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What’s The Most You’ve Ever Over-Paid for a Gadget?

The best gadgets are expensive, but so are plenty not-the-best ones too. And regardless of how “good” something is, its only worth as much as it does for you. The best useless machine is, well, useless. https://gizmodo.com/the-most-useless-machine-gets-even-more-useless-5970912 What’s the most you’ve paid for a gadget that just didn’t cut it, either because it was overpriced,…

Gadgets Eric Limer

Future Asteroids Could Be Deflected With Nothing But Space-Graffiti

Our planet’s recent close call with one asteroid, and direct visit from another has definitely made it seem important to consider how to avoid the pesky things in the future. One solution is to direct the Sun’s power into pulverizing lasers, but another option just involves covering incoming rocks with spray paint. Simple as that.…

Tech News Eric Limer

This Eavesdropping App Calls Your Shrink If It Thinks You Sound Too Bummed-Out

Ain’t no problem that can’t be solved by an app. At least, that’s what it seems like the folks at EI Technologies are out to prove. Their app “Xpression” aims to help treat depression by listening to a user’s voice, cataloging his or her moods, and alerting a doctor of any dangerous dips. All automatically.…

Tech News Eric Limer

The PS4 Sort of Arrives, The Crazy Caverns Below NYC, What It’s Like to Wear Google Glass, And More

There were a lot of annoncements this week, but no pay off quite yet. We learned a lot about the upcoming PS4, got new data on Google Glass, and found out about a new Chromebook you shouldn’t buy. And all that on top of ghost ships, a Blackberry 10 review, Flipboard for porn, NYC’s mammoth…

Tech News Eric Limer

Let Your iPhone Toot Its Own Horn With These Custom Brass Amplifiers

There are plenty of speaker solutions out there for turning your iOS device something of a future-boombox, but none are quite as awesomely old-school as using re-purposed brass instruments. Hand-made by sculptor Christopher Locke, each “Analog Tele-Phonographer” is a custom piece constructed from one particular bass instrument and morphed into an amplifier that’ll pump up…

Tech News Eric Limer

Don’t Worry, The Chromebook Pixel Isn’t Just Stuck Running Chrome OS

The Chromebook Pixel has caught a lot of flak for being an expensive, powerful computer that arguably throws that power away on the stripped down and simple Chrome OS. Well, it doesn’t have to be that way if you’re game to tinker a little bit. Turns out throwing Linux on that sucker is already a…

Tech News Eric Limer

You Can Be a Real Superhero With This Crazy Spider-Sense Robot Suit

Who doesn’t want real-life superpowers? Unfortunately, getting yourself bitten by some kind of radioactive spider isn’t really the best way to go about it. But thankfully, tech is here to resurrect your childhood hopes and dreams. University of Illinois’ Victor Mateevitsi, for instance, has managed to bring “spider-sense” to the real world with a haptic…

Tech News Eric Limer

Watch This Awesome Chalk Animation Play Snake in 3D

Who’s to say if some methods of animation are better than others, but some are differently rarer. It’s not often you see someone animate in chalk, but that’s exactly what artist Chris Carlson did. And while the results are cool, it certainly wasn’t exactly an efficient method poissible; it took 30 hours of chalkin’ over…

Tech News Eric Limer

The Only Woman Who Ever Got Hit By a Meteorite Survived

Imagine going about your day like the people in Russia only to be smacked against a wall by a meteorite’s shockwave. That’s already crazy. But imaging being in your home, napping on your couch and actually getting hit by an actual meteorite. That actually happened to Ann Hodges in 1954. She survived. https://gizmodo.com/what-the-russian-meteorites-shockwave-really-felt-like-5986121 In the…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Lego Dance

The King of Pop is back! Maybe a little blockier than you remember but none the worse for wear if his moves in this astounding, LEGO stop-motion animation from Annette Jung are anything to go by.

