If there’s even the smallest possibility you might wind up abandoned on a desert island (one can dream in this weather, amiright?) in the upcoming future, or if you just want to be able to fix anything, anytime, anywhere, then you should take the survey below, and possibly win a titanium 16-headed Leatherman multi-tool. They’re…

Report: Apple Is Being a Massive Cheapskate with Its Music Streaming Service

Of course this would happen. According to the New York Post, Apple is lowballing record labels for the rights to use their music in a new music streaming service. The Post reports today that Apple is offering labels 6 cents per 100 listens. That’s a far cry from the 12 cents per 100 that Pandora…

The World’s Smallest Automatic Umbrella: Drench Protection That Fits in Your Pocket

The Weather Channel reporters, with all their talk of Doppler radars and satellites and fear mongering weather graphics, are, in the end, just a bunch of liars. They may say you’re in for sunny skies, but just hours later you’ll find yourself beneath a torrential downpour, umbrella-less and unprepared. Hammacher Schlemmer has finally found a…

Digg’s iOS app now includes a “dark mode” for night time reading and easier access to more stories.

How China Censors Its Twitter at Light Speed

Twitter is a great place to say stupid shit. Worst case scenario is that you look like an idiot. In China, things are a bit different; thousands of censors trawl the nation’s Twitter-clone Weibo, quashing pesky dissent with lightning reflexes. And though China doesn’t share its methods, computer scientists have been able to figure out…

Slot Sofa Hides a Coffee Table and Matching Foot Rests

Multitasking furniture can really come to the rescue when your home’s lacking square footage. Like designer Matthew Pauk’s Slot Sofa, which features a slide-out coffee table and footrests that all but disappear into the couch when you need more space in your living room. For those who don’t mind eating in front of the TV…

BlackBerry 10: Which Apps Will (and Won’t) Ever Be There

Earlier this week it was reported that Netflix has no plans to develop a BlackBerry 10 app. While that specific nugget of news wasn’t surprising, we began to wonder what other popular apps may or may not be coming to BB10. After all, BlackBerry did say at launch this past January that BlackBerry World had…

Hey—there’s a page on Facebook that gets rid of all the crap and lets you see just shared links. Who knew?

Meet the Man Who Invented Video Games

Before Angry Birds, Call of Duty, and Halo, there was Pong. And before that there was Tennis (cartridge 3) for the Magnavox Odyssey. And that machine was Ralph Baer’s baby. An inventor by trade, Baer developed the first working prototype, “the Brown Box,” in 1968, and just four years later, the Odyssey burst onto store…

Barnes & Noble just made Nook Video partnerships with a whole slew of major studios. At least it’s going down fighting.

You Can Adjust This Room’s Lighting With a Photoshop-Like Interface

For most of us adjusting a room’s lighting means either making it light or dark with the flip of a switch. But Japanese researchers have come up with a far more advanced approach that lets you literally paint where you want the light to be using an interactive stylus-driven interface. A camera mounted to the…

Muji’s Minimalist Bluetooth Speaker Will Disappear Into Your Walls

It borrows its design from the Japanese company’s popular wall hanging CD player, but Muji’s new mountable Bluetooth speaker is far more useful in this day and age. And a lot cheaper too, coming in at around $95. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-build-your-own-iconic-muji-cd-player-for-way-les-5350284 With just two watts of power it’s not going to keep a house party rocking into…

The Samsung Galaxy S III’s Lockscreen Is Full of Holes Too

It seems it’s pretty much safe to assume that if someone has your phone in their possession they’ll be able to get through the lockscreen: now, the Samsung Galaxy S III has a security bug too. You can gain full access to a locked Galaxy S III with a series of simple button presses. How…

Turns out Google tipped off the EU about Microsoft’s missing browser choice screen—which cost it a cool $730 million.

The First Photo Of The Far Side Of The Moon

When you search for the very first picture of the far side of the Moon on the Internet, only a very low quality version can be found. A few days ago I purchased a book published by the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1959 and I gladly stared at the much better images in it.…

This Is How the Navy Cuts a Birthday Cake

If you’ve been using a knife to cut birthday cake this whole time, you’ve been doing it all wrong. When the Navy cuts a cake, it does it properly—using a digger. This shot shows Equipment Operator 2nd Class Sam Sutheimer, from the Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group, divvying up a cake the best way. Yes,…