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Mammoth Outdoor Artwork Brings 100,000 CDs Back to Life

If CD’s aren’t dead already, they’re dying. After all, plenty of devices being made don’t even have optical drives any more. So what do we do with all those old discs we’ve just got lying around? Artist Bruce Munro has been using them to create mammoth, outdated-media art installations. At Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire England,…

Clue: This Is How You Make a Board Game Movie

Up until a few weeks ago, I’d never seen the Clue movie, and I’ll admit I was skeptical. After all, Battleship came out not that long ago. Obviously, I was pleasantly surprised because Clue rocks. Hopefully I’m preaching to the choir here, but I’ll take just a minute to extol some of its virtues. First…

New York I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down: LCD Soundsystem and Miles Davis

LCD Soundsystem’s “New York I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down” off of Sound Of Silver is already a great song, and a little Miles Davis makes it even better. This barebones mashup by Alessandro Grespan and friends is made simply by playing the song along side Miles Davis’s trumpeting at the Elevator To…

How Fiber Optics Can Make Crazy Hyperspace Visuals

We all know what it’s supposed to look like when you go into hyperspace thanks to classic scenes in movies such as Star Wars and shows like Star Trek. But how do you create that look, you know, shy of building a hyperspace engine. It’s a head-scratcher. Literally, in this case. With a mix of…

Nexus 10 Teardown: See the Other Side of That Beautiful Screen

The Nexus 10 is pretty pretty, but what do it’s innards look like? Powerbook Medic found out when they vivisected one of the impressive new $400 tabs, and laid out its guts for all of us to see. https://gizmodo.com/google-nexus-10-review-it-s-pretty-pretty-5956304 Unlike the Nexus 4’s secret LTE modem, the Nexus 10 doesn’t seem to pack any real…

Here’s a Handy Portal To All the Internet’s Totally Useless Websites

For all the things that the Internet does to make all our lives easier, it also does a bunch of things that are just stupid. For every Google Maps that helps you find your way around a strange city, there’s a Zombo.com, where everything is possible but nothing happens. The Useless Web well help you…

How Do You Share Links Between Devices?

Half of the fun of using the Internet is finding weird and stupid things to share with your friends, but there are a whole bunch of ways to go about it. It gets even weirder when you’re in the same room with them and have to start passing around devices or start Facebooking each other…

Ancient Web Sites, The Best Phone Displays, The Secret Diary of John McAfee, And More

This week we spent some time looking into the future with the Droid DNA’s impossibly high-res screen, and some time look into the past and examining the Internet’s humble, awful looking roots. We’ve also got the mad ravings of John McAfee, a glance at American politics, wacky safety videos, errant planets, weird Chinese buildings and…

Samsung Really Wants To Know the Juicy Details of Apple’s Patent Deal with HTC

Instead of going all thermonuclear against Android handset-maker HTC, Apple signed a patent decade-long licensing deal with them. Now Samsung, which is one significantly less friendly terms with Apple, wants to know exactly what that deal was, and is filing to have it revealed. https://gizmodo.com/apple-and-htc-end-patent-dispute-and-agree-to-play-nice-5959533 Samsung’s reasoning here is that the HTC deal may very…

Apple Now Has a Patent On Turning Digital Pages

I hope you’re not a huge fan of skeumorphic virtual page turning. If you are, I hope you have an iOS device. Why? Because Apple just got a patent for that. Yup, Apple has a patent on turning fake pages. Patent D670,713, titled “Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface” was approved…

Breeze Through TSA Security During the Holidays

Airport security used to be simple—pack your own bags, keep them in your possession, board your flight. Easy, right? However, since 9/11, Americans have been treated to a complicated and confusing rendition of public security absurdity. It’s going to be a zoo at the airport this holiday season—and you don’t want to be the one…

This Shower Head Will Do Your Shower-Singing For You

Being able to listen to music in the shower is great, and it’s no suprise there’s a whole punch of products that cater to that specific silly-but-awesome luxury. Kohler is taking things a step further by straight-up building a speaker into a shower head. The bluetooth speaker isn’t pernemantly attached to the shower head, but…

Is Twitter Ruining Journalism or Making It Better?

It’s undeniable that Twitter has changed—and is still changing—the face of journalism. It makes some things simpler and some things more complicated. But how is it affecting journalism on the whole? This PBS Off-Book segment gives that some thought and uncovers one deep, universal truth: Twitter is neato. [PBS Off Book]

These MacBooks and iPads Made from Wood and Duct Tape Are Not Really MacBooks and iPads

People. Especially people of Florida. Listen up. If you get approached to buy a MacBook or iPad in a parking lot, don’t buy it. Even if it’s dirt cheap and a freaking steal and you need a new computer or whatever. Why? Because it might end up as a pile of wood and duct tape.…

Everybody Definitely Needs a Hoodie That Lights Up

The hoodie is perhaps the most perfect item of clothing there is. Comfortable, warm, casual and stylish. How can it get better? By adding electroluminescent rope on the zipper and hood to make it light up like Tron. The Delaware St. Hoodie is made by Electric MVMT and it adds the perfect amount of technology…

Holy Crap, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Says Amazon Loses Up to $1 Billion a Year on Streaming Video [AllThingsD]

Anonymous Targets Israel by Taking Down Hundreds of Websites and Leaking Emails and Passwords

It looks like Anonymous followed up with its threat of digitally attacking Israel for taking military action in the Gaza strip. They’ve knocked down websites, deleted databases and have leaked e-mail addresses and passwords. It’s a whopping takedown. The targets taken down include the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs database and Bank of Jerusalem database,…

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Why Doesn’t MTV Play Music Videos Anymore?

I’ve done it. You’ve done it. Your friends have done it. Why, we whine doesn’t MTV play music videos anymore? And it’s true! They don’t. It’s just a big seething crap reality tv show pile-on. But you know what? As the (not really) head of MTV programming tells you himself, it’s your own damn fault.…

John McAfee Reveals His Hiding Place (Updated)

In a too-strange-to-be-true twist on an already bizarre crime story, fugitive tech millionaire John McAfee today revealed where he’d been hiding over the last six days: in his own compound. McAfee, wanted by police in connection with the murder of his neighbor Gregory Faull over the weekend, said in a phone interview that he had…

These Art Pieces Made By Ironing Are Incredible

I can hardly even iron my shirt without burning myself so I’m absolutely impressed with this ad showing artists ironing a sheet into famous art pieces. A few snaps of the fabric here, some presses there and all of a suddenly there’s a girl with a pearl earring. The ad is made by Philips Russia,…