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Watching This Optical Illusion Video Is Like Being on Drugs

If you’re feeling a little freaky on this Friday night but not freaky enough to dip into hallucinatory drugs, watch this video instead. Basically, you stare at the video and then look at a wall and watch everything collapse. The world just kind of starts melting and spinning and it’s totally like being on drugs.…

Tech News Casey Chan

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Mary Kate Olsen Using Instagram

As silly as it may be, there are unwritten rules of Instagram. Don’t cheat and use pictures you took with your DSLR. Don’t post too many pictures of food. Don’t hashtag bomb every single picture. Don’t take it too seriously. Etcetera, etcetera. But you can totally imagine celebrities on their last minute of fame breaking…

Tech News Splitsider

Watch How All Those Streets Signs Are Made

I’ve always wanted to steal a street sign but they’re always bigger than you think. Where would I put it? How annoying is it for the city to fix? Wait, how are street signs even made? This video shows the street sign magic factory of New York City and reveals the true anatomy and process…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Trillion Dollar F-35 Is Grounded Yet Again

In what is becoming almost as consistent as the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, the F-35—America’s trillion dollar joke of a fighter jet—has been grounded again. I don’t even know how many times the fighter jet has been grounded now, I’ve lost count. This time, it’s because of a crack…

Tech News Casey Chan

Most Beautiful Items: February 16-22, 2013

The weekend is just minutes away at this point, but instead of going into an excited frenzy, relax and take a moment to recall all the beautiful things we feasted our eyes upon this week. We may be looking forward to the days of freedom ahead, but don’t forget to enjoy what you have in…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

David Bowie: Young Americans

Have you heard the news today, oh boy? Good, because I didn’t yesterday—February 21 was the anniversary of the release of David Bowie’s Young Americans, the first single of the album of the same name. The year was 1975. Young Americans was one of Bowie’s many reinventions, breaking with his previous sound and creating a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Microsoft Says It Got Hacked Like Apple and Facebook

Microsoft just revealed that “a small number” of its computers, which includes its Mac business unit, have been hacked in a similar attack to what happened with Apple and Facebook earlier this week. The computers were infected with malware using techniques similar to the Apple and Facebook hacks. Luckily, Microsoft says that there is no…

Tech News Casey Chan

Google Is in Talks to Create Its Own Spotify-like Streaming Music Service

According to the Financial Times, Google is currently in talks with “big music labels to launch a streaming service to compete with companies such as Spotify.” Google previously launched its own digital music store over a year ago but this service will be different than the digital tunes shop, Google’s streaming music service will offer…

Tech News Casey Chan

SwiftKey 4, Vector, and More

You probably won’t do a backflip over a flight of stairs in real life, but you’ll do it on your Android phone. And you’ll stay organized. And you’ll send lewd pictures that expire in three seconds to your friends. Or at least you will if you’re checking out this round of the apps of the…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Worm Run, Solve the Outbreak, and More

Evade space worms, diagnosis an outbreak in a rural village, and read a little Charles Dickens. Nope, not retelling your dream from last night, just previewing a few of the things you can do with this round of the week’s best iPad apps. Worm Run: Here’s another game you might get addicted to—in Worm Run,…

Tech News Leslie Horn

What’s The Most You’ve Ever Over-Paid for a Gadget?

Future Asteroids Could Be Deflected With Nothing But Space-Graffiti

This Eavesdropping App Calls Your Shrink If It Thinks You Sound Too Bummed-Out

The PS4 Sort of Arrives, The Crazy Caverns Below NYC, What It’s Like to Wear Google Glass, And More

Let Your iPhone Toot Its Own Horn With These Custom Brass Amplifiers

Don’t Worry, The Chromebook Pixel Isn’t Just Stuck Running Chrome OS

You Can Be a Real Superhero With This Crazy Spider-Sense Robot Suit

Watch This Awesome Chalk Animation Play Snake in 3D

The Only Woman Who Ever Got Hit By a Meteorite Survived

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Lego Dance

Watching This Optical Illusion Video Is Like Being on Drugs

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Mary Kate Olsen Using Instagram

Watch How All Those Streets Signs Are Made

The Trillion Dollar F-35 Is Grounded Yet Again

Most Beautiful Items: February 16-22, 2013

David Bowie: Young Americans

Microsoft Says It Got Hacked Like Apple and Facebook

Google Is in Talks to Create Its Own Spotify-like Streaming Music Service

SwiftKey 4, Vector, and More

Worm Run, Solve the Outbreak, and More

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