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Slam Dunk Supertramp Style Who needs athletic ability when you’ve got a giant trampoline? True Facts About Sloths(es) You know you hate them, don’t lie. That Time Morrissey Was a Total Dick to John Cho To be fair, Morrissey obviously didn’t recognize John Cho at the time. [The Awesomer] The Hows and Whys of Our…
Inspired by Taxi Driver, no doubt, a Japanese man chose to make a quick-draw sleeve gun-type system for his iPhone. It guarantees quick access to his iPhone—phone calls would never ever be missed. Hell, phone calls might not even need to ring before he picks it up. I love how he had so many different…
The iPhone 5’s capable of capturing really impressive video with its 8MP camera but the accompanying sound quality isn’t all that great. But with this new add-on mic from Zoom, your iPhone 5 videos will finally have the audio they deserve. The iQ5 is a Mid-Side stereo mic compatible with iOS 6.0 and above, connecting…
So this is crazy. Monoprice is coming out with a $100 action camera next month. Yeah, the company best known for their ridiculously cheap and awesome HDMI cables sells a bunch of other super high quality gear, like the MHD Action Camera. The ruggedized barrel shaped camera shoots full HD (1920×1080) video at 30 fps…
Byte Size Science took a tour inside the DayGlo Pigment Plant to show how DayGlo makes all of its fluorescent colors. It’s pretty fascinating—the color becomes taffy textured and then solidified by cooling and then ground up to be like sand and then ground up again to be between 3-5 microns in diamater. And it’s…
The invitation to CES could say “please join us to look at infinite stupid iPad cases and ugly headphones,” and it wouldn’t be misleading. But amidst all the crap are some beautiful things like Hex’s newest line of headphones. These snake skin cans have 40mm drivers, 20Hz – 20,000Hz frequency response, and all around they’re…
Surface RT was an enormous letdown—not because it was bad, but because it could have been so, so good. But Microsoft brought the Pro version to Vegas and let us play—and I couldn’t be happier. To be blunt, Surface Pro makes RT look like a mistake. Surface RT was a mistake—but fortunately for Microsoft (and…
I don’t know what it is about MS Paint but it instantly lightens up any picture. It works like magic! Just take a look at PornEdits, a website that takes porn scenes and transforms them into hilarious comics with the (lack of) power of MS Paint. I can’t get enough of it. Surprisingly, it’s not…
Were American children just totally illiterate before Sesame Street? Because the creators of the children’s show have great tools for teaching kids how to read—like an upcoming augmented reality app called Big Bird’s Words. Our yellow feathered friend’s app is powered by a Qualcomm text recognition technology called Vuforia. It works like a game, challenges…
Celestron has taken its expertise in designing telescope mounts that can track and pan with the motion of the stars and created a cheaper, lightweight version called the Virtuoso that can also be used with a camera to capture massive multi-shot images. The company is basically muscling its way into GigaPan’s turf providing photographers who…
Smart gadgets you can wear are all the rage, but Toshiba’s Computer Graphics Watch prototype kind of misses the point. The hulking watch has a watch 320 x 100 OLED and is powered by an ARM processor and is designed to pair with your smartphone via Bluetooth. It’s huge, like fancy rich guy watch except…
Every celebrity gets made fun of, yelled at, threatened, prodded, dragged in mud and pretty much virtually smacked in the face by people on Twitter. The tweets can be brutal! So Jimmy Kimmel got a bunch of celebrities to read some of the hate tweets they get from random people. This is the third time…
Wouldn’t it be grand if you could just plop your smartphone down on a speaker dock and not have to worry about attaching an adapter cable, connecting to a wireless network, or firing up Bluetooth and pairing both devices? RCA has done away with all that hassle with its new SoundFlow alarm clock that simply…
Already on Android for the past few months, this conceptually simple calculator app is finally available to iOS users. What may seem basic in theory becomes extraordinary in MyScript’s execution, leaving you with a buttonless calculator you’d never think to want but can’t imagine living without. What does it do? Though a minor annoyance, using…
LG’s Smart Activity Tracker is FuelBand look-alike—there’s no denying it. And, yes, there are already a lot of new wearable fitness trackers. But with this gadget, LG crams the features of all of its competitors into one. And by the time it comes out this summer, the wrist-worn device might add something everybody wants: A…
We’ve already gone into detail on why you don’t need a case for your iPhone 5, but that was before PureGear unveiled its line of awesome Retro Game cases. Obviously, this changes everything. Come February they’ll be available in three different versions for $30 a pop: a traditional boxy maze, a circular maze, and a…
Samsung’s S9, an ineffably beautiful television trapped in a massive, metal pillory, might be both the best and worst thing at CES 2013—it’s certainly the strangest. It’s amazing, terrifying, futuristic, barbaric, and almost gloats that you’ll never own it. This TV hates you. It wants you to hate it back. And that’s totally wonderful in…
The new BlackBerry 10 looks very good. It may be too late to save RIM, but it’s certainly not too little. It’s loaded with great stuff. In fact, its keyboard is so terrific that I wish every manufacturer had it. Here’s why: https://gizmodo.com/the-complete-blackberry-10-video-walkthrough-surprise-5974362 • On-the-fly next-word suggestions: This is probably its most impressive feature. The…
The world of mobile OSes is totally dominated by Android and iOS, but that hasn’t kept Ubuntu from trying to sneak in. And finding a way into already dominated markets is kind of Ubuntu’s strong suit. We got to take a “hands-off” look at the new mobile OS running on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus. While…
Say goodbye to your childhood. In order to herald in an age of change, Hasbro’s “Save Your Token” campaign is asking you to pick which memory of your youth you’d least like to watch fade to nothingness. Up until February 5, fans can go to the Monopoly Facebook page and choose which classic token they…
